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This is about to be good radio. To me, a craft brewer is much more of a mindset. We just opened cans, spread the gospel of good beer. Beer. Tons and tons of stuff going on in the beer world. I love craft beer. I love different people's beers. It's a first favorite. Cheers two old US beer geeks and those new to the craft. What's on Tap High five? This is What's on Tap radio beer and the culture that flows with it. Keears beer Guru James Simpson. Here I
am in los Chad till Beam there he is, Hi, everybody. I'll take songs I have ever heard since the eighties. Oh James, James, that's that's too over the top, man, that's over the top. Too much Jay Winner takes all when video game music crosses rock and roll. Welcome to the show. I mean kind of a weird mood. I would agree. I'm gonna I'm in a weird mood. I'll tell you why here in a second. But I'm going to welcome you to the fine program we have
available for you. We got a lot of things to talk about, a lot of beers to be consumed before we get underway. I like to introduce myself. I am James. That is Chad Say Hi, Chad, Well, Hi, thanks for introducing me too. I like to introduce myself, and I guess I don't get to introduce myself. Oh cha, do you want to do it for me? I'll do that. That's why you get the big bucks, that's why you're on MIC number one. And I find it interesting that you said you're in kind of a weird mood. I am.
I am as well, But I guarantee two very different reasons. I can't wait to share one. Okay, they say October kind of brings that weird. I don't know if it's like the changing of the seasons, but it puts everybody in a funk. But I'm not really in a funk because of that reason. But I'll explain why. But I want to welcome you guys' the show. Got a great show planned for you. But let's get them things out of the way by thanking our sponsors because it's very, very
very important to me. It's like something I've always done in the ten years of this show. It started the show by just thanking our partners at crime that being Tantric Brewing, Superior Pest Control, bio Logic, Conference Events, Remal that Tendeka Insurance Group, the Backyard Grill and sponsoring the podcast cast branding. Now, I've heard some rumors that Chad pill Beam has been hanging out over the Backyard Grill lately. That's fun. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
It is a root and toot and ripper or in action pack fun feel good old time over there, hang out with the brew crew and all the tasty beers that are on tap. But the food at the byg just stop stop it right now. If you live in Houston, you know how great of a culinary city it is. If you're anywhere else in the world, you're you're fighting for second place. Okay, I'm just gonna say it. I want to tell you something. So the Backyard Girls inspired my wife.
You know, my wife's a cook, right, She's not a professional chef, but she is a very she's a very good cook. Some people pay her for her food, they do, she doesn't. She does like this catering business. And her green beans that she makes was inspired by the Backyard Girl. She sat with Mark mcshaffrey. Mark mcshaffery didn't tell her the secrets, the inside secrets of the green beans, but he kind of gave her, like the you know, some secrets here and there. She kind of
filled in the gaps and I have to say, very very delicious. But this segment is brought to you by the Backyard Grill, And this segment is being brought to the table where I'm bringing a beer, Chad's bringing a beer, and I hope whatever you're doing safely, I hope enjoying a beer with us. Now. This is why I'm in a weird kind of a funk. If you look at today's dates, this is the last weekend of October, which means this is probably the last October Fest I will be bringing to
the table for this year. I knew you were gonna say that James, I knew it, so I'm kind of in a weird word about it because I you know, I went forward to October Fests all year round and rip the band aid, go here we go. It's come to a close, and I'm gonna bring one of the goats to the to the table. I haven't brought it this year, and Chill, I brought a special glass to pour it in the Samuel Adams Boston Logger glass. There it is. We want to take a stab of what beer Up'm about to put in this glass?
Chad uh spotting m Nope, Oh, Sam Adams, he went with the Well, you said you were going with one of the goats. They this is one of the American craft beer goats, the Mars. Yeah it is. But I thought when you said goat, I thought you were going old school like the original spot. I see what you're saying. Yeah,
I see that I should have preferenced it a little bit better. But no, this is the Samuel Adams October Fests, which is always always in my fridge every October Fest season, and I've yet to bring it to the table. So I am going to make good on it now for probably the last october Fest I bring to the table for the twenty twenty three Octoberfest season. So there is copper color, nice, small little head, a little lacing on the glass. But it's just it's a treat I'm going James is trying
to James is actually slow talking right now. He normally speeds through the descriptions on the beers and his enthusiasm. But the problem is is he knows this is the last one he's gonna open on the show for a while, and so he doesn't really want it to end. So he's finding the words carefully because he knows this the last time he's going to talk about october Fest.
Well, I'm gonna bring it on another october Fest to the show later, but this is the last episode I'll probably be bringing an october Fest to the table. Now. I might be cracking it throughout the show, but kicking things off in the first segment. This might be the last time I'm kicking it off with the Octoberfest. And I did it with the Samuel Adams october Fest hardy and smooth at five point four percent, five point three percent,
I'll call it by volume. Excuse me one while, all right, So there I go, and so I'm gonna let Chad and lighten us what he brought the table before I die into the tasing notes and what I get off the aromas off this october Fest from Samladams. Well, like I said, I'm feeling a little bit weird too, because normally we end the show talking about Tantrik Brewing Company in Alegan, Michigan. Today, kicking off the show
in the same spirit as James I figured last chance. Here it is from Tap fourteen in the can right here, it is the October Fest from Tantrik Brewing Company, a five point five percent delicious example of what a mars and beer is. I love this beer. Patrick killed it this year. I've been bragging it up, telling you to go over there get it off a Tap fourteen. But now in the can, right here now in my glass, the Michigan support your local Michigan brewery, Kraft Brewers glass. Look at
the beautiful color on that the clarity, beautiful white pillow. We had to take a sip. That is a fantastic beer. We had it last week on the show. My god, so amazing. Had to break. I had to bring it back. I wanted to start the show by talking about Tantrick because some big things coming up this holiday season. But we'll talk more about that later on. I think we're gonna have Tanya and Patrick back on
the show very soon. Nice and yes, and and and that's what I've brought to the table, the Tantrik Brewing Company Octoberfest, Mars and five and a half percent. James kicks things off with the Sam Adams goat the one of the og Kraft Beer original Octoberfest in the Boston Lagger Glass. And that's brought to the tale, brought to you by your friends at the Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston. James, tell everybody what's on tap this
week? Are you ready for Christmas beers? Because ready or not, here they come and there's a brewery, a newly open brewery that's for sale. They'll tell you who that is. And all. This is so much more, including the what's on Tap Radio fun factor the week which is coming up soon. We'll be right back. The only thing we throw back on Thursday is a pint of beer or two or three. This is what's on tap radio. Back to James and Chad, Hey, you know it doesn't matter
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dot com. Welcome back to the show, Chaz, I, what are you coming back with? Sammy Hagg whatever Ai decides that we're gonna come back with Ais our producer. By the way, is that sad? Now? Now we're replacing our interns and our producers with artificial intelligence. You know, we never really needed to replace Kimberly, although Kimberly kept us in check. Yeah she did. I miss Kimberly. Every now and then I'll get an
email from Kimberly, or not an email, but she'll DM me. Kimberly for those that are new to the Wordio program, was our longtime producer, long time producer, and then she ended up moving to Austin and kind of left us well. She went on moved to Austin because during COVID we weren't getting together and we couldn't afford to pay her, right, And so yeah, she ended up taking a job in Austin and she does very well for herself. And every now and then she'll just send me something snarky, just
the way, just the way I like it. I mean, that's that's just how she was. So she's like at her quarter million dollar flat in their it department. Dude, she drives it. She drives a like a super loaded tesla. She does. It's nice looking too, and when the battery but you know, when the battery quits on that thing, she's just gonna she's just gonna leave it right where it is and put a note on and say it's yours, and just look at the case. It's just like,
yeah, I'll go get another. You know I'm missing check. I'm gonna send it a har check. So shout out to you can really we miss you out there in Austin. I hope you're doing well. All right, So let's recap. Brought to the table. I kick things off this year, this year, this episode year, this season, this month with the Samuel Adams october Fest. I told you all, I'm kind of in a funk mood just because only it's because this is the turning of the season.
We're starting to see these october Fest beers go away, and it kind of makes me sad because now it's making room for those pumpkin beers and and the Christmas beers. Oh thank goodness. Yes, you know. I went to a big box store the other day and those Christmas decorations are in full blast. My man. I mean, I want you walk in and they
have the decorations like if Christmas is next week. Oh yeah, I went to a wholesale club, one of those warehouses, right, grocery shopping experiences, and they had the Christmas beers in the box for like the Advent beers. Oh, we've talked about this before. You know, those beers have been sitting in that box since like May. No, they've been sitting there since last year. All right, we didn't sell out of these, let's repackage them. I mean they might as well, that's what they did.
None of them taste Honestly, I don't know that any of them really taste that good. Maybe this year, I'm gonna make you know what I'm gonna commit, listeners, hold me accountable. I'm gonna buy one of those boxes, and I'm gonna do the Advent Beer calendar, and I will record it and put it on social media. There it is, I'm pledging. In studio s here, I do have a fridge. I have some Advent beers from last year. I think I'm looking at a peanut butter reporter and then
there's another stout in there. Maybe I should crack that they've been aging right here all right? Anyways, Perfection, that's what it is, Just the way the broomaster intended. It's been sitting in a box for a year, and then when somebody buys it, your job is to put it in your fridge for another year, and then only then will it reach its peak and then crack it open on this fine radio program. That's the secret, all right. Let me tell you this, this same Mom's October fift moldy,
pleasant sweetness, light hot character. Mm hmmm. It's hardy but not too heavy. It's a signal to make the most of the crisper days ahead. Chad. As I take a sip, it's like fall. It's here for limited time. Mm hmm. Yeah. Again at five point three percent alcohol by volume. I kind of like, how James there's reading that copy. I'm bosting it's rich and roasty, all right. And then that Chad had the mars In from Tantry Brewing Company, which he was in studio last week.
It was nice to have him in studio and now he brought that and I'll tell you what, man, that was a fantastic beer. So shout out to Patrick Contania for putting out a great Marsin on Tap fourteen. Yes, this is good one. Here. Hey, let me ask you a question, how come people in Boston don't pronounce their ours? But yet? So if that's the case, how do you say rich and roasty? I don't know if you don't pronounce, because I'll say pock the ca, yeah right, right, the ca by the wada, you know, down by
the wada or we're gonna But then you get to rich and roasty? How do you say rich and roasty in Bostonese? No, I have to ask my uncle Ted's from Boston. Well, all I know is is that my mind's just blown. Let's learn something else now, The official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked? Clear? This week? Oh right, I'm gonna sit back and I'm gonna get my learning on. This is where James just says, all right,
chadat go ahead. Well I don't know if you could tell, but I sound a little different this week. Yeah, you lost your voice. You've been cheering too lally at the Spartan football games. Shut up, James, I can't say not our year okay, taught my year either? Man? My poor kugs? Oh man? Did we take a beating against Michigan? In fact, I almost brought two beers to the table to start things off, but we lost our stunt beer liver. No, he didn't die,
he just didn't make it here. So I didn't want to try and open two beers to start the show. And we'll save that for another time. But I sound a little raspby because I had a speaking opportunity that I did in Houston, and on day two it started to hit me. I was getting laryngitis, and that is the worst thing as a speaker if you are an MC for an event. I wanted to know, man, what was
causing it. So the first thing is, by the way, speaking of being in a weird mood, I've got laryngitis and I'm recovering from it and a sinus infection that goes with it. But speaking of weird mood, people were asking me, do you have COVID? And I I like how everything result like you sneeze, you have COVID, you coughed, Yep, you have COVID. I decided I'm gonna run with it, so I said, yeah, I do, I said, but not regular COVID. I've got
shark COVID and there's like shark COVID. I said, yeah, I was down in Houston, went down to Galveston, walked out in the water, got bit by a shark. I grabbed a hole of shark, punched it, drug it up on shore, called a marine. Biologists said, I just got bit by this shark. Will you test it for COVID? They tested, test out positive. Turns out I've got shark COVID. But don't worry. I'm not contagious unless I bite you. And no joke. Like ten people that I told that story to went, so you got bit by
a shark like death. That's what you took out of the whole story. You actually know what you say? Pty chat. It sounds like you actually did. I know. So then I thought, well, I've been drinking beer a long time. Surely there's no way that beer can cause laryngitis. Until I discovered, Ladies and Gentlemen, your official once on Tap radio fun
fact of the week is that beer can cause laryngitis. Yeah. I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but if you've ever been out on a bender and you just had a really late night and you wake up in the morning and you're like, oh man, and your your voice changes, there is a reason for that. It's because alcohol actually goes in there and just irritates the crap out of your vocal cords from excessive drinking. It's true,
that's right. Probably part of the reason why Lagernitas prints on their bottles. Beer speaks. People mumble, oh, there you go. Yeah, beer tells stories. But after a while, too many young people start slurring their
words. By the way, speaking of slurring your words and slurring your speech, you begin to slur your speech when you reach the blood alcohol content of point one three, two point one five, depending on I don't know which individual we're testing, but science has spoken from point one three to point one five, your blood alcohol content results in slurred speech. But back to this
laryngitis thing. Here turns out that even Buffy the Vampire Slayer had an episode called Beer Bad where people were drinking bad beer, and before it turned them into raging apes that attacked people, the first thing they lost was their speech, their ability to speak. Oh yeah, yeah, before they turned into raging apes, they lost their ability to speech. But alcohol dries out your mouth and your vocal cords, and excessive drinking can cause vocal nodules and polyps
that need to be surgically removed, So don't overdo it. Now you're thinking about this, Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna look and see. Does beer cause the other thing to happen? Not you to lose your voice, but gain your voice? It does, and ladies and gentlemen.
According to the Urban Dictionary, it is a phenomenon known as beer lungs where you start yelling after getting drunk and you may develop a condition according to the Urban Dictionary, known as beer ears, where you listen to yourself and think you're way more funny than you're not. So you'r official What's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the week or fun facts are that beer can cause long term layringitis and you start learning your speech from point one three to point one five
blood alcohol content. Beer lungs is when you yell after getting drunk, and beer ears is when you think you're more funny when you're really not. It probably makes you think you're just a better singer as well. Don't do that. There you go, put me on stage. I'll prove something. There you go, your official What's on tap reo Fun Factor the Week. Ah, it's a good one. All right, we got to take a break,
but still to come. We're going to talk about, Oh Sammy Hagar's in the news, and we were going to talk about are you ready for Christmas beers? Because ready or not? Here they come. We'll be right back. And the teacher said, no, Bobby, there's no such time as beer o'clock. Fire that teacher. This is what's on tap radio. Alright, dive into some stories. Try to save Chad's voice recovering from stop it lingitis. You know what was interesting about that is you mentioned right the
end of that segment is that probably makes you think you sing better. And it turns out vocal coaches will tell you not to drink alcohol when you're singing, because not only does it irritate your vocal chords and which also brings your voice down an octave or brings down to the lower level, but it relaxes your vocal chords to where you don't have to strain necessarily as heart or you
have to strain harder. And then what you do is is you tend to overcompensate on your on your your voice, so you over sing the notes and hence that goes back to beer lungs where you start thinking you're talking at a normal level, but you really are. You're much louder. You see the video of yourself the next morning, like, oh god, I can you delete that video? Oh that's embarrassing. Care why? But you know, when you're doing karaoke, you sound just like Neil Young, and you sound
just like Bruce Springsteen. You know, you just you do. And then you see the video the next morning you're like, oh that's bad man, Billy Joel never sounded any better. Oh man, anyways, but uh, you know, it's all good fun, right, It's all good fun. Sure it is, until somebody has to sit there sober and say, why am I listening to this? Oh? My ears are bleeding? But I know. Meanwhile, we do karaoke. We do karaoke here at studio ass
a lot. My wife's pretty good. I'm not, but I always have to have some liquid courage before I can get up there and start singing my Tiny Dancer. But in my head I sound just like Elton John But in reality I sound like a dog being like it's tail being stepped on. Oh man, you know what we we We kicked the show off with a couple of beers and Winter Takes All You and I you don't. We got to do. We had to have Winter Takes All. Loser has to sing Toxic
by Britney Spears. We've done that bit. We've done it. You know. We've done a lot of bits on this show and the history of this the show. We've done now of the best. We had a brewer for those of you knew to the show and if you maybe if you've been a long time listener, you forgot, but uh it was Wind Benz w of uh Lake is like woodlake Wood Brewery, lake Wood Brewery up in in uh just outside of Dallas, Texas. And we had him on the show and he's he's like, guys, I gotta wrap this up. I gotta go,
I gotta go do karaoke. We're like, we have whatever. He's like, no, I do karaoke, and like he's like a real guy that like gets all into it. And right in studio we're like, all right, what are you sing? He's like toxic Britney Spears really bull crap. No no, no, no no no. I asked what are you singing? And he's asking anything. I'm like okay, and so he pulls out this list like Santa claus Christmas list, and he told one of us to pick any song that's right, because he said he was gonna sing them
all the night. Yeah, and so we chose Toxic by Britney Spears and he belted it out. And that was after drinking beer with us in studio. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were done with the show. I was like, dang, that's something else, man. But anyway, we're living in the past. Let's move forward. What's going on in the world today. Speaking of moving forward, now, we're starting to see Christmas beers on the shelves making an early return. That's the future. That's not now.
Are you ready? It is now? Are you ready? I kid you not, man, because I went to my local beer retailer the other day and I started seeing those Christmas beers. I saw three particular Christmas beers that I'm a fan of, and one I really I picked up. And the first one was the twenty first Amendment Fireside Chat Winter Ale. Okay, yeah, that's it. If you're not familiar, that's the San Francisco based
brewery. But isn't it, I boo, No, it's English Star English style strong al Okay, So all right, rich and dark, bold flavor, perfect for the weather cooler months. Uh seven point nine close. Uh. Then another one of my favorites, Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hoop. I'm as oh, no, way, that's out already. Mm hmmm, I'm looking at such a good beer. First brood in nineteen eighty one, Serra Nevadac Celebration Freshop six point eight percent ABV. It's in any a pale al
for those that didn't know. But uh, if you that beer, I'm telling you right now, I'm afraid if they made that beer year round, they wouldn't sell enough of people get over the hype and and it would go away. I'm glad it's a seasonal release, but I'm telling you when that comes out, every time I go to the store, I don't care if it's regular price on sale, I pick up a twelve pack. No, that's there, such a freshop. And then uh, coming back to Texas
the ship and I guess, can I guess? Can I guess what the last one is? Yeah? Yeah, anchor are very special Christmas sale. Oh my god, wouldn't it be cool they didn't have that? Oh? No, no, no, yeah, if you didn't hear that news earlier this year. But no, what it is on the shelf is the Shiner Holiday Year. Oh there you go. Made with pecans and peaches, those flavors enhanced through traditional German brewing techniques. Carbonating a beer for Christmas, I
guess it is. Apparently with this beer Shiner Holiday Cheer, the dark multi five dunkle Vison. If it's in it's wait, it's Holiday Cheers. A dunkle vison with peaches. Yeah, crafted with pecans and peaches, whose flavors are enhanced through krusing a traditional German brewing technique for carbonating beer before, during, and after fermentation. Sasha Tibo's losing his mind right now. It is what it is, but uh yeah, it's a dunkle Vison dark wheat ale.
It takes an old world tradition in a truly his direction. So these are some three of the holiday beers. And I'm starting to see on the shelves. It won't be long before I start seeing that Saint Arnold Christmas ale. I love that one. That's an old ale. That's gonna be hitting the shelves, I'm sure pretty soon. If it's not there yet, well, I don't know. I don't know about putting peaches in my winter beers. I guess, I guess the pecans. Maybe you know, help it
out. I don't know. I'm not so. But are you are you ready for pump are you pumpkin beer? Are you ready for Christmas beers? It depends. I mean, you know what, at this point, this is what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna make a statement. I'm gonna make this my new I don't know manifesto. Chad Pilbeam no longer cares when you release any beer, because you know what, it doesn't matter what I think. You're gonna release it whenever the heck you want
to release it. It's gonna hit the shelves and we're all gonna have the same reaction. Came out so early, and they're gonna be gone before in the scene's over. I'm done. I'm done. I mean I'm done trying to figure it out. You're done trying to understand it. I can't change anything about it. I can't do anything about it. I need to just drink it. You're not wrong, because Christmas Day you're gonna start seeing spring beers on the shelves, the spring box, in my box where they show
up. If that's when they show up, I'm fine with it. Chat. I have released the tension and the aggravation of being irritated by when brewers release that beer. I mean, I get why they do it. I get why they do it because you know, like I said, we talked about this over and over, it's like beating a dead horse. Nobody drinks october Fest beers in November. I don't know why, but they don't.
For some odd reason, they don't, and so they have to sell them before November first, because otherwise those sit on the shelves That's why they start pumping them out in you know, early July you'll start seeing october Fest beers being distributed out. Well, all right, so we know that peaches don't belong in holiday beers. That let's ask a pull. Let's let's put a
pull out there. Do peaches belong in Christmas beers? I don't know, all right, Well, all I know is ingredients that are additives that don't belong in your beer. One thing, for certain, urine. Do not put urine in your beer. And I know some people out there thinking right now about making I know James, like, when did this ever cross anybody's
mind? Well, in China, it crossed somebody's mind because a lot of you might be thinking, oh, wait, are you making a Corona joke, because there was a lot of joke about how the brewers and Corona makers of Corona used to put urine in their beer. By the way, urban legend, not true. But a video released from a popular online platform in China called I Believe It's Webo I'm not familiar with it showed an employee at
the Qingtao Brewery urinating on raw ingredients. The company has since contacted the police and investigations underway, and one of China's biggest bigger makers has said that an investigation is ongoing of the video showing an employee urinating on the ingreen and another employee who video recorded the entire thing. Wait, somebody, it wasn't It wasn't like a security camera as someone actually videoed it. Well, there's somebody
who videoed it in the security camera caught them both. So like the guy, there's a guy like, hey, dude, I'm gonna go pee on these ingredients and he goes in there and then his buddy recorded it. Well, the security footage caught the whole thing. Wow, oh yeah, that's oh that's disgusting. Yes it is. Oh yes. So they were happy to report that at present, the batch of malt in question has been completely sealed. Well that's good. We got it on lockdown, guys, but
this one's not going out. Okay, Well that makes sense, and they are now re evaluating their procedures for security and product quality and not that I'm sure that they need to really evaluate product quality because they stopped it. So that's good. But an updated report indicates that the duo were not direct hires of the employee of Chingtao Brewery in China, but rather they were external hires. Oh that those third party employees angry about not getting benefits or something.
I don't know. I just made up that part. But Chingtoo Brewery has reported that employees are being investigated. Two particular employees are being investigated for urinating on raw ingredients, which reminds us all, never ever add urine to your beer. Oh my god, that's disgusting. Yeah, they're gonna get a lot of trouble for that. All right, Well, you gotta take a break. Who knows what they're gonna do. We go from here, all right, I got an idea. Let's talk about a newly open brewery that's
up for sale. We'll say the details coming out. We'll be right back. Beer has hops, hops or plants. Plants make salad, So beer is salad? Yeah? What's on Taparty? James and Chad talking about beer all the season? Took this moment to plug our social media. Ways to get a hold of us if you want to give us a suggestion on a beer, or just tell us how amazing we are, or just tell us how much you hate us. Number ways to do so, go to our
social media. It's at What's on tap Radio, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, or you can just email us What's on tap Radio at gmail dot com. It's What's on tap Radio at gmail dot com. Put that question out this week that you know, these Christmas beers are starting to start to pop up on the shelves. Are you ready? Are you ready for them? Maybe you are? Maybe you are one of those folks that are like, hey, I've already started decorating my house for Christmas, even though
we haven't gotten past you know, Thanksgiving. But maybe you're just one of those people. I'm not, but maybe you are. Do you do you all out there and get those Christmas beers the second they land on the shelves, even though it's not that cold out there. Uh, James, Yeah, pure Michigan. That's all I'm gonna say. Dude. Yeah, it's I forget we are not already time. We forget that we're in you know, heard in all parts of the country and they experienced different all parts of
the world. That's right. And uh, but where I'm broadcasting, it's still a very humid eighty five degrees outside it is. And I want to say when I visited recently, had a great time, beautiful weather. It was a nice change of pace, even though I got shark COVID because I got, you know, bit by a shark. And yeah, it's so
if you if you if you missed it earlier. What happened was I walked out into the ocean there in the Gulf of Mexico Galveston, just trying to enjoy my time down there in Houston, and I I got bit by a shark and I punched it, drug it up on shore and after a marine biologist confirmed the shark had COVID, but I wasn't contagious unless I bite somebody. And people actually believe that story. And that's why my voice sounds like the way it does, because I have shark COVID. It's a thing now.
I was just irritated. I was just irritated that I got Larry Ginis. While speaking, people kept saying, Oh, you have got COVID. YEP, so you had some fun with shark COVID. You had some fun with it. Speaking of having some fun, I love stories like this. This comes across our desk overy now and then, and I relate to it. It's a story about a strange beer bottle that was found any wall of a house in Delaware, that piqued an interest on the internet. And this
guy who's a contractor says, I have never found anything like this. After seventeen years and over three thousand demolition inspections of every type of building or facility you can think of, I've never stumbled across a bottle while conducting hazardous material survey. A bottle of beer, that is. And the whole inspection team was surprised. They initially thought it was a bottle filled with urine. Speaking of urine, because many times throughout their career, drywall workers are notorious for,
you know, just not taking breaks and urinating your bottles. You're on the job and it's like, okay, you don't want to try and find a bathroom. You're like, you know what, beg's the question though, It's like you were somehow left on supervised and able to drink on the job, and so you pee in a beer bottle. I I don't know, I don't know. I well, I do know. After hours, they'll, you know, after they're done working, they'll put their hearts down,
yea, they and then they'll you know, crack a beer open. And that might have been the case, but in this case it was not. It was not a bottle full of urine. It was actually a bottle, a very old bottle from Gunther Brewing Company. And it was a brewery in Baltimore, Maryland, and with the heritage predating Prohibition and operated until nineteen sixty when it was purchased by Ham's Brewing Company, which was later a part of
Miller Brewing Company. Gunthro was the second largest brewing company in Baltimore until nineteen fifty nine. Producing upwards to eight hundred thousand barrels a year in employing six hundred people. And the house in question was less than one hundred years old and is being demolished to make a parking lot. And the house was in very poor condition. So they started doing some demo when they found this very old beer bottle and it says it was a message on it, when in
fact the message was just the plumber signed it. But the date of the of the beer nineteen fifty nine. Now, what was the what was the message on there? The message was just the dates of the they put the bottle in there and buy a plumber, right, Okay. First thing I'm gonna say is, hey, work on your copy, okay, because that's not good copy. If you're gonna leave something behind for somebody to find twenty thirty sixty one hundred years later, and you want them to go wow,
like that's amazing, Wow look at that. I mean, yeah, I know we're talking about it, but you gotta do better on the copy. I mean, you can't just leave a message just left here by a plumber on this date boring. I tell me you'd do better, James, tell me you would do better. So I can kind of relate to this story. So in what you know, was it twenty twenty one when we had this, Dude, that's the year you're not supposed to mention, No,
I said, twenty twenty one. Oh yeah, we had this hard freeze come through Southeast Texas and our houses aren't built for these kind of storms, and so what happened is a lot of our homes the pipes burst because our pipes are actually in our ceilings. And I know that's going to surprise a lot of people in other parts of the country. And who the right mind would put water pipes in the ceilings. That's what they do here and are
part of the country. And so one of my pipes burst at my hose and water was everywhere, and of course I had to shut the water off, and then we had to replace the drywall because you know, water damaged a lot of things. And when we put the drywall back up, I inserted a few beer cans in the wall and I wrote a note from the storm of twenty twenty one, and I put the dates and that's all I
really put. Chat. Okay, but that's but see that you didn't just say I was doing some home improvement projects and decided to hide beer in my wall, also from a plumber. No, you you put on there the date of the storm, and people would say, wait a minute, I remember that. You know, pipes burst, drywall need to be replaced. Here's a guy that decided to commemorate that horrible event by drinking beer and leaving a remnant for somebody else in the future to find. That's all right,
It's not necessarily creative, but it's momentous. Right. The other guy is just like feeling kind of cute, thought I'd leave a beer can. I put actually two beer cans in there. They're empty. I didn't put full beers. They were empty. Hold on what brand beer? Buffalo by your brewing company? I put the Oh god, what what? I don't even remember what the beers I put in there. Crush City, Yeah, probably
Crushed City, Great White Buffalo, more cow Bell. No, it wasn't More cow It was probably Crush City, and maybe uh, Great White Buffalo. I was gonna say on pins and I don't remembers. It was years ago. It was years ago, and I was afraid to actually put a full beer in there because I was afraid because it was in the wall, and it gets very very hot off that brick, and I afraid it is gonna explode in the wall. There there are two things we need to know,
because Fire Marshal Matt has two questions. You answered one of them. Okay, what kind of beer cans did you put in the wall? Here's the most important question, and it's an inside joke, but don't worry. I'll explain in a minute. Did you use shark bite fittings to replace your pipes? I don't know. I had a contractor do that. Oh okay, all right, Yeah, I didn't do it myself. I didn't do
myself. I actually had actually neighbor Victor did it for me, and I paid them a beer and then we put I purposely put two beer cans in the wall with a little note. So when they demo this house, now this is not the house I live in. Now, this is the house I lived in during the time. Yeah, it's somebody else's problem. But you just close that on a sellar agreement, you did. I didn't know that. You know, at the time, we were, you know,
gonna move out of that house, you know, six months later. Otherwise I probably would have put two full beers in there, but I didn't I put two empty cans in there. Sonny, you say that maybe there'll be a story years from now, thirty years from now. Two beer cans fell in in a home in Katie, Texas. When I left Texas for Michigan, I left a beer fridge full of beer for the new homeowner. And then turns out he doesn't drink, so that didn't work out the way I
had hoped. But the reason I asked about shark bite is because we had a former listener of What's on tab Radio reach out and chastise Fire Marshal Matt, who's also a mechanical engineer, and tell him that shark bite fittings were the cheap man's way to go and they don't work, and Fire Marshal MAT's, like every engineer in the world, says they do, so I don't know how to. So they got mad at each other, yelled, and
they never drank a beer together again. Interesting. Yeah, I'm not sure what kind of fittings they were, but there are two beer cans in a house in Katie, Texas. So all right, we're gonna take a break. Coming up next hour, we got a lot to get to, including a whole my beer and watch this and we'll tell you this brewery that's for sale. All right, We're going to eat healthy and start exercising today.
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stunt beer livers and we were in the same studio. We put down some beers. That was fun. Yeah, check out our social media, Man, we got pictures and the beers we consume. There's a good time. I love having to get the opportunity to do that every now and then. But it is fun. It is fun. It is fun. But but yeah, speaking of more beer, I'm gonna go ahead and tap into the old beer seller from when I went over and saw our buddy Mikey g Radio
Kia cuck over in Iowa. Yeah, I picked up some beer while I was over there and all along the way and this is a brewery that I don't know anything about, but they're out of Illinois. It's Triptic Brewing t r I P t y c H triptick. I hope I'm saying that correctly. And I'm gonna tell you this is a perfect example of where beer names and artwork sell the beer. And then I confirmed it on untapped and it has a really good rating. But Tryptic Brewing, this is the A Wizard
is never late. Taking a line from what Is It? The Hobbit series that what is It? The Lord of the rings Okay series, The wizard is never late. This is a double dry hop double India pale ale, and I love this. Through the golden haze filled with dank notes of fruit and green, you suddenly recall that our beers always arrive precisely when they mean to, which sometimes means not at all. Oh that's deep. That's more
than fortune cookie wisdom right there. And this is a oh deliciously smelling, oh dank piney touch a sit but the nose on that is pine and dank. Oh, it's almost like a big old bag of weed, which well maybe has you feeling like you're a wizard. But get the honker down in my support your local Michigan craft brewer glass. Thank you Tantrick Brewery for hooking me up with that. And mm hm how the taste tandar chad that that uh man, I'm telling you right now, this thing arrived right at when
I needed it. That's perfect. A wizard is never late. A double dry hopped double India palal. I need more of this in my life. This is delicious. Citra and Apollo hopped the eight percent ABV from Triptic Brewing out of somewhere out of Illinois. What city is this in Illinois? I see if I can name it. Oh, Savoy, never Been, never Been. Sounds like a lovely town though, sound here they make They got
a great brewery there, go check them out in Savoy, Illinois. But this is what I'm bringing the table, and uh, well, what I'm drinking in hour number two? All right, I'll mean cracking a beer here soon, but we got to do this first. Hold to my beer and watch this brought to you by the ring Melda ten Hacen Insurance Group where they'll cover you for everything except this. Now, I had a listener send this story to me, and I, for the life of me, cannot remember
whether or not I did this story. It sounds familiar, but then I check the archives and I don't see it. But if I have, let's revisit it because it's a good one. Well, here's the thing, James. There are too many stories where people start throwing crap at people who won't sell them beer. And sometimes it's beer they're throwing out it people. Sometimes
it's you know, weapons. Oh yeah, I've seen people throw keys, keys, all sorts of things, which doesn't make sense because when you throw your keys, It's like all right now what like, hey, oh, by the way, can I need those I gotta get my apartments. Can I get those keys back? But this is the first time I've actually heard of a man being locked up for assault with a delicious weapon, not a
deadly weapon. A delicious weapon. Say twenty three year old man from you guessed it, Florida, and he was arrested after assaulting a couple of Walgreens employees one Monday morning. So what happened was he went into Walgreens about one twenty am because he wanted some smokes. He wanted some cigarettes, but the workers refused and told him to leave. It was unclear why he was denied, but apparently he was very very intoxicated, so that probably had something to
do with it, probably a little bit, a little bit. Well, this didn't go overwhel with the guy, Chad. He was very very furious. So I'm paying customer, damn it. So he started throwing snicker bars at the employees. He struck a female worker in the face, a male
worker was hitting the chest. Good news is neither her employee was really injured by the sticker bars, but the man was arrested in charge on two counts of mistermeanor battery, and was later released after posting a thousand dollars bond, which these days is enough to buy about five hundred snicker bars or about ten packs of cigarettes. Started doing some math there. I wanted to see if h oh, snickers always satisfies right that the saying, you know, I
guess, I'm thinking. Here's the situation. They had the candy bars right next to the register, and you know, they were working to sell them cigarettes, and he just got mad, picked up the first day he saw and happened to be a stickers bar and threw it at him. But luckily, like I said, nobody was seriously injured. But the sticker bars were pretty hurt though, So you're hold my beer and watched this this week. A drunk guy, A drunk guy through sticker bars at a Walgreen clerk because
they wouldn't sell them cigarettes. This guy's need some anger management classes and he needs to go to AA. I mean, because just be honest, if you're twenty three and you're walking into a Walgreens at one twenty am by the way, right, yeah, which I don't know, I don't know, you know, somebody found it interesting here because the liquor laws in Michigan are
a little bit different everywhere around the world. And in Michigan you can go to a Walgreens and you can get your prescription medication and you can buy liquor. Yeah, you can't have that. And I don't know my part of the country and that, and you know what, but I if you have an establishment that sells prescription medication and liquor and you need insurance, I'm sure bringing all the ten Hagen can cover you because it's legal in Michigan and that's
where they're located, right here in West Michigan. Well, I want to thank our listeners going by going to What's on Tabrio gmail dot com for sending us that story. And if you find any other stories like that, send it our way. Like I said, I don't remember if we did this one, but it's worth a revisit. All right, that's been your whole my beer and watch this still to come. We're gonna talk about this brewery that's for sale and Sammy headguards in the news, all this and so much
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music into rockin eighties music grubn. Welcome back to What's on top radio. Time for me to crack another beer, my second beer. I have finished my october Fest from Samuel Adams, but I'm gonna continue with the theme while I hand, because we are in our last week of Octoberfest season, well, I mean Octoberfest season kind of started wrapping up, you know Munich ins is it a first weekend and all of October that Munich October I don't remember,
Yeah, I think it was. I think anyways, wrapped up first weekend. But I'm still been enjoying the Octoberfest beers, you know, since it is that season. But now we've talked about how the seasons are changing people's allergies. Are going to getting into them. Chad's voice is changing. I mean covid. Yeah, it's sart covid, That's what it is. But I'm gonna continue just rolling with it while I can. I'm gonna milk it while all I can. And this time from Saint Arnold Brewing Company,
the Guten Tog toasty and clean Barbarian style lagger. I like that beer. It's a great beer. I'm a fan of Guten Tog Center Brewing Company. They make so many good beers, and you know, they have a whole line of I guess it's like a seasonal rotation of beers that come out. And I remember back when it was just I think it was three seasonals. They had three round, year round beers and three seasonals. And now they're they're cranking out so much beer. But they had they had winter stout that
my box, and then summer pills there. Uh yep, there's summer summer pills. You're right, it was it was it the spring spring, yeah, and then they had the winter stout so springbok, winter stout summer no no, no, no, yeah, but they had the Christmas all as well. Okay, you're good, call, right, so they had four Yeah, there was four seasonals and three year round beers and uh yeah, bonus fun fact if you can figure out the name of the first original three
beers. I know. But anyway, moving on about that beer, all right, so let me talk you. Take a swing of this great crisp and clean flavor. The malt provides a hang on mm hmm, a nice toasty and ready complexity. Oh yeah, the hops are kind of restrained to allow this soft and elegant finish. And this comes to about five percent alcohol by volume. That's what I'm getting as I take a swig of this. There's a journalism student out there who just got an a for writing that copy
for James. So ready to go kid again. This is the Saint Arnold Gluten Gluten Guten Talk. Yeah there is gluten in there, but also guten toalg Guten talk at five point eight percent alcohol by volume, and uh yeah, this is kind of like one of the last october Fest style marsins I have. I still have a few more in the fridge that I'll be bringing, but I mean I won't be bringing to the table, but I'll be bringing through the show. Right now, Guten tag is German for bring me
another beer. Yes, yes, I think that's what it means. Yes, that's exactly. By the way, I'm not fluent in German, fluent in any other language other than English. And some people say I even struggle with that because I have laryngitis. I'm recovering from no shark covid shark covid. I have a I have a question for those listeners out there. But we got we got a couple of stories to get to here, Chad. But these stories are weird because we have both of these. And we were
in the production meeting and we kept going around and around. Everybody was confused. It's like, you want to talk about Tesla or Tulsa. And I was like, well, no, I'll talk about Tulsa and you talk about Tesla and it's like no, That's what I was asking, Do you want which one you want to talk about? It reminds me of that episode of Seinfeld when somebody says, do you want salsa or seltzer? And how does somebody with a Latin accent order salsa or seltzer? I want seltza, You
want saltza or salza? And it's like, I Tesla Tulsa, Telsa, Tallsa, Tesla. Anyway, how about you do talk about Tesla here? And I never thought about it like that, but uh okay. So the question is would you spend one hundred and fifty dollars on two beers? Depends on who I'm drinking them with and when you When do you buy two beers for one hundred and fifty dollars? I don't know. I just don't know if I can do it. But we've done this segment of the most expensive
beers out there. Now, obviously this isn't the most expensive beer out there, but this is a pricier one when Tesla has a new item in stock. It's a limited edition set of beers for a mere one hundred and fifty dollars. What yep? And the set includes two eleven allens bottles of Tesla
Cyber Beer. It's a hellslagger with notes of herb, spice, tea, and citrus, and also comes with two Matt Black ceramic cyber steins that are designed to mimic the futuristic form of the cyber Truck, which may be entered production this year. Out orders of the beer will begin shipping pretty soon according
to their website. Now, if you remember, back in March, Tesla launched a thirty dollars gig beer to celebrate its opening of its Berlin gigafactory and a factory delivered its first vehicles last year after facing a series of setbacks. But when do two beers cost one hundred and fifty dollars? Well, when they're sold by Elon Musk, of course. Yeah, that's a great idea. All right, how do we take something and over engineer? I mean, isn't that really what a Tesla car is? It's over it's an over
engineered vehicle. I mean people love them though. I mean, like I said, I'm not saying they're not bad. Are they that they're bad or they're not good? But it's over engineer. But what I'm what I have a hard time getting with is the fact that there's two sets of bottles that are eleven ounces each. Why can they be twelve? I feel like, I don't know why I don't want eleven ounce twelve ounces? Well, they're eleven, they're eleven point two. So it's the European measure. Because European
bottles don't come to twelve ounces. They're eleven point two. That's why three hundred and thirty sense of leaders or something like that. I'm gonna put me out there. I don't think any of our listeners would buy this. Now. If I'm wrong, please let me know. Maybe you cuy some for us. Yeah, yeah, maybe try it. But one hundred and fifty dollars for a Hellis lagger that has notes of herbs, spiced tea and citrus. I don't know if I'm gonna spend two hundred or one hundred and fifty
dollars for a bottle. Now, maybe you're just buying it because it's a Cyberstein and it's more or less to put on your mantle as a that's an over engineered glass drinking vessel. I mean that's all that is, right, It's yeah, I mean it is. Let's just be honest about what it is. I think you're trying to overcompensate. I guess I wouldn't buy it. I mean, I'm not uged to buy it, but hey, there's somebody out there that might collect something like this, So there you go.
It's out there. It is all right, Well, speaking of complicating things, and I don't know we're gonna go from Tesla to Tulsa, as in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which, by the way, I had to look up the mascot of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oh what is it? What is It? Makes no sense to me at all. They're in the middle of Tornado Valley. It's like a Pelican or Tornado Alley or whatever. No, you're close though, They're the Golden Hurricane. Okay exactly. And you know why
this is? This is so bad. This reminds me of when Eastern Michigan University temporarily changed their name to the EMUSE. Listen to this. Eastern Michigan was the Hurons. They switched to the EMUs because you know, cultural appropriation. They didn't want to they didn't want to offend the Hurons, so they changed. They went with Eastern Michigan University. Em you em you a large
flightless bird from Australia or New Zealand. It's like, what does it have to do with Eastern Michigan Nothing, But it just worked wrong fast forward. Tulsa wanted to be the Golden Tornadoes, but they couldn't because it was associated with another school already. So they said, well, we can't be Golden
tornadoes, so let's be the hurricanes where there are no hurricane. But meanwhile, the University of Tulsa wanted to set the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest beer tasting, where they set up in a pre game tailgating festivity on campus where participants had to taste three beers that were guided by a certified cicerone, and one thousand and eighty people showed up to participate in the event that was judged by Guinness Book of World Records mister Michael M. Prick,
who was there to record the results. The current record was held by an event in Barcelona in July of twenty twenty two, which had one thousand, two hundred and forty three people who attended. Well, two hundred and forty three people is larger than one thousand and eighty, meaning that the University of Tulsa, in their bid to become the world's largest beer tasting event before a football game no less, fell short one hundred and sixty three people short
to be exact, But they are the Golden Hurricane. Maybe next year, maybe next year they can break that record. We're rooting for you, Tulsa, all right, that's sad. All right, still to come. This might be some good news. There's a bray for sale. We'll talk about that in samey hayguards the news. We'll be right back. I'm sorry, Tulsa. Did you know that six beers a day can reduce your risk of giving a rats ass? That's us still so much to get. Welcome back
to what's on tap Radio? I'm big good, Jamesimpson, that's been logic himself. Mister Chad Billbem hang out with you. Glad to have you on board. That's what you're drinking. Go to our social media what's on tap Rido? Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Drops the line, what's on Taprido at gmail dot com. Let us know what's going on in your parts of the world. Yeah, tell us about your family issues. What we're kind of like Delilah our trouble, we're kind of let us know. We'll
commiserate with We're like Delilah with beer in our hands. Yeah, that's sorry. Having relationship problems. Reach out to James and I and we well, you know what, we've been happily married now for sixteen and twenty six years, respectively, and we'll just basically tell you sucks to be you. No, I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'll offer up, well, we'll offer up Delilah's number. That's what we'll do. Because we can't help you. We're not we're not therapists in that way. But we'll have a beer
with you, which is what you're doing right now. Remember when you listen to what's on zapp radio and you are drinking a beer and you think, well, I'm sitting here by myself. No, you're not. James and Chad right here with you. Don't believe me, see right here? Oh wait, it's a radio program. Home. Just know that we are we are. We don't no, no, no, no no. We have stunt beer livers who come in from time to time, but we don't have
like stunt beer. We have real beer. We do we do? Yeah, yes, now, speaking of real beer, I have a question for you. A lot of people have made these knockoff like like like remember when Metallica tid there Butdweiser. It was basically it was Budweizer in a black can that said Metallica it. We have all stories to us numerous times that is no lie and there and there's so many different beers out there that are done as kind of one off. By the way, I'm still trying to get
my hands on the Rush beer from Canada. I want to try it because I'm a big Rush fan. I love Rush Do. The Trooper beer from uh which James loves beer is awful. The beer is awful. Sorry, I tried. I can respect it. Robinson Brewery from the United Kingdom, I'm sorry you did not win the heart of James Simpsons. No, I've tried it multiple times and I just I can't get with it. So I remember the same brewery here in Michigan. It was the Michigan Brewing Company.
I believe it was in Webster, Michigan that bought the rights to sell US beer out of Texas for a while. They owned it for a little while they were making they did a deal with Kid Rock to do American Badass logger and I went there just to try it, and I can tell you this is a long time ago, but there was nothing American badass about it. It was a pretty pedestrian, light, straightforward beer. Well now there's another rocker getting into the beer game and he is all in. In fact,
he's even said this is his dream come true. What what rocker could possibly say that making a beer is making his dream come true? Well, would you be shocked to know it's none other than the Red Rocker himself, Sammy Hagar. Yeah, he's getting into the beer game. Huh. Good for him? Yeah, I know, because you know he's done successfully successful lines of tequila Rumken cocktails. But he did he kind of the king of rock
and roll adult beverages. He's done tequila. I know that for sure because we talked about in the show and he's done rum right, yes, So
now now he wants to get in the beer game. Okay, Well, it's interesting because he's he's basically calling it unfinished business and he's partnering with a brewer in Detroit, and it's I find it interesting he's saying it's unfinished business because he went and tried to partner with some of the quote unquote big boy breweries over the years, but never was able to reach a satisfactory deal.
And then the deal came up again when he sold his Cabo Wabble tequila line to group O Campri and it was like eighty million dollars back in two thousand and seven, and he said, hey, I wanted to do a beer, but they said, we're not interested. But he never gave up the dream. Even after he opened his beach bar, he took a back seat. But finally he's like, and this is a direct quote, I thought I could make a better tequila than what was on the market, and I
did. I thought I could make a better rum that was on the market, and I did. And now I want to do the same with beer. That's right. He wants to make a better beer than anything on the market. And the Red Rocker Brewing Company, which has offices in Canton, well it's brewed in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, has created a new beer, the Red Rocker Lagger, which is, according to him, better than any beer
on the market. It is a Mexican style brew described as golden, medium body, light, crisp and refreshing with just a touch of sweetness, and likens it to medello. It's going to be on the market soon all over Michigan, Wisconsin, and just so you know, it is the best beer on the market. According to Sammy Hagar, I wanted to make a better rum than anybody on the market, and I did it. I wanted to make a better tequila than anybody on the market, and I did it.
I want to make a better beer than anybody on the market. Well he's doing it now, I do. I do so rate beer perfect one hundred. I'm expecting that untapped, it's going to have the highest score of any Mexican lagger out there, in fact, any beer out there. So I'm excited about getting I can't wait to taste the best beer on the market. I honestly don't. I'm not a big fan of ding a book by its cover, but I got my feelings on this. It's a really bold thing
to say you're going to make the best beer on the market. That is just I mean, even if it is, it's a bold thing. Hey, good for you, man. I hope that you win every World Beer Cup, in Great American Beer Festival and internationals. This in a while. We haven't used in a while, but I'm gonna say it. Hey, Sammy, I hope you make a million dollars with that idea. It was the less it was the less time we used that. It's been a while
since we probably had a last last interview. That's our way of saying good luck with that. I hope you make a million dollars with that idea. Go with it. That's hilarious. Hey, speaking of this all right, So I like food. I wouldn't call myself a foodie, but I appreciate good food, like going out to restaurants like the Backyard Grill and other things. I like good quality food. I don't like call myself a foodie for one reason. It it puts too many expectations on me to get the right
answer. Yeah. And there's all sorts of food festivals where they had like food truck festivals and pizza festivals where they have all these different pizza vendors and it's they're fun. You get some really great brick up and pizzas. But when I saw this food festival, this is a food festival like I've never seen before. Because food festivals they're a fun way to go out and experience culinary offerings in your area. Right, But this one's a little different.
This is a new festival coming to La so far in La and we'll see if it takes off. It's called chain Fest, which will feature bites from restaurants like Chili's Grill and Bar Dunkin Donuts. Jack in the Box, Pana Express, Pizza Hut, Red Robin, and Sonic Drive in what's the name of the festival again? Chain Fest? Those are all chain restaurants, chain restaurants chain Fest, and drinks will be buy PEPSI wait a minute, whoa what yep, And there will be plenty of specialty alcohol drinks like Guinness,
Smearnoff, Crown Royal and Captain Morgan. And how much is gonna cost again in Well, it's gonna cost you about seventy five bucks. And if it's not slammed, you can get into every booth. You can use Postmates to get on site delivery. That's kind of nifty. I'm not really understanding that, but okay. One of the people behind the concept is a guy named bj Novak from the office. Yeah, but this isn't a joke. This isn't a joke. But this is not a joke. It's just a sarcastic
stunt and it's business partner chef named Tim Hollingsworth. As a part of the event, he's putting on a spin to one of the classic dishes from each chain. So whether it's you know the what do you get from Chili's, what is it the chilies burger. They're gonna put like a little spin on it to make it more Wait a minute, what are you talking about at chili You gotta go in there and get your baby back, baby back, baby bag. I want all that's right, that's right, back, baby
back, baby back ribs proof. It's been a while since I've been to a Chili's, but this is something there. But that commercial still rings true because I'm a marketing guy. But it's it's something that you're interested in. Like I said, it's called chainfests. It's unclear if his creations are the only ones to be part of the fest or the chains will provide versions of their standard food. So maybe you just go in there and get the chili
cheese caso from Chili's. But the festival is happening in Hollywood the first weekend of December. Two days are already sold out, and they're adding another date and there's no word if they're going to plan to expand any further. So there's a new festival out there that focuses on chains like Chili's in Panda Express, And I want to thank Superior Pest Control of West Michigan for sending us that story because some of the guys over there at Superior Pest Control. Fun
fact, one of the original company owners was a chef. Really okay, They're like, hey, what do you Yeah, they asked us, Hey, what do you think about this? Going to eat chain food and drink beer. I'd rather eat your food, hang out with the folks that Superior Past Control West Michigan, drink beer with them. I would go to this if they give us some press passes, I'll go get down on Oh yeah,
Chile Bar. And no, not for seventy five bucks. But no, not when, not when you're staying seventy five bucks and there's a place with like Jack in a Box that has a nine to nine cent menu. All right, we gotta take us. We gotta take a boak still to come. We got to talk about Oh there's this young lady who we're gonna salute this week, all list and so much more. Just what's on top,
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World Headquarters in drinking emporium, Tantrick Brewering Company. It's still talking about that in Mars, and we kicked the show off with earlier and we had it in the studio last week. Very good stuff. A couple of stories to get to before we get out of here. I've been teasing this. There's this brewery for sales. It's only been open for a few weeks. Sin it's already apparently for sale. How does that work? Okay, now do
the math on that one. We're gonna Some people say that certain breweries open for the sole purpose of just trying to be able to resell and you know, score quick profit, which those days are long gone. So I don't understand how anybody is even considering opening a brewery that just open, you know, just open. Now we're gonna sell it. Well, what brewer you're asking? Well? Else the Guinness Brewery. Not that Guinness brewery. No, not that one, Not the one in Ireland. No, it's the
one that it's been only open for a few weeks. The one Chicago. Oh, it's the Chicago Fulton's Market district is for sale and a deal expected to top twenty million dollars. Now a Chicago developer his Fred Latsko has hired JLLL Brokers to seek a buyer for the Guinness Open Gate Brewery, which opened in late September a former railroad depot building, and is confirmed that they are
actually selling it. It's Alasco and jl are billing the deal as a one of a kind opportunity to own one of the Irish breweries properties and it's time to pass the torch or in this case, the tap and the new stewardship. As the only other Guinness Open Gate breweries are owned by the brand itself.
Alasco is said in a statement the Guinness operation itself won't be affected by the properties sale and it's not clear how much Lasco is expecting this sale, but someone familiar with the deal estimated it would be sell around twenty million dollars. Now this is the thing people got to understand. Everything's wait, Guinness is for sale or they're selling one of their breweries, and I can own
Guinness. Not exactly. There's a ten year lease on that building for Guinness, so you will own the property, yes, that the Guinness bury sits on, so for ten years, well nine years, you'll be able to say yeah, I own that, but then it's your job to go ahead and renew the contract. Now, if I remember correctly, the original Saint James Gate Brewery had some ridiculous and I a simple Google search will give me
the answer. But of course this just came to me, and so I didn't do my research, and we don't have a production team on staph or an intern that I can call quickly and say, hey, look this up. But the original Saint James Gate Brewery was like a nine thousand year lease or something stupid. That's right. I think we did it in a fun fact may it was a nine nine nine hundred, who cares, it's a really long time, no one, and then and the one in Dublin.
But then they bought it out and now they own it outright. So but yeah, if you want to go ahead and say you own the property, you got twenty million dollars. By the way, it's estimated that the brewery there, I believe. I looked at the financials that they were reporting. They said it's gonna it's gonna net over a million dollars in net profit a year. So good chance that brewery is not going anywhere. So you got a good Renter, you got a good tenant if you want to go ahead
and own that brewery and they'll stick around for a few years. So if you got twenty million dollars in your pocket just burning a hole there, you know it's a proper sponsor this show. You know it's some property and sponsor the show. So all right, I'm just gonna put out there newly opened Guinness Brewery in Chicago for say, yeah, now, speaking of stick around for a while, that's called hey segue right there, we'll have a good
see. Speaking of sticking around for a while, what if I told you that a beer and a half a day would keep you going well past a century yourself? That's right? What am I? What am I talking about? I'm talking about your age, living long, living happy, and living maybe even a little sassy. Well I'll be I'll live to be about three hundred years old, right, I'm hoping to make it to eighty. My wife is pissed every time I say that. She's say you better, you
better live longer than that. But if you ever met Teresina Piano, and I hope I'm saying her first name right, because the last thing I do I want is for her to come back from the grave and slap me around. Because this sassy woman had a foul mouth, was known for dirty jokes and her love of beer, dancing and loud music. And when you hear the story about this woman and people say she got feisty in her old age,
well makes me. It makes me wonder what feisty really means. Because this woman lived to be one hundred and six years old, and she said she wanted drinking, laughing and good times at her funeral, and no one was to dress in black. I tried to offer, I can sign up for that program. And if you offered to try and take care of her, she was capable to take care of herself. And she might call you an sob or worse. Whoa she did? Oh? I know? Yeah,
she drove till she was one hundred and four. Wait what she Yeah? I know who gave her that license? I mean some people have to have their license renewed every five years. If you're one hundred and four, you should have your license renewed every week. Good, I'm sorry. Good for her one hundred and four though, Yeah, she walked without a king till she was one hundred and five. But check this out. Why one hundred and five? What happened? Well, she was dancing at a rock
band concert at a dive bar and she fell. Oh no, yeah, she fell dancing to a rock band at a dive bar at one hundred and five years old, and so she had to walk with the kids. We got to get her on the shows. Cheah, we gotta get her on the show. No, well we can't. Why she died? Oh yeah, oh oh that's sad. Yeah, yeah she lived. Had she lived to be one hundred and six, lived past tense. But this whole story starts with her. One of her earliest memories of being a little sassy.
When she was fourteen years old, Terracina was walking home from school and saw whiskey running down the gutter down the street. She ran home, thinking of her father because apparently he was connected to the mafia bootlegging, and yep, the federal agents were all over the house, busting open barrels. And then started eating her mother's food, And she looked at her mother and saw her crying, and all of a sudden, she starts tearing into the agents.
Aren't you ashamed making my mother cry? Now you're eating your food. I hope you choke. Well, they ran out of there and left her alone. I wish I find pretty hilarious. But her version of the story is. And she was telling the story at her neighborhood bar, the garage, which pretty interesting story. This is good. She's telling everybody, and she's running out of there. She's at the garage, the garage bar post COVID.
She would go in there on a regular basis with her granddaughter and she would again at the garage bar, she would get her drinks for free. What that's crazy, And so she'd go in there and do it and have a good old time. And her her secret to a long life was to have a can and a half of beer every single night. I don't know why. It was. It's gotta be a cores or something. Miller La okay, but but Miller lite was acceptable. But she died of a heart
attack at one hundred. And I'm sorry if that woman was that sassy, that bolt, that brash, and she just lashed out everything from prohibition agents to people who tried to take care of her because they didn't think they thought she was a frail old woman. And she died of a heart attack at one hundred and six. I'm sorry. Her heart finally said, look, man, we're afraid to die on you because what you might say. But it's time to go. So she lived a good, long, happy life
and she loved having a beer and a half a day. What a memory she's created for that bar, for her grandchildren, her children, And yeah, rumor is that her husband tried to sneak out once and go to a bar and she said, I'm packing up the kid and going with you, and that was the last time he went alone. Well, cheer's to you, miss Piano. All right, we got to get out of here,
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