July 30, 2025 • 45 mins
Buckle up, tap heads, we're going on a beer trip! Flex returns from a whirlwind trip to Nashville that involved banjos, birthday beer, and a suspiciously bougie breakfast buffet. Meanwhile, Greg brings tales from Colorado where he drank his way through the Rockies, crushed trivia, and found himself in the middle of a country concert and a lightning storm at Red Rocks. Plus, one of them may have developed a deep spiritual bond with a beer bottle that looks like it belongs in a drawer marked "private." Let’s just say it’s one hell of a ride this week.
Beers We’re Drinking:
- Flex is sipping on How to Train Your Marshmallow from Evil Twin brewing.
- Greg drinks Portraits (Carignan) by Sante Adairius Rustic Ales, thanks to a listener.
Flex's one-day trip to Nashville could only be described as "country chaos meets luxury carbs." From a jaw-dropping resort buffet to a surprise country concert at the Grand Ole Opry, he covered more ground in 24 hours than most of us do in a week—and he still found time for overpriced Paulaner and cheap mountain dew. Meanwhile, Greg’s Colorado birthday bash included first class flights, boozy bar crawls, and trivia domination (or at least participation). The highlight? Seeing Andrew McMahon at Red Rocks under a lightning-lit sky while sippin' road sodas. There was also a ton of beer research, and an appearance by NoHo Hank.
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Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I'm being joined bymy favorite puppet over there.
And that is Flex.What's up, big fella?
I was trying to think of a,like a noise a puppet made,
but I just, I fell flat.Yeah, I guess they don't really
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make any noise.They just move their mouth.
Which is what you were doing.I'm a puppet.
Oh, very old timey puppet.I'm a puppet. Puppet is a puppet.
See? Makes a lot of sense.Get your hand out of my ass. You see.
That's not what you said last.Yeah, nothing. Yeah, yeah.
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Not a puppet show. Sorry.Not not a hand of the butt show,
either.Um, all right, if you're still there,
thanks for drinking and joiningand all that good stuff.
Follow us on the socials.@CraftBeerRepublic @Flex_me_a_beer
underscores in between 80553beer is the number to call.
Lots to get to today.I'm very, very excited.
I have some beer research to talkabout. I am fresh off of a trip.
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I also did an interview.I'll talk about that shortly.
Uh, some booze news. So much more.We're both excited for our beers.
I know that.I am actually very excited.
Yeah. Do you want to.You want to kick things off with a.
Oh my. God, beer action.I would be honored.
I'm excited to hear about your beer.So let's let's do this the right way.
In a world where craft beer is king,a world where muscles are bigger
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than growlers,only one tongue can guide us.
One man, one tongue,one Tongue-jobber.
In this world we must find outwhat is Flex drinking.
I'm really glad you, uh, actually hadme start off, because I don't know
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if I have any beer left to drink.Uh, by the time it was for my review.
As part of why I did it. Yeah, yeah.So I did a quick little panic shop
today, and I went to my local shop,and first thing I saw on the
shelf that was screaming my namebecause I was looking for a sour.
I was kind of getting sick of IPAslately, and I saw this evil twin
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brewing. It says New York City.Hopefully. I don't know if it is.
Sometimes they come out ofConnecticut here.
Yeah, like this one is brewedConnecticut, but it's called,
you know, Evil Twin Brewing,New York City. Whatever.
Well, this one,this counter I'm going to show you
it's got pineapples and it's gotdragon fruits and passion fruit
and marshmallows and cherries,and it's called How to train Your
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marshmallow passion fruit and so manyother fruits, berries and grapes.
Uh, so looking for a sour?This immediately spoke to me.
Clocks in at 5.1% ABV only 437check ins on Untappd,
but at quite a high 4.21.And it reads exactly what I just
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read to you, except that on hereit says it contains milk,
sugar and. Oh, no, look at that.See? It's right there.
Marshmallow. Dragon fruit.Passion fruit, key lime,
sour cherry, pineapple, white grape.Concord grape and milk. Sugar.
So, tons of shit in here. I was.Kitchen sink. Right?
I was a little bit thrown off by thatbecause, you know, you never know
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what you're going to get, right?And the color on this guy is
wonderful. It's gorgeous. Yeah.I thought it would be kind of, like,
more that yellowy juice color,but it is like a deep red, almost
like, uh, and it's not even like a,like a maroon or a it's almost like
a foggy red wine. There you go.That's what it reminds me of.
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A foggy red wine?So, uh, on the old nose buds here,
we'll dive right in. Sour.Maybe picking up some of that.
That cherry and that lime. Nice.Which is never a bad combo.
That cherry limeade.After warming up the old
Tongue-jobber here,we're gonna dive right in here.
As if I haven't already.It's totally the first time.
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This is just wonderful.It's light,
super duper low carbonation on this.And imagine opening a bag of
Skittles, pouring some into yourhand, and then you just chew it all
at once and you get everything.That's exactly what this tastes like.
Uh, tastes like.I would probably give this, like,
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a five out of five on untapped.Holy shit.
Yeah, I wouldn't fuck aroundwith this. Not one bit. Wow.
Is that the first five out offive we've. I mean. Thrown out.
There, maybe that I like.I'm casually throwing it out there,
which is kind of bizarre.Yeah, that's true.
But the other cool thing aboutthis is with those grapes.
It said it had like the Concord.And the what? The other ones.
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The white grape. Yeah.You get that dryness at the back
end and it is. It's delectable.It's like a a fruited sour with
marshmallow.And then you get a little bit of
like that, uh,that whininess to it at the end.
Um. This is, this is phenomenal.Like I so here's the other thing
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about this.So the big, uh, the big selling
point we've been doing on the showlately is single cans, right? Right.
It, you know, don't, uh,dive balls deep if you don't know if
you like it yet, that kind of thing.Well, daddy dove balls deep.
Daddy and daddy is not unhappy. That.Thank God. Yes, I'm super psyched.
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Uh, 16.99 for this four pack.Jesus. That's cheap.
Yeah, I know you always say that. Um.And I really didn't hesitate
even seeing the price.You know how I am, right?
But with Evil Twin,I've had just about everything I've
had from them was has been wonderful.So there's somebody who I can trust
and I can, you know, put my beliefsin and my faith in and, and they're
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they're not going to steer me wrong.I've heard they're a little more,
let's say,trustworthy when it's the New York
when it comes out of New York, isthat have you found that to be true?
I don't know, because it seemslike everything that I get and I
don't know if this is just on theirlabeling, but it says Brewed by
Evil Twin Brewing, North Haven,Connecticut, distributed by 12%.
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But the title of the brewery onthe can it says evil twin New
York City right there. Sure.So I don't know if that's just like
the brewing company name Evil TwinBrewing New York City or or what,
but.Somebody smarter than us let us know.
Yeah.What is what what what is the
difference? Yeah.The reason it got brought up with
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me was I had had a couple thatwere they were just fine and um,
big surprise, they came from Tavourand somebody told me that the New
York stuff is like, you know,the real brewery in quotes and
the not New York stuff is kind oflike the, the B team, basically.
And that's what always goes toTavour.
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Now, this was multiple years ago.Things could have changed.
This person could have just beenpulling this out of their ass.
Who knows?I wonder if maybe the Connecticut
stuff via laws is just easier todistribute. Could be. Yeah, because.
I've heard, uh, New York is kindof a mess to deal with.
Bringing in and sending out.Yeah, maybe they just set up shop
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elsewhere for distribution rights.Right.
So they're brewing the same thing.They're just doing it there to send
out. Who knows? Yeah. Not us. Yeah.If anybody knows let us knows because
knows goes anyways. Uh, good.Junie,
we haven't hung out in a while.Do doing any research or anything.
I went down to Nashville for a day.Oh that's right. Daughter's birthday.
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Daughter's birthday. Um.Happy birthday daughter.
Hey, she appreciates that.I'll let her know it was a it was a
fucking day, man. Like I would not.How you travel for work.
You do like some day trips? Sure.That's terrible. Yeah, it really is.
It is absolutely terrible andexhausting. Yes.
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I was getting over a little bitof a lingus. Oh, okay.
Uh, wake up at 240. Oh. Fuck me.Why? Go to bed? To shower.
Get to the airport about 4:00for the 5:00 flight. Ooh.
Uh, land in Nashville about 630.And it was.
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We get to the hotel right away,which was nice.
And, uh, they had a breakfast buffet,which was phenomenal.
We stayed at one of the Gaylordresorts. Have you ever.
Have you ever heard of these orseen these? No, I don't think so.
Oh my God, they're fantastic.There's, I believe four,
four of them in the country.There's one in Colorado.
I think the Denver area,if I'm not mistaken.
Oh, um, there's one in Nashville.There's one in Kissimmee,
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Florida, and there's one in DC.And they are like these
extravagant resorts where there'slike three parts of each resort.
Each part has their own, like littlevillage of shops and restaurants,
and there's like, water and riversand waterfalls all throughout,
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and conservatories and aconnected water. It's phenomenal.
It's absolutely phenomenal.Never heard of it. That's crazy.
You look it up. Check it out.Wonderful.
So they had, uh, breakfast buffet,which was probably the best breakfast
buffet I've ever had in my life.I mean, we're talking doughnuts.
We're talking bagels.We're talking like different
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pastries.We're talking omelet station.
Asian Pancake Station.We're talking eggs Benedict at
the helm.Like you just take as many eggs
Benedict as you want to take.And all the food tasted wonderful,
too.Did a little bit of shopping
stopped at the Bavarian Beerhouse for lunch, which was nice.
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It wasn't even my idea because Ireally don't like you know me,
I'm not selfish.I don't like to steal the show.
Right? It's not my day.But when my my wife and my
mother in law are like, oh, hey,let's get like a big pretzel and
some shit for lunch.So I decided to get myself a
liter of Oktoberfest. Nice.Some Paulaner Oktoberfest,
(10:20):
20 bucks for a liter of Oktoberfest.I thought that was kind of
outrageous.That's a little high,
especially Paulaner.We got the bill. I was not psyched.
Yeah. I'm not gonna lie.Coming from Wisconsin,
you're like, the fuck is this?I was like, I thought Nashville
was cool, man. Damn.And then, oh, man,
had a little bit of nap timebecause that day was killing me,
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you know, waking up so early.I don't think I had a beer with
dinner.Definitely did not had a
mountain dew. That's what I had.Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I had to.
I haven't had one of those in.I needed the caffeine.
I needed the sugar.I'm thinking at least 15 years,
if not 20. Daddy was running on E.I guess so. Yeah. Desperation.
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Daddy to cap off the night likethe main gift of the trip.
I guess you would call it.We did a show at the Grand Ole Opry.
Oh, cool.So if you know anything about
the Opry, they do, like,4 to 5 shows a week.
Um, so he's a big deal for peopleto get invited to play there. Mhm.
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And I'm not a huge country musicfan by any means,
but live country music fucking like,cranks it up like three notches.
Oh, I guess it depends on like thetype of country because there's
like the real, you know, laid back.I fucked my cousin country.
And then there's, you know,like, more rocking country.
Really good mix at this show.Oh, okay.
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So some cousin fucking and somerocking I like. Yeah, yeah.
You know,it's like the best of both worlds.
Um, but, uh, I did get a beardedIris home style, which is, like,
everywhere in Tennessee.Bearded Iris, huge brewery out there.
And, uh, that beer out of the can is.It's like juice. It's wonderful.
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It's delicious.And then I caught some, uh.
Man, what the hell was it?Music city Brewing company,
it's just called, like, Music CityLight or something like that.
Sure. It's $14 for a 4% beer.Yeah. That'll hurt.
And I went there and it wasn't great.And I should have just got
another home style. Yep.But I just wanted to try
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something else.And they already had a Tennessee
Beerworks beer that I've hadthere before.
It was called, uh, hippies and.cowboys and hippies.
I think it's called just aclassic IPA. I've had it.
I, you know,probably should have got that too.
Instead, you want to try new things,I get it, I do the.
Right and especially with, you know,some light beers because what I'm
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gravitating to more is, you know,not so heavy and sure that one
kind of, you know, it fell flat.Yeah. That'll happen. But yeah.
Got to see somebody debut at theOpry, which is always a big deal.
Okay,there's a surprise guest appearance,
which doesn't often happen,but Carly Pearce, she's like a
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big country star. I'll take her.Word. For it. Sure. Yeah.
And, uh, so she got invited outwith the last band.
And all in all,it was absolutely wonderful.
Really, really awesomeopportunity and experience.
And I suggest anybody who goesto Nashville to try and get
tickets to a show. Nice.Even if you're not a country fan,
even. If you're not a country fan.Right? It's an experience.
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I don't think there are many genresof music that I could like any less
than country are. I don't know, man.And here's what's funny about
that is I also.There's some really good country
out there and there's some really,really bad country.
But like, I'm a big Eagles fan.And if you really break it down like
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Eagles country rock at its heart,like most of their shit,
especially their older stuff,is real country influence.
I could see that. Yeah.But give me like straight up
country and I, I just it's nailson a chalkboard for me now.
They started out with some somefun bluegrass and it was like a
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lot of instrumental which I enjoy,like people really whipping out
a fiddle and. Yeah, any banjos?I had a banjo there. Yeah.
It was, uh. I don't hate a banjo. No.A very, uh, impressive
instrument to get the hang of.Yeah, it's a weird instrument to
get the hang of.Oh, super weird,
especially because you play it with,Like, is it all five fingers?
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I don't remember, I'm not that smart.I don't know. It's crazy.
But we got to see a guy who's inthe Country Music Hall of Fame.
His name is Jimmy Fortune.He was in the Statler Brothers,
and I guess they were around from,like, 81 to 2002, he said.
And, uh, he played a couple tunes,and they were good.
And then this country, uh,gospel guy came on. Okay.
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And is not Jesus as I am afterthe previous guy.
He played, like, some downer music.We we needed a boost.
And, you know,he's saying a lot about Jesus, and.
He helped you see the light alittle bit.
Yeah, it was very uplifting andcheerful. So that was nice.
Gotcha. But yeah. So yeah.Absolutely wonderful time.
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Wonderful research. Great birthday.Exhausted, but totally worth it.
Good, good.Well, I can I can relate to the late
July birthdays. Just like daughter.So, we did a similar, well,
not a similar excursion.That sounds like a fucking whirlwind.
We went to Colorado last week for mybirthday, a little pre-celebration,
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uh, a week early.And first of all,
I'll run down the research we did.Here's here's just the breweries that
I feel like are worth mentioning.There are some that are not going
to be mentioned in this report.How many did you hit up? One.
Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.Seven, eight is on my good list.
Plus, I can think of at leastthree that are on my naughty list.
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Wow, what a trip.Yeah, it was a week long,
so we had some time there.Uh, first of all,
we flew first class.It's the first time I've ever been in
first class. I was just gonna ask.Okay. And honestly, it wasn't.
There was some weird thing whereit wasn't that much more on the
way there.And on the way back, it was,
like, almost the same price.Like,
I don't know what glitch we ran into.And so we're like, fuck it,
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we've never done this before.birthday bitches.
And so we went first class anddrank mimosas the whole time on
the way there. It was fantastic.Can't be too far of a flight.
No, it's about two hours. 15 minutes.Okay. Yeah, a little over two.
So, uh, you know, daddy put down,like, five mimosas in that amount
of time. Daddy? No problem.So, uh, Colorado Springs first
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went to fossil, which we've beento before, and we love them.
And so we always try to gowhenever we're in the springs.
Uh, they have to be doing triviathe night we were there.
So we stopped in for some trivia.Shocker. Yeah.
One of my cousins and her husbandcame out. We played a little trivia.
Uh, we did not do as well as, uh,as with Deb and Brian, I will say
that. We know who carries that team.Yes. Deb does. Sorry, Brian.
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Uh, and we also accidentallywent into Urban Animal Brewing.
We were looking for this beer barthat the wife had found online and
was like, oh, it's right over here.We walked in, I was like, this is it.
And she goes, yeah, I said,this is really dark for like a bar.
This is very brewery esque.We walk down this long hallway
and as we get to the bar,sure enough, there's a brewery.
I was like, is this where youfucking meant to take us?
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And she's like, no, I don't think so.But by then Beertender had
already caught eyes with us.I was like,
I can't just walk out now likedeuces and run out the front door.
So, uh, we try to we had aflight and really enjoyed it.
So it was it was a pleasant surprise.And I like that, uh,
brewery name too. Yeah. Urban animal.They have a cool, um, cool logo too.
I posted pictures of all these.At least a beer from each of
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these places on the gram,so go check it out.
@CraftBeerRepublic so good thatwe had a a pint after our flight,
then up to Denver,went to Full Frame Brewing, which,
uh, is Southern Beer Girls Brewery.She used to work at Jagged Mountain.
They closed her and her businesspartner bought the place or leased
the place or whatever it is.And now they've opened full
frame beers just as good as itever was before.
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So that was fun to go check out.Uh, went to our Mutual Friends
Brewing, Ruin, which we also did aninterview with uh, or at with Jan,
the head brewer slash, uh, businesspartner. Look for that next week.
I was very excited.We found out about this place
last time we're in Denver.I think it was Davis that told us to
go check it out. Really enjoyed it.Really enjoyed it this time.
And, um, Jan is just he's a beernerd, but he doesn't come from,
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like, the sciency side of it.So you can have a real conversation
with him and not be left confused.It was, I mean,
that the best way possible.It was a really fun conversation.
So, um, next week, interview with Janfrom our Mutual Friends brewing.
Can't wait to hear that.Yeah, uh, went across the street
to Odell, went down the streetfrom there to Bierstadt,
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of course, because can't go Denverwithout going to Bierstadt,
then up to Fort Collins.We did the New Belgium tour
because everyone says, you got todo the tour. So we did the tour.
And how was it? Well, we even paid.So there's the free tour, which is
like, I don't know, 30 minutes.And then there's the $15 tour,
which is 90 minutes.And so we went, you know, balls to
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the wall. We did the 90 minute tour.And it was sort of how I
envision your Budweiser tour.You got to see the beechwood
aging process. Exactly.It's pretty incredible.
It's like they lager beer.It's crazy. Mind explosion.
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So the person doing our tour wasclearly not a beer person.
I mean, she even said, you know,she's one of the bartenders
there and has has definitelyjust memorized the script.
There was some pretty easy questionsthat she could not pick up on.
Well, what was one of them?Oh, we got into the brew house
finally, where, uh, the boy,you know, the mash tun, the boiler,
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boiling kettle, all that stuff isone of them had a flashing light on
it and somebody goes, oh, what'sgoing on with the flashing light?
And she goes, oh, I don't know.Must mean they're brewing or
something.And he goes, well, it's empty inside.
And I said, hey, I bet you aboutthey're about to clean it.
The chemicals they use are like,you know, super dangerous and
whatnot. Right, right, right.And he goes, oh, interesting.
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And not 30s later,did it start spraying like,
you know, clear liquids everywhere?I was like, ah, look at me,
I was right, I've never evenbeen here before. Boy oh boy.
Somebody get this guy a tour shirt.I was trying not to be like you,
you know, like so you lager.Yeah, 30, 30 days.
You're telling me it sits in here?No. The hell you say. That's crazy.
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But also, there was some reallack of information flowing,
and I was real proud of the wife.She asked a really good question.
They were talking about theirprocess for, like,
packaging and all this other andfermenting and all this stuff.
And she goes, hey,do you capture your CO2?
And I was going to ask that.And she beat me to it,
because I know Sierra Nevada does.And basically if you don't do it
on a big enough volume,it's just not worth the equipment.
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It's super expensive to do.And she goes, yeah, for sure.
You know, we totally do that.Um, I'm not sure how much, but I
know they're totally capturing it,and they're also trying to find
other ways to use it.And I'm like, why the fuck would
you find other ways?Like, unless you're capturing so
much CO2 that you just don't knowwhat the fuck to do with it.
Why wouldn't you just use it tocarbonate your beer and purge
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lines and stuff?And at that point, if you have so
much, instead of trying to figureout other things to do with it,
why wouldn't you, like, sell itto other breweries or something?
I mean, just the answers we weregetting were not the best answer.
We're looking at starting a CO2black market because we captured
so much CO2.It's like, Good God, they must
capture all the CO2. You're like.Jesus, man. So that was fine.
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I was glad that they had 1554 atthe brewery.
It's my favorite New Belgium beer.I can never find it outside of
Colorado.And it's it's not a lager, but it
basically drinks like a schwarzbier.Like a like a dark lager. Okay.
Like a dark locker.And it was the first time I had
in my early beer drinking days,had had a dark beer that I was like,
this is delicious.So I have a special affinity for it.
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When she let us pour our firsttasters and everyone was like, oh,
we get to pour off the tap and blahblah, blah. Like it was a big deal.
And 1554 was there.So was just about everything
they had at the brewery.And everyone's getting like,
juiced force.And that was like 1 or 2 fat tires.
And I walk up and I pour the 1554.I started getting looks from people
like dark beer on a hot day, like,you know, what are you doing?
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I'm just like, fucking trust me.Idiots. Oh, man. Fucking trust. Me.
I hope somebody poured it after youtwo just from. No. Nobody did. Shame.
I expected, like, one person to go.All right, maybe I'll try, but.
Nah, they don't know who I am,apparently.
Ain't nothing like a dark lageron a hot day, I tell you that.
I'm telling you, man.Uh, so anyways, that was cool.
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We went to, uh, Hello Brew Co,also in Fort Collins, and really,
really good beer had some Hazies hadbasically had like half their menu
and really enjoyed what they had.It's a cool little spot.
It's an old house that's just beenconverted into a brewery and like a.
Big house or like a regular sized.Like a regular sized old house.
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And like, you can sit on the porch,there's porch, you know,
benches on the porch.There's like seats in the yard
and stuff.And just like hanging out at a at a
house when you're outside, inside.You know, they've obviously taken
down all the walls and it's a, it's abrewery, but, uh, it's it's cool.
We're just sitting on the porchdrinking beer. What a cool idea.
Yeah. So, uh, that was fun.There was one other that I didn't
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write down, and I believe it wascalled, like, Jessup Farms.
And it's this whole area wherethey've turned an old farm into,
like, a shopping, like, strip mall.But it's old farm buildings.
Some of them are not old.Some of them have been, like, made to
look like the old farm buildings,but like the brewery itself is
in this 100 plus year old barn.And the restaurant was in like
the old farmhouse,and it was really cool.
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The beer was, um, not the best,but not the worst.
It was real middle of the road.We we played trivia there again.
It was. We were done.We did really bad there.
Can you ever say no to trivia?You know what?
That was the wife's idea.She goes, hey, we should go to
this place. When we get up there.They have trivia Thursday nights.
And I was like, uh, all right, whatelse are we gonna do? So we did it.
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Yeah. Uh, good times, a lot.A lot of good drinks.
Uh, found this really coolwhiskey bar that had, like,
you know, 200 something whiskeys.We had some cocktails.
That's where one of thebartenders looked very much like
Hank from Barry. NoHo Hank.NoHo. Hank. He was walking.
He was not our bartender.He was at the other in the bar.
And I hadn't really realized itwas a very long bar.
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The wife says, like, oh, you knowsomething about him down there?
I was like, oh, I didn't see himdown there. I said, That's Hank.
And she goes, what?I was like, Hank Cristobal 50,
50. 50, 50. Hank and Cristobal.So she starts laughing. 50, 50.
So then I'm trying to sneakilytake a picture of him like, oh,
I'm taking a picture of my drink.Definitely not the super white
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bald guy walking around.Oh, man. That's amazing.
Which for the record, everybody.He did send me that picture today.
Yeah, yeah I forgot.We did a lot of drinking that
night was our last night beforewe left town.
And we we strapped one on that night,so, um. But yeah. Good time.
So the main reason we went is for mybirthday slash concert at Red rocks.
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Um, it was announced.That was like the culmination of
the trip.I'm assuming that was middle of
the week. It was weird.It was on a Wednesday, which,
uh, was weird, but whatever.You know, we were off the whole week,
so who cares?It was my one of my favorite,
I guess, bands.You would say it's Andrew McMahon.
Performer. Performer. Performer.Yeah. Yeah.
He's performed with his own band.Andrew McMahon in the wilderness.
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Um, band.Before that was Jack's Mannequin.
His first band was somethingcorporate, and they did all
three bands, uh, at Red rocks.So it was sort of a bucket list
concert at a bucket list venue, andit was fucking incredible. I can't.
My words cannot describe howincredible the show was and the
scenery and everything.There was a lightning going on in
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the background, behind the stage.And, you know, California,
we don't see lightning.We don't see weather in Southern
California. So you see lightning.I mean, I've seen it before, but
it's not something we regularly get.Like if I see lightning once a
year here, that's a lot. Okay.I did not know that. Yeah.
We rarely get lightning with ourrain. Okay. Um. So fucking amazing.
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If you guys haven't gone to Redrocks, I couldn't recommend it
anymore. It was so cool.We took the shuttle out there.
Driver was super cool.Let us drink on the shuttle. We were.
We were hammering seltzers onthe way. Nice. Yeah.
Only had to buy two once we gotthere because we'd, you know,
we'd started a little early.So that's how you do it, man.
Yeah, it was phenomenal.And then finally, uh, we went to a
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Rockies game while we were in Denver,too. Why would you do that?
First of all, love the stadium.It's right down.
First of all, it's cool stadium.It's also right downtown.
You can walk from just about anywhereyou're staying, which we did.
We did like Happy Hour first and thenwalked over to the stadium. Cool.
And I wanted to witness history.And by history, I mean,
you know, worst team in thehistory of baseball.
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In the history. Just terrible.I tell you what, I was super
disappointed because like,third inning, maybe even fourth
inning is over and the Rockiesare up by like three runs.
And I'm like, God damn it,they're gonna win tonight.
And I came here to see thelosing his team. Lose?
Yeah, they they have something like26 wins on the year. Something.
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And by like the fifth inningsomebody said, hold my Coors and
just kicked it into under drive.And the the Cardinals came back
and just ripped them apart.It was. Under. Drive.
It couldn't have been any moreRockies than that.
So it was perfect, the perfect endingto the game. People were angry.
We were cracking up.I tell you what more than half
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the stadium was Cardinals fans.They apparently travel very well.
I did not know that.I didn't either,
I told my stepdad about it.He goes, oh yeah,
Cardinals fans travel for everything.I'm like, do they not have jobs?
I live in Milwaukee.I feel like Cardinals Milwaukee
Brewers games aren't even that bad.Yeah. So, um. Yeah. Good time.
Great. Great trip.I'm sorry for going on forever
and ever about it, but really,really fun trip.
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Well, it's funny you say that aboutCardinals fans because last year
they were so bad, they were tryingto get people to come into their
stadium by selling dollar tickets.That's how poorly they were playing
out of their traditional style of theCardinals baseball organization.
Well, if you are a Cardinals fan,what better time to go than to
the Rockies game because you knowthey're gonna win. Well played sir.
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Yeah,the Rockies did win the next night,
so suck it Cardinals. Bastards.Bastards. But, uh, good times.
Love that stadium. Uh. All right.Woo! Back to beer stuff. I guess.
We do that. Every now and then. Okay?Every now and then. You know what?
Before we move on to some booze news,I'm gonna.
I'm gonna share what I'mdrinking over here. Please do.
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He calls to the bullpen for beer.Well,
I brought back fresh from my trip.Coors light? Yeah. You almost had me.
Could you imagine how manyemails we'd get? That'd be fun.
I gotta admit,I didn't bring back any beer.
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I was doing too much movingaround the logistics for it.
I just I wasn't feeling it. And.And the beer that I like the most,
uh, was never in cans.I thought, nah, it. Isn't the worst.
Yeah, it really was.But coming through in a clutch
Non-Murderer John hit me up andwas like, hey, after we got back,
he's like, hey, uh, I'm gonna becoming through your town.
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Can I bring you a beer?Can you bring me a beer?
I would say no.Know, I said, well, you know,
bear shit in the woods.So we met up at Pedals and Pints
where he graciously bought me a beerat pedals, thank you very much.
And then handed me this.I'm gonna fuck this up.
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Sante Adairius. Rustic ales.It's in a fancy bottle.
Very fancy. I can see it. Yeah.Had to use, like,
a bottle opener and everything.I haven't done that in years.
It's called portraits.And it's the Carignan version.
Carignan. Carignan. Sure.Apparently it's a type of grape.
Anyways, 8.7% has A432 onuntapped with just, let's see,
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97 ratings on the bottle.It says an oak aged mixed
fermentation saison co-fermentedwith Carignan grapes from the
Montague Vineyard in the.Oh, stay with me here, Mark Valley.
Damn, my heart's beating on my chest.Guest. Jesus.
Anyways,fancy beer with fancy grapes.
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That was wild fermented. I bet.It fancy. Yeah. Somewhere fancy.
I have a feeling it was made in afurther. It's a furger. Exactly.
It's a big, big wooden barrel.That's what they told us on the
New Belgium tour.They're like,
basically means big ass barrel.It's like. Okay, all right. Schnoz.
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This is gonna be the most uneducated,uh, nose bud description yet,
but it's got that sour smell to it.I love that I know what you're
talking about, though.And if you're a casual beer drinker,
you know the same goddamn smell.People, please.
Let me know that you know whatI'm talking about.
I get a hint of grape on there,but it just has that real sour.
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It smells sour. Yeah. It's real.Thank you for getting me and
completing me.That's what mine smelled like, too.
It smelled like sour,but you could get a little of
cherry and the lime, but. Yeah.Sour Them. On ye olde Tongue-jobber.
Fancy Tongue-jobber ye got there.This daddy is taught it is a
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legit sour, very wildlyfermented first of all 8.7 where
this thing is fucking dangerous.You get any of that oak from the air?
I do feel like I'm getting a littlebit of wood in that little wood in
my mouth, if you will. You are.Uh, lots of tartness,
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little bit of grape like.It's not so much wine flavored.
Kind of grape like a little bitof grape juice, I would say.
Not a ton, just a little really sour.You know, my wife is a bigger
sour fan than I am.Like, the more sour it is, the
better. If it's the warhead of beers.She is a happy camper, but not like
the fruit. It kind of like yours.She's not so much into that as much.
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She likes the wild fermentedlike wild. Right?
So I poured her a little bit toobefore I started the show,
and I handed it to her.I said, what do you think?
And as I'm walking upstairs,she tries it and she's like,
ooh, I like this.Is it like a Herbal Essence
commercial? A little bit, yeah.Oh. Honey, what are you doing?
Oh, I just drank this beer.Washing my hair. What do you mean?
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So this is. This is really good.Thank you to Non-Murderer John.
This comes out.I've never heard of this place.
It comes out of it.Says on the bottle.
Capitola, California, which is nearSanta Cruz. Um, I've never heard.
Of rock n roll, baby.You just made the list.
If I'm ever up in that area again,I will be grabbing some of this.
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Thank you to Non-Murderer John.Well, so we were talking about this
on air or off air before the show.You said Non-Murderer John brought
you this beer and I said it's got tobe good because he does not fuck
around with beer. That's true.He ain't nothing to fuck with.
Like he should.I guarantee he knows that he must.
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I mean, how does he not?everything he's brought has been
great, right?Either that or he's just setting you
up for the world's most like. Right.He's gonna drop it on me. Oh, man.
One day he's gonna be like, oh,this guy's the best.
He's not gonna murder me. Boom!Murdered. Murdered.
And shitty beer. Yep.It was funny, Deb,
I told Deb about the beer,and she said, I just love that you
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still call him Non-Murderer John.And I said, well,
I figured the more times I say it,the more accurate it becomes. Yeah.
Just holding out. Hope it stays true.Just waiting for him to, like,
get the driver's license thatsays Non-Murderer John.
Just totally change his name.That would be great. Make it.
Make it legal. Come on. Uh.Bizarre that you could actually
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legally change your name toNon-Murderer John.
Uh, I think you could. I mean.Well, that's what I'm saying.
That's the crazy part is youcould do that.
I believe it was Adam Corollawho wasn't born,
or his parents didn't give him amiddle name when he was born.
And so when he was filling out his,um, stuff for, like, getting his
driver's license as a kid,he jokingly put Lakers as his
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middle name. Okay. And it stuck.It's on his ideas. Adam. Lakers.
Carolla. Come on. Yeah.I thought you were gonna say
something funnier like Toyota.That would make more sense. Yeah.
That's what I always thought youwere going with that. Yeah.
Well, so his middle name isactually Lakers.
I guess technically on hisdriver's license. It is. Oh, yeah.
Either that or it's falsifyingidentification.
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Oh, there could be that.No one said he was a genius.
Definitely not. No.Very, very much not.
Uh, before I move on to news.Top listing city of last week.
Because I forgot to do at the topof the show. Ashburn, Virginia.
Luckily not West Virginia.Definitely not West Virginia.
Definitely not.West Virginia is the good Virginia.
Regular Virginia. Yeah.Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Regular. Right.
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You should just get rid of WestVirginia and just call.
Call it regular Virginia andjust be done with it.
That would make more sense.Really would? Yeah. All right.
A little booze news. Fontana.Jim sent this over and said that if
we didn't talk about on the show,he would boycott the show.
Well, he also gets really angry.So he's very angry.
Probably a good decision. Yeah.This is a tweet that I screen
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grabbed.It doesn't do it justice without
a photo.So please look this up or I can
post it on the socials.Japanese design firm Kenji Abe has
designed a glass beer bottle that youcan stick into the sand on the beach.
And the shape I would describeas almost a bowling pin.
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Except the bottom isn't flat.It's like continues the curve
until it reaches the bottom so youcan thunk stick it in the sand.
But it also very much looks likesomething to be used as a sexual
device.Are looking this up now,
seeing if I can find it. Oh. Wow.I've heard of silver bullets, but
(36:57):
this is ridiculous. Yeah. Good luck.Make sure you lube it up first.
So, tons of tweets about.And social posts. Whatever.
Where? Like this one is. Hi.Er, doctor here.
I don't know who needs to hear this,but do not even think about it,
because, you know,that's going up someone's keister.
Oh my God. That is, uh. Wow.God damn it! Hi. Er. Doc here.
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I don't know who needs to hear this,but do not even think about it.
Damn it! Oh, it's right there.It's so good. Okay.
Yeah, I don't know.I don't know why you can't just put a
regular bottle of beer in the sand.Sure. Yeah.
You need it to be shaped like abutt plug in order to really get
(37:47):
full sand penetration.Oh my God. Yeah. Basically.
This glass beer bottle was made tostick in the sand at the beach,
right? Oh. That's good. Yeah.So, uh, be careful what you
stick where people. Oh, boy.Be gentle to your your holes.
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Uh. Goose Island.Glass breaks, by the way,
I don't know. Hollow glass.It breaks. Yes. Do be careful.
And if it goes from, like,super cold to super hot,
that could cause some issues, too.Yeah. Learn that in chemistry.
Yeah, yeah. Chemistry, huh? Yes.Yeah, I did, I swear. Yeah, I swear.
Uh, goose Island has shared their2025 Bourbon County Brand Stout
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lineup. I'm sure everyone's excited.I'm super excited.
Yeah, actually,they've taken a step back.
Uh, cherries Jubilee stout,a chocolate praline stout.
A double barrel stout.I do like pralines.
And a reserve stout that was aged intwo years, and ten year old barrels
of Parker's Heritage Collection,17th edition, Rye.
(38:54):
That's super dialing it back.Yeah, no Mountain Dew, just bombs or
doctor Pepper floaters or anything.They did a barley wine last year
that was supposed to be super nuts.Yeah, I forgot what that one
even had in it.But by the way, if anybody needs a
little, uh, Bourbon County Stoutfrom Goose Island, just head on
over to interim Brian's house.He has an entire keg of.
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I think it's like 2019 or something.Oh, is that the one he got from the
the guy that said, if this is ifit's good, you can pay me 50 bucks.
Yeah, I think he said if it's good,100 bucks.
If it sucks, don't pay for it orsomething like that. Right.
I ultimately think what he didwas give him 50 bucks for it.
Uh, because he's a nice guy,but it was no bueno.
(39:38):
And the worst part about it, if itwere me, I'd be like, I hope this
isn't fucking up my kegerator lines.Oh, I would have never even
thought about that.Yeah, I hope it doesn't just,
like, taste like, uh,Bourbon County Stout for the.
Rest. Of its existence. It might.Yeah. So, yeah, we tried it.
It was no bueno.Now he's always trying to get me
to come over and drink some.That's hilarious.
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Yeah, you could make, like,a drinking game out of it. Oh, no.
Thanks. We could also just not.You're no fun. Yeah, I know.
So, uh, anyways, uh, Spanish brewingout of Miami. Down in the hood.
Hi, Vanessa. What's up? Vanessa.They are not doing well and
(40:21):
looking for help.Uh, there's a very long social
media post.Nobody wants to hear me read it,
but, uh, in short,if you want to help out, they're
taking donations. Ouch. Which is.It's always an interesting one.
I'm happy to support you.Donations, though.
Doesn't sound good.Doesn't sound good.
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Uh, let's end it on this one.teacher accused of chugging booze,
calling students little shits andmaking them dance the Macarena.
I would do that for free, right?By the way, not Florida and teacher.
Kind of hot. Interesting.She can call me whatever she wants
and make me dance the Macarena.Okay, okay. So they promoted her.
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Yeah. Yeah. She's now principal.Alice Ashton from the UK was swigging
a water bottle full of orange liquid,which smelled of alcohol and
blaring music from her laptopduring the health class.
One of her 16 year old studentstold a hearing last Tuesday.
She also called students littleshits and put her middle finger
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2 to 3in from another teen's faceduring the out of control class
at I don't know what this is.Euskal Carignan school in Welshpool,
Wales.It's exactly how you pronounce it.
Fucking got it.Uh, the usually reserved and quiet
teachers classes on alcohol and drugawareness were normally boring,
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a student told the hearing ofEducation Workforce Council panel.
But before the class,she was spotted swigging from a water
bottle that had an alcoholic smell.She was very, very close to us.
There was a slight alcoholic smell.She was very, very lively and quite
animated and speaking with her hands.Maybe she's just Italian.
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In other lessons she was morereserved and quiet, the student said.
She asked the class to do theMacarena.
She played music and we were notdoing work, the student said.
What a rat narc.Ashton's sloppy behaviour came
just four months after she hadbeen convicted of drunk driving.
The water bottle Ashton had in herclass was almost empty by the end of
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class, the student said Ashton keptjumping up from her desk and was
becoming irritated as the class wenton at one point getting right in an
unruly teen's face, the student said.Ashton denied that she sung or
sworn at students in an internalschool review,
but multiple witnesses came forwardto describe the chaotic scene.
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She's got some students dancingto the laptop and speakers and
it spiraled out of control,a second teenager said.
CCTV footage from the class that daycorroborated the student's story,
according to the panel.It is totally untenable to suggest
the music is being played,as background music presenting
officer Lewis Harris said.The evidence is very clear that
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Miss Ashton did not remain atthe front of her class.
She invited pupils to dance.Ashton was removed from the
teaching registry indefinitelybut may reapply in two years.
One of my favorite parts is shedid not go to her own hearing,
but sent in an email that said,I don't care.
I don't even live there anymoreanyways. Wow. That's amazing.
(43:37):
She is great.What I think is crazy is if you
chugging liquor at your desk inclass, what are you getting so
worked up for?Like, if anything,
you should just, like, chill out.Yeah, I guess it sounds like it was
really the dancing that that got thestudents riled up. Yeah. Interesting.
I don't know why they they reallyneed to relax a little bit.
(43:58):
Yeah, it's just the Macarena,right? It's just the Macarena.
It's just a drunk teacher.Look, if I was teaching little shits
like that, I would be drunk too.Wow. Yep. Yeah. Okay.
Just sent Flex a picture of saidteacher. Yep. That's nice.
I'll do. I'll do the Macarena.I'll do whatever she says. Yeah.
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Yes, Lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.She did nothing wrong in my eyes.
Right.Innocent until proven innocent.
She don't fucking live there anymore.Fuck it. Right. Yeah.
Fuck you guys. You're just.You're just don't like to party.
Damn it.All right, let's let's wrap things up
before I get in trouble with thehot teacher. Fair enough. Yeah.
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I'm very, very excited to sharethat with you guys.
Really had a lot of fun.Uh, I hope when I listen back to it,
(45:07):
it's as fun as when I was theredoing it and hopefully as fun
for you as well.Anyways, I hope everyone is staying
very well hydrated. And on that note.Good night everybody.
Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I'm being joined bymy favorite puppet over there.
And that is Flex.What's up, big fella?
I was trying to think of a,like a noise a puppet made,
but I just, I fell flat.Yeah, I guess they don't really
(00:36):
make any noise.They just move their mouth.
Which is what you were doing.I'm a puppet.
Oh, very old timey puppet.I'm a puppet. Puppet is a puppet.
See? Makes a lot of sense.Get your hand out of my ass. You see.
That's not what you said last.Yeah, nothing. Yeah, yeah.
(00:56):
Not a puppet show. Sorry.Not not a hand of the butt show,
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Lots to get to today.I'm very, very excited.
I have some beer research to talkabout. I am fresh off of a trip.
(01:19):
I also did an interview.I'll talk about that shortly.
Uh, some booze news. So much more.We're both excited for our beers.
I know that.I am actually very excited.
Yeah. Do you want to.You want to kick things off with a.
Oh my. God, beer action.I would be honored.
I'm excited to hear about your beer.So let's let's do this the right way.
In a world where craft beer is king,a world where muscles are bigger
(01:42):
than growlers,only one tongue can guide us.
One man, one tongue,one Tongue-jobber.
In this world we must find outwhat is Flex drinking.
I'm really glad you, uh, actually hadme start off, because I don't know
(02:03):
if I have any beer left to drink.Uh, by the time it was for my review.
As part of why I did it. Yeah, yeah.So I did a quick little panic shop
today, and I went to my local shop,and first thing I saw on the
shelf that was screaming my namebecause I was looking for a sour.
I was kind of getting sick of IPAslately, and I saw this evil twin
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brewing. It says New York City.Hopefully. I don't know if it is.
Sometimes they come out ofConnecticut here.
Yeah, like this one is brewedConnecticut, but it's called,
you know, Evil Twin Brewing,New York City. Whatever.
Well, this one,this counter I'm going to show you
it's got pineapples and it's gotdragon fruits and passion fruit
and marshmallows and cherries,and it's called How to train Your
(02:46):
marshmallow passion fruit and so manyother fruits, berries and grapes.
Uh, so looking for a sour?This immediately spoke to me.
Clocks in at 5.1% ABV only 437check ins on Untappd,
but at quite a high 4.21.And it reads exactly what I just
(03:07):
read to you, except that on hereit says it contains milk,
sugar and. Oh, no, look at that.See? It's right there.
Marshmallow. Dragon fruit.Passion fruit, key lime,
sour cherry, pineapple, white grape.Concord grape and milk. Sugar.
So, tons of shit in here. I was.Kitchen sink. Right?
I was a little bit thrown off by thatbecause, you know, you never know
(03:31):
what you're going to get, right?And the color on this guy is
wonderful. It's gorgeous. Yeah.I thought it would be kind of, like,
more that yellowy juice color,but it is like a deep red, almost
like, uh, and it's not even like a,like a maroon or a it's almost like
a foggy red wine. There you go.That's what it reminds me of.
(03:52):
A foggy red wine?So, uh, on the old nose buds here,
we'll dive right in. Sour.Maybe picking up some of that.
That cherry and that lime. Nice.Which is never a bad combo.
That cherry limeade.After warming up the old
Tongue-jobber here,we're gonna dive right in here.
As if I haven't already.It's totally the first time.
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This is just wonderful.It's light,
super duper low carbonation on this.And imagine opening a bag of
Skittles, pouring some into yourhand, and then you just chew it all
at once and you get everything.That's exactly what this tastes like.
Uh, tastes like.I would probably give this, like,
(04:34):
a five out of five on untapped.Holy shit.
Yeah, I wouldn't fuck aroundwith this. Not one bit. Wow.
Is that the first five out offive we've. I mean. Thrown out.
There, maybe that I like.I'm casually throwing it out there,
which is kind of bizarre.Yeah, that's true.
But the other cool thing aboutthis is with those grapes.
It said it had like the Concord.And the what? The other ones.
(04:57):
The white grape. Yeah.You get that dryness at the back
end and it is. It's delectable.It's like a a fruited sour with
marshmallow.And then you get a little bit of
like that, uh,that whininess to it at the end.
Um. This is, this is phenomenal.Like I so here's the other thing
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about this.So the big, uh, the big selling
point we've been doing on the showlately is single cans, right? Right.
It, you know, don't, uh,dive balls deep if you don't know if
you like it yet, that kind of thing.Well, daddy dove balls deep.
Daddy and daddy is not unhappy. That.Thank God. Yes, I'm super psyched.
(05:40):
Uh, 16.99 for this four pack.Jesus. That's cheap.
Yeah, I know you always say that. Um.And I really didn't hesitate
even seeing the price.You know how I am, right?
But with Evil Twin,I've had just about everything I've
had from them was has been wonderful.So there's somebody who I can trust
and I can, you know, put my beliefsin and my faith in and, and they're
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they're not going to steer me wrong.I've heard they're a little more,
let's say,trustworthy when it's the New York
when it comes out of New York, isthat have you found that to be true?
I don't know, because it seemslike everything that I get and I
don't know if this is just on theirlabeling, but it says Brewed by
Evil Twin Brewing, North Haven,Connecticut, distributed by 12%.
(06:27):
But the title of the brewery onthe can it says evil twin New
York City right there. Sure.So I don't know if that's just like
the brewing company name Evil TwinBrewing New York City or or what,
but.Somebody smarter than us let us know.
Yeah.What is what what what is the
difference? Yeah.The reason it got brought up with
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me was I had had a couple thatwere they were just fine and um,
big surprise, they came from Tavourand somebody told me that the New
York stuff is like, you know,the real brewery in quotes and
the not New York stuff is kind oflike the, the B team, basically.
And that's what always goes toTavour.
(07:08):
Now, this was multiple years ago.Things could have changed.
This person could have just beenpulling this out of their ass.
Who knows?I wonder if maybe the Connecticut
stuff via laws is just easier todistribute. Could be. Yeah, because.
I've heard, uh, New York is kindof a mess to deal with.
Bringing in and sending out.Yeah, maybe they just set up shop
(07:30):
elsewhere for distribution rights.Right.
So they're brewing the same thing.They're just doing it there to send
out. Who knows? Yeah. Not us. Yeah.If anybody knows let us knows because
knows goes anyways. Uh, good.Junie,
we haven't hung out in a while.Do doing any research or anything.
I went down to Nashville for a day.Oh that's right. Daughter's birthday.
(07:53):
Daughter's birthday. Um.Happy birthday daughter.
Hey, she appreciates that.I'll let her know it was a it was a
fucking day, man. Like I would not.How you travel for work.
You do like some day trips? Sure.That's terrible. Yeah, it really is.
It is absolutely terrible andexhausting. Yes.
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I was getting over a little bitof a lingus. Oh, okay.
Uh, wake up at 240. Oh. Fuck me.Why? Go to bed? To shower.
Get to the airport about 4:00for the 5:00 flight. Ooh.
Uh, land in Nashville about 630.And it was.
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We get to the hotel right away,which was nice.
And, uh, they had a breakfast buffet,which was phenomenal.
We stayed at one of the Gaylordresorts. Have you ever.
Have you ever heard of these orseen these? No, I don't think so.
Oh my God, they're fantastic.There's, I believe four,
four of them in the country.There's one in Colorado.
I think the Denver area,if I'm not mistaken.
Oh, um, there's one in Nashville.There's one in Kissimmee,
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Florida, and there's one in DC.And they are like these
extravagant resorts where there'slike three parts of each resort.
Each part has their own, like littlevillage of shops and restaurants,
and there's like, water and riversand waterfalls all throughout,
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and conservatories and aconnected water. It's phenomenal.
It's absolutely phenomenal.Never heard of it. That's crazy.
You look it up. Check it out.Wonderful.
So they had, uh, breakfast buffet,which was probably the best breakfast
buffet I've ever had in my life.I mean, we're talking doughnuts.
We're talking bagels.We're talking like different
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pastries.We're talking omelet station.
Asian Pancake Station.We're talking eggs Benedict at
the helm.Like you just take as many eggs
Benedict as you want to take.And all the food tasted wonderful,
too.Did a little bit of shopping
stopped at the Bavarian Beerhouse for lunch, which was nice.
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It wasn't even my idea because Ireally don't like you know me,
I'm not selfish.I don't like to steal the show.
Right? It's not my day.But when my my wife and my
mother in law are like, oh, hey,let's get like a big pretzel and
some shit for lunch.So I decided to get myself a
liter of Oktoberfest. Nice.Some Paulaner Oktoberfest,
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20 bucks for a liter of Oktoberfest.I thought that was kind of
outrageous.That's a little high,
especially Paulaner.We got the bill. I was not psyched.
Yeah. I'm not gonna lie.Coming from Wisconsin,
you're like, the fuck is this?I was like, I thought Nashville
was cool, man. Damn.And then, oh, man,
had a little bit of nap timebecause that day was killing me,
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you know, waking up so early.I don't think I had a beer with
dinner.Definitely did not had a
mountain dew. That's what I had.Yeah. Wow. Yeah, I had to.
I haven't had one of those in.I needed the caffeine.
I needed the sugar.I'm thinking at least 15 years,
if not 20. Daddy was running on E.I guess so. Yeah. Desperation.
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Daddy to cap off the night likethe main gift of the trip.
I guess you would call it.We did a show at the Grand Ole Opry.
Oh, cool.So if you know anything about
the Opry, they do, like,4 to 5 shows a week.
Um, so he's a big deal for peopleto get invited to play there. Mhm.
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And I'm not a huge country musicfan by any means,
but live country music fucking like,cranks it up like three notches.
Oh, I guess it depends on like thetype of country because there's
like the real, you know, laid back.I fucked my cousin country.
And then there's, you know,like, more rocking country.
Really good mix at this show.Oh, okay.
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So some cousin fucking and somerocking I like. Yeah, yeah.
You know,it's like the best of both worlds.
Um, but, uh, I did get a beardedIris home style, which is, like,
everywhere in Tennessee.Bearded Iris, huge brewery out there.
And, uh, that beer out of the can is.It's like juice. It's wonderful.
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It's delicious.And then I caught some, uh.
Man, what the hell was it?Music city Brewing company,
it's just called, like, Music CityLight or something like that.
Sure. It's $14 for a 4% beer.Yeah. That'll hurt.
And I went there and it wasn't great.And I should have just got
another home style. Yep.But I just wanted to try
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something else.And they already had a Tennessee
Beerworks beer that I've hadthere before.
It was called, uh, hippies and.cowboys and hippies.
I think it's called just aclassic IPA. I've had it.
I, you know,probably should have got that too.
Instead, you want to try new things,I get it, I do the.
Right and especially with, you know,some light beers because what I'm
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gravitating to more is, you know,not so heavy and sure that one
kind of, you know, it fell flat.Yeah. That'll happen. But yeah.
Got to see somebody debut at theOpry, which is always a big deal.
Okay,there's a surprise guest appearance,
which doesn't often happen,but Carly Pearce, she's like a
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big country star. I'll take her.Word. For it. Sure. Yeah.
And, uh, so she got invited outwith the last band.
And all in all,it was absolutely wonderful.
Really, really awesomeopportunity and experience.
And I suggest anybody who goesto Nashville to try and get
tickets to a show. Nice.Even if you're not a country fan,
even. If you're not a country fan.Right? It's an experience.
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I don't think there are many genresof music that I could like any less
than country are. I don't know, man.And here's what's funny about
that is I also.There's some really good country
out there and there's some really,really bad country.
But like, I'm a big Eagles fan.And if you really break it down like
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Eagles country rock at its heart,like most of their shit,
especially their older stuff,is real country influence.
I could see that. Yeah.But give me like straight up
country and I, I just it's nailson a chalkboard for me now.
They started out with some somefun bluegrass and it was like a
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lot of instrumental which I enjoy,like people really whipping out
a fiddle and. Yeah, any banjos?I had a banjo there. Yeah.
It was, uh. I don't hate a banjo. No.A very, uh, impressive
instrument to get the hang of.Yeah, it's a weird instrument to
get the hang of.Oh, super weird,
especially because you play it with,Like, is it all five fingers?
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I don't remember, I'm not that smart.I don't know. It's crazy.
But we got to see a guy who's inthe Country Music Hall of Fame.
His name is Jimmy Fortune.He was in the Statler Brothers,
and I guess they were around from,like, 81 to 2002, he said.
And, uh, he played a couple tunes,and they were good.
And then this country, uh,gospel guy came on. Okay.
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And is not Jesus as I am afterthe previous guy.
He played, like, some downer music.We we needed a boost.
And, you know,he's saying a lot about Jesus, and.
He helped you see the light alittle bit.
Yeah, it was very uplifting andcheerful. So that was nice.
Gotcha. But yeah. So yeah.Absolutely wonderful time.
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Wonderful research. Great birthday.Exhausted, but totally worth it.
Good, good.Well, I can I can relate to the late
July birthdays. Just like daughter.So, we did a similar, well,
not a similar excursion.That sounds like a fucking whirlwind.
We went to Colorado last week for mybirthday, a little pre-celebration,
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uh, a week early.And first of all,
I'll run down the research we did.Here's here's just the breweries that
I feel like are worth mentioning.There are some that are not going
to be mentioned in this report.How many did you hit up? One.
Two. Three. Four. Five. Six.Seven, eight is on my good list.
Plus, I can think of at leastthree that are on my naughty list.
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Wow, what a trip.Yeah, it was a week long,
so we had some time there.Uh, first of all,
we flew first class.It's the first time I've ever been in
first class. I was just gonna ask.Okay. And honestly, it wasn't.
There was some weird thing whereit wasn't that much more on the
way there.And on the way back, it was,
like, almost the same price.Like,
I don't know what glitch we ran into.And so we're like, fuck it,
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we've never done this before.birthday bitches.
And so we went first class anddrank mimosas the whole time on
the way there. It was fantastic.Can't be too far of a flight.
No, it's about two hours. 15 minutes.Okay. Yeah, a little over two.
So, uh, you know, daddy put down,like, five mimosas in that amount
of time. Daddy? No problem.So, uh, Colorado Springs first
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went to fossil, which we've beento before, and we love them.
And so we always try to gowhenever we're in the springs.
Uh, they have to be doing triviathe night we were there.
So we stopped in for some trivia.Shocker. Yeah.
One of my cousins and her husbandcame out. We played a little trivia.
Uh, we did not do as well as, uh,as with Deb and Brian, I will say
that. We know who carries that team.Yes. Deb does. Sorry, Brian.
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Uh, and we also accidentallywent into Urban Animal Brewing.
We were looking for this beer barthat the wife had found online and
was like, oh, it's right over here.We walked in, I was like, this is it.
And she goes, yeah, I said,this is really dark for like a bar.
This is very brewery esque.We walk down this long hallway
and as we get to the bar,sure enough, there's a brewery.
I was like, is this where youfucking meant to take us?
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And she's like, no, I don't think so.But by then Beertender had
already caught eyes with us.I was like,
I can't just walk out now likedeuces and run out the front door.
So, uh, we try to we had aflight and really enjoyed it.
So it was it was a pleasant surprise.And I like that, uh,
brewery name too. Yeah. Urban animal.They have a cool, um, cool logo too.
I posted pictures of all these.At least a beer from each of
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these places on the gram,so go check it out.
@CraftBeerRepublic so good thatwe had a a pint after our flight,
then up to Denver,went to Full Frame Brewing, which,
uh, is Southern Beer Girls Brewery.She used to work at Jagged Mountain.
They closed her and her businesspartner bought the place or leased
the place or whatever it is.And now they've opened full
frame beers just as good as itever was before.
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So that was fun to go check out.Uh, went to our Mutual Friends
Brewing, Ruin, which we also did aninterview with uh, or at with Jan,
the head brewer slash, uh, businesspartner. Look for that next week.
I was very excited.We found out about this place
last time we're in Denver.I think it was Davis that told us to
go check it out. Really enjoyed it.Really enjoyed it this time.
And, um, Jan is just he's a beernerd, but he doesn't come from,
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like, the sciency side of it.So you can have a real conversation
with him and not be left confused.It was, I mean,
that the best way possible.It was a really fun conversation.
So, um, next week, interview with Janfrom our Mutual Friends brewing.
Can't wait to hear that.Yeah, uh, went across the street
to Odell, went down the streetfrom there to Bierstadt,
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of course, because can't go Denverwithout going to Bierstadt,
then up to Fort Collins.We did the New Belgium tour
because everyone says, you got todo the tour. So we did the tour.
And how was it? Well, we even paid.So there's the free tour, which is
like, I don't know, 30 minutes.And then there's the $15 tour,
which is 90 minutes.And so we went, you know, balls to
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the wall. We did the 90 minute tour.And it was sort of how I
envision your Budweiser tour.You got to see the beechwood
aging process. Exactly.It's pretty incredible.
It's like they lager beer.It's crazy. Mind explosion.
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So the person doing our tour wasclearly not a beer person.
I mean, she even said, you know,she's one of the bartenders
there and has has definitelyjust memorized the script.
There was some pretty easy questionsthat she could not pick up on.
Well, what was one of them?Oh, we got into the brew house
finally, where, uh, the boy,you know, the mash tun, the boiler,
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boiling kettle, all that stuff isone of them had a flashing light on
it and somebody goes, oh, what'sgoing on with the flashing light?
And she goes, oh, I don't know.Must mean they're brewing or
something.And he goes, well, it's empty inside.
And I said, hey, I bet you aboutthey're about to clean it.
The chemicals they use are like,you know, super dangerous and
whatnot. Right, right, right.And he goes, oh, interesting.
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And not 30s later,did it start spraying like,
you know, clear liquids everywhere?I was like, ah, look at me,
I was right, I've never evenbeen here before. Boy oh boy.
Somebody get this guy a tour shirt.I was trying not to be like you,
you know, like so you lager.Yeah, 30, 30 days.
You're telling me it sits in here?No. The hell you say. That's crazy.
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But also, there was some reallack of information flowing,
and I was real proud of the wife.She asked a really good question.
They were talking about theirprocess for, like,
packaging and all this other andfermenting and all this stuff.
And she goes, hey,do you capture your CO2?
And I was going to ask that.And she beat me to it,
because I know Sierra Nevada does.And basically if you don't do it
on a big enough volume,it's just not worth the equipment.
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It's super expensive to do.And she goes, yeah, for sure.
You know, we totally do that.Um, I'm not sure how much, but I
know they're totally capturing it,and they're also trying to find
other ways to use it.And I'm like, why the fuck would
you find other ways?Like, unless you're capturing so
much CO2 that you just don't knowwhat the fuck to do with it.
Why wouldn't you just use it tocarbonate your beer and purge
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lines and stuff?And at that point, if you have so
much, instead of trying to figureout other things to do with it,
why wouldn't you, like, sell itto other breweries or something?
I mean, just the answers we weregetting were not the best answer.
We're looking at starting a CO2black market because we captured
so much CO2.It's like, Good God, they must
capture all the CO2. You're like.Jesus, man. So that was fine.
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I was glad that they had 1554 atthe brewery.
It's my favorite New Belgium beer.I can never find it outside of
Colorado.And it's it's not a lager, but it
basically drinks like a schwarzbier.Like a like a dark lager. Okay.
Like a dark locker.And it was the first time I had
in my early beer drinking days,had had a dark beer that I was like,
this is delicious.So I have a special affinity for it.
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When she let us pour our firsttasters and everyone was like, oh,
we get to pour off the tap and blahblah, blah. Like it was a big deal.
And 1554 was there.So was just about everything
they had at the brewery.And everyone's getting like,
juiced force.And that was like 1 or 2 fat tires.
And I walk up and I pour the 1554.I started getting looks from people
like dark beer on a hot day, like,you know, what are you doing?
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I'm just like, fucking trust me.Idiots. Oh, man. Fucking trust. Me.
I hope somebody poured it after youtwo just from. No. Nobody did. Shame.
I expected, like, one person to go.All right, maybe I'll try, but.
Nah, they don't know who I am,apparently.
Ain't nothing like a dark lageron a hot day, I tell you that.
I'm telling you, man.Uh, so anyways, that was cool.
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We went to, uh, Hello Brew Co,also in Fort Collins, and really,
really good beer had some Hazies hadbasically had like half their menu
and really enjoyed what they had.It's a cool little spot.
It's an old house that's just beenconverted into a brewery and like a.
Big house or like a regular sized.Like a regular sized old house.
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And like, you can sit on the porch,there's porch, you know,
benches on the porch.There's like seats in the yard
and stuff.And just like hanging out at a at a
house when you're outside, inside.You know, they've obviously taken
down all the walls and it's a, it's abrewery, but, uh, it's it's cool.
We're just sitting on the porchdrinking beer. What a cool idea.
Yeah. So, uh, that was fun.There was one other that I didn't
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write down, and I believe it wascalled, like, Jessup Farms.
And it's this whole area wherethey've turned an old farm into,
like, a shopping, like, strip mall.But it's old farm buildings.
Some of them are not old.Some of them have been, like, made to
look like the old farm buildings,but like the brewery itself is
in this 100 plus year old barn.And the restaurant was in like
the old farmhouse,and it was really cool.
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The beer was, um, not the best,but not the worst.
It was real middle of the road.We we played trivia there again.
It was. We were done.We did really bad there.
Can you ever say no to trivia?You know what?
That was the wife's idea.She goes, hey, we should go to
this place. When we get up there.They have trivia Thursday nights.
And I was like, uh, all right, whatelse are we gonna do? So we did it.
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Yeah. Uh, good times, a lot.A lot of good drinks.
Uh, found this really coolwhiskey bar that had, like,
you know, 200 something whiskeys.We had some cocktails.
That's where one of thebartenders looked very much like
Hank from Barry. NoHo Hank.NoHo. Hank. He was walking.
He was not our bartender.He was at the other in the bar.
And I hadn't really realized itwas a very long bar.
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The wife says, like, oh, you knowsomething about him down there?
I was like, oh, I didn't see himdown there. I said, That's Hank.
And she goes, what?I was like, Hank Cristobal 50,
50. 50, 50. Hank and Cristobal.So she starts laughing. 50, 50.
So then I'm trying to sneakilytake a picture of him like, oh,
I'm taking a picture of my drink.Definitely not the super white
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bald guy walking around.Oh, man. That's amazing.
Which for the record, everybody.He did send me that picture today.
Yeah, yeah I forgot.We did a lot of drinking that
night was our last night beforewe left town.
And we we strapped one on that night,so, um. But yeah. Good time.
So the main reason we went is for mybirthday slash concert at Red rocks.
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Um, it was announced.That was like the culmination of
the trip.I'm assuming that was middle of
the week. It was weird.It was on a Wednesday, which,
uh, was weird, but whatever.You know, we were off the whole week,
so who cares?It was my one of my favorite,
I guess, bands.You would say it's Andrew McMahon.
Performer. Performer. Performer.Yeah. Yeah.
He's performed with his own band.Andrew McMahon in the wilderness.
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Um, band.Before that was Jack's Mannequin.
His first band was somethingcorporate, and they did all
three bands, uh, at Red rocks.So it was sort of a bucket list
concert at a bucket list venue, andit was fucking incredible. I can't.
My words cannot describe howincredible the show was and the
scenery and everything.There was a lightning going on in
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the background, behind the stage.And, you know, California,
we don't see lightning.We don't see weather in Southern
California. So you see lightning.I mean, I've seen it before, but
it's not something we regularly get.Like if I see lightning once a
year here, that's a lot. Okay.I did not know that. Yeah.
We rarely get lightning with ourrain. Okay. Um. So fucking amazing.
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If you guys haven't gone to Redrocks, I couldn't recommend it
anymore. It was so cool.We took the shuttle out there.
Driver was super cool.Let us drink on the shuttle. We were.
We were hammering seltzers onthe way. Nice. Yeah.
Only had to buy two once we gotthere because we'd, you know,
we'd started a little early.So that's how you do it, man.
Yeah, it was phenomenal.And then finally, uh, we went to a
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Rockies game while we were in Denver,too. Why would you do that?
First of all, love the stadium.It's right down.
First of all, it's cool stadium.It's also right downtown.
You can walk from just about anywhereyou're staying, which we did.
We did like Happy Hour first and thenwalked over to the stadium. Cool.
And I wanted to witness history.And by history, I mean,
you know, worst team in thehistory of baseball.
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In the history. Just terrible.I tell you what, I was super
disappointed because like,third inning, maybe even fourth
inning is over and the Rockiesare up by like three runs.
And I'm like, God damn it,they're gonna win tonight.
And I came here to see thelosing his team. Lose?
Yeah, they they have something like26 wins on the year. Something.
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And by like the fifth inningsomebody said, hold my Coors and
just kicked it into under drive.And the the Cardinals came back
and just ripped them apart.It was. Under. Drive.
It couldn't have been any moreRockies than that.
So it was perfect, the perfect endingto the game. People were angry.
We were cracking up.I tell you what more than half
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the stadium was Cardinals fans.They apparently travel very well.
I did not know that.I didn't either,
I told my stepdad about it.He goes, oh yeah,
Cardinals fans travel for everything.I'm like, do they not have jobs?
I live in Milwaukee.I feel like Cardinals Milwaukee
Brewers games aren't even that bad.Yeah. So, um. Yeah. Good time.
Great. Great trip.I'm sorry for going on forever
and ever about it, but really,really fun trip.
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Well, it's funny you say that aboutCardinals fans because last year
they were so bad, they were tryingto get people to come into their
stadium by selling dollar tickets.That's how poorly they were playing
out of their traditional style of theCardinals baseball organization.
Well, if you are a Cardinals fan,what better time to go than to
the Rockies game because you knowthey're gonna win. Well played sir.
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Yeah,the Rockies did win the next night,
so suck it Cardinals. Bastards.Bastards. But, uh, good times.
Love that stadium. Uh. All right.Woo! Back to beer stuff. I guess.
We do that. Every now and then. Okay?Every now and then. You know what?
Before we move on to some booze news,I'm gonna.
I'm gonna share what I'mdrinking over here. Please do.
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He calls to the bullpen for beer.Well,
I brought back fresh from my trip.Coors light? Yeah. You almost had me.
Could you imagine how manyemails we'd get? That'd be fun.
I gotta admit,I didn't bring back any beer.
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I was doing too much movingaround the logistics for it.
I just I wasn't feeling it. And.And the beer that I like the most,
uh, was never in cans.I thought, nah, it. Isn't the worst.
Yeah, it really was.But coming through in a clutch
Non-Murderer John hit me up andwas like, hey, after we got back,
he's like, hey, uh, I'm gonna becoming through your town.
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Can I bring you a beer?Can you bring me a beer?
I would say no.Know, I said, well, you know,
bear shit in the woods.So we met up at Pedals and Pints
where he graciously bought me a beerat pedals, thank you very much.
And then handed me this.I'm gonna fuck this up.
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Sante Adairius. Rustic ales.It's in a fancy bottle.
Very fancy. I can see it. Yeah.Had to use, like,
a bottle opener and everything.I haven't done that in years.
It's called portraits.And it's the Carignan version.
Carignan. Carignan. Sure.Apparently it's a type of grape.
Anyways, 8.7% has A432 onuntapped with just, let's see,
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97 ratings on the bottle.It says an oak aged mixed
fermentation saison co-fermentedwith Carignan grapes from the
Montague Vineyard in the.Oh, stay with me here, Mark Valley.
Damn, my heart's beating on my chest.Guest. Jesus.
Anyways,fancy beer with fancy grapes.
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That was wild fermented. I bet.It fancy. Yeah. Somewhere fancy.
I have a feeling it was made in afurther. It's a furger. Exactly.
It's a big, big wooden barrel.That's what they told us on the
New Belgium tour.They're like,
basically means big ass barrel.It's like. Okay, all right. Schnoz.
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This is gonna be the most uneducated,uh, nose bud description yet,
but it's got that sour smell to it.I love that I know what you're
talking about, though.And if you're a casual beer drinker,
you know the same goddamn smell.People, please.
Let me know that you know whatI'm talking about.
I get a hint of grape on there,but it just has that real sour.
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It smells sour. Yeah. It's real.Thank you for getting me and
completing me.That's what mine smelled like, too.
It smelled like sour,but you could get a little of
cherry and the lime, but. Yeah.Sour Them. On ye olde Tongue-jobber.
Fancy Tongue-jobber ye got there.This daddy is taught it is a
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legit sour, very wildlyfermented first of all 8.7 where
this thing is fucking dangerous.You get any of that oak from the air?
I do feel like I'm getting a littlebit of wood in that little wood in
my mouth, if you will. You are.Uh, lots of tartness,
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little bit of grape like.It's not so much wine flavored.
Kind of grape like a little bitof grape juice, I would say.
Not a ton, just a little really sour.You know, my wife is a bigger
sour fan than I am.Like, the more sour it is, the
better. If it's the warhead of beers.She is a happy camper, but not like
the fruit. It kind of like yours.She's not so much into that as much.
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She likes the wild fermentedlike wild. Right?
So I poured her a little bit toobefore I started the show,
and I handed it to her.I said, what do you think?
And as I'm walking upstairs,she tries it and she's like,
ooh, I like this.Is it like a Herbal Essence
commercial? A little bit, yeah.Oh. Honey, what are you doing?
Oh, I just drank this beer.Washing my hair. What do you mean?
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So this is. This is really good.Thank you to Non-Murderer John.
This comes out.I've never heard of this place.
It comes out of it.Says on the bottle.
Capitola, California, which is nearSanta Cruz. Um, I've never heard.
Of rock n roll, baby.You just made the list.
If I'm ever up in that area again,I will be grabbing some of this.
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Thank you to Non-Murderer John.Well, so we were talking about this
on air or off air before the show.You said Non-Murderer John brought
you this beer and I said it's got tobe good because he does not fuck
around with beer. That's true.He ain't nothing to fuck with.
Like he should.I guarantee he knows that he must.
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I mean, how does he not?everything he's brought has been
great, right?Either that or he's just setting you
up for the world's most like. Right.He's gonna drop it on me. Oh, man.
One day he's gonna be like, oh,this guy's the best.
He's not gonna murder me. Boom!Murdered. Murdered.
And shitty beer. Yep.It was funny, Deb,
I told Deb about the beer,and she said, I just love that you
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still call him Non-Murderer John.And I said, well,
I figured the more times I say it,the more accurate it becomes. Yeah.
Just holding out. Hope it stays true.Just waiting for him to, like,
get the driver's license thatsays Non-Murderer John.
Just totally change his name.That would be great. Make it.
Make it legal. Come on. Uh.Bizarre that you could actually
(34:37):
legally change your name toNon-Murderer John.
Uh, I think you could. I mean.Well, that's what I'm saying.
That's the crazy part is youcould do that.
I believe it was Adam Corollawho wasn't born,
or his parents didn't give him amiddle name when he was born.
And so when he was filling out his,um, stuff for, like, getting his
driver's license as a kid,he jokingly put Lakers as his
(35:00):
middle name. Okay. And it stuck.It's on his ideas. Adam. Lakers.
Carolla. Come on. Yeah.I thought you were gonna say
something funnier like Toyota.That would make more sense. Yeah.
That's what I always thought youwere going with that. Yeah.
Well, so his middle name isactually Lakers.
I guess technically on hisdriver's license. It is. Oh, yeah.
Either that or it's falsifyingidentification.
(35:21):
Oh, there could be that.No one said he was a genius.
Definitely not. No.Very, very much not.
Uh, before I move on to news.Top listing city of last week.
Because I forgot to do at the topof the show. Ashburn, Virginia.
Luckily not West Virginia.Definitely not West Virginia.
Definitely not.West Virginia is the good Virginia.
Regular Virginia. Yeah.Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Regular. Right.
(35:46):
You should just get rid of WestVirginia and just call.
Call it regular Virginia andjust be done with it.
That would make more sense.Really would? Yeah. All right.
A little booze news. Fontana.Jim sent this over and said that if
we didn't talk about on the show,he would boycott the show.
Well, he also gets really angry.So he's very angry.
Probably a good decision. Yeah.This is a tweet that I screen
(36:10):
grabbed.It doesn't do it justice without
a photo.So please look this up or I can
post it on the socials.Japanese design firm Kenji Abe has
designed a glass beer bottle that youcan stick into the sand on the beach.
And the shape I would describeas almost a bowling pin.
(36:31):
Except the bottom isn't flat.It's like continues the curve
until it reaches the bottom so youcan thunk stick it in the sand.
But it also very much looks likesomething to be used as a sexual
device.Are looking this up now,
seeing if I can find it. Oh. Wow.I've heard of silver bullets, but
(36:57):
this is ridiculous. Yeah. Good luck.Make sure you lube it up first.
So, tons of tweets about.And social posts. Whatever.
Where? Like this one is. Hi.Er, doctor here.
I don't know who needs to hear this,but do not even think about it,
because, you know,that's going up someone's keister.
Oh my God. That is, uh. Wow.God damn it! Hi. Er. Doc here.
(37:26):
I don't know who needs to hear this,but do not even think about it.
Damn it! Oh, it's right there.It's so good. Okay.
Yeah, I don't know.I don't know why you can't just put a
regular bottle of beer in the sand.Sure. Yeah.
You need it to be shaped like abutt plug in order to really get
(37:47):
full sand penetration.Oh my God. Yeah. Basically.
This glass beer bottle was made tostick in the sand at the beach,
right? Oh. That's good. Yeah.So, uh, be careful what you
stick where people. Oh, boy.Be gentle to your your holes.
(38:10):
Uh. Goose Island.Glass breaks, by the way,
I don't know. Hollow glass.It breaks. Yes. Do be careful.
And if it goes from, like,super cold to super hot,
that could cause some issues, too.Yeah. Learn that in chemistry.
Yeah, yeah. Chemistry, huh? Yes.Yeah, I did, I swear. Yeah, I swear.
Uh, goose Island has shared their2025 Bourbon County Brand Stout
(38:33):
lineup. I'm sure everyone's excited.I'm super excited.
Yeah, actually,they've taken a step back.
Uh, cherries Jubilee stout,a chocolate praline stout.
A double barrel stout.I do like pralines.
And a reserve stout that was aged intwo years, and ten year old barrels
of Parker's Heritage Collection,17th edition, Rye.
(38:54):
That's super dialing it back.Yeah, no Mountain Dew, just bombs or
doctor Pepper floaters or anything.They did a barley wine last year
that was supposed to be super nuts.Yeah, I forgot what that one
even had in it.But by the way, if anybody needs a
little, uh, Bourbon County Stoutfrom Goose Island, just head on
over to interim Brian's house.He has an entire keg of.
(39:17):
I think it's like 2019 or something.Oh, is that the one he got from the
the guy that said, if this is ifit's good, you can pay me 50 bucks.
Yeah, I think he said if it's good,100 bucks.
If it sucks, don't pay for it orsomething like that. Right.
I ultimately think what he didwas give him 50 bucks for it.
Uh, because he's a nice guy,but it was no bueno.
(39:38):
And the worst part about it, if itwere me, I'd be like, I hope this
isn't fucking up my kegerator lines.Oh, I would have never even
thought about that.Yeah, I hope it doesn't just,
like, taste like, uh,Bourbon County Stout for the.
Rest. Of its existence. It might.Yeah. So, yeah, we tried it.
It was no bueno.Now he's always trying to get me
to come over and drink some.That's hilarious.
(40:00):
Yeah, you could make, like,a drinking game out of it. Oh, no.
Thanks. We could also just not.You're no fun. Yeah, I know.
So, uh, anyways, uh, Spanish brewingout of Miami. Down in the hood.
Hi, Vanessa. What's up? Vanessa.They are not doing well and
(40:21):
looking for help.Uh, there's a very long social
media post.Nobody wants to hear me read it,
but, uh, in short,if you want to help out, they're
taking donations. Ouch. Which is.It's always an interesting one.
I'm happy to support you.Donations, though.
Doesn't sound good.Doesn't sound good.
(40:41):
Uh, let's end it on this one.teacher accused of chugging booze,
calling students little shits andmaking them dance the Macarena.
I would do that for free, right?By the way, not Florida and teacher.
Kind of hot. Interesting.She can call me whatever she wants
and make me dance the Macarena.Okay, okay. So they promoted her.
(41:06):
Yeah. Yeah. She's now principal.Alice Ashton from the UK was swigging
a water bottle full of orange liquid,which smelled of alcohol and
blaring music from her laptopduring the health class.
One of her 16 year old studentstold a hearing last Tuesday.
She also called students littleshits and put her middle finger
(41:28):
2 to 3in from another teen's faceduring the out of control class
at I don't know what this is.Euskal Carignan school in Welshpool,
Wales.It's exactly how you pronounce it.
Fucking got it.Uh, the usually reserved and quiet
teachers classes on alcohol and drugawareness were normally boring,
(41:49):
a student told the hearing ofEducation Workforce Council panel.
But before the class,she was spotted swigging from a water
bottle that had an alcoholic smell.She was very, very close to us.
There was a slight alcoholic smell.She was very, very lively and quite
animated and speaking with her hands.Maybe she's just Italian.
(42:10):
In other lessons she was morereserved and quiet, the student said.
She asked the class to do theMacarena.
She played music and we were notdoing work, the student said.
What a rat narc.Ashton's sloppy behaviour came
just four months after she hadbeen convicted of drunk driving.
The water bottle Ashton had in herclass was almost empty by the end of
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class, the student said Ashton keptjumping up from her desk and was
becoming irritated as the class wenton at one point getting right in an
unruly teen's face, the student said.Ashton denied that she sung or
sworn at students in an internalschool review,
but multiple witnesses came forwardto describe the chaotic scene.
(42:54):
She's got some students dancingto the laptop and speakers and
it spiraled out of control,a second teenager said.
CCTV footage from the class that daycorroborated the student's story,
according to the panel.It is totally untenable to suggest
the music is being played,as background music presenting
officer Lewis Harris said.The evidence is very clear that
(43:14):
Miss Ashton did not remain atthe front of her class.
She invited pupils to dance.Ashton was removed from the
teaching registry indefinitelybut may reapply in two years.
One of my favorite parts is shedid not go to her own hearing,
but sent in an email that said,I don't care.
I don't even live there anymoreanyways. Wow. That's amazing.
(43:37):
She is great.What I think is crazy is if you
chugging liquor at your desk inclass, what are you getting so
worked up for?Like, if anything,
you should just, like, chill out.Yeah, I guess it sounds like it was
really the dancing that that got thestudents riled up. Yeah. Interesting.
I don't know why they they reallyneed to relax a little bit.
(43:58):
Yeah, it's just the Macarena,right? It's just the Macarena.
It's just a drunk teacher.Look, if I was teaching little shits
like that, I would be drunk too.Wow. Yep. Yeah. Okay.
Just sent Flex a picture of saidteacher. Yep. That's nice.
I'll do. I'll do the Macarena.I'll do whatever she says. Yeah.
(44:22):
Yes, Lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.She did nothing wrong in my eyes.
Right.Innocent until proven innocent.
She don't fucking live there anymore.Fuck it. Right. Yeah.
Fuck you guys. You're just.You're just don't like to party.
Damn it.All right, let's let's wrap things up
before I get in trouble with thehot teacher. Fair enough. Yeah.
(44:44):
Uh, follow us on the socials.@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer
underscores in between.Don't forget to call us.
Leave us a voicemail at 80553. Beer.That is 2337 mail
@CraftBeerRepublic dot com.Hey, do not forget next week
interview with Jan from ourMutual Friends Brewing.
I'm very, very excited to sharethat with you guys.
Really had a lot of fun.Uh, I hope when I listen back to it,
(45:07):
it's as fun as when I was theredoing it and hopefully as fun
for you as well.Anyways, I hope everyone is staying
very well hydrated. And on that note.Good night everybody.
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