Man dies after drinking beer; leads to giant drug trafficking discovery

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:56):
This is What's on Tap Radio beer truly, It flows
with it Kars, beer Guru James Simpson and Beer Logics
Chad Pilbean.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
This episode dedicated to founding Kiss guitarists Ace Freely. We
lost at the young age of seventy four, trigger for you. Ace.
All right, welcome to What's on Tap Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Now's not the time where we bring up I'm not
the biggest Kiss fan, right, we don't bring that up.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Chad.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I don't care. Chad hates the Oasis, the Beatles, Elvis Kiss.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I mean, I don't hate Kiss. I'm just not really.
That's not my that's not my thing.

Speaker 5 (01:44):
Have you seen the Pecks. It's a bunch of little
people dressed.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Up like kiss. So yeah, small kiss.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, it's all the Pecks.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Oh my gosh, wow.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
True true story.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I'm getting. I'm getting. I'm getting a beer out there
for Ace freely this week. All right, welcome to What's
on Tap Radio. I'm James, We have Chad, we have Bill,
and for the next two hours, ready to entertain, educate
you guys, and have a beer with you as long
as they're doing it responsibly, because that's what we do.
We drink responsibly. Have a beer with us. Thanks to

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our friends in partners in crime that help us stay
on the radio each and every week for the past
twelve years. We start to show off the same way
that by thanking our partners in crime, that being Beer
Logic conference events, the backyard Grill, keeping the lights nice
and bright, thanks to our friends over our Harvard Light
Brewing and of course sponsoring our podcast cast branding.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Now this is where at this you know, early in
the show, you know you haven't heard me say that much,
James usually opens up with some one liner and man,
it's just gets gets the old wheels turning. And I'm
ready to just rattle off some smart out comment and
he's like, yep, we lost Ace freely like yeah, bummer.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean, oh, there's two hours of this show left,
so any time for me, I.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Don't have a lot to say other than yeah, it sucks.
And you know, for all you kiss fans out there,
you know, sorry, I mean, I I don't know.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Is this a good time to plug your social chad?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
No, this is a terrible It's time for me to
have a beer, right.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Let's have a beer. That's what that's what we're here for. Hey,
it's been a week. Okay, it's been a week. And uh,
we don't crack beers until the mics are hot and
we're about three minutes in and let's do a damn
thing things for our friends over at the backyard Grill
Sponsoring this segment which is brought to the table. I'm
bringing a beer, Chad's bringing a beer, Bills bringing a beer.
And again, I hope whatever you're doing, as long as
you can do responsibly having a beer with us. So
if you're just kind of hanging out in the backyard,

(03:39):
you know, enjoying the cooler weather, it's a perfect time
to crack open a cold one.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
What is cool weather in Texas for you right now?

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Well, probably about ninety forty degree knopskin. No, it's a
nice seventy eight degrees work community, got the cool breeze.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
We wake up in the morning to the forties. So
all right, we'll yeah, falls here it's official.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
About all right, sixties in the morning here at the
studio s on the west side of town and on
the west side of Houston, Texas. And Katie, all.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Right, well I'm back in my house now full time. Yes,
I was living out yay construction and yeah, and we're.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Gonna know this. She has been having his house renovated
for the past month.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
And it's gonna keep going. But we'll at least we're
back in at Speaking of which, remember I told you
we're gonna just dig through the fridge and see what
we can find. Well, I bought this particular beer for
my wife and this is she loves sours, and I
was like, yeah, I'm gonna buy this for her. This
is nice. This is the North Coast Brewing Company Berlin
or weis. The thing is is I bought it for
her over a year ago and she has not touched this.

(04:38):
And I'm like, you know what, woman, I love you,
but I am taking your beer. And that grinds my
gears when I think of you and I buy you
a beer and she doesn't want.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
I want to say it's probably out of sight, out
of mind.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, well, it's in the beer fridge right there next
to her. But how often is.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
She coming out to the to your studio to the
beer for a.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Beer fridge in the house right next to her every day?
Go to beers?

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Oh, chads and chads. Mister money bags over there, he's
got a fridge in the studio, he's got a fridge
in the house.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
No, I got two fridges in the house. I have
three fridges.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
So after eleven months, it's it's a free game.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
M Well, here's the problem with this. I looked up
the stats on it. This five percent leaner vice tart
cherry beer. Yeah, Bill's impressed.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
I am.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah. Last produced in twenty sixteen. So it turns out
whenever I picked it up off the shelf over at
the beer store, this has been last bottled and produced
in twenty sixteen. So harbor light, Bill and I we're
taking this. Sit here. Let me have a there.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Ah, nice cherry, nice cherry flavoring there.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yet it's it's very muted cherry, but from a sweetness standpoint,
but touch of tartness that really makes it refreshing. You
feel like you could just crush it and it wouldn't
be too acidic and at the same time not too sweet.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Yeah, there's a little sweetness, but h it's not sour.
We're tart than sour. Yes, which is perfect.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Balanced beer, very well, very refreshing. This is great. I
wish I had more. Hey, honey, I'm glad I got it.
I took this one out of your beer fridge. This
won't last long, all right, that's what we're kicking things
off of, James.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
All right, So I told you that I'm running out
of time. I don't want to continue bringing october Fest
beers in November and December, so I'm trying to just
do a clearance sale. But this is a beer I
have to bring the Goat, the Goat of American Brood.
October Fest is coming to you at five point three percent.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
I almost brought this.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
From Boston, Massachusetts. Ladies and gentlemen, I like to probably
introduce reintroduce the Goat, the Samuel Adams october Fest. I
can't believe that's this far into Octoberfest season. Here at
What's on Tap Radio, I'm finally bringing this to the show.
So I'm gonna go and crack this hang on sh
ooh yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:55):
I know.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
We bought it a beer in a bottle.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
It is crazy and this is my What's on Tap
Radio like a podcast glass thanks to our friends over
at Harbor Light Brewing. And that's we're drinking out of
two copper.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Everybody's got one.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's like we're together.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Copper appearance, sweet readiness. Ah, this is just october Fest,
the festival in itself in a glass.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
James takes his sip. There, mm hmm. I really almost
I had my hand on this beer and I was
gonna bring it to the show, and I set it
back in the fridge.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
That is what october Fest is to me. It's this
Samuel Antoms october Fest at five point three percent, and
that's where I brought to the table. I'll talk more
about this after we come back from breaking before we
do the official What's on Tap of your Fun Factor week?
But Chadd and Bill kicked it off.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
With the North Coast Brewing Company Fort Bragg, California, five
percent tart cherry Berlinavice, last produced twenty sixteen. So this
has got a little age on nine years old.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, and I one thing for the view, g
Grill for bringing a segment brought to the table. All
right on tapis we got plenty to get to. We
have to this bizarre story. There's this man who got
a beer from his boss, comes home, drinks it, and
then dies. We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna we're
gonna talk about when life hits rock bottom. Just know
you can make alcohol from hot dogs. And we got
an interview coming up next hour. A former principal who decided,

(08:15):
you know what, I'm gonna buy some brewing equipment, goes
into a brewery and he's like, you know what, damn it,
I'll just buy the whole brewery. We have all that
in this coming up on this edition What's on Tap Radio,
Hang with us, We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
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Speaker 1 (08:53):
A right, all right, there we go. Now we're getting
some uh the energy to the show. Even though Chad
wasn't digging a freely but hey, still drinking one for
him this week.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
But you know what, Hey, I don't know where Captain
Kirk is. But let me just say this. Not a
Star Trek fan either, So I'm just I'm over too
on this one. The only thing I'm winning on right
now is hanging out with Bill and drinking really good beer.
And of course you too, James, you know, but this
is my life right now. You know, I just got

(09:26):
back into my house. I should be happy, and all
of a sudden, I'm complaining about the fact that my
wife didn't drink this beer. And now I'm getting the
spoils after letting it sit for a year. And now
you come back with a song about Captain Kirk and
one about kiss and I mean, I'm just not a
big Star Wars fan.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
All right. Before we reset the beers, Before we reset
the beers that we brought the table, thanks for friends
over the backyard. Grill got an email sent to us
at What's on Taprio at gmail dot com. It's What's
on Taprido at Gmail. And as we were ending the
show last week, we got into discussion about popular beers
with the biggest price increases over the past decade. And

(10:07):
so I started rifling off through the top biggest increases
from the past ten years, and so we're looking at
the price from twenty fifteen, from twenty twenty five, and
I was convinced. I was convinced that there were six packs,
and then Chad was thinking, no, I don't think so,
these have to be twelve packs. But the press release
that I had received there was no mention whether it

(10:29):
was a twelve pack or a six pack. But thanks
to our beautiful audience, we had a listener named Jim
who emailed us who did a deeper research and discovered
it is, in fact twelve pack.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Explain this to me, why would you do research on
a twelve pack because most people buy six or case
you can understand a single question.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Six is a good question, but things like looking at
dose ekis and we're about to move on, get back
to the beers that we were talking brought to the table.
But just an example, instead of twenty fifteen price was
eleven ninety nine. To me, eleven ninety nine. You're not
getting a twelve pack of dose e Kis in twenty fifteen.
I could be wrong, but maybe you could. But in

(11:09):
twenty twenty five it's eighteen ninety nine for a twelve pack.
But just to me, I thought to myself, there's no
way somebody was paying eleven niney nine. It had to
be at least fourteen ninety nine for a twelve pack
back in twenty fifteen. But Jim didn't research.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Hamburger at McDonald's when they first opened was two fifty
so you know.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So anyways, shout out to our audience thanks to Jim
going to What's on tebriogmail dot com who did a
deeper research and discovered that is, in fact an increase
on twelve packs.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
So yeah, we need some help in the research department.
Maybe we could hire that guy.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
I know, wait to go, Jim, I know, I appreciate that, Hey.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Jim, you need a part time job. That's right for
twenty bucks and some chicken wings. That's all we can afford.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
Him in Copperfield too, Jim and Copperfield, all right, northwest side,
all right, So let's reset the beers that we brought
to the table. Chad and Bill kicked it off with
a sour Apparently that Chad went out and bought for
his bride, and his body was like, you know, it's
a nice it's a nice gesture, Chad, but I'm probably
not gonna drink it. She didn't tell them that.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Obviously, I'm done. I'm not buying beer for her anymore.
That's it. I'm done. I mean, this is gret No,
I'm just kidding. Of course I will buy beer for
her whatever she wants, but I don't need to try
as hard to impress her with, you know, a selection
of craft beer that she's never had, just to get
her to try something new, because it just sits there.
And this is about the fourth time in a row

(12:25):
it's happened, and I've had to drink. Well, I get
to drink them, and thank goodness, this time. Well, the
cherry blossom on the label, the tart cherry beer. The
Berliner weis from North Coast Brewing Company, last brood twenty sixteen.
So this beer nine years old, and one of those
years is set in my fridge. So this is what
we kicked off about. In fact, glasses are almost empty.

(12:47):
We're gonna have to open another beer here in the
next segment. But very refreshing, beautiful beer, and I know
where I bought it. We're gonna go back to the
store and see we can find.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
It, all right, And then I backed it up with
the Samuel Adams Octoberfest, which I consider the goat of
American brewed Octoberfest. It's a deep and amber color, mild
pleasant sweetness, light hop a character, hardy but not heavy.
It's at five point six and it is very smooth
and you know, a definitely a good representation of the

(13:18):
mars And style and my one of my favorites. I
can't believe it's just late in the season. I'm now
bringing it to the table, but hey, at least I did,
so if you see it, I recommend picking it up.
So that is brought to the table thanks to our
friends over at the backyard Grill. So, Chad, you ready
to educate.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Well, let's drop some knowledge now the official What's on
Tap Radio fun fact of the week, brought to you
by Who's ever checked clear?

Speaker 3 (13:42):
This week?

Speaker 1 (13:42):
And speaking of education, coming up next hour, we're going
to catch up with a former principle. He was a
principal in middle school for a long time and then
he got out of the game. He wanted to go
into deer business. And now he's got himself brewed. Great story.
Stay tuned for that, all right, Chad, let's.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
Adk you so many questions for that. I want to ask.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
It's like, okay, yeah, I'm looking for I have you
to drink. I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward
to it. I you know, as Chad and I are
both educators, I'm really excited to bring this guy on
to the show and chat and find out a little
bit more about his adventure.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
It will be fun. All right. Speaking of learning, let's
go back into the time machine. By the way, Uh,
you took English, and I'm assuming because you graduated you had to.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
I did. I took English. I'm married to an English teacher.

Speaker 3 (14:25):
Remember Shakespeare?

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Uh no, you don't know, you don't.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, you never heard of never heard.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Of I mess have missed that day.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yeah, right, exactly. We were. We were all tortured with it.
I mean, I've never once met a single person, even
an English teacher, says, oh, I love Shakespeare. Okay, And
fortunately I got through. The only thing I had to
read was, uh was Romeo and Juliet. I didn't have
to read Macbeth. But if I had read Macbeth, maybe

(14:53):
the one thing I would have remembered from it is
that there is a reference to a beer in that story.
And in fact, it's referred to as an egg in
your beer. And that is a literal and figurative phrase
that has been used throughout history, its earliest reference coming
from in print in the story of Macbeth, Shakespeare's Macbeth. However,

(15:18):
this is a recipe that goes back to England, very
popular drink to be served with honey and spices that
predates Macbeth and Shakespeare. But it's called an egg in
your beer. And I thought, well, okay, I've heard of
people putting eggs in beer and drinking them, and I mean,
there's all these but I've never heard of the figurative
use of it, you know, as a metaphor and so

(15:41):
thrown out a little bit of an English lesson. See
this is the part of English I actually liked. You know,
screw Shakespeare man. Let's learn some metaphors here, all right. Well,
an egg in your beer had several different connotations. During
World War Two, beer and eggs were both scarce for
our troops, and so actually talking about egging your beer

(16:02):
was essentially saying you want more than you can have.
Your desire is bigger than what the opportunity is than
your stomach. Well something like that. Or or you can
wish in one hand and crap in the other and
get some one fills up. First type of thing, you know,
it's not gonna happen. But then the other is is
asking for more than you deserve. It's like, hey, you've
got a beer already, now you want an egg in it?

(16:23):
Come on, you know, I mean you haven't earned it.
So it's asking for more than what you deserve. And
so I thought about this, and then all of a sudden,
this little nuggetive history popped up, and we were talking
about how bars used to offer free lunches in order
to get people to come in and drink more. But
in Seattle, Washington, they prior to national prohibition. Back in

(16:47):
nineteen fifteen, they passed a law to try the teetollers
did to try and get people to stop drinking or
stop getting free lunches because it forced people to or
entice people to go and drink more at the saloon wounds.
But a judge ruled. He said, hey, we had this.
If you crack an egg and put it in the beer,
it ceases to be a meal or food and is

(17:09):
now part of the beverage. So got around that loophole.
There it is. But this whole idea of eggs in
your beer, it has regional appeal. And the most interesting
story I found about the egg and the beer comes
from a little place maybe you've heard of it, Pottsville, Pennsylvania,
home of Yingling, the oldest brewery in the United States,

(17:34):
and there where you had miners going down and working
in Pennsylvania, they invented what they called the Miner's Breakfast.
Your official What's on Tap radio fun facts plural of
the week. All these fun facts about eggs in your beer,
literally and figuratively as a metaphor, can all be traced

(17:57):
back to England pre Shakespeare and where it was a
drink made with honey and spices. But fast forward to Pottsville,
Pennsylvania and the mining industry and the miners breakfast was
invented where miners, before going down the mine shaft would
crack an egg, put it in the beer, chug and
go to work. And that is your official what's on

(18:18):
tap radio fun fact of the week.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Oh boy, do I got a story about cracking an
egg open into a beer? I'll tell you when we
come back from break. All right, we got to take
a break. Like I said, we got a lot of
good stuff on tap, including we're talking about making alcohol
from a hot dog. So if you ever hit rock Bottom,
stay tuned. It's what's on tap Rado. Hang with us.
We're right back.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
The only thing we throw back on Thursday is a
pint of beer or two or three. This is what's
on tap radio. Get back to James and Chad.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
This is a tune. I can chance this right? Who
is this again?

Speaker 1 (19:09):
The only Ones? Another Girl?

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Another Planets? And you thought all I liked was yacht rock?

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Come on, no, seriously, that's all Chad likes and maybe
like a handful of other bands, but anything else stinks.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Everything you guys drink on this show is an I
p A. Yeah, we kick things off of the North
Coast Berliner vice.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Hey, hey, to my defense, I had not had an
I p A on this show. And I can't even
remember how long I think the last time, Noe when
Brian Holsen came on and hung out.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Say what Brian was like, Yeah, I can't remember the
last time two weeks ago whenever.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
I I mean, I'm talking about when I'm in studio
as by myself, which I am now. I've been enjoying
these marsins and then starting in November, I'll start bringing
IPAs back again. No, I'm just kidding. The punkin spice
latte seasons coming up, so for me and what's on Tapa.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah right, Hey, it's a weird thing too. You opened
a beer out of a bottle. We opened a beer
out of a bottle, And if you listen, yep, there's
another one, you know, the bottle thing.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
I feel like you. I feel like you. You offended
me a little bit there.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
I did. Yeah, I hurt your feelings.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
You kind of did. You're like, oh, yeah, you just
poured a beer out of a bottle, not just any bottle, Chad.
Not just any bottle. It is Samuel Adams October Fest,
the goat of American brewed marsins. Don't just say oh yeah,
you just it was cute.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
You just brought it.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
You brought a beer in a bottle.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
Yeah, I okay, find your you got the you got
the goat over.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
There, Apologize the beer.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Apologize, Sorry, sorry Sam, Sorry, Jim Cooks on line.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
One, I'm holding the beer bottle up, so you're.

Speaker 3 (20:42):
Gonna hang out the phone on that guy too.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
No, I'm not never hang up on him.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
No, I know. And then and then, of course I've
got that North Coast beer reminds me of you know,
just like an argument with my wife about you know, beer.
But so to tell you what I've got here, Uh,
this one here comes to us, you know what, I
think it'd be more fun bill, everybody what we have?

Speaker 5 (21:02):
You know, you do this to me all the time.
Uh the wife's planer. What why is it?

Speaker 3 (21:10):
Plainer? You're doing great?

Speaker 5 (21:12):
Yeah? Uh bro pac blonde aale.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Oh and it's a it's a collaboration beer with Saint Bernard's.
Oh you got that one right, Okay, he got that one.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
I feel like we've interviewed Saint Bernardist.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Haven't we uh we did? We were at Hobbitt Cafe.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, and he was was it St Bernardist?

Speaker 3 (21:30):
I think it was. It was one of the Yeah,
I don't I feel like we've.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
We've had a lot of good European brewers on the show.

Speaker 3 (21:36):
Yep, so uh brow packed. This is a broad pack,
which is essentially a brew pack, A collaboration between how'd
you say it again? Bill? Go ahead? No, you first? Oh,
the Western Fla nailed it. Yes.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
So if you're near to the show and you're not
understanding what's happening right now, Bill has a hard time
pronouncing beer names, just like I have a hard time
pronouncing city names.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Collaboration with ain't were an artist and weinstefaner. We were
so close. Bill hates me right now. Alright, blonde aale
six point five percent? What's take on this here?

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Great Belgian taste, nice and clean, light Yeah.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Yeah, I think it's a little light struck. But other
than that Belgian yeese, A little little bit of that
candy candy sugar. Yeah, it's okay. It finish is dry,
really dry. Though I like it. It's good. I don't
love it. It's something new, something to try, and it
was in the fridge, so we found it, pulled it
out there it is. See, we can figure out how
old it is.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
Yeah, I'd like to find how old it is. It's
got a date code down there, but I'm not sure that.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
All right, we'll dig into it. The good news is, James,
we're not gonna die from drinking this.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
Now before we dive into the story, not die into
the story. Dive into the story. Chad just did a
fun fact about putting egg in your beer. And when
I was at the University of Houston, Nice to live
this place called Cougar Place. And in Cougar Place there
was a European guy named Josh and Josh was a
rugby player. And I started hanging out with Josh for

(23:10):
a little bit until I wized up and going, Okay,
I'm either gonna end up dead or in jail by
hanging out with this guy. Because this guy was wild.
And I'll never forget. He had a rugby tournament and
it was like seven o'clock, eight o'clock in the morning
on a Saturday, and he was like, Hey, do you
want to go? And I was like, you know, I'll
go check it out. And by him asking me if
I wanted to go, that was his way of going, hey,
will you give me a ride? So I go over

(23:33):
to his place at like, you know, seven thirty whatever
to pick him up, and I'll never forget. He's like,
come on in, man, and he pours this is like
I said, seven o'clock in the morning, pours a pint
of I think it was either heine Kin or Carlsburg,
I can't remember, but whatever it was, he poured a
beer into a pint glass and then just took an
egg out of the fridge, cracked it and put it

(23:55):
into the beer, and then chugged the entire beer and
then looked at me and was like, oh, I'm sorry,
let me get you one. I'm like, no, I'm good,
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
I'm good. I had an omelet I.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
Had I'm so full from uh the oatmeal. But he
looked at me and he's like, oh my god, I'm
so rude. Here, let me get you one real quick. Yeah,
that guy was a wild time, great times, but I'm
I spent about two weeks with them, and I realized, no,
I can't do it. So anyways, it just brought that

(24:24):
memory something, you know, things that triggered your your memories.
I'm like, oh, oh yeah, definitely. So anyway, hey, if
you do that, hey shout out to you. But I mean,
this guy, I don't even know why he did. He
just cracked it and he.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
Probably because he won his protein before going out to
playing a rugby match.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
And then they had a keg on the side of
the damn field on the rug Yes, yes, they had
a full on keg and they were doing keckstands at
like nine or ten o'clock in the morning.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
And then they went to the outback bar after that,
and then you peed on the bar yep, yep, the
out back after playing some rugby.

Speaker 5 (24:52):
I've played a lot of rugby drunk.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yeah, I think you have to. I don't know, I
don't remember anybody. And then he was like, do you
want to play? And I'm like no. Everybody was like
six foot four, three hundred pounds and he was like, dude,
they'll never catch you. And I was like, yeah, they
do catch me. I'm gonna be dead.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Right.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
I know you're supposed to pitch the ball, but I'm
telling you, what if they get within five yards ten
yards of me. I'm throwing it in any direction.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
He's like, look, i'll pitch it to you. You just run.
They'll never catch You're getting too fast. I'm like yeah,
but if they do, I'm dead. So no, I didn't play.
I just hung out and watched anyways lost stories good too,
and I came across this one. This story is wild,
This story is nuts.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
This comes from New Zealand, all right, and this is
a tragic story about a man named Aidan Zagla. He
was twenty one years old and he died in his
sister's arms after opening a beer that he got from
his boss. Okay, so the incident happened back in March
of twenty twenty three. Aiden select a can from a
crate of beer that he had been given to him
by his employer, which he had taken back home. He

(25:55):
was living with his sister and brother in law Billy
at the time, and it's just been a long, exhausting day.
He's like, you know what, Billy, do you want to
have a beer? And he's like, yeah, sure, So he
pulls open a beer, He opens it and he takes
a drink, you know, trying to relax after a long day,
but he noticed that the beer is really salty. He's like, oh,
this is really salty. So he asked Billy was like, hey,

(26:16):
would you taste this and tell me whether or not
you feel it salty or not. And Billy's like, dude,
it can't be salty. You just opened it. I know
this beer. And so Billy took a stip of it
and he's like, oh, spit it out. Immediately spit it out, going, No,
this is terrible. It tasted like salt and chemicals. So
he didn't swallow like I said he'd spit it out,
but Aiden did in fact swallow it, and then all

(26:37):
of a sudden, Aiden felt really really sick immediately, and
the situation just began to deteriorate rapidly, and Aiden he
emerged from his bedroom telling his brother in law that hey,
I think I'm about to perish. That's a quote. It's like,
I think I'm about to perish. He grew progressively distressed,

(26:58):
physically violent, started screaming, call my mom, call my mom.
I'm dying. I want my mom. I'm dying. Billy remembered,
So throughout this whole ordeal, Billy calls Aidan's mom and
Aiden's mom just listening helplessly on the other end of
the line, and the state of panic, Billy rang his wife, Angela,
the sister who dashed over. Luckily, his sister was a doctor.

(27:24):
They called an ambulance, but however the ambulance was taking
too long, and so his sister started giving him CPR
but just didn't help. Aidan fil critically and then ultimately
passed away five days later from multiple organ failure. And
the name of the beer is called the honey Bear

(27:47):
Beer from Canada. And it turns out this beer was
filled with liquid methinphetamine.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Ah yeah, yep.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
So authorities say that it was a part of a
shipment of honey Bear beer from Canada was actually filled
with liquid methin fenamine. And investigation uncovered a massive international
drug smuggling operation when nearly seven hundred kilograms of liquid
meth seized, the largest in New Zealand's history, and a

(28:19):
local supermarket owner and Aiden's boss have been charged in
connection with the death and illegal imports, and police warned
that the case highlights the dangers of tampered products and
the ongoing global drug trafficking. And so I was telling
Chad that I've been watching these documentaries and New Zealand
and Australia are very very difficult countries to get drugs into,

(28:41):
and so what these traffickers are doing is they're smuggling
it through alcohol. And so maybe this beer got in
mixed with the other beer and got in Aiden's hand,
and Aiden drank it and it was actually a beer
full of methane fenamine, not beer itself. And so this
poor man dies in his sister's arms minutes after opening
a beer after work.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
That's that's that's crazy. I mean, just and all he
had was the one sip.

Speaker 1 (29:09):
That's all he did, Just have that one sip. But
it was over seven and fifty millileaters of methanphenamine. Yeah,
scary story. But I have another story coming up about
a bar in the Cypress area where I'm broadcasting from
where they also found some some possible contamination. So we'll
talk about that. I just want to bring that up.

(29:30):
Wild story. But other stuff in the news we're gonna
talk about is, hey, let's lighten it up. Savor University
is announcing a new beer all so much more. Hang
with us. We're right back.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
The taps are open, and so is your fly. Oh
the only little stubbies we want to see have beer
in them. Zip up and buckle up for more of
what's on tap radio.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
All right, not to make you paranoid, but you never know.
You know, you're working one day and your boss like, hey,
you know what, take this beer home. Crack it open,
enjoy You've worked hard. So you go home and ask
your brother in law like, hey, but I'm a beer
and he's like, yeah, sure. So he cracks open this

(30:25):
beer that his boss gave him and then realizes it
tastes really salty and this doesn't actually taste like a beer,
asked his brother in law to take a sip, and
his brother in law was like, oh, this is nasty,
immediately spit it out. But aiden didn't swallow it and
ended up dying because it wasn't beer at all. It
was methadmphetamine. And I said it was seven hundred milliter.

(30:48):
It doesn't say actually how many kilograms was in the
can that was the total of seas was seven hundred
kilograms of liquid meth, the largest in New Zealand's history.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
See, I thought you were going to tell me that
that that beers State tasted just like an egg in
your beer, and and right before rugby match. And the
guy didn't play rugby, even though you know he played
you know, Australian rules football, which is different rules. And
so that's why he didn't know what he was drinking.
And all right, that was a it was a bad
attempt at humor coming out of a death story. Sorry, Chad,

(31:22):
All right, fine? You know, hey, did you hear the
ace freely died from kiss two?

Speaker 4 (31:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
It doesn't care. Real quich of containmation, contamination, contamination, tamination
can't talk to you.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Hey, Bill, what's the name of this brie again?

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (31:36):
So t ABC here in Texas Techo, Texas Alcohol Bureau
Commission has confirmed and it's waiting on lab results after
testing multiple liquor bottles from a Cypress bar with possible contamination.
Investigation began October seventh after TBC said multiple people got
sick and went to the hospital after drinking at this
tavern in Cyprus. I'm not gonna throw out the name,

(31:56):
but if you want to search, you can. You can
just search it up. But the owner of the bar
says that they alerted authorities with the abundance of cautions
after checking with the distributor. They want to protect the
people who go into the bar. TBC hasn't elaborated on
the symptoms of the sick customers. They exhibited some sickness
there and they suspect that the liquor had been contaminated

(32:19):
with and they're looking into how the possibility of contamination
began or happened. But they're stressing I believe to be
an isolated incident involving a single license location. So yeah,
it's pretty scary stuff.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
You know, there was back when COVID first came out.
I don't know if you remember, but for about five minutes,
I had a video that we put together. I mean
like it just came out and everybody was wondering, can
you get coronavirus from drinking Coronah?

Speaker 6 (32:48):
Yeah, we ran bits with that, right well, right, So
I shot a video for Facebook and I was laying
on my couch and I was all bundled up in
a blanket and acting like I had a fever and
drinking corona.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
And somebody's like, you know, that's not funny because you
know people are dying from that. I was like, you
know what, You're right, I thought, you know, I thought
this was thinking that was just gonna blow over in
five minutes and ended up shutting down the country for
a year. And I mean it was a big deal,
and so we took that down. Yeah, we were smart
about that. But that was early on that that was
actually right before that was like right when the first
case showed up in the United States.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah, we ran bits. We did a couple of bits
about the corona and coronavirus.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
We did, and then all of a sudden it was like,
all right, I guess we got Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
We pumped the brakes on it when we realized it
was a little more serious.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Then.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, two weeks to uh what it was it to
slow the curve? What was it? Was it two weeks
to flatten the curve? That's what it was. Two weeks
to flatten the curve. Two weeks my no way.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah, now, you know, all right, I'm proud to say
we've remained on the radio the entire time. We did,
and we came up with some good bits back then,
we we did.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
I know, I remember how quickly we were scrambling for
equipment because you could everything was shut down, you know,
there was a limited supply of everything. Transportation was limited
shipping was limited warehouse employees, and for us to be
able to get things and go to the store and
get MIC's and equipment to be able to set up
and keep doing the show after being removed from the studio.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
Yeah, because we were doing the show at the iHeart
studios and we were instructed by the management of iHeart
that we couldn't be bringing in guests, and so Chad
and I were like, well, screw this, We'll just go
build our own studio, and so we did, and we
brought in our own guest. That's kind of how the
story of how we built our own studios happened. But yeah,
but yeah again at TABC testing liquor bottles for possible
contamination at a cypress bar. Scary stuff, guys.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
I know, I don't. And meanwhile, here in Zealand, Michigan,
this is a I just wanted to mention this really quick.
If you don't know anything about where we live. We're
in a very conservative part of the state on the
west side and Zealand, Michigan, I want to say twenty
I think it was twenty years ago they finally lifted
the ban on alcohol sales in their town. And I mean,

(35:02):
in this is a town. This is where my wife's from,
you know, the one who didn't drink the beer I
bought her. But she's from there, And I mean, you
don't mow your lawn on Sundays, you don't wash your
car on Sundays.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's a Lord's Day.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Yeah, it took even longer than that for Sunday sales.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, well no, that's the thing still, that's what they're
considering now. Yeah, because there are no Sunday sales in Zealand.
But they have restaurants. They have a couple of restaurants,
a couple of bars, and a brewery and they're like,
and a grocery store. No less, they have a grocery store,
and they're like, we can't sell any of this stuff
on Sunday. And so they're revisiting it. And it just

(35:38):
goes to show, you know, when the community is around,
you are growing faster and they're developing and they're getting
more revenue. Everybody's just kind of looking around and it's
like people are moving out of Zealand, not in Yeah,
and so they're yeah, they're looking at that. So conservative
West Michigan starting to you know, the blue laws anybody
know why they call them blue laws?

Speaker 1 (35:58):
No Chad dropping in a fun fact on.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Us because the pastor I believe was who was in
Connecticut wrote the laws for no drinking or no Sunday
nothing but Sunday worship. I wrote the laws what you
couldn't do on blue paper.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
So if you're gonna email me at What's on Tabrio
gmail dot com and going to how do you not
know that? James? That's common knowledge. I did know what
it is. I just want to chat enlightened right right?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Yeah, you wanted to see if I knew it, and you.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
Know, you know, I know a lot of our listeners
don't actually know where that term came from, so I
wanted them to know. So don't reach out to me
at James in the radio saying, oh that speaking.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Of one hit wonders. You ever hear the one hit
wonder by Henry Rollins. He's his number one hit. Liar,
you're a liar. See I brought that full circle.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I did see that, all right? What else we got
going on on news? So much to get to Chad?

Speaker 3 (36:50):
There's nothing going on out there on the beer world,
nothing at all, Tons and tons of stuff going on
the beer World, and of course my one sheet just
like closed and froze up on me. I'm like, yeah,
there's the one sheet. Well, maybe I can find you
got your one sheet.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
I do have my one sheet, but Chad told me.
Chad told me, He's like, you know what, if we
can get to it, I have this story about frogs
and getting free beer. I don't know if you want
to bring that up.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Oh my gosh, I love this story. I love it
all right, hold on.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
We're at our production meeting and we're going back and
forth with the different stories, and Chad was like, dude,
I got this great story about this if you if
you're a frog, you get free beer. And I'm like, look,
come with the frog and he just walking to a bar.
He's like sort of, but not really.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
I know this is great. I love this story. I
really too. I think it's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
As Chad tries to dig it up on the spot
and did.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Put me on the spot. So Portland, Oregon out there,
you may have heard of this thing. There's the no
Kings protests that have been going on.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah July, and then it carried on to this past weekend.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Yeah, exactly, there's no Kings protest. I don't care if
you're for or against it whatever. You know what, we
we're not really going to take sides on this.

Speaker 1 (37:54):
Hold if people want to get together and scream, and
that's that's none of my.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Whatever you want to do. The only thing I asked you,
please don't block traffic.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Exactly, dad. Just don't affect the traffic, okay, right.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Don't loot, don't don't loot, don't shoot, and you know,
don't block traffic. But people up.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
As frogs, cool man, do it?

Speaker 3 (38:12):
This is so good. Portland, Oregon, they had there were
bars and restaurants out there trying to drum up support,
and they thought it was fun because a lot of
people were dressing up in costume, and one of the
really popular outfits were inflatable animal costumes. And so what
they a couple of bars decided to do is they said, hey, uh,

(38:34):
we're gonna give you guys three dollars, three dollars beers
and three dollars seleight, you know, three dollars pizzas or
whatever it was if you dress up in an inflatable costume.
But the really cool one, which I loved, was the
inflatable frogs, inflatable frogs. If you dressed up as an
inflatable frog, free beer, free pizza, that's right in Portland.

(38:57):
Just and several other bars got involved on that, and
they thought it was great. They just said, hey, if
people are willing to do this, hey, you want to
dress up like a cow or a wombat, or a
raccoon or a hippo and do the hokey pokey, Hey,
three dollars beer. But if you dress up like a frog,
free beer in Portland during the No Kings.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
If I were in Portland, I would have definitely shown
up as a frog. I wouln't even know what they
were there for. I was like, hey, I just heard
I get free beer if I dressed up as this
and somebody coming up to me, Yeah, no King's right.
I'm like, I don't know, man, I'm just somebody.

Speaker 3 (39:27):
Saw federal officers occasionally firing pepper balls into the crowd
of frogs to get them to disperse, but they dispersed
with free beer, free pizzas.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
All right, that's our number one of the books. We
got to take a break. Coming up next hour, we're
gonna interview a former principal who now owns a brewery
or is in the process of building a brewery, and
we're gonna talk about when you hit rock bottom. Just
know that you can make alcohol out of hot dogs.
We'll explain allo so much more. Hanging out now were
number two. We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
After reading about the evils of drinking, we made up
our mind. We're gonna stop reading. What's on Tap Radio
continues with James Simpson and Chad Pilbeam.

Speaker 4 (40:19):
All right, our number.

Speaker 3 (40:20):
Two What's on Tap Radio starts right now. That's right.
We've been getting all warmed up, like Sunday liquor sales
and alcohol sales in Zealand, Michigan, you know, just getting started.
You miss that, you can, uh, you know, go listen
to our podcast. We just talked about that, uh in
West Michigan, Ottawa County, Zealand talking about spanning sales of

(40:43):
liquor to include Sunday. But if you ever miss an
ounce of What's on Tap Radio, you can always check
us out on our podcast everywhere podcasts can be found.
I want to thank our friends at Cask Branding for
bringing you that that's at What's on Tap Radio on
every single platform. Speaking of ounces, Harba. Bill is gonna
pour a drink here. Will I tell you how you

(41:05):
can reach out to us if you have comments, suggestions,
I want to fact check us. You can send us
an email.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
Like Jim and Copperfield earlier.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Yeah, what's on tap Radio at gmail dot com?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Of course, Yeah, he's good guy.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
And then of course on all the social media platforms,
we're on x We're on it's Instagram, we're on the gram,
gram YouTube, TikTok YouTube, that's at what's on tap radio? Again?
An email? What's on tap radio? Gmail dot com? And uh,
speaking of Zealand, Bill, Yeah, Dad, speaking of Zealand.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
Triple Root Brewery right downtown has perception defines reality a
Belgian style triple coming in at ten percent alcohol.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
Oh yep.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, because if you're gonna if you're gonna start having
Sunday sales, not bought on Sunday, not but clearly Okay,
that's just delicious. We'll talk more about that later on.
We're gonna let that warm up, but it's a little
tight right now, but it's delicious. Thanks Bill for bringing
that in. And now this this is the part of
the show. If you're if you're new to the program.
You're like, man, I wish you guys, would you know

(42:19):
spotlight some stupid criminals.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Well, if you ever feel down, if you ever feel
down on yourself, just listen to this segment. You'll feel
really good about yourself afterwards.

Speaker 3 (42:27):
I was gonna say, yeah, if you're the subject of
this segment, you made some bad decisions with your life.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
So hold my beer and watch. This is what we're
about to introduce, is where we explore more stories of
when alcohol, anger, and poor choices collide. That's basically a
rundown of what hold my beer and watch. This is
so if you're new to the show, again exploring stories
about when alcohol, anger, and poor choices just collide.

Speaker 3 (42:49):
We need to run a new liner. We got to
get that recorded. That's good. I like that. Good, good job,
good copy right there.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
Yep, So I have some bad news for you and
Bill this week.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Not Rhode Island and Rhode Island, Florida.

Speaker 1 (43:00):
Not in Florida either. As a matter of fact, we're
jumping the pond. We're going to Manchester. Friends, Manchester. Oh,
so imagine this, okay, imagine this father to be celebrating
the gender of his first child.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Sounds joyful, gender reveal. Yeah, it's a gender reveal.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
You know your first child, you're excited. But this twenty
six year old, his name's Luke Almon, thanks went off
the rails real fast. So, according to court reports, Almond
down ten pints of beer snorted some cocaine ooh before
a night out at a pub in Greater Manchester.

Speaker 4 (43:42):
See.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
The trouble started when Almon ignored staff instructions of in
a no service area. He threw a sign and shouting
because he's been waiting too long. Security asked him just hey,
we need you to leave, but the scuffle ensued. Just
twelve minutes later, he returned with a knife. He thought
I was legal, by the way, and then that's when
chaos really erupted and a violent incident that followed. A

(44:04):
doorman who wasn't even involved in the initial scuffle was stabbed,
suffering injuries so severe that he reported emergency surgery for
Security staff had to wrestle the knife away, and others
were injured, including a female bouncer who ended up hospitalized
for two weeks. Almond later claimed he couldn't remember much
blaming or why blaming the alcohol and drugs. Do you

(44:28):
think the judge had any sympathy on them.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Well, oh oh well, if it was the alcohol and
drugs and not really, you go home, have a good night.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
Yep. Nope, the judge had little sympathy, pointing out that
less than fifteen minutes after being ejected, all men went
out and attacked the first staff member he saw, and
now he sentenced two nine years in prison. Ah, leaving
victims and families to pick up the pieces from the
knights that should have been a happy celebration.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yeah. I mean, his kid's gonna be like almost ten
years old when he gets to see him.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
Yeah, so you're hold my beer and watch this. Jailed
at Luke Alman twenty six drank ten pints snorted cocaine
before stabbing a bouncer in a rage on a night
that was supposed to be celebrated on the gender of
his first child.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Okay, I just can't help, but notice you said he
had ten pints and his kid's going to be ten
years old approximately whenever he gets out of jail. I
wonder if he's going to celebrate getting out of jail
by drinking ten pints. Can you imagine that tenth birthday?
Who else the mud brought it full circle.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Yeah, I see that.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
It was really dry delivery there. I gotta work on
the delivery out. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 5 (45:43):
If it was a gender revealed party, did they say
it was a boy or a girl?

Speaker 1 (45:46):
And now that's what Okay, I'm glad you popped that up,
Bill because there's no mention whether or not it was
a boy or girl. So I need Jim, I need
Jim a Copperfield to go do some digging and tell
me whether or not this was a Is it a
boy or a girl? But yeah, at Genderville party, dad
drinks ten pints, snort, does some cocaine, and then stabs
a bouncer.

Speaker 3 (46:06):
You gotta wonder though, if they waited, like we're gonna
do the gender reveal at the very end, and he
got arrested before they got to do it, and then
everybody's sitting around it's like, oh, while they're taking them
the gym man, this night got out hand, this thing,
we got off the rails. Are we still doing this
or are we just gonna go home and just kind
of hope for the best. Like what do we do? Now?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
That's interesting, Let's think about that for a second. Since
we have a minute or so before we go to
break do you think they go on with it? Would
you go on with it if you're if your daughter's husband, boyfriend,
you know, at gender revelle, Like, what do you do
in that situation? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
It's kind of like whenever somebody does the school announcements
and they say, oh, by the way, it's cancer Awareness
week and we just want to let you know a
fun fact about cancer that one out of every five
people will be diagnosed with it and die in their lifetime.
Have a great weekend, folks.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
Yeah, Like, by the way, don't forget to wear peaking
for the pepper on Friday, right.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
I was like, wait a minute, that's not a fun
like so I'm at that point. It's like gender reveal.
It's like, listen, everybody, go home. I'll send you an
email and let you know what the kid's gonna be.
You know, go home. We're not because you pop the
balloon and all the confettie comes out either blue or pink.
It's like, I don't see people going.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Whoa, oh the boy?

Speaker 3 (47:19):
Yeah, where the party's gonna say?

Speaker 5 (47:22):
All right, folks, it's over, and oh, by the way,
it's a girl.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yeah, now, if it's a boy, does she name him Junior?
All right, we gotta take it.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
But he's gonna be the boy named Sue.

Speaker 1 (47:37):
I've got to We can go on and on on these,
but hey, we gotta take a break. But hey, so
to come this hour, we're gonna catch up with a
former middle school principal who went in just you know,
he's getting into brewing, and he saw this brewery that's
for sale, and he's like, you know, I was gonna
go buy some equipment, but realize when he's there, you
know what, I'm gonna buy the damn thing. So we're
gonna catch up with him. Also, we're gonna talk about

(47:58):
uh oh, when you hit rock boy them. Just know
that you can make alcohol from hot dogs. We'll explain
all so much more hanging out in this hour, hanging
with this, we'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
On average, humans walk nine hundred miles per year, entering
twenty two gallons of beer, which means the average human
gets forty one miles per gallon. Not ben what's on
tap radio continues, all.

Speaker 1 (48:32):
Right, still a lot to get to, including coming up,
we're gonna talk to this former middle school principal who
decided to know he's driving down the road and stopped
into a brewery that just closed and is thinking about,
you know, I'm gonna buy some of their equipments and
then just end up buying the brew instead. Very interested
in with this guy's thought process is and again I

(48:55):
need that.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
I need that, and I think I'll take that, and
I need one of those hey hey, hey, let's let's
bundle a deal here. What if I want the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Let's just give me the whole thing? You know, is
the one of that impulse buys where you just kind
of go in there and you're like, yeah, you know,
they say you never go into a grocery store hung
you're hungry, right, so maybe, yeah, you know, it's one
of those things. But that's coming up. I can't wait
for that. But it's time for me to crack a beer.
I finished my what I considered the goat of American

(49:26):
brewed october Fest from Samuel Adams. Very delicious. But I
had another october Fest who I always bring to this show,
and I haven't done yet. In award winning october Fest
multi award winning from Saint Arnold Brewing Company. No No, No,
the October fest. Is it is an award winning bird

(49:47):
it is award winning beer.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Chad, you said it was an award winning october Fest.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Well, yes, because it is an october Fest. It's named
Octoberfest and it's one.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Okay, so it's named Octoberfest. So it's an october Fest
that has won awards. But it's not an award winning
october Fest.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
Okay, maybe I'm gonna say that. Maybe I said I
said it wrong. Here's an october Fest that's once I'm awards.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
There you go, right there, there we go, because I
don't think it's ever won an award in the october Fest,
Mars and Fest beer category.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
And I'll catch you up to what chat's talking about.
But I'm gonna gohad and pour this into my glass.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
We know I was gonna taste. It's gonna taste exactly
like a Scottish yell. You don't need I'm sorry I
took your punchline. I stepped on you there, pal.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
But we know this is a full bodied, multi slightly
sweet beer celebrating the autumn harvest.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Sounds like a Scotch yild to me.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
It's a rich.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Beer, round of malt flavor. EBV at six point six,
very Scottish and again this is brood for fall, this
Saint Arnold october Fest. I'll read off the list of awards.

Speaker 3 (50:58):
It's one or any other time that you want to
scot scottishale.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
I will list off the awards as one. Since it
is a multi award winning beer, silver metal Great American
Beer Festival, Scottish Style a Great American Beer Festival twenty ten,
Silver medal Scottish Style al Bronze medal at Great American
Beer Festival two thousand and one for Scottish Aale. It

(51:23):
goes on and on and on and on, but it's
still a classic. And I okay, So I don't know
if this is accurate or not. This is just my thought,
you know. I went in on record saying this that yes,
there's been people that the beer peerists are like, that's
not a real of toberfest, such a Scotch Toberfest. And
so sat arn was like, all right, all right, bet

(51:45):
hold my beer. And then they came up with the
Guten Talk, which is a Bavarian style lagger, which is amazing.
It's very good beer, very good beer, which is a
traditional style of love it margin so anyways, that is
what I brought the brood for fall, full bodied Saint
Arnold Brewing Company.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
I hope they never changed the name. Leave the name
alone and watch people lose their mind. I just I
think it's hilarious.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Yeah, it's one of those things that beer piers get
a little upset when they call this metal and for
you know, and the awards style all.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
Go to October Fest.

Speaker 1 (52:22):
Everybody's like, no one does that, No one does that.
We love Saint Arnold, we love anyway.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
And it's a delicious beer. It's so good.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
I told you I only have so good. I only
have so much time to bring these October fests because
we're in the you know, last few weeks of October
Fest season here on the show before I start bringing
the pumpkin spice beers. But so, I you know, I
had to bring these st Arnold October Fests.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
We still Yeah, we've been heavy on the on the
international you know, you've got your Mars in October fests.
And we started with a Berliner Vice and then we
went to a Bell and Blonde, and then Bill brought
this one here.

Speaker 5 (53:03):
Triple Root Perception Defines Reality Nice the basement stash series.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Yeah, and he could pronounce triple root too, and that
was good, you know, wow, Thanks Chad. He's like, I'm
gonna go pick the next beer because I want to
be able to pronounce the brewery.

Speaker 5 (53:19):
Fill the guy a bone.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Yeah, I know. No, it's good stuff. This is tasty. Yeah,
I'm gonna say that. The more it warms up, the
more I like it. But at the same time finishes
a little sharp, little little, uh, little bit of bitterness. Uh,
definitely can feel the alcohol on this. But nice bear,
really nice bear.

Speaker 4 (53:38):
All right.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
So the other day I was doom scrolling on some TikTok,
which I like to do when I have some free time,
which is not a lot. But I was doom scrolling
and I came across this, and some are calling him
an evil genius, but he did a video on how
to make alcohol from a hot dog. Now, so when
you know, when your lives hit rock bottom and you

(53:59):
just can't afford to go out there and buy alcohol,
just know that if you've got some hot dogs in
a fridge you can't make some alcohol. You're like, how
do you ask, Well, let's run cut, let's cut eight.
This is the evil genius. What they're labeling them on
TikTok explaining on how to make alcohol from hot dogs.
I'll give you time to get a pin and paper out. Okay,

(54:22):
let's go.

Speaker 7 (54:24):
In order to turn hot dogs into delicious alcohol, I
needed a way to extract the hot dog flavor into
something fermentable. Once I had a concentrated pot of hot
dog water, it was time to sterilize it with a
pressure cooker. And our hot dog water can be used
as a base for a meat. I started with a
few pounds of honey, enough to supply enough sugar hit
sixteen percent alcohol. All that was left to do was
at our yeast and let this hot dog you mix
ferment for thirty days. Now, all that's left to do

(54:46):
is have a taste. You can collect the liquid that's
at the bottom of the garbage bin at a baseball game.
That is what we're drinking right. The final product was
sweet like honey with a distinct briny aftertaste of hot dogs.
That made me question my life decisions and realize that
just because I can do something definitely does not mean
that I should.

Speaker 1 (55:02):
So if your life hit that rock bottom and you're like,
you know what, I just can't go out and I
can't afford to go out and buy alcohol. Yeah, you
got some honey, and you got a little mead for
a mint, or you can bring yourself up some hot
dog flavored alcohol.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yeah, if you can't afford a beer at the game,
go to the hot dog cart outside the stadium and say, hey,
I'll recycle that water for you. I got an idea.
I'll take you know what, I'll take an egg in
my beer instead. Thanks.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
The comments were the comments were hilarious, like why would
you do that to the yeast?

Speaker 3 (55:37):
What did the yeast do to you?

Speaker 1 (55:39):
Where did the yeast touch you?

Speaker 2 (55:42):
All? Right?

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Here we go? All right, James, would you rather do
an egg in your beer or hot dog water beer?

Speaker 5 (55:53):
If you put that much honey, it'd be a hot
dog water mead?

Speaker 3 (55:55):
Okay, But which one would you do?

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Egging the beer in the beer? I would have one.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
Hot dog water because I can't like raw like I'm
gagging just it is.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
It is pretty gross. And when my buddy Josh he
poured the egg into the beer, he didn't like stir
it around. He just just swallow it right then and there.
I do have to tell you, Chad. In the comments,
section of this TikTok video, Martin House Brewing put an
emoji of a handwriting something.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Martin Hells Brewery, Fort Worth, Texas, known for their wild
and crazy, ridiculous beer styles.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Yeah, so they were taking notes of this guy who
they're calling an evil genius who did a video on
how to make alcohol from hot dogs. Let's see if
we can I don't know, can we put TikTok videos
on Facebook and have people watch it if they don't
have a TikTok page.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
I know somebody knows how to do it. We'll figure
it out. You know, this is what happens when we
lose our interns to COVID. That like, they didn't die
because of COVID. We had to lay them off. We
couldn't ord to pay them. Speaking of being laid off,
and what's going on out there Moss and Cores, Yeah,
they're announcing cuts to their staffing and every's like, oh, okay, well,

(57:16):
you know, I mean, how's that really newsworthy? Well, I
mean they they were, you know, a benefactor of the
bud Light boycott, and they grew and grew and grew,
but changing tastes and now the company is starting to
focus more on non alcoholic beverages and energy drinks and
laid off four hundred people, which is about nine percent
of their salaried workforce. But before you start doing the

(57:38):
math on that, you're like, wait, they only have about
four thousand salaried people. That's not a very big workforce. Yeah,
I don't worry. Mossen Cores employees almost seventeen thousand employees meeting,
most of them are hourly employees. But this shift just
shoring things up, so four hundred salaried employees around the
world will be no longer needed to report for Moulsen

(58:01):
Cores as they make shifts in their production team to
try and figure out how to deal with changing tastes.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
That's sad people losing jobs and never like to hearing that.
All right, we gotta take a break. Coming up, we
want to catch up with a former middle school principal
who went into buy brewery equipment but ended up buying
the brewery. Stay tuned for that. That's what's on tap,
right you're hanging with us.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
We'll ride back and now your weekend forecast, one chance
of beer. You've got what's on tap radio?

Speaker 3 (58:41):
All right, Dad's gather around it's the education portion of
the program, that's right. I know you think the fact Yeah,
fun fact of the week, that's the that's where we
do the knowledge bombs and just bringing up the speed
on everything that's happening around the world with fun facts
and more. But you know, the whole show is about education.
But this week we have a very special guest on

(59:04):
here where apparently school's out forever for this guy. I
want to thank you this guy for jumping on the
phone with us all the way from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeremy Coons,
the owner of Rafters Brewing Company. But you may not
be that familiar with Rafters Brewing Company, but maybe you've
heard of this other company, Dangerous Man Brewery. Jeremy, how

(59:27):
you doing, Bud? Very good?

Speaker 4 (59:28):
Thanks for having me on you guys.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
Absolutely, we got lots of questions. I hope you're ready.
I hope you're sitting down. So you are formerly an
education Tell us a little bit about your background in education.

Speaker 4 (59:44):
Yeah, so I all of my education, all twenty four years,
were in Bloomington Public Schools, which is a first ring
suburb of Minneapolis Saint Paul, and so I taught sixth
grade for six years.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
And then middle school, God bless it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
And then I didn't get enough punishment from there, so
I went into administration and was a middle school principal
for another fourteen and then I finally got my break
to go back with the with the little people in
elementary and so I spent the last four years of
my of that phase of my life and my career
in an elementary school, all in Bloomington.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
Are you stilling education?

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
I am not.

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
Two and a half years ago, I stepped away. I
had a life event that kind of made me think,
is this really what I want to be when I
grow up? And I loved what I was doing. I
loved the long hours. I loved being with families and
providing things, you know, providing what the families needed and
kids needed. But I just I just saw it as
an opportunity to make a change. And so that was

(01:00:47):
when I went back and I learned how to brew
beer and actually went to a community college out here,
a technical college called Dakota County Technical College, and took
a one year brewing program where I met who was
currently my COO, Andrew Burns, and he was my teacher

(01:01:07):
and kind of taught me everything I know, literally, I
knew very little about beer and brewing other than you know,
how to open up a can and drink.

Speaker 3 (01:01:14):
It's that's usually where it starts. You know, you fall
in love with the beverage and then you're like, hey,
you know what, I bet I could do this someday. Yeah.
We've heard stories of people who have walked away from
their careers, and I'm gonna say most of them work
in engineering.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
Or oil and gas or oil and gas.

Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
That's right, you know, they work in that field and
they're like, yeah, I just I got tired of doing this.
But what did people say when the principal elementary school teacher,
middle school teacher says, you know what, I'm a I'm
gonna go brew beer for a living. What did your
what did the teacher friends save to say?

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
Went your family reactions?

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
Well, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
My wife was like, what in the world are you doing?
You know, how is this gonna work? And then once
I I assured her we got this, We're going to
figure it out. Then you know, then you know, I'm
addressing all of my colleagues and principal colleagues and employees
and whatnot, and and just you know, just they were
kind of an ah. You know, you know, education has
become much more difficult, as I'm sure you guys know

(01:02:16):
and recognize over these years.

Speaker 3 (01:02:18):
And yeah, and uh, the world, Yeah everybody should.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
Yeah right, And you know I think they understood right, like,
you know, hey, there's there's an opportunity to do something different.
And you know, as I reflect back, twenty four years
is an amazing, amazing amount of time and I'm proud
of all that I accomplished. And and honestly, five years ago,

(01:02:42):
if you had asked me what I was going to
be doing, it was probably either being a principle of
the building or or a superintendent of a district or
something of that nature. But just kind of figured, hey,
I want to take this opportunity to try something different,
and so I just kind of jumped in with both feet.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
All Right, we're talking to Jeremy Coons, the new owner
of Dangerous Man Brewing, and we're gonna get to that
in a second. I know James is itching to ask
this question here, but we're gonna get back to Dangerous
Man here in a second, because I think people are
going to be really surprised by how you acquired this brewery.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Right, Yes, so you were initially you were just going
to buy some equipment. Yeah, and then and so you
found this brewery, Dangerous Man, which has been an institution
in the community for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
It actually is one of the breweries, the very first
breweries I ever stepped foot in, and one that has
always been kind of in my heart of They have
great beer, they have great community within the northeast Minneapolis area.
And uh yeah, So my original concept when I stepped
away was learn how to brew beer, learn how to
do the business side, develop an LLC, which I did,

(01:03:47):
which is Rafters. There's nothing more than that. Literally, it
is out of my garage and I have a website
that's that is what Rafters is. And I really stumbled
into this. I I was looking for equipment, trying to
acquire it so that I can build out my own brewery.
And I walked into the doors of the production facility
and my wife and I we met Rob and Rob

(01:04:08):
is the former owner and he's currently our head brewer.

Speaker 3 (01:04:12):
And it just quick for people who don't know Dangerous
Dangerous Man brewing. They closed back in was it April?

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
Yes, yep, Yeah, this.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Is a closed brewery and you walked in to look
at the.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
Equipment, Yes, exactly, And so yeah, I met him, and
we were actually not even supposed to, you know, interact
with him, but we were supposed to meet with an
auctioneer person and and he got there late, and so
we walked around with Rob and and ultimately what I
what I took from our conversation is he did not
want out of the industry. He just didn't want to
be bossed. And I'm like, well, I got you know,

(01:04:43):
eighteen years of being a boss. I can I can
probably pull that off if you can continue to continue
to brew the amazing beer that you brew. And it
sparked some conversations. Ultimately, I bought everything.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
In that brewery.

Speaker 4 (01:04:56):
I owned, you know, all of the equipment way before Eve,
and the potential of becoming and buying the intellectual property
was a reality.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
All right, So you went in there. So again, Jeremy
Coons here, who decided one day teaching principaling administration public
school system, Yeah, that's enough to make a guy want
to go and crack open a beer on the Friday
afternoon and taking the weekend and so yeah, no, more're
having to deal with the school board or anything else

(01:05:25):
like that, and he goes in to buy some equipment
and now you end up owning this. Now you said
your wife was with you when you walked in, and
she didn't know how that was going to work.

Speaker 5 (01:05:36):
And so.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
How did that conversation go, Hey, hey, honey.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Yeah, I'm sure this is something that you just don't
do on the spot. You probably got to talk it
over or what was that process like of did you
have to do something kind of convincing did you have
to do like a PowerPoint presentation of why this is
a good idea?

Speaker 4 (01:05:55):
Well, I think I'd done the as well of convincing
as I think I could. She'd probably disagree, but ultimately
she saw exactly no, she saw this as an opportunity.
She was very familiar with dangerous man. She knew what
they meant to what they meant to the northeast uh

(01:06:18):
Minneapolis into the Twin Cities as a whole. And and
and ultimately, you know, we Maple Lake, where this facility is,
is about an hour and a half away from where
we live, and so I gave us a lot of
time to be able to talk it through. And of
course that conversation has continued since, but but ultimately it
was like, hey, what do you think do we do this?

(01:06:38):
And and yeah, we She's she's been one hundred percent
behind me throughout all of this, you know, all joking aside,
and so I couldn't I couldn't have done you know,
the last two years of being kind of in limbo
between education and this trying to figure out this brewing
industry without her, and so you know that's a that's
a big piece of it. But uh yeah, you know,

(01:07:01):
originally she was concerned, well, are you going to give
up your dream of your own brand? And and you
know you shouldn't do that. But then I think we're
both at the point where we're really starting off on
third base with Dangerous Man. They have an amazing following
and and and just some some awesome establishment as far
as Minnesota Brewing is concerned.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Yeah, and talking to Jeremy Koons, the new owner of
Dangerous Man Brewing, and do you have a timeline or
a vision for reopening?

Speaker 4 (01:07:29):
Is there? Yeah? Yeah, five of our tanks are filled
right now. We we decided on five different flagship beers
and so they are all now happily fermenting. And uh
so that gives us a good timeline of having beer
out the first part of November, so that very first
week of November, so next week is a big packaging week.

(01:07:50):
We got a wrangle that the canning line and get
that thing into submission, and then from there it's just
starting to get it and push it out into in
the stores. We do have no no orders officially yet
because we haven't gotten to that point. But by next
week we I know that we have at least ninety

(01:08:10):
five accounts that are coming back, including some big ones
and so very exciting, which means that we're ramping up everything,
going a little faster than we thought, bringing on more
employees than than we had imagined we would by this stage.
And all of this is before any money has come in.
So it's like, all right, I'll wake up at five
o'clock and I started doing a little bit of math

(01:08:32):
on my phone and my wife rolls over and says,
what are you doing? I said, math. She chased her heads.
He goes, what are you talking about? Math? He's mass.
I said, yep, maths, And so I'm you know, the
same the same way I would wake up in the
middle of the night sometimes worrying about kids and if
they were going to be safe. And now it's like, okay,
are we going to be able to make this work?
Do we have enough grains, have ops to be able

(01:08:55):
to pull this up? So but no, it's it's been exciting.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Well, it's been exciting to hear from you about this.
This is an adventure that we've never heard of of,
somebody leaving education to go and open a brewery. A
lot of people probably thought that you've had enough of
the kids and it drove you to drink. But no,
you sound of sound mind and body making this dangerous
man brewery who uh just recently closed now coming back open.

(01:09:19):
I fell in love with this when my sister introduced
me to it. But thanks Jeremy for being on the program.

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:25):
This what's on tap Radio. Hang with us. We got
one more segment. We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Today. We are heroes, heroes who rescued some fear that
was trapped in a bottle. This is what's on Tap Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:09:55):
All right, last segment of the week. Big shout out,
Big shout out. Jeremy Coons Principal Jeremy Coons.

Speaker 3 (01:10:04):
Principal coons principal coons, can I have a beer place?

Speaker 1 (01:10:07):
Spend over twenty plus years in education, decided, you know what,
I want to try a new adventure, went to brewing school.

Speaker 3 (01:10:15):
I still think the kids drove him to drink. That's it, man,
I'm going with that. No running in the hallways, don't
run with your beer.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
But he went to brewing school and decided, you know what,
I'm gonna invest into this new hobby of mine. And
you know, he saw this brewery and they were selling
off some equipment, so he's like, you know what, maybe
I'll see if I can buy some of the equipment
and decided, you know what, honey, because he was with
his wife, what I would just buy the damn thing.
And that's what he did. And if you missed the
announcement of that interview, it will be podcasted anywhere podcaster found.

(01:10:47):
And like always, when we went to break, said a
few more questions asked, So questions you didn't hear on
the air will be available on the podcast or wherever
podcast or found, thanks to our friends over at cast Branding.
So a few more stories to get to before we
get out of here, including this Humpty Dumpty statue.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Well, but but we got you brought us the Humpty
dumpy thing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
We gotta talk about Xavier and well new concoction. I
got a lot to get to.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Well that's why, because see what the the Xavier thing?
Xavier Xavier University, Cincinnati, and we're still working on an
interview from the National Beer Museum.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Oh yeah, that's definitely.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
Explained to be in Cincinnati. But Xavier is a private institution,
Catholic university, and they're teaming up with a brewery to
raise money for athletes. And I'm like, well, yeah, I
mean they're paying I mean, let's just be honest. College
athletes are now semi pro. Now, it's just they're they're
you're they're paying them. And I guess, I guess the
way they say it is, well, people are still drinking.

(01:11:48):
I mean, I know they say the trends down, but
maybe maybe that's one way we can raise money. All right,
you know, we gotta pay him somehow. But what I
found interesting about this is we always, you know, James
and I, we we like to find out who the
mascots are. And I don't understand this with a with
it being a private Catholic Institution.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Do you see this?

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
Did the research department just come drunk one morning? We're like,
I got an idea, I got an idea.

Speaker 3 (01:12:12):
But this is one of This is one of the
universities that has two mascots. So down south, way down south.

Speaker 1 (01:12:19):
A lot of I think the blue one came first.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
Well I do. It was like, all right, We're all
sitting around drinking. It's like, all right, I got an idea.
All right, okay, our colors are blue. What if our
mascot is like just a blob and we call them
the blue blob? And and there he is belt it
just looks like a blob.

Speaker 1 (01:12:40):
I don't think that's I don't think that's what happened.
I think what happened is they invited everyone to come in,
and some people brought some art supplies and they started
dipping their their brushes in the ink, and and some
blue ending up on the canvas. And they're like, oh, man,
what do we call this? I don't know, man, I
am drawing a blank and they just had this blue
blob on the canvas and they're like, got an idea.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
I got an idea, yep, And what if we call
it the blue blob. Blue blob, Actually, you know what
I think it was. It was somebody got drunk on
Zema with a blue raspberry Jolly rancher and puked on
the campus and it was this blue blob that just
came out of their stomach and like that. That'd make
a great mascot. It kind of looks like Grimace, he does.

(01:13:25):
It's like Grimace's long lost step brother. Or if you
remember the old Bugs Buggy Bunny cartoons with the big
brown hairy thing that would chase him around with all
you can see is his eyes and chase it around.
But they have a second mascot, Bill. Wow, I know, hey, Bill,
more than what's the name of that mascot right there?

Speaker 5 (01:13:44):
God d'Artagnan, Oh he got that one, all right, Yeah,
all right.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
So Bill is one for one on mascots and over
twenty seven on brewery names originating in Europe.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
Look, you don't need it if you graduated from Zana University,
if you're an alum, don't get the alumni Association coming
after us because we're making fun.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Of Why are you calling it Xavier.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
It's Xavier Savior, That's what I said.

Speaker 3 (01:14:11):
Not Xavier and you've been you've been hanging out in
a tavern too long, I mean tavern too long.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Anyways. Yeah, if you're a part of the Alumni Association,
don't be coming after us. All right. That's that Chad
Baer logic guy by.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
The way, after me. There are times. All right, man,
we're getting we're getting close to the end. I can
see the shoreline. You're gonna have to put a bow
on the show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:33):
See yeah, buddy, So I told you there are a
lot of crimes on this episode that we're gonna be spotlighting,
so that we're gonna put it out on APV. That's
an all points bulletin. So police might need to bring
all the King's horses to consult on this one. Ah So,
cops in cap May, New Jersey, pronounce that right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
I don't know how you spell it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
See ay, Yeah, maybe Cape May not cap May. But
all right, we keep you're doing great, keep going. It's
two words. I hope, I really hope they have a
baseball team and they send you a T shirt from
Cap May.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
So, cops in Cape May, New Jersey are looking for
two idiots who stole an iconic Humpty Dumpty statue from
a miniature golf course last Sunday. So if you don't know,
Cape May is about forty miles south of Atlantic City.
It happened about four o'clock in the morning, and alcohol
may been a factor. You don't say. You don't say,

(01:15:31):
because a different security camera caught them on video and
it looks like at least one of them was walking
around with a beer in their hand.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
But say what kind of beer?

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
No, because the beer had a brown paper back around it.
Oh so it could have been a forty East coastcoozy. No,
it was an East coastcuzy can torpedo. Yeah. So they
scale the fence at a place called Ocean Put miniature
golf and ripped Humpty's Humpty off his wall. That's not right, No,
that's wrong, And he's the main thing. Each of the
fourteenth hole.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
You know, a lot of those classic courses have those
iconic fixtures.

Speaker 1 (01:16:09):
Here's Sally, you know, and Sally's going around and gets
to the fourteenth holes, like Dad, where's Humpty? Humpty fell
off the wall, broke his shell. So, last we've heard,
cops still hadn't tracked them down. But the good news
is it looks like the mini golf course will be
able to put Humpty back together again. Guys who took

(01:16:29):
him left him outside on another property just a few
doors down.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
Oh well, well, well, now that I know where it is,
I guess I won't be opening my miniature golf course
in the spring, because, hey, guys, you're supposed to deliver it.
Come on.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
So if you're out in the New Jersey area, in
Atlantic City or Cape May, you're going the lookout for
these guys going around and robbing Humpty of his his
wall on the fourteenth hole.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
Ace free. He's rolling in his grave right now, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Telling you, man, So all right, before we get out here,
it's still a few Uh, I want a few stories
to get to. So, like I said, I'm trying to
get through all these October Fest beers because coming up,
we're gonna start pulling out the pumpkin spice flavors and
then the old ales. Chad's looking at the time.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
No, it's time for spring and summer beers, isn't it.
I mean it's it's it's it's almost November.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
So so as soon as uh you know it hits
December thirty, first, here come the spring box. They're probably
burning in the spring box already. But uh, but hey,
just in time for pumpkin spice season. What if you
took peanut butter plus pumpkin plus beer. You know what,
that equals a viral float craze. All right, So get

(01:17:49):
out your pinning pad again, got any concoction for you?
A new auto it's making waves online. It's called the
peanut butter Pumpkin beer float, and it's created by a
YouTuber named Vlad slick Bartender. And he combined dogfish heads,
pumpkin ale, great beer, screwball, peanut butter whiskey, and a

(01:18:10):
scoop of pumpkin gelato and a chilled glass, resulting in
a creamy, spiced dessert drink that's capturing fall vibes. And
it's part of a broader trend of beer floats morphing
into cocktail dessert hybrids, especially using seasonal beers like pumpkin ales.
Just when he thought beer couldn't get any more indulgent,

(01:18:32):
here it comes.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
I'd comment, but I think I threw up in my
mouth a little bit, you know, But.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
I'll I'll still take it over a hot dog water
mead or the egg in my beer.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
What about egg and your beer? But it's a pumpkin
spice beer and an egg like eggnog. Almost, it's almost
like eggnog, all right?

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
Bonus bonus, bonus fun fact. George Washington, that's what he made.
It was called a flip. He had a beer that
he spiced with w ch of the pumpkin spices and
threw an egg in it and then dropped the hot
poker in it and seared it until it bubbled over
and cooked the egg. It's called a flip.

Speaker 1 (01:19:08):
Oh, we have got to try that, but we'll have
to do it. I'll and I are on it, but
we'll have to do it on a different episode because
we got to get out of here. I'm hearing the music.
But before we do, let's give our shout outs. Shout
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(01:19:31):
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