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Tap High five? This is What'son Tap Radio beer and the culture that
flows with it. Pier's beer GuruJameson and Beer Logic's Chad Pillby. Yeah,

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here we are, here, weare, let's do it. Let's
go. I'm waiting for somebody to, you know, paint one of those
big old uh paper signs that theystretch out across the field, and you
and I can just charge out ofthe tunnel and rip through it. And
you know, we look really toughwhen you rip a sheet of paper in

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half. And let's go. Let'sgo right now, somebody's reliving their Al
Bundy football days. Have I haveRydney Campbell running behind us in the giant
What's on Tap Radio flag? Thereyou go, he comes out. There's
smoke that's filling up the stadium andup your airwaves, and then flames are

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shooting out on the left and right. Oh man, I am right.
I'm ready to go, Chad,let's do a thing. Welcome to What's
on Tap Radio. I am Berger, Jamesonson, joined by that magnificent voice
you just heard, mister Bielatchi himself, mister chap Hill Dam and we are
ready to crack some beers, findout what's going on in the world a
beer. But before we get underway, let's do some housekeeping. It's very,

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very important that we do this everyweek because without these fine sponsors,
well, Chad and I wouldn't behere. It'll just be whenever they fill
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Rinaldton Haigen Insurance Group, The BackyardGrill in course sponsoring our podcast, the
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Cass Brandon Cass Brandy dot com.Yeah loves love the same. You know,
somebody asked me the other day.They said, I was listening to

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your show New Listener, and theysaid, I know. It's how you
guys said, all right, we'vebeen waiting all week for this, been
waiting all crack opened some beers andthey said, you guys not drink during
the week. No, no,we don't. I actually do not.
I want every sip of beer Iconsumed to be with you. I want

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every sacred drop to be with you. So I just want to say it
would not be the same. Ifeel like I would. I feel like
I would be You'd be missing outif I enjoyed a good beer and you
guys were like, wait, Iwasn't there to share it with you.
I want every memory of every dropto be with you. Yeah, Well,
that's that's that's that's not true.That's not entirely true. I know

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you want it to be true,but let's just be honest. You know,
after Sunday comes Monday and you're like, man, I gotta wait another
whole nah you and you reach intothe beer fridge and you get one out.
I know you do. No Idon't, because then every day would
be Christmas Day every day every hey, how about this every day without a
beer? That's like a funeral there. So take your pick, James.

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You want every day you want toyou want to feel sad and not have
a beer. Not me. That'swhy I've got a beer in my hand.
This is brought to the table,brought to you by your friends at
the backyard Grill. And yes,we drink beer on the other days of
the week. We don't just storeup and wait. You know, we
don't fast for six days and thenjust binge on. Chad. Oh,

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I'm telling you what man, LikeI said, I want every drop I
consume to be with our wonderful family. This is so sad because you only
open like two beers on the entireshow. If because you have no unless
you have a stunt beer liver whichI am without this week? What Bill,
I don't know? Quick silver,all art, silver, all art.

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We gotta a man looking. He'swandering the streets looking for beer.
Apparently he didn't see the Beer LogicWorld headquarters in drinking emporium in Allgan,
Michigan, with the light on.But anyway, just locked the door and
you couldn't come in. No.Brought to the table, brought to you
by your friends at the Backyard Girlin northwest side of Houston, over one
hundred different beers. And I happento have a beer here that I've been

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looking all over for. I'm goingfirst, James, I don't wait.
You do it? You do?You? Man? Yep? I've been
looking for him and I found him. There he is. I found him
Waldo. I found Waldo. Iwas never very good at those Waldo books.
You don't. Here's the thing Inever want. I don't care about
the books as much as I doabout the beer. Because ladies and gentlemen,

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I'm gonna drop this knowledge bomb onyou right here. This is what's
on tap Radio Exclusive. People askus all the time, what's your favorite
beer? What's your favorite beer?And I feel like there's so many good
beers out there that one I happenedon the Yeah, usually I say the
one in my hand, but andI really do say that. But all
of these beers that are that Ijust absolutely fall in love with. I
just get like brain dead, andI forget ladies and gentlemen. Lagunita's Waldo

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special ale a triple ipa at elevenpoint seven percent is absolutely one of my
favorite beers. I freaking love ussay the name of the brewery again,
Lagunita lagunitas one of the most mispronouncedbrewery names out there, heard every waves
it's pronounced it's like a glass ofbong water. I mean, it's weed.

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It's very very resine, it's aggressive, just multi boozy. It's actually
got a little bit of this umuh sugary m alcohol feel to the mouth
field there. It's just it's alittle slick there. It's got a little
residual sugars. And that's what Ibrought to the table. Lagunita's Wallows specially

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all. We will talk more aboutthat beer later on, but first,
James, the guy, he's beenwaiting all week to eight year. I
hadn't had a beer since last weekend. So um, that's not true,
because I hung out with my goodfriend Brian holes In the other day.
KPRC Channel two came over to myhouse and we had some beers and watched
the game, and he dropped offsome beer for us to try on the
show. And I don't know thename of the brewery. I just pulled

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the beer out of my fridge hereat studios and the name of the beer
is called Bonita Bonita Mountain Style paleAle. And I'm gonna go and crack
this. I'm not really not evensure what the name of the brewery is.
So I'm gonna go ahead and pourthis into my What's on Tap Radio
cast branding glass, also known asthe water glass. And as I pour
this, let me look at thename of the brewery. It is called
But what is the name of thebrewery I'm looking It is called Melvin Brewing.

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Never heard him? Oh, I'veheard of Melvin Brewing. I've heard
of Melvin. You made me research. You made me dig into the old
research archives there to find that beer. I had to go to untapped to
find the answer. And it's Melvin. Are you kidding me? I know
that brewery really well, there's agood story whenever we come back and James

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Crack said open, Oh, he'sgot it open. He's gonna take a
sip here. But while he's he'senjoying that. We'll get some more tasting
notes when we come back. Butthe meantime, we got a big show
planned, big big show we dorock you by the Backyard Grill. But
on tap this week, we let'scheck in on blighte sales at week number
five and now more people are morepeople are upset with blight. We'll explain

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all this and don't ry bullet.It's not the only thing we're talking about
this week. We got other stuffin the news, so hang with us.
Coming right up, we'll break downthese beers and then get into the
official What's on Tap Radio fun factof the week. We'll be right back.
Sometimes we write drink beer on ourto do list just to feel like
we're accomplishing something. What's on TapRadio continues with James Simpson and Chad Pillbeam.

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That's the Backyard Grill dot com.Right the first segment brought to the

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table, which was sponsored by aThe Backyard Girl. I want to give
a big shout out to our friendsover the Backyard Girl a lot of years
supporting this show and we I reallyappreciate everybody out there, go and visit
them. If you're ever in theHouston markets, you will not you will
not be disappointed. I guarantee that. But Chad kicked it off with he
found Waldo, he found Loggini's BrewingCompany. And then which which what style

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is it? Chad? It's atriple IPA triple IPA here? How about
this. Let's just be honest,because there's somebody out there who's going there's
no such thing as a triple IPA. Got the beard judge certification? Gut.
Okay, it's a really fricking hoppybarley wine there. Okay, it's
it's resiny, It'll strip the enameloff your teeth. It's like pine cones

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and weed water all blended into onepotpourri deliciousness from the Pacific Northwest the Yakima
Valley is basically spitting alcohol in yourface, but with a cool breeze,
and you feel refreshed and drunk atthe same time. Okay, not drunk
yet because it hasn't kicked in yet, and we encourage responsible drinking, but

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this particular beer is just an It'sa tip of the hat to the Waldos
and for those who don't know whatthe who the Waldos are. Group of
high school kids in San Francisco decidedto since this is the fun fact segment,
why not let's throw this out there. High school kids in San Francisco
decided to meet up behind the schoolat twenty minutes after four, not four

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thirty, but four twenty oh andthey would go and they were on a
mission to find the legendary field ofcannabis. And they never found it,
but along the way they had afew magical journeys because they were indulging in

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what cannabis they were able to procure. So the Waldos would meet at four
twenty. And instead of saying,hey, let's meet at four twenty,
Hey, don't forget behind the schoolfour wanting Hey, Waldo's meeting at four
twenty, they just shortened it totwenty four twenty. Nobody knew what it
meant unless you were a Waldo.And well, now you know why.

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This beer also smells so dang dank. Oh yeah, Chad's getting fun facts
before fun facts. Man, howabout that added value? All right?
And then I backed it up withthe bony to bony to mountain style pale
ale from Melvin Brewing Company, whichI'm going to dive into right after we
do this. Now, the officialWhat's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the

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Week, brought to you by Who'sever checked Clear? This week? Really
want to people, make people wait, so let's get into the fun facts.
I just I know, Jit,Well, here's the reality. James
can't wait to get into the Melvinstory. I mean yeah, no,
no, no, no, no, you're waiting. I am making you
wait. You're not wrong. IfI don't get this fun fact in this

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segment, then you know what.We haven't met our contractual obligation to educate
um. And that's why I gavethe Waldo fun in fact right away,
because I was I thought for sureyou were just gonna take over and go
down this road. But I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give this
one here. We're gonna tighten thisone up here, nice and neat for
you guys, because when you thinkof Dutch beer, when you think of
Dutch beer, James, what beercomes to mine? Right away? Amstell?

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Am Stell. That's a good one. Yeah, absolutely, I guess
you're more or less looking for Heineken. No, there's that one too,
Yeah, that's the one I thoughtyou were gonna say. But yep,
there are a handful of other Dutchbeers out there that are very well known,
very popular Dutch beers. Um,you got the Grolsh that's out there.
Of course, it's kind of madbecause when I went to answer Dam,

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I wasn't into beer, so Ireally didn't go to miny breweries.
But I did have an Amstell,I had a Heineken. But you know,
I wish you know, we're intobeer last I am now when I
was there, because you know,right experience, Yeah, that would have
beer. That would have been cool. Yeah, that would have been cool.
But I live in West Michigan andhere right now, this is the

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this is the area of the statewhere Holland is in Holland named after oh
you can guess, the Netherlands,And there's a very very rich Dutch heritage
here. In fact, the TulipFestival which goes on right now, by
the way. Bonus fun fact,tulips not Dutch, they are not.
They were actually imported to the Netherlandsfrom the Orient, from China, and

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at one point in time tulips wereso coveted that they were literally worth their
weight in gold. And of coursebecause of that, Dutch people stored them
up to where they had so manyof them that they started to lose value
because the law supply and demand takesover. Kids. If you didn't take
an economics class, check out misterPilbeam's economics online. By the way.

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It's fun filled, beer filled economics, and we're gonna go ahead and teach
it Dutch style today because like thosetulips that were stocked up and eventually grown
everywhere, the value came down.But the Dutch have been known to sniff
out a really good deal. Andif you don't believe me, well just

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live in West Michigan for five minutes. There is a reputation about the Netherlands,
or about the Dutch people who livehere in West Michigan, that they
are The polite way to refer tothem would be frugal or thrifty or cost
conscious. Other people just call themcheap. So when you think of Dutch

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beer here in West Michigan, youdon't think of Heineken, and you don't
think of Amstell or Gross. Youthink of free. Yeah, because that's
what they want, free beer.Well, it's not quite free. But
this story does take us to theNetherlands in two thousand and eighteen, when
a grocery store decided that they neededto move some beer. They overloaded and

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they bought too much and they neededto move it out right away. And
the grocery store was selling three casesof beer for twenty five euros. And
I'm like, what, three casesof beer for twenty five euros. Surely
everybody's gonna stock up on it.Well, everybody did that was able to

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get there before these three gentlemen showedup with a semi truck which they rented
and took out Oh yeah, sixthousand euros worth of beer, or the
equivalent of seven hundred and fifty casesthose purchases today. No, it's the

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official once on Tap radio fun factof the week. Is the Dutch good
people, hard working people know howto save a penny or two. Probably
been known to rub two nickels togethertry make it into a quarter. Yep.
But they also, yeah, theyliked their beer. So whenever beer
goes on sale for twenty five dollarsor twenty five euros, excuse me for

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a case, excuse me three cases, you stock up and that means buying
a semi truck and loading it upwith seven cases like these guys did.
Then that's what you do, andthat was done. I think I think
that might be the world's largest cheapestbeer running in history. In fact,

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I'm going with that. That's yourofficial once on Tap Radio fun fact of
the week. I'm curious to whatdo they do with all that beer though?
Do they just have one giant partyor do you think they we sold
it? No, you don't haveone party. Well, if you did,
they're Dutch, then you just goahead and you tell your friends,
Hey, come over and hey,I've got I got you can buy a
case of you can buy a rackhere for twenty five bucks. Remember they

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got three cases for twenty five bucks. They probably sold it for twenty five
bucks each made money on deal.Why because they're Dutch. Hey, by
the way, and I married aDutch I'm married into a Dutch family.
Trust me, I know how thismath works. Dutch math is all right.
We can say fifteen cents, whybecause we can get three where we
can get one. Andy's candy onthe way out used to be a nickel.

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Now they're fifteen cents. You thinkI'm making this up. Go out,
go out to eat with a Dutchfamily sometime and watch. I've been
doing it for almost thirty years withmy wife's man. I don't know if
I ever have like I've been,Like I said, I've been an answer
damn. And I've been to theNetherlands, but yeah, I don't.
Yeah, I need to go back. Yeah. The bonus bonus fun fact

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is in that in this one realshort the reason the Dutch have that um,
that reputation is because they believe insharing the cost equally, and by
sharing the costs equally, they neverbuy. So that's Dutch treat means everybody
pays for themselves and so and nowyou look cheap whenever you say that.
All right, I'm not gonna getinto the Melvin story here in this segment,

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but I will tell you a littlebit of the tasting notes here of
this bony to bony to mountain stylepale ale. Uh, let's see tropical
fruit of romas m hm, subtleorange notes and take a shit. Yeah
there he is. Oh hints ofhoney, pine, molly, sweet light,
bitter. Oh so good. I'myeah so good. I have to
say it twice. And all Igot to say is it's a good thing

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that that's a sand Sarah Funt onthe side of that. Can James can
read it a little more easily?By the way, that's a study question
on mister Simpson's journalism class topography.It's very important in journalism. All Right,
we're gonna take a break, butcoming up, I'll share my Melvin
story and we got to get intothe world of beer. What's going on

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out there? And it's not justbut light in the news, it's what's
on tap? To hang with us, We'll be right back. Well,
that meetings suck. We wonder waitto get home. Is there beers somewhere
out there? That new Iba thinkingabout us too? This he's What's on
Tap Radio? Back to James andChad. Oh, come tiptoe with me.

(20:07):
I'll take Hackey Radio for five hundred. This radio show, established in
twenty thirteen, focuses on craft beer. Jim, What's what's on Tap Radio?
Correct? Oh, that's great?Oh whatever, whatever. Anyways,
welcome back to the show. Howto do It? How to do It?

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No you did yeah, yeah,yeah yeah? If you if if
you didn't play this song, Iwould have been very disappointed. Um I
want to I want to get backinto this beer. Melvin Brewing Company Bonito
Bonito mountain style uh pale ale,and I haven't really given a lot of
it's uh tasty notes but hazy mountainstyle pale ale with tropical fruit or aromatics,

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subtle orange notes with hints of honeyand pine hopsters, Simcoe and mosaic.
And I didn't really I don't knowMelvin was had distro down here in
the South. Yeah, So Istarted doing I started doing some digging and
apparently Chad there is a collaboration theydo with Lazy Dog Restaurants, and I'm

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guessing Lazy Dog Restaurants has something todo with the distro here. I see,
I don't know. And I metthe rep over at the wilds Broof
Fest and I remember how I'm kindof explaining it to me, but I
was being pulled in so many differentdirections that I relading gim my undivided attention,
and I apologize for that. SoI feel like I should bite this
guy on to kind of break downthe distro story because I'm kind of curious

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about it. I just don't know. But it's just another person. I
can explain the Melvin story too.Nope, Nope, that's not this is
not what happened. No, James, Okay, I've been working with this
guy for almost a decade. Listencarefully, ladies and gentlemen, what you
just heard. This is a playright now. James has zero interest in
getting this whole distribution story worked out. He's not that fascinated with the logistics

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of Melvin Beer and Lazy Dog restaurants. What James wants to do is he
wants the Melvin rep to come onthe show and bring him a beer that
he can shotgun with him in studio, because James got screwed out a shotgun
in a beer at the Great AmericanBeer Festival by Melvin Brewery. And this

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is still one of my favorite beerstories that we have together. On the
top ten list, it's way upthere. It's way up there. But
James, James sets this up.I want to set up the story you
tell. It's all on tape,and I got to find the video and
we'll post it a social Even thoughwhen it happened, I was like,
I'm deleting this. I'm glad Ididn't know. So we we Melvin has

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one of the best booths at theGreat American Beer Festival. It's this huge
bust. They've got this DJ playinghip hop and is just thumping. It's
like their own long line. Yep, there's this mini what do you call
it? Mini? It's like amini party right there inside the big party,
and it's it's it's just jumping.And James says, he goes up

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there. He says, I'm gonnashotgun a beer and he says what he
says, Yep, I'm a shotgunnabeer right there because one of the guys
behind the bar shotgun to beer.I'm not supposed to do that. No,
you know. Okay, by theway, if you're listening at the
Great American Beer Festival right now,forget what we said that. Um anyway,
I didn't shot gunn a beer.No, no, no, no,
no, no. Somebody else did. And so James goes up.

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He's like, I'm a shotgun ofbeer. And he's like, hey,
give me, I'll do one withyou. I'll do one with you.
No. No. I kind ofwas talking his ear, you know,
like I was I was working it, you know, I was just working.
I wasn't trying to dive in.I was just working it kind of
like, you know, playing itsmooth and going hey man, trying to
be friendly and so he can belike, man, this what's on type
of radio? Dude, it's prettycool man. And then you said you

(23:53):
said shotgunna beer and he's like,all right, I'll shot gun a beer
and then I'll do one with you. And the guy h takes a beer
and they had like this little umcooler of beer that they were pouring beers
out of and he pulls it outof the the ice cracks it, you
know, at the bottom, andthen put the hole, put the hole

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in it, shotguns it. AndI'm thinking like all right, cool.
So I go to grab the beerand I'm going to do that, and
then the guy takes the beer fromme and he goes, no, no,
no no. My face was like, oh but the video, we're
not doing it justice. Do youhave to see the video? My faces

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look like I just I was justtold that Santa Claus isn't real, but
which, by the way, children, it is. It's true. Though.
The guy had that look on hisface too, like oh wait,
you wanted to do one? Um, yeah, I can't do that.
And you could tell he really didn'twant to disappoint you. It's like he

(24:57):
he really didn't want to hurt yourfeet, but he had to. And
then James is sitting there and he'sjust kind of looking at me. I'm
like, wa wah wah. Sowe had a videographer there filming it,
and so I go to the videographer. I'm like, hey, let's go
ahead and delete that. I don'treally see a reason to, you know,
say that. And then they didn'tdelete it, and I'm glad they

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didn't because at the time, Iwas super embarrassed and I was like,
oh my god. It was humiliatingbecause everybody was looking because you know,
like I said, there's a wholeline of people that are watching this all
go down, and then they seeme just get turned away kind of like
oh, we're in the friend zone. You're like a brother to me.
So I was like, yo,I took my dignity and my ego and
I walked away and everyone, Yeah, everybody was just looking at me.

(25:44):
Look at sad boy walk away.We don't we don't walk around and flash
our media credentials. But I'm gonnatell you this right now, those media
credentials at that moment, they amountedto nothing because James, here's your here's
your one o, poor sir,just like everyone else, and you can't
really hear anything. You can't hearanything on a video because, like I
said, Chad had you know theChad said, they had this DJ and

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the music so loud. You justyou see me whispering back and forth,
and you see him shake his headgoing okay, and that's that's the point.
He said, Yeah, well shotgun. Well he'll shout again. I
know where this I know where thisvideo resides. I will find it and
share it again. Yeah, I'lldo it. But that's not the only
embarrassing story I have. The GreatAmerican Beer Festival, I've I've a few
more. I have a few more. But anyways, back to this Bonita

(26:27):
Bonia Mountain Style. I want togive a shout out to Brian Holzen who
dropped it off for me. He'slike, hey, here's the beer for
you guys to crack on the show. And I'm not hate now and at
five point five percent alcohol by volume, brewed by Melvin Brewing Company. But
I still like those guys, goodgood people. Yeah. Now, now
the question is is Bonita Bonita Mountainstyle. But are they are they?

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Are they making beer with flowers?No? I mean it has subtle orange
notes with hints of honey and pine, but no nothing mentioning of any flower
of any type. So honey comesfrom bees. Bees pollinate with flowers.
Okay, cool. I mean it'skind of there, you kind of get
a little um. Yeah, typicallywhen you think about flower, you know,

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beer made with flowers. There's onein particular that I can think of,
and it's heather beer. Uh fromScotland. Um, it's a very
unique, very floral, but justvery well what about the beer with a
high biscus. There's a few outthere with Hi, Yeah, there's hibiscus
out there. Yeah. I didforget about that one. Yep it is.
But you know, here now I'mhearing these rumors that there's beer being

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made with tulips. So naturally Istart looking not too far up the road
to New Holland Brewing Company in Holland, Michigan, where the Tulip Festival happens,
and all these tulips come in,the largest importer of tulips the United
States. Right there, it's Imean, it's the Dutch capital of the
United States. Clearly they're gonna bemaking a tulip beer. Um, no,

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it's in Pella, Iowa. Ohyeah, that makes sense, Yes,
a lot of Yeah, the gelis holding it's the gee Zelig Gezellig.
Yeah, we're going with that brewingcompany. No, I don't.
I don't even know where Pella,Iowa is because, uh, rag Brye

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hasn't gone through there. I'm oneof the trips I've been on, so,
which is weird because rag Brye isknown for the pelotons. Oh dad,
joke, bad joke. Pella,Iowa. You'd think it would go
through there, but uh, geZelig Brewing Company making the first ever tulip
beer, the first. I'm excitedapparently. Yeah, ok. Yes.
Betsy Duffy, the co owner ofthe brewer, says she's wanted to make

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beer out of tulips for a whileand the brewmaster, Oh yeah, Joe
the brewmaster, He's like, uh, it's crazy idea, but hey,
let's give this thing a whirl.And it's created quite the challenge. They
purchased a bouquet of tulips of differentcolors and just they want to try each
one out. Just to see ifthere was a different flavor characteristic from each
tulip. And they they made thistulip beer by adding petals to the beer,

(29:03):
plucking off the tulips of one hundredand seventy tulips when they put the
petals directly into the beer. Soadd a little bit of color, nice
orange ish pinkish hue and a nicefloral aromatic quality. Now, just so
you know, you pick a tulipin uh in Holland, Michigan during tulip
time, that's one hundred and fiftydollars fine, just so you know on

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that. Like they don't say there'sreally no tasting notes on this floral flavor,
aromatic qualities. So floral, floraland more floral. Shocker. They
put flowers in it and it smellsand taste floral. All right. Anyway,
they're having fun doing what you know, doing this and trying out something
new. It's creative. It's different. It's not like putting I don't know,

(29:49):
uh, Bucky's beaver nuggets and cinnamonraising brand mayonnaise, helmets mayonnaise.
No, but this is according toBetsy Duffy, the co owner of Gazillig
Brewing Company in Pella, Iowa,the world's first tulip beer. And folks

(30:10):
in Holland, Michigan right now aregoing, damn it. Why didn't we
think of that. Probably couldn't gettheir hands on tulips. They must.
What are you talking about? Theyhave them everywhere. Oh wait, but
if you pluck one, it's onehundred and fifty dollars five Yeah. Is
it worth it? Probably not,but they probably got the hook up tulip
beer. Yeah, one hundred fiftydollars times one hundred and seventy different tulips.
Yeah, you do the math.Hey, we'll do the math.

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Six back costs seven hundred dollars.All right, Jess fitsiness beer out.
All right, we gotta take abreak still to come. There's a story
out of Norfolk that's got me.I'm angry about it. I'll get into
it. This is what's on tapradio. We'll be right back. Okay.
We will buy no more beer untilwe drink all the beer we have

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at home, we said, andthen we laugh and laughed and left.
All right, cut it out.This is what's on tap radio. Back
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(31:41):
Great time to crack open a beer, hang out with us. I
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We get a lot of emails,so it might take a little bit for
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(32:50):
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I sent yourn email. I'm like, yes, I got your email.
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is about ready because he's been here. We were during the break. He
was fired up. I am there'sa story at a Norfolk that's got me.

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Yeah, yeah, okay, rightbefore you before James gets him gets
all emotional here, let's talk aboutsomething that really calms everybody down, and
that's something that clearly wouldn't get anybodyriled up. Let's talk about bud light.
Everybody happy. That's right. Solast week we reported and by the

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way, we don't find joy inthis. We're not secretly celebrating this.
We don't end this segment and gohare no, right, no, we
don't. We're just reporting. Weare not taking sides on this issue.
I'm sure you know you get usa beer. We have our personal opinions,
and every once in a while weshare a couple of them on the

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air. But the reality is thisbeer sales for bud Light. Bud Light
sales down twenty six percent. Butthere's some interesting updates. I didn't I
didn't see a new update for thisweek as far as what sales are down.
But people on the internet, dependingon what they're which political direction they

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lean, tend to overexaggerate whatever positionit is. So for example, a
very left leaning publications said not toworry, sales are going to bounce back
because most people support this, butjust don't do so openly. I'm like,
okay, all right, well,all right, whatever. Another one
came back and it leans very rightand they're saying they're saying this is a

(34:45):
no win situation for the brewery,and frankly, they kind of are in
a no win situation. So it'sa little bit, a little bit rough
for them. And we'll explain thatin just a second. But bud Light
CEOs are or the c D CEOhas made a recent announcement saying that while
bud Light in the United States isdown twenty six percent, it really only

(35:09):
represents a one percent drop for AnheuserBusch globally. So for those of you
who think abmbev is going away,it's all over. They're closing up.
Don't worry that that the brewery's gonnagone. It's gone. They're going down.
It's all over. No, really, um, they are. They

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are there. They've they've hedged theirbets, they've got a lot. But
that does not mean that bud Light'snot in trouble. And we mentioned this
last week of falling out of thenumber one top spot, and they've got
themselves into another bind, a cannotwin situation, and everybody's talking about it.
And again we're just reporting. Butas you know, they partnered with

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the transactivists. Uh, James Dylan'sgonna Dylan mulvanny. Yes, thank you.
I was drawn a blank on thelast named Delamolvanny and that immediately ticked
off the conservative, far right loyalbud Light drinkers. When bud Light went
silent that ticked off the trans community. Now bud Light is saying, we

(36:17):
didn't mean to cause a stir,which means all the conservatives said, so
are you inner? You out whichway you're going? Meanwhile, they've been
strangely silent and they haven't stood upto support Dylan or any position on this.
So now, particularly in Chicago,bud Light is being kicked out of

(36:37):
gay bars. So now the gaycommunity is saying we aren't going to support
bud Light because they didn't stand upand support Dylan. So if they support
Dylan, they tick off the conservativeright. If they don't support Dylan,
they tick off the entire LGBTQ pluscategory the demographic. So you can't win.

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And oh, by the way,they've waited so long to respond one
way or the other that whichever waythey go, you kind of feel like
if they go and support the right, the right's gonna say, oh,
that's too late, Or if theygo support Dylan, they're gonna say,
oh, no, it's too late. So they're really in a bad situation
here. We will continue to monitorit and keep reporting. You kind of

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want to look at which side drinksthe most of the beer, is it
the LGBTQ community or is it they'refar right? So do you go,
Okay, we'll just continue to supportingwith our core demo and upset this.
I don't know, it's just theway it's it's a bet, it's a
bet. But the thing is isby waiting the way they did, they

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told everybody that they're not they're notready to take a stand. It's like,
Okay, we're gonna wait and seewho's the most angry and then we'll
pick. Not a good way tobuild a loyal following. But I think
the CEO is talking to Forbes andthey said that they blame social media for
this whole controversy because it's a gameof telephone that you have the facts and

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then you know, the facts geta little opinionated, and then opinionated and
opinionated and of course all the waydown the line and no, it's no
longer fact anymore. Well, andso it's kind of blae. It's game
a telephone. Like I said,open up the story by saying, if
you read a left leaning, leftleaning liberal publication, it's going to be
very different than what you read ina very right leaning conservative publication. But

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meanwhile, well, now that everybody'sdone being upset about bud light, James
is upset about another pop. Well, here's the deal. So we're in
this point in society where we don'twe're we don't want to upset anybody walking
on all right. So Moon Gazerit's a brewery. I guess that a
Norfolk. I never heard of themany before, but apparently it's well known

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beers which are either named after umlinks of hairs. I guess there's a
rabbits. Yeah, they're rabbits.Rabbits, so they have a beer called
like Jigfoot, pintail Nibbler, forinstance, are taken from centuries old Middle
English poems called the names of thehair. As was a beer called white

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Face, which an award winning brew. And this is coming question because they
had become aware of this is whatthe brewers saying that Whiteface just wasn't sitting
entirely comfortably with some people, especiallywith those that are not familiar with the
wider links of two hairs. AMoon Gazer owner said, so, winning
the award saw a big increase indistribution. Apparently this beer won an award,
so many folks were coming out totry it. And feedback on the

(39:35):
name also became more apparents and somepeople did not know the connection to the
hair name and the White Mountain hair, and sadly some cases giving a rise
to feeling that there was an undercurrentof racism with the name. And this
of course is a complete misunderstanding,but the fact that it's created an impression
was genuine concern to them. Soit was overheard in the conversation at a

(39:59):
pub, which only tip the balancebetween, you know, whether or not
they should discontinue or change the nameof the beer. But they heard somebody
sitting at the pub and overheard aman showing the piinant to his buddy proclaiming,
now, this is a total lush. There's a short pause before they
continued the name's a bit racist though, and that really got him to reflect
because this one guy says, okay, this is a bit racist, and

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so this has brought some concern withthem. So because of this, they
didn't want to upset anybody. They'vesince changed the name from Whiteface to Cheeky
Jack to not upset anybody because thisname because apparently people that are ignorant and
don't know modern English poems trigger triggertrigger. You can find this a little

(40:42):
um, a little fitsive, soyou know, to not upset anybody.
They have since changed the name fromWhiteface to Cheeky Rabbit or Cheeky Jack.
So, Karen, I'm gonna morefrogs. Beer name changed after discrimination comments
comments, one comments. All right, so that's just little update of what's
kind of grind my gears. We'llget into it later, but we gotta

(41:04):
take a break. Coming up nexthour, what we got we gotta celebrate
some birthdays. This is What's ontab Radio. We'll be right back.
After reading about the evils of drinking, we made up our mind. We're
gonna stop reading. What's on TabRadio continues with James Simpson and Chad Pillbeam.

(41:36):
All right, welcome to our numbertwo What's on tab Radio starting right
now. Thanks for joining us.If you missed the first hour, the
podcast will be up shortly, broughtto you by Cass Brandy. Before it
took a break. We're talking aboutthis Norfolk brewery, Moon Gazer, and
apparently they had this beer called whiteFace, which is kind of named for

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a Middle English poem or it's thename of a hair from the Middle East
English poem and say, we hadsome people asking us hold on a second
by a hair a rabbit? Rabbit? Right, so right, all of
the all the beers are named afterdifferent types of rabbits, and they're using
classic names or poetic names. There'sno harm in that. What's the harm?

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It seems harmless. Well, apparentlythere's a white faced rabbit was very
called white face, and it wantedsome kind of award and got a lot
of attention. So people started comingout and trying it. But then the
name white Face came into question andin the article just one person, one
person said the name seems a bitracist though, and they overheard this and

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goes like, oh, whoa,we can't upset anybody. We must change
the name. So they changed thename from white Face to Cheeky Jack,
and then they came out with thequote said we want people to embrace the
new name, embrace the beer,and pray for what it is. We're
genuine sorry for any misunderstanding in anyoffense that may have been cost There's nothing

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to apologize about because ignorant people don'trealize that it's named after a white hair.
It's racist. Oh, people reada book, dude, or ask
a question, why assume the way? This is the thing I think James
gets the most upset about, andI do as well. But James this

(43:27):
really ground like he's so he's like, I hate seeing brewery's cave to stupidity.
And that's what's happened here. Youcan ask a question, but people
unfortunately assume the worst. They lookedat this brewery and said, oh,
you call it white face, Clearlyyou're racist. It's like, wait a
minute. I don't think there wasany boycotts. I don't think anybody was

(43:51):
buying the beer and shooting it upin a field. But here is the
other piece of this, though,that people don't realize at these awards ceremonies
and things of that. You mayremember a few years back we talked about
this, and particularly at the GreatAmerican Beer Festival. They said any insensitive
or racist or sexist or bigoted nameswill not be named in the awards and

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will not be allowed to. So, for example, if this beer,
this white faced beer, was consideredor deemed inappropriate, and let's just say
it was a pale ale, theywould have and it wins an award,
they would have said, the paleale beer from this brewery. They would
not name the Yeah, right,they wouldn't name the moon Gazer. They

(44:37):
wouldn't name the beer because they wouldsay it was deemed inappropriate. No one
deemed this inappropriate. It was justone person who just extrapolated his feelings onto
it and then all of a sudden, you know, he was triggered.
And now, all of a sudden, the breweries going backwards. But something
you mentioned, James, you saidthat this beer had been around, this

(44:58):
beer existed, and it wasn't untilit won an award that it got elevated
to the awareness of the social socialjustice warriors who deemed it bracest. Look,
I get it. If it wascalled black face, Yeah, that
would have been a different story.Unless there is such a thing as a

(45:19):
black faced rabbit. I don't thinkmaybe there is, is there. I
mean, I don't know, Idon't know. I'm not the expert on
rabbits, but uh but uh,all right, yeah, I'm kind of
disappointed with the brewery, just sayingnow the official What's on Tap Radio Fun
Factor the Week, brought to youby Who's ever checked Clear? This week?
This is a good one, Chad, this is a good hole.

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My beer and watched this so ohman, I can't even I can't even
make this stuff up. I cannotmake this stuff up. So in Kansas,
when a Franklin County, Kansas sheriffdeputy pulled over a driver for possibly
drunken driving one Friday, they hadno idea what was on tap. Now,
look, there's absolutely nothing funny everabout drunken driving. However, this

(46:07):
case, the driver was dressed uplike a cannon bud light. Okay,
nothing's funny about drunk driving, exceptthat it was dressed up as a cannabud
light. There's a quote here,as a career in law enforcement is exciting.
You get to experience something new everyday. Sometimes you see things you
can't believe, the Sheriff's office wroteon a Facebook page where it shared a

(46:30):
weird tale because this is weird.Deputies were surprised to see that the driver
was wearing a beer costume. Yep, you heard that correctly, And of
all the beer cans or beer bottlecostumes out there, it had to be
bud Light, the brand that's beenin the news lately for a marketing debacle,
and of course, Chad. Thejokes started pouring in on the Sheriff's

(46:53):
Facebook page, and they obviously hadbeen bottled up. Some of the post
read, isn't really under the influenceif he is the influencer. Oh because
of Dylan Mulvaaney's status as a influencer. M is that considered an open container?
Oh because it's a can of budlight that he's wearing. Okay,

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uh huh, only if his flyis down. Oh. So. People
wondered whether the driver had been ata Stinco de Mayo party, but apparently
the sheriff said that didn't seem tobe the case. The Facebook post said
that the driver was arrested on suspicionof driving under the influence of alcohol and

(47:35):
was taken to the county's jail,and it reminded the public that it's as
always, suspects are innocent until provenguilty. That sounds like that show Cops,
The Bad Boys, Bad Boys,What you Gonna do? Woo?
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty. So as they're kidding, handcuff had
grown into the back of a bloodypolice car with no wife beat shirt.

(48:00):
Wait you can't say that, sorry, A really it's a white really totally
yes, trashy U tank top,so your hold my beer and watched this
an unusual Kansas Duy traffic stop.Sometimes you just have to see things to
believe it. A man was arrestedwearing a bud light costume. Where do

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you think he was coming from?This happens recently, so remember folks,
Rinaldigan, they're out there. They'reout there to insure you. But yeah,
this guy probably not gonna get insuredby Rinaldo Tanagan Insurance Group. I
can guarantee that they'll cover the car, but not the costumes. But you
have to see the picture. Thepicture is really funny. I saw the
picture. It was great. Thatwas yeah. Yeah. One of the

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one of the producers had posted onthis social media and I was like,
hey, don't scoop our story.Yeah I saw that. I was like,
man, that's definitely going in andhold my beer and watched this.
Well, we'll post to our socialmedia page that's at What's on Tap Radio,
So that is your whole my beerand watched all right, still to
get too On this episode, wegot to talk about the beer can that
has the perfect poor We're gonna celebratesome birthdays and power outages. What does

(49:08):
power outagers have to do with beer. We'll get into it. That's what's
on tap radio. We'll be rightback. And the teacher said, no,
Bobby, there's no such time asber o'clock. Fire that teacher.
This is what's on tap radio.So a lot of kids to welcome back.

(49:40):
This is what's on tap radio.You're listening to. I am James,
that's Chad. Oh yeah, I'mhere. A couple of dudes hanging
out on the radio having some beers, have some light conversations. I don't
know about light conversation. We gotpretty animated, pretty excited. We got
into some serious business. I meanwe started talking about billion of dollars market

(50:00):
share, people changing their beer names, people getting upset, people that can't
get insurance from anyone because they're drivingaround dressed as a beer can. Yeah.
Um, fun facts about tulips andtulip beers. And we've drank some
beer. But scene as we've drink, I say, we drank past tense,

(50:23):
which means it's time for us crackopen another beer. Yeah, I'm
due for a beer. I've enjoyedmy bony too bony to mountain style pale
Ale from Melvin Brewing Company. Complimentsfrom my friend, our friend Brian Hols
in name dropper home KPRC Channel two. But yeah, where are you gonna
go with now? Well, um, first of all, I want to
do it just a quick uh gottado it good the old radio shout out

(50:46):
to my buddy Larry who he andhis wife took Christine and I on a
brewery tour last week. Thanks forthe Chad. Yeah, you're only thirteen
hundred miles away. But anyway,we went and visited a couple of breweris.
We went to a brewery that andmeant to a German inspired brewery Seeds
in south west Michigan, and wewent to We also went to Transient Brewery

(51:12):
where we indulged in some rather large, high capacity beers, high ABV beers.
And fortunately Larry was the designated driver. He was just you know,
taking it easy with the session beers. And one thing Larry forgot the schedule
a food stop. Oh that's notgood, you gotta have some food.
Let me just tell you this,Chad was not driving home and that was

(51:36):
an accident. It was it wasone of those where whoa wait a minute,
we didn't plan this out, andall of a sudden, I was
I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
this is bad. I gotta stop, and I stopped. But I
was not drinking, so or Iwas not driving, so I did not
do that. Speaking of not driving, I am at studio Beer Logic World

(51:57):
headquarters and drinking and porium. Startedoff with a logany is Waldo at eleven
point four percent and now let's justkeep the party going. This is Pillar
of Beasts from three Floyd's Brewing Company. This is a salted caramel barley wine
aged for twelve months in oak barrels, coming in at thirteen point seven percent.

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Yeah. And because there is nostunt beer liver in studio with me,
Bill, no Bill, no oneelse to help me out. That
means I'm leaving the keys on thecounter because yet we're staying in tonight,
Honey, not gonna do anything crazy, because I'm gonna sit on this one
for the next hour or so.And as I pour that beer, the

(52:42):
first thing I noticed the head onthat We're gonna be talking about pouring beer
with a proper amount of head herein a minute. But this particular beer
very loose head bubbles, not realtight and dissipated somewhat quickly, but it
thin doubt. But while the noseon this whoa salted caramel barley wine,

(53:04):
I'm basically getting it's almost like liquiddessert. But let's get a sip here.
Okay, Um, that is awhole lot of caramel and vanilla.
That is, that's your favorite carameldessert in an alcoholic form. In fact,
I'm gonna go ahead and say thisfor people like myself who tend to

(53:24):
make jokes about pastry stouts and thingslike that being too sweet, too sugar
eat and syrupy and all that otherstuff. Yeah, I'm gonna go out
on a limb here and I'm gonnasay this. Um, I'm a little
bit of a hypocrite because I lovethis beer and doesn't taste a lot like
beer, taste like dessert. SoI'm embracing my hypocrisy there. My hypocrisy

(53:46):
knows no bounds because this is liquidgoodness, but it does not taste like
beer. And that's what I have. Pillar of Beasts from Three Floyd's James,
what are you? What are yougonna crack? All right, I'm
gonna raise the ABV on the beersI'll bring in the table. Um.
Another suggestion from a listener and theywent to What's on taprio Gmail dot com
and suggested beer. Suggested this beard, so I'm gonna do it. It's

(54:08):
called Twin Dream Double IPA Shiner textHex double India Palil. Now I brought
a text hex IPA, but thatwas just the IPA. This is a
double India pal Al brew with cactuswater at nine point nine point five percent
alcohol by volume. Give me,give me the full name of that beer

(54:30):
one more time. Twin Dream doubleIndia pale Ale. Okay, yeah,
Twin Dream double Shine Shiner text hexthere it is, Yep, that's what
it was. It was the Shinertext Hex double, Imperial Dream Stout IPA
Pale Grand Dream double India pal Ale. Yeah. Yeah, it's a matic

(54:53):
IPA brew with cactus water and vexingduo with Idaho seven and Citra hops nine.
There you go, nine point fivepercent, I'll call by volume.
Had a frothy head on that beerthere, jed M. It's almost like
I poured this out the proper beercan. Oh wow, if there's that,
if there is such a thing.But now take a look at this.

(55:13):
I know this is the radio show. They can't see you see what
happened to the head on this thingis gone? It's gone. Is we
want to see a magic trick?Watch this head disappear. And it's not
because I drank it. It justvanished. You know what. I am
not mad at this beer. Hey, all right, this is good James
embracing the shiner double hex, doublehelix, Imperial stout hail. What's it

(55:37):
called again? Twin dream a doubleIndia pale ale, Yeah, that's it
with cactus water. We didn't getto the last segment, and we got
our obligatory IPA check check IPA representedbecause IPA is get so underrepresented in the
market. We have to have oneon every show we do. And the
lobbyists do not do not, donot like when we don't give the appropriate

(56:02):
love to India pallels. They gotmad when we waited, you know,
the last hour. Yep, yeahthat is what I am drinking. So
oh yeah, I'm gonna let thatsift for a second. Do we have
time to get into this? Uh? Power outages? Oh? I think?
Oh, I mean, where doyou want to go? Chat?
I got power outages? We gotbeer cans talking about pouring the perfect We're

(56:22):
talking about poring the per let's talkabout pouring that perfect beer the beer cans.
But we've been drinking out of thewrong beer cans, inferior like everything
else. It's like, wait aminute, when we when we got away
from steel beer cans and went toaluminum, We got away from unlined to
line, when we got the frostbrood liner, the mountains that change color,

(56:44):
the the the Miller light cans withno glug. Oh yeah, remember
those days. Yeah, bottles,vortex bottles, all that happy horse crap.
Oh yeah, Well, ladies andgentlemen from the Department of we don't
really have a problem, but let'ssolve it anyway. A Japanese design studio

(57:07):
has invented, apparently a beer canthat will give you the perfect liquid to
foam ratio. Oh yeah, ifyou're pouring beer and you're waiting for that
liquid to come out and you wantthat perfect, poor, perfect, poor
fun fact seven to three. That'swhat it is. It's a seven to

(57:27):
three ratio of beer to foam.And according to this can that designed and
was unveiled by a company called Yanko. They are a Japanese company and they
reveal this beer and this beer can. I'm going to try and describe it
from there. I've seen pictures ofit. I still don't completely understand it.

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So apparently you need to be anengineer. Hey, fire Marshal Matt,
pay attention. You can teach usall how to use this on how
to pour a beer properly from thisbecause it has two angle poll tabs,
So basically you have the same sizeopening essentially, or maybe a little wider
opening, but you have two poletabs that precisely control the level of foam
poured. And according to the designers, they create the can't an attempt to

(58:13):
create this ideal foam and pour yourperfect glass with the perfect amount of bubbles
to get the best out of yourpackaged beard. Now, the first tab,
when pulled, opens the lids slightlyand applies a certain amount of pressure
on the can. And then fromthere, when you pull the second tab,
it opens the lid completely, allowingthe beer to flow out without any

(58:36):
foam or bubbles, basically pouring ina perfect pore. So like the first
one you put, you crack itopen, you pour, you get foamed,
that's what it is. And thenyou crack open. The second one
opens all the way and all thefoams out, and then you get beer
and that gets you that seven tothree ratios. So again from the Department
of we didn't have a problem withthis before, but by Galia, we're
gonna create it one and solve it. Yep, this Japanese company has now

(59:00):
invented a two tab beer can thatwill give you the perfect seven to three
beer to foam ratio. I can'twait to try it, all right.
I hope they make a million dollarswith that idea. Yeah, that we
do. We do. Hope youmake a million dollars off that. All
right. Still to come, we'regonna celebrate some birthdays and we've gotta talk
about some power algies. All thisis so much more. Hang with this,

(59:22):
we'll be right back. Believe insomething they say, we believe.
We'll have another beer. This isWhat's on Tab Radio's back to James and
Chad. All right, welcome backto What's on Tap Radio. Harry,

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think you about this radio show?Both Chad and I are huge fans of
Award of Ceremonies. Now hold ona second before we go any further.
This is an award winning show.It is, So it's not about us
right now yet. But well,I know it's not about us, but

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I'm just saying that if you're ifyou're a fan of this award winning show,
you should know that we are afan of award shows. Now,
I do want to put a disclaimeron this. If that's okay, Oh
no, do I have to hitthe no no, no no, no,
no, no no no. Thelawyers will be fine with this.
Okay, there's something very important.We're gonna be talking about a big like

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like like world size beer competition herein just a second. But just so
we're clear, if you've never wonan award at a beer competition, that
does not mean you make bad beer. Absolutely, yes, absolutely correct statements.
Okay. Now, Also, ifyou won an award last year and

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didn't win it this year, thatdoesn't mean you no longer make good beer.
That's also an accurate statement. Right. So it all depends on the
judges, and you know, everybody'spalates different. You may have different judges,
and so we're here to applaud anyonethat makes great beer. But right
now we're going to applaud those thatone at the twenty seventh World Beer Cup

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competition that happened at the craft BrewersConference in Nashville, Tennessee. But before
we do that, is this annual? Is this annual every two years?
The Beer Cup World Beer Cup?I want to stay this every year.
They had it last year. Yeah, you're right, they did, and
so maybe they changed it up.I don't know. I don't know for
the COVID year. Oh that's right, yeah, after the Canadian exchange rate

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and then the COVID year and yeah, I don't know, you know what
that's not had it, but theyhad it this year at the craft Brewers
Conference was held at Nashville, Tennessee. Before we get into that, I
do want to crack a beer.I want to lighten things up a little
bit, Chad. And this isthe beer that I haven't really brought to
the table in a while. Butyou know, I was at my local
beer realtailer. Beer retailer always sohard for me to say that for some

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dumb reason, but anyways, Isaw it. Now. I was like,
the months are getting hotter here inthe in the South where I am,
so this is just a nice beerfor those days that's really hot.
And I just got done doing somelawn. No, it's not a stout
like Chad drinks. No, thisis a Montucky cold snack. Wow.
Yeah, so you went for acold snack. Yeah, I'm going for

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a cold snack. Schnack, coldsnack. It's a logger and going poor.
It's a lot of seven three ratioright there. Oh on the phone,
on the phone. Sorry, sorrythat that was redundant from the Department
of Redundancy depart I mean beer tofoam, bear to foam. So anyways,

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yep, Montucky cold snack. AndI like this because eight percent of
it goes back to local causes.And uh yeah this is from Montana,
from Montana. What's interesting about thatbeer is before sorry COVID stations getting all
over my table here cheat, theengineers would not be pleased condensation. Yes,

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before COVID. Uh, Montucky coldsnacks. They were, that's what
they call them at I don't knowwhat I don't know what the official name
of the beer is, but theythe if you're a fan of the beer,
like yeah, I'll have a coldsnack and you get yourself a snack
and it's a Montucky. But theywere selling those cans like ridiculous amount is
that sixteen ounce can. Sixteen ouncecan? Right, those sixteen ounce cans

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we're going for like two dollars andfifty cents or a happy hour and like
three dollars on a regular day,and people are just buying them. And
the sales of that beer just wentthrough the roof. I can't believe.
I think this is the first timewe've had Montucky on is that right?
I don't know. I can't rememberten years, so I can't remember.
But anyways, I think it goesfor like six bucks for a six pack

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of Tall Boys, So pretty cheap. I'm saying. Yeah, you go
to a bar and they were liketwo fifty during happy I are in three
bucks regular, and I mean that'swhat you pay for a mass produced beer
that you know endorses influencers. Yeah, I mean, well, this is
a you know, it's it's good. It's good. It's just your running
mill, logger, nothing out,nothing too crazy about it. But it

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does the job questioning a thirst.But we gotta get into it. Chat.
We got to talk about this CraftBrewers conference happened this week. No
chat, and I didn't go outfor it, but if you didn't know
what it is, it delivers concentrated, affordable brewing education and the idea of
sharing to improve brewery quality and performance. Is an industry based conference. Really,

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they don't have people come in fromall over the world like they do
at the Great American Beer Festival.It's more or less industry, folks.
I was just gonna say, it'san industry industry. Yeah, that's so
if you work in the beer industryfor a brewery or distributor, or a
supplier to a distributor or a brewery, this is their event, right,
So this is how they get educationand so forth in networking and so forth.

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But they did hold the twenty seventhWorld Beer Cut Competition, and I'm
looking at some stats here in thiscompetition this year ten thousand, two hundred
and thirteen total injuries. That isa lot of injuries. That there's two
thousand, three hundred and seventy sixbreweries competing, fifty one countries representing one
hundred and three categories, over twohundred and seventy two judges from twenty six

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countries, with over three hundred plusvolunteers. Give those applaud for the volunteers
because they are the backbone of thefestival, I mean, not the festival
of the conference. But let's getinto it. And I do have one
complaint when it comes to the WorldBeard Cup that they don't make it easy
to break down the locations of thebreweries. It's basically all countries. It's

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USA. I want to know howmany there were in say Iowa, rights,
I can't search for Iowa. Ican only search for USA, right,
or you know, Texas, Michigan, whatever it is, so chat
and I just kind of had togo off memory of like, Okay,
that brere is from Michigan, thatbrewer's from Texas. So we did the
best I can. I counted sixteenmedals from Texas. I could be wrong,

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but again again, the website waskind of difficult to navigate through.
And that's my only complaint. Nowthey do for the Great American Brier Festival
break it down by cities, butnot for the World Beer Cup. But
I want to give a shout outbecause I'm broadcasting here at studios on the
West side of town, basically theHouston markets and some some big winners here
in Houston, especially Saint Arnold BrewingCompany picking up bronze for their Amber Ale,

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which is a classic flagship beer forthem, and silver for their Pumpkin
Eater and the Pumpkin Beer category.Good Friends of Ours eleven Below Brewing Company.
This is a no doubter. Thisis a no doubter that they picked
up gold for the Big Mistake that'sa stout and the wooden barreled Strong Stout
category. Fantastic beer. Yeah.I want to give a special shout out

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to Huggy Bear. He's a loomof the show. He's been on multiple
times over at Hulla Brewing Company pickingup silver for the dollar Pills y'all German
style pilsner. And also speaking ofHouston, Carback Brewing Company picked up a
silver for their Mother and Lawger inthe International Dark Lawger category, which Mother
and Lawger didn't really realize that wasstill in production. I want to start

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a fight with Carback right now overthat beer because we told them, hey,
bring back Mother and Lawger. Knewwe're gonna do that. Yeah,
that's that's the beer we want todrink. And then all of a sudden,
what do they do, We'll makeit again an Inner New An Awards
category and it wins. Yeah,well, maybe we knew what we were
talking about, Okay, it's agreat beer. It is a great beer.

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Obviously, I'm not gonna get throughall sixteen breweries in Texas, but
some special shout outs, especially ourfriends in Dallas. Pittacolest Brewing Company picked
up a bronze or Turtle Creek atthe Belgian fruit beer category. I love
our homies over at all Stat andFredericksburg picked up a gold for their All
Stat Hefe and the South German StyleHeaf Advising category, and one more to

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our friends out in Austin. AtMeanwhile Brewing Company picked up a silver for
four in the r Urban spice category. So those are just some of the
few. That one from Texas,but we got let's talk about some Michigan
breweries. Chad, Yeah, Iwas gonna say, uh yeah um from
Superior Pest Control over there, Fredover there, he uh he loves the

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Minton Breweries, Imperial Peanuts and Crackerjackthat one, and then also Founders one
with the dirty bastard Scotch Ale.And I'm looking for my notes here.
What was the other Michigan brewery thatwon? Oh, Redwood Brewing Company,
Redwood, I'm not familiar with them, so three three awards there coming out
of Michigan, I didn't see anythingout of Iowa. Iowa did win,

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I did Iowa did win. Ijust don't know that brewery. Like I
said, they didn't make it easyto find. And I went to Iowa
craft Brewers Guild Facebook pages. Nothingthere. Guys, update your stuff,
guys, update your stuff. Butthere was some Iowa represented in this in
this award ceremony. Now real quick, um, because we just have about
a minute left here. Um.I went through and I looked at some

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of the beer names and I puttogether a list of my favorite beer names.
You got, I got chew Baccaright, good one. And you
know that's a beer um, aplay on the spoof of Star Wars something
something, something dark, sour andit's just kind of a family guy reference.
Um. Let's see here, youhave to call me nighthawk, something

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dank. This way comes Spaghettio handshake, and I like this one here.
This is Ryan's award winning Brown Aleand don't forget and it's actually spelled out
like that, and let's not forget. One of our favorites, Chad Trump

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ants one again all trump hands.Also from Japan. The Fujika cargan beer
wisen. I'm not making that up. And one in the South German style
have avison. It's a Fua Carganbreer wisen. So there you go.
That is the little hands way togo. Obviously we couldn't get to all
the breweries, but I want togive a special shout out a congratulations to
all those at one at the twentyseventh World Beer Cut Competition. So congratulations

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ladies and gentlemen. All Right,we gotta take a break. Coming up
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now, brought to you by Tantentbrewing company. I have to say,
Chad, I was hanging out withBrian Holsen the other day and uh,
we were cracking some of these Tantentbeers that you left here in the studios,
and we have to say, bothBrian and I agree, very very
good beers. Yeah, they don'thave big distro distribution outside of let's see

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Allgan, Michigan. Just chat todistro. Man. I'm telling you,
I pick up their beers and Itake it with me wherever, and I
share it, and I tell you, people are not disappointed. Patrick knows
how to make the beer. Iwas talking with some of the fellow Mud
Club members and you know, wewere talking about breweries in southwest Michigan.

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You know, underrated breweries. Breweriesdon't get no respect. You know what
I'm saying. And it's one ofthose things about Patrick's brewing. He deserves
to be recognized by more people.And the best way to do that stop
by and see them and enjoy theirbeers in their tap room. You're not

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gonna find big reach on it.You're gonna have to you know, this
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go to Graham Rapids. I gottago see founders or at go to Bells.
Yeah, go to founders, goto bells. Telling you what though,
there are tons of other great breweries, including right here in my backyard
where I am so blessed to livein Algan, Michigan, and consider Patrick

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Contania friends and also beer ambassadors.They're good for beer and so get yourself
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there's gonna be traffic. M No, don't be don't worry about it.
It's okay. Can you stop signsand one stoplight? No, we have
more than that. Okay, it'snot that small, all right, but
still to go out to get too. In the last segment of What's on
Tap Radio before we get out ofhere, we got some birthdays to celebrate.

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But before we start celebrating these birthdays, I want to talk about these
power outages it's going on in Paraguay. Wait, wait a minute, holdmos
a second. Yeah, I wasjust thinking. The other day I was
sitting around, In fact, wewere at Tantrick Brewing Company and I was
talking to Uh. We were talkingabout superior past control and you know,
we were like, yeah, becausethat's what we do. We talk about
past control there, believe or not. We do. Because it's spring and

(01:13:46):
bugs are coming out. And oneguy says, did you hear about the
power outages in Paraguay? And Iwas like, why, yes, I
did. I mean, that's howinteresting you say that because the other day
Brian and I were sitting around talkingabout how hot it is and it's like
it's nothing. Caparo had to say, how going on to Paragay my rights,
but spirits, thank you to aSuperior Beast Control for sending this story
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a campaign to tackle two major issuesissues cifling heat and constant power outages,
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Wha Brahma Beer Swap, Yes Swampcampaign, So anyone anyone in assuon

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January. In February, you heardthat, yeah, you know, opposite
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to swamp warm beer for ice coldBrama Metas. Wow. Yeah. So,

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if you're living in the a Studsuancity, get yourself some great fruit
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gotta look at the yeah, takinga lot of areas. It's funny because
you know, we get the reportsand the demographics and we see this and
you know, sometimes the reports arevery detailed. Other times and they're like
that's all we got for you.It just depends put the reports together,
right, But we and then weget them. It's like, well,
obviously an intern did this one becauseit's really good and they want to impress.

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The interns always make the best graphics. They do, they do,
they do. But when like Jerrywho's thirty years, they're just like,
yeah, yeah, your your numbersare up five percent this week or whatever.
You know, it's like, okay, what can we wear on the
radio. But the come back theinterns like they're listening in India, Canada,

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England. I'm like, wow,that's try between these hours and they're
downloading and their average download speed isthis, and and they're listening. One
is an Apple or is it SamSongs not a smart device? You're really
you're really big with divorced fathers inGreece, you know, like what with
one kid? Like it's like baseball. They have staff for everything, for

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our numbers. They do all right. Well, speaking of numbers, how
about this birthdays? Yes, birthdays, that's right. I've kind of feel
like Willard Scott here, you know, and that's right. If if it
doesn't say smuckers, you know whatever. Antonina in Sarah, you know her.
She's big. She's big in LongIsland, she's out there in New
York. You know. Antoina inSarah. She's been around for one hundred

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and four years, ladies and gentlemen, and she says, you know,
I do all right. I tryand take care of myself. But the
most important she's one hundred and fouryears old, one hundred and four so
pretty much everything she says, listenbecause she's been there, done that,
seen that, And she says,I don't really think about it that much.
I just take it one birthday ata time. I mean, somebody's

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how do you stay alive this long? Yeah? How have you not died
yet? I said, Long Island. She's Staaten Island, She's from Staten
Island. And she she's like,you know what, I'm sitting here and
I'm watching my kids grow up,my grandkids grow up, my great grandkids
grow up, and I'm just stillhanging on one hundred and four. You
know, she's eating her soft shellcrab, and she's got her pepperoni,

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and of course she's loving her veggiesbecause you know, doctor says she's supposed
to, but she's not gonna denyherself. And she even says, I
love my beer. I love mybeer. She says, she's taking it
one day at a time, oneyear at a time, one birthday at
a time, and one bear ata time. And she's having beer daily

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to go with her spinach, hercrabs, her pepperoni and all her other
veggies, because you know what,she's one hundred and four, damn it.
Let her do whatever she wants.And to you, I want to
say this one more time to you, Antoinette in Sarah of Staten Island,
happy one hundred and fourth birthday,you're halfway to two hundred and eight birthday.

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What kind of beer it is?Journalist doesn't report, but oh yeah,
it's always don't give us that.It's always cores light when it comes
to these stories. It's gonna beit. You know, Yeah, I
don't know what that course lights theirdemo, that one hundred and five year
old demo. Yea, it huge. Oh wait, no, actually does
say right here. Until until fiveweeks ago it was bud light, but

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she switched to course. Not kidding, I totally I'm totally kidding, all
right, joke. Speaking of birthdays, what kind of birthday wish does a
one hundred and sixty year old halfYou heard that right, A one hundred
and sixty year old half hundred andsix yep floor floor masqueta. Some kisses
and one beer is all he neededto celebrates, according to the HCA Florida

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Palm's West Hospital. His family andstaff joined him to sing Happy Birthday in
Spanish, and some balloons and cakewere on hand to celebrate his achievements,
and a nice cold beer, andagain does not say what kind of beer.
But I know these stories because I'vebeen doing the stories for a long
time. It is always course light, course light, Happy birthday, floors
masquida, Happy birthday. What washer name? Oh? That's when as

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ye rights, one hundred and fouryears old. I'll tell you what if
I live to be that long,damn right, I'm gonna be sitting around,
say bring me a beer. Well, the doctor said, I am
older than he will ever be.Bring me a beer. I'm older than
his mother and his father put together. All of his access to medical treatment
will not make him age this old. Bring me a damn bear. I

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was in the war. Damn it. Bring me a beer bear me which
war? All of them? Allof them? I was there for the
beer wars of the two ten happybirthdays. Guys, all right, we
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