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What's on Tap? High five?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Who? This is What's on Tap Radio Beer and the
culture that flows with it. Kears Beer Guru James Simpson
and Beer Logics Chadpilbe.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Many Christmas, Happy holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Hello, James has a beard, he feels qualified.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
That's bure Logic Chad Pilbeam, harbl Bill and writing Shotgun.
In this episode, that's me Bearder James Saison wishing everyone
a merry Christmas and happy holidays, our last show of
twenty twenty four. Yeah, I was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
You better start clarifying here because people people are gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Be like what behind the scenes producers really don't like
it when we annow said it's our last show of
the year, because then they're like, well, we still have
a couple of weeks the year, and that means they're
not gonna be tuning in when we have Best Us. Yeah,
people listening because we have really really really okay best us.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Right, our best ofs are okay.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Oh no, but welcoming to your holiday party. On the radio.
This is what's on tap radio. That's previous. You mentioned
we got uh pretty Loud you Chap Hillbeam, Harbor Light
Bill and me writing Shotgun James Simpson.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
James is like, hey, we're off this week, right, and
I was like, no, that's next week and the week after,
but this week we're on. He's like, you want to
do a radio show? And I said yeah, I'm ready.
He's like all right, all right, I'll come along for
the ride. But you're here, here are the keys, don't
scratch it, bring it back with a full tank of gas.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
I appreciate the trust. I I literally don't know what
beer I'm going to bring them to the table. So
as I read off the sponsors who bring you what's
on tap radio, I'm going to just any meanie mighty
mo what beer I'm going to bring and see where
it goes. But before we get underway, I do want
to give thanks because without these wonderful advertisers, we wouldn't

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be here each and every week entertaining and informing and
educating you guys. So what's going on in the world?
Thanks to Tantric Brewing, Spiritor pest Control, being a lot
of conference events, we know all today, an insurance group,
the Backyard Girl, keeping the lights nice and bright. Thank
you harbor Light Brewing, and of course sponsoring our podcast
which is available everywhere and I mean every where, cast

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branding and speaking of sponsors. First segments where we crack
beers and we don't crack beers some all the micro
hot at least I don't. Chad and Bill are probably
on Beard him before because they four practice beers before
they do the real one. Thanks for our friends over
at Backyard grill.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, I gotta go ahead and say this here. Thanks
again to the BYG on the northwest side of Houston
for bringing us this segment. Bill and I are a
little bit older. We cannot just go out and start
running a race right away. We can't go We gotta
warm up, you know. We don't want to pull a
liver or a hamstring or something.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, well, do some jumping jacks, Chad.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Or crack open a beer. What We didn't do that,
but we are gonna do it right now because this
is where you bring a beer. I bring a beer
and you don't know what you're bringing, but we do,
and I'm cracking it open right now. Harbor Light Bill
brought this in about a week ago or so, he
and I and his bride we made a trip out
to go visit a couple of breweries. And one of

(04:17):
the breweries we went to visit, just down the road
from Harbor Light Bill was waypost brewing and some sad news.
If you go back and listen to our podcast brought
to you by Cas Branding. When James made his one
and only pilgrimage to the Minton the Great Lake State,
the Great Beer stated.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Twice wants to visit you. And then once I was
in Detroit.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But yeah, well that yeah, you were in the airport.
That doesn't count. I'm sorry, but we went. We interviewed
one Hannah Lee and so named out for her the
brewer over at Waypost Brewing while they announced sadly at
the end of the year they will be closing.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
That is sad.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
It is very sad because it's just an amazing place.
And we'll talk more about that, but right now we're
gonna drink like monks because this is the Belgian single,
the first in a succession of Trappa style ales from
the charming little brewery in Fenville, Michigan. This is what
monks would drink if they were drinking, you know, like monks,

(05:15):
and we want to be like monks, and we're gonna
have a little sip. It's a four percent ABV and Bill, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
It's fantastic ale. And if you get a chance, they
have a four pack the single, double, triple, squad all
in one.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Oh that's cool. I like that.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
So before the end of the year, anyone in West Michigan,
if you get a chance, get out there and some
it is just fantastic stuff.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Really nice Belgian yeast esther on their spicy notes, almost
clove like but not overpowering. Nice, very refreshing, crisp, nice
Belgian table beer. The Belgian single number one from the
soon to be extinct very sadly Way Post Brewing Company
b it's an easy drinking beer.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
We did a really fantastic interview with them when I
was in town, and that's just actually a first what
we did with them. We had a brand new microphone,
never ever used that. We had Way Post Brewing the
very first time to use our microphones when we got
brand new microphones.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Right handily does a brand new one break? Make sure
it works?

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, it was right out of the box. It was
very sad to hear about that.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I don't know why we had to tell that story.
I know why we had to tell that story. Shut
up and open a beer, James, let's go all right.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I like your glass that you're drinking out of the
What's on Tap Radio. It's like a podcast glass. Thanks
to our friends over at Harbor LIGHTE Brewing Things Harbor
LIGHTE Bill. I love this glass and people have been
hitting of us on a social like we're gonna get
one of those. Well, I gotta be a VIP. But
a beer I'm bringing to put in the same glass
that you guys are drinking out of is I didn't
really know what beer I was gonna bring, but I

(06:54):
guess I should do this because this is our last
show for twenty twenty five, but I have to do it.
I'm going to the Christmas al from Saint Arnold Brewing Company,
the Old Dale, good old old Dale. I love Old
Ale's not a little style that gets a lot of
love anymore, but Holdale's typically come out this time of year,
rich and malty, and I'm gonna go and pour this
into my uh what's on tap ready like a podcast glass?

(07:18):
Go ahead and take a swig of this mm hmm,
rich and malty coming to you at six point oh
seven point five percent alcohol.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
I was gonna say, that's in the sevens. That's seven point.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Five percent alcohol by volume. And I'm gonna let that
breathe and then we're gonna take a break and I'll
come back and reset the beard that I brought and
tell you a little more about the tasting notes in
the aroma. But that has brought the table where Chad
and Bill kicked it off this week with the.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
Way Post Brewing Belgian single.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
And then I backed it up with the ye old
Christmas sale from Saint Arnold Brewing Company, which we'll talk
a little bit about when we come back from break.
But on tap this wee oh, thank you back to
our girl for sponsoring this segment. But on the on
Tap this week, we got a lot going on. We're
gonna talk about holiday parties because a lot of holiday
parties are going on. We got another old lady out there,
a young lady, I should say, Who's got the secret

(08:08):
to a long life? And we're gonna talk about Modello
and all. This is so much more. We got an
actual pack of Ridow Show you don't want to miss it,
an ounce of coming right up the official What's on Tap?
We do a fun Factor a week. We'll be right
back with more holiday.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Hits here at What's on Tap Radio. We know two
types of people, those you drink with and those that
make you drink. Oh, your parents are coming for the weekend.
Either way, we're drinking.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
All right. Everybody's got a beer. You got a beer,
I got a beer. We got a beer. You know
who else has beer? The backyard Grill on the northwest
side of Houston. But when you're drinking, you want to
have something to eat too, So go get yourself some
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(08:57):
all grilled on a wood fired grill. Got burgers, you
got wraps. Hey, if you're vegetarian, they got salads, they
got soups, homemade dishes, and specialties like smoky the beer chicken.
Oh yeah, smoked chicken injected with local beer. Sounds delicious,
right yeah, and don't forget the green beans. I know
you're thinking, wait a minute, is this guy just talking

(09:18):
about all the grilled stuff and you're gonna tell me
to eat your veggies? Hey, mom said eat your veggies.
Over one hundred different menu items, get the green beans,
Trust me, you won't regret it, and over one hundred
different beers. Head out to the Backyard Grill in the
corner of Weston Jones Road on the northwest side of Houston.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Cheers, Welcome to the holiday edition of What's on Tap Radio,
bringing a holiday party to your radio. We got got
Lodgi chap Hillbean, Harbor Lighte, Bill and Ryan Shatkun this week.

(09:56):
That's me James Simpson and when we're going to break,
I was trying to open the one sheet. I could
really give out the teases very well, and I apologize
for that, but hey, you know what, I'm a human.
I make mistakes, that's all, folks. But I do want
to talk about this week. I do want to talk
about this week because holiday parties are going on. I

(10:18):
know Chad just had his holiday party at his work,
and we're gonna talk about workplace taboos. We're going to
talk about crashing holiday parties. We got this woman living
a long life and she's got the secrets, and we'll
talk about We've got some Modello in the news. We
got but light in the news and all this is

(10:39):
so much more, so much more, including great beers and
all that. But I do want to reset the beers
that we brought to the table. Thanks for our friends
over at the Backyard Grill, where Chad and Bill kick
things off with the.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Wait Post Brewing Belgian single coming in at four percent,
a very tasty beer.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
From a very good brewery. Unfortunately, this brewery will soon
cease to exist. It's a farm brewery right on the
Lake Michigan or right off of you know, within a
couple miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. And it's just local ingredients,
just rustic style. It embraces the tear wah of the earth.

(11:19):
That's fancy for just the essence of the brewery and
the earth and the land. And just a beautiful, golden,
slightly hazy beer, which is I'd expect nothing less from
a Belgian beer coming at four percent, but doesn't really
drink like a four percenter. If you told me it

(11:39):
was six percent, I believe you. At four percent, it's fine.
It's not thin, it's not watery good, just really good
earthy spice notes and nothing overpowering. It's got great balance
between hot bitterness, spicy notes, those phenols from the esters
rather excuse me, from the yeast. Nice. Just a really

(12:03):
nice beer, very drinkable, and I'm sad this one's gonna
go away. Yeah. They do a good job out there.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
Yeah, never like here in breweries closed down. Matter of fact,
we got a story coming up where a brewery and
Fort Worth closed down. But what's interesting about the story
is the amount of time they've been open. And meanwhile,
while this brewery is closing and the short amount of
time they've been open, there's a gigantic brewing opening up
in a part of Well, I'm not gonna give out

(12:29):
to tease too much, but they're opening up in a
place that you would never think of in a day
and age where breweries are closing.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
It's a business model. I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, we're gonna try to Can I be a mug
club member of this?

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Oh wait a minute, you're doing what?

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Yeah, I'm gonna try to wrap our minds around it
or wrapper brains around it. But I do want to
talk a little bit about this beer I brought the
Like I said, I didn't really know what beer I
was gonna bring the table. Usually I map it out,
but I went with Saint Arnold's Christmas sale. I've told
you last week that I went to my local beer
wheeltailer to pick up the Christmas sale when I came
across the ser celebration IPA and had to get that

(13:04):
and bring that to the table. But yeah, as a
kind of been breathing over the break, let me go
and take a sip of this and my new what's
on tap? Radio. It's like a podcast glass where people
have been hitting me up. Hey, I need to get
my hands on one of those glasses. So maybe if
you're a we'll figure something out.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Hang on, James is taking the sip there.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Tell me rich if you look at its copper colored,
hardy ale, kind of multi sweetness, spicy hot character. Did
you know that I'm tasting five different malts in this
beer with this full flavored, high alcohol beer.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
The thing is, James, I can. I really don't have
an appreciation that I only tasted four. So that's why
your palate is better than mine.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
I have five in mine and at seven point five percent.
And your official What's on tab Rido fun Factor of
the Week this week is this is actually Saint Arnold's
first seasonal they ever made, and this fun fact has
been brought to you by I'm just kidding, Yeah, but yeah,
I love this beer. I love Old Aal's and old
Dales just don't really get the love that they deserve.

(14:12):
One of my favorite all time Old Dales that's no
longer in production, at least it'n't seen but Southern Star
Brewing Companies. I have an Old Dale called Old Potentate
and that beer is all my one of my favorite
old ales and sorry to see that got discontinued.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, and then they had a Winter Warmer which was
a different version of that.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:32):
I was like the Winter warm was like a richer
old I think.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I think it was much more multi but lower in ABV.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
That seems all right, But yeah, Christmas sale from Saint
Ol Brewing Company, which will be available throughout January, which
nobody would drink because that's Christmas written on it. But people,
come on, you can drink Christmas beers in January. Trust me,
it's okay. And it's also okay to do this now.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
The official What's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the Week,
brought to you by Who's ever checked hear this week?

Speaker 1 (15:01):
Yeah, the holidays are arriving, or they're here, and you're
arriving your in laws or might be arriving, and maybe
some family members you want to press them with some knowledge.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, sitting around with a family, it's like, did you
know that Vienna lager originated in Vienna, Austria, And they're like, no, kid,
I knew that, Chad, It's why it's called Vienna Lager.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Well, we were talking about Susie winning the Ballet pageant.
How are you bringing Vienna laggers into the conversation.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, I just want to let you know that around
eighteen forty one, this new style was introduced. It's an
amber colored lagger. Where you're going with this, Well, turns
out that this beer style would eventually lose some popularity
due to the rise of oh yeah, light lager. So
this is not the first time we've seen light lagger
rise to prominence and overtake a darker, richer, more flavorful beer.

(15:51):
I know, no, no, no, but that new or that
that beer style found new prominence in Mexico where Austrian
immigrants went taking the tradition. So yes, most Mexican dark
beers have Vienna lagger roots, and a lot of experts
still refer to them as Vienna inspired laggers or even
Vienna style laggers. But did you know that there was

(16:13):
another beer in Austria that was rude depending on your source,
twenty or forty years prior early eighteen hundreds in Austria,
and that beer style was known as Horner beer h
o r n er Horner beer. Now back in the
year that shall not be mentioned, the one between twenty

(16:35):
nineteen and twenty twenty one, seed Stock Brewery in Denver
released their version of Horner Beer, the first commercial example
of the beer in over one hundred years. This is
a beer that has some very defining characteristics, this dead style.
If you're looking for the recipe, well, it's a dead style,
so the recipe long gone, so people had to try

(16:56):
and recreate it from tasting notes and mentions throughout literature,
including one mentioned by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in a song.
But it is known for being cloudy, sour, acidic, and
one hundred percent based on a grain bill of oats.
Now yeah, oh yeah, you think making oh yeah, very sticky.

(17:18):
Uh huh yeah, oats are very very sting. But this
one of a kind beer had a second ingredient that
makes it even more unique. Now, if you're thinking Horner beer,
maybe it had rhinoceros horn or unicorn horn, or spit
from a French horn, or fungus from a shoehorn. No, no,
you'd be wrong. Horner beer just comes from Horn, the

(17:41):
town of Horn, Austria. But the sour nots come from
none other than cream of tartar, a white crystallized powder
known for its acidic properties. You think that we're the
first people to put weird stuff in beer. Cream of
tartar was put in beer in eighteen hundred in Vienna,

(18:03):
Austria to make Horner Beer. Actually I should say Horner beer.
It was made in Horner, Austria. But there wait, there's more.
Wait your bonus. What's on Tap Radio Fun Fact of
the week is where does cream of tartar come from?
Turns out that cream of tartar is a byproduct of
wine fermentation and it's a white crystal that is found

(18:25):
in the barrels after they're emptied from wine productions. So
despite the name, there is no cream, There are no
dairy products. There are no animal products in cream of tartar,
and this byproduct of wine fermentation taken out of wine
barrels is added to this beer style to make this
very unique ingredient. When I am classifying it until someone

(18:46):
proves me wrong, the only beer style that uses a
wine buy product to make its distinctive flavor, and that,
ladies and gentlemen, Horner Beer, which is made with cream
of tartar, is your official What's on Tap Radio fi
fun fact of the week.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Really, I thought I was brewed with rhinoceros horns this
whole time.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Hen horn horn is the one I was going with.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
But yeah, I thought rhinostaurs horns. But okay, see I
learned something. And you can impress your family members this
holiday season with dropping that fun fact at dinner. We'll
thank us later. All right, let's take a break coming
up holiday parties. You guys are attending a lot of
holiday parties. Let's talk about that also, so much more.
Hang with us, We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Beer is not the answer, but it does make you
forget the question. So what was I saying? Oh? Yeah, more,
what's on tap radio?

Speaker 1 (19:45):
Oh, welcome to your holiday party on the radio where
you're welcome to crash. It's a party at any time,
we welcome it. We got hit a lot of Chap Pillbeam,
Harblite Bill and Ryan Shotgun this week. That's me, James Simpson.
I didn't go to my holiday party this year. We

(20:05):
were busy that night. You know, I have a daughter
in cheerleading, sun and swimming, and it just happened to
be on a on a school night and we were
just running the kids all around to their sporting events.
So didn't make it out to the holiday party. But
Chad was just menching off the air that he went
to his holiday party, and well, sometimes stuff that happens
at holiday parties just needs to be talked about amongst

(20:28):
just friends and not you can't America or whoever wherever
they're listening to. Yeah, but uh yeah, maybe one day.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I don't think you're in the holiday spirit, James. And
I'm gonna tell you why.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Well, I got my Christmas sale.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
That's no, you're not in the holiday spirit.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
I got my ears.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, you got your alf hears. But see you're you're
a grumpy elf. Okay, And look he's angry elf. I
know he is an angry elf. And he's like, well
you know, uh wait, we're doing show this week, right, yep,
all right, well why don't you just run it? Okay?
And then and then I just find out it's like, yeah,
we didn't go to our holiday party either. In fact,

(21:09):
I don't even like the holidays. Christmas sucks. And it's like, well,
I guess I'll drink at Christmas Ale and maybe that'll
cheer me up. Maybe I'll put on some lf ears
and try and fool myself, you know, cosplay it but
you know whatever, I'm like, James, you need to get
in the spirit man. There you go. He just took
a nice big sip of his Christmas ale. There you go,

(21:33):
speaking of witch stop yell, hey, we are we are
out of our first beer, the Belgian single. And Bill
was just the total coincidence that we were talking about this.
Bill didn't even know that we had this story. The
fun fact cueued up. We were talking about Horner beer
and James says, I really did think that Horner beer

(21:53):
had a rhinoceros hornet.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Endangered because people know sawing off their horns to make beer.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
About rhinoceros horn. I always thinking of a Narwal horn.
That'd be like the best thing to throw in it.
I think that anybody from Austria could get a hold
of a Narwal. Yeah, but speaking of nar Wals, since
we're out of beer, our next beer is going to
be Sierra Nevada Narwal Imperial.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's the Imperial style. Yeah, total coincidence that he brought
that beer and that fun fact was on the table.
And you said rhinoceros horn, I said unicorn horn. And
you know, and James needs to watch elf and cheer
up and Hi am, mister Narwal. I hope you find

(22:40):
your dad.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
We've been watching a lot of Christmas movies over at
the Simpson household. We watched we have watched ELF. We
watched Home Alone one, we watched homelone two, The Christmas Story,
The Christmas Story two. We watched The Grinch cartoon and
the live action with Jim Carrey. And of course my
favorite Christmas movie of all, I Hard die Hard.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yes, you're gonna still have said, that's not a Christmas movie.
That's a Bruce Willis movie.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
There, Yeah, yeah, we will it's a Christmas movie. It's
got all the others.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
But we then hold on lethal weapon, lethal weapon. Then
it starts out with him buying a Christmas tree at
the Christmas Tree Farm. Okay, that's that right there. Okay, Gremlins.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
Gremlins is another good one.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
That's a Christmas movie.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
In Christmas Vacation. That's obviously classic, A wonderful, wonderful lie
you know whatever you're in. Two we've been we've been
watching it. But let's take a step. Let's talk about
the holiday parties. Because sometimes the holiday parties, you know,
you put them on the calendar and you just see
it and you're like, I don't really want to go,
but I'm being peer pressure to go for my coworkers,

(23:46):
Like Jimmy, You're gonna be the right Hey, you get
the holiday party, You're like, I hate Pam. I don't
like hanging out with her. I'd work much less at
that work party.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
But he's listening to the show right now, and they're like,
why do I have to go to my work party?
James didn't go.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
It is But on the flip side, there's actually word
parties that people want to sneak into. In a new poll,
fourteen percent of people say they've successfully crashed a party
or event without a host's permission. Another four percent to
do it, but got stopped. You know, you can always say,
uh oh, I'm Bill, I'm the new guy in accounting.

(24:25):
Nine percent of people say they've successfully crashed a holiday
party or event without the host's permission. Like I said,
But four percent of got caught, maybe by Aunt Cathy,
who was serious about needing a head count on the time.
You know, remember what, I don't need to know an
accurate head count because I don't need to know how
much turkey the BUYE do I go with a sixteen
pounder or an eighteen pounder, But uh, yeah, have you

(24:46):
ever crashed a holiday party?

Speaker 4 (24:48):
And I went to a wedding. Me and a buddy
crashed a wedding once.

Speaker 1 (24:51):
I've crashed a wedding in a holiday party. And I'll
tell you I did a holiday party on accident. You know,
you show up to like a hotel when they have
multiple ballroom and multiple holiday parties going on at the
same time. Well, we walked in and we grab ourself
a drink and some odrvs whatever, and we start looking
around like I don't know anybody here, and people were

(25:11):
talking to us, like, hey, how you guys doing. I'm like,
I'm doing great, And I started realizing, wait, I'm not
at the right room. They had good food, really good food.
So I stuck around for a while and then I
made my way over to the our actual holiday part.
This was a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
But I've heard I've heard stories of people crashing funerals,
but not intentionally, because you show up at a funeral
home and in some of the funeral homes they only have,
you know, two rooms, one on the left, one on
the right. Yeah, and and they go in and they
get you know, disoriented or whatever. And then they walk
in and they're walking around like, well, I didn't recognize

(25:46):
anybody here in the first place, so I'm just walking around.
These are all unfamiliar faces. And then you walk up
on the casket and you look in and you're like, oh,
I'm in the wrong room. And I was like, well,
did you know her well? And like no, You'll have
to excuse me and leave. But before I do, where
are the orders.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Start?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Is there beer being served?

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Just make a plate as your exiting.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, I'll be right back. I want to see what
they're serving next door. I want to see if we
did if we got a good deal on the caterer.

Speaker 1 (26:16):
But people say it depends on the party or event
they're crashing. I mean, whether it's a wedding or if
I don't think I can crash a funeral. That's kind
of weird. You know, we've seen wedding crashers and uh,
you know they crash funerals because you know spoiler, Oh
maybe okay, I won't. I won't in that sentence, So
you can go watch it for yourself. For a movie
that can in two thousands.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Maybe somebody has never seen what wedding crashers and doesn't
know what it's about. And then and then to tell
them that they crash a funeral at the end?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Oh wait, now, wait, are're gonna tell me that the
Titanic sunk at the end of the movie.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
God, don't stop it, vaders Luke's father.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
There, seventy seven percent of people think it's generally unacceptable
to show up without the host's permission.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, I want to meet
the other twin three percent that think it is okay.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I talked about all they think they've successfully crashed a
party or an event without permission.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
There's a difference between pulling it off and then thinking
it's okay. Seventy seven say it's unacceptable.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Well, another ten percent say it's usually fine, and fourteen
percent are not really sure.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
But what school of charm and etiquette did you not
go to? I'm just saying you've missed class on that day.
You don't crash somebody.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
If you're just tuning in, we're talking about fourteen percent
of us have crashed a party I have. I'm I'm
a part of that percent, and nine percent have crashed
a holiday party, which I have, but I did it
on accident. I wasn't there very long either. I just
kind of stuck around just to finish my plate and
then grab another plane on the way out. But I
looked around and I was like, I don't agree. Yeah,
because at the time, I was working for a very

(27:52):
large company. So you know, you show up and there's
people and from sales that you don't know, and then
people that work in engineering that you don't know, and
you're like, okay, well maybe they are they are the people.
Then you start looking around like, wait, what are the
people I work with?

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Wrong room. But speaking of the list, let's talk about taboos.
This reads like a list of things that could happen
at a holiday party. Harris pulled ass one thousand Americans
to name the top workplace taboos. So things you should
never do at work, and here in the top five.
All right, God, seeing me about a colleague.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, don't gossip about colleagues.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
That's bad.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Dating a manager or anyone above you.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
That's usually against the corporate policy, and we'll get you fired.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Drinking any amount of alcohol.

Speaker 2 (28:34):
Whoa, whoa, whoa. How do you think I tolerate these
people after hours?

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Not in my place?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, I encouraged harverlight bill on the brewery ownership.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Using drugs during work, you know, people doing little nose
candy in the bathroom, like yeah, like.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
The beginning of die Hard, It's like, hey, yeah, you
missed a little bit.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Yes this and then uh the number one seventy four
percent say this is never accept getting drunk during work hours.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Some people, you admit it.

Speaker 1 (29:05):
They'll they'll take a lunch. They'll take a lunch and
then they'll like, hey, do you want a glass of
wine to go with that? Or do you want a margarita?

Speaker 2 (29:11):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (29:12):
You know what, Yeah, you know what. It's Friday. Let
me go ahead and get a margarita. And then you
go back to work after your lunch. You're like, oh man,
feeling pretty good here. But even though most people consider
those things taboos, plenty of us have done them. For
twelve percent have a consumed alcohol on the clock, five
percent have gotten drunk, six percent have done drugs. Five

(29:32):
percent of data demanader and twenty five percent have admitted
to gossiping about a coworker before.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Twenty five percent gossiping about a coworker that that means,
that means what you said twenty five percent.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now there's twenty five percent of people to just admit it.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
But liars, your liar on if you if you have
a job and you're not self employed. No, I'm gonna say,
even if you are self employed, you've gossiped about work
and people at work.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
So here's something about yourself. Here's some advice from your
friends here at What's on tap Radio. Here's a PSA.
So you're going out to your work holiday party, don't
be the guy that everybody talks about on Monday, all right,
don't be that guy drinking moderation and keep your pants on.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
All right?

Speaker 1 (30:19):
All right, we got to take a break. Still have
a lot to get to. There's this this sweet young
lady who's lived a long life and she's got the
secret all this so much more. Hang with us. We'll
bright back.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Yeah, we drink water, but it has to be filtered
through a brewery. First. You've got what's on tap radio.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
All right, welcome back to What's on tap Radio. Always
a party here. It's really good beer and you don't
have to worry about leaving going to fun. Well, I
mean typically you bring your own beer to this party.
But so you all have yourself to blame it. The
beer selections not good, but the beer stories and all
that's happening in the world and everything that's happening.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Hey, you're more welcome. You're more welcome to crash the
party too, if you like to.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Oh yeah, yeah, you can crash this party. In fact,
yeah you can be a statistic. We just got done
talking about how many people have successfully crashed a holiday party.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
I want to ask a good story. If you have
a good story of you crashing a holiday party, send
us an email. What's on tap radio at gmail dot com.
That's what's on tap radio at gmail dot com. I
want to hear your good story. I know somebody out
there has got a good story about crashing a holiday party.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Or a wedding.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Please drop us an email and let us know. We'll
read it on the air.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
A few willow us to if we do, we'll if
we get enough of those stories, we'll just piece it
together and do it like a rip from Reddit.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
I'll that'll be amazing because I guarantee, guarantee that there's
somebody out there that like, oh boy, do I got
a story about I want to hear that juicy story.
So send us the email What's on tap Rido at
gmail dot com.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
That'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah, if it's too bad, we'll hide the names.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, no, I know that. Yeah, if you want to
remain anonymous and just say, hey, you know, don't say
my name on the radio, Hey, I'll be more than
happy to. I'll show the story, but I'll say the
source wanted to be anonymous, so we'll respect that. But
here's what happened.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
But James and I will know, and if we ever meet,
we will remind you that.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
We mail and bonus points. No, no, no, I was
about say bonus points if it became a hold my
beer and watched this, but no, I don't want to
encourage it. But if you do have one, If you
do have one, What's on tap radio at gmail dot com?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Sorry, if you're willing to let us do that for
a hold my beer and watch this and it makes
the air free. It's like a podcast What's on tap
Radio punt class for you.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
We know that happened, right. We actually got a listener
who sent us the story and it was still ongoing.
The investigation was still ongoing, so we actually had to
clear it with our lawyers. And lawyers are like, you
can not read, you.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
Can not do that. Yeah, because we're a media outlet,
and if we're reporting on that and it came from
the defendant in the case, it's like, you might want
to just clear this. And we ran it by the
the the editors and.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
They were like the lawyers and producers.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
They ran by the lawyers and they were like new.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
Ten out of ten lawyers and producers said absolutely.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Not aboard, aboard, wave off, wave off it. Anyways, Yeah
we did no, we did not anyway, Harblte Bill and
I were sitting here and joining the narwall Imperial Stout
from Sierra Nevada a ten point two percent drinking so nice,
you know what you know, kind of chocolates in there, none,
you know, cinnamon none, lactose none, vanilla none. Russian Imperial

(33:44):
Stout one percent. Absolutely just boom. It's a banger love.
It takes you back to my uh, to the roots.
And in fact, a beer like this maybe you could
build upon it and maybe start a brewery. And I
don't right now. We talked about the first beer we
had from Waypost Way Posts closing their doors at the

(34:05):
end of the year. We've had a lot of news
In fact, when we gave the Bruis Association report, it
was something like seventy more breweries closed this year than opened,
which is the largest gap in that direction. Now it's
a core scene.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Now it's according to the Brewer Association.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yes, hey, by the way, can I just want to
say this real quick? And I know this was down
on the one sheet, Bart Watson. Did you see the news.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
I saw the news. I was about the say the same,
Thank Chad, go ahead and break the news, breaking news.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Bart Watson. Is he the chief economist of the Brewers Association. No?
Is he the vice president of the Bruis Association. No,
he is the new president of the Brewers Association. Yes,
Bart Watson, our buddy. There's a name drop right there
for the guy who took eleven scientists from the University
of Indiana and said, Chad app He didn't say it

(34:54):
quite like that, just he basically debunked there eleven scientists
from the University of Indian It said climate change is
ruining beer and here's why. And he said, yeah, you
forgot to dot this I and cross that tee because
here's what you've forgotten your study. And then he's like
Mike drop. He didn't. He didn't do it with the attitude.
We added that we like Bart.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
We've had him on the show before we had the
new president and the CEO.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Right, he's running the show.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
He's the man in charge.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
He is I know, he's good people, So congratulations to him.
But anyway, talking about opening his closings and everything else,
UH got to talk about this one here. Now. I'm
a Mug club member at Harbor Light, I'm a Mug
club member at Tantric, and I'm even a Mug club
member at Oakstown, and so I am. You know, I'm

(35:43):
in on a few of these deals. And a lot
of times you'll get breweries that open up and they
try to see get some seed money that way. But
everyone's got a different business model and we're going to
talk about a unique business model here in just a second.
But I want to first mention that Voodoo Brewing brew
Pub in Fort Worth. They are known. This is what

(36:04):
they're known for. Now, I want you to pay attention.
They are known for their creative craft beer. Okay, I'm
just that this is just straight out of yep. This
is what this off the website, known for their creative
craft beer. Well, Unfortunately they had to close their doors.
The Voodoo Brewing Company just up there in Fort Worth.

(36:25):
Franchise ee open twenty five years, right something like that. Yeah,
quarter of a century. Oh wait, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
it's not. Franchise E David Goldblatt confirmed the closure and said, yeah,
they did close in October and it was not twenty
five years. James, we misread that. Sorry, they closed after
three months. Oh three months. It is quite possibly a bonus.

(36:52):
What's on tap radio fun Factor the week, Maybe the
shortest tenure of any brewery now here is what the
statement was from franchisee David Goldblatt. He said the decision
was not too complicated. The sad reality is they simply
were not pulling in enough money to cover the cost
of doing business. They were opened for three months. Three

(37:20):
that's ninety days most people, you know what, They closed
before the ninety day probation kicked in that allowed their
employees to start getting health insurance and other benefits.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
That's sad man.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Three months.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah, we just have that. We have a Voodoo Brewing
that open up in my part of the town here
on the west side. And Katie and I've read on
social media that they closed their doors. I haven't been
over there, but according to folks on social media that
they went over to Voodoo Brewing and they've closed now.
The one in Katie's been opened for I think about
a year. Obviously a little longer than three months. But

(37:58):
it's just interesting that you see this happening. And I'm
sure this is probably in a part of Fort Worth
because Fort Worth is a popping place me in great beer.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
Bars and and a lot of moneys there too.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah, a lot of tourism going on, and it's sad
to see, you know, a brewery close. And then I
see a story like this and I'm like, oh, there's
a brewery opening. Okay, that's interesting, but where it's opening,
it's really making me scratch my head. Listen to this story. Heineken,
the conglomerate it's set to open their first major beer
brewery in Dubai, an Islamic city known for its tight

(38:29):
regulations on alcohol sales and consumption. Explain that business model
to me.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Can I be a mug club member in a country
that doesn't endorse drinking and pretty much has strict rules,
so long as like one of the world's largest brewing
companies is going to expand their market distribution in a
country that doesn't really allow you to drink.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
Meanwhile, here's a Voodoo brewing in the fort Worth, were
I mean, it's a popping town.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
For touris, lots of beer breweries and barred.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
I mean, it's a fun, fun place, the stockyards. And
here's a city that doesn't even really allow drinking. Hey,
let's just PLoP right here, boom and open up a brewery.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Million tens of millions dollars invested in a brewery, and
we're gonna expand on that.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Well.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
According to the pressure release here says Heinekin has already
been supplying Dubai with his beer for almost twenty years,
but with booming levels of tourism in the city, the
brewery is being developed to stay on top of the
growing demand. In dubaias Islamic city, in which religion forbids
the consumption of alcohol, which is widely considered to the
harmful to health and well being. But there are certain

(39:33):
parts of the city where tours are allowed to consume alcohol,
and they're not allowed to bring this alcohol outside that area.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Oh no, yeah, most of it's inside of hotels.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, pretty much. And here they are building a brewery.
So I'm interested to see how that business plant works.
With a brewery not even be able to open for
three months, here's one that's opening up in an Islamic city.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
It is I mean, for centuries you couldn't drink here,
but millions of dollars going into a brewery. For centuries
people have been drinking lots here. Close after three months,
I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
The construction of the brewery schedule due began late twenty
twenty five, with current set to complete in twenty twenty seven.
So Dubai set to open a Heineken's first brewery in
a major Islamic city. Wow, that is just wow.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Okay, it's a wild world out there is wild story.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Okay, let's take a break.
Coming up next hour, we got home on beer and
watch this. We're gonna talk about bud Light, Modello and all.
This is so much more. Hang with us for another
action packed hour. We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Because it's five o'clock somewhere. Live life, every old and
menonomet It's always time for those slackers of What's on
tap Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Christmas Party on your redio. It's What's on Tap Radio
with James and Chad and Bill.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
You know, hey, if somebody gave you a link to
this podcast, you should treat it like a gift and
not the kind of gift that you want to regift. Well,
I mean, if you want to regift it, that's fine,
that's called sharing. But because you don't have to give
up the original link. But gift that keeps on giving. Yeah,
it is the gift that keeps on giving, Clark, and
you just keep on giving and giving and giving. And

(41:28):
then that's how we get more listeners. And by the way,
people ask me one time nearly so, how much do
you get for a listener?

Speaker 3 (41:33):
Like, what is it?

Speaker 2 (41:34):
What do they pay you? I'm like, what do you
get paid for every listener? It's like, you know what
I get paid? En joy? Okay, it's like Christmas all
year round that I get to do this show. And
when I do and a new and somebody says, hey,
I just started listening to your show and this is great.
Love it and by the way, thanks for making it free. Yeah,
it's f're welcome. Hey, do me a favor. Get people

(41:55):
to stop asking me how much I get paid to
do this, because we don't get paid, but we do
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if going to the New Year, you want to continue
to help support What's on Tap Radio, reach out to us.
It's What's on Tap Radio at gmail dot com, and
we will make you part of the family and we
will continue to endorse you and brand and spread the

(42:19):
love of cheer around your products. And doesn't even have
to be a beer product.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
I mean, I'm not gonna mention the name of the podcast,
but it was one of my favorite podcasts, and out
of nowhere, they just decided that they're going to provide
the first ten minutes of the show free, and then
if you want to listen to the entire show, you
have to pay like a member's only like your Patreon
to listen to the entirety of the show. So you
can listen to the first ten minutes of it, but

(42:45):
if you want to listen to the entirety of you
got to pay the Patreon that we don't do that, Nope, nope, nope.
So that's just that made me mad. All right, I'm
looking at this, hold my beer and watch this. Let
me go take a sweep with my beer.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Yeah, I know which one you're doing. So this one's a.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
I just don't know how to feel about this one.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Dark humor.

Speaker 4 (43:07):
Man, I don't know about.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
This one, but I'm gonna do it anyways.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
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Speaker 2 (43:21):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (43:22):
So this happened down under an Australian man he died.
Australia man died after jumping over a sharp net at
a popular Gulf Coast beach. So emergency services attended the
scene and this happened at Paradise Point, park Lands on
a Sunday afternoon, where the man failed to resurface and

(43:45):
the man's body was recovered after police search for four
hours from air, by boat and with divers. And it
has been reported that twenty nine year old Jake Brown
the faithful decision to jump over the barrier, which sits
close to the beach and forms a swimming enclosure at
the recreation area, which is popular with families. Hundreds gathered

(44:08):
at the beach to beat the heat that Sunday afternoon,
and witnesses frantically searched for this man's body. And it's
what Brown said to his friend who was sitting at
the net before he jumped in, which really bothers me.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
A he.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
It's kind of why we do this segment.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
A witness revealed the final words of the Australian man
who died after jumping over this sharp net at the
popular golf Caase Beach. Yeah, one witness said, Brown told
his mate, hold my beer and jumped over the edge.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Sorry, you're not supposed to laugh here, but going straight
to hell for laughing. But you know, I said, stop, Dode.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
You can see what's going to happen. He said, you
can see what's gonna happen. You can see what's gonna happen.
The witness said, Brown was quickly taken by the currents,
servicing briefly before being dragged under the nets.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
So you're like, you don't even know how to follow
that up, do you? I don't.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
So you hold my beer and watch this This week
brought to you by our friends or Renal to make
an insurance group. Witnesses recall the last words of a
man who died jumping over a sharp net at a
Gulf Coast beach in Australia and I quote hold my
beer as witnesses said.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
The one of the witnesses was saying, can I finish
his beard? I was like what anyway, I know this
is a tough story. It's like, are you guys really
laughing about no, the circumstances like, look, we're not laughing
at tragedy.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
We're not.

Speaker 2 (46:01):
But we tell people all the time when somebody says,
hold my beer, watch this, you know, like it's either
get the camera phones rolling or you know something really
bad is gonna happen or both, like like it's just
it's bad.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Now.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
We talked about this story a while back, and now
there's a new update on this from Jake Brown, the
now decease the late Jake Brown.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Forty nine year old Jake Brown, who made the fatal
decision right to jump over the beer.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
His girlfriend has come out and made a desperate plea
to the public. She is pleaing for everyone out there
to please support her on this endeavor. Is she trying
to encourage responsible drinking?

Speaker 3 (46:49):
No?

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Is she trying to get you to intervene when somebody
says hold my beer? No, but she wants all the
shark nets removed because her boyfriend who said, hold my beer,
watch this, and jumped over the enclosure and got entangled
in the shark nets. Had the shark nets not been there,
he wouldn't have been tangled, and had he not been tangled,

(47:10):
he wouldn't have drowned, and had he not drowned, he
wouldn't have been pulled out to see. So remove the
shark nets. But if you remove the shark nets and
there's no shark nets there, you know what will be there?

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Sharks?

Speaker 1 (47:23):
I don't know, Okay, I don't know if in Australia
there's a movie called Jaws, and I don't know if
in Australia they've seen this movie.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
I don't know if they have, but maybe we need
to release it there. But I'm like, okay, hold on
a second, all right, I can see this now. Australian authorities,
they hear her plea, okay, they show up, all right.
They decided we're gonna take out these shark nets. Hold

(47:49):
my beer and watch this, and they're gonna go and
they're gonna rip out all the shark nets and there's
gonna be some little kid, little Jimmy or Timmy or
whatever's gonna be there with his mates and they're gonna
be playing in the sand and next thing, you know,
like I thought, we had shark nets here.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
No.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
No, there was a twenty nine year old drunk guy though,
who said hold my beer and got tangled into one
because he was jumping over the railing the into the
shark net, and his girlfriend said, please take the shark
nets out u.

Speaker 1 (48:19):
You know, if this shark net wasn't there, Jake will
still be with us. I mean, Timmy died on the
banana boat after the you know, shark ripped them off
of it, but Jake was still been alive. But yeah,
you hold my beer and watched this makes me feel
a little uncomfortable this week. All right, we got to
take a break still to come. We got to talk
about big beer, what's going on with Modello and the

(48:40):
lights all it is so much more hang with us,
much more discussabile write.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Back when someone says, hold my beard, you know a
trip to the er is in your future. So hold
your own beer, buddy, and just listen to what's on
what's on tamp radio.

Speaker 1 (49:11):
Very Christmas, Happy New Year from your friends. Here What's
on Tap Radio our last show of the year, of
the year call Thank you you four. It's been a
great year, had some great, great shows, great guests.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
I know we've been on for more than three months,
but I'm not ready to quit yet.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
I don't know we've been but we're preparing for twenty
twenty five. We need some.

Speaker 3 (49:35):
R and R.

Speaker 1 (49:36):
So we're gonna take the next few weeks off, but
we'll be rolling out some Okay, best of Us, No,
I'm just kidding. They were good stuff. We got some
good interviews. That's what James and on our Best does. Yes, Chad,
real quick, you were talking during the break.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
I looked into it. Jake Brown's the late Jake Brown's girlfriend. Uh,
she updated her relationship status on Facebook too. It's complicated.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Well, somebody did reach out to us at What's on
Tabrio email dot com said, so you're saying she's single.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
Yeah, like, well she's mourning anyway. If you just missed
out and you're just not tuning in dark humor from
down Under, hold my beer and watch this. A man says,
hold my beer and watch this, and well died.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Yeah, well, uh yeah, it's that story. Like I said,
I still don't know how I feel about that hold
my beer and watch this every now and then you
just get these ones. You're just like, oh this is
so oh man, okay, okay, well we'll.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Go with it.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
I mean because his last his last girlfriend, his last
words were hold my beer. I mean that is the bit.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Yeah, that is the bit. But I don't, I don't.
I don't agree with his girlfriend. Because girlfriend, it's like,
please please everyone who can hear my voice hear me.
Now she's gonna say, drink responsibly. She's gonna say, don't
ever say hold my beer. Don't you don't have to
prove yourself. No, she says, please please get rid of

(51:01):
the shark nets that keep all the sharks off the beach,
because if those nets weren't there, he wouldn't have drowned.

Speaker 1 (51:08):
Like, oh my gosh. Yeah, so well all right. Also
a listener email What's on Tabrigo gmail dot com. Shout
out to fire Marshall. Matt, send us an email. We
were talking about box. You guys were drinking a boch
last week, and I started talking about how there's not
a traditional boch really anymore. There's I mean there are,

(51:30):
but not brood here, especially in the lone Star state
where I'm broadcasting. But fire Marshall matt Ray reached out
and said, I had a Crawford Bock and a ziegen
Boch side by side at car Bock. He said he
was not a fan of the Crawford Block, but it
was better than the ziegen Bach.

Speaker 2 (51:46):
But bet there's a guy out there that can tell
us the difference, and we need to reach out to
our buddy Josh, who used to work for that fine organization.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Yeah, and uh also he ended it by saying, I
want some Billboch. So Harbor Light Bill, Oh, Harbor Light
Bill signed him.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
You do have a he's got an Alton Box beer
on In fact, yeah, we still have an Alton.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Isn't there one in the fridge right now?

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Might be we had to just we drank one last week.
We drank it last week.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
That's what I got. Some discussion of Box and how
it's really not a style that's a lot of people
talk about, like.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Oh man, I love that.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
Have you had that Breweries box is so incredible. It's
like old Ale that style another style that's just not
really that popular, but it deserves it's love because it's
such a great style, and that's all I was stringing
the Saint Arnold, ye old Christmas aale, rich and cheerful.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
But Chad, oh empty, We've got empty glasses too, all right,
So go ahead, James, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (52:47):
I'm going call me boring man, but I'm going back
to the beer fridge and bringing I'm bringing bringing back.
I'm doing it again. I'm doing it again. I don't care.
Oh my gosh, Jason Radio, come.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
We need to go shopping somebody. We need another beer
sponsor or something.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
Dude, Why what is wrong with the fact that I
want to bring Serre in Avada Celebration fresh hoop ipa
back to the show?

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (53:12):
You what?

Speaker 2 (53:13):
Fight me? Fight me? All right? I will fight you.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
So I'm going the same beer I brought to the
table last week. I'm bringing back because this is fresh hoop.
I don't want to sit on it, you know, I
don't want it to uh you know, lose its This
its taste and it's beautifulness.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
All right. So I'm gonna go while you're going ahead
and pouring that arguably the best West Coast I pa
out there story we didn't get to. I'm gonna go
ahead and just throw this in here without approval from
our producers. We did we didn't do this. But if
you right after they make the Celebration Ale at the brewery,
they have a very very very very limited release of

(53:53):
a fresh hop West Coast i Pa that is only
made at the brewery and you can only buy it
at the brewery, and they only make it on tap.
And this year they decided to expand it a little
bit and I believe they did some packages of it.
And it's called Selly drippings. And what it is is

(54:14):
because it's called Celebration Ale, So for short for celebration
is celly and drippings no g short for the drippings.
What they do is is because it's fresh hop beer,
they take the wet hops, they soak them in, they
steep them in the beer, get everything out of it.
And then when they pull the hops out in the
hot bag and they pull it out, all of the

(54:35):
beer that is soaked up in the hops gets put
They get they take the hops and they hang it
over a big trough and it just drips out and
whatever that beer is collected gets kegged or packaged and
sold on site. It's extremely rare and they call it
celly Drippings.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Do you know anybody who's had that beer? I do
not know.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
It sold out like I mean, there was a line
and it sold out instantly.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Wow that sounds amazing.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
Yeah, So they basically just it's it's I mean, think
about it. It's the only beer. The only amount of
beer they get is what's absorbed in the hops and
they just hang it there and let it drip and
as it drips out, whatever they get is what they get,
and they sell it. And it is extremely limited brewery
only offering.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
So hey, you know you might be looking for some
last minute gift ideas. Oh and maybe you have a
wino in your family. You know, someone likes to consume
a lot of different wines. I know I have one
in my my family. My wife's a wine consumer, and
I might see about getting this for her. Pizza Hut.

(55:45):
Pizza Hut Chad has this dropped its own pizza flavored
wine made with tomatoes instead of grapes, and they say
it captures the essence of your favorite slice in every sip.
It's a red obviously, it's called Tomato Wine by Pizza Hut.
That's a catch your name and they partner with a
winery in Kansas, because when you think of good wine,
you think of Kansas. And they're selling Hello, and they're

(56:08):
selling three hundred and seventy five million liters half bottles
at dot com for twenty five dollars and you have
to buy at least two, so it's not cheap. You're
about fifty bucks. There's also a sixty dollars gift box
version that comes with a wine opener and two Pizza
Hut branded wineglasses, and they describe the taste as an
aromatic blend of fresh herbs and spices with the rich

(56:30):
sun ripened tomato notes and subtle hint of toasted oak.
So you know you have that kind of steward in
your family, and you're just like, you know, I just
don't know what kind of wine. Pizza is selling A
pizza flavored wine made with tomatoes and instead of grapes,
You're welcome.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
We yeah, yeah, finally, because you know pizza flavored beer.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Pizza flavored beer did so.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
Well right exactly while you were doing that harbor late
bills like, we didn't get to open our beer, So Bill,
tell everybody what you just cracked open and poured into
our glass. Please.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
We opened up from Odd Side Ales in Grand Haven, Michigan.
The Nightman leaveth an Imperial Rye milk stout with vanilla
beans aged in Rye whiskey barrels coming in at eleven percent.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Nice, eleven percent, Just eleven percent.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
That's all. Yeah, we're sharing a sticking on the holiday
gift ideas. If I may, I stumbled on this. I
know it's not beer related, but I bet it works
with beer too. Liquid Death has a brand new item
on their website that takes James is shaking his head.
He's like, we did not get this story approved. I

(57:38):
don't care. I'm doing it anyway. Well, it was available.
This is an item. This is a hot item. Unlike
the the Miller Lites products which are never available, this
Liquid Death product is available to you, which is basically
branded water for seventy five dollars. So it makes for
a nice gift. And it is called the pit diaper.

(58:01):
For that concert or sports enthusiasts who doesn't like to
leave their seat or give up their spot for a
general admission concert to go to the bathroom, you two
can wear the pit diaper for seventy five dollars and
pee your pants and not have to worry about your
Is that the same one the astronauts use. I don't know,

(58:22):
but all I know is I have I've drank some
beers at some concerts before, and I'm like, oh, I
gotta go, and I gotta go, and I'm like, oh, man,
you don't know. You don't want to spot. We right,
you don't want to lose your spot. So I'm like,
if I had a diaper right now, like, no, I
wouldn't do that. By the way, the pit diaper from
Liquid Death sold out in less than twenty four hours,
so lots of people are gross.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
All those folks that line up at Times Square to
watch the ball drop at New Year's who stand in
like gross twelve hours without losing ipot pit diaper?

Speaker 3 (58:51):
I like it.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
All right, Uh, let's let's take a break, come back,
let's talk about butt light and Modella. It's some big
beer in the news. All this so much more.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Hang with us.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (59:00):
This is what's on tap radio, all right.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
I had to go look at this pit diaper. That
chat was just talking about that Liquid Death put outs.
It's not on a Facebook page speaking of Facebook, let's
plug our social it's at What's on tap Radio on
Facebook x, Instagram, TikTok, and then you want to reach
out to the show What's on tap redo at gmail
dot com, like we've had some listeners do. But I'm
looking at this saying it is it is a leather diaper. Yeah,

(59:37):
it's a leather diaper that you would wear. You know,
you're going out to a concert or standing in line
in town's Times Square in New York City and people
line up at like seven in the morning and you
get in. You can't lose your spot. You've tried to
get out and go to the bathroom. You're not getting
back to your spot, and so there's discipline on, you know,
go in the bathroom and not drinking anything. So I

(59:58):
guess this will relieve the issues. Get it relieve the issues.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
There's one other time that I could see that this
thing would come in based on its appearance. And for
those of you who've seen the movie, you will get
the reference. But it'd be if you were a stunt
double in the bring out the Gimp scene of Pulp Fiction.
I mean, because that's kind of what it looks like.
If you've ever gone by. You know, you're going down
you see a strip mall and you see an exotic

(01:00:22):
in fun store for adults only, you could probably find
something very similar in appearance, but maybe not in function
at said gift shop. So I mean, I I've just
windows shopped. I've gone by and I've seen them in
the window. It's not like I go in there and shop.
I'm not a frequent card member. It's not like I'm
waiting to, you know, by buy one more pit diaper

(01:00:44):
from the adult store.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Maybe you're driving across country and you know you want
to make time and you don't want to pull over
to have to pee.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
I mean just saying, yeah, truck driver, someone did that
was their astronaut gal that husband.

Speaker 4 (01:01:00):
She drove from like Florida to Nevad or something NonStop.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
Remember that story? Yeah, wow, yep, all right, you got world,
we got big beer in the news. What's going on
in the land of big Beer?

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Big Beer. Well, the reason we're talking about this is
because these stories keep coming up out of what's going
on with bud Light, what's going on with Medello? And
somebody were like, really, guys, gonna keep talking about this,
but we get messages all the time. It's like, hey,
did you hear? It's almost like the Metallica beer story
or the edible six peck carriers. So for years, and

(01:01:38):
I mean years after the story came out, people were saying, hey,
you know, they've got edible six peck carriers, so the
sea turtles don't die on the little plastic.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
It became it became an inside joker on the show
where we just here we go again. I know we
have what we have beautiful listeners sitting us stories, what's
on tabrio, gmail dot com and ta beera past control
sitting us stories.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
They sponsor our research group. But they apparently these people
did not get the memo because people keep saying this, like, hey,
did you hear the butt Light's not the best selling
beer in the United States anymore? It's Medello yep. So
unless you've been living under a rock, you know that.
Back in twenty three, bud Light fell from the number

(01:02:19):
one position as the best selling beer in the United States,
replaced by Modello Especial. And here's the thing. Given the
sales trends of both brands, it was predicted that Modello,
which was the fastest growing brand and sitting in second
place at the time of the Dylan mulvaney transgender beer scandal,
And if you don't know what that was, just google

(01:02:41):
it because I am not going to go exhausted that story. Yes,
but it was given the growth, it was eventually going
to surpass bud Light, which was actually was their sales
were slowly declining. So one brand slowly declining from the
number one, the other one in the number two, rapidly growing.
But no one expected this to play out the way

(01:03:02):
it did. So how exactly did this inevitable outcome happen
so quickly? Why did it change path and trajectory? What happened? Well,
people are still talking about it because with breweries opening
and closing right now, people were watching the data and
the numbers and trends and what people are doing and
beer consumption and prices and imports and tariffs and experts

(01:03:25):
and research and data are all coming together for the
perfect storm to go ahead and give you this wonderful
overview of the beer industry as told by these two
beer brands. And it's the wild West out there. But
if you're looking at the customer base, this is insane.
Here If you think about this for a second. When
Dylan mulvaney got some bud Light, which transgender influencer, many

(01:03:51):
local or loyal rather beer drinkers were in support of
bud Light got turned off by it and they boycotted it.
Well then like backpedaled to try and save some ground,
and then all the mulvaney supporters said, well, now we're
going to boycott bud Light. Basically, they lost everybody, and
they for twenty two years they were the best selling

(01:04:13):
beer in the United States, and a year later they
lost a billion dollars on sales of bud Light. I mean, hey, Bill,
were your sales at Harbor Light anywhere near a billion
last year?

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Yeah, not quite four hundred million, right right? Okay, anyway, anyway,
then you throw in there, we have a steady increasing
Latino population here in the United States, most with roots
in Mexico, and they are what we are calling heritage drinkers.
They want to drink what they drink back in Mexico,

(01:04:47):
and Medello is the beer choice. And then the changing
beer taste of American beer drinkers. Turns out that all
Mexican beer brands saw growth because as more Americans started
drinking or they're changed their taste. They were drinking more
Mexican beer, and as the category grows, rising tides, all
ships are lifted. Americans, regardless of race or gender, said hey,

(01:05:10):
we want some more of that Mexican surveysa port for
far let's go, and they did, and so they started drinking.
So to put things in perspective, check this out, eighty
percent of all import beer sales, eighty percent all import
beer sales in the United States are Mexican beers. And
that is more than twice as much as the number

(01:05:30):
two import beer country, which would be the Netherlands, which
produces Heineken. Mexican beer out sells Dutch beer, which is Heineken,
essentially by more than double wow. I mean, that is insane.
So you got all these perfect factors coming together for
this perfect storm, and then you throw in an incredible
marketing campaign around the fighting spirit that endorsed the UFC,

(01:05:52):
which is blown up college football which is blown up.
And then the courts in the United States said Anheuser
Busch that had the distribution rights to Medello, had to divest.
They're like, no, you're getting too big, you need to
give up some of this so they did, and they
sold to Constellation Brands, which is a Canadian based company,

(01:06:12):
and took all the Mexican beer they could get and
dropped it on the Canadian US border. Now I know
what you're thinking, Oh, all the best Mexican restaurants are
right there on the in Detroit, in Buffalo, I mean
right there, that's where you go for your Mexican right
north Dakota. Oh yeah, right there, man, all those border
cities between Mexico or excuse me, Canada and the US.

(01:06:35):
But it turns out, as I said before, great marketing
combined with changing beer taste and opportunity, and all of
a sudden, Mexican beer sales blew up on the Canadian border.
And I mean it was great. So whether you were
pissed off at bud Light or just wanted to drink
more Mexican beer, it shows up on the Canadian border

(01:06:55):
and they started drinking. So that's how Medello became the
number one selling beer in the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
But this just it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
I didn't realize this. Bud Light is still the number
one selling beer on draft at bars and restaurants in
the United States. I can see that. Until this week. Sorry,
but that title is now gone as well. Bud Light
no longer the number one selling draft beer. I had

(01:07:27):
no idea until I started doing research on this, but
bud Light was the number one selling draft beer on
premise inside of bars and restaurants, and it is no
longer that beer. But as James affectionately refers to it,
bud Light Light also known by former Mayor of Houston

(01:07:48):
from the Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who knows the beer.

Speaker 3 (01:07:53):
As mitchell O Ultra.

Speaker 2 (01:07:56):
Right, Mitchello Ultra.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
Mitchell O Ultra.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Is now the new number one is selling draft beer
in the United States. I'm sorry, but bud lights woes
and problems are not over. At least they could say, Okay,
we're not the number one selling beer US anymore, but
at least we are on draft.

Speaker 4 (01:08:18):
Damn it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:19):
It's right before the new year too, so I was like, well,
we can go in the new year at least knowing
we're number one on Oh man, maybe you know what.
They probably drank their woes by having.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
A Mitchello Ultra.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
There you go, I'll tell you it's the number one.
Micheli Ultra is so popular. I have so many friends
that are health conscious and that's all they drink is
Michelo Ultra.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
So and I know a lot of craft brewers are
making a Mexican lagger, real light Mexican laggers. Now I'd
like to know what, how how much increase in a
Mexican lager and the craft beerustry has increased, because that's
basically that's what your model and those types of are.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Yeah, I would really beer nerdy talk is I want
to know. I want to know your margins on it.
But that's for another story. That's for the nerd show
about beer. This is not for us here. We're just
sitting here talking about the perfect storm which led to
the demise, a billion dollars lost in sales in one year,
and then all of a sudden, well, you know, at

(01:09:22):
least draft beer sales are holding steady for us and
not anymore. So it's a it's a mad, mad, sad,
sad world out there. But you know, again, next year,
by the way, I anticipate first Show of the year
next year, I anticipate us coming out with all of
the pontificating predictions of what the trends are going to

(01:09:43):
be for twenty twenty five, and my prediction non alcoholic beer.
The bubble's gonna burst and nobody's gonna drink it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:49):
I highly disagree, But all right, we'll look forward to
what twenty twenty five brings us. But in the last segment,
what's bringing you the last segments, we got some feel
good stories. Let's end this twenty twenty four on a
high note. So what's on Top Radio? Hang with us
for one more We'll be right.

Speaker 3 (01:10:03):
Back spilling a beer. Oh no, the adult equivalent of
letting go of a balloon. So like that last little
bit of hair remaining on your head, hold on tight
to more of What's on Tap Radio?

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
All right, on the forty ninth show of the year,
the last segment of What's on Tap Radio for the year.
Don't worry, We're going to be back next year. Bring
you plenty of good beers, interviews, entertainments, education, all sorts
of things can be going on our twelfth year. But

(01:10:52):
we couldn't have done it without our wonderful advertisers, especially
our advertisers that brings us our last segment, that being
Tantrik Brewing that's in Chadsck of the Woods.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
It is yep. I want to thank I want to
thank just the greater Michigan community. Because we've been in Texas,
that was our flagship market where everything got started. We've
expanded to Iowa and big in Iowa now and want
to thank our friends over there at Radio Kia KUK,
Mikey g and just grateful for all the support that

(01:11:24):
we get.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
So supportive and I am I am so grateful for
everybody out there in Iowa, Amen, and in Michigan. Everyone
in Michigan too.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Well, that's the thing is is Michigan beer scene. You know,
everybody talks about how big it is and how cool
it is, and you know, I've only been here, I've
lived here back here now three years and we had
listeners before, but now it's really just grow. It continues
to grow, and we're seeing listeners out there and we're
talking to people and Harvard light Bill's doing his part
as an ambassador for us, helping promote the brand. So

(01:11:55):
grateful for him. So thank you for Tanya and Patrick
and Alligan and everything that they're doing, and for everybody
in the Michigan beer community that continues to support what's
on Tap radio.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Thank you, yes, please, We are so grateful. A couple
of stories still to get to before we get out
of here. And I kind of wanted to end the
show on a high notes, you know, just let's go
out of twenty twenty four on some great feel good stories.

Speaker 2 (01:12:19):
After that, hold my beer, Yeah we better.

Speaker 1 (01:12:21):
Yeah, And I want to give a shout out to
a nice young lady out in Burkes County, that said,
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If you're not familiar, she's celebrating
a huge milestone. She's celebrating one and ten years old.

Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
Wow, halfway to two hundred and twenty all right, that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
She's celebrated with some friends at the Country Meadows Retirement Home,
and she says she plans to spend time with her
family and friends on her birthday. And she was asked
what keeps her going strong? She was born on an
reading hospital in nineteen fourteen, and what keeps her going strong?
She credits longevity to God, good jeans and yingling beer.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
Of course.

Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Yeah, you gotta love it man, dedication.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Yeah, I mean being out there in Pennsylvania, but uh,
one ten years old in America here, one hundred and
ten years old, just living her life, and uh yeah,
thanks to longevity to God. Good jeans and yingling beer.
You know, I like these stories because you know, it
depends on what part of the country. Then usually it's
cores light that's right, that you know they enjoy. I

(01:13:35):
think Cores I should market that.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Yeah, and I'm sure there's a lawyer that's saying you
can't say that. You can't say that. But yeah, there's
two things about the story. I find it interesting. First
of all, she's probably there's no way she's not the
oldest yngling drinker in the world. And the second of all,
you know America's oldest brewery. She's one hundred and ten,
she's got to be. If she's got to be the
oldest living person in the United States, I find that fascinated.

(01:13:59):
And then you said, and then you said, she hung up.
She was hanging out with some friends. Yeah, no, she wasn't. No,
she's one hundred and ten. All of her friends are dead.
She was hanging out with her granddaughter's friends because they're
all like eight.

Speaker 1 (01:14:13):
Because she lives in a retirement home. You know they
have she has friends at their retirement home.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
Well they're friends, but they were her. They she she
babysat them, She watched them she watched them be born,
she had kids of her own. Uh, they're her granddaughter's friends.
A friend is a friend, yed Okay, oh wow, yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
Can I tell you so? Can I tell you for
a glass of milkie? Can trouble you for a glass
of Shut.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
The hell up?

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
Well I will not.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
I'll make you sleep, Get off my law give me
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Not all retirement homes are like that. So that is
a feel good story, James. But I haven't good for her.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Good for her?

Speaker 4 (01:14:54):
I am.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
I got another feel good story, and it does take
us to another retirement home. And I know you're thinking
one hundred and ten. Man, I don't know if I
want to live that long. I don't know, man, Maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
I really don'tinty want.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
I don't because every time you wake up in the morning,
you're like, yes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
Yes, another one on this side of dirt.

Speaker 1 (01:15:14):
Or maybe you're like, oh damn it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
If you live to be ninety one, some would say
that you lived a long life. That right, there would
be a long life.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Yeah, ninety yeah, I love to be lived to ninety
or ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Live to be ninety one and you still have friends,
I'd say you're pretty blessed and if you live to
be ninety one, have friends and your health. You know
what I would say, go run a marathon and then
drink free beer. What I know if you're struggling to
make the connection ninety one and run a marathon. Dudes
out there running.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
Are you talking?

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
Runs with it?

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
Are you talking thirteen point five? We're talking at five
k We.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
Run five k's. He's out there running everything. But hey, listen,
if you're struggling to make the connection, I get it.
It's I'm going to tie it all together here for you.
But there's a ninety year one year old man out
there running road races. He's a running enthusiast and a
resident of the faring Way Community Center in Weymouth, Massachusetts.
His name Larry Cole Old Lair. He's mine his own

(01:16:10):
business at the faring Way Community Center and gets a
call from the front desk saying a package a ride
for you, And he's like, well, it's Christmas time. Ah,
it's probably my grandson sending me my annual refrigerated box
of Omaha steaks or some socis. Oh no, no, no,
He gets an He gets a shipment of Omaha stakes
from his grandson every year. I love this. This is great.

(01:16:30):
So he goes down, he picks up the package. He
takes it up to his room. He opens it up
and to his surprise, it was not steaks, and it
wasn't even from his grandson, but rather it was a
fifteen pack of sixteen ounce cans of beer from the
Alchemist Brewery in Vermont.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
Hey Topper.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Yes, Brewery co owners John and Kim Kimmich sent the gift,
which of course included the acclaimed Heeddie Topper double IPA.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
I said, note, that's a good gift.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Yeah it is, And the note read you don't know us,
but we just heard about your passion for fitness, and
I too hope to stay fit and thirsty and want
to share our beers and cheeses with you. Now, it
turns out Old Larry Cole there the ninety one year
old marathon running beer enthusiast, Omaha Steak recipient, loved by

(01:17:24):
his grandson and resident of the faring Way Community Center.
He doesn't just love to run at ninety one, but
he likes to party because after every race he meets
up with other runners and friends and drinks a couple
of IPAs and then on a regular basis, he meets
up with other members of other retirement communities at local

(01:17:45):
bars and breweries with an event that he organizes called
SuDS for Seniors. Now delighted with his new gift, he's
so happy. And you know, the guy likes to party
and he likes to talk to people. He likes to
hang out, he likes to stay fit. He's got a
reputation for organizing things. What did Larry do next? Well,

(01:18:07):
he did the best thing that anybody with these skills, talents, charisma,
personality would do. He sent out forty invitations to the
retirement home where he was staying there at the Faringway
Community Center in Weymouth, Massachusetts. Oh, Larry Cole invited forty
people to come down to and you know, this is

(01:18:28):
the retirement home. I want to be in to the
clubhouse pub. Yeah, that has a pub in it. The
retirement home has the Clubhouse Pub. And he invited him
down to come and share in the gift. Nine people
showed up and they sat around, sampling all the beers
and ended up talking and occupying the space for almost

(01:18:50):
two hours before orderlies had to come and break up
the party. Why well, it was movie night, and Edna
and Ethel and Gertrude all wanted to him and watch
Steve Magnolia is Again. Okay, I made up that part,
but it was movie night and they did have to
break up the party and go home. But give it
up for Larry Cole, the ninety one year old fitness

(01:19:12):
guru who shares beer with friends and knows how to party.
I gotta tell you that's a guy. I mean, he's
out there running with a back brace, gets done. He's like,
all right, where's the beer. Let's go. Hey, you you
want to go get an IP eight. Let's make this happen.
And then the give it up for the folks at
the Alchemist in Vermont for recognizing this guy and sending
him a care package. Awesome people, and that, ladies and gentlemen,

(01:19:36):
is how you end a great year of great beer
for your ear. What's on Tap Radio twenty twenty four
in the books. Yeah, and we're going to be back
next year with even more awesome stories.

Speaker 1 (01:19:48):
So many people to think, including our sponsors at being Tangented, Brewing, Spirit, Pests,
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Here for blight Brilling of course, sponsoring our podcast Cass Brandy.
Huge shout out to Harblite Bill always killing it on
Mike three. Of course, Bure Logic himself, mister Chadpilbeam, I'm
brea good Jameson saying thanks for listening to What's on

(01:20:08):
Tap Radio. We hope you enjoyed twenty twenty four and
we look forward to hanging out with you in twenty
twenty five. Happy holidays, my friends, go out and have
a safe and holiday season.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
We'll see you in twenty twenty five.

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