Money. Well, you mean mean have to do is dumb. So you mean mean cry. After he makes. That we do it a little bit a win win. Welcome in everybody to the craft beer republic and of 2023. Fuck you. Dry January. What's that? Yeah. It's. What is hell over here I am Greg. I am being joined by the big daddy flexing himself. What's up, big fella? You've been a good boy, Greg. Never. Oh, naughty Greg. I'm made the bad list again. So fucking weird. It's so creepy. Apologies to anybody who's.
Still bigger and. Bigger. Apologies to the Slayer. Risks of salts, the stupendous salty one herself. Erica, how are you? Hey, I'm happy to give a finger to dry January with you all today, so. Hell. Yeah. Suck it. And we're happy to finger it with you. You. I would expect nothing less from you. Two classy students. Right? We are super classy. And if people haven't guessed yet, this is the first official recording that took place in 2023. Oh yeah. Clearly we're on one.
So welcome in. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. Lots to get to today. Lots to talk about. We'll catch up with Erika. Erika hasn't been around in a minute, so we'll see what's going on over there. Besides sick children. We have a voicemail from the homie and so much more. Before we get into any of that, I just want to remind everybody, January 13th, that's this Friday 8 p.m. and the SoCal region come out to petals and paint.
Thousand Oaks, California. It'll be myself, it'll be Monica, the head brewer who has been on the show before. And we will be talking about our guava goes a release. I'm very, very excited and we'll have some other beers as well. If you're coming in or to the podcast flight, we'll talk about all of them. But the the big event is that guava goes. And we're on. We're we're I was just saying we're all on pins and needles to find out what the name is. You know, I have a list.
Maybe I'll run them down later on the show. That would be. I've got some listeners submissions, I've got a few. I came with myself, we'll run them down. But we're still looking for names like a lot of these. Broza you know, like. Old workshop. It Yeah. And I haven't ran any of these by Monica yet, so we'll probably find out that they're all garbage. And she's like, I can't put that on a billboard. So, yeah, you know, she already has a name picked out.
I'm sure she's so much smarter than all of us. So except for Erika. Anyways, before we get into all of that, let's answer the most important question of the night. In a world where craft beer is keys or muscles are bigger than ground, there's only one time in diners one man, one time, one tongue jabber. In this world, we must find out what is flex drinking like? What is flex snorting? Yeah. If people could only see how weird I actually am. We should make this a video cast.
Yeah, probably not, though. No, I don't work. So today Flex's drinking a classic from Drucker Brewing Company. It is the king of the thing. It is an all Citra hopped double IPA 8.3% ABV untapped over 11,000 check ins. It is a 4.23 that is hella hella respectable. And apparently I've had this beer twice before and I've rated it a four and a half, so. Well, let's see if that still holds up.
It says, Designed to showcase the beauty and splendor of Citra, this beer is built on a mountain of oats and spelt for a decadent and smooth mouthfeel, bursts with no blur, bursts with the notes of lychee, candied lemon and peach bellini. It's royalty smooth. Royalty smooth. I'm feeling great tonight. Like the juice of the highest order blur too much reading now to get the sniff around in there. Definitely getting some peach on there. Some stone fruit. It does smell super duper hopped up.
I know we've talked about like that super hopped forward smell before, like kind of dinky but not super dinky. And then without further ado, will enter the old tongue jabber. Oh, here comes. Sounds like he's hitting the bong. Mm hmm. That is what that sounded like. And on the tongue, it's a lot more dank than it is on the sniffer. A bit of that lemon in there. But any all that peach bellini kind of doesn't exist on the tongue job, are there? So, I mean, this is a it's really good.
I'm not going to lie. It's really good. But just not finding too many of those notes that they described, which is kind of a bummer. But, you know, it's still still a pretty damn good beer. Yeah. In a different way. Yeah. Yeah. He can't go too wrong with the drinker I think drinkers IPAs are not touted in you know it's oh drinker fruit you know fruit fuck orgy sour over there. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I've had a few of those and I think I'm good but they're IPAs are hoppy stuff is really good.
It really is. And honestly, what I like most about their IPA is for the most part, when the second you correct the can of them, that aroma spews out immediately and it is so pungent. And if you're a fan of hops, which I am, it's something you absolutely love from a beer. All right. Let's dig into some stuff it dry January like I said. My you know a do you know anybody doing is Deb doing dry Jane where I can't remember. Is doing Deb anyway.
Yeah she was doing something else like no carb and dry Daniel or something like that. Dude pretzels. Or. Beer. Yeah. Like whatever it was. Sounded like an immediate recipe for suicide to be. We need to take turns checking in on her. That's sure. Yeah. I haven't heard from her or the intern in a few days. Maybe I should call it. And neither has my mailbox. Got to. Mail dropped. Mailbox is still dry January as well. It's pretty thirsty. I bet it's been a while since he won that bet. Oh, gosh.
Well, since last time recorded, we had a New Year's. I don't know about you guys. Mine was extremely uneventful. Sam spent in a hotel room. We did buy a ginormous bottle of champagne and just drank it, the two of us, and watched Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton sing. I was that it was surprisingly not bad. Like we got back to hotel like at 1030 or something. We were visiting family. I'll get into that in a minute. But we got back to hotel. Turn it on.
We start flipping through like there's the Seacrest one and the Miley one. And my initial thought was like, the Miley one's going to suck at Miley secret. So we start with Seacrest. It was real boring. The wife said, why don't we go to the the CNN one with Anderson and what's his name? Because last year they got hammered. It was. Hilarious. It was hilarious. Yeah. Really? Yeah. It was really funny. So we went over to that one. It was so awkward.
Apparently they were told they can't drink this year and like the only reason they were cool last year is because they were fucking hammered. And so we watched for like 10 minutes. They had the most awkward interview with Kevin Hart and then they brought on what's his name. I can't think of his name, not Anderson Cooper, but the other guy. They brought on his parents to talk. Anderson Cooper. Cooper was like, hey, so you've been watching the show now. We just got home. A huge accolade. Oh, well.
Where did you go? Dinner. Okay. Was it something good? Oh, you want us to say the name? Like. It was like classic old people shit. And I was like, Oh, my God, this is the worst TV. Wow. Please they had. Yeah. Please get them some shots. So then we like we're like, fine, I will drag out Miley. And we first turned on, didn't know who it was. We stuck through an artist. And then Miley came out with like a bunch of different people, and they ended out with, like, a bunch of songs with Dolly.
Surprisingly good. And you know what? Say what you will about Miley. She worked her ass off. Oh, she yes. I mean, she's a good singer. She's a good performer. You can't go wrong with her. So surprisingly. Not bad. Long way long or short story long. Surprisingly, not bad. Do you see those do you see. Those meme surfacing about Dolly Parton fans or like it's it's hard out there for Dolly Parton fans and it's the people wearing the I heart deep shirts. You know, and make me laugh.
Oh that's able to prove sure right. So innocent. Yeah so and I said so. Everyone wants to laugh really, really bad. So I try and so hard. Guys. Yeah. So this is. Amy doing anything fun for New Year's? Erica, you do anything? We did a family. New Year's. Sterling's not into going out on New Year's, so I'm cool with that whatever to the 9:00 feed but we got that dance on the switch the dance game and that was hilarious.
The just dance and like the Rasputin and all the different songs, we were jumping around as being idiots as a family, and that was super fun. The ridiculous part is we were kind of checking in on the countdown, like the 9:00 feed somehow. Got it wrong. Miss the ball drop, which is like, the most depressing thing ever. You're like, what the hell? And the kids do, like, what was supposed to happen like, so we like, go on to like, eat YouTube and try to find a ball.
Drop, like a. Ball drop and just be like, countdown. We're like this one was in Sydney two years ago, but hey, let's count down. It was so ridiculous. But yeah, there was alcohol and good food and whatever and we didn't get hit by drunk drivers. So that's what good call that. We got to call that a night, I guess. Yeah. That's who responded. Yeah. There's a classic story that Cody likes to tell and I'm going to butcher it.
But she was her and Big Dick were with a couple of her friends for New Year's one year, and I forgot exactly what it was. But like they were watching the ball drop and it happened and they all celebrate and they do that like, you know, New Year drinks and toast and kisses and whatever. And then they're like, What? What fucking time is this? What's going on? Turns out he wasn't watching live TV. He was streaming two previous years. Both see? Okay, this happens.
That's like something you do with kids when they're too young to stay up late. It's like 30, and you go to Netflix and they have like 13 different countdowns you can do for kids. It's that's that. Yeah, it's exactly that. Really? Yeah. It was funny. So Flex you guys did anything? It was super low key. My wife put on this stupid amount of like food just for like me. And it was, you know, basically me and her because my kids eat, you know, next to nothing. They're kids, so they're super picky.
So, of course, one was I don't know what it's called, she went down to this Italian grocery store downtown and I call it kind of like a forecast focaccia bread type deal. But it was almost like more pizza than for cash or bread. So she got this huge piece for us, split it in half. So that was like course number one. Course number two is like a charcuterie board with like some stuff for the kids. There was like string cheese wrapped up in salami, some sliced apples, some cheese and crackers.
We had some cheese kid stuff. I would say no kids. I mean, like, you know, there's cream cheese wrapped in salami. And then. What else am I missing? Something on the board. I can't remember now. Oh, cheese curds. I say cheese curds for Wisconsin thing. Yeah. We get a lot of those out here. But let me tell you what. So that was course, too. And she had the sliced apples. And, you know, I've only ever heard of people pairing apples and cheese like I've never actually done it. Apples and bream.
What the fuck that shit is, like, legit. Yeah. Apple. And I think we had like Honeycrisp Apple and sharp cheddar. Oh, yeah. It was like the dumbest thing I've ever put in my mouth. I'm like, why have I not be doing this? Yeah, like, why? Why have I not been doing this for the last. I got to cover. 20 years or whatever it was. It was amazing. So that was course two. Okay. Then Course three was this big old hunk of lasagna again she got from the Italian grocery store. Right.
Okay, so then that gets split in half. Been here with Mel too much. Right? It's like pasta. Cause. Yeah. So, you know, so we split those on air, and at this point, I'm just, like, bursting at the seams. I've had, like, three beers, you know, three courses of meals so far. And now comes the pizza. The pizza from the Italian grocery store, you know, like homemade, whatever. From there, you take it and you bake it. And I'm just looking at this thing. I'm like, sweating.
I got, like, the meat sweats at this point. And sure enough, you know, oh, and then she also made garlic knots with the two. So it's like, I don't know what the hell she was trying to do, but all the food is great. I felt like a fucking stuffed pig. I bet no wonder you were digging the apples. It was like the only thing that was. Like she's carving. That was with bread and and with cheese. So it was more just like a never ending night of food. I was in. I was in bed by 830, sleep in my nine.
And that was her goal. Woke up in the morning. It never. Happened. At three in the morning, actually. I woke up for work at three in the morning and I'm just like, Oh my God, what is happening? And then I quickly recalled, I made an entire grocery store the night before, so yeah. Let me flashlight blow your mind for a second and not to be a Susie Bags or anything like that, but get a like a wrap like a wheel of brie. Okay?
Get some green apple, slice it up, put it on top of the wheel of brie pillow, brown sugar. On top of that wrap this thing in like the the crescent roll, you know, shit, the Pillsbury stuff. Yeah, yeah. Wrap it in that, bake it slow and low so that melted, the brie gets melting, the apples kind of do their thing. The brown sugar melts down. Chef's kiss. No butter on the outside. Pretty good. Yeah, that sounds so good. I'm super head for it.
Yeah, my wife, she makes that every now, and it's like Thanksgiving just doesn't last long. As you say that she just make one for you and. It's like a kid's first birthday. It's like, here's their cake and here's everyone else's cake. Right? So. Well, very nice. I'm glad you've recovered from your stuffing of the pig. I actually finally started feeling better, like, two days ago. Like, my, like, my, my my body cycle started feeling normal again. Well, we'll talk about horrible food.
I don't know. It was last episode. The one before that we were talking about your cannibal sandwiches. Yeah, they're delicious. Yeah, we're. It's like steak tartare, but not even. But, yeah, it's just. It's like ground. Right? Really high, high grade ground. Beef and onions and salt and pepper. And on rye. Yeah. Well, Davis, listener Davis who lives in Colorado but is is from Wisconsin.
He he texted me and said I can current flex cannibal sandwiches lots of exclamations I've never heard of someone getting sick. My family and extended family would do them. The key is definitely to get the meat from a good butcher. And when he goes on to say one last thing, my 18 year old son was refused at two different bars because he was both too old and too young. One Manitowoc and one an éclair. So. Okay. Yeah, okay. That's my that's where that's where Bob Seger wrote Turn the Page.
Oh, only news camp. He was camping in Eau Claire. And that's that's when he wrote that song. That's that's my favorite of that lawn, Wisconsin. We're like, parents can buy drinks for minors, but not for adults. So from 18 to 21, you can I. Mean, it's really on like bartender's consent. Like it's whether or not they're up for it or not. Whether or not someone's been in recently to check on their service. Right. So thank you, Davis, for sending that in for for making flex feel.
Yeah, I love I actually love it a lot. I'm glad that you reached out. Thank you, Davis Yeah. He also said he did this thing called beer poking, and I never heard of it. I don't know, flex. You guys do beer poking. We're like, you heat a stick and put it in beer. So I've never I've never done it in Wisconsin, nor have I known anybody who's done it. But I know this became a trend either last year or two years ago.
So where you would go to breweries and they would stick like a hot poker, it like a dark beard. It's supposed to caramelize all the sugars and whatnot and. Gifted a beer. Polk never used it, though, because. It's like a real thing. Yeah. So was it because we like to camp? So they're like, here's a well, I don't think that's what it was called, but something like that, like this big rod that you fire up and and popping. Yeah, it is. It is like fire rod and just pop it right in.
And I'm like, I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. So we just haven't gone there, you know what I'm saying? I went, You got to try some more. Everything that's still. In the box, everyone is still in. Yeah, it. It's one of those shows already. Now's Deb to pop in and start talking. Don't forget, Deb's Dexcom. Yeah, it's a legit thing. Oh, it is. All right. And then I. We did take a little trip, as I as I alluded to, we took a trip.
So let me let me before I get into the trip, let me start off with my beer, because it does have a have a little bit to do with the trip. Let's see, I don't have a song, so let's do this. It's raining hops. It is. Indeed. So the first night we got into NorCal we needed something to do and we found a brewery. It's called Forelegs Brewing. Very dog. You know what they say? Four legs are better than two. Okay, okay. I'll remember that. I hold that when. I'm poking beer.
Four guys are better than two. You got you guys that were glasses. Come on. We got. Now. We never never got called four eyes and that the the come back was four as are better than two. So I was a cool kid, god damn it. First of all, no one's going to fuck with some chick who's five foot 12, so. Right. Just don't. Yeah. Squashed you. Yeah, I got some more eyes and see what happens. Guess I'm just a fucking nerd. Yeah, I don't know about Eric, but my eyesight is top notch. Pretty good. Yeah. So?
So, no, no glasses and then my parents is horrible. So eventually mine's going to go, but. I'm just going to sulk in the corner. Tell your story. Yeah. We've been looking. For a four legged brewery. Yeah. Yeah. You went to NorCal, you didn't call us up. Go ahead, Greg. You go. I really wanted to. You weren't near. We were like an hour and a half from Sacramento. That's kind of far, though. Okay. And we're. Even. I looked it up. We're even further from where you are.
Like Sacramento was slightly closer than me, so. That's 2 hours I was knocking around, too. Yeah. So my one of my coworkers lives up north. He's like, Why did you call me? I was like, Man, it was mostly family trip. Like I they would not have worked out. So does it ever bother you when you go somewhere for a certain thing and people are like, oh, hey, like I'm here and it's like 2 hours. It looks like 2 hours away, but. It's like we. Have, like, a thing to do. It's like. A yeah.
We're there for a thing, right? We were there for a very specific thing. So luckily the first night had no specific thing and we needed to find some to do. We had the dog with us, so we needed some dog friendly, which almost albury's ever a dog friendly. And this one of course was because it's four legs brewing and no idea what to expect. We got there. Beer was pretty damn good. I brought home some cans.
The one I brought home was not my favorite of what they had, but it's my favorite of what they had in cans. So it's still good. It just they had one on tap that was top notch that they did not can I am drinking from four legs brewing repeated exposure 6.8% has a395 on tap, which is pretty respectable for a very tiny brewery. And they say this hazy has a hint of tropical fruit to make for the perfect hazy balance.
Dry hopped with Citra mosaic and Idaho seven very short fruit tropical in the schnoz, like some pineapple or something coming through, maybe a little bit of peach. The taste really follows that a lot of tropical, a lot of so it's got a lot tropical, a lot of hops. It's it's it's it's like beer. The spirit. It's got a lot of pineapple. I get a lot of pineapple. I get a little bit of peach on the tongue. The pineapple seems to be what I get the most a little. Bit of not quite sure.
Maybe like a mango or something. I'm having a hard time, but it finishes off pretty dank, especially for hazy. So Current cleans up nicely. So what's that mouth feel like? It is pretty damn soft. That's awesome. Yeah. That's one thing that a lot of places don't nail on a hazy like last mile or places. Is that song Mouthfeel? They nailed it. So big ups to them. All right. So that was four legs.
Then we moved our after we finish with our specific purpose that we were there on the trip, we moved over to to Santa Cruz for a couple days, which was the couple of days that they got absolutely fucked from the rain we went to I'm not going. We went to two very that were really bad. So I won't say their names. But then we went to Humble Sea Brewing. Oh yeah. Which was fantastic. But it was the day that the rain was picking up.
And here's the thing, like, we're from California and people don't do rain. Well, but we didn't realize how not. Well, they don't do rain. And in Southern California, we also don't give a shit because every time they say it rains, it never actually does. So we get the humble sea we walking like to something like, Oh, just so you know, we're closing at four because the storm. It's like, what. Was that far? Because this storm like yeah, it's going get pretty wet out there.
Is there something we should know? Like, should we not be around here or what? Like, I don't know. It's just it's going to be pretty bad. And, you know, if you got to travel the roads, you're going to get pretty badly. Okay? What do you mean? How do I. I'm sorry. I'm not from California. Well, how do you. Roads get bad from rain, is it? Well, as it turns out, like a ton of washouts have happened in the last week. But up until that point, I was with you.
And so after they closed, we walked around the corner. We found this place called Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing. And we're like, are you guys staying open the creek? Oh, yeah, we're totally staying open. I was like, All right, so you're normal. So we were drinking some beer and mean it's pouring. We're outside, but they have like a very enclosed patio cleared. The dogs were going to go inside and it's pouring. We're on our second or third round person. The power goes out.
It's was like, Oh, this is why they're closing early. And but they were prepped. They brought out lanterns and put lanterns on everyone's table and they were still. Right out of town. That's awesome. Yeah. I had was on like cellular data for charging, so they just kept going. They're like, we're here till the iPad dies. That's bad ass, dude. Yeah. So it's about time to eat. So we had, like, another round and went and found dinner and went back to the hotel.
And then after Santa Cruz, we spent a couple of days in Paso, did not do a lot of beer drinking, but that a ton of wine drinking. And then on our way back home we stopped by. There does not exist. For some research. I did see that. I did see you do that. I almost had to beat up a guy in the parking lot because I was looking at their candles before I ordered and I was like, All right, I want to order something. They haven't cans so I can bring it home.
And they only had one IPA in cans, so I ordered that. And then I went to check out there and I want a four pack of this one. They're like, Oh, we just sold our last four pack. I was like, Oh, who the fuck was he? Can I go beat him up? She was funny. She's like, He's. Probably so in the Berkeley. Lab. I'm about. To go kick. His ass, so. That's out. But sure. I will pay you double for what you just paid for that. Certain like a tree house situation. Disease.
So anyways, but the beer still great over there there's not exist. So that was our, our long trip. It was like ten days total and I'm so glad to be home. Holy shit, that's too long of a it. Yeah, it was a lot of driving and you know, we drove everywhere. So it was I'm glad to be home. I have to go stay somewhere overnight tomorrow night for work. I'm like, Oh, fuck, can we just do it like next long? I just. Yeah. I missed my bed so much and laundry stacking but. Oh, laundry sucks.
That's a long trip for me. Is like three days. I haven't taken ten days off. Definitely not since college. We were trying to rack our brains. Right. When's the last time? And I. I can't remember the last time the wife and I have taken ten days off. The most I could come up with was seven. So I think this might be the first time since working at my current place. I've been with my wife. Dang. Ten years. I hope you. I hope it was worth it. Yeah. It had its ups and downs.
It's hard to go on a trip when it's pouring half the time. Yeah, the weather wasn't so nice. Yeah, we lost power too. So apparently you were dealing with it at the same time. Luckily, our hotel did not. So that's. Good. There. You could flush toilets. Yeah, I know. You text me. You said you couldn't let. Your toilet because the power of that was like, this does not compute with me. Water still works. With the fucking tree. I love it.
Yeah, yeah. Do you plug in your toilet because you have a bad day or. Yeah. I was a minus. But we have cordless toilets in Wisconsin I don't like. Yeah. Well, everything is a little differently. You know, when they're plated in gold, you got to plug them in. It takes too much power to get them, but that's awesome. True. That's awesome. So, yeah, good time. So luckily, we haven't lost power down here. As you can tell, we're still recording, so. Oh, right. The show shuts off abruptly.
You know, we've lost power. It is fucking porn. I don't know if you guys can hear it at all, but like the rain keeps being blown into my window and it's like, oh, wow. No, no. I can hear the turtles doing it, but I can't hear the rain coming through. The turtles are not currently. Fucking. This time, so. All right, very good. We got a voicemail from Chu. We got some news to get through.
But before we do all that, let's make a call to the pen and find out what the Slayer risks of salt is drinking. From he calls to the bullpen. For beer. Hey, guys. So I'm the Slayers of Salt because that was the best Avenger name I could come up with, because today I am in honor of Flex Drinking Avenger. Which is that shit state. I mean, it's pretty cool. It's a Wonder Woman esque kind of chick flying.
Mm hmm. Pretty sweet. Cannot. Yeah. And this is by Loomis Basin Brewing Company, which is the closest one to my house. And I live in a small town of 7000 ish people. Wow. That's smaller than what I live in. Mine's like 14,000. And I thought that was. Small, pretty small town. So this is our local brewery. And I was hanging out at the bar the other day and tried this and actually kind of dug it. It's also a double. And we know Erica loves doubles. Yeah, we look out. So it's all. The giggles.
So I left a couple sets for my review. And so this is a vendor by limited space and brewing company. There is a conflict from the can to the untapped. The can says it's 8.7%. On tap, says 9.4. That's somewhere between either way. Feeling pretty good. 75? Yeah, yeah. This beer is a beauty to behold Just like a sunset on a warm spring day Big billowy off white head that you could probably float a dime on and a nose of dried apricot or apricot depends on apricot. It's apricot decided it.
Breast, floral hops and spruce. The hops are all over the tongue, keeping the bitterness firmly in place. This lovely brew makes a statement. Don't fear the Avenger. Hmm. So it says United we stand drunk and we fall. That's pretty. Hilarious. That's legit. I like true. Kapow. Yeah. So. So subtle. Yeah. Oh, everybody. Like Lightning McQueen over there. And it is very passionfruit on the nose, and it's it's very like seductively passionfruit. It's very nice aroma.
It did have a nice, billowy head when I poured it like an hour ago, but. I dare you. It's warming up and starts nice and fruity, passion fruity. And it's got a really solid bitterness at the center which wanes and kind of leaves you wanting more. So it's great you just keep coming back to that double. I'm cool with it. Nice. Good job. Limited spacing. Oh goodness. So is it more like West Coast than it is hazy double? Yeah, definitely.
Because I tell you what, I love that passion fruit coming out of those West coasts. Yeah, it's a nice balance for all that bitter hop and then the passion fruit. It's a great combination. I have to say. It was 3.71 on tap. I would give a higher I think that that's not very generous, but sometimes maybe with like a double, you know, or. Especially something that's not a hazy. Yeah, right.
People that are like boys, yeah, they ordered double IPA and they get it and they're like, wait, this isn't a juice bomb. This isn't what I ordered. Right. Well, this whole. Alcohol discrepancy there legally, they can be point five of a percentage off in either direction of what the can says. So there is a chance that they were a little off, but they had already printed the can. Maybe and. They corrected it on tapped or some some idiot changed on tapped in. The wrong right.
So 9.4 is pretty high but yeah it's a good one did. 9.4 and that's that's awesome. I wish it was ten but I'll take 9.4. Oh yeah. Right. It's cool. Way to represent Loomis. Very nice. Well, nothing wrong with a local brewery coming in hot now. And I had a quite a few West Coast today. Did you actually, yeah, I had three and a half. Oh. Because he knew we're hanging out with the West Coast folks. Don't tell my wife. I actually tried a flex. Only had one. A west coast brewed with turbines.
Oh. And it was like, crazy fucking like pine-sol smelling and then like super pine forward. Like you had, like, pine needles in your mouth and the old tongue jobber, it was wild. Okay, so it's from that cannabis family. Yeah, cannabis. Okay. Yeah, it was in parentheses. It said, like, blackberry kush, something or another, but in the media. But yeah, I got to try a little bit of it because I, I went to order a glass of it and the bartender is like, Hey, do you want to. It's kind of weird.
Do you want to have a sample before you try it? It has a Yes, I will. And I did. And I said, Hey, wow, that's different. So that. You know, that I ended up ordering another Westie. But yeah, that's yeah, it was crazy. It was the first time I ever had that. That's fun. I was like, Try that stuff, though. All right. Well, like I said, the homie Junior Beer called in. Yeah. Let's see what. He's mad about this time. Hello. No one is available to take your call.
Please leave a. Message after the tone. Hey, yo, what's up? Craft beer republic to you. Be here. It's raining outside. Remember my truck? And I figured I'll send you this little quick love voicemail, homey. Quick, you know it's raining. I wear dickey shorts and I wear high socks on me and I don't want to get my socks wet. HOLMES Because the higher the socks, the downer, the fool with the check it out for some reason flex.
I keep thinking you work at Sprouts, homey, and I think I'm right or wrong. But if I'm right. Welcome to the family, homey. My brother is a store director for a sprouts out here in North Hills and my son is a night crew employee for the Sprouts in Burbank, homey. So welcome to the family homes. My brother. Gets a. Crash course. Probably so. Meals on me, he's a day winner, and he's the guy that goes around to different states and opens new sprouts homes.
So sprout your legs all the bigger thighs you got earlier. So, Greg, you were talking about the area that peppered the corn hops and how many beer we made homey. The peppers we use were to filet wahi yo, which is not a spicy pepper. It's more of a flavor pepper. And it has color to whatever you're cooking, especially in Mexican cuisine. So we use four of those and with Deseeded and then we used to chili are small and we do see those as well.
And the chili arbol is you mainly used for spicing your food, homey. So if you really hate somebody, you give them one of those homes, you roast it and you don't take out the seeds all the neat you take a bite so select are bold funny thing homey Chile the urban is everywhere. But in Mexico that's what they call it. So have you ever had compound chicken? That's chili that earlier had orange chicken, that little thin pepper that they roast or they fry up in the oil to add aromatics to your food?
Yes, to your beer is a fucking chef for me. I chef at our homes. So that same seal is the same one across the fucking country. The world, homie. Latinos, Mexicans. We tend to use it as we roasted instead of fry it in other countries that use a frying pan. But that's the same fucking pepper homie. We use two of those too. So next time we broken hops in harmony, maybe we are for homes because it wasn't that before.
But I think for no seeds I think would be a good and then the why heels we triple that and make it eight homes. Hell yeah. So we can add some color to that and I think we use that a little bit longer. Homes though I he you're not out of wood had that extra color homie a question to you Greg would be I noticed like home brews they started getting gray. I know that's not a bad sign, but it does throw people off.
You know, when you look at the beer homes, I drank my last bottle of corn have to how many that we made and they're fucking beer like like I was drinking fucking breakfast gravy home but it's still good still beer and it still got me buzzed. So there you go. Sorry to make this long and make sure, but that's the way life goes on through your beer here. He's not so sure. You're not sorry, and we're okay with it? Yeah. Do you work at Sprouts Flex? No, I don't work.
It's. Well, I don't even know what Sprouts is. It's a grocery store out here. Go. It's out. It sounds like. Like a like a daycare. Yeah, that's what I thought the other day. A lot of some kids thing. Yeah. They're about to sprout. Yeah. If they come out with one out here, I'll work at it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You get back. To. Fan protection. Hell yeah, yeah. Fuck yeah. And then as far as the Gray Homebrew thing is concerned, that's two things. First of all, it's oxidation.
But I think what you have over there is the last couple of bottles that came off the keg, had some some junkers in them, some floaters, because at the bottom of the keg is where, you know, all the sediment, everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. First, yeah. It's like the last two or three bottles had some chunks in them just because that's the way it is. And then I don't have a filter. Everything as it gets cold, especially drops down in lager.
And so you're good because the way my keg is set up, a lot of kegs, they have a dip tube that goes down towards the bottom. I have a floating tube that floats on top of the beer and that way it stays clear all the way and so you get towards the bottom and then you get a ton, a chunk. So like the last couple glasses are, are that breakfast gravy. Yeah. So yeah. So it's oxidation.
And with your case specifically too, it's the oxidation of all the, the leftover troops from the brewing process that was at the bottom of the cake. So you would call yourself maybe like an unfiltered gentleman. Oh. No, not I. Dare you. Or more inclusive group. These guys. Unfiltered, gentle beer. So yeah. So like I saw a couple of bottles. I saved like three or four bottles to give out to people. And so I looked at them before we started the show. They're clear.
AF And they haven't, they haven't started to to chunk up yet. So I did have one that chunked up and it had a bunch of sediment at the bottom. So it's, it's from having the sentiment and all that good stuff. It's also because I bottled off of a keg so there's a little more air involved. Had I bottled and bottle conditioned, it probably wouldn't happen to those chunkier beers. I feel like you're getting super defensive about this. No, no, I'm just explaining. I don't care.
I just can't wait till you brew it again with all these peppers. Yeah, that's good. I don't know. Also, Erica perked up when he said this, but I don't know how you triple something and come up with eight. So I don't know that whole. That was hilarious. And two, your beers should be tuned as freakin beer. You know, he needs some like sentiment. It sounds like it's of chunky, you know. So that's just setting them up for success, given his name. But I did it for you.
Right? Extra chunks. Just saying. I agree with some quantile chicken now, though. Yeah, but those pepper. I hate those peppers. I mean, I like the flavor, but, like, you can't eat them. They taste like they feel like plastic. And they're so hot. Yeah. Oh, man. Spiciness doesn't bother me, but, like. Once all spices surprise me big time. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I like the flavor they give us. So, anyways, 85, five, three cheeses. I just got in front of it. Five, three.
805538 beer 2337 is the number to call if I got it right. A few new stories to get through. First, we've been talking about the last few weeks, a lot of breweries closing down with the new year. Two more we didn't mention. And those are Southern California Breweries Mumford Brewing, which I really like, and I'm sorry to hear that they're closing along with King Harbor brewing. King Harbor, I thought actually was pretty decently sized. They did a lot of not a lot.
They did some collab brews with, you know, like bigger brands like they brew Adam Carolla's IPA. And they used to I don't I don't know, I don't I wasn't Adam Carolla but they did like his beer and stuff. So interesting. Unfortunately, like I said, 2023 might be the reckoning of. But you think that's a product of saturation? To some extent, yeah. I think it's a product of the economy and the cost of beer making and saturation.
And but I've been saying all along, like, well, you got to be good to stay open. But Mumford make some good ass beer. So that's that's unfortunate. They don't have a great location there in downtown and not a great part of downtown L.A. Like I would go pick up some beer. I would never hang out. Got it. There's probably not as many bail outs now too, which I get like they were helping people out and stuff and how about Brew? And now it's like, okay, make it last another year.
Okay, here we are. It's 20, 23. Yeah, fight or flight. So I feel like if they get themselves a good location where people might hang out, maybe get some food, go into that, they'd do really well. So food is a huge thing. Yeah. And I know if you guys do like a lot of food trucks in California, that's a big thing. Yeah, okay. Because that that that's become a huge thing out here too.
And if you don't have a kitchen at your brewery, you better have, especially on the weekends, like a food truck, you know, like noon, eight or nine. I say, Brit over 90 pint is really good. She has a food truck almost every night of the week and that's a good comment. So yeah, it makes it easier because you don't want to go like, Oh, we have two beers and then go have dinner. I want to do yeah. Or at. Least yeah. Like, hey, I'm going to go here to have dinner and have beers.
Yeah. Well, I feel for all the breweries that like a lot of those food trucks, act out on. I don't know if you guys notice that. Yeah, it's like they're really reliant on having that there. And so I'm sure they the good brewery snag all the reliable ones they see like so-and-so pizza's not coming today and it's going to suck. Yeah. And during COVID, at least down here in Southern California, like, well, I think in California in general, you couldn't open a brewery without food.
Like during oh, as COVID was a sort of. An oh, that was like a COVID rule. It was a covered rule. You had to have you had to serve food and you had to serve a meal. So it couldn't be like beef jerky. You had to be like, right for food. Oh, yeah. That's how it came in. Yeah, exactly. Ramen breweries are partnering with food trucks, and if they ditched them, they can open that day legally. Dang. Yeah, nuts. Roadhouse Brewery Group has officially closed their deal to acquire Melvin Brewing Company.
I'm sure if you haven't heard of Melvin, you've heard of one of their beers, two by four, which was heavily promoted by. Never having. Heard. Oh, isn't a melvin kind of like a wedgie? Yeah, I think. You're all in. Oh, I've never heard that. Is it the wedgie over the head? Yeah, maybe that's what it is. Or maybe it's just a regular wedgie. Oh, I haven't heard. It's funny. Greg's got fast fingers. Greg, get the fast fingers going. Look up the Melbourne man. What is a melvin always. Have to do?
Maybe it came from The Simpsons, right? Like that? I don't know. I feel like it's even before that, it's just like a thing. It's like, here we go. The Melvin is a variant where the victim's underwear is pulled up front, up from the front to cause injury, or at least severe pain, not to the victim's genitals. Oh. There you. Go. Thanks, Wikipedia. I just wouldn't want to name my brewing company, Melvin, but. It just makes me think of Doug Melvin, who's.
Tech Melvin. Doug. But he was like the manager of the Brewers and the pod. Pod, Doug Melvin. No, GM. GM fuck. You know what? He had something to do with the Brewers. All right. Okay. Good time to take that up. Take that up right now. At a. Point this. Month, you dread January athletic brewing is to invest seven figures in media ads behind giving dry a try for January. That's a lot of money for a one month labor. And. Welfare. Yeah. All they brews in a beer and they have a lot of. Oh, I see.
I mean. Investors got athletic brewing. Yeah, yeah. Well, send it over to Deb for January. Yeah. So sorry. Deb. Yeah. And enjoy. And please don't kill yourself, Labatt. Here we go. Any. Any Canadian friends up there? Labatt adds a fruity twist to their nonalcoholic beer segment they're coming out with in a strawberry assay pass. Yeah, so it feels like throwing. Because I'm telling you what, if I'm doing any kind of Canadian beer, it's dildo or. Bust. That's right. Yes. Frickin dildo. Yeah.
I remember that. Wish I could get some of that. That would be fucking awesome. I know. How how can we make it be easier if they're in the States or like Lisa? Correct. Yeah, that's what it is like the whole shipping issue. Like I wish I could need you to go to Canada. Yeah. Okay, let's go. Up to. Canada. We'll make the drive. Get some dildos. We're not even taking the. Pride out of the box, you guys. I mean, talk to the wrong person. I'm just saying. I mean, I'm a for an adventure, so.
Yeah, that would be awesome. Roger, that's quite the road trip for you. We should our road trip to Canada for Dildo Brewing and that'll be like our warm up. For for, you. Know, for our Finland world tour. Oh, Finland. Okay, right. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense because yeah. I like Finland these days. There's still topic. Still. Going strong. Yeah, I can love Finland. I love. Those guys. I just wish you would find out why. Cause I'm pretty sure it's a mistake.
Yeah, I think Apple just, like. Forgot look out or something. And we're still top those Apple charts. I think they're getting like the latitude longitude confused at some other right. Yeah. And they're like, oh yeah. So just keep saying that Finland really likes these guys, right? Because we've already started. So let's just keep going. And this one comes from the, uh, previously mentioned Davis, who was from Wisconsin.
He said he sent the stories that apparently this happened back in September, but this is news now because the guy was just convicted, man accused of burglarizing brewers clubhouse. Yeah this just came out yes. A man passed out in the bushes outside the Milwaukee Brewers Stadium after a game and upon awakening entered the team's clubhouse and stole electronics, a credit card, team memorabilia and other items. The 25 year old man was charged December 14th with felony burglary.
The complaint says the man attended a September 8th doubleheader against the Giants. An American Milwaukee's American family. FIELD Well, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, just like wholesale, I can't call Staples Center Crypto.com Arena. That's too fucking. Long. Just called Miller Park. Yeah, it's called Miller Park. Everybody does. Yeah. He said he drank at least ten beers, passed out, woke up and got back inside the stadium by pulling on a door until it opened.
First of all, ten beers, lightweight. He found his way to the clubhouse and started taking stuff from the locker.
A team strength coach said items taken from his office included a laptop, iPads, headphones, a passport and a credit card, a jersey and a shaving kit were taken from manager Craig Counsel's Office, and the manager said that a game used hat, an autographed bat, a 45 year anniversary, 1982 signed bat, a replica World Series ring and keys to the team's Arizona spring training facility were stolen from his office. What the shit?
Two game jerseys in a bag with baseballs and pitching devices were taken from the coaches locker room. I want to know how you fucking carried all this stuff. Yeah, seriously, it sounds like more than one guy passed out in a bunch of wreckage. Like, just. Yeah. And nobody pulls on with it. Nobody pulls on a door until it opens. Because if a door is locked, you can pull on it as much as you want, right? It's not going to fucking open. Right? I gave it to Poles and I'm done. There's more to this.
There's an inside guy or multiple inside. Yes. Good call. Facts. The man then ordered an Uber to take him home. His roommate rat told detectives that the man showed up early on September 9th with a duffel bag stuffed with a Brewers memorabilia. Investigators recovered most of the items from the man's apartment. I'd love to know if they recovered the keys to spring training facility, right? Yeah. That would be worse. Than the Uber. What does the Uber driver.
Have taken vacation until they got out of spring training and they just leave. Right? Right. Anyways, Brewers get your security act together. What the fuck? Right, dude. Okay, hold out the door until it open. Right then. I'm pretty sure it's only because it's called American Family Field. Now, if it was Miller Park, there's no way he's getting in there. No, I'd be much more secure there. And has anybody just pulled on a door and like, hey, look at that. It worked.
No, that's like some movie shit. Like some made up fucking movie shit. Inside job. Dude. I pull on so many doors, goddammit. No, no, you one of them. Oh, but. I think Erica nailed it. Porn on knobs, not doors. Yeah, I'm just. Doors are walking around, pulling on doors. Now, see what happens. Yeah, it's like it opens up, then it's like you're just allowed to go inside. I guess so. I don't know. So stupid. So stupid. I almost forgot. So let's run down this real quick.
I promise to give the names of the Gosa that we've come up with so far. So, Vanessa, I. Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Girl Woo creepers in a row. That was a real. You thought that was creepy? It's creepy. I got, like, goose bumps, dude. Well, that's because it was sexy. Yeah. Yeah. Goosebumps creep. I'm super. Cookies. Yeah, it's a double. Double. Great. Do not say it came from Erika. Just be like someone. Okay, go ahead. Did you send me one? I think I did. Okay. I didn't risk parking real.
Sorry. Apology? Nope. You can say it. Forgot it. Vanessa says guava is Seoul. Okay. Both Real beer vixen on the gram, her husband, the real beer bastard. We were talking and going back and forth and I said, I'm fresh out of ideas for a name. And he said, Court, fresh out of ideas. I can't go like that. That's clever. Yeah. Pablo sent a couple. He said, There she goes. And then he said, okay, guava witch, thank you for the explanation. Is a play on the Spanish phrase, whoever or whoever won.
I don't claim to. Speak an. Egg. What's a whale snot? Not webOS. Oh, see, it's a Hispanic, he said, which is Hispanic to say not today. I'm feeling lazy. Oh, those like. All right, not bad. And then my favorite that he submitted was and this family is a wrestling fan from the eighties and nineties. The Road Warriors, the beginning of their entrance music was what a rush. And he said, guava rush. I got really excited for that. To go over. Exactly.
So good. Lord. The wife says guava goes for a ride because they're bike. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Bike theme. Here are the four I've come up with. I'm very embarrassed to share. As a Ludacris fan, I came up with, Every day is a guava day holiday. That's not bad. We were listening to some emo stuff. I know Monica as well as Brit loves BMO Music, so said of all the small things, guava small things. Okay, real bad. I was just writing these downs or driving on. The. Sugar. Where goes a down?
I like that a lot. Oh, okay. I like that one a lot. And then this is a little bit of a nod towards Erica, but mainly Seinfeld. These guavas are making me thirsty. Okay. Yeah, these. Are salt in. There. It's our salt. And I. I found mine. Gregg's gear grinding guava. GOSA That's right. I know. Because something with a bike. Bike gear, grinder gear grinding. Wow. It goes. Back. Go back like. Sorry. What was that one? Who is it from. You guys in the car? Oh, every day is a guava day. Sugar.
Where it goes down. Yeah, sugar goes. Yeah. I like that one. I like that one. Sugar where it goes in there. Yeah. And who doesn't like Pawpaw. Oh yeah. I don't. Know. I know everybody does. So please, please submit your name. Please for the love of God, submit someone. I like. Erika The only thing I. Dislike about it is it makes me think of coffee. Because the the. Ground. Grind weird. Yeah. I think honestly, my favorite is guava relish. But I doubt Monica's a wrestling fan from the. 1980s now.
Well, then, how do you put Elodie on the card or everybody with every purchase, you get a pair of spiked shoulder pads. Oh, yeah. Oh, my. Ride. Free face. Painting the night of the live. Show. Oh, my God. It could all work really well together. Hey, Monica, if you're listening, if you agree to call it guava rush, I will paint my face like the road warriors. That would be amazing. For the live show. I will come out like roadway or animal. That's worth it.
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