August 27, 2025 • 32 mins
Flex ditched us for baseball, so Greg called in the big guns—his wife Shannon’s back behind the mic! While he drinks against doctor's orders, they dive into Denver beer adventures, reflect on the magic of Odell, and realize maybe... just maybe... “Krush” is a pretty great name for a hop. There’s also some pineapple sculpin slander, an airport golf cart chase, and a beer that tastes suspiciously like fake orange juice. It’s basically date night with more booze and fewer vegetables.
Beers We’re Drinking:
Greg & Shannon – Grateful Dead by Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, with its fake fruit juice vibes, but drinkable nature.
With Flex off duty, Shannon steps in to co-host—and instantly catches Greg breaking post-surgery rules with a beer in hand. They dive into their brewery-filled Colorado trip, giving props to Fossil, Full Frame, and a surprise rekindling with Odell. Greg rants about hop names (with love), and Shannon talks through what actually makes a neighborhood brewery feel like home. There’s also the unforgettable moment she refuses a free pineapple Sculpin to the face of a beer rep—because not all free beer is good beer. Also, someone may have once drank beer and gone trampoline hopping. Mistakes were made.
Booze News
- Ballast Point’s Back… Again? New investors, same identity crisis.
- BrewDog Drama Continues Co-founder Martin Dickie exits stage left.
- Spindrift Spiked Dies Quietly Guess nobody wanted that after all.
- Airport Grand Theft Golf Cart Drunk traveler goes full GTA at Buffalo Niagara.
- Beer Mile King Rules Again Corey Bellemore runs fast and drinks faster.
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(00:15):
Welcome in, everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I am not beingjoined by Flex tonight, but, uh,
some might say just as buff.Uh, and that's my wife, Shannon.
Hi. Hi.It has been a very long time since
I forced you to get in front ofa microphone. Yes. Very long.
(00:37):
Are you super comfortable andglad you're doing this?
Uh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. No.Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Whatever.
Uh, we've had multiple requests,uh, especially from Nick,
to have you on the show,because your voice is so soothing
and you're so nice to listen toand all these other things that
I haven't figured out yet.I mean, that's nice to hear.
Yeah. So here it is.Everybody I know Mel always
(00:59):
wants you on the show too.Here she is stepping in for Flex.
Who?That motherfucker got some Brewers
tickets, and I was gonna get madabout it because I was like,
it's a Brewers.It's not even a good team. Yeah.
And then I was reminded they'rein first place. Oh.
So they better win tonight then.If he's missing the show for this.
Yeah. Otherwise he's fired.They're fired. Well, no. He's fired.
(01:24):
Because the Brewers I see. Yeah.They're both fired. Yeah.
Stupid team. And they're stupid.He doesn't like their park.
Stupid. Anyways.Follow us on the socials,
@CraftBeerRepublic. Don't follow her.She's private, so I don't even
tell you where to find it.Uh, male @CraftBeerRepublic.
Com and 853 beer is our number.We got a lot to get to tonight.
Uh, it's going to be a littledifferent show since, uh, you know,
(01:46):
a little different dynamic.But we got some booze news.
We got some beers to drink.All the fun stuff, as per usual.
In fact, uh, our first beer hasbeen donated to us.
Oh, by one intern, Brian.Nice shout out to intern Brian's
wife, Deb.As we all know,
we drank so hard with her lastweek that she had to get surgery,
(02:08):
so I hope she's recovering well.It's partially true.
Uh, let's get to the beer.I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.So, thanks to intern Brian,
(02:33):
we're drinking grateful deadfrom Dogfish Head Craft Brewery,
5.3% 30 IBUs, has a 3.8 anduntapped with over 30,000 ratings.
It's a juicy pale ale.They say, clocking in at 5.3%.
Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale isbrewed with kernza grains,
granola and heaps of good karmafor refreshing, light bodied beer
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that will leave you with nothingleft to do but smile, smile, smile.
The addition of El Dorado andAzacca hops bring waves of
tropical pineapple, mango andpassion fruit notes for a vibrant
tapestry of alluring aromas andflavors that just keep truckin.
SIP after refreshing sip.So go on and grab a pint of this
goodness to take a melodious sipfor your taste buds. Yeah.
(03:21):
Full disclosure disclosure Briangave it to us because he said it was
absolute garbage and he wanted us tohave another show to talk about it.
It's so popular though.How could it be garbage?
Yeah, 3.8 with 30,000 ratings.I mean, it's not amazing,
but it's not horrendous.It's sort of slightly above middle
of the road. Yeah. For sure.I mean,
you definitely smell the tropical.I don't really get a whole lot
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on the nose. Really I do.It's like very juicy,
but it's like very fruit juice.Almost tastes or not taste.
Almost smells like a fake juicesmell. Yeah. On the Tongue-jobber.
Honestly, it's not that bad.No, it's pretty light. Pretty light.
A lot of that tropical, um, someof that orange I think is shining
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through with some citrus there. Yeah.Not real piney or dank or anything.
I would think. Pale ale drinkers.This is not their beer.
Because it's too strong or notstrong. Not strong enough.
Not not pale ale enough.There should still be some hop to it.
Oh, you're not getting enough light.I'm not getting. Enough.
(04:25):
Or bite. No. It's too I get it.Honestly, I drink it.
So that tells you there's notenough hop in it.
Well, it could be like a hazy pale,which it kind of is.
They say juicy. Juicy, hazy.Yeah, but I mean, it's not clear.
I think they meant for it to behazier.
Uh, honestly, Brian, I hate todisagree with you here, but, uh,
not that bad. Yeah, not bad at all.I wouldn't buy it. Oh, no. But.
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I mean,but I wouldn't buy a juicy pale ale.
That's fair, but I wouldn't drink it.Flex and I's new rating system is.
Would you go back for a four pack?No, I would not. I have the one.
I'm fine with it.I don't need to drink this ever
again, but I don't need to pourit out either.
In fact,I even brought a second beer for us
(05:08):
to have in case this was garbage.But I guess we don't need it.
Maybe we'll have it for the nextshow or something.
Or just on a random Tuesday night.So anyways, thanks to intern for the,
uh, for the donation, but sorry wedidn't hate it as much as as you did.
The kernza hop thing can be gross.I've had a couple.
It's this new, you know, sustainable,easy, not easy to grow, but, like,
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regenerative hop or not hop.Excuse me?
Grain that they're trying tobrew more with.
And a lot of times they do havelike a weird off flavor.
And as I sit here talking and notdrinking, I get this weird like
feeling on my tongue that I'm notused to. It's not a flavor, though.
It's like a weird stickiness.It feels.
It feels slash taste like fake fruitjuice to me. Yeah, maybe that's it.
(05:52):
The way that, like, you havemanufactured orange juice that is
not Actual orange juice. Yeah.Like McDonald's orange juice or
something? Yeah. That's kind of.That's what I'm getting from it.
Yeah.Maybe the longer it sits, the worse.
Like, if you don't drink it ice cold,it's just kind of barfy. Yeah.
Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see.I could definitely see that
(06:12):
happening. Yeah.I'll let you know in 20 minutes
for wrapping up the show.Uh, so. Yeah. So there's that.
Oh, I'm not really supposed to bedrinking today. Whoops. Whoopsie.
Oh, well, I had a procedure done onthe top of my head. I had a thing.
I hit that age where, like, you havethings removed now. Little bumps.
It was a little bump on the topof my head, and I forgot.
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I'm not supposed to be drinkingtoday.
Oh, well, I waited to tell mywife until we were on air so she
wouldn't get mad at me.Yeah, so I can't be mad about it.
Yeah, she can't say anything now.Uh. Top listing city.
Last week, shout out North Hollywood.Thanks for keeping it local.
What's up guys.Hope you're enjoying the show in
North Hollywood. That's awesome.Oh, and I needed to see fucking Flex
(06:54):
and his number one super fan brewers.Uh number one fan, uh, HPC 586 is a
hop that Flex and I absolutely love.And it has been called HPC 586
forever and a day because when it'sexperimental, they give it numbers.
They wait until it's, like,commercially available.
Uh, in fact,Jan from OMF was talking a lot about
(07:16):
like commercially available hopsversus non and all that stuff.
Anyways, uh, last week Erica hada beer that had the descriptions,
you know, 586 blah blah, blah, Flexand I went into an all out fucking
tirade because we were so tired ofthis delicious hop not having a name.
Yeah, it's about fucking time.It has. Earned it. It's horseshit.
Yeah. Turns out we were wrong.Got a name last year.
(07:37):
Uh, so you're just behind?We're just dumb. Yeah.
HPC 586 is crush with a K, so if yousee crush hops, it's the same thing.
I even found a timeline of,like, when this all went down.
So in 2007, HPC 586 was firstbred by the Hop Breeding company.
I didn't know that was a thing.This hop was designed for bold,
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tropical aromas with peach,mango and guava vibes.
From 2018 to 2023,HBC 56 becomes widely used in
pilot and commercial batchesunder its experimental number.
Brewers loved it,but it still doesn't.
Didn't have a name,just a number. August 13th, 2024.
Almost exactly a year ago,HBC 586 finally gets a name crush
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after 17 years from breeding andabout five years in heavy use,
it officially was commercialized.Today, any beer labeled with crush is
using what we all know and brewedwith as HBC 586 same hop, new name
years and years in the making.Well, I'm glad you like it
because that's a cool name.Funny, I was going to ask you
(08:41):
what you thought about the name.Yeah, I like it. Crush.
Yeah, with a K. With a K. Yeah.I don't know.
I mean, they gotta run out ofnames eventually.
It feels very Californian to me.True it to me, it evokes thoughts
of surfing. Roofing, right?Um, I don't know why that annoys me
for a hop, because. I have a guava.I that all plays well to me.
(09:03):
That's true.Got some guava mango peach vibes.
Yeah, I guess, I guess it's sortof Hawaii. Yeah. Or something.
I don't know,I just I didn't it felt a little
like bah bah bah bah in terms of.It's better than Nelson. Some dude.
I know it's the bully from TheSimpsons. Yeah.
Yeah, I guess you're right.But Nelson's full name is Nelson
(09:27):
Sauvin. Does that make it any better?No. Okay.
Because, like, Motueka is such a coolname that still nobody can decide on
how to properly say it, but. Right.Keeps itself popular with the
controversy.Nobody's mispronouncing crush.
That is for sure.There's also a wrestler like,
back in the early 90s named crush.Oh, sure. Who's your favorite?
Yes. For sure. Yeah.This will surprise you.
(09:49):
His character was a surfer.What? Yeah. So, uh, anyways.
Was he from California or fromHawaii?
It's probably one of those thingswhere he was billed from California
and or Hawaii, but was probablyfrom like Iowa or some shit. Yeah.
Uh, back in the like, when Hulk Hoganwas running wild in his popular days,
they built him from, like,Hollywood, California.
(10:11):
He was born in Florida orsomething like that.
Like, they do that all the time. Yep.Just completely reinvent people.
Yeah.And it's always funny because
they'll have the accent of, like,wherever they're actually from.
It's like, oh, you can tell thisdude's from Boston, from Hollywood,
California. Forget about it.Um, anyways, so that's crush.
(10:31):
Uh, let us I want to know what youguys think the name kind of for me.
So email us or Instagram us orsomething.
Did you have a different name inmind?
No, but I we just like it so much,it feels like it needs, like,
the royal treatment. I don't know.And I don't even know where I would
go. Like, I, you know, the best.Hop around. 586. Yeah.
(10:56):
The goat, the goat. Hop goat. Yeah.Like that sounds a little farmhousey.
Yeah. Um, I don't know.Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I'm not a good namer of things Idid okay with with my collab beers.
Well, I only got to name one of them.The other one I was over written on.
These guavas are making me thirstyis a good name. It is a good name.
Yeah. Seinfeld fans. Yeah.What was the other one?
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Morning watch? Yeah.Yeah, I got over.
I wanted, uh, righting the shipbecause it's a good hangover. Beer.
You know, you gotta write that ship.Mhm. R-i-g-h-t not w.
Yeah, well,I figured we had you on, um,
we did a lot of drinking in Denver.Yeah, a lot. Of beer drinking.
Just a lot of drinking in general,but a lot of beer drinking.
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We drink less beer when we're at homethese days, but we still do a lot
of research when we're on trips.Uh, like when we're in Austin earlier
this year, we did a ton of research.I think we did, like an entire day
of ubering to different breweries.That we did. That was a good day.
I figured I would talk to youabout some of our favorite beers
on the trip.I've talked about, like, of course,
the interview with Jan and going toOMF, and I think I ran through the
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whole basically map of where we went,good and bad, mostly good.
What were some of your standouts?Just in Denver or in Colorado?
I could do the whole Colorado trip.We started in the Springs, went
to Denver, ended in Fort Collins.Yeah, I mean, in Colorado Springs.
Fossil is always my favorite.Yeah. Really good.
There's always a couple beers ontheir menu that are awesome,
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and I think they do a really goodjob of having a variety that will
sort of hit any beer drinker. Yeah.Um, in Denver, I mean,
it was cool to check out Alice'snew brewery. Oh. Full frame.
Yeah, formerly Jagged Mountain.Yeah. That was really cool.
And they were doing trivia whilewe were there, so that was fun.
Yeah, we caught the end of it.We did not participate.
(12:50):
Everybody caught a few trivias.I did talk. About.
Our various one at fossil one at the,uh, the place in Fort Collins.
The name will come back to me at somepoint. Something with a farm in it.
Jess. Jess. Jessup. Jessup farms.Yeah. Yeah. Sorry not to jump ahead.
Yeah. Um. Full frame. Yeah.Full frame was great.
(13:10):
Honestly, the Odell's there.Um, yeah.
It was sort of like it came back tome. We clearly have had it before.
What was the. The sour you had?It's more like a gosa.
It's very light. It's pink.I can picture the can.
I'm gonna look this up.It's not the rambler sipping pretty.
(13:30):
Yes.It is a lightly tart with guava,
elderberry and acai berry sourfruited ale. Yeah.
I mean,we had that a couple years ago,
and it was. Cold Lake. Beer. It was.It was the beer of the summer.
It was amazing.And finding that again at
Odell's and trying out some oftheir other beers on tap.
I was very pleasantly surprisedby that brewery.
(13:54):
Yeah, this sort of, you know,sometimes when breweries get big,
you know, I think of Sierra Nevadaor stone pre sell out that kind of
thing. You go oh it's it's big.It's you know, you don't really
think about like I gotta check outtheir taproom but we'd never been.
So we stumbled in and everythingwe had was actually really good.
And I was like, oh,I forget Odell puts out good beer.
(14:15):
Yeah, I felt bad because I kindof just write them off because
of their size. Yeah.And their beer tender was great.
Really knowledgeable,made recommendations. Yeah.
Really engaging with everybody.I think somebody wanted to try
one of the other sours.So she just like spread the love
and everyone got a little alittle taster of it.
And or maybe it was you that wantedto try it. Yeah it was. It was you.
Yeah. Your sour whore. Yeah.And so then she gave everyone some.
(14:38):
And so that was cool. Yeah.Odell was good. Um, bierstadt's.
Classic. Yeah. You can't go wrong.No sausage and beer with an eye.
Mhm. Anything else? Stand out.I liked hello in Fort Collins.
Yeah. Hello. Was cool.It was like a little house.
Yeah, that spot was awesome.We got to sit on the front porch.
Wish we had more time for that spot.It was a little on the hoppy side for
(15:02):
me. Shucks. But still very drinkable.Yeah, yeah, it was good stuff.
Anything else? No pressure.I don't think so.
Yeah, I did talk about thatbrewery we stumbled into by
accident in Colorado Springs.Name, of course, is escaping me now.
Let's go back a couple episodes,everybody.
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But it was a total accident,and the beer ended up being pretty
good. Yeah, it wasn't bad. Yeah.Uh, I would,
I would definitely revisit.I thought it was interesting that
had a lot of locals at the brewery,and they were talking about
other breweries that were andweren't their favorites and
where they liked to drink.And you could you could tell
that they have their own littlebeer scene going on. Yeah.
(15:43):
Usually a good way to find outwhat's good.
Go to the sit up next to the baror listen to the locals talk
about their shit. Mhm.Kind of like when we were at Radiant.
Hey anything good around here?Yeah, everywhere is really good. Oh.
Where's that? Mm. No. The brewery.It's called everywhere. Uh, yeah.
Well. Good. Shit. Yeah, we did some.We did some good research while
in Denver.And ten out of ten would recommend.
(16:06):
Absolutely.We got fat and hammered at a
fancy dinner. And.The best concert of my life.
I've talked about this on theshow already, so I won't bore
everybody with details, but.It was pretty awesome.
Tears were shed. Yeah, I'm a biatch.Let's, uh, let's move ourselves
on to a little news.Everyone's favorite Ballast
Point takes on new investors.Ballast point has new local
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investors in its ownership group,according to San Diego Beer News.
Shout out Brandon.Uh, Hospitality Force RMD Group and
boutique investment firm CypressAscendant have taken shares in
the brewery and the investors whofacilitated the bombshell acquisition
of Ballast Point from constellationback in 2019 have exited.
Richard Mahoney, former chairmanof the board for the wine group,
(16:52):
has, uh, was the lead investor inKings and Convicts acquisition.
He served as board director forKings and Convicts from
March 2016 to May 2025.According to his LinkedIn profile,
it's been an eventful decade forBallast Point, arguably the darling
of the booming San Diego craftscene when it was acquired by
constellation for $1 billion in.You remember what year this was,
(17:13):
2017? I always want to say 16.It's 15. Oh.
After four years of tanking volume,constellation offloaded the brewery
to the Unknown Kings and Convicts,a tiny Chicago based brewery fronted
by Brendan Waters and Chris Bradley.Waters told San Diego Beer News,
it's a completely differentanimal this time.
Our new partners know how to doretail and merchandising very
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well and have actually beenbehind the scenes collaborators
of ours for years.They'll be bringing in
tremendous management experienceand take a lot off my table.
For Ballast Point's Taprooms arelisted among armed groups
bookable venues on the company'sevents website.
So we've all heard the storyabout his point.
Got bought out for way too muchmoney.
I think they lost to the Kings andConvicts guy in a golf game or
(17:59):
something, because why else wouldthey sold for a billion and then sold
for I think it ended up being like62 million or something like that.
Clearly it was a rich gentleman'sbet on a golf course. Mhm.
Uh, and then now being takenover by a different group.
Ballast point has had a hard timeat least seemingly recovering from
going big. Yeah. They got bought out.Like I don't think of Ballast
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Point as Kraft,even though technically they are.
Well, I don't know if they will bewith this new conglomerate of owners.
It's weird. Gray area rules.I guess they probably technically,
uh, I'd have to look into that.Anyways, they definitely were with
kings and convicts taking them over,but I had a hard time going back like
they, I don't know, their reputationwas such shit after all that.
(18:43):
And they're still, you know,the joke.
Whenever you have a fruity IPA like,oh, it's Watermelon Sculpin or
something like that.Just, I mean,
their beer was never my go to.Yeah, like sculpin was always the
fucking pine tree toothbrush.No, I mean, I liked the beer
that was made at the brewery.The stuff they didn't distribute.
(19:04):
Yeah, I've talked about that acouple of times.
I mean, we were there for yourwork thing, and, uh, luckily,
we got to do the good tour.Right. Over at, uh. Ale Smith.
Smith. Thank you.And since we, uh, won that coin toss,
then we got to just sit out inthe lobby at Bell's point.
But when my favorite part of thestory is, you know,
they brought out, like, samples,like, here you guys go,
(19:25):
here's a sculpin and here's a,you know, fucking dry hopped in
dipshit IPA and whatever.When they came over with one of them,
you took one whiff and you looked atthe girls handing it out and you're
like, is this pineapple sculpin?She goes, yeah, why?
And your face is why I married you.It was fantastically disgusted.
(19:46):
You're like, no thanks.And you set it back on her tray.
And I don't think she's ever hadthat reaction before.
Like no one's ever given up.Free beer.
Yeah, and I don't think anybodyto her face has ever said
pineapple sculpin is garbage,even though it is. Yeah.
She didn't know what to do with it,but luckily that turned into.
We'll go to the bar, here's aticket and get whatever you want.
(20:06):
Yeah, and I got to try all theGerman beers.
Yeah, we got, like, the Kolsch.And I think there was a dunkel
and dunkel. Dunkel?A couple other German type beers,
and they were actually pretty.Not bad. Pretty. I would buy again.
Yeah, they were very drinkable. Yeah.And that was like in 2018 or
something.But to me,
Ballast Point just hasn't grown.Ironically, they've grown in size.
(20:30):
They've they distribute,they do all this stuff.
But I don't really think thattheir beer has evolved.
Evolved at all. Yeah.I don't see like a hazy sculpin.
Yeah.And I'm not saying I'm not saying
you have to make all new beers allthe time, because I think there's
value to having core beers thatpeople can rely on and go for.
But how do you get new people?And also they haven't changed
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their cause in a decade.And like they're still pushing
out different sculpin variants.And it's like even the straight
up sculpin where back in the day,like, yeah, it was a good IPA.
A it's changed, it's not as good.And B it's like people aren't
drinking hoppy loaves of breadanymore, right?
If they want a West Coast,they want a lighter west coast with
like a lot of pilsner malt in it.Not a fucking brown ale with hops.
(21:17):
Yeah.So yeah, you're right,
it feels like they haven't evolved.Is there anything they could do to
sort of regain some craft cred?I think they need to open some
smaller taprooms.Okay,
get away from the Disneyland model.Everything they open is huge, right?
And it seems not focused on beer.It seems focused on like food and
(21:40):
experience, you know, kind of likeentertainment. Entertainment. Yeah.
And I'm not saying that thatkind of location is bad. Sure.
But if you're trying to really appealto locals, and the people don't
want to deal with difficult parkingand you know they will for a one
time thing once or twice a year.Or events or whatever.
(22:01):
Nobody's going there to just have abeer on their way home from work.
Right? You know, and a.Local giant three story brewery.
Yeah.And I think that there's kind of
been a move towards people reallyfinding their local brewery, kind of
that old pub kind of style. Yeah.It's kind of like what Cameron's
(22:24):
doing. Yeah.I can't think of the helix. Helix?
Yeah. Uh, yeah. That's his.He doesn't even distribute. Yeah.
He has a couple kegs out tofriendly places.
Knotty pine here. Right? It's.It's where she has a bunch of
regulars who come and hang out.And occasionally other people
come through as well.But some are better than others. Yes.
But Michael's one of our favorites.Yeah, absolutely.
(22:46):
Shout out to Michael. Uh, yeah.I don't know how they repair their,
reputation at this point? Yes.Smaller might be good.
I just, I think, I don't know,a new name.
Like I shudder when I see I'm like,oh, Ballast Point. No. I'm good.
Give me a seltzer.I mean, maybe they need to spin
off a brand like, you know,Firestone has 805, and that's kind
(23:08):
of almost become its own label.Was it the brewery has offshoot?
If you want a hoppy brewery beer,it's offshoot. Yeah.
That kind of thing. Yeah, maybe.Maybe they maybe they need to spin
off, like their German beers.Yeah. The ballast point.
It could be like Munich Cove.I don't know, it's trying to work
water into German, I see. Yeah.Failed miserably. Uh. All right.
(23:31):
BrewDog co-founder Martin Dickieresigns abruptly.
You remember all the bullshitwith BrewDog, right?
And how they're kind of assholesand definitely on the naughty list.
Oh, yes. Yeah. Uh.BrewDog co-founder Martin Dickie has
abruptly resigned from the company,surprising many within the
organization.One employee described the move
as out of the blue and noofficial reason has been given.
(23:51):
Dickey wrote in an email tostaff obtained by The National.
This business has been my lifefor the past 18 years and I have
enjoyed almost every minute.I've been inspired by and loved
working with, and learning from somany interesting people who have
worked in our business over theyears from all over the world.
This marks yet another highlevel departure at BrewDog.
What stepped down as CEO in Mayof 24 after allegations of
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inappropriate behaviour and toxic,toxic workplace culture surfaced
in a 2022 BBC documentary.His successor, James Arrow,
lasted less than a year beforeresigning in January of 2025,
and former CFO James Taylor tookover as CEO in March,
and CMO Lauren Carroll waspromoted to COO at the same time.
(24:33):
Dickey remains Brewdog's thirdlargest individual shareholder,
holding 21% of the company,just behind Watt and private
equity firm TSG.The largest stake, 29%,
is held by crowdfunding investorsand other shareholders.
His resignation comes as BrewDogcontinues to struggle in the UK
market.The brand has reportedly lost nearly
2000 on premise accounts over thelast two years, and hasn't turned
(24:57):
a pre-tax profit since 2019. Wow.Yikes. pre-COVID. pre-COVID. Wow.
People, uh, you know, put their moneywhere their values are these days.
That has become very apparent. Yeah.No matter what side of whatever
aisle you're on,God forbid you change your logo.
Have you ever had the SpindriftSeltzers? No. Me neither.
(25:19):
But apparently they'rediscontinuing them. Oh, Spindrift.
So they were really popular. I.Guess. Yeah.
Spindrift is exiting the boozebusiness and shutting down its
Spindrift Spiked brand, choosingjust to stick with regular seltzers.
Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Never had it.Never saw anybody drink it.
I think I know why. Yeah.So this is not shocking. Mhm.
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Doesn't seem like it.Uh a drunk traveler steals golf
cart and goes on a destructivejoyride at buy at Buffalo
Niagara International airport.Wyoming resident tracks Wyoming
resident Kevin Sinning is accusedof commandeering an electric golf
cart and plowing the vehicle intoa moving walkway as he unleashed
mayhem inside the terminal justbefore 1 a.m. on July 28th.
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Cynnig, 29,was captured on video breaking
the glass panelling while airportworkers pleaded for him to stop.
According to a witness video, hefreed the cart from one side of the
walkway and then careened toward theend of the other two level terminal.
I think he's drunk,one witness said in the video.
He turned around at the end of theconcourse, where gates belonging
to Delta and the Niagara FrontierTransportation Authority are located,
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and weaved the cart aroundseveral wet floor signs. Oh, no.
He's in the slalom course.The erratic flyer drove toward the
other side of the conveyor belt.Oh, shit.
He's going down the other one,someone shouted.
Uh cynnig forced the cart into theopening and drove down the aisle,
causing more destruction.Airport employees shouted to stop the
(26:49):
unfazed cynic, who continued hiscruise around the airport terminal.
You can tell something was notright with him,
witness Tom Brennan told the news.He was not responding to demands
and the people telling him tostop and they had it all.
He was totally disregarding thepeople around him.
The cart bounced continuously asit made its way through the narrow
walkway due to the tight squeeze.A haze appears to fill the building
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as the cart's left side tiresrode the low rail of the machine.
Nfta officials allege cynic causedextreme damage to the walkway,
glass panels and the cart shattered.Glass and metal panels lay
scattered on the walkway.Following his drive,
officials eventually arrested him andcharged him with criminal mischief,
disorderly conduct, criminalpossession of stolen property,
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criminal nuisance,and grand larceny. Wow.
You know, like people mover things.Yeah, like Denver has super long
ones. Yeah.Basically, he took a joyride down
both directions of the people mover.The golf cart fits. Not quite.
Got it.I watched the video like it
might be like two inches off.And so he's just breaking all
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the glass and getting stuck andthen forcing it.
It was quite the shit show.This is not a large airport though.
My takeaway is this is a small area.That's why he was able to gain
access to things he shouldn'thave been able to gain access to.
Like who's the dum dum who left thekeys in the golf cart? Yeah, yeah.
I feel like if you're at LAXtrying to pull this shit,
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you would have been shot 30 times.Well, he would have run over a
crowd of people also, that.Small children would have been in
his way and all kinds of stuff.Uh, construction.
Because LAX is forever underconstruction. Yeah.
He would have never gotten very farbecause he would have ran into,
like, a forklift in the middleof the terminal or some shit.
Yeah, or Nick for that matter.Nick would have stopped him.
He would have ran over Nick.Nick couldn't stop him.
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His knees are broken. Wait.Come back anyways.
What an idiot there is.Video uh, it's not a video podcast,
so we'll leave it at that.But if you feel like hitting the
Google box, it's a it's a fun videoto watch for a couple of minutes.
We'll end it on this one.Have you heard of the beer mile?
No. No.Well, Corey Bellemore might not have
had the fame of Michael Phelps orUsain Bolt, but in the world of
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chug and run, he's untouchable.For five straight years,
the 30 year old Canadian hasruled the Beer Mile, a race where
competitors down a 355ml or 12 ounce,5% ABV beer run a 400 meter lap
and repeat until they've had fourbeers and one mile in the bag.
You can choose cans or bottles,but if you miss a drop or throw up,
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that's an extra lap.So this is what they do at fossil.
We learned about this when we wereat fossil a couple years ago.
That's right. They do.They have a running club.
Yeah, they have a club.People's birthdays or major events.
They do this beer mile.Was it a whole beer?
Every lap though. I think it was.It was not a whole beer.
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I think it was like 4 or 6oz.Yeah, a whole beer per lap.
Yeah, that would be rough.One time I had a couple of beers
and went to the trampoline place.It was a bad mistake. Did you puke?
Luckily, I did not. That's good.I had to stop. Yeah. Like this.
This isn't gonna end well.Belmore's Beer Mile career
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kicked off in 2016,when a casual attempt with friends
ended in an unofficial world record.In a last minute invite to the
Beer Mile World Classic in London.Jet lagged and inexperienced,
he still won, and he's beensmashing records ever since.
Most recently clockingfour minutes and 27.1 seconds.
For context, the fastest mile ever.Not beer related is 343. Wow.
(30:29):
So he's basically doing a 4.5 minutemile with four beers in the middle.
Yeah.Uh, his races have had their share
of drama, like losing in 2018 fornot finishing a beer or winning
in 2023 with just one shoe.But Belmore insists he's more
than just a guy who chugs fast.He trains like a serious runner,
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only competes once or twice a yearand is now turning his sights on
professional triathlons. Wow.Yeah, I think the most recent one
was held in Portugal. That's fun.Yeah. Would you do the beer mile?
I don't know,I don't I think I would puke. Yeah.
I don't think that that would besuccessful for me.
You can choose any beer you want,but it does have to be at least 5%
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and 12oz per lap. That's the problem.The ounces. The ounces.
The amount. Yeah, that is a lot.That's a lot of beverage.
Yeah, it's a lot sloshing aroundwhile you're trying to run.
I mean, even just water.Yeah, that'd be too much for me.
I don't know. That's all we got.Let me hit some music.
Let me say hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa.I think they're doing a little beer
(31:33):
girls thing up, up in Sacramento.So I hope you guys are having
fun with that.We should check in and see how
hammered they got.I'm sure, uh, hilarity ensued and
drinks were smashed. I'm sure.And all sorts of shenanigans.
Follow us @CraftBeerRepublic@CraftBeerRepublic. Com.
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Let me know what you think ofthe whole crush hop thing.
And besides the fact that Flexand I are idiots and didn't know
they had renamed it, but like,what do you think of the name?
I vote for it, I like it.All right, that's one for the yes
list. Do you even get anymore?Thanks for hanging. Yeah, absolutely.
For drinking beers.And I'll see you, you know,
across the hall or something?Yeah. Sounds good. All right.
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Hope everyone out there stayingvery well hydrated.
And on that note, good night,everybody.
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You weren't supposed to finishthat beer, sir. I wasn't. No. Why?
You're not supposed to be drinking.I'm not drinking. It's 5%.
Welcome in, everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg and I am not beingjoined by Flex tonight, but, uh,
some might say just as buff.Uh, and that's my wife, Shannon.
Hi. Hi.It has been a very long time since
I forced you to get in front ofa microphone. Yes. Very long.
(00:37):
Are you super comfortable andglad you're doing this?
Uh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. No.Yeah, maybe. Yeah. Whatever.
Uh, we've had multiple requests,uh, especially from Nick,
to have you on the show,because your voice is so soothing
and you're so nice to listen toand all these other things that
I haven't figured out yet.I mean, that's nice to hear.
Yeah. So here it is.Everybody I know Mel always
(00:59):
wants you on the show too.Here she is stepping in for Flex.
Who?That motherfucker got some Brewers
tickets, and I was gonna get madabout it because I was like,
it's a Brewers.It's not even a good team. Yeah.
And then I was reminded they'rein first place. Oh.
So they better win tonight then.If he's missing the show for this.
Yeah. Otherwise he's fired.They're fired. Well, no. He's fired.
(01:24):
Because the Brewers I see. Yeah.They're both fired. Yeah.
Stupid team. And they're stupid.He doesn't like their park.
Stupid. Anyways.Follow us on the socials,
@CraftBeerRepublic. Don't follow her.She's private, so I don't even
tell you where to find it.Uh, male @CraftBeerRepublic.
Com and 853 beer is our number.We got a lot to get to tonight.
Uh, it's going to be a littledifferent show since, uh, you know,
(01:46):
a little different dynamic.But we got some booze news.
We got some beers to drink.All the fun stuff, as per usual.
In fact, uh, our first beer hasbeen donated to us.
Oh, by one intern, Brian.Nice shout out to intern Brian's
wife, Deb.As we all know,
we drank so hard with her lastweek that she had to get surgery,
(02:08):
so I hope she's recovering well.It's partially true.
Uh, let's get to the beer.I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.So, thanks to intern Brian,
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we're drinking grateful deadfrom Dogfish Head Craft Brewery,
5.3% 30 IBUs, has a 3.8 anduntapped with over 30,000 ratings.
It's a juicy pale ale.They say, clocking in at 5.3%.
Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale isbrewed with kernza grains,
granola and heaps of good karmafor refreshing, light bodied beer
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that will leave you with nothingleft to do but smile, smile, smile.
The addition of El Dorado andAzacca hops bring waves of
tropical pineapple, mango andpassion fruit notes for a vibrant
tapestry of alluring aromas andflavors that just keep truckin.
SIP after refreshing sip.So go on and grab a pint of this
goodness to take a melodious sipfor your taste buds. Yeah.
(03:21):
Full disclosure disclosure Briangave it to us because he said it was
absolute garbage and he wanted us tohave another show to talk about it.
It's so popular though.How could it be garbage?
Yeah, 3.8 with 30,000 ratings.I mean, it's not amazing,
but it's not horrendous.It's sort of slightly above middle
of the road. Yeah. For sure.I mean,
you definitely smell the tropical.I don't really get a whole lot
(03:43):
on the nose. Really I do.It's like very juicy,
but it's like very fruit juice.Almost tastes or not taste.
Almost smells like a fake juicesmell. Yeah. On the Tongue-jobber.
Honestly, it's not that bad.No, it's pretty light. Pretty light.
A lot of that tropical, um, someof that orange I think is shining
(04:04):
through with some citrus there. Yeah.Not real piney or dank or anything.
I would think. Pale ale drinkers.This is not their beer.
Because it's too strong or notstrong. Not strong enough.
Not not pale ale enough.There should still be some hop to it.
Oh, you're not getting enough light.I'm not getting. Enough.
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Or bite. No. It's too I get it.Honestly, I drink it.
So that tells you there's notenough hop in it.
Well, it could be like a hazy pale,which it kind of is.
They say juicy. Juicy, hazy.Yeah, but I mean, it's not clear.
I think they meant for it to behazier.
Uh, honestly, Brian, I hate todisagree with you here, but, uh,
not that bad. Yeah, not bad at all.I wouldn't buy it. Oh, no. But.
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I mean,but I wouldn't buy a juicy pale ale.
That's fair, but I wouldn't drink it.Flex and I's new rating system is.
Would you go back for a four pack?No, I would not. I have the one.
I'm fine with it.I don't need to drink this ever
again, but I don't need to pourit out either.
In fact,I even brought a second beer for us
(05:08):
to have in case this was garbage.But I guess we don't need it.
Maybe we'll have it for the nextshow or something.
Or just on a random Tuesday night.So anyways, thanks to intern for the,
uh, for the donation, but sorry wedidn't hate it as much as as you did.
The kernza hop thing can be gross.I've had a couple.
It's this new, you know, sustainable,easy, not easy to grow, but, like,
(05:30):
regenerative hop or not hop.Excuse me?
Grain that they're trying tobrew more with.
And a lot of times they do havelike a weird off flavor.
And as I sit here talking and notdrinking, I get this weird like
feeling on my tongue that I'm notused to. It's not a flavor, though.
It's like a weird stickiness.It feels.
It feels slash taste like fake fruitjuice to me. Yeah, maybe that's it.
(05:52):
The way that, like, you havemanufactured orange juice that is
not Actual orange juice. Yeah.Like McDonald's orange juice or
something? Yeah. That's kind of.That's what I'm getting from it.
Yeah.Maybe the longer it sits, the worse.
Like, if you don't drink it ice cold,it's just kind of barfy. Yeah.
Yeah. So we'll see. We'll see.I could definitely see that
(06:12):
happening. Yeah.I'll let you know in 20 minutes
for wrapping up the show.Uh, so. Yeah. So there's that.
Oh, I'm not really supposed to bedrinking today. Whoops. Whoopsie.
Oh, well, I had a procedure done onthe top of my head. I had a thing.
I hit that age where, like, you havethings removed now. Little bumps.
It was a little bump on the topof my head, and I forgot.
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I'm not supposed to be drinkingtoday.
Oh, well, I waited to tell mywife until we were on air so she
wouldn't get mad at me.Yeah, so I can't be mad about it.
Yeah, she can't say anything now.Uh. Top listing city.
Last week, shout out North Hollywood.Thanks for keeping it local.
What's up guys.Hope you're enjoying the show in
North Hollywood. That's awesome.Oh, and I needed to see fucking Flex
(06:54):
and his number one super fan brewers.Uh number one fan, uh, HPC 586 is a
hop that Flex and I absolutely love.And it has been called HPC 586
forever and a day because when it'sexperimental, they give it numbers.
They wait until it's, like,commercially available.
Uh, in fact,Jan from OMF was talking a lot about
(07:16):
like commercially available hopsversus non and all that stuff.
Anyways, uh, last week Erica hada beer that had the descriptions,
you know, 586 blah blah, blah, Flexand I went into an all out fucking
tirade because we were so tired ofthis delicious hop not having a name.
Yeah, it's about fucking time.It has. Earned it. It's horseshit.
Yeah. Turns out we were wrong.Got a name last year.
(07:37):
Uh, so you're just behind?We're just dumb. Yeah.
HPC 586 is crush with a K, so if yousee crush hops, it's the same thing.
I even found a timeline of,like, when this all went down.
So in 2007, HPC 586 was firstbred by the Hop Breeding company.
I didn't know that was a thing.This hop was designed for bold,
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tropical aromas with peach,mango and guava vibes.
From 2018 to 2023,HBC 56 becomes widely used in
pilot and commercial batchesunder its experimental number.
Brewers loved it,but it still doesn't.
Didn't have a name,just a number. August 13th, 2024.
Almost exactly a year ago,HBC 586 finally gets a name crush
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after 17 years from breeding andabout five years in heavy use,
it officially was commercialized.Today, any beer labeled with crush is
using what we all know and brewedwith as HBC 586 same hop, new name
years and years in the making.Well, I'm glad you like it
because that's a cool name.Funny, I was going to ask you
(08:41):
what you thought about the name.Yeah, I like it. Crush.
Yeah, with a K. With a K. Yeah.I don't know.
I mean, they gotta run out ofnames eventually.
It feels very Californian to me.True it to me, it evokes thoughts
of surfing. Roofing, right?Um, I don't know why that annoys me
for a hop, because. I have a guava.I that all plays well to me.
(09:03):
That's true.Got some guava mango peach vibes.
Yeah, I guess, I guess it's sortof Hawaii. Yeah. Or something.
I don't know,I just I didn't it felt a little
like bah bah bah bah in terms of.It's better than Nelson. Some dude.
I know it's the bully from TheSimpsons. Yeah.
Yeah, I guess you're right.But Nelson's full name is Nelson
(09:27):
Sauvin. Does that make it any better?No. Okay.
Because, like, Motueka is such a coolname that still nobody can decide on
how to properly say it, but. Right.Keeps itself popular with the
controversy.Nobody's mispronouncing crush.
That is for sure.There's also a wrestler like,
back in the early 90s named crush.Oh, sure. Who's your favorite?
Yes. For sure. Yeah.This will surprise you.
(09:49):
His character was a surfer.What? Yeah. So, uh, anyways.
Was he from California or fromHawaii?
It's probably one of those thingswhere he was billed from California
and or Hawaii, but was probablyfrom like Iowa or some shit. Yeah.
Uh, back in the like, when Hulk Hoganwas running wild in his popular days,
they built him from, like,Hollywood, California.
(10:11):
He was born in Florida orsomething like that.
Like, they do that all the time. Yep.Just completely reinvent people.
Yeah.And it's always funny because
they'll have the accent of, like,wherever they're actually from.
It's like, oh, you can tell thisdude's from Boston, from Hollywood,
California. Forget about it.Um, anyways, so that's crush.
(10:31):
Uh, let us I want to know what youguys think the name kind of for me.
So email us or Instagram us orsomething.
Did you have a different name inmind?
No, but I we just like it so much,it feels like it needs, like,
the royal treatment. I don't know.And I don't even know where I would
go. Like, I, you know, the best.Hop around. 586. Yeah.
(10:56):
The goat, the goat. Hop goat. Yeah.Like that sounds a little farmhousey.
Yeah. Um, I don't know.Yeah, I don't, I don't know.
I'm not a good namer of things Idid okay with with my collab beers.
Well, I only got to name one of them.The other one I was over written on.
These guavas are making me thirstyis a good name. It is a good name.
Yeah. Seinfeld fans. Yeah.What was the other one?
(11:18):
Morning watch? Yeah.Yeah, I got over.
I wanted, uh, righting the shipbecause it's a good hangover. Beer.
You know, you gotta write that ship.Mhm. R-i-g-h-t not w.
Yeah, well,I figured we had you on, um,
we did a lot of drinking in Denver.Yeah, a lot. Of beer drinking.
Just a lot of drinking in general,but a lot of beer drinking.
(11:39):
We drink less beer when we're at homethese days, but we still do a lot
of research when we're on trips.Uh, like when we're in Austin earlier
this year, we did a ton of research.I think we did, like an entire day
of ubering to different breweries.That we did. That was a good day.
I figured I would talk to youabout some of our favorite beers
on the trip.I've talked about, like, of course,
the interview with Jan and going toOMF, and I think I ran through the
(12:02):
whole basically map of where we went,good and bad, mostly good.
What were some of your standouts?Just in Denver or in Colorado?
I could do the whole Colorado trip.We started in the Springs, went
to Denver, ended in Fort Collins.Yeah, I mean, in Colorado Springs.
Fossil is always my favorite.Yeah. Really good.
There's always a couple beers ontheir menu that are awesome,
(12:28):
and I think they do a really goodjob of having a variety that will
sort of hit any beer drinker. Yeah.Um, in Denver, I mean,
it was cool to check out Alice'snew brewery. Oh. Full frame.
Yeah, formerly Jagged Mountain.Yeah. That was really cool.
And they were doing trivia whilewe were there, so that was fun.
Yeah, we caught the end of it.We did not participate.
(12:50):
Everybody caught a few trivias.I did talk. About.
Our various one at fossil one at the,uh, the place in Fort Collins.
The name will come back to me at somepoint. Something with a farm in it.
Jess. Jess. Jessup. Jessup farms.Yeah. Yeah. Sorry not to jump ahead.
Yeah. Um. Full frame. Yeah.Full frame was great.
(13:10):
Honestly, the Odell's there.Um, yeah.
It was sort of like it came back tome. We clearly have had it before.
What was the. The sour you had?It's more like a gosa.
It's very light. It's pink.I can picture the can.
I'm gonna look this up.It's not the rambler sipping pretty.
(13:30):
Yes.It is a lightly tart with guava,
elderberry and acai berry sourfruited ale. Yeah.
I mean,we had that a couple years ago,
and it was. Cold Lake. Beer. It was.It was the beer of the summer.
It was amazing.And finding that again at
Odell's and trying out some oftheir other beers on tap.
I was very pleasantly surprisedby that brewery.
(13:54):
Yeah, this sort of, you know,sometimes when breweries get big,
you know, I think of Sierra Nevadaor stone pre sell out that kind of
thing. You go oh it's it's big.It's you know, you don't really
think about like I gotta check outtheir taproom but we'd never been.
So we stumbled in and everythingwe had was actually really good.
And I was like, oh,I forget Odell puts out good beer.
(14:15):
Yeah, I felt bad because I kindof just write them off because
of their size. Yeah.And their beer tender was great.
Really knowledgeable,made recommendations. Yeah.
Really engaging with everybody.I think somebody wanted to try
one of the other sours.So she just like spread the love
and everyone got a little alittle taster of it.
And or maybe it was you that wantedto try it. Yeah it was. It was you.
Yeah. Your sour whore. Yeah.And so then she gave everyone some.
(14:38):
And so that was cool. Yeah.Odell was good. Um, bierstadt's.
Classic. Yeah. You can't go wrong.No sausage and beer with an eye.
Mhm. Anything else? Stand out.I liked hello in Fort Collins.
Yeah. Hello. Was cool.It was like a little house.
Yeah, that spot was awesome.We got to sit on the front porch.
Wish we had more time for that spot.It was a little on the hoppy side for
(15:02):
me. Shucks. But still very drinkable.Yeah, yeah, it was good stuff.
Anything else? No pressure.I don't think so.
Yeah, I did talk about thatbrewery we stumbled into by
accident in Colorado Springs.Name, of course, is escaping me now.
Let's go back a couple episodes,everybody.
(15:22):
But it was a total accident,and the beer ended up being pretty
good. Yeah, it wasn't bad. Yeah.Uh, I would,
I would definitely revisit.I thought it was interesting that
had a lot of locals at the brewery,and they were talking about
other breweries that were andweren't their favorites and
where they liked to drink.And you could you could tell
that they have their own littlebeer scene going on. Yeah.
(15:43):
Usually a good way to find outwhat's good.
Go to the sit up next to the baror listen to the locals talk
about their shit. Mhm.Kind of like when we were at Radiant.
Hey anything good around here?Yeah, everywhere is really good. Oh.
Where's that? Mm. No. The brewery.It's called everywhere. Uh, yeah.
Well. Good. Shit. Yeah, we did some.We did some good research while
in Denver.And ten out of ten would recommend.
(16:06):
Absolutely.We got fat and hammered at a
fancy dinner. And.The best concert of my life.
I've talked about this on theshow already, so I won't bore
everybody with details, but.It was pretty awesome.
Tears were shed. Yeah, I'm a biatch.Let's, uh, let's move ourselves
on to a little news.Everyone's favorite Ballast
Point takes on new investors.Ballast point has new local
(16:29):
investors in its ownership group,according to San Diego Beer News.
Shout out Brandon.Uh, Hospitality Force RMD Group and
boutique investment firm CypressAscendant have taken shares in
the brewery and the investors whofacilitated the bombshell acquisition
of Ballast Point from constellationback in 2019 have exited.
Richard Mahoney, former chairmanof the board for the wine group,
(16:52):
has, uh, was the lead investor inKings and Convicts acquisition.
He served as board director forKings and Convicts from
March 2016 to May 2025.According to his LinkedIn profile,
it's been an eventful decade forBallast Point, arguably the darling
of the booming San Diego craftscene when it was acquired by
constellation for $1 billion in.You remember what year this was,
(17:13):
2017? I always want to say 16.It's 15. Oh.
After four years of tanking volume,constellation offloaded the brewery
to the Unknown Kings and Convicts,a tiny Chicago based brewery fronted
by Brendan Waters and Chris Bradley.Waters told San Diego Beer News,
it's a completely differentanimal this time.
Our new partners know how to doretail and merchandising very
(17:35):
well and have actually beenbehind the scenes collaborators
of ours for years.They'll be bringing in
tremendous management experienceand take a lot off my table.
For Ballast Point's Taprooms arelisted among armed groups
bookable venues on the company'sevents website.
So we've all heard the storyabout his point.
Got bought out for way too muchmoney.
I think they lost to the Kings andConvicts guy in a golf game or
(17:59):
something, because why else wouldthey sold for a billion and then sold
for I think it ended up being like62 million or something like that.
Clearly it was a rich gentleman'sbet on a golf course. Mhm.
Uh, and then now being takenover by a different group.
Ballast point has had a hard timeat least seemingly recovering from
going big. Yeah. They got bought out.Like I don't think of Ballast
(18:23):
Point as Kraft,even though technically they are.
Well, I don't know if they will bewith this new conglomerate of owners.
It's weird. Gray area rules.I guess they probably technically,
uh, I'd have to look into that.Anyways, they definitely were with
kings and convicts taking them over,but I had a hard time going back like
they, I don't know, their reputationwas such shit after all that.
(18:43):
And they're still, you know,the joke.
Whenever you have a fruity IPA like,oh, it's Watermelon Sculpin or
something like that.Just, I mean,
their beer was never my go to.Yeah, like sculpin was always the
fucking pine tree toothbrush.No, I mean, I liked the beer
that was made at the brewery.The stuff they didn't distribute.
(19:04):
Yeah, I've talked about that acouple of times.
I mean, we were there for yourwork thing, and, uh, luckily,
we got to do the good tour.Right. Over at, uh. Ale Smith.
Smith. Thank you.And since we, uh, won that coin toss,
then we got to just sit out inthe lobby at Bell's point.
But when my favorite part of thestory is, you know,
they brought out, like, samples,like, here you guys go,
(19:25):
here's a sculpin and here's a,you know, fucking dry hopped in
dipshit IPA and whatever.When they came over with one of them,
you took one whiff and you looked atthe girls handing it out and you're
like, is this pineapple sculpin?She goes, yeah, why?
And your face is why I married you.It was fantastically disgusted.
(19:46):
You're like, no thanks.And you set it back on her tray.
And I don't think she's ever hadthat reaction before.
Like no one's ever given up.Free beer.
Yeah, and I don't think anybodyto her face has ever said
pineapple sculpin is garbage,even though it is. Yeah.
She didn't know what to do with it,but luckily that turned into.
We'll go to the bar, here's aticket and get whatever you want.
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Yeah, and I got to try all theGerman beers.
Yeah, we got, like, the Kolsch.And I think there was a dunkel
and dunkel. Dunkel?A couple other German type beers,
and they were actually pretty.Not bad. Pretty. I would buy again.
Yeah, they were very drinkable. Yeah.And that was like in 2018 or
something.But to me,
Ballast Point just hasn't grown.Ironically, they've grown in size.
(20:30):
They've they distribute,they do all this stuff.
But I don't really think thattheir beer has evolved.
Evolved at all. Yeah.I don't see like a hazy sculpin.
Yeah.And I'm not saying I'm not saying
you have to make all new beers allthe time, because I think there's
value to having core beers thatpeople can rely on and go for.
But how do you get new people?And also they haven't changed
(20:54):
their cause in a decade.And like they're still pushing
out different sculpin variants.And it's like even the straight
up sculpin where back in the day,like, yeah, it was a good IPA.
A it's changed, it's not as good.And B it's like people aren't
drinking hoppy loaves of breadanymore, right?
If they want a West Coast,they want a lighter west coast with
like a lot of pilsner malt in it.Not a fucking brown ale with hops.
(21:17):
Yeah.So yeah, you're right,
it feels like they haven't evolved.Is there anything they could do to
sort of regain some craft cred?I think they need to open some
smaller taprooms.Okay,
get away from the Disneyland model.Everything they open is huge, right?
And it seems not focused on beer.It seems focused on like food and
(21:40):
experience, you know, kind of likeentertainment. Entertainment. Yeah.
And I'm not saying that thatkind of location is bad. Sure.
But if you're trying to really appealto locals, and the people don't
want to deal with difficult parkingand you know they will for a one
time thing once or twice a year.Or events or whatever.
(22:01):
Nobody's going there to just have abeer on their way home from work.
Right? You know, and a.Local giant three story brewery.
Yeah.And I think that there's kind of
been a move towards people reallyfinding their local brewery, kind of
that old pub kind of style. Yeah.It's kind of like what Cameron's
(22:24):
doing. Yeah.I can't think of the helix. Helix?
Yeah. Uh, yeah. That's his.He doesn't even distribute. Yeah.
He has a couple kegs out tofriendly places.
Knotty pine here. Right? It's.It's where she has a bunch of
regulars who come and hang out.And occasionally other people
come through as well.But some are better than others. Yes.
But Michael's one of our favorites.Yeah, absolutely.
(22:46):
Shout out to Michael. Uh, yeah.I don't know how they repair their,
reputation at this point? Yes.Smaller might be good.
I just, I think, I don't know,a new name.
Like I shudder when I see I'm like,oh, Ballast Point. No. I'm good.
Give me a seltzer.I mean, maybe they need to spin
off a brand like, you know,Firestone has 805, and that's kind
(23:08):
of almost become its own label.Was it the brewery has offshoot?
If you want a hoppy brewery beer,it's offshoot. Yeah.
That kind of thing. Yeah, maybe.Maybe they maybe they need to spin
off, like their German beers.Yeah. The ballast point.
It could be like Munich Cove.I don't know, it's trying to work
water into German, I see. Yeah.Failed miserably. Uh. All right.
(23:31):
BrewDog co-founder Martin Dickieresigns abruptly.
You remember all the bullshitwith BrewDog, right?
And how they're kind of assholesand definitely on the naughty list.
Oh, yes. Yeah. Uh.BrewDog co-founder Martin Dickie has
abruptly resigned from the company,surprising many within the
organization.One employee described the move
as out of the blue and noofficial reason has been given.
(23:51):
Dickey wrote in an email tostaff obtained by The National.
This business has been my lifefor the past 18 years and I have
enjoyed almost every minute.I've been inspired by and loved
working with, and learning from somany interesting people who have
worked in our business over theyears from all over the world.
This marks yet another highlevel departure at BrewDog.
What stepped down as CEO in Mayof 24 after allegations of
(24:13):
inappropriate behaviour and toxic,toxic workplace culture surfaced
in a 2022 BBC documentary.His successor, James Arrow,
lasted less than a year beforeresigning in January of 2025,
and former CFO James Taylor tookover as CEO in March,
and CMO Lauren Carroll waspromoted to COO at the same time.
(24:33):
Dickey remains Brewdog's thirdlargest individual shareholder,
holding 21% of the company,just behind Watt and private
equity firm TSG.The largest stake, 29%,
is held by crowdfunding investorsand other shareholders.
His resignation comes as BrewDogcontinues to struggle in the UK
market.The brand has reportedly lost nearly
2000 on premise accounts over thelast two years, and hasn't turned
(24:57):
a pre-tax profit since 2019. Wow.Yikes. pre-COVID. pre-COVID. Wow.
People, uh, you know, put their moneywhere their values are these days.
That has become very apparent. Yeah.No matter what side of whatever
aisle you're on,God forbid you change your logo.
Have you ever had the SpindriftSeltzers? No. Me neither.
(25:19):
But apparently they'rediscontinuing them. Oh, Spindrift.
So they were really popular. I.Guess. Yeah.
Spindrift is exiting the boozebusiness and shutting down its
Spindrift Spiked brand, choosingjust to stick with regular seltzers.
Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Never had it.Never saw anybody drink it.
I think I know why. Yeah.So this is not shocking. Mhm.
(25:41):
Doesn't seem like it.Uh a drunk traveler steals golf
cart and goes on a destructivejoyride at buy at Buffalo
Niagara International airport.Wyoming resident tracks Wyoming
resident Kevin Sinning is accusedof commandeering an electric golf
cart and plowing the vehicle intoa moving walkway as he unleashed
mayhem inside the terminal justbefore 1 a.m. on July 28th.
(26:04):
Cynnig, 29,was captured on video breaking
the glass panelling while airportworkers pleaded for him to stop.
According to a witness video, hefreed the cart from one side of the
walkway and then careened toward theend of the other two level terminal.
I think he's drunk,one witness said in the video.
He turned around at the end of theconcourse, where gates belonging
to Delta and the Niagara FrontierTransportation Authority are located,
(26:28):
and weaved the cart aroundseveral wet floor signs. Oh, no.
He's in the slalom course.The erratic flyer drove toward the
other side of the conveyor belt.Oh, shit.
He's going down the other one,someone shouted.
Uh cynnig forced the cart into theopening and drove down the aisle,
causing more destruction.Airport employees shouted to stop the
(26:49):
unfazed cynic, who continued hiscruise around the airport terminal.
You can tell something was notright with him,
witness Tom Brennan told the news.He was not responding to demands
and the people telling him tostop and they had it all.
He was totally disregarding thepeople around him.
The cart bounced continuously asit made its way through the narrow
walkway due to the tight squeeze.A haze appears to fill the building
(27:10):
as the cart's left side tiresrode the low rail of the machine.
Nfta officials allege cynic causedextreme damage to the walkway,
glass panels and the cart shattered.Glass and metal panels lay
scattered on the walkway.Following his drive,
officials eventually arrested him andcharged him with criminal mischief,
disorderly conduct, criminalpossession of stolen property,
(27:30):
criminal nuisance,and grand larceny. Wow.
You know, like people mover things.Yeah, like Denver has super long
ones. Yeah.Basically, he took a joyride down
both directions of the people mover.The golf cart fits. Not quite.
Got it.I watched the video like it
might be like two inches off.And so he's just breaking all
(27:55):
the glass and getting stuck andthen forcing it.
It was quite the shit show.This is not a large airport though.
My takeaway is this is a small area.That's why he was able to gain
access to things he shouldn'thave been able to gain access to.
Like who's the dum dum who left thekeys in the golf cart? Yeah, yeah.
I feel like if you're at LAXtrying to pull this shit,
(28:15):
you would have been shot 30 times.Well, he would have run over a
crowd of people also, that.Small children would have been in
his way and all kinds of stuff.Uh, construction.
Because LAX is forever underconstruction. Yeah.
He would have never gotten very farbecause he would have ran into,
like, a forklift in the middleof the terminal or some shit.
Yeah, or Nick for that matter.Nick would have stopped him.
He would have ran over Nick.Nick couldn't stop him.
(28:37):
His knees are broken. Wait.Come back anyways.
What an idiot there is.Video uh, it's not a video podcast,
so we'll leave it at that.But if you feel like hitting the
Google box, it's a it's a fun videoto watch for a couple of minutes.
We'll end it on this one.Have you heard of the beer mile?
No. No.Well, Corey Bellemore might not have
had the fame of Michael Phelps orUsain Bolt, but in the world of
(29:01):
chug and run, he's untouchable.For five straight years,
the 30 year old Canadian hasruled the Beer Mile, a race where
competitors down a 355ml or 12 ounce,5% ABV beer run a 400 meter lap
and repeat until they've had fourbeers and one mile in the bag.
You can choose cans or bottles,but if you miss a drop or throw up,
(29:26):
that's an extra lap.So this is what they do at fossil.
We learned about this when we wereat fossil a couple years ago.
That's right. They do.They have a running club.
Yeah, they have a club.People's birthdays or major events.
They do this beer mile.Was it a whole beer?
Every lap though. I think it was.It was not a whole beer.
(29:46):
I think it was like 4 or 6oz.Yeah, a whole beer per lap.
Yeah, that would be rough.One time I had a couple of beers
and went to the trampoline place.It was a bad mistake. Did you puke?
Luckily, I did not. That's good.I had to stop. Yeah. Like this.
This isn't gonna end well.Belmore's Beer Mile career
(30:06):
kicked off in 2016,when a casual attempt with friends
ended in an unofficial world record.In a last minute invite to the
Beer Mile World Classic in London.Jet lagged and inexperienced,
he still won, and he's beensmashing records ever since.
Most recently clockingfour minutes and 27.1 seconds.
For context, the fastest mile ever.Not beer related is 343. Wow.
(30:29):
So he's basically doing a 4.5 minutemile with four beers in the middle.
Yeah.Uh, his races have had their share
of drama, like losing in 2018 fornot finishing a beer or winning
in 2023 with just one shoe.But Belmore insists he's more
than just a guy who chugs fast.He trains like a serious runner,
(30:50):
only competes once or twice a yearand is now turning his sights on
professional triathlons. Wow.Yeah, I think the most recent one
was held in Portugal. That's fun.Yeah. Would you do the beer mile?
I don't know,I don't I think I would puke. Yeah.
I don't think that that would besuccessful for me.
You can choose any beer you want,but it does have to be at least 5%
(31:13):
and 12oz per lap. That's the problem.The ounces. The ounces.
The amount. Yeah, that is a lot.That's a lot of beverage.
Yeah, it's a lot sloshing aroundwhile you're trying to run.
I mean, even just water.Yeah, that'd be too much for me.
I don't know. That's all we got.Let me hit some music.
Let me say hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa.I think they're doing a little beer
(31:33):
girls thing up, up in Sacramento.So I hope you guys are having
fun with that.We should check in and see how
hammered they got.I'm sure, uh, hilarity ensued and
drinks were smashed. I'm sure.And all sorts of shenanigans.
Follow us @CraftBeerRepublic@CraftBeerRepublic. Com.
85538 Beerfest mail@CraftBeerRepublic. Com.
(31:53):
Let me know what you think ofthe whole crush hop thing.
And besides the fact that Flexand I are idiots and didn't know
they had renamed it, but like,what do you think of the name?
I vote for it, I like it.All right, that's one for the yes
list. Do you even get anymore?Thanks for hanging. Yeah, absolutely.
For drinking beers.And I'll see you, you know,
across the hall or something?Yeah. Sounds good. All right.
(32:14):
Hope everyone out there stayingvery well hydrated.
And on that note, good night,everybody.
(32:37):
You weren't supposed to finishthat beer, sir. I wasn't. No. Why?
You're not supposed to be drinking.I'm not drinking. It's 5%.
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