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March 19, 2025 42 mins

Welcome in, thirsty people! Greg and Flex are back to quench your thirst for craft beer and questionable decision-making. This week, Greg takes a “totally unplanned” trip to San Francisco Beer Week (sure, buddy) and manages to turn a simple bay cruise into an elite-level beer smuggling operation. Flex holds down the fort with some delicious Wisconsin brews and a deep dive into why Sheboygan has an odd sheep obsession. Plus, we’ve got booze news, terrible funeral director choices, and a heated (but not a baseball show) debate over the Dodgers.

Beers We’re Drinking

  • Greg: Fog City Hazy IPA – San Francisco Brewing Co. – A hazy with surprise bitterness, aggressive carbonation, and a backstory involving a near beer flood.
  • Flex: The King of Sheboygan – Young Blood Beer Co. – A juicy double hazy that flexes tropical flavors and zero bitterness—just don’t ask about the sheep.

Greg’s “totally not a beer trip” to San Francisco somehow included Beer Week, a booze-filled bay cruise, and a questionable amount of beer smuggling. Flex, on the other hand, takes a deep dive into Sheboygan’s unexpected sheep obsession—because, of course, Wisconsin.

Also, Greg stumbles upon an airport beer win, Flex crushes another stellar Wisconsin brew, and an old man with a PBR and a breakfast burrito might have life figured out better than all of us. Plus, there’s a heated (but not a baseball show) debate over the Dodgers, and Greg nearly breaks his own brain trying to recall obscure ’90s wrestling trivia.

Booze News

  • Georgia Distributors Throw a Fit – Small breweries want self-distribution, and big distributors aren’t happy about it. Shocking.
  • Texas Cracks Down on THC Drinks – The Lone Star State is trying to kill the buzz—literally.
  • Drunk Funeral Director Busted – A Minnesota man shows up sauced to pick up a body. Bold move.
  • Drunkest & Soberest Colleges in America – BYU stays dry, while an unexpected school takes the top drunk honors.

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(00:00):
I am connected to the internet.
Welcome in, everybody, to the CraftBeer Republic. Thanks for drinking.

(00:21):
Thanks for joining.For those of you who still have
a Saint Patrick's Day hangover.Hi, and thanks for listening. Loud.
Sorry, Bud, for warn me next time.Yeah, I was off the cuff,
as they say, off the cuff.Uh, I'm Greg and the guy who
can't hear me anymore.That's Flex. You know this music?

(00:43):
Uh, I know we always joke with theFord commercial. Yeah. Ford. Tough.
I think, like 90s wrestler. Oh, yeah.I think it is very 90s generic
jobber. Right? You know, like.It's like a Bob Holly coming to
the ring.Yeah,
or like Rick Daniels or something.Like just some super jobber name.

(01:08):
Yeah.Or who's the guy that, uh,
lost to skip or no beat? Skip.Who's skip? Uh, Chris. Candido.
You know what I'm talking about,though. I don't. He was a total okay.
Not a wrestling show. Not a.Wrestling. Show.
For those of you who are notwrestling fans, a jobber is
someone whose job it is to lose.In wrestling.
They don't really use jobberslike they did in the 80s and 90s.

(01:32):
Um, but anyways,there was a jobber whose name I
think he started with a D.I want to say Dean. It's not Dean.
Um. Oh, was it Barry Horowitz?Oh, man. Oh, my God.
Did I just pull that out of my.Ass? What a name drop.
And he got his first and only WWFTV win against Chris Candido.

(01:53):
Because, like, Chris Candido hadpissed somebody off or something.
I know what you're talking about now.Yeah. 100.
Somebody fact check this for me.I think I'm mostly right.
At least, like 68% right?I just can't even believe.
Where did that name come from?Oh, my God, I can't believe I
pulled that out of my ass.I hope that was the right name. Um.

(02:15):
Wow. Sorry. Chest of wrestling names.Sorry, everyone who's not a
wrestling fan. We will move on.Uh, thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining us on the socials.Grabbed Republic Flex me beer
underscores in between all ofthat good stuff, I went out.
He kicked out.One two area that made me cough.

(02:40):
Yeah. Get that out. Yeah.Good little daddy. Yeah. Wow.
That's gone. Um, anyways, okay.Lots to get to tonight.
Got some booze news.I did a little traveling.
I alluded to it last week.Took a trip.
Beer was involved, not even onpurpose. Lots of beer was involved.
Not even on purpose. Not on purpose.I can't wait to hear this.

(03:03):
I mean, obviously there's going to besome beer involved, but the amount of
beer involved was not on purpose.Um, and all that good stuff.
So if you don't mind, I'm goingto crack right into it and have a
little beverage. Out of my mouth.Oh, out of my beer. Out of my way.

(03:28):
Out of my beer. I'm loving my beer.Sorry. Uh, today I am drinking.
And this has to do with the story I'mabout to tell, but I am drinking San
Francisco Brewing Company, which Ididn't even know existed a couple
of weeks ago. Fog City hazy IPA.It's got a pretty sweet can of

(03:49):
like a cloud or, I guess,fog over the Golden Gate Bridge.
I like his. Baseball. References.And a hat. Anyways, 6.7%.
45 IBUs has a 3.82 and untapped.And they say Carl is our Fog City
hazy IPA New England style madewith malted barley, wheat and oats.

(04:12):
Dry hopped with a blend of VicSecret, Citra, mosaic, and Simcoe
hops with a foggy and cloudy body,this unfiltered IPA will give you a
big mouthfeel without the bitterbite, and Flex will attest to this.
When I was trying to fuckingpour it before the show started.
Every little pour.I don't know how much carbonation

(04:34):
they got in this bitch,but it started exploding.
I have a mess to clean up.My pants are wet and I didn't pee
them. It's, uh, it's a whole thing.But anyways, on the schnoz,
the surprising amount of dank onthe nose for being a hazy IPA.
But they do mission well. Wow.They do mention some bitterness
and whatnot.As you can see, it's properly hazy.

(04:57):
It is very hazy. And a little citrus.I think going along that let me
stick in the old Tongue-jobber thatlikes to run away. Yeah, warm it up.
I mean, the tongue really followssuit with citrus orange bitterness.
There is a fair bit ofcarbonation for hazy.

(05:18):
You know, it's not that pillowysoftness. I'm not mad. About.
Spritzy. Yeah. Which is surprising.And hazy. I'm not angry about it.
It could use a little lesscarbonation, I think. Um.
Let's see. 382 and untapped.I think that's fair.
It's a good beer.I'm not against paying for one
and would drink again. Right on.Yeah, it seems reasonable.

(05:41):
Sometimes that spritzing of a IPA,it's a fun little different. Yeah, I.
Think it needs it because of theamount of bitterness that this
holds for being a hazy andspritzy ness I think helps out.
Like if it wasn't so bitter andit was spritz, you'd be like,
oh, this is weird.It's like a fucking, you know,
orange spritzer on my tongue orsomething, right?
But I think this actually helpsit out a little bit.

(06:03):
It just could be a smidge less.But overall, like I said,
definitely would drink again.Would even pay for it if I had to.
I got this free.So, uh, here's here's my my story,
first of all, went to San Franciscolast weekend, a little trip.
First thing I did was we hit theBurbank airport and hit the bar

(06:23):
because we had a little time to kill.Okay.
And we're looking at the beerchoices because, you know,
airport. I don't drink wine.Airport beer. They're not great.
Yeah. And they were not.It was all things owned by Budweiser.
But as I'm looking through, I went,oh, they have a beer hug on Tapped
on Tap. I've never had one.Flex talked about it being the only
good beer on his trip to Saint Louis.Not the only good, but the best.

(06:46):
Okay. The best.so I got even worse. I'm sorry.
I was like, all right, well, then Igot to try one only because of Flex.
And he's a genius, so I did,I ordered it,
I did not know what I orderedwas like the Imperial version.
Um, the guy didn't know either.So I think they call it,
like the tropical Bearhug orsomething. Yep. That's it. Yeah.

(07:07):
And so I ordered that the wifeorders a lager,
she gets a Kona longboard, which is,I think it's a lager, not a blonde.
Yeah, I don't, I don't enjoy it.Yeah.
Anyways, hers is like 4.5% Kona.Big wave. Big waves.
No, no, she got the longboard.Get it right. Oh I'm sorry.
Big wave is the blue one. In fact.Funny story, they brought her a big

(07:27):
wave and it was the wrong color.This. I love my wife.
She could tell by the color thatit was the wrong beer.
And she goes, oh, is this alongboard? He goes, oh shit.
No, it's a big wave. Hold on.And like, took it back.
That's amazing.I was like, oh, so hot just by
the color. Anyways. Go on.So he brings this over,
brings her beer over, and I'msipping it like it's, you know,

(07:48):
it's fine for all the beer optionsthat I have here at this shit bar.
Like, I probably could have donemuch worse. And the guy comes over.
He goes, what do you think of that?And I said, yeah, it's fine.
Nothing wrong with it.It's it's all right.
You know, I know it's GooseIsland and, you know, whatever.
And he goes, yeah, we just got it in.He goes, look at this.
And he pulls up the keg ring andhe shows me the ABV.

(08:10):
I didn't say this on the menu.I had no idea I was ordering the
Imperial 9.9%.So I'm drinking this 10%.
Daddy, over here.As we're about to get on the plane,
the wife's drinking 4.5% lager,and my beer was only like $0.70
more than hers.And I was like, I fucking won.
I don't even care how it tastes.Yeah, that's an undefeated

(08:30):
season right there. Yeah.Uh,
undefeated and won the Super Bowl.Didn't blow it at the end there.
So yeah, it was it was not bad.It was fine.
It wouldn't be my first choiceif I had better choices.
But, um, it was fine and at 10%and only $0.70 more than a lager,
I was I was all about hell yeah.So, uh, not bad.

(08:50):
Anyways, went to San Francisco.One thing we did not know about
San Francisco until about two daysbefore we left was we were going
up for San Francisco Beer Week.No kidding? No kidding.
Had no fucking idea we'd plannedthis trip a couple of months ago,
and, well, I say planned.We planned the dates we had done
zero planning for the trip,and the wife starts looking into it.
She goes, um, did you know we'regoing up for San Francisco Beer Week?

(09:13):
And then I had to.I felt like I had to defend myself.
I was like, I swear I didn't dothis on purpose because, you know,
sounds like something I would do.And we started looking at the events
and, um, a lot of the events lookedkind of lame, if we're being honest.
I'm like, oh, beer Week, but theseare not Beer Week type events.
Except for one caught our eye.It was a bay cruise with San

(09:35):
Francisco Brewing Company,who I'm drinking right now. Okay.
And $75 gets you the cruise.Plus all you can drink,
plus a bunch of snacks. Yeah.You had. You had me at all.
You could drink. Yeah.So she wanted to meet up with a
couple of her friends that liveup there, and we did.
They they came out and we said like,hey, here's what we're doing

(09:55):
Saturday night.Do you want to, you know,
join the fun?They're like, we are getting a
babysitter immediately. Hell yeah.Yeah. How do you pass that up? Yeah.
They threw the kids at somehomeless guy that came on out and.
Got out there. Yeah. You know what?Side note San Francisco has
really cleaned their act up.Like, I when I used to go down there
for work, it used to be just litteredwith homeless people everywhere.

(10:18):
I don't I hesitate, hesitate toask what they're doing with them,
but they're like way less homelesspeople than there used to be.
I hope they're finding them sheltersand places to stay, and not just
kicking them out to the street.Chucking them off the bridge or that.
Yeah. Too soon.They haven't done that since the 80s.
Come on. But, um.Anyway, so we did this.

(10:39):
This cruise legit.Not only was it all you can drink,
they just brought a bunch of tallboys on the boat so this can.
I'm drinking out of this 16 ouncer.This is one of the boat beers.
No way. Yeah.And so, as we're heading back
towards the dock, I was like,you guys, not only are they only

(11:00):
serving cans except for one beer.The pilsner, which was pretty good,
was in a keg. Everything else.Cans, not serving cans,
but like, they're not open.You go to a baseball game,
they open it as they hand it to you.So you can't. Do anything with it.
They're not opening these cans.So I said, now's our chance.
So we were still very much drinkingbeers, and I just went up there.

(11:21):
I was like, hey, can I get a thisand a that, you know, and came back
and put it in the wife's purse.And then she went up there and was
like, hey, can I get out of this?Oh my gosh, that's brilliant.
And as we're hitting the dockand the guy was cool, he worked
for the brewery, not the boat.And I went up there and I was like,
hey, man,is it too late to get another beer.
Knowing full well it was way toolate. We're about to hit the dock.

(11:43):
We're like, you know,30s from docking. I wait, easy now.
Uh, not a docking show. No.Him and I were a minute from docking.
The boat was 30s from docking.I love your thought process on this,
by the way.I just have to let you know that.
Thank you.I they don't call me a genius
for nothing.And so I said to him,

(12:04):
I was like, hey, you know,innocently has it too late.
And he goes, yeah,it's way too late, but it's not
too late if you have pockets.Oh my God, that's amazing, my man.
So we walked off with 4 or 5beers in the in the wife's.
She had a little backpack on.I was like,
just stuff in your backpack for now.We'll redistribute later.

(12:27):
Figure it all out.Don't make her carry it all.
Right, exactly.Just carry out the boat.
Get off the boat.We'll figure it out later.
And so we did. And, uh.Look, I had never had.
Actually, that's not true.I'd had this one.
The beer I'm having tonight, I hadhad at a bar once, but beyond that,
I had never had any of the otherSan Francisco brewing beers.
I'd only recently heard aboutthem on a recent, uh,

(12:47):
on a work trip up there.I was at a restaurant,
and it was like a bunch of beersthat I didn't want.
And then San Francisco Brewing,and it was this one, the Fog City.
And I was like, oh, I'll giveFog City a try. Not not bad.
So look, it was fun. We went out.We go out around the bay and around
the Golden Gate Bridge and aroundAlcatraz Island and all the,
you know, the Bay things.It was like a two hour cruise.

(13:08):
Um,we took a picture of the graveyard
of cans that we went through.I'll have to post that on the,
on the gram.Um, just the whole windowsill
was was filled with cans.It did start raining, so we kind of
kept it inside for the most part.But, um, yeah, we we did a little
damage and it was we definitelygot our 75 bucks worth, I'll tell
you that. Well, that's good times.Especially like California. 75 bucks.

(13:30):
Especially San Francisco. 75 bucks.Yeah, that's. Like a beer and a half.
I was gonna say two beers andyou paid for it. Yeah.
San Francisco is crazy expensive.But yeah, 75 bucks, you get the
cruise and all you can drink.And it wasn't just snacks.
Like, here's some chips and a cookie.It was a. Nacho. Bar.
People talk when they give youchips and a cookie. Yeah.

(13:51):
If you never had somebody give youchips and cookies. Chips and cookies.
Suddenly the church lady ishanding you chips and cookies.
Oh, isn't that swell?Isn't that special? Special? Um.
But, yeah, they had a nacho bar.They had charcuterie. It was.
Holy shit.That's way better than snacks.
Yeah, and it wasn't, like,shitty movie theater. Nacho cheese.

(14:12):
Like it was legit cheese sauce.It was. Dude, it was good. It was.
We got our 75 bucks worth both inthe alcohol and the nacho bar.
Hell, yeah. I'm proud of you.Thank you. What a trip.
It was good times.You know,
we hit a couple other breweries.Um, there was one we hit called
Otherwise Brewing.It's like a gluten reduced. Look.

(14:33):
It was. I won't be returning.It was fine. Fine at best.
Cool spot, cool brewery,nice bartender.
Beer was just we each I had a hazy.She had a sour.
And then we closed out and wentsomewhere else.
That was the end of it.Went to Black Hammer, which I've
had on the show before. Right.I was hoping you would stop there.

(14:55):
Yeah, the wife had never been,so we had to stop by.
She very much enjoyed it.A lot of wine on that trip too.
Wasn't wasn't meant to be.A beer trip just happened that way.
Did a little fancy dinner.I don't know if you know who Tyler
Florence is from the Food Network.He's the host of the great food
truck race. No, I have no idea.He's got a restaurant there,
the Wayfare Tavern. We went there.Our waiter was from LA,

(15:17):
so we just spent the whole nighttalking about LA. So. Yeah.
How do you like it up here?Classic LA thing to do in San
Francisco. God dang it.Basically just talked about how
much he likes living up there nowas opposed to LA and all that
and traffic in LA and very LAconversation for most of the night.
He's a nice guy. Dodgers, huh?Yeah. The Dodgers.

(15:39):
Oh, fucking contract extensionfor their shit manager.
Not a Dodger show.That's what you're bummed out about.
Dave Roberts contract extension.Unreal. Absolutely.
Oh, I can't even talk.Abso fucking lutely.
Am I bummed out about his?Lutely. Absolutely.
Am I bummed out about hiscontract extension? You're dumb.

(16:01):
The Dodgers win in spite of him,not because of him.
I don't believe that. I do.They do so poorly in the postseason.
You could say that would convinceme that that's accurate.
They do so poorly in the postseasoncompared to the regular season.
Why do they.Win series in the last five years?
I don't care.What about the other years when we're

(16:23):
winning, you know more games thanany other team. Can't win. Out in.
The first round because you play inthe fucking NL West. I don't buy.
It. Great division can suck it.It's a great division.
No, I was being sarcastic.Oh, it's a great division. Yeah.
It used to be a great division.Like four years ago. You have.

(16:46):
There was a time.Dodgers who are always on top. Yeah.
Then you have the Padres, whoalways think they can do something.
And then you have the Diamondbacksthat are like, hey, we're still
going to win like 89 games, right?But there was a time when
Diamondbacks were good,the Giants were good,
and the Padres were coming up.Now, like the Giants have sucked for
a couple of years and Diamondbacksare kind of taking it back.

(17:09):
Now it's just the Dodgers andthe Padres, basically. Yeah.
And again,it's the Padres scraping by till
the all star break. And then but.You know we're winning over 100
games. You know we're winning.What is it like 110 games a season
or whatever get knocked out in thefirst round of the playoffs? Payroll?
I'd hope you'd be winning that many.Right.
I'm just saying his decisions in theplayoffs are questionable at best.

(17:32):
Not a good pitching coach.Well, he's not a pitching coach.
He's a yeah, he should not makeany of those decisions anyways.
Not a baseball show.Listening to a Dodgers fan
complain about the Dodgers is likelistening to a rich guy complain
that his house isn't big enough.Or his mortgage is too high.
Yes, this is. Ellen.This is absurd. Yeah, I don't know.

(17:57):
I, I'm not a fan of Dave Roberts.I don't I don't think he's that
great of a manager.I think they,
they win because they're good notbecause they're well managed.
I think he's a player's manager.That's what he is. All right.
And he has more World Series ringsthan you do. Yes. Three more. Yes.
You know he knows what he's doing.Not a Dodger show. Not a Dodger show.

(18:18):
How those brewers doing.Uh, third lowest payroll in the
league. Not as bad as the Cardinals.Early power rankings.
We were number 19 and, uh,picked third third in the division,
so. All right. Yeah.But we were also picked fourth

(18:39):
and fifth all last year in allthe preseason rankings.
And we took the central and thenwe lost.
Still did better than you weresupposed to.
So maybe we'll do better this year.Yeah. Fingers crossed, I'm hoping.
Yeah. Anyways, not a baseball show.It's not.
I could talk about it for days. Yeah.Um, so San Francisco. Yeah, it was.

(18:59):
Great and expensive and, uh.Yeah, the last day, the last thing
I'll say, the last day we were there,uh, we were flying out at, like,
I don't remember,3 or 4:00 or something like that.
We had some time to kill.We had to check out at 11.
Luckily, they held our bags for us.We found this little tiny,
just absolute shack right alongthe water, not too far from the

(19:22):
baseball stadium. and it was great.We went in there.
We got like a normal person'sbreakfast, you know, like eggs,
bacon, hash browns kind of thing.Toast, sourdough, of course,
San Francisco.And even though it was a Monday
morning, the bar was open.So we sat out on the water like
legit on the water,had our tasty, simple breakfast,

(19:45):
had a few mimosas and just enjoyedthe fucking view. It's great.
It's what life's all about man.Oh, there was this old man that was
in one of those not wheelchairs,but like old people. Scooters. Okay.
Yeah, like little three Wheelerthings. Yeah.
And clearly he, you know,he was probably in his 80s,
looked looked pretty old,definitely retired.

(20:06):
And I would hope he came. Yeah.He came in, ordered his breakfast.
He got a breakfast burrito,went to the bar,
got his fucking PBR and just went outthere and enjoyed it like we did.
And I was like,this guy has the fucking In life.
And I bet he lived a good one too.I bet he did. He's retired.
He knows what he wants.He wants his breakfast burrito

(20:28):
and his PBR,and he wants to have it on the water.
And I was like, this is the dreamright here. You're not wrong.
Yeah, I was very jealous.I don't even get that. I'm 36. Right?
Like, man,I should start having breakfast on
water with with a PBR or something.Right. You're doing it wrong, man.

(20:49):
You gotta rethink my inks. Get.Get to one of the Great Lakes and
get a breakfast burrito and a PBR.You're doing it wrong. What?
Great lake is next to you? Michigan.That one. Get to Michigan.
Get to the big water thing.It's only about, I don't know,
seven miles for me.Something like that, I don't know.

(21:09):
Oh, what a deal. All right.Hey, once upon a time,
this is a beer show.Let's find out what Flex is
drinking over there.In a world where craft beer is king.
A world where muscles are bigger thangrowlers. Only one tank in Guinness.
One man, one ton,one Tongue-jobber. In this world.

(21:31):
We must find out what is Flexdrinking?
Well, I'm drinking a beer fromYoung Blood Beer company.
What's in Madison?So nothing to do with Sheboygan
except the beer name is calledThe King of Sheboygan.
And it's got this sheep,and it's got a crown on it.

(21:53):
And it's in all this royal garb.Oh, yeah. Very fancy.
And it's just a really fun can.And there's a brewery up there
that I've had on this show before.Three sheeps. Mhm.
And they're in Sheboygan and I,I had to Google tonight.
What the fuck is so significantabout sheep and Sheboygan.

(22:15):
Because apparently it's everywhere.Well,
Google tells me that they're sheep.Sheep are important in velvet
sheep farms in Sheboygan.So Velvet Sheep Farms,
which raises sheep for fiber,clothing and experiences. It says so.
I don't know what kind ofexperiences,

(22:35):
but I guess there's a reallyprestigious sheep farm up there.
Oh. All right. Cool. Fun story.Uh, so anyway, back to the beer.
And not about the sheep.Uh, this is an 8.5% double New
England IPA.It contains Citra, Motueka,
and Eureka hops. Eureka! Sorry.They say, um, this can holds,

(23:04):
uh, Sheboygan.Shivaji's the coastal progeny of the
Laurentide Ice Sheet and lovinglydubbed the Malibu of the Midwest.
Not a joke.Home to Terry Andre State Park,
an inordinate amount of sinks,toilets and bathtubs to the King

(23:26):
Citra Motueka dance,and a delightfully tropical
chassis that would put GangnamStyle to home before giving the
floor to Eureka in all of itsblackcurrant and pine needle vibes.
Um, it's. Quite the description.I love these descriptions.
Uh, these guys, they always havereally fun. Uh, ridiculous.

(23:49):
Over the top unnecessarydescriptions.
Uh, untapped has this at a 402 459check ins. It must be relatively new.
I don't know, I didn't check again.I said it's an eight and a half
percenter. And let's dive in.Here he goes.
So it says, what does it say here?Tropical chassis,

(24:10):
blackcurrant pine needle vibes.There is some kind of tropical
fruit on the nose.Are you picking up on the chassis?
My guess is like papaya or guava, butit. I'm thinking more papaya. Okay.
You would know of all people. Yeah.I don't like papaya, so I think

(24:31):
that's why I think that's what it is.Mhm. But it's super duper tropically.
Now without further ado. Ooh.The old Tongue-jobber.
As it runs away.So whatever I'm smelling on the nose,
I'm gonna say papaya.It is coming out in droves on my

(24:54):
palate. I don't hate it.So here's a fun fact about a lot of
fruits. I don't like eating them.I love the flavors of them.
Oh, damn. Mangoes don't like them.Love all the flavor.
I love a mango smoothie.I don't want to eat a mango.
Yeah, they're gross. Right?Yeah. They're terrible.
So papaya can't fucking stand it.Love when the notes pop up 100%.

(25:17):
Um, there's zero bitterness tothis beer. The carbonation?
Super low. It is very soft.Mouthfeel, has a wonderful lacing.
That's great lacing.The color again,
it's like this golden yellow.Almost getting to that amber look.
Yeah. It's a little on the dark side.Right.
So you'd think it might be a littlemalty. It's not. Surprising.

(25:40):
Um, very surprising, but you'dknow because I fucking hate that.
And I would tell you all about it,and I didn't.
So, uh, another fantastic beer.I love when I get these two for two.
Knock it out of the park on theshows. Uh Young Blood.
These guys really never disappoint.I don't think I've ever had an
actual bad beer from them.You've had them on the show before,

(26:02):
right? I love drinking them.I've had them on the show multiple
times. Yeah, big, big fan of them.Uh, so cheers to them again for
another delicious, uh,delicious brew. So. Yeah.
Send send us more beer. Young Blood.Yeah. We love you. Send us beer.
Young Blood. Are you listening?A Christmas song?

(26:24):
Well, yeah, that's what it was.It was. Oh, okay.
Oh, I didn't have any more madeup lyrics, though, so I stopped.
Fair enough. I ruined it for you.Uh. All right.
A little news before we get outof here.
Oh, by the way, end of the show.I got a list for you. Oh, daddy.
Yeah. Keep it. Down.Daddy loves lists. Keep it down.
Pitching a tent.Well, your table's moving. Uh.

(26:47):
All right. Georgia.We talked a couple of weeks ago
about, uh, Georgia trying topass new laws for distribution,
small breweries being able todistribute their own share, blah,
blah, blah. Just let them do it.This will surprise you.
Georgia distributors oppose theself-distribution laws. That's crazy.
Yeah, I could read the whole thing,but there's no point.
They say a bill like SB 122 wouldundermine carefully crafted laws

(27:10):
by Budweiser and lead tounintended consequences that
would negatively impact otherbusinesses and the industry.
Consequences that small craftbrewery advocates aren't seeing.
Oh, you mean like brewers would makemoney and you guys would be stuck
because your job shouldn't exist?Is that what. You're talking about?
Right,right right right right right right.
Yeah. Anyways, uh, blah blah blah.Suck at distributors.

(27:35):
My favorite thing aboutSelf-distribution.
First of all,it's when you're a little brewery
and it's the only thing you can do.Um, it helps get you out there,
but also because they're doing it,it keeps the price of the beer down
in the stores. Yeah. Which is great.And isn't it cool when, you know,

(27:55):
it's a very small brewery and yousee them on a shelf somewhere?
It's like, oh, that's so fuckingsweet. They, you know, they put some.
Or you even see their cars drivingaround somewhere or parked
somewhere or stopped somewhere.You're like, man, that is the
fucking. That's it right there.Yeah, they have a dream and that
they're coming to fruition likethey're trying to make it.

(28:16):
That's awesome.And green decorated their truck to
look like it was wearing lederhosen.That's brilliant. It's pretty fancy.
You can't miss it. You can't.Miss it.
It's so on brand for them, too.Yeah. It's so good.
So if you ever see thelederhosen truck driving around,
uh, Southern California,that's most likely in green.
Is there a lot of self distro inCalifornia? Um, yes and no.

(28:40):
So integrin actually has partneredwith Stone for their distribution.
Okay. As has Tarantula Hill.So there's a lot of like we
partner with Stone.Like it seems like the first
step to a small brewery becominglike a little bit bigger. Yep.
Is partnering with Stone integrin.Did it? Tarantula Hill did it.

(29:01):
Um. Midwest did it?It seems like stone and stone
distribution is completelyseparate now of stone brewing.
Sapporo does not own thedistribution arm, so it just they,
they sort of pick and choose whothey want to bring on to their
distribution. And, um, yeah.So it's its own separate entity,
I like that. Yeah.It was separate before,

(29:22):
but same owners.And after the sale, you know,
they didn't they didn't buy thedistribution side.
So, uh, I guess it's still craft.I don't know, man. Jesus. I give up.
What is anything anymore? Yeah.This is just now the Beer Republic.
Um, I figured I'd bring this upbecause I was just in Austin.

(29:42):
A move to ban THC in Texas isgoing on. So Texas is weird.
When we were in Austin,we smelled dank and dank weed
smell often and which I like.I am not against the smell of weed.
I think it's a nice smell.But it was weird because I know
in Texas it's not legal.So did some research.

(30:04):
Asked a couple people over there.So apparently in Austin specifically,
they've decriminalized.It's like what they did in
Madison for a while. Yeah.Yeah, it's not legal,
but it's decriminalized.Also, marijuana is not legal in
Texas, but hemp is and you can.And what they've done is they've

(30:24):
made strains of hemp that aremore THC intensive than others.
And so the reason they didn'tsupposedly outlaw hemp originally
was because, you know, clothes andpaper and other hemp products.
Well, they found all the loopholes,bred it for THC,
and now you can get pretty highon some hemp in Texas. Damn.

(30:48):
So it's like sort of legal, but not.And Austin doesn't give a shit
because Austin's just fucking cool.It's just like the Delta variants
and shit here that when they comeout with like a THC seltzer,
or you go to your gas station andthere's just jars of the shit.
Jars of THC. Yeah, 100%. Really?Yeah. There's a liquor store.

(31:08):
I don't know, a 300ft from ourfucking shop that I work at.
And, uh, that you walk in thereand they have just fucking jars
all labeled as different shit.Wow. Wow. Yeah. And it smells.
It smells just like you would thinksomething like that would smell.

(31:30):
Well, it's funny,someone was just talking about.
I can't remember where it mighthave been. Minnesota somewhere.
Not Wisconsin, but not far fromWisconsin about how it's not legal.
But they have THC drinks.And I said, oh, my buddy Flex.
Same thing.Like weed's not legal in Wisconsin,
but you know,he's found his way in some THC

(31:50):
drinks before and enjoys them. Yeah.And you go to any liquor store
and they have at least like afour foot shelf section of top to
bottom all THC shit. That's insane.And in California, you will never
find that in a liquor store.You can only get THC beverages in
a weed shop. Interesting. Yeah.So anyways, Texas is trying to

(32:12):
ban all that shit because they'reboring and they're rednecks and
they're Texas. Yeah. That's weird.Why would you do that if it's
just going to make money?That's the thing. Just tax it.
Make some money. Yeah. Help!Help us get out of this
$32 trillion debt and growing.Not a political show.

(32:33):
Um, speaking of Minnesota in theMidwest, a Minnesota funeral director
was accused of DWI after allegedlyarriving drunk to pick up a body.
You know, that's actually probablythe best thing you could say
after saying a funeral director.Dot dot dot. Douche.
Uh, according to court documents, lawenforcement responded to a report of

(32:55):
a dispute around 9:38 p.m. on Sunday.I love how they say around and
then they give you exact timingaround 938.
Sunday, February 23rd at a residenceon First Street Northwest in Crosby.
Crosby police officers reportedlyresponded to the scene and spoke with
residents at the home, who indicateda family member passed away.

(33:15):
Zilmer responded to their residenceto pick up the body of the deceased
on behalf of the Coop Funeral Home.He reportedly appeared to be
intoxicated.Officers reportedly spoke with the
defendant outside the residenceand observed he had bloodshot eyes
and watery eyes, was unstable onhis feet and had an odor of
alcohol coming from his mouth.Zilmer admitted to driving to

(33:38):
the residence,according to court documents.
A field sobriety test showedclues of impairment.
He submitted to a preliminary breathtest with a blood alcohol content of.
What I'm going to say 0.16.Oh my God, you almost nailed it.
0.17. Dang it!Now here's where Grace is, right?

(34:00):
Here's where it gets even better,though.
He was transported to the policedepartment, where a second breath
test yielded a BAC of 0.19.He got worse.
That means it kicked in.Yeah, that means, like,
as he walked to the door, he wasdoing shots. That's insane. Yeah.
So I just hope his argument was.Dude, they're already dead.

(34:25):
I'm dealing with dead.I'm not gonna kill anybody cause
they're already dead. Just.Just give me the body.
Just give me the body, man.I'm not gonna dead them anymore.
They're fucking dead.They've already been dead.

(34:48):
I swear to God, I've seen a lotof dead guys in my life.
That's like the deadest fuckingguy I've ever seen. Yeah.
Spoiler alert I can't kill himon the drive back.
Yeah, well, that's my argument.Yeah. He's not gonna fucking die.
He's fucking dead. So you guys are.Just give me it. Give me.
Give him to me. You guys are good.Give it to me, I got it. Fun story.

(35:09):
My younger brother used to workfor the Milwaukee County coroner.
No shit.Yeah, so he would actually go
around and pick up dead bodies.Wow. Did he enjoy that job?
Uh, he's pretty numb, you know?So not a lot of shit gets to him.
So, yeah, he's.He's had to do some weird shit. Okay.

(35:33):
Like, uh, train suicide. Oh, yeah.I was on a train when someone
committed a train suicide.Come on. That's no shit. Yeah.
How do you sleep at night?I didn't watch it happen.
Well, I didn't know which way.Which way you were facing.
Yeah, I was facing the other way.I didn't see. It.
We Wee wee had left the station.It's like, hey, honey, it's a hand.

(35:57):
That a foot down there andslammed on the brakes and no one
was telling us anything.So I started tweeting the LA
Fire department. Yeah.I was like, hey, what the fuck's
going on with the train?Blah, blah blah.
And they're like, oh,suicide by train. I was like. Oh.
Fuck, no wonder that was a whole.It took hours. We were late anyways.
Well, it took my brother hoursbecause he had to walk around and

(36:18):
look for the body parts. Oh yeah.Isn't that something like.
Ooh, I wonder if they tell youthat in the job description.
Must hunt down body parts. Yeah.Uh, if, uh, said person explodes
in train incident, it is.It is your job to treasure hunt

(36:39):
the body parts that fly off.I did have a waiter once.
No shit. That was like.I forget how it got brought up.
This was years and years ago,and he's like, oh, yeah,
I'm actually training to be apallbearer. Interesting.
I was like, all right, well, uh.Cool. That's kind of weird.
Hope you washed your hands.Yeah. We're not a pallbearer.

(37:00):
Pallbearer carries a cat.What do you call it? Um.
An undertaker.The guy who does the preparing of
the dead body? I think so, yeah.Whatever that is. I don't know.
Did you say. You know what?I thought I smelled formaldehyde.
It smells a little dead in here.Anyway. That's cold. Yeah.
Cold blooded.Um, let's end it on this.

(37:21):
Here's. Here's the list.In fact, it's two lists in one. Ooh.
That's like, uh,it's what I like to call a twofer.
Ladies and gentlemen,that is a twofer.
It's basically a three way for Flex.The five most drunk and sober
colleges in America. Ooh.That's interesting. Yeah.
Thanks to Scott for sending thisover. Five most drunk and sober.

(37:42):
All right.Yeah, we'll start with the most
sober. Number five on the list.Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait.
Mhm.Uh, you're not gonna get this one.
Is it in Montana? It is not. Damn it.You think sober people live in
Montana? I would think so.I know there's not a lot to do,
but I don't know.That's why they're hammered.
Uh, fifth most sober is the CityUniversity of New York, Hunter

(38:06):
College. What do they do there?Uh, not not a lot of drinking.
Not a lot of drinking. Yeah. Yeah.I would not think somewhere in New
York would be a sober college. True.Uh, number four, Spelman College,
which is in Atlanta.Again, not a place I would think
to be sober. Yeah.Uh, number three, I know another New

(38:29):
York City, University of New York.Brooklyn College. Yeah.
There's no fucking way. Yeah.A lot of a lot of New Yorkers
need to start drinking.Uh, number two, College of the
Ozarks. Is that Missouri? Missouri.Okay. Number one, most sober.
You probably know this one.I don't think I do.

(38:49):
I'm trying to think of, like,areas in the country that would
be super sober.All right, you're gonna hear this
and go, oh, no. Shit. Wait. Utah.Yeah. BYU. Nah. Gave it away.
Yeah, like. Like no shit.Of course. That makes sense.
You're right. Oh, yeah.All right, let's get into the real
ones, though. The most drunk.Number five, Providence College,

(39:14):
out of Rhode Island. That's shocking.Yeah, more than New York.
Like, what the fuck?I guess not a lot to do.
Such a small state, I don't know.Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
Number four, West VirginiaUniversity. That's not surprising.
Yeah. We don't like them.Doom doom doom doom doom doom doom.

(39:38):
Hey, it's my brother.It's also my dad.
Yeah, and we fucked once. Uh, number.Sorry. My guess is going to be.
Miami's in the top three.Oh, well, you know what? I did not.
Look ahead. We'll find out together.Uh, number three is Colgate
University out of Hamilton,New York. Interesting.

(40:00):
Okay, so New York, sober and drunk.Yeah. At the same time.
Number two, I think you've heardof this one before.
It's not Miami. Is it? Johnson?University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Yeah, they get pretty nuts.So I've heard. I've heard number two.
And the number number one is notMiami. Damn.

(40:23):
Any guesses as to locale?Um, not what I expected.
It's not what you expected. Um.Nebraska? No, that.
That's very much not what I expected.Somewhere middle of the road of.
Not what I expected.Bucknell University out of Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania. Huh?Yeah, I guess I only ever think

(40:45):
of Bucknell in, uh, during,like, March Madness.
Well, well, now you can thinkabout them in Drunk Madness.
Oh, so they're the drunkestuniversity in the country,
apparently. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah.Don't know anybody that's gone there.
Do they give degrees for drinkingthere? Oh, then I could be a doctor.

(41:05):
That would be something.Doctor of Thuganomics.
That's not not how you end the show.No, I'm. Not even gonna let that.
Air. Oh, doctor of economics. Maybe.Hmm. Let's go whale watching.

(41:29):
I speak whale. All right.This has taken quite the turn.
I'm gonna hit some music.
This is why we can't be alone.We need people on the show.
I'm so sorry. Me too. I'm Vanessa.Damn it! Hello, Vanessa. Hello.

(41:51):
Uh, thanks for.If you've made it this far. Wow.
I'm so sorry. Yeah. I'm so sorry.Thank you so much. For what?
Honestly, the show could have beendone about 20 minutes ago. At least.
Seeing you try to run that backthrough your head and you're like,
oh, man.It was like,
how long are we going? Yeah.At least 20 minutes. Yeah. Uh huh.

(42:14):
Uh, anyways, thank you for listening.Sorry for listening.
All that good stuff at CraftBeer Republic at Flexy.
Beer in between all that good shit.Thank you all for listening.
Hope you're staying very wellhydrated. And on that note.
Good night everybody.
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