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Tap Radio beer and the culture thatflows with it. Piers Beer Guru James
Simpson and your Logic's Chad Pilbeam.Here we are now. For the record,

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I have never been to october Festin Munich. Never have. It's
on my bucket list. It's somethingI always wanted to do and I always
planned to do until I do itchat. Have you been to october festing
Munich? No, I haven't.I haven't been there at all. I'm
I've sorry. We were doing someshow prep here I was. I wasn't

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ready for the hard questions, theones where I have to answer yes or
no. No, James, Ihaven't been to october Fest. The reason
why I ask is if anybody's beento october Fest of Munich, which is
currently happening right now, do theyplay this song? Because apparently the top
songs of october Fest, this songis on it Welcome to What's on Tap

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Radio? It always makes me laughwhen I was the good What are some
playlists? What are some songs thatare played at october Fest? And for
some reasons, some weird songs comeon the list, for example the White
Strips. So you guys out there, let us know at what's on Tabrito,
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or what'son Tabrito Gmail dot com? If

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you've gone out there, do theyjust crank this song on loop? Well?
I mean I have to believe that, you know, the festival goes
on for fourteen days or eighteen daysor whatever it is. Yeah, and
I don't think they're playing the Rollout the Barrel on continuous Loop team,
And maybe they just sprinkle in someother stuff, maybe some Taylor Swift and

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Drake met Bad Bunny to mean anything, I don't know. I'm just saying.
I mean, I don't think peoplewould go and stay for more than
about, I don't know, anhour if all they heard was roll out
the Barrel or in heaven there isno again roll That's why we drake kit

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here. All right, all right, just some things we're gonna talk about
in this week's episode. We'll welcometo the show. I am James Simpson.
That is Chad Pillby, and weare here to entertain you. And
I understand that Chad's got a guestin studio. I guess, I mean,
is he a guest or is hea roommate. I don't even know
what he is these days, buthe's there hanging out with Chad. We'll
introduce him in a second. Butbefore we do so, you said you

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call off the silver Alert we foundthe old guy, which I'm glad we
did because I get worried. Butlet's thank our sponsors before we get underway,
so we can kick things off.Officially and that being Tantrick Brewing Superior
pest control of Beer Logic, conferenceand events. We knowled tonake An insurance
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on Tap Radio, where we area ready to drink some beer and hang

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out with you, and I hopeyou would join us if you could do
so responsibly. Yeah, that's thething that is a key theme here.
A lot of things that happened atOctoberfest shouldn't happen Octoberfest because people over indulge,
make bad decisions, and then youbecome a meme on the internet.
Yeah, and then and then you'relike, wait, minute, that's not

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me. Oh my gosh, that'sme. How did that happen? Well,
our job here is not only theentertain but to inform, educate,
and warn. But first things first, James brought to the table. That's
right, sponsors. I understand thata lot of us can't well most of
us can't afford to hop the pondto go to Octoberfest. But there are
places that are holding great october Festevents, including our friends over at the

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Backyard. Girl, that's who sponsoringthis segment, and since I decided,
you know, hey, we're inoctober Fest season, it's officially going on
right now in Munich, I willbring one of the beers that is served
in Munich and that is going withthe all Owner. Oh sorry, hold
on a second, Billy, James, just second, James, do me

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a favorite? Run or Bill,run to the fridge and grab any beer
you can anything, Go anything quick, sorry, Chad? How can Chad
had to know I was gonna dothis because he wanted the show to end,
so he quickly sent Bill on anerrand to go grab a beer,
which you probably brought the same beardat the table, because there is a

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rule that if Chad and I bringthe same beard to the show, this
will be the official last show ofWhat's on Tap Radio ten years. Definitely
definitely did not bring the exact samePaul Owner Paul Owner october Fest Marsin beer
to the show because if we didthat, that's it the show. So
I definitely did not do that.I got something new, all right,

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So I got it in my halfleader Stein right here, and I'm gonna
go ahead and take a swig ofmy Paul Owner october Fest beer, the
original original from Munich october Fest.Yeah, now it's official. And now
it's official Germans number one october Festbeer brood in sixteen thirty four originally,

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And I'm gonna let Chad enlighten uswhy he brought the table now, as
he's all I know is I wasdoing some research on my beer and it
was asking me about cookies and whatkind of cookies, and I'm like,
marketing cookies, what kind of cookiesit I'm like, wait a minute,
this sounds familiar from our show prepand then you were in the background.
I'm like, wait a minute,Oh no, don't worry, it didn't

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happen. You may remember for octoberFest a while back, though I did.
It was probably a couple of weeksago. I celebrated Octoberfest by bringing
a traditional German style beer that waspart of the rank Hypsobut and it was
at the original Octoberfest, all theway back at the original, the first

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one, and so I'm gonna celebratethis beer style again. It is the
American triple ipa, the waldos lagunitasI had one left in the fridge.
This is authentic German style Waldos ipausing West Coast hops it's like West German
Coast or something. Right by theway. People tuning in right now are

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like, does this guy not knowanything about beerpretching? I get I get
here. Sasha Tibo, there's ourfirst name drop of the show. Sasha
Tibo is losing his mind not tomention. Josh Lindsay advanced to her own.
So there's another name drop. It'slike Pilby, you're blowing it.

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But I had one of these left. And let's just say I forgot to
bring a beer to the table,and I told Bill to run out and
grab anything. And Bill is ourstunt beer liver today. This is a
what is this eleven point two percenttriple IPA. It's been brought to the
show many times before, eleven pointseven percent. I want to see how
it holds up because a mars andstyle beer is aged, you know,
burdon March open tapped in September.Let's see how this does it. Chad

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takes a sip, is oh,that's doing good, and we're gonna we're
gonna let that warm up and breathea little bit. But wow, James,
what's brought to the table. Yes, sponsored by the back Yard Grill
all right, we'll dive into thesebeers in a second, but before we
do, let's give a little teaseand what's on Tap this week. We're
gonna talk about how workers are tryingto save Anchor Brewing, how much is

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a leader of beer gonna cost atoctober Fest, and Brewdog's doing some trolling.
We got a lot on tap thisweek, including more beers to drink,
and got official fun fact coming rightup. Hey with us, We'll
be right back here it What's onTap Radio. We know two types of
people, those you drink with andthose that make you drink. Oh,

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your parents are coming for the weekend. Either way, we're drinking. Hey.
You know, it doesn't matter whatkind of beer you drink. Do
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listeners of What's on Tap Radio.This is the very first intro music when
we launched ten years ago. Overten years ago, this was our This
was our theme of What's on TapRadio. So for those that have been
listening since its entirety, you mayremember this, But those that are just

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tuning in for the first time,or maybe they've been listening for the past
year or so, yeah, thiswas once upon a time, the original
intro. Welcome to What's on TapRadio? Any first segment which was brought
to the table sponsored by Grill,where we definitely did not bring the exact
same bear to the table, becauseif we did, that is the end

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of What's on Tap d In fact, you would you would now officially be
able to say you heard the firstand last intro of What's on Tap Radio.
We brought the exact same beer.By the way, that that first
intro that that you are playing,you know, as we come back from
the break, that intro that's BC, that's before chat. Oh yeah,

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this is I mean way back when, I mean I was eight years old
when we started this show. Yeah, that was the song plan, right,
it was. It was about rootbeer and tap dance. Yeah.
My mom would drop me off.She's okay, I'll pick you up after
the show. Have a good show. It's all right. James didn't have
a microphone. He just talked intoa tin can. Yeah, but no,
I kicked things off. This listento me cracking my voice. The

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Polliner october Fest beer. Ever sinceeighteen eighteen, they've brewed bottom for a
minute october Fest beer during october Fest. It's Germany's favorite october Fest beer and
it's a true institution in Munich.It's a glassful of October sunshine, strong
and golden. As you see,it's a perfect balance of light, taste
of hops and let me getting definitelya strong note of malt. It's a

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feast beer which always goes down.Well, this is where it belongs,
belongs right here in my class,all the fun and the fair, like
the ferrest wheel and the roasted almonds. And that's how I am kicking it
off with the october Fest six percentalcohol by volume. And to go ahead

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and keep with the tradition of octoberFest, I had the lagunitas the Waldos
Special Triple IPA eleven point seven percent, And it says here. On an
afternoon in sixteen forty one, atfour twenty pm, the Waldos met up
in Munich by a statue of LouisPasteur and armed with a treasure map to
find the Idolweiss on the mountain rangesabove the Alps. They set out in

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a chariot of a thirteen sixty six. Okay, I can't even make this.
I was just like, all right, gather around, kids, gather
around kids. I got a storyto gather around. Look, I'm just
saying, there's no way that Jamesand I ever brought the same beard to
the table, and and I definitelydidn't send Bill to go grab whatever beer

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he could get, and he grabbedthe Waldos. I'm just kind of curious.
So what would have happened if Billwasn't in studio, Oh, I
would have. I probably would haveset my headphones down and ran out to
the beer fridge and then I'd comeback and just pretend that I knew exactly
what you were talking about. Andyou know, because pros James, this
sounds sounds great. Whatever you're saying. I agree with great description Chad was

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talking about. I wasn't talking chat. I was talking about how my hamster
died. Yeah, but I meanI feel like he's still alive after that
description. Anyway, that's what we'rekicking things off with. Don't worry,
we're gonna crack a more beers becausestunt beer liver Bill from Harbor Light Brewing
happened to just he saw he sawthe light on and he walked in.
He's like, I brough up beer. And I'm like, okay, you

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can say o oh no, allright. Anyway, James, So that
was brought to the table, likeyou said, brought to you by the
backyard grill on the northwest side ofHouston. Out there with our buddy Mark
mcshaffrey, and there you can getsome amazing beers out there. Why do
I say amazing beers because the stuffthey put on tap ain't no crap.
I know that's not good grammar.And old Jen would lose her mind right

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now because she's an English teacher.But the stuff out there, the byg
they've got over one hundred different beers, forty eight taps, and they've got
specially beer menu sellar beers. Itall goes with the wonderful food out there.
Check him out the backyard Grill dotCom. Now the official What's on
Tap Radio fun Fact of the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked

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clear this week? Yeah, youread my cue? I wanted to say
it now, James hit that button. I always know when Chad's ready to
do the fun fact when he putshis readers on smart. I hate you,
dude. Shut up a little behindthe scenes here, guys, I
had him on to read the bottle. I set him down. I started
to pick him up. You suckshut up? All right? All right?

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This official What's on Tap Radio funFact takes us to a little place
across the pond. Maybe you've heardof it. Maybe we've talked about it
almost exclusively on this show Ladies andGentlemen. Yep, we are talking about
Octoberfest. Never heard of it anything, Get it over there. I don't
know. I don't know. I'venever been, so obviously it can't be

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that great. I haven't found myway there yet. I don't know what
all a big deal is. Notsure why six million people show up over
there and drink all that beer.By the way, six million people.
I'm still trying to figure out thisone. They say at october Fest,
six million people visit every year,and six million leaders of Beer are drank

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every year. Now, if youdo the math on that, Okay,
my wife's a math teacher. Ican help you out with this. That
is a one to one ratio.I don't know a single person who's ever
been in Octoberfest and drank one beer. Well, I also don't It could
be the fact that it's so expensive. We got a story coming up.
It's just how much does it costto get a Leader of Beer at Octoberfest.

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Maybe that's what it is. Maybeit's just so expensive they can afford
to go two leaders no, no, no. Maybe they're just super responsible
and they're like, guys, nope, we know our limits, and we're
gonna have one and then we're gonnago back to the hostel. Right.
Well, your official was on tapeof Radio Fun. Factor of the Week
is is that beer got so expensivelast year at Octoberfest that one man sold

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his kidney to buy a leader up. That's no, okay, I made
that, totally made that up.See, kids, if you talk with
confidence, people will believe you.Actually. Attendance though last year at october
Fest was down about a half millionpeople and coincidentally, about a half million

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leaders of beer. I don't understandthat because, again, as I said,
I don't know anybody that goes overthere and drinks just one leader of
beer. I don't. I don'tunderstand it. And I don't know anybody
who goes over there and says,well, I'll be the designated driver.
Okay, maybe you know that you'vegot that one friend there there there to
see the show, and I getthat, but if you've got a designated

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driver, you're more than drinking yourshare, you're drinking their share as well.
WE got you gotta probably think likethere's people that don't drink that are
attending. Maybe our children factored inbecause children don't drink, are they factored
into this data? That's a goodquestion. I don't know, Okay,
I don't know anyway, Anyway,I found it interesting though, digging back

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into this and looking after the octoberFest was canceled for two consecutive years.
Twenty of the year that we willnot mention the one between twenty nineteen and
twenty twenty one. That year itwas canceled, and it was also canceled
in twenty twenty one, but thenit came back last year. And october
Fest does not start until the Mayorof Munich taps the first keg and he

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normally taps it in in two swingsof the mallet, but this year he
got it in it or exee me. Last year it took him three swings
of the mallet, and people said, oh, that might be a bad
sign. Well, attendance was,beer consumption was down. It was post
COVID and they did recover. Butdude, that's a lot of things there

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is, there is, but somethings never change at Octoberfest, and that
would be the puking. That's right, ladies, and gentlemen, now I
now you know, I know thatpeople aren't just drinking one leader or beer.
That's never happened at October sorry atyeah right, well, at Octoberfest,
they actually have something behind the tentcalled coats Hugel, and coats Hugel

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is loosely translated as puke Hill wherepeople who drink too much go back and
defecate, urinate, puke, andpass out, and they warn tourists,
whatever you do, avoid puke Hill, also known as the coats Hugel,
which is it's a little bit ofa landmark. It's an iconic place and

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you're like, oh, let's gocheck it out. Good chance you're gonna
step in some feces or sit downin some puke and you'll see some drunken
debauchery. But at all costs theytell you to avoid it. So your
fishial What's on Tap Radio fun Factorof the Week is at October Fest has
an official puke hill called Coats Googlethat tourists should avoid. And oh,
by the way, Adida's one yeareven made a prost shoe which was puke

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resistant, And that's your ficial What'son Tap Radio Fun Factor of the Week.
Wait, I want to talk aboutthat. All right. That's a
good fun fact. All right,coming up, how much do we really
want to know? How much isa leader of beer gonna cost at Munich's
famed october Fest. We're gonna talkabout that and perfect beer can pass all
listen, so much more coming upright back. If you're buying yourself drinking

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a beer and listening to the show, you're not drinking alone, So be
a pal and put your pants backon. What's on tap? What's on
tap? This is what's on tapradio? All right, I am at

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James in the Radio. That's atJames in the Radio. I'm about to
tell you something that's gonna be reallyoffensive to a lot of people, right
like the disclaimer? All right?Yeah, listen, by the way,
when he says he's at James inthe Radio, that's not a physical location,
that's his handle. Folk, comeand tell me how wrong I am.
But I'm drinking the polan Or octoberFest beer, which is the original

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from Munich october Fest. Said itright, You said it right. I'm
just messing with you. Not myfavorite october Fest. It's not my favorite,
not my favorite. I like it, but I like others better.
But uh yeah, that's what I'mdrinking. That's what I kicked things off
with. This is the This isthe official beer of Well, I'm one
of the official beers of october Fest. There are many others, however,

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not my favorite. It's not myfavorite. I mean, it's kind of
a golden straw color. I don'treally get a lot of readiness and toffee
that I get from other october Festbeers. But it's good. It's good.
I like it, but not asmuch as I like others. All
Right, Well, James, Iwish I had one of those two.
Oh look at this. Bill,Bill just went Bill iver light. Bill

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just walked out there and found one. Look at that, and so we're
gonna go ahead and we're gonna openthis up. Now. I found a
uh Polaner october Fest. I thinkthat's what you just had. That's what
I had brought to the table.That's how I kicked things off this week
with the face Bill way back inthe fridge. It definitely was not brought
to the table in the first segment. It was in the crisper drawer.

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It was definitely not So we're gonnatry this out, Bill James, bill,
was that fount in the crisper drawer? No, I'm backing at the
date on the bottle, eighteen sixtyfour. I think it's this year's.
No, actually, no, thiswould be Oh, this might be last
year's. So mine was brutin sixteenthirty four. Mine's been aging. Oh,

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five twenty three, okay, okay, So is that a best by
date or is that a brew ondate? No, it's gotta be the
best before. So so this isold beer. This is enjoyed best by
five twenty three, which is afew months ago. So we're drinking old
beer here on the show. Whynot? Though? You know, I
wanted to see what James is talkingabout. And James and I hear you

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complaining. I'm not complaining. I'mjust saying it's not one of your favorites.
That's not one of my favorites.If I have a top five october
Fest beers, this one's not evenon it. And again that's at jameson
radio. If you want to tellme how wrong I am. But alright,
this is not on my top fiveoctober Fest beers that I enjoy.
I'm I'm not gonna disagree. Idon't know that I would put it in
my top five, but it's apretty fantastic beer. No even old I'm

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not saying it's not a fantastic beer. I'm just saying it's not my favorite.
Okay, all right, all right, all right, Well that's what
we've got here. So we crackedopen because I've got Stump Beer her Bill
from Harvard Ltton here helping me putdown the beers and celebrate. Uh,
speaking of putting down the beers lastweek, James, it was a hit,

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dude, beers and bears. Idon't get this sudden like just bears
or just everywhere, because bears,like, you know what, let's party.
I guess if you know, they'reabout to go to hibernation in the
next few months, so they're justtrying to like just party it up before
they, you know, go inhybernation for a few months. So we
talked about this. A bear crasheda party. They're like having a backyard

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barbecue and all of a sudden,this bear just shows up. And then
luckily Mike was there. Mike waslike, cos shoot, shoot, shoot,
and so the drunk barrels Mike knowsus or not, but he's there.
I don't know who Mike is either, but Mike was at this party,
and Mike had a couple of beersin them and a little liquid courage,
and he was like just trying towalk this bear out, like,
hey, hey, come on,bear, you've had a milk, it's

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time for you to leave. You'refitting people, you're being out of control.
And so the bear's casually just walkingout. He's like, you know,
you're right, Mike, You're right. And right as Mike opens that
fence to lead out into the street, the bear just looks at Mike and
goes, you know what, fyou swhack right in the right across the
face. It just whacks him.And then the bear just casually walks off.

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And then somewhere I don't know howif you're kicking me out, Mike,
but the bear. The bear walkedfrom Pennsylvania, this is where Mike
was hanging out, and somewhere onthe way to Florida lost a leg,
so now he was a three leggedbear. And then and then he breaks
into a home and drinks three whiteclaws. Right, there were four white

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claws in the fridge, but heonly had three legs, so he drank
three of them. Yeah, andnow and now the bear wasn't done partying
because somehow, you know, rememberhe's in Florida. Now he's made his
way to disney World's Frontier Land.Because somehow the bear got into the park.
Someone's folks were not making this uponspotted in a tree near Disney's Big

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Thunder Mountain roller coaster, and arounda dozen attractions had to close temporarily,
including Big Thunder Mountain, Pirates ofthe Caribbean in the Hotted Mansion in this
Fitting the Country Bear Jamboree show.You heard that right. They had a
close to maybe because there was abear. Maybe the bear was showed up
for an audition. I don't know, but the whole park had longer weight

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lines than usual while the Florida Fishand Wildlife Commission dealt with it, and
Disney put out a statement saying thatthey were working on capturing and relocating the
bear, maybe sitting back to Pennsylvaniaand hang out with Mike. But a
bunch of attractions did reopen around oneo'clock, officials said, But they were
seeing carrying the bear out on atarp around one fifteen. Either they just

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put a dart in it and thenor they just fed him some more in
white claws and he just I wasgonna say, he probably found his way
over over the Epcot where you canhave a beer in every country, and
he went through and had one andthen he was like, all right,
I had enough. It's time forme. Hey, where's Mike. Can
he show me the exit because Iwant to get out of here. But

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here's a fun Florida only has blackbears and that's what it was, a
black bear and they say it wasprobably just moving through the area looking for
some food to pack on a youknow, on wait for winter. Thankfully,
no reports of any injuries. However, it was asking for Mike and
was walking around with one white claw. But yeah, Disney World had to
close down some rides after a beargot in the park. This bears getting

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wild. Well, I think here'sthe thing. They did talk to a
bear psychologist and they said they saidword got out into the wilderness. Though
that Disneyland is the self proclaimed happiestplace on Earth and bears a party.
That's why the barrels dot. He'slike, I want to go the happiest
place in the world, especially thecountry bear jambois show, right, But

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he misheard because if you go outto California, the Iconic disney Land,
not disney World, disney Land,while he was still dark from the White
Claws, Chad right, so hecouldn't. He didn't know. He's like,
yeah, I'm going down to Floridais getting cold soon. It's gonna
be warm down there. While outin California, they're putting in more locations

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in Disneyland where you can enjoy thebeautiful beverages that we like to have,
and of course bears do too.They're adding three more what is its alcohol
to three more of its locations,the River Bell Terrace, the Carnation Cafe,
and Cafe Orleans, and visitors nowcan indulge in a wide array of
beer, wine, and liquor atthe Iconic Disneyland park in California. By

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the way, this just in.There are bears migrating from Florida to California.
They're not hibernating, they're on theirway. Be expecting them to show
up any in the next two tothree weeks. But this basically moves from
a departure from the park's long standingpolicy of being a dry theme park.
That's right, that's what old WaltDisney himself. He was like, you

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know what, this is a placewhere it's for families when you're not going
to serve any kind of booze.And then he died and they're like,
yep, he's dead, let's goahead and start up in those taps.
That's right. I find it funnythough that In twenty nineteen, Disneyland made
a groundbreaking change with their debut ofStar Wars Galaxy Edge, which introduced the
oga's cantina like the old cantina scenefrom the Star Wars movie where they're drinking.

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Oh yeah. That was the firstever establishment within the park to serve
alcohol. But the decision to servealcohol goes against the personal beliefs of Walt
Disney himself. Yes, he's spinningin his grave because he apparently helps very
strong opposition alcohol being served in histheme parks. But you know what the
current organizers of Disneyland said. Theysaid, twenty one and older can drink

(29:00):
unless you're a bear that likes theparty. And then if you're a bear
that likes the party, you don'tneed an idea. If you can find
your way in, yeah, youcan get yourself a beer. Is there
a sign outside the gates that it'slike no bears allowed. Its discriminating.
Uh. But you know, ofcourse, when a story comes out like
that, you gotta read the comments. Oh here comes the fucks. Yep.

(29:25):
There's always there's always some kind ofnaysayers out there. They're like,
this is bad news. This isa place for kids now turned into a
bar. Yep. Yep. Nextthing you know, dad, you're gonna
be spanking their kids again with achair across the face. I'm like,
oh no, it's not. It'snot gonna turn into a riot. Look.

(29:47):
I remember when Sea World did thisand they limited they were giving away
beer and they limited you to whattwo drinks a day? Right, and
yeah, and things like that.It happens anytime a story comes out like
this. Like I remember we dida story like a Target, some slick
targets around the country. We're servingwine and beer and they're like, ooh
goos, dr drivers, what's let'sstop. It's just in bears are shopping

(30:11):
at Target. Now. You knowwhat, I'm gonna be on the lookout
if you see any stories regarding bearsand party in sit in my way.
That's what's on tap Radio at gmaildot com because I'm feeling there's more and
more stories coming out bears crashing parties, stealing people's booze. And luckily Mike
was there to be like, ah, you ain't crashing this party, get

(30:32):
on out of here, and thatbear said, you know what, Mike
gonna leave? But what right onthe ass? All right, we gotta
take your break. Enough of thisbear talk. I can go on all
day about it. But what there'ssome other stuff to talk about. Speaking
of beer, how about the perfectbeer can pass. Oh, it's so
much more coming up. We'll grabback think, Oh you want we prefer
to drink outside the box. Youhave good taste. Hey, what's on

(30:56):
tap? What's this? Is what'son tap Radio? Yeah? Yeah,
you know how we do it right, Welcome back to the show. What's
the show? You asked? Ifyou've never heard, it's what's on tap

(31:18):
Radio. And if you haven't heardit, it's welcome back that you're hanging
out with dust frig us some octoberFest beers, the Polotter october Fest Beard,
which I'm almost done with. Igot into my half leader. Fun
fact it's got the dimples on it. Why has it have dimples for better
grip, better grip. Oh wow, look at that. I thought I

(31:40):
had something to do with the decreasingthe surface area in case you were clinking
the glasses together. Could it bethat well as well? But also for
yeah, all right, Well,if we have an engineer or physics major
somewhere available that can maybe do ananalysis for us and then send us a
diagram or maybe even working like alike a CG video that explains it all

(32:01):
to you if you want to do. That's what's on tap radio at AOL
dot com. That's right, Yeah, find us on Netscape. It's not
a real email. It's not it'snot a real email. And the Netscape
is gone. Man, I mean, oh they were. Yeah. I

(32:24):
think I think the original ring Heiskawas published on what was it, Friendster
or shared on napster beta tape.There you go beta, Bill says.
Bill says, put it on putit on high def Beta. That's how
you can check out. That's howyou can check out the show on the

(32:45):
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All the eight tracks out there No, But if you want to, yeah,
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(33:07):
the old Empire Records and go,hey, I'm looking forward the old What's
on tap? Oh, we gotinto back. We got in the biggest
to be a tower record here andI bought those forty five's What's on Tap
Radio? Fun facts? Sam Goody, you got us man, check us
out as Sam Goody. Uh.We're being way too cynical for this show.
It's time to get serious, James, because we're gonna open up another

(33:30):
beer here and I'm gonna have HarborLight. Bill, go ahead and crack
this open then, uh, Bill, what are we? What are we
drinking? Here? Brought a beerfrom Sheboygan Brewing. Nobody knows where Sheboygan
is. Northern Michigan, Oh,Northern Michigan called the Las Servesa Blonde ale.
Oh, La Servesa Okay, andit's very similar to a Mexican logger.

(33:52):
I say, what is an Irishstoubt no brood with a little corn
maze and barley. All right,right, well, wow, look at
that. That's almost try I meanseriously, that's that is light. That
is light, that's lightened golden light. There. I don't even know that's
that's frothy head on their Chad.I know that like the body of the

(34:13):
beer is almost the same color asthe head. I mean it looks very
Let's have a sit here, weYes, Chad is drinking out of the
same Adam's glass. Good observation.Oh my goodness. But it's a very
crushable, very crushable, crushable cleanChris bail and Chad is drinking like it's
a Provisions crushable come back. That'syeah. That that there is if you're

(34:35):
thirsty, that's uh. Robert earroKeane once said, that's that's my get
me another beer beer. That's whatI call. Yeah. Is that a
quote? And coming in at fourpercent? That's a good very You can
have one of these all day,Yeah you can. That's ah, that's
tasty. All right, Well Isee that I crushed mine and Bill finished
the can. Okay, all right, so he's he Chris Spradley poured himself.

(35:00):
All right, So thanks a lot. All right, but I was
gonna give a Bill a chance here. We were talking about in this segment,
we want to talk about a brewerythat wants to be and needs to
be, in many people's eyes,saved. I agree with this story.
I feel like they need to besaved. But I want to, I
want to. I want to giveBill just a second here to do a
little shout out. We've been teasingthis a little bit. We're not gonna

(35:22):
go too deep into the story.But while other breweries are closing, and
we heard news of another brewery closing, a long time brewery, Texas Brewery
closing this past week, Circle Brewingclosed Circle Doors out of Austin, Texas.
I thought Beto was going to keepthe lights on for him, but
seat so, yeah, that's right, Okay. Anyway, there's a long

(35:45):
story behind that. If you wantto know, send me in, send
us a message, what's on TapRadio gmail dot com. I'll fill you
in or we'll talk about it someother time. But while some breweries are
closing, another brewery is expanding andopening another location. Bill, Yes,
we're Harvard Light Brewery and South Haven, Michigan, and we're looking at expanding

(36:06):
to Grandville, Michigan, just onthe southwest side of Grand Rapids. We're
gonna call ourselves Oakstown Brewing. We'regonna stick with the same business plan,
the same theme that we have inSouth Haven, where we're just going to
serve our beer and that's it.It's a tap room brewery, no food.

(36:27):
And yet somehow Bill's found a wayto make that model work down in
South Haven. Bill and his businesspartners and his team, so it's not
Bill by himself, but they're gonnaduplicate that model in Granville, Michigan.
So we're gonna find out more aboutthat. Bill and I've been talking.
Maybe I have a few things inthe works, a little teas there,
but yeah, well yeah, Imean, well, nothing else. I

(36:52):
guarantee you, James, there's beercoming your way. Oh hey, Bill,
y'all do in october Fest? Yeswe are. This weekend kicks off.
We have a five k race octoberFest, and we're working on getting
the German Alpin Horns and to HarborLight and a couple of weeks there releasing

(37:15):
a harvest Ale Fresh pick hops andon october Fest beer all right, we'll
see yeah, now see he mentionedharvest Al. I'm gonna go ahead and
do this now. I'm gonna transitionhere back to our good friends over at
Tantrick Brewing Company and Alligan here proudsponsors of this show, and Alligan city
of five thousand people where I live. We have three breweries, Herron Mark,

(37:37):
Shane Dorf and Tantric. That's incredibleand they're all walking distance. They're
in the same I mean, youcan you can go into one of the
breweries, get a beer to go, walk to the next brewery, get
a beer to go and walk tothe next Wait, can you walk into
the brewery with the beer that yougot to go at the other brewery or
do you have to You're not supposedto do that. You're supposed to finish

(37:57):
it before you walk in the gun. But if you still have a beer
when you get from one brewer tothe next, you're not drinking fast enough
across the street. What do youdo about that? Well? Yeah,
I mean it's only it's in allseriousness, it's like one hundred and fifty
yards from Tantrick to Harron Mark.In like two hundred yards from Heron Mark
to Shane Darf So you've gotta drinkfast. But what they've put in place

(38:17):
for this fall harvest season is they'vedone a Harvest Aale competition. This is
very cool. For one week,you can visit any one of the locations
and try their version of a harvestdaleand they're all following uh I think they're
following the same recipe, but they'reall brewing it on their system and who
brews it the best and you votefor your favorite one and it's a friendly

(38:39):
competition. Nobody's going to be disappointedthey I mean, somebody's got to finish
third. But it's a fun wayto showcase these ai is AI also bringing
no ai is not in chat GPTs, not coming up with a recipe you're
smart, alec No. But somegood people over in Alegan putting this together.

(39:00):
So if you're thinking of something funto do as a brewer, look
at your neighborhood brewers, you knowyour neighbors and say, hey, you
know this might be something to do. We're gonna emulate and do it.
Do it Allgan's doing. So anyway, that's what's going on in the world
around us here in West Michigan andwith our good friends who are hanging out
with us on the show and alsosponsoring this show. But out on the

(39:22):
West Coast Anchor Brewing, the employeesare trying to save it. This is
cool, man, yeah, Acollective of workers from the nation's oldest craft
brewery. Get this. They haveraised more than seventy thousand dollars go fund
me campaign, and the plan isused to buy the company back from the

(39:42):
current owner of Sapporo, which isnow its plans in July to shut down
the brewery after one hundred and twentyseven years of operation. So that's more
than twenty thousand dollars above the group'sgoal because they originally wanted to just raise
fifty thousand, and the campaign hitthat total in less than five days,
with one anonymous donor even chipping intwenty five hundred dollars. And I liked

(40:05):
how it says anonymous. Not allpeople are like, hey, look at
me, I'm donating all this.They remained anonymous, chipping in twenty five
hundred dollars, but as of airday today, they have raised ninety seven
thousand, five hundred and forty threedollars. All right, So Anchor Brewing
employees have raised over ninety seven thousanddollars to buy back the country's oldest craft

(40:28):
brewery. How about that. Andthey're not saying no. This is something
that means a lot to us,It means a lot to the community,
it means a lot to the nation. We're not gonna let this just go
away. And this isn't the firsttime that the brewery suffered. So back
in the nineteen sixty five they alsofell on hard times and that's when Frederick
Lewis Fritz Maytag the Third came inand swooped in and bought it and saved

(40:49):
it. So pretty cool news.All right? Coming up an hour number
two, how much is a leaderof beer going at october Fest? We'll
discuss this's What's on tap? Radyto hang with this. We'll be right
back when someone says, hold mybeer. You know a trip to the
er is in your future, Sohold your own beer, buddy, and
just listen to more What's on tapWhat's on Tap Radio? All right,

(41:27):
welcome to our number two What's onTap Radio? Still a lot on tap,
a lot to get to. Youmissed the first hour, That's okay.
The podcast will be available veryy soon, sponsored by a friends at cast
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(41:52):
there, So go back and checkout old episodes for free. We don't
charge. We don't do that.Some other shows they made charge, like
hey, man'll let you listen tothe first show, but after that you
gotta pay up, but not not. We don't do that. We don't
do that. But you know theother part of that is, though,
James, even with our show beingfree, we offer a double your money
back guarantee if you're not satisfied.You know what's crazy and the history of

(42:15):
the show we've been on for tenyears, we've never ever ever had to
double up on that money back guaranteebecause everybody's satisfied. Yeah, I was
gonna say, I feel like thisis a Tommy Boy moment. You know,
It's like you want me to markguaranteed on the box. I can
work guarantee on the box. Youknow. I can do that, you
know, and we can because nobody'sever asked us. It's like, all

(42:36):
right, I'm cashing that in.But if you want to cash in that
double your money back guarantee zero dollars. You will get all of it back
times too. So yeah we will. We will just get a hold of
us and we'll send it to ourfinance department. But I got a beer
to crack. I'm gonna crack thatopen in a second. But it still
got a lot of good. Tothis hour, we're gonna talk about how

(42:58):
much at beer's gonna cost at Octoberfests. You know, you go out
to a football game or a baseballgame, you know you're gonna pay some
premium prices for some beer. Buthow much you're gonna pay when you go
out to October fests? I've alwayswondered, like, how much does it
cost? Well, I'm glad youbrought that up because they just started selling
beer at Spartan Stadium at Michigan Statewhere we're season ticket holders. My daughters,

(43:21):
Oh, there's gonna be a littlefights, I bet. No,
no, no, there were nofights. I mean, the only,
the only I mean, trust me, we were looking for a little fight
from our team against Washington, anduh yeah, it was a it was
a pretty bad beat down, butwe still stood with him, and we
you know, we cheered, Werooted all the way through. But I

(43:43):
wanted to buy a beer in thestadium because it was the first day you
could buy a beer in the stadium. So I thought, I'll just buy
one just so I can say Idid it. Nope, I could get
a pretzel, I could get ahot dog, I could get popcorn,
I could I could go to thebathroom. No line, no wait.
But if you wanted to be wow, oh, you gotta get in line.
Uh. The line was insane.Chat multiple chat, didn't pull the

(44:07):
hole. Do you know who Iam? Moved out of my way?
Do you know who I am?No? No, I didn't. Oh
my gosh, dude. The lineswere insane. And then when I finally
said, all right, I'm gonnastand in this line, I don't care
how long it takes to get abeer. I walked up there and all
they had were BMC, bud Miller, Coors. They were out of Oberon,

(44:28):
they were out of shorts, theywere out of they were basically they
were out of all craft beer.All they had was mass produced beer.
And I was like, yeah,there's a game. Next week we aquafina
and a pretzel. So yeah,maybe next week chat and get that fifteen
dollars Oberon. But I have abeer right here. I'm gonna crack open

(44:51):
the bill brought this. It's amystery beer from Starving Artist. And when
I say mystery beer, I meanliterally there is nothing on the can.
So we're gonna pour it in ourglass and we'll talk about it later in
the show. All right, let'sdo this. Hold my beer and watch
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(45:12):
I thought I've we've never done astory like this before, but I think
we have. But say what youwill about this guy, but he's still
a kid at heart. You don'tremember that song A Toys Arrus kid,
A kid I don't want to growup. I couldn't be a Toys r
Us kid. Yeah, you neverwant to grow up you shop at Toys
Rus. Apparently this is what thisguy did. He's a fifty one year
old named Jack McKee, and hegot arrested in Indiana. Yeah, Florida,

(45:37):
you have the week off this week. Again the other day for driving
under the influence. Not a goodthing to do, all right, But
the story is what he was driving. Say, I'll cop pulled him over
around nine pm on a Wednesday andthey saw him driving down the street.
Ready for this one in a powerwheel. No, yeah, power wheels.

(46:01):
I remember that commercial, Go Gopower wheels, Go Go power wheels.
Oh yes, well yeah it's powerwheels. Man. My parents never
got me one. Always won onone as a kid, and all the
kids had one in the neighborhood.But I never got an oversized nine bowl
battery. You dropped that thing intoa little plastic uh, like a hot
wheels, but you could had alittle plastic doors on it and that thing

(46:21):
roll around it like I don't know, six miles an hour or something.
Yeah. All the kids in theneighborhood were like across the street from me,
and the cool kids parrow wheels areall driving around the street blocking,
you know, causing traffic and soforth. So funny. My dad was
like your own. But they hadn'treleased a photo of it. Don't worry,
I was looking for it. Butit was a power wheel jeep.
If you were asking the kind ofyou might have, but yeah, the

(46:45):
cop noted that power wheel was hardto see because it didn't have any lights
or reflectors. So again, justto be clear, not street legal,
just in case you're wondering. Buthe got arrested after failing a sobriety test.
He failed it, miserable bully,and then they tested him at the
hospital and not only alcohol in hissystem, meth in his system as well.

(47:07):
There was meths the hole. SI gotta ask the question was the
first field sobriety test? Sir?Can you tell me what vehicle you're driving?
Yeah, it's a ninety eight Wranglerteach like well Lacy knows his Jeeps,
but no, it's a power wheelssir. All right, now tell

(47:31):
me your ABC's now count to ten. Uh. He is facing charges for
operating a vehicle while intoxicated, andthe punishment could be stiffer than usual.
He's also had a previous conviction forit too, so I'm not sure if
he's been convicted of driving another poweranother different type of power wheel, or

(47:52):
if it was an actual street legalautomobile. I'm thinking this guy probably got
busted for driving a street legal automobileand he thought you know what, my
kids got a power wheel loophole.I bet you that's probably what he was
thinking. He's like, look,how I can't get in trouble for driving.
But it is a motor vehicle.It is a vehicle. I mean,

(48:12):
whether it's a golf cart or amotorize, a cooler or a power
wheel, it's a motor vehicle.And yes, you can get a dui
and a grown man. Yes,got a dui on a power wheel.
And this has been brought to youby Renalda Tenhagen insurance group. Where if
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(48:37):
him back on the show. Iwant to find out do they ensure power
wheels? You know, I canimagine he probably had a beer in the
in the car with him, butit didn't say anything about it. But
I know you had he had tohave some kind of beverage. You're not
driving a power wheel drunk without abeer. And you're if you're an adult
in a power wheel, you gota beer? Yeah, you do,
especially a power wheel, all right, that is your whole my beer and

(48:59):
watched the can't make this stuff upfolks. That is a kid at heart
right there. All right, we'regonna take it, Braddy. We'still to
get too. How much is aleader of beer gonna cost you if you
go out to a munich for OctoberFest. We'll talk about that. We'll
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(49:55):
this week's What's on Top Radio,mysteryiees Chat and Bill hanging out in studio,
cracked up in a mystery beer.No identification whatsoever on the can,
no label, just a silver can. But they're nailing down the silver bullet.
It's a course late, just asilver bullet, just a plain ordinary

(50:17):
silver can. Do you remember whenthere was a can shortage and this would
have been treated like gold unless itwas brew dog And then they had a
real gold can, except it wasn'treal gold, it was fake goal.
Uh yeah, we're trolling brew Dogright now. We're gonna talk about brew
Dog later in the show. They'redoing some trolling themselves. Yeah, but
uh yeah, this is a AsJames said, this is a it's a

(50:39):
mystery beer. So what is it? It's not an actual course light?
What is it? What did whatdid you guys discover in this mystery beer?
All right, I'm gonna tell youwhat I taste, and then Bill's
gonna tell all of us what itis because Bill knows. By the way,
in studio here Alegan Michigan from herberLight Brewing and also Oakstown Brewery.

(51:00):
We'll talk more about that later,but Bill's here stunt beer Liver. I'm
getting, first of all, abeautiful sour beer, and I'm actually getting
I'm picking up a little bit oflactose in there, very smooth, very
creamy. Let me have one moresip here. I'm getting lime as well,

(51:22):
so I'm going with I mean limesour lactose milkshake something, Bill,
what are we drinking? Well?I picked up a couple of cans of
these at the Burning Foot Beer Festival. Never released so it's kind of a
surprise beer from Starving Artists. Hestole it, it was never released up

(51:43):
in Luddington. A Kiwi sour kiwiYep, and it is. You are
absolutely correct, Chad, that verycreamy, very sour, super crushable beer.
Yeah, this is great. It'sdelicious and like every beer that Starving
Artists makes, a great place anda great beer. That's a fun brewery

(52:05):
to go to. But you gottafind it correct. It's off, it's
not in the woods, somewhere onsomebody's farm, and then you gotta go
down a dirt driveway and then it'sback in there. It's like, hey,
is this barn here? Is thisthe brewery? Yes it is.
And when you meet Andy by theway, he knows us and he listens
to the show, so there's aname drop for him. I want to
thank Starving Artists for hooking us upwith some beer over the years. And

(52:28):
you get up to Luddington, yougotta check it out. And if you're
not sure where Luddington is, doI look like Dora, look at it
on a map. Okay, you'llfind it, okay, And Chad,
it's totally worth it to go there. Oh it is. It is gets
good place, good people up there, a lot of fun. But James,
your glass is empty. It is. I am done with the Pollner
October Fest beer. I'm not onthe seventh beer like Bill and Chad not

(52:51):
on that seventh. But you know, I was drinking some German beer.
But now I'm I'm gonna bring itback to America. And the beer I'm
bringing as an American pilsner. Andthis is from five one two Brewing Company
out of Austin, Texas. Thisis five one two pills. What's interesting
about this can is now notice thischat. I don't know if you could

(53:12):
see this, but on the labelis the Texas craft Brewers Guild. So
go you see that, I seeit. So you have the official craft
beer seal from the Brewers Association,all right and defendently owned and operated.
That's how you know if it's acraft beer. You see the upside down
bottle, but right above it isa recycling cancer, I mean recycling so

(53:32):
you can recycling you. And thenabove that is the Texas craft Brewers Guild
seal. So I thought that waspretty interesting. So I wonder if many
craft brewers here in the Texas marketare going to be adopting this new seal.
I've not seen that before, butthis is the five one two pills.
I'm going crack this, bringing itback to America. Usually, you
know, we drink these German stylepillsners, but this is an American style

(53:54):
pillsner. So I'm gonna go andpour this into my dim Last year Texas
is Texas has a lot of Germanheritage and German roots. I mean from
Fredericksburg to the Hill Country spinner Shiner, all Stadt. You got, as
I said, the Fredericksburg breweries andthen live Oak right right Voke makes great

(54:17):
German beers. So if you're ifyou're thinking, I'm gonna go down to
Texas and all I'm gonna get isthis light, phizzy, watered down,
tasteless, adjunct beer. No,there's a lot of craft beer in fact,
Texas great beer destination. But ifyou're also looking for authentic German beers,
you're gonna find it there too,Award winning German beers. But you
got the pills from five to onetwo. Austin browed this is at four

(54:39):
point four point three percent. I'llcall by volume and it's basically your typical
pillsner very light and very crisp.So if you like those macro beers and
you think that they're all craft beeris full and thick and you know heavy,
there's pills out there that can standup to those macro pills nerves.

(55:02):
So give it a try. Ohyeah, that's what I'm bringing the five
one two pills Nerve from five onetwo Brewing Company. I'm just gonna if
my buddy we're standing there and hehad one, and I happened to be
just I don't know, out onmy boat, I'd be like, hey,
can I have one of those?Like the boat was passing by,
You're like, hey, if Iwas, If I was out on my

(55:24):
pontoon and he's standing there on thedock and he's like, I said,
what are you drinking? If Iwon two pills or I got myself a
starving artist, uh Kiwi Lime souror Kiwi sour? All right, cool?
Can you throw me one of those? Usually you know where, you
know where, you know what happened. He'd throw it and it would either
hit me in the head and andby the way, true story, this

(55:45):
happened. I'm not making this up. I was. I was swimming and
producer Dusty's pool one time and Iasked my wife to toss me a beer.
And she goes to toss me abeer. Not when you think of
tossing a beer, it's gonna bethat like that light underhand toss. She
threw it like a frisbee, soit's going through the air like and I'm

(56:06):
like, end over end. I'mlike, oh crap, And I go
to grab it and it hits offmy hand and the edge of the can
hits me right between the eyes andbusting me whide open, and I got
blood pouring down my face. Truestory. I'm like, that's not how
you toss a beer. That's notthere's proper ways that toss a beer.
If you don't believe me, askone Andrew Butts, because there's that video

(56:28):
it has gone viral of a Clevelandbrown man his name's Andrew Butts completing a
perfect pass. However, it wasnot at football. He threw a canned
beer from the banks of the KyahogaRiver into a passing freighter that was expecting
it. Now. Andrews and friendswere at the river pregaming before Sunday.
This was a Week one Sunday's brownVersus Bengals game. Brown's won that one

(56:52):
twenty four to three. In caseyou know, but one of his friends
saw the passing ship and yelled,hey man, you want a beer.
Of course, the guy in theboat answer absolutely, but there's no way
in hell you can throw that.So Andrew accepted the challenge. And it
was about a fifty to sixty fiveyard toss, and after the guy on

(57:13):
the freighter caught it, he honkedhis ship's horn and appreciation of the can
of Guess what kind of beer itwas? This is interesting, Well there's
a horn garage and beer. Ohdid you does that beer sound familiar?
Remember the Paluza put a Paluza?Remember Johnny Quinnon, He was the one

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that yes shot guy he went freebeer for He won free beer for a
year or something like that, andhe had a chance to win free beer
for life. Yes, the samecompany. So here is the Browns fan
talking a little bit about throwing thatpass. It was your normal Brown's tailgate

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until it wasn't. Andrew Butts withthe throw of a lifetime. A friend
of mine yelled at a passing ship, hey man, you want a beer,
Guy, says absolutely, but youcannot make that pro like challenge accepted
over the Cuyahoga River to a workeron deck of the passing freighter American Courage.

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Yeah, that was a can ofGarage Beer and Ohio Brew. That
just lucked into a nice bit ofpublicity. Yeah, they've been in publicity
because they had this golf influencer wearinga garage beer shirt and they noticed that
her wearing a shirt and said,hey, they reached out to her like,
hey, how can we do acollab? And now they'd put on

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this put up palooza where they're givinga lot of beer to this one Johnny
Quinnon. And now they made Tshirts with this Andrew Butts guy, you
know, celebrating the moment of throwinga fifty yard pass to a passing freighter.
I thought that was pretty impressive.Now they did ask him, what
do you ever do it again?He said, nope, one and done.

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I saw somewhere they had a namefor that, that catch or two,
like the Kuyahoga Catch or something.Yeah, that's what I was at,
the Kiahoga Catch or something. Butyeah, so there you go,
shout out to him. But wegotta take a break. Oh my god,
all right, So to come,how much is a leader of beer
gonna cost you at october Fest.We're gonna get to it. I promise

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we'll be right back. What's ontap? Where the term social drinker is
taking on a whole new level.How about that? First? What's your
pleasure? Get around and pour around? What's on tap? What's on tap?
It's what's on tap? Radio?Right a to get to before we

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get out of here. Thanks forhanging out with us, James, that's
Chad. That's Bill just inside hangingout. Join some october Fest beers.
Now, I'm on my uh fiveone two pills, which is very nice,
crisp and clean. Bill did avery, very excellent, a really

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excellent job of describing this beer earlier, just a crushable. I don't know
what it was, is like beertwo. They're they're not on beer thirty
right now, we're not on beerthirty, beer thirties when you drink?
Oh, oh, fun fun fact. Oh Bill Arning, he's he's got
another guy who listens to the show. He's a friend of ours in Houston

(01:00:43):
Strong Arm Brewing. He is.He is hilarious. He puts these posts
up on Facebook, and he says, Hey, everybody, swing by the
brewery today. I'm pouring, andstop on by for great stories, good
times, great beer. And remember, your thirteenth beer is on me.
I don't love that. I toldhim one of these days, you watch,

(01:01:07):
I'm gonna I'm gonna order the twelfthbeer and I'm gonna say, get
that next one. Ready. Bill'sgonna get there, eat in the morning,
drink a beer an hour. It'sa different Bill, but still I'm
gonna go see him when I'm intown. Uh, coming back to Houston.
And when I come to Houston,you know you're gonna find me at
the backyard grill. So look forme over there. I'll make it known

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and we'll go hang out and we'lldrink some beer and we'll share some stories.
So remember, I can't remember howmany months ago we talked about this,
but Heineken or a Touch brewer,they have nowanced that they're gonna completely
withdrawal out of Russia. Yeah.I know, yeah, we got both.
We got we got both stories inthis segment from our friends at Superior

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Past Control of West Michigan. Iappreciate them for loading up the inbox.
Uh. They always do an excellentjob. I get. I mean,
I have so many e mails inthere, I can't fit any emails for
bills, like like my, my, my electric bill will come in there
and be like it's so full fromstories from the uh from Superior Pest Control
that they send it so thank you. I can't now I can't pay the

(01:02:12):
electric bill because that bill can't fitin there. They send us text messages,
Hey do you see this? Iget phone calls, Hey did you
read this? Superior Past Control,West Michigan, thank you very much for
being our research department. But uh, Dutch Brewer Heineken, Yeah, they
said a while back, they said, you know, Russia invaded the Ukraine.

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Not really sure that apparently. Iguess it's just not as easy and
going. All right, guys,we're gonna pick up our toys and go
home. Well, here's the thing. You're gonna understand why here in just
a second, we're gonna explain it. Because a lot of people say,
oh, honey, Ken didn't pullout of there fast enough. It's because
they wanted to suck every last dollarout of the whole thing. Games a
week. Oh shut up. Fromthe disclaimer, all right, here we

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go. But yeah, you're right. Withdrawing from a market and being able
to pull out and do something drasticfor a large company, there's a lot
of consequences involved here, as isillustrated in this story, because eighteen months
after Moscow launched its full scale invasionof Ukraine, Heineken is now selling its

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business in Russia and they are sellingit for one euro. Wait what you
heard me? Correctly, they wantout of there. They want nothing to
do with this. They want theywant out of this market completely. They
said, we will sell all ofour business in Russia for one euro,

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as in like a dollar fifty.I'm not making this up. Heineken said.
It's going to incur a total lossof the equivalent of three hundred and
twenty five million dollars that's three hundredmillion euros for the sale of the Russian
manufacturing giant, the Arn'ts group.They're basically saying we're done with this now.

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Heineken's face criticism for their slow paceon their exit in the wake of
the outbreak of the war, butthey insisted, hey, look, we're
seeking to look after our employees first, because if they had just shut down,
they would have screwed over all theemployees. But March last year,
Heneken said that they we're quitting.We're no longer going to do this.

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This is not sustainable, this isnot viable in the current environment, and
we want to ensure an orderly transferto a new owner. Why for the
sake of the employees. But ittook a lot longer than they had hoped
to secure the transaction of the livelihoodsof the employees and getting out of that.
According to the statement from Heineken,the saale covers this is crazy.
The sail covers all of Heineken's asssin Russia, including seven breweries, and

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the company said that the ARTS hasguaranteed the employment of Heineken's eighteen hundred local
staff for three years to be ableto do that. Yeah, yeah,
and about so basically a dollar nowthe dollar in the euro it's like a
buck seven, so whatever, it'snot quite that much. But Heineken beer
brandows removed from Russia in the marketlast year, so Heineken's Beer was gone,

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gone, but they that was justone of their major brands. Amstell
was another one to be phased outwithin six months. So I mean it's
not as easy like you said,to just say, all right, Russia,
we're done with you, back yourstuff and go home. That's right.
It's five o'clock. We're turning offthe lights and we're not going to
be back here at eight am tomorrowin turn the lights back on. But

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it took them a little longer eighteenmonths. But now they're going to take
a three hundred million dollars three hundredand twenty five million dollar loss just to
get out of Russia. And theyin the process of doing it, they're
ensuring that all of the employees whohad nothing to do with the invasion of

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the Crean are being taken care of. So bravo Heieken. I know you're
in criticism, but you know what, those those keywoard cowboys and those armchair
quarterbacks, they don't really know everythingthat's happening and uh and what it takes
to be able to divest from amarket like that. But that's a huge
commitment. They're selling all that businessfor one year old. That's interesting.

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That reminds me of the story ofDave portnoy El, presidente of Barstool,
sold Barstool for six hundred and tenmillion dollars. A few months later buys
it back for a dollar. WhatYeah, how about that? Yeah,
so that's interesting speaking of that,that's that's business, buddy, business,

(01:06:42):
It's it's really interesting. I'm abig fan of Dave portnoy El, presidente
of Barstool One Bite. Everybody knowsthe rules. But yeah, he sold
it for six hundred and ten milliondollars and yeah, a few months later
buys it back for a dollar.Also speaking of money, going out to
October fests and Munich, well,not us this year, but it is
on the buckle list, It ison the bucky list. Is something I

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definitely want to do, but notthis year. But I got to thinking
how much is one leader of beergonna cost you at Munich's October Fest.
Which is interesting because the person whowrote this article apparently has never been to
an NFL game, a baseball game, an NBA game, any game that

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sells stadium price beers. Because itsays and I and I quote and I'm
not making us up. When Maryrevelers from around the world lift their beer
steins to mark the start of OctoberFest in Bavaria, capital of Munich,
they might want to sip slowly given. Now they're gonna be paying fourteen dollars
and sixty seven sins part a leaderthat's a thirty three I think it was

(01:07:49):
a thirty three point six ounces orthirty three pointy eight ounces. That's two
pints. It's more than two pintsof beer. Fourteen dollars and sixty seven
cents. And how many they're aboutseven dollars a pint. That's seven and
a half dollars a pint. That'sthat's three twelve ounce beers and a leader.
So you're paying fourteen dollars and sixtyseven cents. Now, if you're

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going out to a ball game andNFL game, MLB game, NBA game,
for fourteen dollars, you're getting whatone little twelve ounce aluminum can aluminum
bottle. Yeah, you're you mightbe. You might get you know,
sixteen ounce pour or something like that. But still the point is is,
now you're not getting a sixteen ouncepour for fourteen dollars. You're about eighteen
dollars. I guess, depending onwhat ballpark you go to, But it

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depends on what beer you're getting too. But I'm sitting here, I'm doing
the math on this though, ifyou go to a bar and you order,
if you order a German october Festbeer and you get a twelve ounce
bottle of it, five bucks allday, maybe six you buy three of
them, that'll fill that glass,that's eighteen bucks. That's fifteen to eighteen
dollars. Right there, you're winningat Octoberfest. I don't understand the math

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on this that where people are gonna. I feel there's a part of the
world that looks at fourteen dollars andsixty seven cents per leader expensive. Because
we talked about this earlier, werehow many people go out to october Fest
six million and how many leaders aresold six millions? So maybe that's what
it is. Maybe people are lookingat it going, oh my god,

(01:09:20):
fourteen dollars and sixty seven cents.I better drink this very slowly. See
I don't I think when you andI started doing this show, october Fest
beer was like seven or eight dollars. Okay, it has gone up in
inflation has gone up, so itwas like it was like seven night bucks.
I'm not bitching about fourteen dollars andsixty seven because this is crazy because

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when we started, let's say itwas seven I think we did, or
maybe it was eight bucks and itwas like, this year is gonna cost
nine dollars and whoa, well,now all of a sudden it's up there.
But when you look at what thecurrent market conditions are and what inflation
is, I don't think it's goneup nearly as much as inflation. And
then it's easier to swallow pun intended. Wow, what a pro But yeah,

(01:10:05):
a Leader Stein of beer at Munixfamed october Fest. It's gonna cost
you a rough fifteen dollars this year. The humanity, I mean, I
would be happy to pay fourteen dollarsseven sins for a Leader. You go
to a ball game and pay fora Leader beer, it's gonna be thirty
six dollars and sixty seven sins.Easy, all right, you buy my

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airline ticket, I'll buy your leader, you fly I buy. All right,
We're gonna take a break, soto come. We're gonna talk about
BrewDog trolling and what else have wegot going on? Oh? Donald Trump
on a beer can? Donald Trumpon a beer can. We'll be right
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of here, I still got toget to Donald Trump on a beer mug
or a beer can. That's interestingand then this story I saw this,

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I'm like, okay, I allbites. So well, there's no surprise
that the na's growing not alcoholic beverages. That is just an exploding, exploding
industry right there. They what dowe say, Athletic brewing Companies projected to
make I forget what, a billiondollars by twenty something, I don't know,

(01:13:41):
but here to make a lot ofmoney. They're on the rank game
right now. When they ranked thetop craft breweris in the United States,
Athletic Brewing was in the top fifty. Yeah, that was in a category.
Is just really just blowing up.And now there's a little bit of
a non alcoholic brew war going on. So get this right. The non

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alcoholic beer sphere has been bubbling andnews of brew Dog, globally renowned brewery
whatever, decided to disrupt the teetotallandscape with a bold statement a few weeks
ago, and intriguing scene unfolded whenbrew Doog took a saucy swipe at the
top alcoholic beer maker Athletic Brewing Companyon their Facebook page. So setting the

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scene with their flagship non alcoholic beerpunk AFIPA. That's what brew Dogs has
a new NA beer called punk AFIPAcrafted a cleverly parody pointing out towards Athletic
Brewing Company much loved Run Wild IPA. You know what, I'm a fan
of the athletic beers. You knowone, take a little bit of a
break. Athletic beers are pretty good. So they marketed a significant shift in

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the industry that has traditionally been morecooperative, focusing on promoting the concept of
benefits of non alcoholic beer together.But this time they're going, you know
it, let's call these guys out. So they put out a ad on
their Facebook page and it says threetimes less calories plus seven times less carbs
than the leading non alcoholic IPA.So they have the BrewDog Non o'clock punk

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Af versus the athletic Run Wild IPA, and it says they have twenty calories
compared to the athletic sixty five calories, two point three grams of carbs compared
to the athletic sixteen grams gluten reducedyes for BrewDog, and question mark question
mark question mark for the Athletic RunWild IPA. So apparently, how what

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happened is Athletic Brewing Company decided toexpand into the UK market, which is
traditionally the BrewDog market, and Iguess brew Dog thinking, hey, you're
coming on to my turf. Thisis my home turf. So they took
a jab at them on their Facebookpage. So we'll see how this plays
out. It's guerrilla marketing, isreally what it is. I'm so a

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lot of people are calling it trolling. As as a marketing guy, I'm
gonna say that's guerrilla marketing. Now. The question I have though, is
I have yet to see any illwill against Athletic Brewing Company. They're providing
a healthy alternative for people who can'thave alcohol and if you don't like no
alcoholic beer, don't drink it.But that you're not their customer. But

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to kind of pull a guerrilla marketingstunt against them brew Dog. Brew Dog
has been in the news enough well, you know, try to stay relevant.
But they brew Dog's not like that. That Athletic Brewing Company is opening
up our operations in the UK.That's their home turf. Not get out
of here. This is there's nothere's not room for two of us in

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this neighborhood. Yeah, they've bullieda lot of people at least in accusation.
I'm not gonna say they're guilty ofeverything they've been accused of. Brew
Dog. They did ban you onTwitter, No they didn't. James Watt
did. James Watt he named dropfor James dropping him. I made a

(01:17:11):
mistake and he took offense to it. Yeah, you hung up on him
on the phone. It was anaccident and he took it. Wasn't it
was on purpose. It was onpurpose, and you said the tape still
out there and you hung up onpurpose because he didn't call in at the
right time. It was an accident, and then we had to take a
call from Julia Hurts from Now there'sa name drop, we'll give all right,

(01:17:32):
all right? So, yeah,I don't know James Watt is one
of the co owners of Brudog ifyou didn't know who that was. But
I'm not Yeah, I'm not.I'm I'm not a fan of this particular
grill of marketing because Athletic didn't threatenyou with sales or market share or anything
else. They're they're not coming afteryour core business. Do you think that?

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Sorry, Athletics in a rebuttal,No, Athletics, dude, they
have they have launched like a likea ship to the moon. I mean,
they are just they're killing it.One hand on the rudder, the
other one on the sail. Smoothsailing, baby. Let them just keep
going and people can keep firing shots. I think athletics gonna do just fine.

(01:18:17):
They don't need They always say don'twrestle with a pig in the mud
because people standing on the outside watchingcan't tell the difference. Okay, don't
do it, all right, brewdoc rolls Athletic Brewing Company. Well,
yeah they do. Yeah. I'mjust thinking they're happy to get the publicity.
There you go. Yeah, that'sgot it. All right. Well,

(01:18:40):
let's go ahead and wrap up theshow talking about something we talked a
little bit about last week, theAltra Right beer. Oh yeah, the
anti woke beer, Altra right.I say, send it to us,
we'll try it, we'll review it. I'll be honest. Oh yeah,
yeah yeah. So Seth Weathers.He is the company's founder and CEO,

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and he is the former director ofTrump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign in Georgia.
And he launched Conservative Dad's Ultra RightBeer. Well, he did that in
response to the controversy surrounding bud Lightand saying, don't give your money to
woke breweries. Now, no,no, spend money with a company that
focuses on conservative values. Well,just recently, he launched a limited edition

(01:19:26):
can of the ultra right beer featuringDonald Trump's mug shot. Now, I
would have thought some ultraliberal company wouldhave done this, but nope, nope,
nope. This is the mug shotthat was taken when he was booked
in Atlanta's Fulton County jail, andhe faces thirteen counts in the state in
connection with the alleged conspiracy to overturnthe election in twenty twenty. But whether's

(01:19:48):
this is the ultra right, antiwoke limited edition can dubbed Conservative Dad's Revenge.
It's going to be offered on thebeer's website. He says that sales
have already gone through the roof.It's insane. A six pack is priced
at twenty five dollars plus shipping,and this is my favorite one. Here.

(01:20:12):
The website says each sale defends conservativesagainst the unconstitutional prosecution by the communist
Fulton County District Attorney Muhahaha. Iadded the Muhaha but that was all on
the website. And let's sit therenow. We've talked about this before and
I'm gonna end on this note.We tell people if your if your brewery,

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stay out of politics or else itmay come back and backlash at you.
This entire business model is all political. We'll see how it all turns
out. And that is this episodeof What's on Tap Radio. Let's thank
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