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Ever cracked open a beer and wondered about its storied past or how it might just benefit your health? Strap in with your favorite pint as Sean Field and I, Andy Beckstrom, serve up a frothy blend of history, culture, and fun facts you never knew you needed. From the Bavarian roots of Abita Brewery's Andygator Doppelbock to the unexpected health perks of sipping a brew post-run, we're here to expand your horizons beyond that trusty bar stool.

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
and welcome in everybody.
Welcome back here to the twoguys beer podcast and the two
guys beer studio.
I'm glad you could join us forthe broadcast today, rocking
anding and rolling.
Andy Beckstrom, sean Field onceagain your host for the Two
Guys and Beer podcast, where wetalk about beer and talk about
whatever else, Pretty muchwhatever else we feel like

(00:34):
talking about for the day.
Anything that's out there.
So if you have a topic you'dlike us to talk about, throw
that out there too.
Comment on our different pagesand say what are your thoughts
about this.
And say what are your thoughtsabout this, sean.
What are your thoughts about?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
that thoughts about everything I like it that is a
little this little that exactlysee.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's that deep type of connection that we can get
for you just like that.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Have you ever heard of a thought like?
That you know how it is I I wasthinking what you were thinking
, you were picking up what I wasputting down.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
You know I used to say that.
I used to say that all the timehe's like you picking up what
I'm putting down, he's like grabit and put it down like just I
remember so, uh, today, what are?
on today's episode we're goingto go a little.
I mean, the name is going tokind of follow with us or
whatever, but the beer itself,the flavor, is going to go a

(01:33):
little bit off the rails forwhat we usually do.
And we did this a couple ofweeks ago or a couple of
episodes ago, I should say Idon't remember when we recorded
it, but it was a couple ofepisodes ago with the Dragon's
Milk, where we went kind of downthe other path of a different
type of.
It wasn't an ale, it wasn't anIPA, it wasn't the same kind of
stuff that we usually do.
We've also been heckled bypotential people within our own

(01:54):
lives that all you do is justthe one kind of beer.
I'm like, no, we're talkingabout the breweries here, but
now we're getting off the beatenpath, so get off my back, we're
trying some different stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
We're getting a variety going on here.
We're getting beer culturedwith other styles of beer.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Exactly so we're trying some different stuff.
So what we have today is AbitaBrewery A-B-I-T-A Abita Brewery.
It is out of Covington,louisiana.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Louisiana.
I like Louisiana.
I've been down there a coupleof times.
I haven't been to Covington,but I've been to New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
It's a fun place Just north of New Orleans, as they
say.
I probably didn't say it right,so if you're from there, I
apologize, I should not haveeven tried there, but it is.
If you take the causeway acrossthe giant lake there from New
Orleans, going north thereInitially, when you get back to
land on the north side Lewisburg, chintuba, mandeville, and then

(02:52):
just north of there, if youkeep following that 190, you end
up in Covington.
Perfect, that seems like a greatplace to stop, so Covington is
kind of right there on the westside of 190.
If you were to go to the eastside of 190, though, then you
would actually end up in AbitaSprings, and we'll come back to
that here in just a little bit.
Perfect, so that'll be moreinformation about that coming up

(03:13):
in a little bit.
So Abita Brewery is what we'retalking about today, again out
of Covington, louisiana, and thebeer that we have today was
suggested to us.
It is the Andy Gator.
There we go, so that's where weend up getting in there.
So that's what has brought usto this, or whatever.
It is 8% alcohol by volume, 12ounces in a bottle.

(03:36):
It is a Helles Doppelbach.
There we go, and we'll talk alittle bit in a few minutes here
about what kind of beers aDoppelbach, actually.
Just go ahead and talk aboutthat right now.
So, just so that you know, fireit up.
A Doppelbach is a part of theBach tree, if you will, of
German type of beers, sebastian.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Bach, that's what I first think.
It has nothing to do with beer,but that's true, whatever.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Yeah, and that's B-A-C-H.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
This one is spelled like the town Bach Bach.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Which is right over there.
Careful it is over there.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I have been there to that city, careful.
It is a German beer, usually adark lager, spelled the same
Okay, completely different deal.
It was first brewed in the 14thcentury in a town of Einbeck in
Lower Saxony, later adopted byBavaria and Munich brewers in

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the 17th century and, due totheir Bavarian accent, citizens
of Munich pronounced Einbeck asEinbach.
All right, or a billy goat,which was less, less exciting,
but that's how it was pronouncedand thus it became a bock, and
often not on this one, but oftena goat appears on bottle labels
because of the name a billygoat from the einbach okay it's

(04:58):
a little bit of history, lestrin, that we're going down the road
here.
This one does not have a goat onit, this has a gator.
Presumably his name is andy outthere he's Such a great name.
But it is typically associatedwith special events, religious
festivals, christmas, easter,things like that.
A long history of being brewedand consumed by Bavarian monks

(05:18):
as a source of nutrition duringtimes of fasting.
Okay, we'll even go down thenutrition route a little bit
later on.
There that's called the teasand the biz.
There, ladies and gentlemen,we're going to talk about that a
little bit later.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
I've read somewhere that monks when they fasted they
drank beer for that and ithelps with the digestive system
and things like that and theyactually lose a lot of weight
and become fit and all sorts ofstuff.
I don't have the exact detailsin my head, but I've read
briefly about how they wouldfast and what they would drink,
of course would be beer.
So it's kind of interesting.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
So you're saying that I'm not drinking enough of it?

Speaker 2 (05:53):
You probably should drink a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay, that sounds right.
So the different sub-styles ofa Bach is a Maibach, which is a
paler, a hoppier one.
The Eisbach, which is astronger version that is made
partially by freezing the beerand then removing the ice that
forms, so you're actually takingwater out of the beer.
That was there.
Weizenbach, which is awheatbach, and then what we have

(06:17):
today, the Doppelbach, which isa doublebach, a stronger and
maltier version.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
All right.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
So that's kind of what we're going with today.
So a little bit I'm not goingtoo terribly.
I could go.
There's a whole paragraph, andby paragraph I mean like nine
paragraphs of the history andall sorts of different stuff or
whatever with that.
But we'll hold off on that fornow.
So that's kind of a roughhistory there of just the Bach
and kind of what's going on withthat.

(06:44):
So from there we will just gointo the beer.
Now.
What do you think?
Perfect.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
As we get cracking open into this Andy Gator beer,
I just want to give a shout outto our tech guy.
Our tech guy is the reason wehave Andy Gator.
All our videos that you'rewatching on YouTube, all our
reels it's the tech guy.
He's making them all.
We appreciate all his hard work.
All our reels it's the tech guy, he's making them all.
We appreciate all his hard work.
So this is directly from techguy.
Here we go.
We MVP chant, I'll let him.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Add that in there, mvp.
So now the best part of thepodcast.
Every single time let's gothere, we are.
Pop the top on another episode.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Andy Gator, here we go.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
It looks clear, but it tastes heavy.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
It's kind of sweet.
I think it kind of has a sweettaste to it, it is.
I don't know if it tastes likeyou, though, andy, not that I've
ever tried what you taste likeCareful.
It is definitely.
It has a sweet flavor to it.
What does the bottle say?
Does the bottle say anythingspecial?
It doesn't.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
It says a little bit here on the back Andy Gator is a
fearsome beast, so naturally,like me, you're so beastly.
Andy, don't let his toothy grin.
Slightly sweet flavor so younailed it there.
And subtle fruit aroma.
I'll fool you.
This cold-blooded creature is ahellish doppelbach that can

(08:13):
sneak up on you.
This unique, high-gravity brewis made with pilsner malt,
german lager yeast and Germanpearl hops.
Sip, don't gulp and taste thewild of Abita Andigator.
All right so that's kind of thewild of Abita Andigator, all
right, so that's kind of thebackground of that one.
So that's kind of what we'redoing here we're talking about.
Abita Brewery is going to bethe brewery that we're talking

(08:35):
about today.
It is in Covington but, as wewill learn, abita Springs plays
a strong role.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Perfect.
What's your initial impressionof the beer?
I think it's decent.
I guess I can't describe it toowell.
It does taste a little sweet atthe beginning.
The aftertaste is a littledifferent.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
It's a little, it almost seems a little heavy in a
way, you know, but it does havethat sweetness to it.
So I do like the taste.
I don't know.
On the old lawnmower scale thatwe've talked about before I I
think it'd probably be the one,I don't know that I would even
necessarily do it, while maybeafter mowing the lawn, you know,
with a steak like having that.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
I can see that if you eat something good with this to
bring out more of the flavorsand stuff.
Yeah, this is definitely a beeryou want to drink for the, the
flavor and the taste and get allof it in for sure.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Yes, yeah, and as it says, I mean sip, don't gulp.
So that's definitely not apounding kind of beer which is
good.
You know what I mean.
You got to have that type ofvariety within your life.
So, yeah, it's pretty solid, it, I mean it's good, it tastes
good.
You know, I was a little unsure, I won't lie.
I won't lie.
I won't lie.
Tech guy, I was the Andy Gator,I was totally in, 100% in.

(09:48):
But you never really know whatyou're going to get.
You just you pick a name basedon the name and you don't know
what the style is.
So it could have been anynumber of things or whatever.
But this is pretty good.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
So, since your name is on it, would you brew
something that tastes like this?
Would this be something thatyou would concoct, you think,
with your name on it?
Like yeah, it tastes like me?

Speaker 1 (10:12):
See, I feel like I don't know that I necessarily
would, because I don't have alot of German background and
that's not the German Bock typeof the Bavarian type of malty
beers A little bit, but not aton.
There's a couple of breweriesnearby that have a lot of those
and there's, you know, maybe oneor two that I kind of like, but
it's not my favorite type offlavor.
Sure, I guess to a certainextent I'm not saying it's bad.

(10:34):
I don't want to ever say thatit's bad because that's, I don't
know.
That's one of the things thatalways kind of drives me.
You know, people are like theygo to a brewery and they try one
and they're like oh, thisbrewery is garbage, because
whatever.
And I'm like okay, maybe youjust don't like a Maibach.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
How about you try a lager?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
So it's hard to say, I don't ever want to say that
necessarily, but just that typeof.
A lot of those Bavarian Germantype of flavors aren't
necessarily and maybe I justhaven't developed into that,
Maybe that's what it is.
But you know what?
I'm willing to throw myself onthe altar of brewing and Two
Guys and Beer podcastness and Iwill volunteer, if you would

(11:15):
like to join me, to go toGermany later this year to try
to really soak in the essence ofGerman-style beers right from
the source.
What do you think?
Well, I am totally on boardwith that in the essence of
German style beers right fromthe source.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
What do you think?
Well, I am totally on boardwith that.
We talked about that during ourOktoberfest episodes and for all
you viewers out there andlisteners out there, that's
actually reality.
We're actually going to Germanyat the end of September,
beginning of October.
We will be attendingOktoberfest.
We'll have some live videothere.
We probably won't record a showthere, but I've got some things

(11:47):
Andy and I will set up.
We'll maybe ask some Germans,or anybody that shows up,
questions just like grump to hey, you want to do an interview?
What do you think of this?
What do you think of that?
Some live videos, some livephotos.
It'll be a good time over there.
So definitely, that is Bavariaarea, isn't it Munich?
Is that's the area.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah, it should be.
It should be a blast, no matterwhat we do.
But yeah, we're going to go tothe actual Munich, the OG
Oktoberfest that we talked about.
We will be there on day onenecessarily.
But we've also been told and Ithink that we actually talked
about it on that podcast thatyou don't want to go on that day
.
Right hold, and I think that weactually talked about it on that
podcast that you don't want togo on that day because a you

(12:26):
have to wait until the mayordecides he's good and ready to
show up to open the first keg,because otherwise you get
thousands and thousands and whenI mean thousands, like 150,000
people standing there waitingfor a beer.
Well, even if they open it up,you're still going to be two
hours before you get a beer.
Hope they don't run out of co2for the kegs there.
But even with something likethat, like that first day, first

(12:47):
couple of days, just absolutelybananas.
So let me get some other stuffgoing on or whatever, and so
like, yeah, we're gonna go acouple days into it, that way we
can still experience it, butwe're not hitting like the first
saturday of the state.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
fair type of no opening ceremony here for
October 5th, so we'll get therelater and check it out and try a
whole bunch of beer thereGerman beer and big Steins and
Andy might wear a leader hosing.
If we get enough people tochime in how many votes can we
get out there from all theviewers and listeners that wants
to see Andy and some leaderhosing?

Speaker 1 (13:23):
I'm not going to do it until I get some people to
comment on the podcast, on thesocial media YouTube, Facebook,
whatever it is that you'rechecking it out on Give us some
feedback.
I'm willing to do it, but onlyif the people want me to the
people, the people, becausethat's what we're here for.
That's what we're here for,really so where are we at here

(13:45):
for?
Really so?
Where were we at here?
Germany Back to Andy GatorDoppelbach.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
Doppelbach.
That's where we got to Germanyis the Doppelbach beer.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
So in 1986, the Abita Brewing Company was nestled in
the Piney Woods, 30 miles northof Nowlands or New Orleans.
For those of us that don'tthink they're cool.
First year they produced, uh,1500 barrels of beer, that's a
pretty good amount for a firstyear absolutely, they created

(14:14):
that in their first year.
When they first started.
It was actually not even incovington that's where they're
at now but it was in abitasprings, so that's kind of where
the name abita comes from is.
Uh, that's where they wereabita springs and it was in
Abita Springs.
So that's kind of where thename Abita comes from is.
That's where they were AbitaSprings and it's now called the
Abita Brew Pub, so it was there.
It is now moved across toCovington, louisiana, but it was
founded by Jim Patton and RushCumming in 1986.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
So that's kind of where they started.
It's been around for a littlewhile, for Would you consider it
a microbrewery Maybe at onetime maybe it's a little bigger
now but for, like a craftbrewery, to show up in the 80s?
It was kind of an unheard oftype thing, you know.
There were very few of themaround at the time.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah, and it's always remarkable to me to see like
some of the especially breweriesthat have been around for a
long time you know what I meanto see like how they've been
able to withstand differentlevels of difference, even even
recently, you know, with theadvent of more like seltzers,
like everything is a seltzer nowbecause everybody's trying to
drink light.

(15:18):
You know things like that.
That's all I have to say.
So there's a lot of that goingon, right?
So you've seen a lot ofbreweries start to kind of like
fade back and, frankly, some ofthem close and more metro
saturated, right?
I think that that's more.
Personally, this is me going onmy little soapbox of economics.
I think that's more of asaturation thing rather than

(15:41):
really poor business planning.
I mean, I guess that is part ofbusiness planning is do I
really want to put a breweryhere where there's 14 of them
within throwing distance of arock?
You know what I mean, right?
So I think it's more of thesaturation is just, especially
when people are kind ofgravitating away from it to a
certain extent, not leaving it.
I don't think that the craftbeer industry is going down, but

(16:02):
it's not expanding as much aswhat it was.
I guess that's the way thatI'll put it.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Well, I think that's because it's kind of it's almost
oversaturated, exactly, andthere's so many breweries out
there, so many craft brewers outthere, which is great, lots of
good stuff, but it's almost likethere's too much of it
everywhere.
It's not kind of like a specialthing or a special time where
you're going oh, let's go to thebrewery tonight, you know,
because they're just kind ofeverywhere and kind of out there
.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
You can't make it to all of them, right?
You just can't.
You know, as much as you try,that's terrible, you know
absolutely.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
What is this world coming to where we can't make it
to all breweries?
It's just, it's a depressingand of itself.
We need to figure that we needto band together and email these
politicians about craft beerand breweries.

(16:52):
What are they doing?

Speaker 1 (16:53):
about it.
I would like to suggest athree-day work week, paid
full-time, and then a stipendfor the industry so we can go to
the brewery.
That's what I would like toPerfect.
If you'd like to sign that, putthat in the comments as well,
right below the Lederhosencomment.
Go ahead and sign that petition.
We'll get that one going andsee if we can't get some

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legislation built here.
So 1986 is when it started andthey said customers loved our
beer.
Everybody always says that.
But 1986, they're still herenow.
So clearly people did like it.
By 1994, they had outgrowntheir original site and moved up
the road to a larger facilityto be able to keep up with

(17:35):
demand, which is now a 100-seatbrew pub.
They brew now currently morethan 125,000 barrels of beer and
and 13 500 barrels of soda intheir facility.
How many, how much soda?
13 500 barrels, wow.
So that's a lot of soda, sodypop soda.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Yeah, what strikes me ?
You've mentioned soda on ourshow a handful of times
throughout the podcast and Idon't get it.
It's pop.
You say soda, I say pop.
We're in Minnesota, it's pop.
I'm only reading it.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
I'm only reading what's on there.
Whatever, I'm a pop guy too,trust me, that's me, but I'm
just reading what's on there.
Part of this is this is fromLouisiana, so I feel like it's
geographically to a certainextent.
Like legitimately, I thinkcertain places in the South also
, where it's like it's not asoda or a pop, it's a Coke.
What kind of Coke do you want?
I don't know.

(18:30):
I think it's like mostly justAlabama or something In.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Mexico it's Coke.
When I was in Mexico,everything's a Coke.
If you want a Coke, they mightbring you a Mountain Dew.
So you never, you never know.
So I know that, of like Mexico,everything is a Coke there.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
I love a Coke.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Of course Minnesota.
Here everything's pop.
I think we have to be the onlystate in the country that
specifically calls it pop.
But if you say pop in otherstates, they know what you're
talking about.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
But every time you say soda or sody pop.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
You know what, the first thing that comes to my
mind and I don't know how manypeople are going to know this.
You want to throw a bottle at me?
Because, no, I don't ever wantto throw a bottle at you, andy.
You've never brought me to thatpoint.
Well, that's good to know.
This is why we have a podcast.
This is great, and why we go onto germany together.
Here we go, yeah.
So you're all gonna think I'mcrazy.
I think I'm crazy, but everytime I hear soda or sody pop,

(19:24):
the first thing that comes in mymind is Britney Spears, and
you're not going to have anyidea why, but I actually own her
first album, and on her firstalbum there's a song called Soda
Pop.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Soda Pop.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
So every time you say Soda or Sody Pop, it's the
first thing that pops into mymind is britney spears in that
song well, there are worsethings to have popping in mind,
I guess I don't know, I don'tknow, like nothing against
britney spears or her music oranything like.
I'm a metal head that's what Iprefer is hard rock and metal,
but every time you say pop orsody pop, it's the first thing

(20:02):
that pops into my head.
Is that dang songBoop-de-dop-de-dop.
Like it's just going on, allright, soda Pop.
Anyway let's go back to Andy'sGator and what you got going on.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
I'll have to try to keep that in mind now.
If nothing else I'll have tosay it and then wait for the
dancing.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I wish we could play the clip of that song, but I'm
sure there's copyright thingsand we would get sued and see
right just letters and stuff.
But look it up soda pop,britney spears maybe one more
time album.
Why do I know all that?
That is the problem is, why doI know that much about britney
spears?
Well, you know you do have thealbum oh, I do, and I have a
t-shirt.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Was that your first album that you had bought?
Was it a cd?
I'm assuming a CD.
It was a CD.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Or was it a cassette tape?
It was a CD.
The very first album that Ipurchased was Space Jam
soundtrack.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh, that's a good one , though I've heard, I think it.
I feel like it won some awardsor something, but I've heard
that it's really good.
But it's a great movie theoriginal one, none of this.
None of this new LeBron Jamesstuff.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Nah, I haven't even.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
That's not worth the digital copy.
That is happening there.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
So the first album that I owned, Poison it was a
cassette tape, Poison look whatthe cat dragged in there you go.
What do you got?
What's your first?
I know we're getting off track.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Andy's Gator beer, great it happens, it's Tangent
Tuesday on a Monday.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
That's what a podcast is all about.
Just having a good timedrinking beer, drinking Andy's
Gator.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
It's possible that doesn't.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's possible that I evensaid at the beginning that we
talk about whatever.
So you know, it's just all overthe place.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
Hey, this is two guys at a bar drinking a beer,
talking about whatever comes toour mind.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
There we go.
Let's see here.
So I know that I had some likecassette tapes prior to this.
I know that I had like a SawyerBrown cassette tape, but I
think that it was like my momhad already had that.
My dad had a whole pile ofrecords that he had and I didn't
really recognize any of them.
I know he had a Beach Boys8-track, some of those kind of
bits.
That's Kurt for everybody.

(22:05):
Kurt.
Cheers to Kurt, Cheers to Kurt.
He's one of the biggestsupporters as well.
He sure is Likes, shares,subscribes.
I'm not sure if he ever listensto it?

Speaker 2 (22:14):
He probably doesn't.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
He shares it more than anybody else.
It's probably too busy forlistening.
Let's hear what else did I have?
I probably had a new kids onthe block cassette tape when I
was younger, cause I mean, thatwas I was.
I was that age, you know, and Iwas probably eight, nine years
old when that whole thing blewup at that time or whatever, and
you know it was a big thing.
But the first and that, but thefirst, that one I probably got

(22:36):
as a gift, or you know something, you know like, parents gave me
some money to.
You know, like, stop talkingand just buy the thing, the
right stuff.
Oh, absolutely, there we go.
It's a very musical episode.
Today is what's happening, butwhat was, let's see here.
The first album that I actuallypurchased.

(22:59):
I had my own money may have justbeen, it wasn't really an
allowance.
Like, I grew up, worked on afarm so I like cleaned the house
, had to do chores, doing allthe different stuff, whatever.
I definitely overpaid 100%, butit was still worth it.
This would have been in theearly to mid 90s, so we're
talking like 93, 94.
I bought a fairly scratched upversion of queen's greatest hits

(23:25):
, the purple album.
That had like two discs andlike 30 songs and stuff like
that.
Thus started my love for fatbottom girls and bicycle bicycle
oh, just such great ones, orwhatever.
But I paid, I think, 25 to abuddy that had it, like he had
already bought it, and he's likeI'll sell it to you.
But I don't think he wanted toget rid of it, so he probably

(23:47):
just took that money, went andbought it, another one and lunch
because it was a mid-90s,exactly you got screwed so 100
absolutely.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
queen is an amazing band and that's actually the
second album I ever purchasedwas Queen Greatest Hits.
There you go, you got to haveit.
Why does anybody remember that?
I probably couldn't tell you mythird or fourth, but for
whatever reason, I remember thefirst two.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Yeah, that first really set that stage and I
think mine, I think I rememberjust because obviously, queen, I
have life forever or whateverbut I got screwed on the deal.
I think that's why I rememberit.
Even at the moment I was like Iam paying way too much for this
or whatever.
But I mean, of course, in themid nineties this was before a
lot of internet stuff I didn'tyou know, I think I bought a
computer maybe two, three yearsafter that, but you weren't

(24:36):
downloading things on LimeWireor anything like that.
You didn't really know what washappening and where I live,
like we were probably, which nowwhich is funny because like now
I drive to work for my regularjob 35 minutes one way, it's not
a problem, that's just what Ido.
But at that time to go and getthis album, to be able to buy it
in a store, would have been a30 ish, 25 to 30 minute drive to

(25:01):
go to media play or best buy,likely media play, because that
was the thing that was theticket at the time.
And so at that time we didn'tdo there wasn't a lot of like
driving around.
It wasn't a lot like peopledidn't do like massive road
trips, they didn't work hoursaway.
They wasn't.
Maybe maybe they did, I guess.
I grew up on a farm, so drivingto town, which was two and a

(25:24):
half miles away, was a big trip,and so we just never did that.
So I think that was the otherpart of it, too, is I was like
when am I going to get all theway to St Cloud?
It's so far away and now.
I drive to saint cloud like Idon't know half of my days, you
know, just because it's there,right, I'm gonna go get chipotle
for lunch, like no big deal.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
So okay, now back to andy gay, try back, try to.
You know like let's rein it inhere.
We need to have like somebodyout here with, uh, you know,
like sticks kind of like youknow, absolutely whatever, give
us a rain back in airport runway, like waving the sticks, like
no, back over this way exactlyso.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
The company brews its beer with water from artesian
wells what the hell is that?

Speaker 2 (26:13):
because water is water to me, so I I think that
you explain.
I know that there's different.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
There is different kind of waters because, like we
have like super hard, rustywater here, different places
have like naturally soft water.
Or if you've ever had likespring water out of like an like
a full-on spring, there used tobe one up by grand rapids some
amazing water pretty tasty.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
I've had some over in wisconsin and so I think that
likely.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I'm guessing that if they outgrew their original tap
room, they were probably makinga decent amount of money and so
it wasn't a matter of like whatexisting building should we buy
or what you know, whatinfrastructure should we get to
be able to just move into,whereas they probably went
around and tried to find areasthat had specific kind of waters

(26:59):
.
You see that, actually with thesweatshirt I'm wearing right
now, certainly when they builttheir new tap room, which is
kind of by the Dinkytown area,almost it's a little bit off
like U of M campus, theyactually went around a bunch of
different.
Why they ended up where they'reat right now is it was the same
water table.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
So that way their beer would taste the same.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Because really, the water, it makes a massive
difference.
And you, I, I know some, somebreweries they will uh, whatever
water they take, they willstrip it completely down to
essentially like distilled waterand then add flavoring back in
or minerals or whatever back into actually develop that flavor
of the water, to be able to getthe beer to taste away.
True, so that's part of thething too, how you figure out
that it's artesian wells thatare there.
That I have no idea.

(27:46):
I don't know if they justrandomly go around town and like
, can I use your bathroom andtake a Dixie cup and try to sip
the water?

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Sure, I don't know how that process goes, but we've
got some artesian wells overthere in New Orleans brewing
some good beer.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Now we are drinking the Andy Gator Doppelbach, as we
may have mentioned a couple oftimes here, but in August of
2005, stuff Magazine.
You know Stuff Magazine, highlyacclaimed by somebody.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Kind of a nice title Stuff.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
It's like his podcast Stuff I feel like I've seen it
or read it at one point in time,but I don't really know where.
So 2005, Stuff Magazine calledAbita's Turbo Dog Ale.
They got some fun names TurboDog, Turbo Dog Ale was the best
beer made in America, accordingto Stuff Stuff, which I get it.

(28:43):
I heard of Stuff but I'm alwayskind of like when they do
national rankings and you'veprobably seen them pop up on the
Facebook algorithm, how itcreeps into your life or just on
different things or whateveryou know like the top beers in
America.
How do you quantify what is thebest tasting beer?

(29:04):
A, it's very subjective as faras like, what you personally
like, but then on the other side, like are you traveling across
the country and trying all ofthem?
And if you are, how do you ratethem?
And if you are, how can I beyour assistant?

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, Right, employ us, just ask you for a friend.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
So it's always weird when I see things like that,
because it's like you'reobviously taking different
ratings from different peopleall over the place, right, and
just trying to piece it together.
Like, of course, in 2005, thereprobably wasn't a million
breweries like there is now,like it's not quite the same
deal, but at the same timeprobably a lot of them, and even

(29:46):
if there's only a handful ofthem, there's one in this state
and one in that state, and onein that state and one in some
other states.
You know what I mean.
Like, not like you're justgoing to go to like the
Minneapolis area and go to 47 ofthem.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
But either way, turbo Dog Ale named the best one in
2005.
Abita Bock was listed among thetop 10 spring beers by Fox News
in 2012.
So Abita Helles Doppelbach Idon't know it's the same one,
but it could be Highly rated byFox News.
Perfect.

(30:17):
So there we go.
Fox.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
News, andy Gator News Perfect.
So there we go.
Fox News, andy Gator Mainstreammedia.
Here we go.
Yay Yeehaw, I'll take a drinkto that, I guess.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Let's see here.
Abita, in 2011, brewed over130,000 barrels of beer and
5,000 barrels of root beer.
Root beer, I like me some rootbeer.
I had some cream soda.
The other day I went to what isthe sub place Jersey Mike's oh,

(30:47):
okay, Fantastic place.
Sure, they have like their own,like agave cream soda.
I don't know what makes itagave cream soda If they
actually put like agave into itor that's the sweetener or
whatever, but they make theirown root beer.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
They make their own like a couple of different soda
pops.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's all I think but I had the uh, the cream soda
with that one and, oh, it'sjust fantastic might have to do
karaoke on the episode of therewears Soda Pop sung by me.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
You really don't want to hear me sing, though my
voice is low, monotone.
Me singing Britney Spears justisn't good.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
That's what we're going to put in the comments
right below the episode.
Once this goes live, we'regoing to have the voting.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Do you want to see Sean sing Britney Spears?
What do you want to see thevoting?
Do you want to see Sean?

Speaker 1 (31:39):
sing Britney Spears.
What do you want to see themost?
Do you want to see Sean doing acover of Britney Spears or me
in a lederhosen, or maybe both?
Yeah, exactly Both, or neither.
Those are your four options.
A, b, c, d.
Perfect, that's what it's goingto be.
So, yeah, make sure to checkthat out in the comments.
Yeah, make sure to check thatout in the comments.
Vote for whatever let's seehere.

(32:00):
August of 2013,.
Because they are doing so muchbusiness, they expanded once
again.
They added another 200-barrelbrewing system to their already
existing 100-barrel system,increasing the capacity from 150
bottles per minute to 400bottles per minute.
Wow, that is quite the upgrade.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah, that's insane.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
They have a 17-year-round flagship brews.
The first one, Andy Gator.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Oh really, andy Gator perfect.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Andy Gator, straw Gator, abita, amber, alpha Gator
, golden.
Andy Gator, Straw Gator, abita,amber, alpha Gator, golden
Light, turbo Dog, purple Haze,giacomo IPA and Restoration Pale
Ale I feel like that wasn't 17,but that's what they had listed
here and then five seasonalbeers, three harvest beers, four
big beers and then some otherdraft-only ones that they have

(32:57):
just on premise.
So yeah, that's kind of quitethe expansion that they've been
able to get over the course ofthe handful of years.
And again, just you know,starting in Abita Springs and
then moving over to Covington,they are privately owned and
operated by local shareholderswho, many, who have been there
since day one.

(33:17):
So cool Kind of a locally ownedand a small group that's there.
So kind of a lot of fun withthat.
They use British and NorthAmerican malted barley, german
and American yeast strains,pacific Northwest hops and pure
artesian water of Abita Springs.
So clearly they're getting theuh, the water still from abita

(33:42):
springs.
So I don't know if they stillhave, you know, their tap room
or their facility there wherethey're just drawing the water
to be able to brew this.
But they are blessed with thepurest of water drawn from the
deep wells.
The pristine water is notaltered in any way.
So we talked before about someplaces will bring that one down
through like reverse osmosis,but they just don't.
They just go ahead and put itin there no preservatives,

(34:03):
additives, stabilizers, and it'scold filtered, so none of the
other extra stuff, and it justends up with a fresh tasting
beer.
Perfect, that's kind of whatthey have going on there.
So, if you want to check it out, covington, Louisiana, they got
a tap room there, but uh,otherwise, yeah, that's kind of

(34:23):
what's uh the story.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
What might have to be a beat up might have to be
another trip.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Is that going to be part of the summer?

Speaker 2 (34:31):
tour, the summer tour ?
Yeah, Well, of course sure wewill.
Spring has just begun so wehave a couple months here we can
hit some breweries and takesome clips and photos and get
some breweries on.
Our podcast is fully intent toget some brewery the owners of

(34:51):
some of the breweries on ourshow.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Absolutely, and if you own a brewery or are
involved in one, definitelyreach out to us and let us know.
We'd be able to have you on thebrewery.
Have your brewery on thepodcast is, I think, the way
that the English phrase goes forthat.
But yeah, we'd love to be ableto have you on and be able to
kind of be a part of what we dohere Sharing your story about

(35:16):
beer and where you started andhow it goes.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
It's very interesting stuff what we do here sharing
your story about beer and whereyou started and how it goes and,
yeah, very interesting stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Yeah, I always love being able to kind of get that
background, which is, I guess,kind of where we are right now,
is why we kind of enjoy that.
But I really always, justalways remarkable to me, like
kind of like learn that longhistory you know of where they
started and where they've someof the battles that they've had
to fight and why they decidedfor the location that they're at

(35:41):
and you know what's went wellfor them and you know, just if
nothing else, even what theirexpansions look like.
I mean, we talked about thisone, you know jumping to a
massive amount of the 400bottles per minute.
You know 130,000,.
You know bottles or barrels peryear 130,000, you know bottles
or barrels per year.
It says that it's sold in 46states and Puerto Rico and is

(36:02):
the 15th largest craft breweryand 24th largest brewery of any
category, ranked by volume soldin 2010.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
Wow.
So, that's impressive, veryimpressive.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
It's it's.
It's really fun to be able tosee.
They're also served, actually,at Disney's Port of New Orleans,
located at Walt Disney World inOrlando.
So they're also there too.
So a lot of good places to beable to get that.
So a lot of good information, alot of fun.
We learned a little bit aboutsome Bach.
Bach the flavor, not the city.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Or the musician.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Or the musician Yep, yep, johan Sebastian, sebastian,
I don't know.
I feel like you have somepapers that are highlighted.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
It could be the 80s.
Sebastian Bach, oh, yep, yep,yep.
Why can't I think of the band?

Speaker 1 (36:53):
See, all I can remember is he was in the show
Gilmore Girls for like a littleword.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
She's only 17.
Oh, let's hear it SebastianBach.
What is the name of that band?
Holy crap, I am terrible.
Usually I'm spot on with mymusic knowledge.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Skid Row.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Skid Row.
There you go, not to beconfused with Skid Row and
Sebastian Bach Right, or theBach from the classical music.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
Exactly Yep.
Or the Bach from the classicalmusic Exactly Yep.
Yeah, johann Sebastian.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
There you go, johann Johann Sebastian.

Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, this is just regular Bach, and this is
actually Helles.
Doppelbach, doppelbach, doppel,double Bach for those.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
So I wanted to share you a story about since this is
named Andy Gator about gators,gators, and it may have been
crocodiles.
I don't know the differencebetween crocodiles and gators.
I know they look a littledifferent.
I've seen them side by side.
Were you going to see themafter a while or later, before?

(37:51):
Okay, this is pretense.
This is pretense.
So I went, we took our family,we went on a road trip a couple
of years ago.
Our second stop was New OrleansGreat city, great food.
Smells a little funny for liketwo hours, but you get used to
it because the food's great, thebeer's great, it's like hanging

(38:11):
out with me.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
I don't even know what to say to that I don't know
if your food's great, but we'lljust, we'll just the paddles
we're going to get back onlinehere.
Then we'll carry on with theNew Orleans.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
Great place, great food, super friendly people, a
lot of fun.
Well, one of the days we werethere we wanted to go on one of
those airboat tours in theswamps and get in the nitty
gritty and see some alligatorsin the wild, or crocodiles, and
I'm sorry I don't recall exactlywhich one is there.
But we were on an airboat tourcruising around through that

(38:45):
stuff and come up up a bunch ofa bunch of gators.
Down there you're throwing themarshmallows because they can.
They don't they don't processsugar like we do, so you just
throw marshmallows.
They think it's meat, becausemarshmallows have the same
consistency as like a meat ifyou were to throw them a chicken
or something, so they don'thave a clue.
But anyways, we were goingthrough this stuff, looking at

(39:06):
gators, having a good time withthe family and the kids, and the
guy in the airboat tour cut theengine and he's like, oh, we're
gonna pet them now.
And I'm like we're gonna petthem you know what now?
okay, didn't bother too bad.
But so he would throw amarshmallow in there and once
the marshmallow would hit thewater, that noise their eyes
would pop up and they'd becoming on over and they would

(39:28):
eat the marshmallow.
Well, he would throw themarshmallow over here.
It would make that poppingsound.
The gator would go by the boatand he said once your head
passes you, then just put yourhand in the water and put your
hand down his back.
But he's like you have to waituntil the head passes.
You do not do it before.
Wait until the head is past you,which makes sense, but I'm not

(39:49):
doing either and then I did ourwhole family actually did until
it became the youngestdaughter's turn.
She put her hand in, everythingwas fine.
Well, of course, the guy thatdid our airport tour, our
airboat tour, was just awesome,hilarious, fun guy.
Well, he's all like, ah, likejust went nuts Right when our

(40:11):
youngest daughter put her handin the water to touch the
alligator and of course shefreaked, jumped up and was like,
ah, like, like freaked out,went crazy.
But that was a good timeanyways, down there in new
orleans airboat tour with thealligators and stuff.
So that's my little story, onestory I have about being in new
orleans, since it goes with theandy gator beer.

(40:32):
So that was, that was prettyfun.

Speaker 1 (40:34):
I like it with that I like it here's pretty good.
Though it is pretty good, Ithink I still probably am
thinking it'd be kind of a one.
I mean maybe two, but again,like we said before, you know,
like with something to bringsome flavors out.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Definitely for sure I do enjoy the beer.
I would drink the beer again.
I would recommend people try it.
But I think definitely it wouldbe better with some food.
Bring some flavors out, dosomething.
Definitely not on a hot dayafter you mow the lawn.
You don't want to slam a few ofthese and if you did, you're
going to feel it pretty quick,more than likely.

(41:09):
Oh, absolutely Absolutely.
So I came across this thing acouple weeks ago.
I thought it was kind of funny.
I kind of wanted to share withpeople.
You know I read all the time.
I read stupid shit all the time.
My family makes fun of me andmy wife makes fun of me Like oh,
where'd you read that, sean?
Where'd you read that?
What article did you read today?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Because that's what I always say at home, like guess
what I read?

Speaker 2 (41:32):
I read this article, the other day so I'm always
reading dumb shit Bunch ofuseless knowledge.
So I thought this article wouldhave been fun to share with
everybody.
So the Venus flytrapInteresting plant it really is
Kind of fun to watch.
You know, they catch flies andbugs and munch them down and
close down.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Remember, at one point in time, like 150 years
ago, when we both worked atWalmart, did we actually get a
couple of those in Lawn andGarden?

Speaker 2 (42:00):
So it's interesting to say that we couldn't get them
to close though, because I wasgoing to suggest that, see, see.
Visionary, visionary againTelepathic information here.
So yes, walmart does carryVenus fly traps and you can buy
them there.
I don't recall the cost, but wedid try to eat them and we

(42:21):
didn't eat the venus flytrap,but we tried to get them to
clamp and close, and to no avail.
Right, it didn't work too well.
But north carolina this this ispretty interesting.
Here there's venus flytrappoachers in north carolina.
How do you poach?
That's why I thought I had tobring this up.

(42:41):
So apparently there's a Venusflytrap poacher.
I didn't know.
A Venus flytrap was a thingthat you needed to poach, is?

Speaker 1 (42:47):
there a bunch of wild ones running around that we're
not aware of.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
There is.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
I feel like I'm a potato poacher.
Sure, pretty tough to find, itwasn.
So didn't run away from you,did it?

Speaker 2 (43:00):
not too quickly.
So there is a wild venus flytraps in north carolina which I
learned because I had to dig.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
Naturally, oh, that's a rabbit hole, I'd fall down
goofy article.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I just had to dig into venus fly traps a little
bit.
So north carolina does havesome wild venus flytraps, but
what caught my attention waspoaching.
Like I, I don't correlatepoaching with a plant in like
venus flytraps, because that'sthe other side of it.

Speaker 1 (43:27):
What do you get out of it?

Speaker 2 (43:28):
you can literally buy a one at walmart, which 90 of
the american population liveswithin 10 minutes of a walmart.
So why are we poaching Venusflytraps?
I don't know, but there was acouple poachers in North
Carolina that faced warrants fortaking hundreds of this plant.

(43:48):
Apparently, this plant ispretty rare in the wild.
In Bowling Springs, NorthCarolina, is where these plants
are.
So authorities in NorthCarolina.
They obtained arrest warrantsfor two people in a poaching
case involving hundreds of Venusflytraps which grow naturally
in the eastern part of the state.

(44:08):
And I've been to North Carolinafour or five times and I had no
clue that Venus flytraps werenatural.
You dodged a bullet.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Your life was on the line.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
What if I got eaten?

Speaker 1 (44:20):
You don't even know what you were walking into.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
It's just like Mario Brothers.
It would have got you Chompyplant.

Speaker 1 (44:26):
No clue.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
So officers over there.
They obtained arrest warrantsfor two people accused of
stealing 600 of the rare plants.
Apparently they're rare, butwhat?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
do you get out of it, like, just because it's rare,
like, do they like squeeze the?

Speaker 2 (44:47):
How can it be rare if you can buy it at your local
Walmart?

Speaker 1 (44:51):
Right, and I'm sure there's probably maybe like
different strains or something,maybe it's a tiger one or
something, I don't yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
Yeah, that is.
I'm not about that real sure.
So it's not in plants poachingvenus fly trap plants.
So it's not clear if thesepeople been arrested.
But uh, warrants were issued innorth carolina for these people
.
Venus fly traps are native tosoutheastern North Carolina so
apparently when they grownaturally and grow in the wild,

(45:23):
there's only a 100-mile radiusthat they're growing or natural
in the wild is in North Carolina.
There's a 100-mile radius wherethey grow in Wilmington, north
Carolina.
I don't know if that's theentire world or if the United
States, but it sounds likethat's the only place they just
grow.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
See, my mind is even going down like the, the weird
and twisted path of, like theguy that figured out that, like
Sean, do you know what's goingon here?
Sean, do you know what's goingon here?
This is the Horatio Cain momentwhere he takes the glasses off
and makes some really dramaticcomment of like guess they

(46:05):
didn't get chomped or somethingWhatever.
It is because they have nowfigured out that the old
criminal mind is like we need todeliver the profile.
These guys are poachinghundreds.
That moment, like what was inthe room when they figured out
like we have stumbled acrosssomething big, but at the same

(46:25):
time, they know like this isgoing to get out and we're going
to be on every morning show inthe country.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Well, what's big about a Venus flytrap?
Apparently, this time of yearthey're like flower.
I know that Apparently theygrow flowers and they start to
bud and it's easier to find them.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
and apparently they increase patrols this time of
year to go after the venus flytrap poachers I'm still just
bewildered by the poaching thing, because when I think poaching,
I'm thinking like, all right,you're getting like the pelt out
of it, or you're getting amount that you can get out of it
, or you're selling an exoticbird or something like that,

(47:02):
something that you've, you can'treadily get, or it's hard to be
able to get.
This sounds like you just go tothat region and walk along
county road, you and County Road, you and I found one.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Look up a Venus flytrap.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
Like it seems it's not running away, it's not
taking off.
Is it going to bite you maybe?
Maybe that's what it is.
It's a dangerous work.
This guy's got like threefingers.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Or something.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, I don't know, I'm just.
This is bewildering to me, thisis crazy.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I don't know.
This is bewildering to me.
This is crazy.
I don't have much moreinformation.
No, I'm with you.
My mind is like Apparently, Igot all sorts of stuff going on.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
Maybe they're only native and wild in that 100 mile
radius In North Carolina in theUnited States Of a wild native
Venus flytrap Kind of like inArizona.
You know the Joshua Tree Forest.
If you've heard of that,everybody's probably heard of
the term Joshua Tree Forest.
If you've heard of that, youknow everybody's probably heard
of the term Joshua Tree becauseof the band U2.
Right, the album Joshua Tree.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
YouTube, youtube, youtube, youtube.
Oh, okay, youtube.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
All those guys.
Yeah, the band that's I don'tthink anybody really likes, but
if it's on the radio you justkind of jam to it, you know.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Well, apparently they have this massive residency in
Vegas for, like, in the sphereor whatever.
Yeah, but I'm with you, thoughI never really seek it out, but
if it's on it's good stuff.
It's kind of like we weretalking about the sports, that
like you're not necessarilyseeking it out, but if you
happen across it an hour lateryou're like why am I still like
what's happening?

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Right.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
You're jamming and drinking andy gator listening to
you too, uh-huh.

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Well, joshua tree forest is in arizona.
That's the only place in theworld where a joshua tree
actually grows, so maybe this issimilar.
Maybe in north wilmington,north carolina that's the only
place a venus fight fly trapgrows, naturally, oh interesting
.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
So Venus fly trap poaching.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Yeah, apparently it's a felony.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
I mean, why wouldn't it be Apparently we're?
Harvesting 590 plants orsomething like that.

Speaker 2 (49:09):
So yeah, I said that was funny to share that Venus
fly trap poaching Great stuff.
Yeah, Cheers to that Cheers.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
I mean good luck to you.
I guess, Cheers to that.
Cheers, I mean, I'll drink tothat Good luck to you, I guess.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
Drink to that.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
I wonder what the market is for something like
that.
If you're selling the wholeplant, or if you're selling like
the like parts of it or I don'tknow.
I'm going to have to spend sometime on the dark web tomorrow.
And what are you paying?
That's what I'm going to do.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Next time we get them at a Walmart, I'll remember the
price.

Speaker 1 (49:41):
And.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
I'll let everybody know the price of a Venus flight
.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
They're super small, though at Walmart they're not
very big.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Maybe these ones are like the size of sunflowers.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Maybe they eat owls.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Maybe, yeah, I don't know, I just could be certainly.
At least small vermin,squirrels, chipmunks Sure, could
be any number of things.
Small children, no, maybe not.
Maybe a whole family of smallchildren.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, we better save the kids.
Yep, yep, it's all for the kids.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Exactly so.
One more thing I wanted to kindof touch on just a little bit
here.
So we're drinking this AndyGator and enjoying it, and we're
also talking a little bit aboutthe lawn mowing effect.
You know what I mean.
You know, like having, you know, kind of a refreshing beer, but
it got me kind of thinking alittle bit, because I've heard
this a little bit.
We talked a little bit aboutthe monks before with the, the

(50:37):
Bach beers and using it asnutrition.
Is it good for you in certainways?
Just nutritional value?
Oh, beer, yes.
And uh, you know, like now thatthe weather's starting to get a
little bit nicer and people areoutside a little bit more, and
I would think that maybe mysoftball team thinks that beer
is really good for them, becausethere's beer that we have when

(50:58):
we're playing softball A littlebit.
That goes up A little bit.
Clearly must be good there.
Eight or nine beers.
I am also involved in theBrewery Running Series, which I
give a little shout out to them.
They're like run far, drinklocal Brewery Running Series.
They're in like 14 states or 20states or something.
Now they started just here inMinnesota.

(51:18):
Just a fantastic organizationAnyway.
So, like beer and runningdoesn't always sound like it
would correlate at all.
So is there a nutritional valueto being able to do that?
And looked up a couple ofdifferent things, and I had
heard this once before maybe,but I wanted to verify it
because now that the weather'sbeing nice, I actually ran
yesterday.
I did one mile.

(51:39):
Zero out of five stars.
Do not recommend.
You know it's terrible,terrible plan, but it is
starting to get to be kind ofthat running season where
there's going to be some of thatshenanigans happening later on.
I am not doing the fullmarathon in Berlin, that is just
Amanda, she can do thatfoolishness.
I'm only doing I'm ahalf-hasser, so I'm just doing a

(52:00):
half in June.
So that's a way different thing,anyway.
So what they say is, althoughit's a bit of a stretch for it
to be good for people, it doescontain vitamins, minerals,
antioxidants, polyphenols,electrolytes, carbs and a little
bit of protein.
So it is actually not bad.
In some ways it's actually adecent recovery drink and it's

(52:26):
better than water just becauseof the stuff that it has in it.
Sure, I mean, then we, ofcourse we go into the fact of
moderation.
You know, if you run five milesand you have 14 beers, the
ratio might be off just a littlebit.
What's moderation?
Well, it's the process of notrunning five miles because

(52:51):
that's too much.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
I concur with that Right.

Speaker 1 (52:56):
So they talk about.
You know that they have somecarbs in it.
They were important fordistance runners and a
post-workout drink.
You have to replenish some ofthat that you've burned off
because you know like when youdo running, the running stuff or
whatever, it takes quite a bitout of you.
So it has some electrolyteswhich are also in sports drinks
and you know it's you've beensweating for a long time.

(53:17):
So this has got a lot of thestuff that you would have in it.
You know lighter beers probablya little bit better but at the
same time, like really any beer,has a lot of the things that
you would need to try toreplenish.
You know, nutrient wise to beable to actually work as kind of
a, a nice post run or postworkout type of drink.

(53:37):
You know it gets kind of that.
You know like, okay, you knowyou're just going to the bar and
getting whatever, but reallyit's, you know, has some health
benefits with that.
Some of those health benefitsinclude again let me just review
this there are some potentialhealth benefits of beer when
your alcohol consumption is atlow to moderate levels.

(53:59):
What is that?
Less than five miles.
So some of those things in themoderation or the low to
moderate, reduces LDLcholesterol levels and increases
HDL.
So it reduces bad cholesteroland it improves good cholesterol

(54:20):
.
It reduces the risk of heartdisease and improves heart
health.
As long as you drink it inmoderation Potentially helps
with blood sugar regulation.
It actually suggests beerdrinkers who have a light to
moderate intake may have lowerrisk to insulin resistance and
developing type 2 diabetes.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Wow Again, drink more beer if and developing type 2
diabetes.
Wow Again, drink more beer ifyou're afraid of diabetes.
Right In moderation, whateverthat means.
Less than five miles.

Speaker 1 (54:48):
I'm going to save this one for last because that's
going to be my favorite one,but I'll go to the next one here
Reducing bacterial buildup inyour mouth and teeth, because
it's got a lot of the stuff inthere Because beer up in your
mouth and teeth, because it'sgot a lot of the stuff in there
Because beer.
The hops used to make beershave been found to confer
anti-inflammatory properties inthe body because of compounds
and hops interfere with theproduction of inflammatory

(55:10):
ketones.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
Maybe I should drink a beer after I play basketball,
yeah that sounds like what it isHeck.
Yeah, cytokines, there you go.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
That's what it is.
Heck yeah, cytokines, there wego.
That's the word, not ketones,cytokines.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
I agree with whatever you're saying C-Y-T-O-K-I-N-E-S
.
I'm terrible with the Englishlanguage.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
It helps preserve bone mineral density and reduces
the risk of osteoporosis andbone fractures.
The risk of osteoporosis andbone fractures and my favorite,
which we have talked numeroustimes on the old podcast
increasing creativity andproblem-solving ability.
Cheers.
You heard it here first, folks,cheers to that.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
I will drink another sip to that.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
This via the Marathon Handbook website
marathonhandbookcom.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Perfect.
That's just amazing.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
So the bottom line is drink more beer it's good for
you, it's good really, it's youknow it's good for the mind, the
body, the soul in, uh,apparently, moderation, whatever
that means yep less than fivemiles.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Yep less than five miles that's the key, perfect,
so.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
So yeah, that's what I got here.
One more thing, do you haveadditional?
I got one thing.
One thing.
What else you got?

Speaker 2 (56:24):
here.
In fact I was scrolling on theFacebook.
I'm on there.
That's the only social media Ireally do.
I don't do a lot of the othersocial media unless it's for the
podcast, but for my personalthing I'm on the Facebook a
little bit.
I like to do the Facebook.
And a fact came scrolling byabout Nintendo.
Of all things, I had a Nintendo.

(56:44):
Did you have a Nintendo?

Speaker 1 (56:46):
I did not have the original Nintendo.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
I'm talking the 8-bit Nintendo no.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I had these Super Nintendo, but I never had the
original Nintendo.
I was not that.
I also had a Wii at one point.
I actually still have that.
I also had a Wii at one point.
I actually still have that.
I still have a Wii.
I think both of them areactually still in my house.
They're not hooked up to my TVright now.

Speaker 2 (57:05):
We should bring one in here and play some bowling
one of these times.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
That might happen, that would be.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
And we could record that and we could put that on.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
That's what I should do Two guys and beer.
Why am I not doing?

Speaker 2 (57:16):
that I got a treadmill, Two guys and beer Wii
bowling.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Yeah, treadmill out there that Amanda can go running
on.
I'll just do Wii bowling whileI you know like what am I
thinking?
That sounds great.
Mistakes were made, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (57:26):
Mistakes were made.
Don't worry about it, we'llimprove in the so the original
Nintendo, the 8-bit Nintendo Iwas fortunate enough to have one
.
That company almost went out ofbusiness before it blew up into
this big video game businessand where it was renting, the

(57:48):
original company couldn't payits rent.
Well, the owner of thatfacility where they couldn't pay
rent, he's like ah, don't worryabout it, just pay me when you
can.
This is a fact.
His name is Mario Perfect.
Where do you think they gottheir name from?

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Oh my God, Absolutely Because.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Mario, who rented this facility to Nintendo, said
don't worry, pay me next month,we'll figure it out, because
they made it big and it workedout for them.
They decided to name Mario inthe Mario Brothers game after
the guy they rented a facilityfrom.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
Absolutely.
I mean really, why wouldn't you?
How cool is that.
So, mario, I wonder if that guyother than renting the facility
.
I wonder if that guy seen anybenefits from that or if they
gave him like a memorial plaquethat had, like, his name on it.
They should do all of the youknow what I mean Like something
out of the deal.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
They should do all of the.
So did you ever play the 8-bitNintendo, I'm assuming you did.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
Oh, yeah, yeah, 100%.
I just didn't have it.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Favorite game Can you think of a favorite game that
you played on the NintendoEntertainment System?

Speaker 1 (58:50):
I mean Duck Hunt was always a classic.
I did original mario brothersbut mario 3, I think, was
probably my banger.
Mario 3 that was.
That was probably my thingbetween that and probably that.
Yeah, because like I liked thehunt but I wasn't very good at
it, sure.
So I think I like the idea ofthat then the dog would laugh at

(59:13):
you.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Exactly, it was ridiculous he wanted to shoot
the dog, the asshole, exactly.

Speaker 1 (59:22):
My dog laughs at me.
Right now he doesn't.
He's more, mocks me other ways,but that's fine.
Animals, that's what they doKids these days.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
So I don't have a favorite game.
I have a really hard timepicking one out on Nintendo, so
I'm going to name three Contra.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Okay, See I never played that.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Oh my gosh, I know, I know I just never did Up up
down, down left right, left,right, B A start 30 lives, great
.
Nailed it the original, the OGTecmo Bowl.
Oh yeah, Hardcore game there,Lawrence Taylor.
Bo Jackson blow that game up.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
I don't think I ever played that, but I did play the
Super Tecmo Bowl.
I know it's a different one,but I would always run the
little shotgun to the corner andthen nobody was ever covering
anything and just throw it downthe field.

Speaker 2 (01:00:14):
Super Tecmo Bowl was good and it probably has a
bigger following but theoriginal wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:00:19):
Yeah that, yeah, that one was that was key, that that
the original tech mobile islike where it's at.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
In the third game between the three that I I can't
decide that I played a lot ofwas blades of steel, which of
course was a hockey game, thefunnest game ever.
You get in fights and you'dfight and you'd take the other
person out.
I just those three games, Ican't decide, but those would be
the top of my list.
Thank you, mario, for allowingnintendo to stay in business and

(01:00:49):
use your facility absolutely.
I appreciate you drink someandy gator to that cheers to
mario.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
yeah, I, I was unaware of uh, of the.
Yeah, I don't know that game,but I like it though.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Blades of Steel.

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Yeah, I'm unaware of that one.

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
I'm going to bring it and we're going to play it?

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Do you have the OG Nintendo?
I've got three of them.
Oh, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:11):
You have three of them.
Why would you have three?
Of them Because I found some ina garage sale so I bought them.
Why wouldn't you have?

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
that the logic tracks , the math adds up on them.
I'm, I'm, I'm with you.
I like garage sales sometimes.
I have, I'm totally with you.
I need to.
I have my super nintendo, Ihave, uh, I have a couple of
different things, but you knowwhat my favorite game was,
though, so I was never much of agamer.
I'm not.
I'm self-admittedly.
I don't have a ps5.

(01:01:37):
I don't have like when I saythat I have a Super Nintendo and
a Wii.
Those are the two that I everhad.
Like I never had it.
My brother had a PlayStationthe original one for like a
little while.
I never got into any of that.
That was just never my thing.
I was always doing a millionother things.
I just never had time to likesit and game.
There was never.

Speaker 2 (01:01:57):
I don't know, I just couldn't wrap my head around it.
Well, you're living on a farm,you're busy tending to a lot of
things.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
And I thought I was going to be good at basketball.
So I was always outsideshooting hoops and I was still
yeah, I did that much workingout playing basketball and I'm
still this bad.
I know it's that bad, it's thatbad.
Anyway.
So, like Super Nintendo like Iplayed a lot of that, or
whatever, like Super MarioBrothers of course that you know
the classic one, for that onewhen it came out.
I had a couple of differentgames over the course of the

(01:02:25):
years, but Ken Griffey BaseballOkay, yeah, name a better
baseball Like that game was so,but don't, though, because I
like my story just as it was,but that game was so great.
Like I create, because I likemy story just as it was, but
that game was so great Like Icreated you could create.
It was one of the first onesyou could create like your own
teams.
And, of course, it was like myhigh school baseball team, my JV

(01:02:50):
baseball team, you know, likeMitch and Mike and Mike, and you
know who else was on that teamI don't even Zach was on that
team and Joe, I mean like.
I mean like we had, like allthe guys that, like I played
baseball with.
You know what I mean Like all,like that was the team that we
had and of course you knowyou're like I don't want to play
the hundred.
You could play the season thing.
That was one of the firstthings you could do.
That too, never played the fullthing.
Of course I don't want to play162 games.

(01:03:12):
I played the 23 games, yeah 22and 1.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Has anybody actually played the full season on any
baseball?
I'm sure there is somewhere Itried with the game that I think
is better.
It's called World SeriesBaseball for Sega Genesis, but I
think I failed miserably atgetting to 163 games.

Speaker 1 (01:03:32):
So and the thing about it like it was that was in
that era that like you playlike Madden now, like you can
play an entire game in like 20minutes, like you just go, it
flies by.
Now that game, when you wouldplay a full baseball game, it
would take you an hour right tobe able to do it.
It was so.
It wasn't just like you becauseyou had to do all the things.

(01:03:53):
You'd steal and you'd roundbase runners around second turn
to get them to move up a baselike it.
It was a small ball like allthe things you know.
So, trying to be able to getthat all to work, and everybody
I don't think a single team hadtheir players at all, except for
Ken Griffey, sure, but all ofthe teams were represented.

(01:04:14):
That was pre-Tampa Bay andArizona.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Yeah, that was way before all Bay, and oh, colorado
, arizona.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Yeah, that was way before any of those.
So, uh, so those didn't existat all, but uh, yeah it.
Uh, the old, good old days.
You know, way, way back when,god, I was good at that game, so
good, and maybe I was only,maybe I was actually subpar at
that game, but I would just beatthe crap out of my brother in
that game.
Hey, that's all worth it, andyou know what that made me whole

(01:04:43):
right here, peter?
It really just Pete.
Pete, are you listening?
He's currently trying to figureout how to send viruses to the
computer.
Pete do you?

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
listen to the full podcast.
I guess we'll find out.
He follows the TikTok.
Hey, we're on TikTok.
Peter follows the TikTok.
There you go, perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
Yep, there we are All right.
Well, that's about all I got.
I mean, end on a high note ofharassing my brother.
How do you get better than that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
That's how I always get there, hey Pete.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Somebody's going to tell him that he's going to be
like what the hell is he saying?
He's going to realize wait, hehas a podcast Right.
That'll be the conversationthat's going to be happening
right now, but that's fine, youknow, it's fine.
Like, share, subscribe, tellall your friends, do it all.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
Watch the YouTube.
We got the video podcast on the.
Youtube, all major audioplatforms.
Whatever you can find useverywhere.
Abita Brewing.

Speaker 1 (01:05:38):
Andy Gator Helles Doppelbach.
That was today.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Good beer.
Thanks a lot for them.
I appreciate their beer.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
Yeah, we got a lot of stuff going on here with the
two guys and beer.
We're still kind of working ourway through a bunch of
different things, but we'relooking to get out into the
community, if you will and bycommunity not necessarily nearby

(01:06:05):
, but into the beer community,looking at a couple of like
onsite recordings, possiblycoming up here a little bit and
trying to get some additionalpeople maybe be able to be
involved.
Now I got a couple of peoplethat want to be on the podcast
and really want to be able toget some of their expertise.
Brandon we've talked aboutnumerous times that his beer
knowledge he's going to.
I almost don't want to have himon because we're going to get
him on here.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
We'll just watch him talk and we're going to start.
We'll watch him talk with youguys.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
We're going to.
I'm going to start talkingabout stuff and he's going to
immediately.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
Well, actually, you guys are dumb.
I'm going to explain to you howall this goes.

Speaker 1 (01:06:35):
Exactly.
He's going to tell us the realanswers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:37):
We'll just drink his beer while he talks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:39):
You know, I I'm a hundred percent with that.
That will be the episode of allof street brewing is what that
would be yeah, let's do it.
Yep, a hundred percent We'll.
We'll have that one at onepoint in time.
So, but yeah, we'll have a youeverybody about it.

(01:07:00):
You know we're on all the majorplatforms, really all the
platforms.
You know everywhere, we'reeverywhere.
Now we got the video, as youcan see, with our nice fancy
studio, with whatever it is likeyeah.
So if you see through my beer,that's.
You know, probably that's goingon there, but at least I'm not
wearing pajama pants this time,even though I was mocked a
little bit.
It's fine, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
That's fine, bring it Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:07:20):
Yep, give the comments.
Bring the comments Like, putthem all in the response there,
whether it's YouTube, facebook,wherever you're at, give us
feedback on that.
We love to be able to hear fromyou.
So, sean, what else you got?

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
I appreciate everybody for listening.
All support.
It's a good time.
We're having a hell of a timedoing this podcast.
It's all for good fun.
We just love drinking beer.
We love talking.
We love just having a good time.
Nothing serious about thispodcast.
Have a good time.
I appreciate everybodylistening.
Get yourself some mandigator ifit's available in your area.
It's a good place.
I appreciate everybody forlistening.
Thanks a lot, man cheers.

(01:07:54):
God bless everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Thank you appreciate it we'll talk to everybody soon
here on another episode of TwoGuys and a Beer Podcast.
Until then, cheers, cheers,cheers, cheers.