October 1, 2025 • 44 mins
Welcome to Craft Beer Republic, where Greg is still hoping Flex will start thwipping webs, but instead he’s dropping ketchup confessions that belong in therapy. From trivia heartbreak and ear-splitting concerts to taproom food debates and QR code ordering fails, the guys are pouring plenty of laughs. And in Booze News, Charlie Sheen is making NA beer, investors are claiming their cash funded Netflix binges, and Michigan introduces us to the legal level of “super drunk.”
Beer Reviews
- Greg is drinking Electric Jellyfish from Pint House Brewing – juicy hops, tropical bursts, and just the right haze. Sexy pour, thanks to intern Brian.
Flex may not be Spider-Man, but he’s mastered the “thwip” sound effect, much to Greg’s confusion. Paso Robles shows up as the top listening city, and Greg jokes about slapping QR codes in questionable places to boost downloads. The guys trade stories of trivia heartbreak after losing a championship by two points, and Greg explains why sitting too close to a live band nearly rattled his brain loose. Flex admits his lifelong ketchup obsession—from cucumbers to butter sandwiches—while Greg is left reeling and questioning everything he thought he knew about his co-host. The conversation takes a serious turn into taproom talk, where food, service, and post-COVID changes make or break a brewery visit.
Booze News:
- Charlie Sheen jumps into NA beer with Wild AF Brewing.
- Investors sue Island Brands, claiming their cash went to Netflix, Xbox, and Starbucks runs.
- Brewers Association asks the DOJ to bust outdated beer laws that protect the big guys.
- Michigan man goes “super drunk” with a .258 BAC after a loud argument.
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(00:15):
Welcome in, everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I'm Greg and I'm being joined byIzzy Spider-Man yet that's Flex.
What's up, big fella?Uh, it is official.
I am not Spider-Man. God damn it.I thought, you know,
after your origin story of waiting,like, ten days,
(00:37):
it finally kick in and you'd bethe Spider-Man we all hoped for.
Maybe it's more than ten days.Should we give it a full two weeks?
Oh, I'm gonna give it two weeks.All right, that's fair. How?
When do we cut off our hoping?Uh, three weeks. Okay. 21 days after.
Yeah, well, there was that one movie.It was, like, 28 days later,
(00:59):
so maybe it's 28 days. Yeah.Had nothing to do with Spider-Man.
But yeah, you're right.I mean, you know,
it's just it's viruses and stuff.Uh. I'm just trying to make.
I just really want to becomeSpider-Man. I get it.
Like, maybe after four weeks, I'llgive it five. We'll see. We'll see.
(01:21):
We'll play it week by week.But sooner or later, maybe I'll be
flipping. Probably won't be flipping.Right. Hey, welcome to batch 948.
Hey, you Spider-Man yet? Nope.Still waiting. Thwip thwip.
Damn. I'm sorry.Are you falling on a wet floor?
What is going on here? Yeah.You know, the the thwip,
(01:42):
the Spider-Man, the sound that thewebs come out. It's it's thwip.
Gotcha. I was not aware.You didn't know that.
I didn't know it was thwip.Thwip. Yeah, like in the comics.
Like th w.i.p is like thwip.Oh, would they write that out?
Thwip. Whip. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty.I'm pretty sure that's how.
I'm not a comic reader. Sorry.Yeah. That's funny. Damn it.
(02:09):
Anywho. Not a Spider-Man show.@CraftBeerRepublic.
Uh, male @CraftBeerRepublic.Com all that good shit.
All right. Lots to get to.Let's stop whipping around and, uh.
All that, uh, shout out to ourtop listing city of last week,
which was actually Paso Robles,where I go all the time to drink
wine and not drink beer.I don't know if I finally said
(02:30):
the name long enough and peoplestarted listening up there.
Or they started looking at thestickers on the bathroom wall
and have been searching.Yeah, it says for a good time,
call 805 538. Beer.Oh, I should give this a try.
That's that's how I should getpeople to listen to the show.
Just do like a QR code.It says like, for a free blowjob,
(02:50):
you know, scan this QR code.It just takes you to our website,
or it takes them to Deb's Dexcom.How great would that be?
Oh, what a great website. Site. Yeah.Oh, look, there's a picture of
Spider-Man and Thwip.So anyways. Thanks.
So maybe it's just my sisterdownloading the show over and over
and over. You got a sister? Yeah.Uh, I think she's getting
(03:12):
married soon, I don't know.That's fucking crazy, dude.
You know, she should do.Because, you know,
she's got child and all that stuff.She's got a kid. Yeah. It's crazy.
Happened yesterday. Unreal.Uh, she should download all the
episodes and just play them onloop so that he gets more
excited when I come over.That would make sense. Yeah.
Nothing like early education bythe @CraftBeerRepublic. Yeah.
(03:36):
Use a little uncle Greggy.Daddy! Voice. Huh?
I wanted that to sound weird.Yeah. Mission accomplished.
I went with Uncle Greggy. Daddy.And not Uncle Daddy. Greggy.
Yeah. Either way, it's not great.But you made it less greater.
That's what I'm here for. Good job.That's what they don't pay me for.
(04:00):
One of these days. All right.Flex still on the, uh,
antivenom over there.So not drinking, but I will be
having a beer for you all.In fact, before I read the next
thing, I think I need a beer.I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
(04:23):
I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.God damn.
Untapped has more pop ups than afucking porn site these days.
Say what?Yeah, I am drinking thanks to intern
Brian. What a stud, by the way.Fucking stud.
I tell you what, I'm drinking pintHouse Brewing's electric jellyfish.
(04:46):
Ooh. That's a fun one. Yeah.6.5% fun can, by the way. Very fun.
I've had that one. Oh. Have you? Yes.I can't remember when I had it,
but I had it, okay?It wasn't on the show because I
looked it up before I had this,because I kind of thought I had
already drank it, and I went downthis rabbit hole and I was like,
okay, it does not exist on the show.Uh, 6.5% 73 IBUs has a 406 on
(05:08):
Untappd with over 48,000 ratings.That's a lot. Jesus.
They say brewed with some of ourfavorite new hop varieties from
our favorite hop farmers citrus,Simcoe, Chinook, Yukon, Zaca,
and Galaxy. When was that written?Because none of those are new.
Electric jellyfish is filled with thebright tropical citrus character,
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along with notes of orange, mango,lychee, and a floral backbone.
The jellyfish is a hazy new schoolIPA focusing on juicy hop flavor
and aroma while keeping thebitterness balanced and refreshing.
See,I went on this whole thing today.
I was like, did I have this already?I thought I had this already.
Brian left it here on purpose soI could have it on the show,
(05:52):
and so I was certain that I alreadyhad it, and it's just been sitting
in my fridge for like a month.And so I went searching down.
Finally I texted him.I was like, hey,
didn't you leave this at my house?And then he couldn't remember
leaving it at my house,and then I had to refresh him.
Then he found it on his untapped,which had a picture of my kitchen.
So yes, he had it at my house,but, uh, apparently have not had
it on the show yet.So anyways,
I was excited to have it becausethis was one of the breweries that
(06:15):
people told us we needed to go to,and we were in Austin and we did not.
We ran out of time. We just.Yeah. White House pizza.
What's it called? Pint House brewing.Pint House brewing. Okay.
Yeah, we did drive by it.It looked like a really cool spot.
It's ginormous.Big old pint house and lights
across the side. Okay.Um, but yeah, just didn't have
time for for all the beers.But anyways, here we go.
Digging in the schnoz.I'm getting some mango.
(06:38):
I also get a little of thatfloral ness coming through,
but it's a real, real light onthe on the nose buds there.
Yeah, I remember I had this beer,we got, uh, a bunch of, sorry,
Texas stuff destroyed.There was like a 2 or 3 month stretch
where the place I was getting my beerfrom was getting some Texas stuff,
(06:58):
and I picked this up and I pickedup some Jester King stuff as well,
and, uh. Yeah. Yeah.Um, I'm trying to check the date
on here. I can't quite read it.Something in 25.
Hey, it's less than a year old.There you go.
It's newer than that one I had afew weeks ago, I'll tell you that.
Uh, anyways,on the on the Tongue-jobber here,
(07:19):
exactly how they described it.Some orange, some mango, some of
that lychee, less floral on the,on the Tongue-jobber than on the
the nose buds there. But kind of.Like. That. Yeah, a little bit.
I don't like too much floral inmy IPAs.
Reminds me of like the oldschool bitter. Yeah.
Um, but dry and enough bitternessto keep you going back for more.
(07:40):
As you can see, properly hazed.It looks wonderful. Yeah.
Good lacing on it, too.Some pretty sexy. Sexy. Yeah.
Very nice.Uh, so thank you to interim
Brian for dropping this off.And sorry I didn't have it sooner.
I kind of thought I already had.And speaking of forgetting things,
just sitting in my fridgewaiting to be drafted.
That's actually pretty hilarious.Yeah. So, so good stuff. Uh, yeah.
(08:03):
Cheers to penthouse. Thanks, Brian.You stud. Fucking stud.
Maybe one day when he hears thatwe called him a stud.
He made my day by giving me somefree beer. I tell you what.
Let's get. Rocked up.This is his birthday a couple
weeks ago, too. Happy belated.Happy belated birthday, stud.
Brian. Yeah.You know, I felt we all went out
for his birthday to this.It was a, you know, a band at a local
(08:24):
bar. It's kind of a divey type bar.I haven't been there.
You just call that live music,I don't think. Yeah. There you go.
Wasn't a concert? Yeah, it was dumb.Anyways, it was so fucking loud
because we were so close.Because we know somebody in the
band and the wife and everything.So we're sitting right next to
the band. I shit you not.It was so loud that the next day
my ears still rang, still hurt.Like anytime somebody put on music,
(08:47):
I was like, oh my God, fuckingturn it down obnoxiously loud.
Do you know how I can tellyou're old. Because of that?
That whole thing.Look, here's the thing.
I've gone to concerts where my.Like. I went to Dave's birthday.
Dave Grohl,when he did his birthday bash.
And like, basically every famousrocker came out and just fucking
shredded our ears off. Awesome.My ears rang for three days.
(09:08):
So amazing. I don't care.But this was one of those things
where because it was such a smallspace, like every time a drum or
a cymbal hit, like you just seemy eye twitch. You know, it just.
It was too much. It was not balanced.It was too much. It was too close.
It wasn't like the volume wasturned up.
It was like my face was insidehis fucking snare drum.
(09:29):
Yeah, I get it, I get it.And also, I'm old.
I just like poking fun at you.Here's how I'm going to call
myself old on this.I was looking up concerts at my local
venue today because I was boredseeing if anybody was coming to town.
And I saw a concert that I clickedon. It's coming in December.
And I was reading the excerpt on it,the description, and I kept
scrolling down and it said they'readvertising or putting out there.
(09:51):
They have a new sound system.And I thought, ooh, I don't know
about that. Are you sure? Yeah.I don't know if I could I don't
know if I could take that. Yeah.Sound system. Yeah. That's so funny.
(10:12):
You fucking old fart.I know, dude. It's terrible. Oh.
God. But anyways, it was.All I was saying was so loud
that because of the noise,I wasn't able to talk to Brian.
And I was gonna buy him a couplebirthday beers.
And every time I looked down likeour our sync was off and we were
at opposite ends of the table,and it wasn't like I was like, hey,
don't drink beer when you're donewith this one so I can get you in.
(10:33):
You know, it just never happens.I still owe him a couple birthday
beers. I did buy him one at trivia.Best. The best. The championship.
Oh, we had another triviachampionship last week.
Another one? Yeah. Twice a year.Do you have. Oh, twice a year.
And, uh, last time we got first.This time we got second by two
fucking points. That sucks. Yeah.We didn't miss one question.
(10:54):
So how do you.Do you like wager points or.
So there's two different roundswhere if you're like one of the
first three teams to get it in,you get bonus points. Oh.
And so they clearly miss somebecause they got both bonus points.
They should have beaten us by ten,but they only beat us by two.
So they clearly missed somequestions where we didn't miss
not one question.You should almost just win by
(11:16):
default for that. Thank you.Kevin, if you're listening.
To hell with the points. Right.Played an immaculate game.
So anyways, O'Brien appeared to, uh.All right, I wanted to read this.
I don't really think it fitsinto booze news.
This is more of a discussion thing,but according to the Brewers
Association, consumers are seekingfood and beyond beer options, as
(11:38):
well as expanded hours at a taproom.According to a new taproom report
from the Brewers Association,breweries need to go beyond just beer
if they want to keep customers comingback. Pulling data from RV, RV.
RV. I don't know, taproom sales.The report shows that while
draught beer still dominates,food and expanded hours are
becoming bigger factors.From January 23rd to December 24th,
(12:01):
draught beer and food made upnearly 80% of taproom sales.
But those sales swing hard withthe seasons.
Draught sales can drop by $7,600in slower months, and food by
nearly 5000 peak months can see15 to 20% spike, while slower ones
can fall up to 30% below average.Draught beer is also trending down,
dropping about $73 a month onaverage.
(12:24):
The steepest decline acrosscategories retail,
beer and merch saw smaller drops,so to go stuff, while food sales
actually rose by $42 a month.Liquor insider also ticked up
slightly.The Brewers Association says
that the slow shift shows thevalue of diversification.
Breweries offering more food orbeyond beer options like cider
(12:47):
rtds fared better in 2020.For those that did.
Saw a median production bump of 1.1%,compared to 6.5% decline across
craft segment overall.Even within beer, customers seem
to be looking for more value.Pint sales dropped double digits
year over year, while largerpours like 20 ounce and half
(13:08):
liters saw modest growth, likelya sign of value seeking behavior.
Smaller pours are way down,and when it comes to hours,
Saturdays are still king.But weekdays like Monday and
Tuesday are creeping up.Taproom sticking to just Thursday
through Sunday might be missing outon some of that weekday traffic.
Bottom line beer still leading thecharge, but food flexibility and
(13:33):
poor variety could help taproomstay ahead of shifting trends.
Very long way of saying, uh,we need more than just beer in
Taprooms. It leads to my question.We are obviously drinking less beer
than we did in our earlier years.Yes.
What is it that would get you ina taproom or consistently so?
(13:55):
I am 100% behind the food. Right?Because if you're just going to,
I don't know, like, I feel likethe bar scene. Maybe I'm wrong.
It's like, that's gonna own mostof your drinking, right?
You don't usually go out to a breweryto just be like, oh, hey, like,
(14:16):
we're gonna spend the night here.Get hammered. Right?
Also, because a lot of brewerieswill close up about eight, nine,
10:00. Sure. Yeah.I don't think any of them are
open past 10:00 by me. Okay.So I don't know what it's like
out by you. On the weekends.Some are open till 11 or 12. Okay.
But weekdays,it's usually by nine. Got it.
(14:38):
So then say, you know, you'relooking for a spot to go for lunch,
and you really like your localbrewery because you love their beer,
and they got the best beer around.But it's lunchtime and they
don't got no food, right?So now you're automatically
thinking elsewhere because theydon't have food, you know.
(14:59):
And same thing with like dinner.It's like, hey,
we can go get a before dinner drink.You stop at a brewery, grab a beer
or two and then go get your food.Or you can just say, hey,
we're gonna go have dinner here,grab two to 3 to 4 beers and food,
you know, spend more money,spend more time,
and then you're kind of owningthe customer in that sense. Mhm.
(15:22):
You know, and then you'recompeting against anybody else
in town who's got food which isalways competition's great. Yeah.
Because now you've got food and thenovelty of fresh beer. Right, right.
And if it's good beer then evenbetter for you. Exactly.
One brewery comes, comes to mind,and I will not name names.
It's somewhere we frequent.And we like their beer.
(15:45):
They don't have food and they almost,almost always have a food truck
slash pop up type food thingbecause they're smart.
They know that food will keep youthere longer, you'll buy more beer,
blah, blah blah.Here's the problem though.
Food trucks and pop ups arealways so specific. Yep.
(16:05):
Like, you know, we're weirdos,we don't eat carbs and that kind
of stuff.Uh, like, this place specifically
almost always has pizza,and I'm not looking to have pizza.
And so I often will not go tothis place over somewhere else
that has normal food, you know,like abundance of options, basically
(16:26):
rice salad or burger or whatever.So the food trucks just aren't
working for me anymore.Like, I feel like you need to
have like a real kitchen, okay?Or at least a food truck that's
more than just one specific item.Even if it's not pizza.
What if it's something I love?But, you know, nobody else wants
this thing, you know, like, hey,we're the salad truck.
(16:46):
And I'm like, fuck yeah,it's the salad truck.
You know,I'm gonna get a chicken Cobb salad
and have nine beers tonight.Everyone else is like,
I went to a brewery.Why the fuck do I want a salad?
You know. That's what I would think.No. Yeah.
I think it's important to haveoptions.
Uh, because here's the thing.There's so many good breweries
around that we can go to, uh,like a tap house type of
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establishment that has good food.And we're bound to find a couple
beers that we're into. Oh, for sure.Which negates the need for going
to the brewery. Yeah, right.Which happens all the time. Right.
Like, you've got Eagle Park andyou're gonna go there because
they got some bomb ass fries.Absolutely. And they. Might. Have.
They have great food altogether.Yeah. Um, there's a brewery out.
(17:31):
I'm gonna fucking call him outbecause it's gone downhill.
Tarantula hill.Their food is so bad now.
We used to go because we like toeat there. The beer is the same.
But I don't know what happenedin the kitchen.
It has gone downhill the lastfew times we've had food there.
It's just been bad, inconsistent.Uh, they almost always mess it up.
(17:53):
And it's not like we're substitutingthings. We're ordering it as is.
You know, it's like salads.How do you.
How do you fuck up a salad? You just.Here's your list of ingredients,
dummy. Yeah.And we're just tired of it.
We won't go anywhere because wewant to.
It up or dump it out of the bag or.Right, do something.
So like we've we've kind of stoppedgoing because their food has gotten
so bad and inconsistent. Okay.Um, I hope I hope they can change
(18:16):
because I used to like going thereand having food and whatnot.
So yeah, I think food is a huge deal.Rtd's don't do it for me.
One thing that made me startthinking though, was, you know,
you and I are drinking moreseltzers these days. Yeah.
Would you go to a brewery andorder a seltzer? I've done it.
(18:36):
Have you? I have not. Yeah.The, uh, the last time I went up
to Eagle Park, my bartender Nerdcenter walk came up to me and asked
what beer I would like because he,you know, he knows me and he
knows what I drink.And I said, get me this, uh,
seltzer, huh? And no judgment.He just got the seltzer and we
(18:59):
had a great time.And yeah, I really appreciated it.
So shouldn't be judgment,because. No matter what.
It costs, you're still spendingmoney. That's true. Yeah.
I can think of one brewery that we goto locally that does seltzers on a
regular basis, and I don't thinkI've ever ordered one from there.
(19:20):
I mean, the two nearby me,like the Explorer Emporium Mall
Pub and Eagle Park.They always have seltzers every day.
Eagle Park their. Own.They're not they're not bringing
them in. Right.Eagle Park has their specto cooler,
and they usually keep 1 or 2varieties around like rotating
throughout the year. Mhm.Like they just came out with a
(19:41):
Concord grape one I think I talkedabout it a couple of weeks ago.
It was phenomenal.I should have bought an entire
fridge full of that. It was unreal.Uh, but the Marlborough pub,
I've never had theirs before.They're allegedly award winning. Oh.
And, uh,they're all kind of funny names,
like, uh, the grape one. It's like.I think they're like Kool-Aid
(20:04):
inspired flavors, and it's like.It's like, tastes like purple or
like, tastes like blue, and like,that's what it's called. Got it.
And it's just kind of funny inthat sense.
And but they're they're supposedto be really. Exactly right.
I typed in exploring brewpub seltzer.Yeah. And tastes like purple.
Tastes like blue.First thing that popped up. Yeah.
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So, uh, I've never had them.I probably should now that I'm
dabbling more into that area,but it's so hard to go there.
It's not that their food's bad.You know,
like when you go to a restaurantand you can tell what's like,
pre-made and what's. Once. Mhm. Mhm.You know there's nothing like
spending $20 on a frozen burgerpatty. You know that.
(20:49):
You know they just took out of thefreezer and they cooked up and you're
just like oh yeah this. This was $20.I could have just did this for
free at home.And you know it just makes it
not worth it. Absolutely.I feel that so hard. It's not bad.
And some they were just muchbetter pre-COVID.
(21:10):
And I think that speaks for a lot of.I think so.
Establishments which. Hill.Which you know we don't know the
variables. Right.We're not on the inside.
We're we're just a couple guys whodon't mind speaking aloud our minds.
And, uh, yeah, I think a lot ofthings were better pre-COVID and
then post-Covid, just dealing witha lot of different variables.
(21:35):
And maybe it's staffing, maybe it'scosts, maybe it's prices. Who knows?
Yeah, but, you know,you bring up another good point
that I hadn't even thought about.You know,
pre-COVID things were much different,you know, in quotes better.
One thing that I really dislike,and both the aforementioned Tarantula
Hill does this and so does Firestone.They they don't have like a real
(21:57):
wait staff.You scan a QR code,
you order and then it comes out,and I fucking hate it.
And I don't hate it for the oldman reasons.
You're thinking I hate it for I hateit because of things like sometimes
they come out and they literallyjust drop your food and run.
And sometimes they forget silverware.Sometimes they forget ranch.
For my French fries. They forget.Especially for French.
(22:20):
They forget shit all the time.And then I've got to go, like,
literally chase someone down.And it ends up being that this
person does not work in the kitchen.And then that person's got to go
find someone who actually works inthe kitchen to go get the fucking
ranch they forgot or whatever it is.I hate it so fucking much.
It would actually cause me to gomore if they got rid of that.
(22:42):
Interesting. Yeah.And I know you say like, hey,
we're not on the inside,and you're 100% right.
We don't know the goings on of arestaurant slash brewery right
now in these times.But also we're the people that
are spending money there.Like we're the demo.
Again, very accurate.So, you know, maybe not that I'm
(23:04):
the end all be all,but maybe listen a little bit.
I fucking hate your ordering systems.You guys never come and check
and make sure things are cool.You forget shit all the time.
How much would it cost to just havesomebody, even if you kept that
ordering system, one extra personon staff that just went around
and was like, everything good?Or maybe the manager could train
extra train people?Yeah, he was awful with that.
(23:29):
I don't know.There's a million people walking
around and none of them actuallydo anything. Um, I hate it.
I hate it so much.Eagle Park has that ordering.
Like, if you don't sit at the bar,they have all the QR codes on
the table.The people that dropped the food
off are very kind, very polite.Always ask if you need anything else.
If everything is okay. Uh.They're terrific. And get this.
(23:54):
They also have this rolly cart that'skind of by, like, their soda machine.
You know, if you just. Soda.Yeah. And it's got extra napkins.
It's got to go. Boxes.It's got just about anything
extra you would need. I like. It.If something was forgotten or
you didn't have enough of it.And I think that that's they do
(24:16):
not have ranch on the cart thatyou gotta order, but, uh,
but yeah, I think they they do areally great job of it.
And they could be like the standardmodel for something like that.
Yeah. Important question.What do you dipping your fries in
catsup? Oh, my God, are you serious?I love it I'm a. Freaking child. Man.
(24:36):
I've loved ketchup ever since Iwas a kid, I used.
I used to dip cucumbers in ketchupto dip pickles and ketchup.
I used to open up a bag ofpotato chips and get a little
bowl of ketchup.And dip my potato chips in ketchup.
My God. Oh, man.I used to spread ketchup on bread and
eat the bread. Oh, I love ketchup.I had no idea you were a sociopath.
(25:00):
Oh, yeah. I'm a freak, man.Oh my. God.
I apologize to anybody listeningright now that didn't know I was
completely outside of my gourd.I am a nut job. Hold on.
Do you put it on your eggs?I used to, yeah.
Oh, and my mac and cheese. Oh, no.Oh, yeah. What the fuck is wrong?
(25:22):
Show me on the doll where they hurtyou. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. That's real.
That's how you know it's good.Good. Mac and cheese.
A little ketchup on it.No, I don't do that anymore
because I've evolved.Sure, it's because people judge you.
If no one was watching,you totally do it, wouldn't you?
(25:43):
But when I was younger, man,that was a oh. No.
That was nothing like like someruffles chips, the ridges in
some ketchup. Oh. Oh, man.But yeah, ketchup and butter sandwich
was one of my favorite things when Iwas a kid. Ketchup and butter. Yeah.
You spread butter on one pieceof bread and you spread ketchup
(26:05):
on the other piece of bread.You put the two pieces of bread
together, and that becomes aketchup butter sandwich.
Do you still eat this? No, but.Maybe I'll try it tomorrow and
let you know how it goes.Now, real question.
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Is that a Wisconsin thing or isthat a Flex thing?
No, I think that was just afucked up me thing. Okay.
Cause I've never heard of that.Oh, it's not a real thing.
okay at all.I see two of them at a time.
Double fisting your butter andketchup sandwiches.
They were so good.Dude, you don't even know.
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Oh, I fucking can't. Oh, wow.We've officially lost all the
listeners.Yeah, we're down to nothing.
Yeah, I'm sorry, man.Sorry, sorry. One listener.
If you're still there. Wow.Yeah, I'm trying to think what
else with ketchup.I can't remember the last time I
had ketchup. I used to put ketchup.Like, if I made, like,
a turkey or ham sandwich.I put ketchup on the sandwich, too.
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Oh my God. Like mayo and ketchup or.No, no mayo. Just. Just ketchup.
Okay. Um. Yeah. What else? Wow. Yeah.Just your standard hot dogs,
burgers, brats on brats. Oh, man.Oh, Greg. Oh my God! You're killing.
Me! Give me all the catsup.When I get my burger.
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Uh, we got this restaurant out here.Culver's.
I don't know if it's out inCalifornia at all.
It's a little bit out nationwide.Uh, but they do burgers and
they're phenomenal.And I'll get burger or ketchup on my
burger, and then I'll come home andI'll squirt ketchup on every bite
of the burger I'm about to take.Wow. Oh, I love it. It's so good.
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Here's the only fond memory ofketchup that I have,
and I honestly, I cannot rememberthe last time I had ketchup.
It's been well over a decade,but the one fond memory of ketchup
I have is back in the day.McDonald's. You order a cheeseburger.
And when we were kids, they didn'tmake food to order at McDonald's.
They would basically store it ina heated like bin.
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And so sometimes these cheeseburgerswould sit there for 20 minutes
before you actually got to it. Okay.And it gave the ketchup this
like Almost gelatinous.You know. And like, it.
Would, like. Reduce a little.It'd be a little extra sweet,
you know, that kind of thing.And good or bad, to me,
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it tastes like childhood.And when I worked at McDonald's
in high school and into college,I guess through college, um,
they didn't do they didn't makeburgers that way anymore.
They, you know,it was all made to order.
So sometimes on my break,I would make a cheeseburger,
ketchup, you know, all the normalshit and just let it sit there for,
like, 20 minutes before my breakand then eat them like, oh, yeah,
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this is fucking childhood right here.Oh, man. That's funny.
So weird and gross.But that is gross.
That or if I was in some if Iwanted some nuggies,
I wanted to taste like childhood.Just let them sit there 20 minutes.
Boom. Tasted like I was.Never, never liked cold nuggets.
No, no, they don't get coldbecause they sit in what they,
they used to call it the hells,the hot landing zone in the.
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It's The things I wish I couldforget.
And you know,that thing was probably 100 and,
I don't know, 50 degrees or whatever.So it kept everything pleasantly
warm, but not fresh.When I was younger, I liked the,
uh, the circle nuggets over theboot shaped nuggets.
Oh, give me all the boots, man.Um, and I would again, you're gonna
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start thinking I'm like. Ketchup.Uh, I did when I was younger. Yeah.
Um. Has the best barbecue sauce.I would eat all the breading off.
Oh, my God. The nuggets then.Damn it. And then I would eat it.
I don't know why.I don't know why I'm admitting all
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of this. I don't know why either.Would you, after you ate all the
breading off, would you look at himlike he puts the lotion on his skin,
puts the ketchup on his chicken?Oh, take it off.
No, I just I would just eat the fakechicken. Wow. Yeah. The pink sludge.
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Well,we have really gotten off course.
Uh, let us know what would getyou back into whatever.
Hopefully it's not ketchup.Whew. Wow. Learned a lot.
This is very educational. Flex.Maybe.
Maybe you'll think different of me.Maybe you won't.
I think there's no way I can't.Ketchup on eggs is solid, though.
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No, I would much more be okaywith ketchup on fries or burger
or hot dog than eggs. Eggs is.Weird. Yeah. Clearly. Whew.
I still love you, though.Not a ketchup show?
No, very much not.We'll move on to some booze news.
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Uh, here's something I thoughtI'd never say.
Charlie Sheen is officially jumpinginto the Na beer game with a brand
new offering called wild AF brewing.That sounds familiar for some reason.
Wild AF brewing? Yeah.Is it full of tiger blood?
I don't know. Maybe just wild AF.Maybe. That was like a show.
(31:42):
Yeah, maybe.Uh, the Hollywood Wild Card has
teamed up with Harpoon Brewery anda branding firm called the silent
Group to launch the new line,starting with a flagship and a
lager called Cold Gold Sheen.Now, eight years sober,
says he's tried every non-alcoholicbeer on the market and wanted to
make one that didn't suck his exist.His exact quote, wild AF is for
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people who believe that morningbelongs to the night before.
All right.The beer is available now for
pre-order in six,12 and 24 packs online,
with shipping starting November,just in time for the holidays.
And our least favorite.Does that mean, like,
you should be able to wake upand just drink this right away?
Is it that or because you didn'twreck yourself the night before?
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You've still got the morning.Like you're not hungover. Right.
Okay. I don't fucking know.It's Charlie Sheen.
I didn't know he was eight yearssober. I didn't either.
I'm very surprised to hear that.Have you seen his new documentary?
No.Oh, I have yet to see it, but I
hear really good things about it.I really want to watch it.
Are you still crazy?Yeah, but not on drugs. Crazy.
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Just crazy. Crazy. Oh, okay.That's crazy.
Just naturally crazy. Yeah.Do you remember when he was, like,
at the peak of his drugs? Crazy.And he did a whole thing where
he was searching for an intern?Uh, I might have missed this.
Okay, this sounds awesome.Must have been, like, 2010 ish.
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If I had to guess.Definitely don't remember this. Okay.
The whole thing that was like,mid like Tiger Blood and winning
in those days.And he's like, I'm looking for
an intern. And I applied.I thought, you know what?
I hated my job at the time.I was making very little money
and my boss was a dick.I was like, you know, I'll go
fucking be a tiger blood intern.And at the very least,
maybe I could get some social credand get some followers or whatever,
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you know. And I applied.I actually made it to the second
round of interviews. No way.Yeah. Damn. That's awesome.
Then after that, no. No bueno.I had to sign up for a Twitter
account just for that, though.That was the first time I ever
signed up for Twitter.Was because the internships.
So then it was like a race to,like, I need to create a bunch
of tweets and be funny.Oh,
because I was part of the interview.Yeah, it was to like run his social
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media stuff was part of the the gig.So and I already had like Facebook
and Gram I think or whatever.Probably still Myspace at that time.
Yeah. Maybe winning. Um, but yeah.So all that to say, fuck you.
Twitter.Island brands, the co-founders
face in an investor lawsuit andnew owners take over Lisa Pollner
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and Caleb Fournier, a wife andhusband duo who befriended Island
co-founders Scott and Megan Hansen,claimed the Hansens breached their
fiduciary fiduciary, fiduciary.Your trigger duty and committed
fraud by using hundreds of thousandsof dollars invested in the lager
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brand for personal benefit.The lawsuit, which was filed
August 28th in the ninth JudicialCircuit in South Carolina.
Charleston County,also names Mota and Padgett Thomas
limited liability companies inCharleston as defendants.
The plaintiffs relationship withAB ABH began in 2018,
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when the Hansons invited them toinvest in Island Brands, a disruptive
lifestyle brand with premium productsacross multiple segments in the
adult beverage space, accordingto a now closed crowdfunding
campaign on Start Engine.Between June of 2018 and February
of 2019, Pollner and Fournier gavethe Hansons a total of $500,000
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that they mistakenly believed wasbeing invested into ABH via an
account owned by Paget Thomas LLC.Instead of using the money for
fledgling beer brand,the plaintiffs allege that the
Hansens spent it on vacations,as well as an online subscription
for Netflix and Xbox, paid fortheir groceries and medicines,
gas and Starbucks and fancy meals.After ABH was dissolved,
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an unaffiliated third party privateinvestment group acquired Island
Brands and produces it for thesoutheastern US and Caribbean.
You're just blindly giving 500grand to some weird alcohol brand.
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.That is kind of crazy.
I could be a blind alcohol brand.Anybody want to give me $500,000?
Yeah. Samesies.Uh,
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the Flex and Greg alcohol company.You should invest today. Yeah.
Please do. We're gonna do big things.The biggest. Yes. It's gonna be huge.
Also, uh, judicial system.No quicker way to tell if you're
drunk than by making someone sayjudicial system. Yeah, that's.
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Why would you do that? Yeah.Old, old Dana Carvey joke.
Sorry, everyone. Judicial system.It's so funny you said that.
Because every time I hear that word,that's what I think of. Is it really?
Yeah. And that's why we're friends.Yeah. Chopping broccoli.
Uh, outdated state laws arescrewing over small breweries.
And the Brewers Associationwants the DOJ to step in.
(36:49):
The Brewers Association is callingout a trio of state level beer laws
that they say are crushing smallbrewers and protecting the big guys.
Also,anytime I hear big guys or like,
good guys, I always think of ScottHall taking a survey. Yeah, one.
More, one more for the good guys.Uh, in a letter to US Department
of Justice this week,BA vp mark Cerini described certain
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franchise laws, the three tiersystem and territory exclusivity as,
quote, thinly veiled mechanismsfor favoring large entrenched
economic actors at the expense ofconsumers and healthy competition.
Translation these laws make itharder and more expensive for
small breweries to do business,especially when trying to get
out of bad distribution deals orexpand to new markets.
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The Bay is asking the DOJ toinvestigate how these outdated
laws are messing with theeconomy and interstate commerce.
This could have a major impacton more than 5000 breweries,
along with the Brewers Association,most of which are independently
owned by small producers.This is what I've been bitching
about for years.We harp on this all the time.
Yeah, Budweiser's basically set thelaws back as prohibition was ending.
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For some reason, Budweiser wasallowed to write half the laws,
and that's why we have the threetiered system and the territory stuff
and all the distribution rules.And it's about time to get rid of
that bullshit. Agreed? Agreed.You know, you know, they were able to
write all of it because they justprobably paid everybody off. Right?
(38:19):
I mean, they're. All the politicians.Yeah. Filthy rich. Filthy rich.
Uh, we'll end it on this one.A Michigan man has a loud
argument and an even louder BAC.Police in Saginaw responded to
reports. Is that right? Yeah. Okay.Respond to reports of gunfire in a
quiet West Side neighborhood justafter midnight on September 17th.
(38:43):
Officers already nearby saidthey heard three shots ring out
and followed the sound to ahouse on Greenwich Street.
That's where 59 year old MichaelT Kraft cheese. What a name.
What a name!Stepped out to meet them with
what he claimed was a perfectlyreasonable explanation.
It wasn't gunfire, it was fireworks.But after a few more questions,
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that story started to fizzle out.Kraft eventually admitted he'd
fired a handgun,allegedly because he was, quote,
having troubles with his neighbor.Oh. It's the first thing I do.
Reasonable, yeah.Neighbors being a dick.
Where's my gun?He then led officers into the
home where they found a gunsitting on the couch.
(39:27):
Then came his breathalyzer test.Oh, boy. You want to guess?
Um, first of all, the best place toever keep a gun is on your couch.
Obviously. Easy access. Clearly.Uh. Loud. Back. Loud thinking.
Sub three. Two. Correct.Um, because that's way too loud.
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But it's got to be more thandouble the limit. Also correct.
So I'm trying to narrow this in andwe'll meet at like a happy medium of
like a 0.25. Oh my .258. Look at you.Wow. Wow. It goes on for context.
Michigan considers anything overa 0.17 to be, quote,
super drunk. No way.I'll get back to that in a second.
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After his arrest, things got evenworse at the hospital, where
craft reportedly became verballyaggressive and charged at officers.
He's now facing charges of firearm,possession of the influence, reckless
discharge and resisting police.He was released on $700 bond and
is due back in court October 3rd.No one was hurt,
but based on the back,we're guessing the neighbors weren't
the only ones dodging bullets. Okay.Super drunk. I looked this up.
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It's a real fucking thing.I thought,
this must be them being cutesy whenthey wrote the article or something,
right? That's what I thought.Super drunk is a real legal
designation in some states.In Michigan,
they passed the law known as theSuper Drunk Law back in 2010.
It targets people who are caughtdriving with a BAC of 0.17 or higher,
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which is more than twice thelegal limit.
So do you only have to get caughtdrinking or driving with the BAC
to be considered super drunk?Or is that just like 0.17 is
considered super drunk?So I think 0.17 is considered super
drunk, but where it becomes effectivein terms of charging someone.
(41:21):
Is the driving. Yeah.I think if you know you're drunk
in public and super drunk,you're probably not going to face
much more than you normally would.But if you're caught, if you're
caught driving and you're overdouble the legal limit now, they can
really stick it up your ass. Got it.So yeah, I was like, what a legal
sounding term. Super drunk. I mean.Super is just like a adjective
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meaning like.It's like, I mean, it it works,
right? You know, like. Yeah.Hey, you know what?
Flex was super drunk at the Packersgame a couple of weeks ago. No.
No joke.That was the first thing that crossed
my mind, man. Super drunk. Oh, yeah.Definitely super drunk. Yeah.
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Might have blown that 0.17. Yeah.The good thing I was not driving.
Yes. Yeah.That's like I've told this before,
but it's been a while.That's like the time I went to a
Padres game and we walked outside andthey were doing breathalyzer tests,
and it was like as a, you know,know your limit kind of thing.
No one was being arrested becauseit wasn't any of the cars were
right and we weren't driving.So I was like, I don't care what
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I blow, doesn't matter.And so we walk up and they asked you,
the cops like, hey,what do you think you're gonna go?
And the wife goes, I think I'm gonnabe right at the legal limit, you
know, .08, maybe nine. And she blew.She was right on the money .08.
And they go, hey,what do you think you are?
And I was like,I'm definitely not legal to drive,
let's say like a 0.12.And I blew and it was like a
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0.18 or something like that.Cops like, I hope you're not driving.
I was like, I wasn't planning on it.Definitely not.
Now you don't have to worry about me.I just was here for the the show
of doing a breathalyzer. Boy.Blue. Super drunk. Yep. Whoops.
Don't go to Michigan.It's like going supersonic or
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something.Like he's about to go super drunk.
Everybody.You guys hear Greg got got super
drunk last night. Again.Oh, man. Yeah. Good times. So.
All right, let's, uh, let's say wewrap things up. Yeah. Right on.
All right, I'm gonna say hi toVanessa. Hello, Vanessa.
Hi, there. Two weeks in a row.No Florida stories. Ooh.
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Sad day, dry spell.Uh, follow us on the socials.
@CraftBeerRepublic mail@CraftBeerRepublic. Com. 80553 beer.
2337. All of that good stuff.Maybe by next week,
not only will Flex be drinking,but also be in the whip. Whip.
Whip, whip.I didn't even know that was a thing.
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Uh, so anyways, hope everyone outthere 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'm Greg and I'm being joined byIzzy Spider-Man yet that's Flex.
What's up, big fella?Uh, it is official.
I am not Spider-Man. God damn it.I thought, you know,
after your origin story of waiting,like, ten days,
(00:37):
it finally kick in and you'd bethe Spider-Man we all hoped for.
Maybe it's more than ten days.Should we give it a full two weeks?
Oh, I'm gonna give it two weeks.All right, that's fair. How?
When do we cut off our hoping?Uh, three weeks. Okay. 21 days after.
Yeah, well, there was that one movie.It was, like, 28 days later,
(00:59):
so maybe it's 28 days. Yeah.Had nothing to do with Spider-Man.
But yeah, you're right.I mean, you know,
it's just it's viruses and stuff.Uh. I'm just trying to make.
I just really want to becomeSpider-Man. I get it.
Like, maybe after four weeks, I'llgive it five. We'll see. We'll see.
(01:21):
We'll play it week by week.But sooner or later, maybe I'll be
flipping. Probably won't be flipping.Right. Hey, welcome to batch 948.
Hey, you Spider-Man yet? Nope.Still waiting. Thwip thwip.
Damn. I'm sorry.Are you falling on a wet floor?
What is going on here? Yeah.You know, the the thwip,
(01:42):
the Spider-Man, the sound that thewebs come out. It's it's thwip.
Gotcha. I was not aware.You didn't know that.
I didn't know it was thwip.Thwip. Yeah, like in the comics.
Like th w.i.p is like thwip.Oh, would they write that out?
Thwip. Whip. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty.I'm pretty sure that's how.
I'm not a comic reader. Sorry.Yeah. That's funny. Damn it.
(02:09):
Anywho. Not a Spider-Man show.@CraftBeerRepublic.
Uh, male @CraftBeerRepublic.Com all that good shit.
All right. Lots to get to.Let's stop whipping around and, uh.
All that, uh, shout out to ourtop listing city of last week,
which was actually Paso Robles,where I go all the time to drink
wine and not drink beer.I don't know if I finally said
(02:30):
the name long enough and peoplestarted listening up there.
Or they started looking at thestickers on the bathroom wall
and have been searching.Yeah, it says for a good time,
call 805 538. Beer.Oh, I should give this a try.
That's that's how I should getpeople to listen to the show.
Just do like a QR code.It says like, for a free blowjob,
(02:50):
you know, scan this QR code.It just takes you to our website,
or it takes them to Deb's Dexcom.How great would that be?
Oh, what a great website. Site. Yeah.Oh, look, there's a picture of
Spider-Man and Thwip.So anyways. Thanks.
So maybe it's just my sisterdownloading the show over and over
and over. You got a sister? Yeah.Uh, I think she's getting
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married soon, I don't know.That's fucking crazy, dude.
You know, she should do.Because, you know,
she's got child and all that stuff.She's got a kid. Yeah. It's crazy.
Happened yesterday. Unreal.Uh, she should download all the
episodes and just play them onloop so that he gets more
excited when I come over.That would make sense. Yeah.
Nothing like early education bythe @CraftBeerRepublic. Yeah.
(03:36):
Use a little uncle Greggy.Daddy! Voice. Huh?
I wanted that to sound weird.Yeah. Mission accomplished.
I went with Uncle Greggy. Daddy.And not Uncle Daddy. Greggy.
Yeah. Either way, it's not great.But you made it less greater.
That's what I'm here for. Good job.That's what they don't pay me for.
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One of these days. All right.Flex still on the, uh,
antivenom over there.So not drinking, but I will be
having a beer for you all.In fact, before I read the next
thing, I think I need a beer.I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
(04:23):
I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.God damn.
Untapped has more pop ups than afucking porn site these days.
Say what?Yeah, I am drinking thanks to intern
Brian. What a stud, by the way.Fucking stud.
I tell you what, I'm drinking pintHouse Brewing's electric jellyfish.
(04:46):
Ooh. That's a fun one. Yeah.6.5% fun can, by the way. Very fun.
I've had that one. Oh. Have you? Yes.I can't remember when I had it,
but I had it, okay?It wasn't on the show because I
looked it up before I had this,because I kind of thought I had
already drank it, and I went downthis rabbit hole and I was like,
okay, it does not exist on the show.Uh, 6.5% 73 IBUs has a 406 on
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Untappd with over 48,000 ratings.That's a lot. Jesus.
They say brewed with some of ourfavorite new hop varieties from
our favorite hop farmers citrus,Simcoe, Chinook, Yukon, Zaca,
and Galaxy. When was that written?Because none of those are new.
Electric jellyfish is filled with thebright tropical citrus character,
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along with notes of orange, mango,lychee, and a floral backbone.
The jellyfish is a hazy new schoolIPA focusing on juicy hop flavor
and aroma while keeping thebitterness balanced and refreshing.
See,I went on this whole thing today.
I was like, did I have this already?I thought I had this already.
Brian left it here on purpose soI could have it on the show,
(05:52):
and so I was certain that I alreadyhad it, and it's just been sitting
in my fridge for like a month.And so I went searching down.
Finally I texted him.I was like, hey,
didn't you leave this at my house?And then he couldn't remember
leaving it at my house,and then I had to refresh him.
Then he found it on his untapped,which had a picture of my kitchen.
So yes, he had it at my house,but, uh, apparently have not had
it on the show yet.So anyways,
I was excited to have it becausethis was one of the breweries that
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people told us we needed to go to,and we were in Austin and we did not.
We ran out of time. We just.Yeah. White House pizza.
What's it called? Pint House brewing.Pint House brewing. Okay.
Yeah, we did drive by it.It looked like a really cool spot.
It's ginormous.Big old pint house and lights
across the side. Okay.Um, but yeah, just didn't have
time for for all the beers.But anyways, here we go.
Digging in the schnoz.I'm getting some mango.
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I also get a little of thatfloral ness coming through,
but it's a real, real light onthe on the nose buds there.
Yeah, I remember I had this beer,we got, uh, a bunch of, sorry,
Texas stuff destroyed.There was like a 2 or 3 month stretch
where the place I was getting my beerfrom was getting some Texas stuff,
(06:58):
and I picked this up and I pickedup some Jester King stuff as well,
and, uh. Yeah. Yeah.Um, I'm trying to check the date
on here. I can't quite read it.Something in 25.
Hey, it's less than a year old.There you go.
It's newer than that one I had afew weeks ago, I'll tell you that.
Uh, anyways,on the on the Tongue-jobber here,
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exactly how they described it.Some orange, some mango, some of
that lychee, less floral on the,on the Tongue-jobber than on the
the nose buds there. But kind of.Like. That. Yeah, a little bit.
I don't like too much floral inmy IPAs.
Reminds me of like the oldschool bitter. Yeah.
Um, but dry and enough bitternessto keep you going back for more.
(07:40):
As you can see, properly hazed.It looks wonderful. Yeah.
Good lacing on it, too.Some pretty sexy. Sexy. Yeah.
Very nice.Uh, so thank you to interim
Brian for dropping this off.And sorry I didn't have it sooner.
I kind of thought I already had.And speaking of forgetting things,
just sitting in my fridgewaiting to be drafted.
That's actually pretty hilarious.Yeah. So, so good stuff. Uh, yeah.
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Cheers to penthouse. Thanks, Brian.You stud. Fucking stud.
Maybe one day when he hears thatwe called him a stud.
He made my day by giving me somefree beer. I tell you what.
Let's get. Rocked up.This is his birthday a couple
weeks ago, too. Happy belated.Happy belated birthday, stud.
Brian. Yeah.You know, I felt we all went out
for his birthday to this.It was a, you know, a band at a local
(08:24):
bar. It's kind of a divey type bar.I haven't been there.
You just call that live music,I don't think. Yeah. There you go.
Wasn't a concert? Yeah, it was dumb.Anyways, it was so fucking loud
because we were so close.Because we know somebody in the
band and the wife and everything.So we're sitting right next to
the band. I shit you not.It was so loud that the next day
my ears still rang, still hurt.Like anytime somebody put on music,
(08:47):
I was like, oh my God, fuckingturn it down obnoxiously loud.
Do you know how I can tellyou're old. Because of that?
That whole thing.Look, here's the thing.
I've gone to concerts where my.Like. I went to Dave's birthday.
Dave Grohl,when he did his birthday bash.
And like, basically every famousrocker came out and just fucking
shredded our ears off. Awesome.My ears rang for three days.
(09:08):
So amazing. I don't care.But this was one of those things
where because it was such a smallspace, like every time a drum or
a cymbal hit, like you just seemy eye twitch. You know, it just.
It was too much. It was not balanced.It was too much. It was too close.
It wasn't like the volume wasturned up.
It was like my face was insidehis fucking snare drum.
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Yeah, I get it, I get it.And also, I'm old.
I just like poking fun at you.Here's how I'm going to call
myself old on this.I was looking up concerts at my local
venue today because I was boredseeing if anybody was coming to town.
And I saw a concert that I clickedon. It's coming in December.
And I was reading the excerpt on it,the description, and I kept
scrolling down and it said they'readvertising or putting out there.
(09:51):
They have a new sound system.And I thought, ooh, I don't know
about that. Are you sure? Yeah.I don't know if I could I don't
know if I could take that. Yeah.Sound system. Yeah. That's so funny.
(10:12):
You fucking old fart.I know, dude. It's terrible. Oh.
God. But anyways, it was.All I was saying was so loud
that because of the noise,I wasn't able to talk to Brian.
And I was gonna buy him a couplebirthday beers.
And every time I looked down likeour our sync was off and we were
at opposite ends of the table,and it wasn't like I was like, hey,
don't drink beer when you're donewith this one so I can get you in.
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You know, it just never happens.I still owe him a couple birthday
beers. I did buy him one at trivia.Best. The best. The championship.
Oh, we had another triviachampionship last week.
Another one? Yeah. Twice a year.Do you have. Oh, twice a year.
And, uh, last time we got first.This time we got second by two
fucking points. That sucks. Yeah.We didn't miss one question.
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So how do you.Do you like wager points or.
So there's two different roundswhere if you're like one of the
first three teams to get it in,you get bonus points. Oh.
And so they clearly miss somebecause they got both bonus points.
They should have beaten us by ten,but they only beat us by two.
So they clearly missed somequestions where we didn't miss
not one question.You should almost just win by
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default for that. Thank you.Kevin, if you're listening.
To hell with the points. Right.Played an immaculate game.
So anyways, O'Brien appeared to, uh.All right, I wanted to read this.
I don't really think it fitsinto booze news.
This is more of a discussion thing,but according to the Brewers
Association, consumers are seekingfood and beyond beer options, as
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well as expanded hours at a taproom.According to a new taproom report
from the Brewers Association,breweries need to go beyond just beer
if they want to keep customers comingback. Pulling data from RV, RV.
RV. I don't know, taproom sales.The report shows that while
draught beer still dominates,food and expanded hours are
becoming bigger factors.From January 23rd to December 24th,
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draught beer and food made upnearly 80% of taproom sales.
But those sales swing hard withthe seasons.
Draught sales can drop by $7,600in slower months, and food by
nearly 5000 peak months can see15 to 20% spike, while slower ones
can fall up to 30% below average.Draught beer is also trending down,
dropping about $73 a month onaverage.
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The steepest decline acrosscategories retail,
beer and merch saw smaller drops,so to go stuff, while food sales
actually rose by $42 a month.Liquor insider also ticked up
slightly.The Brewers Association says
that the slow shift shows thevalue of diversification.
Breweries offering more food orbeyond beer options like cider
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rtds fared better in 2020.For those that did.
Saw a median production bump of 1.1%,compared to 6.5% decline across
craft segment overall.Even within beer, customers seem
to be looking for more value.Pint sales dropped double digits
year over year, while largerpours like 20 ounce and half
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liters saw modest growth, likelya sign of value seeking behavior.
Smaller pours are way down,and when it comes to hours,
Saturdays are still king.But weekdays like Monday and
Tuesday are creeping up.Taproom sticking to just Thursday
through Sunday might be missing outon some of that weekday traffic.
Bottom line beer still leading thecharge, but food flexibility and
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poor variety could help taproomstay ahead of shifting trends.
Very long way of saying, uh,we need more than just beer in
Taprooms. It leads to my question.We are obviously drinking less beer
than we did in our earlier years.Yes.
What is it that would get you ina taproom or consistently so?
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I am 100% behind the food. Right?Because if you're just going to,
I don't know, like, I feel likethe bar scene. Maybe I'm wrong.
It's like, that's gonna own mostof your drinking, right?
You don't usually go out to a breweryto just be like, oh, hey, like,
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we're gonna spend the night here.Get hammered. Right?
Also, because a lot of brewerieswill close up about eight, nine,
10:00. Sure. Yeah.I don't think any of them are
open past 10:00 by me. Okay.So I don't know what it's like
out by you. On the weekends.Some are open till 11 or 12. Okay.
But weekdays,it's usually by nine. Got it.
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So then say, you know, you'relooking for a spot to go for lunch,
and you really like your localbrewery because you love their beer,
and they got the best beer around.But it's lunchtime and they
don't got no food, right?So now you're automatically
thinking elsewhere because theydon't have food, you know.
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And same thing with like dinner.It's like, hey,
we can go get a before dinner drink.You stop at a brewery, grab a beer
or two and then go get your food.Or you can just say, hey,
we're gonna go have dinner here,grab two to 3 to 4 beers and food,
you know, spend more money,spend more time,
and then you're kind of owningthe customer in that sense. Mhm.
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You know, and then you'recompeting against anybody else
in town who's got food which isalways competition's great. Yeah.
Because now you've got food and thenovelty of fresh beer. Right, right.
And if it's good beer then evenbetter for you. Exactly.
One brewery comes, comes to mind,and I will not name names.
It's somewhere we frequent.And we like their beer.
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They don't have food and they almost,almost always have a food truck
slash pop up type food thingbecause they're smart.
They know that food will keep youthere longer, you'll buy more beer,
blah, blah blah.Here's the problem though.
Food trucks and pop ups arealways so specific. Yep.
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Like, you know, we're weirdos,we don't eat carbs and that kind
of stuff.Uh, like, this place specifically
almost always has pizza,and I'm not looking to have pizza.
And so I often will not go tothis place over somewhere else
that has normal food, you know,like abundance of options, basically
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rice salad or burger or whatever.So the food trucks just aren't
working for me anymore.Like, I feel like you need to
have like a real kitchen, okay?Or at least a food truck that's
more than just one specific item.Even if it's not pizza.
What if it's something I love?But, you know, nobody else wants
this thing, you know, like, hey,we're the salad truck.
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And I'm like, fuck yeah,it's the salad truck.
You know,I'm gonna get a chicken Cobb salad
and have nine beers tonight.Everyone else is like,
I went to a brewery.Why the fuck do I want a salad?
You know. That's what I would think.No. Yeah.
I think it's important to haveoptions.
Uh, because here's the thing.There's so many good breweries
around that we can go to, uh,like a tap house type of
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establishment that has good food.And we're bound to find a couple
beers that we're into. Oh, for sure.Which negates the need for going
to the brewery. Yeah, right.Which happens all the time. Right.
Like, you've got Eagle Park andyou're gonna go there because
they got some bomb ass fries.Absolutely. And they. Might. Have.
They have great food altogether.Yeah. Um, there's a brewery out.
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I'm gonna fucking call him outbecause it's gone downhill.
Tarantula hill.Their food is so bad now.
We used to go because we like toeat there. The beer is the same.
But I don't know what happenedin the kitchen.
It has gone downhill the lastfew times we've had food there.
It's just been bad, inconsistent.Uh, they almost always mess it up.
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And it's not like we're substitutingthings. We're ordering it as is.
You know, it's like salads.How do you.
How do you fuck up a salad? You just.Here's your list of ingredients,
dummy. Yeah.And we're just tired of it.
We won't go anywhere because wewant to.
It up or dump it out of the bag or.Right, do something.
So like we've we've kind of stoppedgoing because their food has gotten
so bad and inconsistent. Okay.Um, I hope I hope they can change
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because I used to like going thereand having food and whatnot.
So yeah, I think food is a huge deal.Rtd's don't do it for me.
One thing that made me startthinking though, was, you know,
you and I are drinking moreseltzers these days. Yeah.
Would you go to a brewery andorder a seltzer? I've done it.
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Have you? I have not. Yeah.The, uh, the last time I went up
to Eagle Park, my bartender Nerdcenter walk came up to me and asked
what beer I would like because he,you know, he knows me and he
knows what I drink.And I said, get me this, uh,
seltzer, huh? And no judgment.He just got the seltzer and we
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had a great time.And yeah, I really appreciated it.
So shouldn't be judgment,because. No matter what.
It costs, you're still spendingmoney. That's true. Yeah.
I can think of one brewery that we goto locally that does seltzers on a
regular basis, and I don't thinkI've ever ordered one from there.
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I mean, the two nearby me,like the Explorer Emporium Mall
Pub and Eagle Park.They always have seltzers every day.
Eagle Park their. Own.They're not they're not bringing
them in. Right.Eagle Park has their specto cooler,
and they usually keep 1 or 2varieties around like rotating
throughout the year. Mhm.Like they just came out with a
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Concord grape one I think I talkedabout it a couple of weeks ago.
It was phenomenal.I should have bought an entire
fridge full of that. It was unreal.Uh, but the Marlborough pub,
I've never had theirs before.They're allegedly award winning. Oh.
And, uh,they're all kind of funny names,
like, uh, the grape one. It's like.I think they're like Kool-Aid
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inspired flavors, and it's like.It's like, tastes like purple or
like, tastes like blue, and like,that's what it's called. Got it.
And it's just kind of funny inthat sense.
And but they're they're supposedto be really. Exactly right.
I typed in exploring brewpub seltzer.Yeah. And tastes like purple.
Tastes like blue.First thing that popped up. Yeah.
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So, uh, I've never had them.I probably should now that I'm
dabbling more into that area,but it's so hard to go there.
It's not that their food's bad.You know,
like when you go to a restaurantand you can tell what's like,
pre-made and what's. Once. Mhm. Mhm.You know there's nothing like
spending $20 on a frozen burgerpatty. You know that.
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You know they just took out of thefreezer and they cooked up and you're
just like oh yeah this. This was $20.I could have just did this for
free at home.And you know it just makes it
not worth it. Absolutely.I feel that so hard. It's not bad.
And some they were just muchbetter pre-COVID.
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And I think that speaks for a lot of.I think so.
Establishments which. Hill.Which you know we don't know the
variables. Right.We're not on the inside.
We're we're just a couple guys whodon't mind speaking aloud our minds.
And, uh, yeah, I think a lot ofthings were better pre-COVID and
then post-Covid, just dealing witha lot of different variables.
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And maybe it's staffing, maybe it'scosts, maybe it's prices. Who knows?
Yeah, but, you know,you bring up another good point
that I hadn't even thought about.You know,
pre-COVID things were much different,you know, in quotes better.
One thing that I really dislike,and both the aforementioned Tarantula
Hill does this and so does Firestone.They they don't have like a real
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wait staff.You scan a QR code,
you order and then it comes out,and I fucking hate it.
And I don't hate it for the oldman reasons.
You're thinking I hate it for I hateit because of things like sometimes
they come out and they literallyjust drop your food and run.
And sometimes they forget silverware.Sometimes they forget ranch.
For my French fries. They forget.Especially for French.
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They forget shit all the time.And then I've got to go, like,
literally chase someone down.And it ends up being that this
person does not work in the kitchen.And then that person's got to go
find someone who actually works inthe kitchen to go get the fucking
ranch they forgot or whatever it is.I hate it so fucking much.
It would actually cause me to gomore if they got rid of that.
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Interesting. Yeah.And I know you say like, hey,
we're not on the inside,and you're 100% right.
We don't know the goings on of arestaurant slash brewery right
now in these times.But also we're the people that
are spending money there.Like we're the demo.
Again, very accurate.So, you know, maybe not that I'm
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the end all be all,but maybe listen a little bit.
I fucking hate your ordering systems.You guys never come and check
and make sure things are cool.You forget shit all the time.
How much would it cost to just havesomebody, even if you kept that
ordering system, one extra personon staff that just went around
and was like, everything good?Or maybe the manager could train
extra train people?Yeah, he was awful with that.
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I don't know.There's a million people walking
around and none of them actuallydo anything. Um, I hate it.
I hate it so much.Eagle Park has that ordering.
Like, if you don't sit at the bar,they have all the QR codes on
the table.The people that dropped the food
off are very kind, very polite.Always ask if you need anything else.
If everything is okay. Uh.They're terrific. And get this.
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They also have this rolly cart that'skind of by, like, their soda machine.
You know, if you just. Soda.Yeah. And it's got extra napkins.
It's got to go. Boxes.It's got just about anything
extra you would need. I like. It.If something was forgotten or
you didn't have enough of it.And I think that that's they do
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not have ranch on the cart thatyou gotta order, but, uh,
but yeah, I think they they do areally great job of it.
And they could be like the standardmodel for something like that.
Yeah. Important question.What do you dipping your fries in
catsup? Oh, my God, are you serious?I love it I'm a. Freaking child. Man.
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I've loved ketchup ever since Iwas a kid, I used.
I used to dip cucumbers in ketchupto dip pickles and ketchup.
I used to open up a bag ofpotato chips and get a little
bowl of ketchup.And dip my potato chips in ketchup.
My God. Oh, man.I used to spread ketchup on bread and
eat the bread. Oh, I love ketchup.I had no idea you were a sociopath.
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Oh, yeah. I'm a freak, man.Oh my. God.
I apologize to anybody listeningright now that didn't know I was
completely outside of my gourd.I am a nut job. Hold on.
Do you put it on your eggs?I used to, yeah.
Oh, and my mac and cheese. Oh, no.Oh, yeah. What the fuck is wrong?
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Show me on the doll where they hurtyou. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. That's real.
That's how you know it's good.Good. Mac and cheese.
A little ketchup on it.No, I don't do that anymore
because I've evolved.Sure, it's because people judge you.
If no one was watching,you totally do it, wouldn't you?
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But when I was younger, man,that was a oh. No.
That was nothing like like someruffles chips, the ridges in
some ketchup. Oh. Oh, man.But yeah, ketchup and butter sandwich
was one of my favorite things when Iwas a kid. Ketchup and butter. Yeah.
You spread butter on one pieceof bread and you spread ketchup
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on the other piece of bread.You put the two pieces of bread
together, and that becomes aketchup butter sandwich.
Do you still eat this? No, but.Maybe I'll try it tomorrow and
let you know how it goes.Now, real question.
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Is that a Wisconsin thing or isthat a Flex thing?
No, I think that was just afucked up me thing. Okay.
Cause I've never heard of that.Oh, it's not a real thing.
okay at all.I see two of them at a time.
Double fisting your butter andketchup sandwiches.
They were so good.Dude, you don't even know.
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Oh, I fucking can't. Oh, wow.We've officially lost all the
listeners.Yeah, we're down to nothing.
Yeah, I'm sorry, man.Sorry, sorry. One listener.
If you're still there. Wow.Yeah, I'm trying to think what
else with ketchup.I can't remember the last time I
had ketchup. I used to put ketchup.Like, if I made, like,
a turkey or ham sandwich.I put ketchup on the sandwich, too.
(27:10):
Oh my God. Like mayo and ketchup or.No, no mayo. Just. Just ketchup.
Okay. Um. Yeah. What else? Wow. Yeah.Just your standard hot dogs,
burgers, brats on brats. Oh, man.Oh, Greg. Oh my God! You're killing.
Me! Give me all the catsup.When I get my burger.
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Uh, we got this restaurant out here.Culver's.
I don't know if it's out inCalifornia at all.
It's a little bit out nationwide.Uh, but they do burgers and
they're phenomenal.And I'll get burger or ketchup on my
burger, and then I'll come home andI'll squirt ketchup on every bite
of the burger I'm about to take.Wow. Oh, I love it. It's so good.
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Here's the only fond memory ofketchup that I have,
and I honestly, I cannot rememberthe last time I had ketchup.
It's been well over a decade,but the one fond memory of ketchup
I have is back in the day.McDonald's. You order a cheeseburger.
And when we were kids, they didn'tmake food to order at McDonald's.
They would basically store it ina heated like bin.
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And so sometimes these cheeseburgerswould sit there for 20 minutes
before you actually got to it. Okay.And it gave the ketchup this
like Almost gelatinous.You know. And like, it.
Would, like. Reduce a little.It'd be a little extra sweet,
you know, that kind of thing.And good or bad, to me,
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it tastes like childhood.And when I worked at McDonald's
in high school and into college,I guess through college, um,
they didn't do they didn't makeburgers that way anymore.
They, you know,it was all made to order.
So sometimes on my break,I would make a cheeseburger,
ketchup, you know, all the normalshit and just let it sit there for,
like, 20 minutes before my breakand then eat them like, oh, yeah,
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this is fucking childhood right here.Oh, man. That's funny.
So weird and gross.But that is gross.
That or if I was in some if Iwanted some nuggies,
I wanted to taste like childhood.Just let them sit there 20 minutes.
Boom. Tasted like I was.Never, never liked cold nuggets.
No, no, they don't get coldbecause they sit in what they,
they used to call it the hells,the hot landing zone in the.
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It's The things I wish I couldforget.
And you know,that thing was probably 100 and,
I don't know, 50 degrees or whatever.So it kept everything pleasantly
warm, but not fresh.When I was younger, I liked the,
uh, the circle nuggets over theboot shaped nuggets.
Oh, give me all the boots, man.Um, and I would again, you're gonna
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start thinking I'm like. Ketchup.Uh, I did when I was younger. Yeah.
Um. Has the best barbecue sauce.I would eat all the breading off.
Oh, my God. The nuggets then.Damn it. And then I would eat it.
I don't know why.I don't know why I'm admitting all
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of this. I don't know why either.Would you, after you ate all the
breading off, would you look at himlike he puts the lotion on his skin,
puts the ketchup on his chicken?Oh, take it off.
No, I just I would just eat the fakechicken. Wow. Yeah. The pink sludge.
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Well,we have really gotten off course.
Uh, let us know what would getyou back into whatever.
Hopefully it's not ketchup.Whew. Wow. Learned a lot.
This is very educational. Flex.Maybe.
Maybe you'll think different of me.Maybe you won't.
I think there's no way I can't.Ketchup on eggs is solid, though.
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No, I would much more be okaywith ketchup on fries or burger
or hot dog than eggs. Eggs is.Weird. Yeah. Clearly. Whew.
I still love you, though.Not a ketchup show?
No, very much not.We'll move on to some booze news.
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Uh, here's something I thoughtI'd never say.
Charlie Sheen is officially jumpinginto the Na beer game with a brand
new offering called wild AF brewing.That sounds familiar for some reason.
Wild AF brewing? Yeah.Is it full of tiger blood?
I don't know. Maybe just wild AF.Maybe. That was like a show.
(31:42):
Yeah, maybe.Uh, the Hollywood Wild Card has
teamed up with Harpoon Brewery anda branding firm called the silent
Group to launch the new line,starting with a flagship and a
lager called Cold Gold Sheen.Now, eight years sober,
says he's tried every non-alcoholicbeer on the market and wanted to
make one that didn't suck his exist.His exact quote, wild AF is for
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people who believe that morningbelongs to the night before.
All right.The beer is available now for
pre-order in six,12 and 24 packs online,
with shipping starting November,just in time for the holidays.
And our least favorite.Does that mean, like,
you should be able to wake upand just drink this right away?
Is it that or because you didn'twreck yourself the night before?
(32:25):
You've still got the morning.Like you're not hungover. Right.
Okay. I don't fucking know.It's Charlie Sheen.
I didn't know he was eight yearssober. I didn't either.
I'm very surprised to hear that.Have you seen his new documentary?
No.Oh, I have yet to see it, but I
hear really good things about it.I really want to watch it.
Are you still crazy?Yeah, but not on drugs. Crazy.
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Just crazy. Crazy. Oh, okay.That's crazy.
Just naturally crazy. Yeah.Do you remember when he was, like,
at the peak of his drugs? Crazy.And he did a whole thing where
he was searching for an intern?Uh, I might have missed this.
Okay, this sounds awesome.Must have been, like, 2010 ish.
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If I had to guess.Definitely don't remember this. Okay.
The whole thing that was like,mid like Tiger Blood and winning
in those days.And he's like, I'm looking for
an intern. And I applied.I thought, you know what?
I hated my job at the time.I was making very little money
and my boss was a dick.I was like, you know, I'll go
fucking be a tiger blood intern.And at the very least,
maybe I could get some social credand get some followers or whatever,
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you know. And I applied.I actually made it to the second
round of interviews. No way.Yeah. Damn. That's awesome.
Then after that, no. No bueno.I had to sign up for a Twitter
account just for that, though.That was the first time I ever
signed up for Twitter.Was because the internships.
So then it was like a race to,like, I need to create a bunch
of tweets and be funny.Oh,
because I was part of the interview.Yeah, it was to like run his social
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media stuff was part of the the gig.So and I already had like Facebook
and Gram I think or whatever.Probably still Myspace at that time.
Yeah. Maybe winning. Um, but yeah.So all that to say, fuck you.
Twitter.Island brands, the co-founders
face in an investor lawsuit andnew owners take over Lisa Pollner
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and Caleb Fournier, a wife andhusband duo who befriended Island
co-founders Scott and Megan Hansen,claimed the Hansens breached their
fiduciary fiduciary, fiduciary.Your trigger duty and committed
fraud by using hundreds of thousandsof dollars invested in the lager
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brand for personal benefit.The lawsuit, which was filed
August 28th in the ninth JudicialCircuit in South Carolina.
Charleston County,also names Mota and Padgett Thomas
limited liability companies inCharleston as defendants.
The plaintiffs relationship withAB ABH began in 2018,
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when the Hansons invited them toinvest in Island Brands, a disruptive
lifestyle brand with premium productsacross multiple segments in the
adult beverage space, accordingto a now closed crowdfunding
campaign on Start Engine.Between June of 2018 and February
of 2019, Pollner and Fournier gavethe Hansons a total of $500,000
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that they mistakenly believed wasbeing invested into ABH via an
account owned by Paget Thomas LLC.Instead of using the money for
fledgling beer brand,the plaintiffs allege that the
Hansens spent it on vacations,as well as an online subscription
for Netflix and Xbox, paid fortheir groceries and medicines,
gas and Starbucks and fancy meals.After ABH was dissolved,
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an unaffiliated third party privateinvestment group acquired Island
Brands and produces it for thesoutheastern US and Caribbean.
You're just blindly giving 500grand to some weird alcohol brand.
Yeah, that's kind of crazy.That is kind of crazy.
I could be a blind alcohol brand.Anybody want to give me $500,000?
Yeah. Samesies.Uh,
(36:06):
the Flex and Greg alcohol company.You should invest today. Yeah.
Please do. We're gonna do big things.The biggest. Yes. It's gonna be huge.
Also, uh, judicial system.No quicker way to tell if you're
drunk than by making someone sayjudicial system. Yeah, that's.
(36:27):
Why would you do that? Yeah.Old, old Dana Carvey joke.
Sorry, everyone. Judicial system.It's so funny you said that.
Because every time I hear that word,that's what I think of. Is it really?
Yeah. And that's why we're friends.Yeah. Chopping broccoli.
Uh, outdated state laws arescrewing over small breweries.
And the Brewers Associationwants the DOJ to step in.
(36:49):
The Brewers Association is callingout a trio of state level beer laws
that they say are crushing smallbrewers and protecting the big guys.
Also,anytime I hear big guys or like,
good guys, I always think of ScottHall taking a survey. Yeah, one.
More, one more for the good guys.Uh, in a letter to US Department
of Justice this week,BA vp mark Cerini described certain
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franchise laws, the three tiersystem and territory exclusivity as,
quote, thinly veiled mechanismsfor favoring large entrenched
economic actors at the expense ofconsumers and healthy competition.
Translation these laws make itharder and more expensive for
small breweries to do business,especially when trying to get
out of bad distribution deals orexpand to new markets.
(37:35):
The Bay is asking the DOJ toinvestigate how these outdated
laws are messing with theeconomy and interstate commerce.
This could have a major impacton more than 5000 breweries,
along with the Brewers Association,most of which are independently
owned by small producers.This is what I've been bitching
about for years.We harp on this all the time.
Yeah, Budweiser's basically set thelaws back as prohibition was ending.
(37:59):
For some reason, Budweiser wasallowed to write half the laws,
and that's why we have the threetiered system and the territory stuff
and all the distribution rules.And it's about time to get rid of
that bullshit. Agreed? Agreed.You know, you know, they were able to
write all of it because they justprobably paid everybody off. Right?
(38:19):
I mean, they're. All the politicians.Yeah. Filthy rich. Filthy rich.
Uh, we'll end it on this one.A Michigan man has a loud
argument and an even louder BAC.Police in Saginaw responded to
reports. Is that right? Yeah. Okay.Respond to reports of gunfire in a
quiet West Side neighborhood justafter midnight on September 17th.
(38:43):
Officers already nearby saidthey heard three shots ring out
and followed the sound to ahouse on Greenwich Street.
That's where 59 year old MichaelT Kraft cheese. What a name.
What a name!Stepped out to meet them with
what he claimed was a perfectlyreasonable explanation.
It wasn't gunfire, it was fireworks.But after a few more questions,
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that story started to fizzle out.Kraft eventually admitted he'd
fired a handgun,allegedly because he was, quote,
having troubles with his neighbor.Oh. It's the first thing I do.
Reasonable, yeah.Neighbors being a dick.
Where's my gun?He then led officers into the
home where they found a gunsitting on the couch.
(39:27):
Then came his breathalyzer test.Oh, boy. You want to guess?
Um, first of all, the best place toever keep a gun is on your couch.
Obviously. Easy access. Clearly.Uh. Loud. Back. Loud thinking.
Sub three. Two. Correct.Um, because that's way too loud.
(39:50):
But it's got to be more thandouble the limit. Also correct.
So I'm trying to narrow this in andwe'll meet at like a happy medium of
like a 0.25. Oh my .258. Look at you.Wow. Wow. It goes on for context.
Michigan considers anything overa 0.17 to be, quote,
super drunk. No way.I'll get back to that in a second.
(40:14):
After his arrest, things got evenworse at the hospital, where
craft reportedly became verballyaggressive and charged at officers.
He's now facing charges of firearm,possession of the influence, reckless
discharge and resisting police.He was released on $700 bond and
is due back in court October 3rd.No one was hurt,
but based on the back,we're guessing the neighbors weren't
the only ones dodging bullets. Okay.Super drunk. I looked this up.
(40:36):
It's a real fucking thing.I thought,
this must be them being cutesy whenthey wrote the article or something,
right? That's what I thought.Super drunk is a real legal
designation in some states.In Michigan,
they passed the law known as theSuper Drunk Law back in 2010.
It targets people who are caughtdriving with a BAC of 0.17 or higher,
(41:00):
which is more than twice thelegal limit.
So do you only have to get caughtdrinking or driving with the BAC
to be considered super drunk?Or is that just like 0.17 is
considered super drunk?So I think 0.17 is considered super
drunk, but where it becomes effectivein terms of charging someone.
(41:21):
Is the driving. Yeah.I think if you know you're drunk
in public and super drunk,you're probably not going to face
much more than you normally would.But if you're caught, if you're
caught driving and you're overdouble the legal limit now, they can
really stick it up your ass. Got it.So yeah, I was like, what a legal
sounding term. Super drunk. I mean.Super is just like a adjective
(41:48):
meaning like.It's like, I mean, it it works,
right? You know, like. Yeah.Hey, you know what?
Flex was super drunk at the Packersgame a couple of weeks ago. No.
No joke.That was the first thing that crossed
my mind, man. Super drunk. Oh, yeah.Definitely super drunk. Yeah.
(42:09):
Might have blown that 0.17. Yeah.The good thing I was not driving.
Yes. Yeah.That's like I've told this before,
but it's been a while.That's like the time I went to a
Padres game and we walked outside andthey were doing breathalyzer tests,
and it was like as a, you know,know your limit kind of thing.
No one was being arrested becauseit wasn't any of the cars were
right and we weren't driving.So I was like, I don't care what
(42:33):
I blow, doesn't matter.And so we walk up and they asked you,
the cops like, hey,what do you think you're gonna go?
And the wife goes, I think I'm gonnabe right at the legal limit, you
know, .08, maybe nine. And she blew.She was right on the money .08.
And they go, hey,what do you think you are?
And I was like,I'm definitely not legal to drive,
let's say like a 0.12.And I blew and it was like a
(42:55):
0.18 or something like that.Cops like, I hope you're not driving.
I was like, I wasn't planning on it.Definitely not.
Now you don't have to worry about me.I just was here for the the show
of doing a breathalyzer. Boy.Blue. Super drunk. Yep. Whoops.
Don't go to Michigan.It's like going supersonic or
(43:16):
something.Like he's about to go super drunk.
Everybody.You guys hear Greg got got super
drunk last night. Again.Oh, man. Yeah. Good times. So.
All right, let's, uh, let's say wewrap things up. Yeah. Right on.
All right, I'm gonna say hi toVanessa. Hello, Vanessa.
Hi, there. Two weeks in a row.No Florida stories. Ooh.
(43:38):
Sad day, dry spell.Uh, follow us on the socials.
@CraftBeerRepublic mail@CraftBeerRepublic. Com. 80553 beer.
2337. All of that good stuff.Maybe by next week,
not only will Flex be drinking,but also be in the whip. Whip.
Whip, whip.I didn't even know that was a thing.
(44:01):
Uh, so anyways, hope everyone outthere is staying very well hydrated.
And on that note.Good night everybody.
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