June 6, 2025 • 14 mins
Mat Conley joins the show to talk about the Mayor of Maple Valley Open, the Mayor IPA, and Georgetown Brewing.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Casting live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Ian Fornez, spowered by Seattle's Close the Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Book snow Call Me Casino on.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM. Al right,
welcome back. I'm not even to look at the text
line today, Anders, so it's unsponsored right now, so I'm
just gonna leave it at that. And you know, either
it's going to be Ya Pacers or what the hell's
wrong with the Mariners. It's a Friday. Sounds about right.
(00:32):
I want to be in a good mood, so let
me do that.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
My show is sponsored by snow call Me Casinosno Casino
dot Com also a big support of the show, and
everything we do would be George sown Brewing. You hear
me talk about those guys all the time. Uh, they
help them with the golf tournament. Speaking of the golf tournament,
July eleventh, Drewids Glenn, if you're listening, and actually Andrews
will post this separately this segment. All right, talk care
(00:57):
of the podcast page and that way I can direct
people to it because a lot of do like what's
going on with the golf tournament? When can we sign up,
what's happening and all of that. Here's what you need
to know. July eleventh, four point thirty Shotgun Start, two Man,
nine Hole Scramble. As we've always done, sign ups soon,
(01:17):
I'm gonna say a week to ten days, probably maybe less.
Listen to the show next week, probably middle late next week.
We'll have a definitive time and a place where you
can sign up, and where you can and when it's
gonna happen and all of that. We're just kind of
working through some logistical details. One of them simply is
this my good friend Luke Holson, who's the pro out there,
(01:39):
works his ass off. He actually went on a little
vacation with his baby daughter and his wife, so they
he's back and we're gonna get logistics. Yeah, so we're
gonna work on all that this weekend and get it's
I don't worry about it because it seems to always
sell pretty good. I think we don't have a hard
time selling it out. But I know a lot of
people are anxious about it. So sometime just listen to
the show. I'll update you guys probably on Whennesday next week.
(02:01):
Just Andrews hold me that, please, Well, do Wednesday next week,
well today, and we should have sign ups coming up
real soon. And make sure you have a partner. You
got to sign up as a two sum. I am
not the golf tender. I do not help you find
a partner when you show up at the golf course.
My partner bailed on me. That's a you problem, not
Ian problem. Okay, I'm just gonna tell you that right now.
Is it happens every year? Oh, I don't have anybody
to play with. If you don't have a friend, that's
(02:23):
that's not my fault. Like swipe left, find somebody. All right,
I'm not golf tender, but it's going to be a blast.
Huge shout out to Prime Electric and Lone River Ranchwater
Back on board as our two title sponsors. That help
really a ton of what we do. But no way
I could do this, and the Mayor IPA, and then
the whole reason we started this thing in twenty twelve
(02:46):
was my relationship with the guys at Georgetown Beer and
Georgetown Brewing and what they do down there with Manny Roger, Crystal,
Dave Peter, Who am I missing? Oh, Matt Conley who's
here as well? Heyboddy I'll get your mike turned on.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, how's that?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's good? Very good, very good. Who we started this
thing is a little tournament years ago, and we we said, hey,
like I need to have I'm not sure if people
are going to sign up for it, so let's get
a hook. And the hook was if they beat us
myself and my co host and they get a gift
card at Georgetown Beer and gonna go down there and
(03:21):
get a couple of growlers. Some years we gave a
lot of away, a lot of gift cards. When year
Bandy sat in the front row and says, you're going
to bankrupt me? What's wrong with you? Play better golf?
Other years we didn't. But but we're still doing that. Yeah, right,
We're still going to go away gift cards. Working people
keep showing up, people keep showing up. Money goes to
Helenski's Hope, Jordan Morris Foundation and Avery Huffman dippg Foundation,
(03:44):
really good causes. And the money that we raised does
a ton of good between the golf tournament and the beer.
So we're gonna give away gift cards again, right, Yes, yeah, yes,
we'll figure out who the mark is this year. Maybe
it's softy if he plays again. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know, you want that guy who's gonna hit a
good shot occasionally, but so that we're not giving them
all away.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, but you want to you want to have some
people beat them. There's one hundred and forty four golfers.
I never have you bring out one hundred and forty
four gift cards. Yeah, true, true. We've reached triple digits
once or twice thirty And really there was one year
that that my buddy pucket eye, we might have been overserved.
(04:24):
Possible that might have. Remember we got to I think
we were playing with you the uh we got to
number ten, which would have been our last hole. I'm sorry,
number eighteen. It was our last hole. We played the front,
we played the back nine, and I remember thinking, like, damn,
we're like four over scramble. I wonder how many gift
cards they brought and is there any beer left?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I think it was the next year when we lowered
the amount on the gift card from twenty five to twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think it was Maddy and Roger had of being just.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Anticipate giving away more of them.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We like supporting Egan and All and the great charities
are awesome, but God luckily I don't play anymore. I
just too much stuff to do, so it saves you
guys a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay, listen, listen, I will say real quick sorry, I
know it's your show, but none of us would ever
be able to do all of this to help you
without the name of Inverness. The work you do on
that thing and the money you have been able to
continually raise year over year for these wonderful charities, that
is all you, my friend. I are so thank you
for letting us be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I'd like to say my wife and all volunteers in
our neighborhood, Tammy, and all all of the ladies in
our neighborhood are so like I have this team of
people that they're incredible, Magio Family, Elliott family, Any family,
Jones family, Wing, and I'm missing some my kids. They
all help out. It's become a team effort and it's
(05:39):
become a labor of love and we love it. Lensky's
come out every year and Speak, Brandon comes out most years.
He didn't make it last year to a tournament, but
he's here this year. Speak. It feels like every year
we think maybe we'll see Jordan and then there's a
last second tournament call up or something. But I think
Leslie and his dad will be here. This year's mom
and dad. So it's a ton of fun and it's
for great causes and you guys are awesome. I want
(06:00):
to get a couple of things out one So that's
the golf tournament stuff that's coming up. Maybe it's July eleven.
It's just the biggest party of the year. It's just
an absolute blast. Guys at Chambers Bay Distillery your back excellent.
Then the Whiskey Wagon which is an absolute huge hit.
So thanks to those guys, True Links, Cutter and Box.
Some local companies Seattle Cider supports, the Snowcahoma Casino, simply
(06:21):
Seattle Mariner, Seahawks, Crack and all support us. It's I
mean if Raffle Prizes are through the roof party and
our buddies at Columbia Distributing, I love them. They are
the best. Yes they are. Mikey, Mikey, Chris and the
crew out there. Can't say enough good things about them.
And you wonder who Columbia Distributing is. If you want
to buy a beer, this weekend. Support those guys Georgetown, Yeah,
(06:42):
Miller Cores.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, Guinness, some good ones.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They got some other ones out there, and a few
Mexican beers. You heard that. There you go, guys are good. Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The other thing is the beer. The Mayor I p
A award winning, award winning. Yes, I don't win a
lot of awards. I'm not gonna win win tomorrow either.
At the I mean I'm gonna say, is it technically
your award? Well no, but they gave it to me
because when they win all the orders, we got enough
of these. Just giveing them the matter U the Mayor
I p A. Everyone asks all the time, when is
(07:14):
it coming out? And there's a date?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yes, there is August twenty second. August twenty second should
be a Friday. I don't have my calend on Friday.
It's Friday, that it is. Then it's August twenty second.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We will be doing a radio show there that Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That is my maybe second funnest day of the year.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Can I request that I get to be on site
for that one? That's listen. I'm I'm all in on
that with you. Proved by the beer, guys, I prove
it the beer guys, you got to go down to
Purple sheeting, or you got to talk to Jackson or
trade with Ashley or Chris or somebody. So you know,
maybe Chris will that day. Let's get Mitchell on here. Listen,
you do, we'd love to have you there. Yeah, the trade.
We'd love to have you there for the show. Someone
(07:49):
has though, I'll put in a good word and appreciate that,
appreciate you. We'll bribe Purple Sheet with some beer or something.
All right, I love to do that, but no. Yeah,
August twenty second, the mayor I p A is coming out.
And the cool thing about that, much like what you
guys do with Bob's yeah, is you brew it, you
sell it, and you don't take a sent.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We give away every every penny that someone's I should
say this, every penny that someone spends at the brewery, growler.
All that money goes to these charities that you've picked,
and we've already mentioned. If that beer gets out to
an account that you love and they're pointed on tap,
we then strong arm the account into putting some money
towards the charities, but not necessarily. If you buy an
(08:28):
eight dollars pint. There is all eight bucks going but
at the taproom.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And what we did last year, the last two years,
we went to and buy about in Maple Valley Head
the kind of the final keg. I know, my buddy
justin Juice is listening and Gary are listening right now
from not one, not two, but now three hauls Occidentals
opening up soon along with the Queen Anne and moss By,
and I know they really want to get a keg
out there, so we'll probably find a way to make
it work for those guys too. We can sell some beer,
they sell a few pints, they get through a little bit.
(08:57):
Wait till you see the new Have you seen the
new place yet?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All buddy, it's it's yeah, it's they do it right.
So I can only imagine.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
My guess is you'll be shipping some bodies off the
kegs there on a very regular basis at a very
rapid rate. So especially when the World Cup comes here. Yeah, yeah,
that's gonna be good for the beer business. Where it
will be good for beer business.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
We're hating a little dry run with the Club World
Cup coming up here in a couple of weeks. Yeah,
boat is offa will be in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
All it will.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Float for the Club World Cup and listen, if that's
a dry run for later, that's it. But but for me,
I'm a soccer fan first, Yes you are, and uh
man to have that here next time.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Why didn't I know this? Oh, he's a huge soccer guy.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Talk ye listen, I'll say this too because I was.
I was listening to you guys right kind of when
the show started coming in and talking about NBA and expansion.
For anyone out there who is not familiar with the
soccer format of relegation, get familiar. It is the most
wonderful way of playing sports. Yes, you don't cut the mustard.
You're the bottom feeders.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Demoted Colin row Rocky, you should be doing more right now,
the White Sox. It shows you the White Soize. Hey,
I'm going to ask you just quick business questions. I
think it's before we get to a break. I think
it's an interesting point here with with how it works
with the NBA talk of coming back. It we hear
all the time. Point counterpoint about you know what kind
of an impact sports, sporting events, big events have on
(10:21):
the local economy. You know, hotels and restaurants, and Sodo
or Queen Anne, so to speak, wherever they can have
things just for you guys, and whether it's you, whether
it's your friends at Rubens or wherever else. Right that
sell beer, like something like the World Cup coming here?
What do you think that'll do for sales? People come,
I want to try the local Seattle beers and things
(10:41):
like that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's massive. It's massive.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean I can I can quantify it in small
numbers if you if I told one anecdotal story. But
just the people get here and they say, well, what
do people here do? Give me the local beer, right,
or food, best restaurants, best everything. We know it because
we're tourists as well, we go do it. And I
mean when the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl the
(11:03):
second time, and it was still before we sold cans,
I could say, here with a guessing game, how many
growlers we sold that week? Four thousand, four thousand. Now
it's a massive number. And we had Matt. You saw
our system, you know, our system pay failed.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't know how to exchange it. I can make
how you did it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Back then, it was amazing the people that were there,
my coworkers who were filling those things and getting them
ready and getting them out the door. Like now, our
numbers they're still massive numbers, but we sell cans and
we do we drink pints in the tap room, so
they've come way down. That'll never happen again. But that week,
like a normal week for them, which was huge, twenty
five hundred, twenty eight hundred, and we went over four thousand.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Growlers the week the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So if you if you move that number around every
business we just talked about, and you want to say,
they're going to see a thirty percent jump, even if
it's for three weeks, it's huge.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I have the World Cup's gonna be massive, even if
the Sonics come back, and you add forty one plus
just say, for argument sake, fifty NBA games on top
of the NHL games and WNB and everything else. At
Climbate Pledge, how I mean, how many more kegs go
from you guys or the other breweries to Queen Anne
Beer Hall, to Dukes, to all those places around.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
There, right everywhere, And not to mention the people that
go into all of those tap rooms because they want
to try local beers and restaurants and then you get
places like you know, Rubens and all the others locally Fremont,
Silver City that are gonna pop.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, it's great, be good for it. It'd be good
for it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Tends to begin.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It is funny because your business is very you guys compete,
but you're also mostly friendly, aren't.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You very friendly? It's crazy very friendly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I mean, none of us are gonna lie if there's
an opportunity to get our beer on ultimately to the
bar's decision. But if they're gonna look at Meg, who
should I flip? Let's find somebody who isn't local and
isn't a friend of ours, you know, guys, yeah, yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There's a certain there's a certain beer company doesn't local anymore.
And I know my friends A Druids took them off
the top. You know, you get bought by a big
company called ab and you're not local anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And and and I'll say this too, and I don't
want to make it all about the beer, but we
we still have friends that work at those places. They
still make good beer. But ultimately that you know, the
person sitting here raided by a pint will look and go, well,
you know, They're not thinking about our friends who work
at a lesion and still have jobs and need to
get paid. They're thinking about anheyser Busch. So I'm really
caught between the two. As brewery folks, we're caught between
(13:18):
the two because you want to go support your friends.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Still Yeah by local, drink local this week and it's
gonna be hot. Tell us about the beers you brought
in today.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes, yeah, brought to Dalton Ipa, which has just come
out as a seasonal. It's taking the place of a
beer you might have heard of called Miausa, So it'll
be on the shelves on grocery store shelves now for
about the next five or six months.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's an Ipa.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's body esque, it's got a little bit of a
fruit note to it, but it's more dank. It's a
little bit more in your face, a little bit harder edge.
But it's only six and a half percent. It's also
going to be available at the brewery that whole time
and on draft. I also brought Tavern Tavern beer. I mean,
come on, like four point two percent. It is our
version of a domestic logger. You're thinking about those old
(14:01):
yellow beers that everybody loves to drink, and you want
to drink one that's made locally again. Now we're making
one and other folks are too, So we're just hoping
that ours kind of finds that niche and it's a
great beer.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Looks at tavern Beer. Asked for it in your local
establishment like we have, and it's going to be on tap.
It's awesome. Matt, thanks for coming by, Thanks for supporting
the golf tournament.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Absolutely, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Softy joins us next
Casting live from the R and R Foundation Specialist Broadcast Studio.
Now back to Ian Fornez, spowered by Seattle's Close the Sports.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Book snow Call Me Casino on.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ R FM. Al right,
welcome back. I'm not even to look at the text
line today, Anders, so it's unsponsored right now, so I'm
just gonna leave it at that. And you know, either
it's going to be Ya Pacers or what the hell's
wrong with the Mariners. It's a Friday. Sounds about right.
(00:32):
I want to be in a good mood, so let
me do that.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
My show is sponsored by snow call Me Casinosno Casino
dot Com also a big support of the show, and
everything we do would be George sown Brewing. You hear
me talk about those guys all the time. Uh, they
help them with the golf tournament. Speaking of the golf tournament,
July eleventh, Drewids Glenn, if you're listening, and actually Andrews
will post this separately this segment. All right, talk care
(00:57):
of the podcast page and that way I can direct
people to it because a lot of do like what's
going on with the golf tournament? When can we sign up,
what's happening and all of that. Here's what you need
to know. July eleventh, four point thirty Shotgun Start, two Man,
nine Hole Scramble. As we've always done, sign ups soon,
(01:17):
I'm gonna say a week to ten days, probably maybe less.
Listen to the show next week, probably middle late next week.
We'll have a definitive time and a place where you
can sign up, and where you can and when it's
gonna happen and all of that. We're just kind of
working through some logistical details. One of them simply is
this my good friend Luke Holson, who's the pro out there,
(01:39):
works his ass off. He actually went on a little
vacation with his baby daughter and his wife, so they
he's back and we're gonna get logistics. Yeah, so we're
gonna work on all that this weekend and get it's
I don't worry about it because it seems to always
sell pretty good. I think we don't have a hard
time selling it out. But I know a lot of
people are anxious about it. So sometime just listen to
the show. I'll update you guys probably on Whennesday next week.
(02:01):
Just Andrews hold me that, please, Well, do Wednesday next week,
well today, and we should have sign ups coming up
real soon. And make sure you have a partner. You
got to sign up as a two sum. I am
not the golf tender. I do not help you find
a partner when you show up at the golf course.
My partner bailed on me. That's a you problem, not
Ian problem. Okay, I'm just gonna tell you that right now.
Is it happens every year? Oh, I don't have anybody
to play with. If you don't have a friend, that's
(02:23):
that's not my fault. Like swipe left, find somebody. All right,
I'm not golf tender, but it's going to be a blast.
Huge shout out to Prime Electric and Lone River Ranchwater
Back on board as our two title sponsors. That help
really a ton of what we do. But no way
I could do this, and the Mayor IPA, and then
the whole reason we started this thing in twenty twelve
(02:46):
was my relationship with the guys at Georgetown Beer and
Georgetown Brewing and what they do down there with Manny Roger, Crystal,
Dave Peter, Who am I missing? Oh, Matt Conley who's
here as well? Heyboddy I'll get your mike turned on.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
All right, how's that?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
That's good? Very good, very good. Who we started this
thing is a little tournament years ago, and we we said, hey,
like I need to have I'm not sure if people
are going to sign up for it, so let's get
a hook. And the hook was if they beat us
myself and my co host and they get a gift
card at Georgetown Beer and gonna go down there and
(03:21):
get a couple of growlers. Some years we gave a
lot of away, a lot of gift cards. When year
Bandy sat in the front row and says, you're going
to bankrupt me? What's wrong with you? Play better golf?
Other years we didn't. But but we're still doing that. Yeah, right,
We're still going to go away gift cards. Working people
keep showing up, people keep showing up. Money goes to
Helenski's Hope, Jordan Morris Foundation and Avery Huffman dippg Foundation,
(03:44):
really good causes. And the money that we raised does
a ton of good between the golf tournament and the beer.
So we're gonna give away gift cards again, right, Yes, yeah, yes,
we'll figure out who the mark is this year. Maybe
it's softy if he plays again. Yeah, something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You know, you want that guy who's gonna hit a
good shot occasionally, but so that we're not giving them
all away.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, but you want to you want to have some
people beat them. There's one hundred and forty four golfers.
I never have you bring out one hundred and forty
four gift cards. Yeah, true, true. We've reached triple digits
once or twice thirty And really there was one year
that that my buddy pucket eye, we might have been overserved.
(04:24):
Possible that might have. Remember we got to I think
we were playing with you the uh we got to
number ten, which would have been our last hole. I'm sorry,
number eighteen. It was our last hole. We played the front,
we played the back nine, and I remember thinking, like, damn,
we're like four over scramble. I wonder how many gift
cards they brought and is there any beer left?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I think it was the next year when we lowered
the amount on the gift card from twenty five to twenty.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think it was Maddy and Roger had of being just.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Anticipate giving away more of them.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
We like supporting Egan and All and the great charities
are awesome, but God luckily I don't play anymore. I
just too much stuff to do, so it saves you
guys a little bit.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Okay, listen, listen, I will say real quick sorry, I
know it's your show, but none of us would ever
be able to do all of this to help you
without the name of Inverness. The work you do on
that thing and the money you have been able to
continually raise year over year for these wonderful charities, that
is all you, my friend. I are so thank you
for letting us be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I'd like to say my wife and all volunteers in
our neighborhood, Tammy, and all all of the ladies in
our neighborhood are so like I have this team of
people that they're incredible, Magio Family, Elliott family, Any family,
Jones family, Wing, and I'm missing some my kids. They
all help out. It's become a team effort and it's
(05:39):
become a labor of love and we love it. Lensky's
come out every year and Speak, Brandon comes out most years.
He didn't make it last year to a tournament, but
he's here this year. Speak. It feels like every year
we think maybe we'll see Jordan and then there's a
last second tournament call up or something. But I think
Leslie and his dad will be here. This year's mom
and dad. So it's a ton of fun and it's
for great causes and you guys are awesome. I want
(06:00):
to get a couple of things out one So that's
the golf tournament stuff that's coming up. Maybe it's July eleven.
It's just the biggest party of the year. It's just
an absolute blast. Guys at Chambers Bay Distillery your back excellent.
Then the Whiskey Wagon which is an absolute huge hit.
So thanks to those guys, True Links, Cutter and Box.
Some local companies Seattle Cider supports, the Snowcahoma Casino, simply
(06:21):
Seattle Mariner, Seahawks, Crack and all support us. It's I
mean if Raffle Prizes are through the roof party and
our buddies at Columbia Distributing, I love them. They are
the best. Yes they are. Mikey, Mikey, Chris and the
crew out there. Can't say enough good things about them.
And you wonder who Columbia Distributing is. If you want
to buy a beer, this weekend. Support those guys Georgetown, Yeah,
(06:42):
Miller Cores.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah, Guinness, some good ones.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
They got some other ones out there, and a few
Mexican beers. You heard that. There you go, guys are good. Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The other thing is the beer. The Mayor I p
A award winning, award winning. Yes, I don't win a
lot of awards. I'm not gonna win win tomorrow either.
At the I mean I'm gonna say, is it technically
your award? Well no, but they gave it to me
because when they win all the orders, we got enough
of these. Just giveing them the matter U the Mayor
I p A. Everyone asks all the time, when is
(07:14):
it coming out? And there's a date?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yes, there is August twenty second. August twenty second should
be a Friday. I don't have my calend on Friday.
It's Friday, that it is. Then it's August twenty second.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
We will be doing a radio show there that Friday.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
That is my maybe second funnest day of the year.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Can I request that I get to be on site
for that one? That's listen. I'm I'm all in on
that with you. Proved by the beer, guys, I prove
it the beer guys, you got to go down to
Purple sheeting, or you got to talk to Jackson or
trade with Ashley or Chris or somebody. So you know,
maybe Chris will that day. Let's get Mitchell on here. Listen,
you do, we'd love to have you there. Yeah, the trade.
We'd love to have you there for the show. Someone
(07:49):
has though, I'll put in a good word and appreciate that,
appreciate you. We'll bribe Purple Sheet with some beer or something.
All right, I love to do that, but no. Yeah,
August twenty second, the mayor I p A is coming out.
And the cool thing about that, much like what you
guys do with Bob's yeah, is you brew it, you
sell it, and you don't take a sent.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We give away every every penny that someone's I should
say this, every penny that someone spends at the brewery, growler.
All that money goes to these charities that you've picked,
and we've already mentioned. If that beer gets out to
an account that you love and they're pointed on tap,
we then strong arm the account into putting some money
towards the charities, but not necessarily. If you buy an
(08:28):
eight dollars pint. There is all eight bucks going but
at the taproom.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
And what we did last year, the last two years,
we went to and buy about in Maple Valley Head
the kind of the final keg. I know, my buddy
justin Juice is listening and Gary are listening right now
from not one, not two, but now three hauls Occidentals
opening up soon along with the Queen Anne and moss By,
and I know they really want to get a keg
out there, so we'll probably find a way to make
it work for those guys too. We can sell some beer,
they sell a few pints, they get through a little bit.
(08:57):
Wait till you see the new Have you seen the
new place yet?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All buddy, it's it's yeah, it's they do it right.
So I can only imagine.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
My guess is you'll be shipping some bodies off the
kegs there on a very regular basis at a very
rapid rate. So especially when the World Cup comes here. Yeah, yeah,
that's gonna be good for the beer business. Where it
will be good for beer business.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
We're hating a little dry run with the Club World
Cup coming up here in a couple of weeks. Yeah,
boat is offa will be in the stadium.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
All it will.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Float for the Club World Cup and listen, if that's
a dry run for later, that's it. But but for me,
I'm a soccer fan first, Yes you are, and uh
man to have that here next time.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Why didn't I know this? Oh, he's a huge soccer guy.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Talk ye listen, I'll say this too because I was.
I was listening to you guys right kind of when
the show started coming in and talking about NBA and expansion.
For anyone out there who is not familiar with the
soccer format of relegation, get familiar. It is the most
wonderful way of playing sports. Yes, you don't cut the mustard.
You're the bottom feeders.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Demoted Colin row Rocky, you should be doing more right now,
the White Sox. It shows you the White Soize. Hey,
I'm going to ask you just quick business questions. I
think it's before we get to a break. I think
it's an interesting point here with with how it works
with the NBA talk of coming back. It we hear
all the time. Point counterpoint about you know what kind
of an impact sports, sporting events, big events have on
(10:21):
the local economy. You know, hotels and restaurants, and Sodo
or Queen Anne, so to speak, wherever they can have
things just for you guys, and whether it's you, whether
it's your friends at Rubens or wherever else. Right that
sell beer, like something like the World Cup coming here?
What do you think that'll do for sales? People come,
I want to try the local Seattle beers and things
(10:41):
like that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It's massive. It's massive.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I mean I can I can quantify it in small
numbers if you if I told one anecdotal story. But
just the people get here and they say, well, what
do people here do? Give me the local beer, right,
or food, best restaurants, best everything. We know it because
we're tourists as well, we go do it. And I
mean when the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl the
(11:03):
second time, and it was still before we sold cans,
I could say, here with a guessing game, how many
growlers we sold that week? Four thousand, four thousand. Now
it's a massive number. And we had Matt. You saw
our system, you know, our system pay failed.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't know how to exchange it. I can make
how you did it.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Back then, it was amazing the people that were there,
my coworkers who were filling those things and getting them
ready and getting them out the door. Like now, our
numbers they're still massive numbers, but we sell cans and
we do we drink pints in the tap room, so
they've come way down. That'll never happen again. But that week,
like a normal week for them, which was huge, twenty
five hundred, twenty eight hundred, and we went over four thousand.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Growlers the week the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
So if you if you move that number around every
business we just talked about, and you want to say,
they're going to see a thirty percent jump, even if
it's for three weeks, it's huge.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I have the World Cup's gonna be massive, even if
the Sonics come back, and you add forty one plus
just say, for argument sake, fifty NBA games on top
of the NHL games and WNB and everything else. At
Climbate Pledge, how I mean, how many more kegs go
from you guys or the other breweries to Queen Anne
Beer Hall, to Dukes, to all those places around.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
There, right everywhere, And not to mention the people that
go into all of those tap rooms because they want
to try local beers and restaurants and then you get
places like you know, Rubens and all the others locally Fremont,
Silver City that are gonna pop.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah, it's great, be good for it. It'd be good
for it.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Tends to begin.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
It is funny because your business is very you guys compete,
but you're also mostly friendly, aren't.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
You very friendly? It's crazy very friendly. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
I mean, none of us are gonna lie if there's
an opportunity to get our beer on ultimately to the
bar's decision. But if they're gonna look at Meg, who
should I flip? Let's find somebody who isn't local and
isn't a friend of ours, you know, guys, yeah, yeah, yeah, So.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
There's a certain there's a certain beer company doesn't local anymore.
And I know my friends A Druids took them off
the top. You know, you get bought by a big
company called ab and you're not local anymore.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And and and I'll say this too, and I don't
want to make it all about the beer, but we
we still have friends that work at those places. They
still make good beer. But ultimately that you know, the
person sitting here raided by a pint will look and go, well,
you know, They're not thinking about our friends who work
at a lesion and still have jobs and need to
get paid. They're thinking about anheyser Busch. So I'm really
caught between the two. As brewery folks, we're caught between
(13:18):
the two because you want to go support your friends.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Still Yeah by local, drink local this week and it's
gonna be hot. Tell us about the beers you brought
in today.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Yes, yeah, brought to Dalton Ipa, which has just come
out as a seasonal. It's taking the place of a
beer you might have heard of called Miausa, So it'll
be on the shelves on grocery store shelves now for
about the next five or six months.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
It's an Ipa.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
It's body esque, it's got a little bit of a
fruit note to it, but it's more dank. It's a
little bit more in your face, a little bit harder edge.
But it's only six and a half percent. It's also
going to be available at the brewery that whole time
and on draft. I also brought Tavern Tavern beer. I mean,
come on, like four point two percent. It is our
version of a domestic logger. You're thinking about those old
(14:01):
yellow beers that everybody loves to drink, and you want
to drink one that's made locally again. Now we're making
one and other folks are too, So we're just hoping
that ours kind of finds that niche and it's a
great beer.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Looks at tavern Beer. Asked for it in your local
establishment like we have, and it's going to be on tap.
It's awesome. Matt, thanks for coming by, Thanks for supporting
the golf tournament.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Absolutely, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
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