March 12, 2025 • 39 mins
Welcome in, you glorious beer guzzlers! Greg and Flex are back just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day with a fresh batch of beer-fueled nonsense. Greg drops a HUGE piece of industry news that he's been sitting on for weeks (seriously, the suspense was killing him). Flex reviews a hazy IPA so thick it should come with a spoon, and the guys dive into some questionable history facts (spoiler: Flex is just making things up at this point). Plus, we’ve got craft beer hot takes, trivia victories, and a deep discussion on why Rolling Rock is… well, Rolling Rock.
Beers We’re Drinking
- Flex – Moon Fruit by Maplewood Brewing Co. A double dry-hopped IPA with big tropical vibes and a killer can design.
- Greg – Matamata by Fast Friends Beer Co. A hazy IPA loaded with New Zealand hops and a soft, juicy finish.
Greg and his trivia crew, Prestige Worldwide (featuring the Silly Billies), won the Best of the Best trivia night, and he’s letting everyone know about it. Flex is developing his own Tongue Jobber comic strip. The guys make fun of breweries that insist on making their own Guinness alternatives, and Greg has some very strong opinions about it. We also learn about Greg’s recent trip to Malibu Brewing, where he enjoyed some new beers, fantastic weather, and apparently burnt end turkey. And we’ve got St. Patricks’ Day Fun Facts!
And the biggest news of all—Monica and James have moved to Austin! Our favorite brewer duo has taken on new roles at Fast Friends Beer Co., and Greg finally gets to spill the details on what that means for the Austin beer scene. Spoiler: It’s about to get real damn good.
Booze News
- Monster Energy’s big mistake – They took a $130 million hit on their alcohol brands. Shocking, right?
- Tilray does it again – Revolver Brewing’s production is getting shut down and moved elsewhere. Another craft brewery bites the dust.
- Mexican beer prices are going up! – Thanks to a 25% tariff and an old legal agreement, your Modelo and Corona are about to get a little pricier.
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Episode Transcript
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That was dumb as hell.All right, take 72.
Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
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I'm Greg, and I am being joined byeveryone's favorite buff leprechaun.
And that's Flex.What's up, big fella?
Is that a short joke?It's a Saint Patty's Day joke.
Because this is not cool, man.It's almost Saint Patty's Day.
Or as some people are listeningto it, it's Saint Patty's Day or
it was Saint Patty's Day. Yeah.Insert appropriate timing here.
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It's around the time.Yes, this is our Saint Patty's
show because it's the one beforeSaint Patty's Day. Yeah.
We will not be recording on. Oh yeah.We will not be recording on
Saint Patty's Day.My head is all scrambled.
My, my brain don't work no more.I know up is down. Down is inside.
I can't figure it out.But, uh, follow us on the socials.
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Well, at Craft Beer Republic at Flexme a beer. Uh, all that good stuff.
Eight. Five. Five. Three beer.Leave us a voicemail.
Got a lot to get.No more short jokes, please.
Sorry, it was a leprechaun joke.It wasn't directed at you.
Uh, all that good stuff.Where was I? Oh, lots to get to.
I've been holding out on some hugenews story that I'm excited I can
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finally share with you people.Uh, some booze news, some beer
research, all that good shit.If you don't mind,
let's get right into it.First of all, shout out to our
top listing city of last week.And that is Miami, Florida.
What up? Miami? Yeah, Miami.Coming back around again.
It was funny.Uh, the real beer bastard on the
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gram messaged me the other dayabout something was like, hey,
in response to something we hadtalked about, I was like, I don't
know what you're talking about.And he goes, oh, it's from,
you know, batch 446.I was like, homie,
you're a little behind. You can look.And he goes, oh,
you're on 451 now or whatever it was.And I was like, well, yeah, sorry.
I can hardly remember what I atefor breakfast.
I don't want to be a one upper here,but I just had a friend messaged
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me this, I don't know,three days ago and he said,
awesome freaking podcast.Oh absolutely hilarious.
He said, you guys are hilarious.And I responded with, duh.
I don't even remember what we talkedabout. I know that's the problem.
And it was on the very last batch.So he's he asked,
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this is my buddy Luke.What's up Luke, thanks for listening.
Shout out to Luke.And he said what you just get
like super lit or like blackoutwhen you record.
I said, no, I just don't rememberanything we talk about. Yeah.
Which I probably should,I should listen maybe. I mean.
Just to kind of get things going,but yeah, I don't remember anything.
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The only reason I do is because Ilisten again, because I go back
and I edit the show. That's true.Back in the day,
when it was a different show andit was the three of us all in one
room together, and that was it.There was no, you know,
outside remote stuff like we do now.Uh, there was no need to edit unless
something major happened and I would,you know, obviously go back and
edit that out, but there's no needto listen to the whole thing.
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I would mix it all live.The audio was done live and I would
never go back. I had no fucking idea.Ever. What we were talking about.
Like, I just it was so hard towrite show descriptions back now,
at least because I edit it.Not only have I listened to it again,
but I also take notes as I edit.And here's a fun fact for the
people listening,especially if you have like Apple
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CarPlay or something like that.My notes that I take are
actually the chapter markers.So if you have a podcast player that
shows chapter markers like AppleCarPlay or something like that,
it'll show you all my notes thatI take as I'm editing.
So it might be like Flex said.And it'll be like a funny line
that I want to save for later.Or it might just be my own
little quip that I put in there.So Easter eggs.
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Man, I'm just glad you think I sayfunny stuff. Every now and then.
Yeah, that's what I'm here for.All the time. Fucker.
One time just to see who waspaying attention.
I actually put it is that story aboutthe drunk guy dressed as Batman
getting arrested or whatever. Okay.And I put the picture of him in the
chapter marker, and Erica actuallysaw it and was like, hey, I liked
your little Batman Easter egg.And she was the only one, though,
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so apparently no one else is payingattention. But maybe they will now.
Or nobody else uses Apple CarPlay.Or that too. Yeah. Who knows.
So, uh, anyways,we are way too sober. Let's fix that.
Let's find out what Flex is drinking.In a world where craft beer is king,
a world where muscles are biggerthan growlers,
only one tongue can guide us.One man, one tongue,
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one tongue jabber.In this world, we must find out
what is Flex drinking?A little pause on what I'm drinking.
Oh, I was just listening to thisintro again. One tongue can guide us.
It just made me think of, like,this stupid cartoon of, like,
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this drug sniffing tongue, you know?It's just like it, like,
doesn't talk.Maybe he has, like,
googly eyes or something like that,and he just fucking sniffs out,
like, the best tasting shit.It's like Addams Family.
But instead of a hand,it's a tongue. That's exactly right.
But it makes that sound as it walksaround. La la la la la la la la la.
Yeah. Or like a Scooby Doo.Minus the whole dog body.
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Just his tongue, you know,just the tongue. Yeah, just.
It is just the tongue I'm picturingright now. Um. All right.
Anyways, that's stupid as hell.Uh, so it's.
Like 200 episodes to get to that.I just deep thought tonight,
I don't know, deep thoughts.By tonight, I am drinking
Maplewood Brewing companies.I've had a few Moon Fruit.
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Um, it is a Imperial or doubledouble dry hopped IPA. There we go.
And, uh, I gotta show you thiscannot. It's just really fun.
I love. Oh, yeah.The pink and the blue color.
Throwback colors. Black background.Just kind of, uh oh.
It's like electric and bright and.Yeah, uh, fun. The neons.
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It's got all the different, uh,phases of the moon on the can and,
uh, just really well done.It's simple, but effective.
Great use of color.I would say this is a ten out of
ten can, uh, personally, but, um,enough, uh, climaxing over the can,
let's talk about what's inside.Climaxing.
Um, untapped has this at, uh, four,one, three out of over 3000 ratings.
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So it's pretty up there.Uh, they say a luscious double dry
hopped double IPA brewed with Galaxy,Citra and Mosaic hops,
Cops expect pungent waves of peach,passionfruit and mango to orbit your
nose and mouth. Um, I tell you what.Super pungent aroma of mango on
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the nose.Um, I don't get any of the peach,
which I was really,really super duper hoping for.
Um,or the passionfruit for that matter.
It's the super mango driven nose.So without further ado.
By the way, we're talking aboutWordle before the show.
Adieu is my first word I always use.It's too many O's. Or is that a o u?
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There's zero O's. Damn it! Um.Well, not in the way you say it.
There's lots of O's. Eddie.Uh, anyway, um,
so after taking a sip of thiswith the warmed up tongue jabber,
um, my new cartoon character.Yes, there are loads of peach on
this fucking thing.Um, more mango after that.
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And then the passion fruit.Wherever it is,
it's hiding somewhere.Maybe I'll find it as it warms up,
but with the amount of peachthat is coming, uh, emanating,
emanating, emanating. Sure.Um, I'm sure it doesn't make
total sense, but that isemanating from these liquid gold.
It is almost gold colored.It is pretty gold colored.
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It is dancing all over my mytongue jobber.
And I couldn't get enough of it.Um, so then to boot, here, uh,
8% ABV here. Oh, no algorithm.No hint of it anywhere.
Um, really happy with this.I always, always enjoy anything
that these guys put out.I was going to get this the last
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time we recorded, but I alreadyhad two packs in my hand and I
just couldn't talk myself out ofnot getting what I had, you know,
trying to control my drinking urges,You know,
like a responsible adult? Sure.Um, so I was super happy to find
this, and it just fucking blewit out of the water.
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Congrats, Maplewood. Congrats.What's the price on the, uh,
four pack? They're 15.99.Not bad. No, this is it.
Totally,totally hits the algorithm. Yeah.
In fact, if anybody wants to trythe algorithm crafter.
Com slash algorithm.And you'll find out if your
beers fit the Flex algorithm.I just ran all the stats that
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you described, okay.Through the algorithm.
We haven't done this in a while.All right. 77. Okay, we'll take it.
And it got a pretty darn tasty.And. That aligns more.
I would say this is pretty darntasty. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
The craft beers,public.com/algorithm. All right.
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We got we got some things to get to.We have stuff to get to. Okay.
We do, we do. We got things.First of all,
I just wanted to give a shout out.And by shout out, I mean make fun.
Of all the craft breweries this weekthat are dropping their dry Irish
stout that's, you know, they'regoing to post something on the gram.
It's like, who needs Guinness whenwe've got our fresh new dry Irish
stout dropping this Saturday?It's like, hey, joke's on you.
(09:57):
No one likes Guinness in the firstplace, right? Amen, brother.
Yeah. So you've made a knockoff?Not as good version.
You have a nitro pour.That's doesn't make it taste better,
right? Not for me, no.So we'll see how many people I
can piss off with that one.Also the red lagers or the red ales.
(10:18):
A lot of people drop those as well.The Irish reds. Mhm.
Yeah, that makes sense.How about like a.
Those are fine beers I think they'refine. Yeah. They're pretty. Tasty.
Like a Saint Patrick's Day fuckingpale ale or something. Yeah.
That's never going to happen.No it's. Not about. The hops.
Do you like a potato ale potato.That might happen.
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It's like some evil twin would do.Yeah. I don't know.
Just, uh, wasn't Ireland knownfor potatoes until, like,
the big potato famine of 1485?I'm sure that was totally accurate.
I think it was the 1800s.I don't history either. So.
So what do you do?I show up here every other Monday
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night. You look cute. Call it a day.Uh, 1845. Missed it by.
That was the same numbers.It was all the same numbers.
Touché. See, I was close. Yeah.Just. Maybe you're dyslexic.
You're good with history.You're just dyslexic. You know what?
I don't numbers as well,so that might make sense. Oh, dear.
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I'm gonna chalk it up to a win,I don't care.
Yeah, at least a half win,if nothing else. Quick! Take over.
Okay. I'm back. Welcome in everybody.Uh, what's going on? Oh, best.
The best.I have to pat myself on the back.
I guess it's really patting likeDeb on the back.
You know,we trivia and you waving at me.
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I was patting you on your shoulder.Oh, I was like, what?
Is he doing this thing wrong?I'm slow.
You can't math or number,but I'm fucking slow.
But I can virtually pat you onthe shoulder.
Or maybe it's this way for you.Yeah. Does that work? Here we go.
That works. Oh, it feels better.Just rub it a little bit, too.
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As you know, we, uh, we have a triviateam with the wife and I and Deb
and Brian. What's the name again?Prestige worldwide. Wide, wide.
So good.Uh, and then the company that
does the trivia at Knotty Pine.We're friends with the owners,
Kevin and Patty. They're great.And one of the things they do
once or twice a year is whatthey call the best of the best.
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And they invite 30 of their bestand favorite and most fun teams
to come to one big trivia aboutyou from other locations,
because they do each each of them doa different location every night.
So there's like ten locations a week,and so invite 30 teams to come.
And they do like one major,like championships.
They call the best of the best.Can I just say it?
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This sounds fucking awesome.Dude, it's so much fun.
And they do it at Tarantula Hillbecause they have a huge space for
it so that they can fit us all.Um, this was our third one.
We did the first one out of 30.We came in at like 20, you know,
fourth place or something like that.The second one, we improved,
I think we moved up to 13th.It was like, all right, go in the
right direction. Double it up.Yeah, we were hoping for this one.
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Maybe we break top five.That'd be a good advancement for the
third trip. We fucking won that shit.No way. Suck it. That's awesome man.
Let me put this out here right when Igo out to trivia, which is very rare,
it feels like a waste of,I shouldn't say waste of time, but
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it's like you have like the regulars.Everybody's regular,
everybody plays every week.And but to get noticed and to
actually be invited to a specialtynight like a best of the best.
What a fucking idea. Yeah.It's so much fun.
I can't get over how awesome thissounds. Yeah, it's a really fun time.
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And, um, really appreciate thatthey put it on.
Yeah, it's like a shout out to all ofus for showing up. Right. Right.
And whether, like you said,it's the best trivia teams.
It's the most fun ones.It's maybe best names get invited or.
Yeah.Uh, I think that's it's almost like
having, like, a season, you know.Yeah. In a sports league, it's.
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Like WrestleMania for trivia.And then it all culminates to
one major event.This is blowing my mind right now.
I it's so much. And I know.The first I would have thought of it.
Yeah, well, I know the first time wegot invited, we'd only been doing
trivia for maybe a couple months.Obviously it was because we were
the fun team, right?We were not good yet.
But you know,as we worked our way up, we won.
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And I have to give a specialshout out to, um,
not only did we because you canhave up to like ten people and
normally it's just the four of us.And Nick and Nicole came out and Nick
was clutch on a question about TECnine because he knows his hip hop.
And we also invited there's a teamthat always sits right behind us at
our regular trivia called The SillyBillies, and it's two girls who are
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in their early 20s, and the lasttime we did the best of the best,
one of the girls was out of town,so we said, hey, just come join
us so you don't have to like,be by yourself and get creamed
at best of the best, right?And so this time,
both of them joined us.And it was great to have, um,
how do you say a little youth at thetable? Oh, I feel that. Yeah, yeah.
You know, to answer, like,the Taylor Swift songs and shit.
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So, um, that was helpful.So it was great. So it wasn't just.
So our team name was PrestigeWorldwide featuring the Silly
Billies.And then the next time we went back,
pay homage.Yeah, I love I love the level of
respect you have going on here. Yeah.I mean, they helped us out a lot.
And so the next time we had ourregular trivia night, we went back in
and we text or actually we Instagrammessage not only our answers,
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but like when you get there, youmessage your team name just so you're
on the list at that point. Okay.And when I, when I message the team
name, it was the 2025 best of thebest winning prestige worldwide.
That's amazing. And he read it out.I was just going to ask if he
read it out on the mic. Yeah.He goes and because this is
exactly as they typed it andthen read it out, it's like, oh,
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that's so good. Congratulations, man.Yeah, it was good times.
We, uh we oh, we also got a giantlike stein thing that each team
decorates whenever they win.So it's in our possession.
I need to design,like a sticker that's like
prestige worldwide and sillybillies and then slap it on there.
And so just it's like a trophythat gets passed around. Yeah.
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So the next time they do best,the best we got to bring it back
with with our markings on it.So would you say this trophy is
like your mom?Because it gets passed around?
I got it.I'm just kidding, I love you.
Greg's mom.I'd say it's closer to your mom
because I'm going to put my markingson it. Oh, okay. Enough of the mom's.
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Not a mom show. Not yet. Not yet.Could be. Um, so that was great.
And then also, I just want tosay I did a little trip to
Malibu Brewing over the weekend.Did a little research.
Oh, it was a lovely day.Fantastic weather.
SAT outside with the dog.Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day,
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lovely day. Had some great beers.Some great foods.
Yeah, I know they've been a littleslow lately because PCH, the the
highway that goes along the beach,you know, from from Santa Monica.
I was gonna guess that was a new drugin town. No. Pacific coast highway.
Okay. Okay. Uh, has been still.It's still, like,
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largely closed because the fires.So I know they've not been as
crowded as normal, so it was nice tostop in and see him and have some
fucking great beer and great foodand great stuff. They're so good.
They have a new burnt end,like burnt end turkey salad.
Okay. Interesting.I've never had turkey burn ends
before, but, uh.I didn't know you could burn a turkey
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in. Yeah. Who knew? Well, ask my mom.She can definitely burn turkeys.
That's why I do the cooking atThanksgiving. Easy now. Easy now.
It's your mom we're talking about.Yeah. Touche. So, uh. So good. Shit.
And they had a couple of new beersthat I tried, and, uh, I ended it off
with Old Faithful, which is their.I think it's called westward.
It's their Berliner,and it is 3% and delicious as fuck.
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So you can have, like, 30 of them.It's a classic Berliner. Yeah.
It's great, I love it.It's all the. 3% or less.
I love the, uh,the the beer accuracy, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful. Nailed it.So let me just say it one more time.
Wonderful. Is it wonderful?Wonderful. Mr.. Wonderful.
Outstanding. Yeah. Any any research?Guys going anywhere? Not me. Man.
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My life is pretty lame right now.Just.
Did you finally get over the Lingus?Got over the Lingus?
That didn't last very long.It was more like a Lingus.
Probably took me down to, like,80, 85%. Mm. Yeah. Yeah.
Which actually reminds me of.I saw Sam Adams commercial for,
uh, American Light.Sam Adams American light. Um.
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Good for them.But it's all that reminded me of.
Good for them. What about you, man?I know you just went on a trip. Yeah.
Well, I've been on a bunch of trips.Um, I'm gonna talk about one trip
next week. I'm going to save it.I don't want to bombard
everybody with trips. Okay.Um, I'm going to rehash an old
trip in just a second here When Italk about easy. There, Weezer.
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Just don't destroy my sweater.Whoa whoa whoa. So.
All right, well,let's let's fucking get to it.
Let's make a call to the pen so I cantalk about this beer. Can't wait.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.Corn in the ready.
I hope you're not left handed.Only when I'm pulling a stranger.
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I am drinking straight out of AustinFast Friends Beer Co Matamata 6.6%.
It's a hazy IPA, has a 3.89 onuntapped out of a 871 ratings.
The brewery says our House NewZealand Hopped Hazy IPA,
designed specifically aroundsome of our favorite hop
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varietals grown in New Zealand.We utilize a two row pale malt,
some oats, and a touch of ryehops solely with freestyle hops.
New Zealand grown cascade in thewhirlpool, then dry hopped
heavily towards the end offermentation with freestyle hops,
which I've never heard of before.Nelson Waimea, Pecherin and some
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CG cryo riwaka from our friends atCrosby Hops, these meticulously
selected hops come together for anexplosion of pineapple, citrus,
dank grape, orange blossom Matamataboasts an incredibly soft finish
leading to massive drinkability,a constant that we strive to
achieve with all our beers.We're so excited to bring our
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years of hoppy brewingexperience to you all.
This beer means a ton to us,so we can't wait to continue
elevating it to an even higherquality with every batch.
And I'll just show Flex here, I know.Oh wow, that looks amazing. Hazy.
This bitch is. Holy ballsacks.Yeah, it's it's it's a chunky boy.
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Not a ballsack show. I'm sorry.Everybody give it time.
I just couldn't get over theamount of hops.
You know, I heard they recentlydecided to add more hops to it.
On the unyielding schnoz,I really get the the citrus,
I really get. Orange.Orange really comes through on
the nose. Okay. The schnoz.The wizard of oz.
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I almost spit my beer.That would be the tongue jabber
character's sidekick.The Wizard of Oz. This is so dumb.
I hope after this show,you tell ChatGPT to come up with
a comic strip of.I was already thinking about it.
Dumb jobber in The Wizard of Oz.I was thinking about having to
come up with a script for us toact out on the next show.
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All right, what do we get on the old,old tongue? Jobby.
Fucking tropical fruit salad.Get the pineapple.
Get the citrus, of course.Follows the nose.
Don't get so much dank grape.Uh. Orange blossom. Yes. Um.
some fruit punch like notes.It is soft af. I really enjoy this.
We we had it there when we werein Austin. We went.
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This was one of the last breweries wevisited, and we visited because of
the news that I can finally tell.As we know, our friend Monica,
formerly of Pedals and Pints Brewing,moved on. Monica. Hi.
Monica moved on from pedals andpints.
She was working somewhere elsefor a while out here,
and she got an incredible joboffer to come be their lead
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brewer at Fast Friends in Austin.They got a new I don't know what the
person said like director of beverageoperations or something like that.
Sounds legit. Sounds super legit.She came in like as their
basically brewmaster with theability and authority to bring
in somebody underneath her andin the tell me more.
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And in the process,somebody else left the brewery.
So not only did she offer Monicathe lead brewer job to
eventually become head brewer.She was able to also offer Monica's
husband James a job as well. Damn.Formally now formally of integrin.
So he was brewing at integrin andMonica was not actively brewing.
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She was, I think at a distillery.And so anyways,
a couple weeks ago they had to go in.It happened so quickly.
She made the announcement and thenum, within I think two weeks,
two. Weeks, I believe it was.Yeah. Yeah. She was moving.
So I had I've been sitting on thisinfo for like a month now at least.
And it's like,I want to tell everybody.
Um, but I couldn't I didn't know ifit was public or not, but now it is.
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And I'm so excited for her.The brewery is a really cool space.
Um, really big brewery and wasreally nice and, you know,
well kept like not your typical like,hey, we're going to a back
alleyway brewery or anything.Like that, right?
Really nice weird location like offthe side of the freeway next to
nothing but, uh, really nice spot.That was all the Southern Grist
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location.When I went to Nashville was okay.
It was right off the expressway,and it was next to this,
like abandoned, like auto garage,like weird building.
And it was it seemed super sketchy,but the the brewery was really
nice and it was packed and tonsof fucking people, you know.
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So yeah, this was towards theend of the night.
We got there like within an hourof them closing wasn't packed.
There were definitely people there.It wasn't packed.
But we we got a couple flights tried,you know, basically as much as we
could in the time we were there.We did not order the food, which we
found out afterwards that one ofthe co-founders of the brewery or
co-owners is a michelin rated chef.And I was like, oh, maybe we should
add some of the fucking food.Out of here. I'm like, God damn it.
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So anyways, I'm super excited forMonica and James and this opportunity
for them and can't wait to go out andvisit them as. Stop, stop stop stop.
I'm sorry they took our jobs.I apologize as we were talking to
her at their going away party.Please call me.
I hate when I do that.I get all excited. No, I love it.
I thought it was so cute.You're so cute.
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As we were talking to them atthe going away party.
You know, Shannon,the wife is already saying like,
hey, you know, we'll come out nextyear for your pink boots brew.
And I'm like, wait, we will.And you know, so. Like.
You wouldn't say no to that.I know, I know.
But she's like, yeah, yeah, we'llplan it out. I'll let you guys know.
So um, hopefully we get to goout there and I'm excited.
You know,we had a bunch of their offerings.
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Most of them were pretty good orbetter.
There were a couple that's like,all right, it's not bad.
But, you know, I wouldn't orderit as is. And she even asked us.
She was like, you've had more oftheir beer than I have,
you know, what did you think?And and we told her, like,
for the most part, you know,really good stuff.
You know,these couple of beers have a little
work to be desired or whatever.And she goes, yeah, I already have a
plan for those beers, apparently.Like they don't have a filter on
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site.And so, like,
they're not filtering their lagers.And I was like, how are.
You not filling your lagers?She goes,
so my first request is a new filter.And so she's already got plans.
It's fucking awesome.I'm so excited for them.
So their beer about to come uppretty good.
Yeah I think it's a it's a goodthing for Austin, Texas.
They're getting a couple of reallygood brewers quite honestly.
Good for them. Fast friends.Fast friends. Check them out.
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Go go and check it out.This hazy is delicious.
It's pillowy soft.And oh I forgot to show you I love
the can art. What a fun can art.It's super fun.
It looks like two friends whobecame together really fast, right?
You know, or they're running veryfast and there's a volcano. Oh, yeah.
Get the hell out of there fast,friends.
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Hope, hope the fast friends are fast.Maybe they should join the Olympics.
Oh. Good idea.Maybe they would win a Fast
Friends relay race.This is really taking a turn.
Not a fast friend show. I'm sorry.Or an Olympic show. Uh, next year.
All right, a little news beforewe get out of here. Uh oh.
And we also have some Saint Patrick'sDay. Fun facts we gotta get to.
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Oh, monster! It's coming up.I keep forgetting. It is coming up.
Can't wait. Oh, wait. Oh.Oh, okay. Yes. Right.
I thought you were gonna startsinging the Rolling Stones for a
second. Oh, no.Uh,
monster beverage takes $130 millionimpairment on their alcohol brands
in quarter four of last year.We've talked about impairments
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before.It's basically when someone buys
a brewery or anything.But in this case, a brewery.
And, uh, the value is not anywherenear what they paid for it.
So if you remember, monster boughtKannaki a couple of years back and.
Yeah, uh, still losing money,you know, Oskar Blues, Cigar City,
Deep Ellum, Perrin, uh, Wasatch andsquatters are the main brands there.
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Can't say I love any of those. Yeah.You know, back in the OG craft days.
In the OG. You're right, Oskar Blues.I was thinking Cigar City.
You know,my first keg that I ever had on
tap here at the house was highly,highly Jai alai. Jai Jai alai.
Soft jay. They're ruining some beers.They're disgusting too. So whatever.
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Yeah, they're energy drinks.And aren't they owned by Coca-Cola
as well? I don't think so.I know they're distributed by
Coca Cola here at least.Okay, so I didn't know if that
was like an ownership.No, I think it's enormous.
I think monster is the parentcompany. Okay.
I'm pretty sure just becauseI've seen it all over with the.
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I'd believe you. Yeah. You know what?How about this monster is the
parent company? Wow.Smart said with conviction.
Conviction, conviction. Con.There's an extra in there.
It was said with conjunction.What's your function? Hey, yo.
Schoolhouse Rock. That's right.That's what that's from, right?
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Yeah. Conjunction junction.What's your what's your function?
Yeah, yeah. Never seen it.Oh, you got a edumacate you?
I'd rather not be edumacated.That was a magic school bus guy
myself. Oh, I love Miss Frizzle.Oh, yeah. She's the best.
Had a little crush on her.Did you ever see the.
There's a post because you neverreally think about it when
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you're a kid.When she takes the kids in the school
bus and they get inside of a fish,but then the fish comes into the
other fish to make eggs.So the school bus actually shoots
out of the fish's dick into thefemale fish, and they're in the
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the the the fish sperm.I did not know that. Yeah.
It's a super, uh, you know,under the radar, but. Yeah.
Yeah. That's hilarious.Those kids went on a fucking ride,
man.Now, I want to go watch that episode.
Pretty sure you could look it uplike Magic School Bus Phish.com
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or something like that.That'd be quite the Google history.
Oh. Sorry everybody.Act like yours is any better. Oh.
Um. I'm not a Phish come show.No! Damn it!
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Do you have a list or something?You didn't get the memo. Oh, man.
All right, what do we owe news?Anybody a fan of Revolver Brewing?
Oh, okay.This is so hard to come back from.
Uh, the now Tilray ownedRevolver Brewing.
They're moving all their productionaway from Revolver's facility to
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Granbury, Texas. Oh. Excuse me.In Granbury, Texas,
to other Tilray facilities.They'll keep the taproom open for
now, but they won't be producingthere anymore. Bummer. Yeah.
Another fucked up brewery. Classic.Classic. Tilray. Classic. Tilray.
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Uh, we, you know, we try not toget political on this show.
Other than you should have votedfor Flex and Greg, 2024.
You fucking idiots. Amen.Uh,
but I've seen a lot of things aboutthe tariffs going back and forth.
This one I thought was interesting,you know. All right.
Cans are gonna get more expensive.Grain's gonna get more expensive.
All that good stuff.But it's going to affect
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constellation and some Mexicanbeers extra hard.
Not just because the grains andthe cans and all that stuff.
And I'm not going to explainwhat a tariff is.
If you, uh, if you don't know by now,Google it, bitches.
So constellation cannot brew in theUS as of a 2013 legal settlement.
A consent decree which sounds fancy.In 2013, AB InBev wanted to buy
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modelo, the maker of Corona, modelo,etc. the US government stepped
in to prevent a beer monopoly.AB InBev was forced to sell Modelo's
US business to Constellation Brands.The catch?
The deal required constellationto import all their Mexican
brands from Mexico.They legally cannot brew them in
the US. Huh.And now where the tariffs come in.
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Constellation has no way to avoidthe 25% tax on Mexican imports.
Prices go up.Beer lovers might feel it at the
checkout.So anyways, all that to say,
because they legally cannot brewit here in the United States.
Extra interesting to see what'sgoing to happen with those
Mexican beer brands.Maybe they just start coming in
in bottles. Maybe.Well, I mean,
like Corona already does.That's what makes it taste like shit.
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True God, who decided to putbeer in clear bottles?
I don't know,but aren't you can fact check me?
Aren't green bottles even worse?I don't think they're worse.
I always heard they were worse.Is that because of rolling Rock?
Well. Rolling rock! Heineken, Stella.I don't all this shit. Green beers.
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Is there an easy way to Google this?Let's see. I don't know.
You're the the brains of theoperation. Clear is the worst. Yeah.
They provide the least amount ofUV light reflection.
Which makes sense. It's clear.Well, yeah, it's not opaque.
And I think I've told this on theshow before, but I heard I think
it was rolling Rock, you know,has that sort of distinct
rolling rock taste. Right.It was the first full beer I've
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ever finished in my life. Yeah.Years ago, they tried to upgrade
the brew house and they moved itto a bigger brewing facility and
all this stuff, and they weregetting letters complaining
about it didn't taste right.And what had happened was they
figured out it took tons of wecan't figure out why this is
tasting different and why peopleare saying this.
In fact, if anything, it tastesbetter in the new brew house.
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Well, it took them forever to figureout that in the old brew house,
there was like this little lip atthe top of the steam vent. Okay.
It was catching condensation anddripping back in the beer and,
like, essentially skunking the beerwhile brewing. Oh that's wild.
And people were missing that taste.And so once they.
And it took them forever to figurethis out, once they finally figured
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it out, they actually installedsomething in the new brew house to
catch the steam and drip it backinto the beer. Come on. Yeah.
For reals. That is embarrassing.Enjoy your rolling Rock! Idiots.
Oh, yeah. Let's end it on this.Some Saint Patrick's Day fun facts.
The first Saint Patrick's Day paradetook place in 1485. I meant location.
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Oh. I'm sure you're close. Yeah.1485 Street. Yeah. Nailed it.
In America, not in Ireland.Okay. I don't know.
The New York City Saint Patrick's DayParade is the world's oldest civilian
parade and the largest in the US.Chicago began its annual
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tradition of turning the ChicagoRiver green in not 1485. Five.
But wait, um, I'm gonna say, like,probably recent, like 19 or 1992.
No. 1962. Ah, damn. That was close.Close by 30 years. Uh, in Ireland.
Saint Patrick's Day was viewedmostly as a religious observance,
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and up until the 1960s,even had laws that forbid bars
from being open that day.Yeah, because didn't the dude, like,
get, uh, executed or some shit?Saint Patrick.
I know he sent all the snakes outof Ireland, which isn't true,
but that's the the law.Well, damn, he sounds like a fucking
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hero. Real Ireland hero. Yeah.Commercials for him and everything.
You don't want snakes, you callSaint Patrick. Real Irish hero.
Here's to you,Mr. Snake getter outer.
He snaps his fingers andpotatoes grow.
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We should make that into acommercial.
I should put some music on it.That would be pretty solid.
It wasn't until 1798,the year of the Irish Rebellion, that
the color green became officiallyassociated with Saint Patrick's Day.
Before that, it was blue.Is there any explanation as to what
the green. Just like clovers and or.Clovers and balloons. Uh, no.
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Saint Patrick's Day switchedover from a strictly holy day
for Catholics to an officialIrish public holiday in 1903.
So they filled in the holes.Yes, they sure did.
Although Saint Patrick's Dayfalls within the period of lent,
a time when the Catholic Churchprohibits eating meat,
the ban is lifted on the specific dayof celebration. Per Irishcentral.
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Each year, 5.5 million people visitNew York's Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
Britannica reported that beforeSaint Patrick became a missionary,
he had been kidnapped at the age.Of. 16, became a missionary.
Oh,I just heard missionary and was like,
whoa, excited? Yeah, I was like.Wow. He also invented porn. Yeah.
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Well, the snakes were four.Oh, oh, he had been kidnapped at
the age of 16,taken to Ireland as a slave.
He's originally from England,actually. Wales.
Traditionally, Catholic familiesgo to church on the morning of
Saint Patrick's Day and partake ina meal that includes cabbage and
Irish bacon. What about Irish bacon?Is it just like corned beef?
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Maybe, I don't know.Isn't that all they eat over there?
I've never been.I can't, I can't wait to fucks
me up some corned beef.Oh, it's my favorite.
We got some in the fridge right now.Time reported that Dublin's
first official celebration ofSaint Patrick's Day did not
occur until 1931. Huh?In terms of beer,
there's a Hundred and 74% increase inbeer sales on Saint Patrick's Day
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compared to the rest of the year.That's it. Yeah. 74%. Huh?
I thought it'd. Be 153% on. Spirits.Uh, $6.85 billion is the amount spent
collectively on Saint Patrick's Day.That's a lot of money. Yeah.
31.5 million is the number ofAmericans who claim Irish ancestry.
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Second only to German at 6.4. Yeah.Um, growing up, my dad always
told me I was like, 2% Irish,which means I'm 0% Irish, right?
Just enough to enjoy a couple beers.Yeah,
just enough to make the the red comeout of my beard when it gets long.
Maybe that's my excuse, too,for my red beard.
Once you hit a week,it's all except for here.
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It's gray, but the rest of it's red.Mine takes, like, three months.
But that's just because Ihaven't hit puberty yet. Yeah.
One of these days,those balls will drop. Yeah. Yeah.
Beautiful. Beautiful balls. Haha.Seems like a perfect time to end
the show. Speaking of balls.Hi Vanessa! Hahaha. Hi Vanessa.
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Sorry, I'm so sorry about that.Yeah. Apologies. Damn it!
You know where to find us on thesocials at Craft Beer Republic
at Flexy.Beer underscores in between 80553.
Beer 2337. Mail a craft beer.Com all that good stuff.
Hope everyone stays extremely wellhydrated on Saint Patrick's Day.
And on that note.Top of the night, everybody.
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The show in the morning.Da da da da da da da.
That was dumb as hell.All right, take 72.
Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
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I'm Greg, and I am being joined byeveryone's favorite buff leprechaun.
And that's Flex.What's up, big fella?
Is that a short joke?It's a Saint Patty's Day joke.
Because this is not cool, man.It's almost Saint Patty's Day.
Or as some people are listeningto it, it's Saint Patty's Day or
it was Saint Patty's Day. Yeah.Insert appropriate timing here.
(00:42):
It's around the time.Yes, this is our Saint Patty's
show because it's the one beforeSaint Patty's Day. Yeah.
We will not be recording on. Oh yeah.We will not be recording on
Saint Patty's Day.My head is all scrambled.
My, my brain don't work no more.I know up is down. Down is inside.
I can't figure it out.But, uh, follow us on the socials.
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Well, at Craft Beer Republic at Flexme a beer. Uh, all that good stuff.
Eight. Five. Five. Three beer.Leave us a voicemail.
Got a lot to get.No more short jokes, please.
Sorry, it was a leprechaun joke.It wasn't directed at you.
Uh, all that good stuff.Where was I? Oh, lots to get to.
I've been holding out on some hugenews story that I'm excited I can
(01:29):
finally share with you people.Uh, some booze news, some beer
research, all that good shit.If you don't mind,
let's get right into it.First of all, shout out to our
top listing city of last week.And that is Miami, Florida.
What up? Miami? Yeah, Miami.Coming back around again.
It was funny.Uh, the real beer bastard on the
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gram messaged me the other dayabout something was like, hey,
in response to something we hadtalked about, I was like, I don't
know what you're talking about.And he goes, oh, it's from,
you know, batch 446.I was like, homie,
you're a little behind. You can look.And he goes, oh,
you're on 451 now or whatever it was.And I was like, well, yeah, sorry.
I can hardly remember what I atefor breakfast.
I don't want to be a one upper here,but I just had a friend messaged
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me this, I don't know,three days ago and he said,
awesome freaking podcast.Oh absolutely hilarious.
He said, you guys are hilarious.And I responded with, duh.
I don't even remember what we talkedabout. I know that's the problem.
And it was on the very last batch.So he's he asked,
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this is my buddy Luke.What's up Luke, thanks for listening.
Shout out to Luke.And he said what you just get
like super lit or like blackoutwhen you record.
I said, no, I just don't rememberanything we talk about. Yeah.
Which I probably should,I should listen maybe. I mean.
Just to kind of get things going,but yeah, I don't remember anything.
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The only reason I do is because Ilisten again, because I go back
and I edit the show. That's true.Back in the day,
when it was a different show andit was the three of us all in one
room together, and that was it.There was no, you know,
outside remote stuff like we do now.Uh, there was no need to edit unless
something major happened and I would,you know, obviously go back and
edit that out, but there's no needto listen to the whole thing.
(03:15):
I would mix it all live.The audio was done live and I would
never go back. I had no fucking idea.Ever. What we were talking about.
Like, I just it was so hard towrite show descriptions back now,
at least because I edit it.Not only have I listened to it again,
but I also take notes as I edit.And here's a fun fact for the
people listening,especially if you have like Apple
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CarPlay or something like that.My notes that I take are
actually the chapter markers.So if you have a podcast player that
shows chapter markers like AppleCarPlay or something like that,
it'll show you all my notes thatI take as I'm editing.
So it might be like Flex said.And it'll be like a funny line
that I want to save for later.Or it might just be my own
little quip that I put in there.So Easter eggs.
(03:58):
Man, I'm just glad you think I sayfunny stuff. Every now and then.
Yeah, that's what I'm here for.All the time. Fucker.
One time just to see who waspaying attention.
I actually put it is that story aboutthe drunk guy dressed as Batman
getting arrested or whatever. Okay.And I put the picture of him in the
chapter marker, and Erica actuallysaw it and was like, hey, I liked
your little Batman Easter egg.And she was the only one, though,
(04:21):
so apparently no one else is payingattention. But maybe they will now.
Or nobody else uses Apple CarPlay.Or that too. Yeah. Who knows.
So, uh, anyways,we are way too sober. Let's fix that.
Let's find out what Flex is drinking.In a world where craft beer is king,
a world where muscles are biggerthan growlers,
only one tongue can guide us.One man, one tongue,
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one tongue jabber.In this world, we must find out
what is Flex drinking?A little pause on what I'm drinking.
Oh, I was just listening to thisintro again. One tongue can guide us.
It just made me think of, like,this stupid cartoon of, like,
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this drug sniffing tongue, you know?It's just like it, like,
doesn't talk.Maybe he has, like,
googly eyes or something like that,and he just fucking sniffs out,
like, the best tasting shit.It's like Addams Family.
But instead of a hand,it's a tongue. That's exactly right.
But it makes that sound as it walksaround. La la la la la la la la la.
Yeah. Or like a Scooby Doo.Minus the whole dog body.
(05:31):
Just his tongue, you know,just the tongue. Yeah, just.
It is just the tongue I'm picturingright now. Um. All right.
Anyways, that's stupid as hell.Uh, so it's.
Like 200 episodes to get to that.I just deep thought tonight,
I don't know, deep thoughts.By tonight, I am drinking
Maplewood Brewing companies.I've had a few Moon Fruit.
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Um, it is a Imperial or doubledouble dry hopped IPA. There we go.
And, uh, I gotta show you thiscannot. It's just really fun.
I love. Oh, yeah.The pink and the blue color.
Throwback colors. Black background.Just kind of, uh oh.
It's like electric and bright and.Yeah, uh, fun. The neons.
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It's got all the different, uh,phases of the moon on the can and,
uh, just really well done.It's simple, but effective.
Great use of color.I would say this is a ten out of
ten can, uh, personally, but, um,enough, uh, climaxing over the can,
let's talk about what's inside.Climaxing.
Um, untapped has this at, uh, four,one, three out of over 3000 ratings.
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So it's pretty up there.Uh, they say a luscious double dry
hopped double IPA brewed with Galaxy,Citra and Mosaic hops,
Cops expect pungent waves of peach,passionfruit and mango to orbit your
nose and mouth. Um, I tell you what.Super pungent aroma of mango on
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the nose.Um, I don't get any of the peach,
which I was really,really super duper hoping for.
Um,or the passionfruit for that matter.
It's the super mango driven nose.So without further ado.
By the way, we're talking aboutWordle before the show.
Adieu is my first word I always use.It's too many O's. Or is that a o u?
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There's zero O's. Damn it! Um.Well, not in the way you say it.
There's lots of O's. Eddie.Uh, anyway, um,
so after taking a sip of thiswith the warmed up tongue jabber,
um, my new cartoon character.Yes, there are loads of peach on
this fucking thing.Um, more mango after that.
(07:46):
And then the passion fruit.Wherever it is,
it's hiding somewhere.Maybe I'll find it as it warms up,
but with the amount of peachthat is coming, uh, emanating,
emanating, emanating. Sure.Um, I'm sure it doesn't make
total sense, but that isemanating from these liquid gold.
It is almost gold colored.It is pretty gold colored.
(08:09):
It is dancing all over my mytongue jobber.
And I couldn't get enough of it.Um, so then to boot, here, uh,
8% ABV here. Oh, no algorithm.No hint of it anywhere.
Um, really happy with this.I always, always enjoy anything
that these guys put out.I was going to get this the last
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time we recorded, but I alreadyhad two packs in my hand and I
just couldn't talk myself out ofnot getting what I had, you know,
trying to control my drinking urges,You know,
like a responsible adult? Sure.Um, so I was super happy to find
this, and it just fucking blewit out of the water.
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Congrats, Maplewood. Congrats.What's the price on the, uh,
four pack? They're 15.99.Not bad. No, this is it.
Totally,totally hits the algorithm. Yeah.
In fact, if anybody wants to trythe algorithm crafter.
Com slash algorithm.And you'll find out if your
beers fit the Flex algorithm.I just ran all the stats that
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you described, okay.Through the algorithm.
We haven't done this in a while.All right. 77. Okay, we'll take it.
And it got a pretty darn tasty.And. That aligns more.
I would say this is pretty darntasty. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
The craft beers,public.com/algorithm. All right.
(09:36):
We got we got some things to get to.We have stuff to get to. Okay.
We do, we do. We got things.First of all,
I just wanted to give a shout out.And by shout out, I mean make fun.
Of all the craft breweries this weekthat are dropping their dry Irish
stout that's, you know, they'regoing to post something on the gram.
It's like, who needs Guinness whenwe've got our fresh new dry Irish
stout dropping this Saturday?It's like, hey, joke's on you.
(09:57):
No one likes Guinness in the firstplace, right? Amen, brother.
Yeah. So you've made a knockoff?Not as good version.
You have a nitro pour.That's doesn't make it taste better,
right? Not for me, no.So we'll see how many people I
can piss off with that one.Also the red lagers or the red ales.
(10:18):
A lot of people drop those as well.The Irish reds. Mhm.
Yeah, that makes sense.How about like a.
Those are fine beers I think they'refine. Yeah. They're pretty. Tasty.
Like a Saint Patrick's Day fuckingpale ale or something. Yeah.
That's never going to happen.No it's. Not about. The hops.
Do you like a potato ale potato.That might happen.
(10:38):
It's like some evil twin would do.Yeah. I don't know.
Just, uh, wasn't Ireland knownfor potatoes until, like,
the big potato famine of 1485?I'm sure that was totally accurate.
I think it was the 1800s.I don't history either. So.
So what do you do?I show up here every other Monday
(11:02):
night. You look cute. Call it a day.Uh, 1845. Missed it by.
That was the same numbers.It was all the same numbers.
Touché. See, I was close. Yeah.Just. Maybe you're dyslexic.
You're good with history.You're just dyslexic. You know what?
I don't numbers as well,so that might make sense. Oh, dear.
(11:26):
I'm gonna chalk it up to a win,I don't care.
Yeah, at least a half win,if nothing else. Quick! Take over.
Okay. I'm back. Welcome in everybody.Uh, what's going on? Oh, best.
The best.I have to pat myself on the back.
I guess it's really patting likeDeb on the back.
You know,we trivia and you waving at me.
(11:47):
I was patting you on your shoulder.Oh, I was like, what?
Is he doing this thing wrong?I'm slow.
You can't math or number,but I'm fucking slow.
But I can virtually pat you onthe shoulder.
Or maybe it's this way for you.Yeah. Does that work? Here we go.
That works. Oh, it feels better.Just rub it a little bit, too.
(12:08):
As you know, we, uh, we have a triviateam with the wife and I and Deb
and Brian. What's the name again?Prestige worldwide. Wide, wide.
So good.Uh, and then the company that
does the trivia at Knotty Pine.We're friends with the owners,
Kevin and Patty. They're great.And one of the things they do
once or twice a year is whatthey call the best of the best.
(12:29):
And they invite 30 of their bestand favorite and most fun teams
to come to one big trivia aboutyou from other locations,
because they do each each of them doa different location every night.
So there's like ten locations a week,and so invite 30 teams to come.
And they do like one major,like championships.
They call the best of the best.Can I just say it?
(12:51):
This sounds fucking awesome.Dude, it's so much fun.
And they do it at Tarantula Hillbecause they have a huge space for
it so that they can fit us all.Um, this was our third one.
We did the first one out of 30.We came in at like 20, you know,
fourth place or something like that.The second one, we improved,
I think we moved up to 13th.It was like, all right, go in the
right direction. Double it up.Yeah, we were hoping for this one.
(13:14):
Maybe we break top five.That'd be a good advancement for the
third trip. We fucking won that shit.No way. Suck it. That's awesome man.
Let me put this out here right when Igo out to trivia, which is very rare,
it feels like a waste of,I shouldn't say waste of time, but
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it's like you have like the regulars.Everybody's regular,
everybody plays every week.And but to get noticed and to
actually be invited to a specialtynight like a best of the best.
What a fucking idea. Yeah.It's so much fun.
I can't get over how awesome thissounds. Yeah, it's a really fun time.
(13:58):
And, um, really appreciate thatthey put it on.
Yeah, it's like a shout out to all ofus for showing up. Right. Right.
And whether, like you said,it's the best trivia teams.
It's the most fun ones.It's maybe best names get invited or.
Yeah.Uh, I think that's it's almost like
having, like, a season, you know.Yeah. In a sports league, it's.
(14:19):
Like WrestleMania for trivia.And then it all culminates to
one major event.This is blowing my mind right now.
I it's so much. And I know.The first I would have thought of it.
Yeah, well, I know the first time wegot invited, we'd only been doing
trivia for maybe a couple months.Obviously it was because we were
the fun team, right?We were not good yet.
But you know,as we worked our way up, we won.
(14:39):
And I have to give a specialshout out to, um,
not only did we because you canhave up to like ten people and
normally it's just the four of us.And Nick and Nicole came out and Nick
was clutch on a question about TECnine because he knows his hip hop.
And we also invited there's a teamthat always sits right behind us at
our regular trivia called The SillyBillies, and it's two girls who are
(15:00):
in their early 20s, and the lasttime we did the best of the best,
one of the girls was out of town,so we said, hey, just come join
us so you don't have to like,be by yourself and get creamed
at best of the best, right?And so this time,
both of them joined us.And it was great to have, um,
how do you say a little youth at thetable? Oh, I feel that. Yeah, yeah.
You know, to answer, like,the Taylor Swift songs and shit.
(15:21):
So, um, that was helpful.So it was great. So it wasn't just.
So our team name was PrestigeWorldwide featuring the Silly
Billies.And then the next time we went back,
pay homage.Yeah, I love I love the level of
respect you have going on here. Yeah.I mean, they helped us out a lot.
And so the next time we had ourregular trivia night, we went back in
and we text or actually we Instagrammessage not only our answers,
(15:45):
but like when you get there, youmessage your team name just so you're
on the list at that point. Okay.And when I, when I message the team
name, it was the 2025 best of thebest winning prestige worldwide.
That's amazing. And he read it out.I was just going to ask if he
read it out on the mic. Yeah.He goes and because this is
exactly as they typed it andthen read it out, it's like, oh,
(16:06):
that's so good. Congratulations, man.Yeah, it was good times.
We, uh we oh, we also got a giantlike stein thing that each team
decorates whenever they win.So it's in our possession.
I need to design,like a sticker that's like
prestige worldwide and sillybillies and then slap it on there.
And so just it's like a trophythat gets passed around. Yeah.
(16:27):
So the next time they do best,the best we got to bring it back
with with our markings on it.So would you say this trophy is
like your mom?Because it gets passed around?
I got it.I'm just kidding, I love you.
Greg's mom.I'd say it's closer to your mom
because I'm going to put my markingson it. Oh, okay. Enough of the mom's.
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Not a mom show. Not yet. Not yet.Could be. Um, so that was great.
And then also, I just want tosay I did a little trip to
Malibu Brewing over the weekend.Did a little research.
Oh, it was a lovely day.Fantastic weather.
SAT outside with the dog.Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day,
(17:09):
lovely day. Had some great beers.Some great foods.
Yeah, I know they've been a littleslow lately because PCH, the the
highway that goes along the beach,you know, from from Santa Monica.
I was gonna guess that was a new drugin town. No. Pacific coast highway.
Okay. Okay. Uh, has been still.It's still, like,
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largely closed because the fires.So I know they've not been as
crowded as normal, so it was nice tostop in and see him and have some
fucking great beer and great foodand great stuff. They're so good.
They have a new burnt end,like burnt end turkey salad.
Okay. Interesting.I've never had turkey burn ends
before, but, uh.I didn't know you could burn a turkey
(17:53):
in. Yeah. Who knew? Well, ask my mom.She can definitely burn turkeys.
That's why I do the cooking atThanksgiving. Easy now. Easy now.
It's your mom we're talking about.Yeah. Touche. So, uh. So good. Shit.
And they had a couple of new beersthat I tried, and, uh, I ended it off
with Old Faithful, which is their.I think it's called westward.
It's their Berliner,and it is 3% and delicious as fuck.
(18:15):
So you can have, like, 30 of them.It's a classic Berliner. Yeah.
It's great, I love it.It's all the. 3% or less.
I love the, uh,the the beer accuracy, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful. Nailed it.So let me just say it one more time.
Wonderful. Is it wonderful?Wonderful. Mr.. Wonderful.
Outstanding. Yeah. Any any research?Guys going anywhere? Not me. Man.
(18:40):
My life is pretty lame right now.Just.
Did you finally get over the Lingus?Got over the Lingus?
That didn't last very long.It was more like a Lingus.
Probably took me down to, like,80, 85%. Mm. Yeah. Yeah.
Which actually reminds me of.I saw Sam Adams commercial for,
uh, American Light.Sam Adams American light. Um.
(19:04):
Good for them.But it's all that reminded me of.
Good for them. What about you, man?I know you just went on a trip. Yeah.
Well, I've been on a bunch of trips.Um, I'm gonna talk about one trip
next week. I'm going to save it.I don't want to bombard
everybody with trips. Okay.Um, I'm going to rehash an old
trip in just a second here When Italk about easy. There, Weezer.
(19:26):
Just don't destroy my sweater.Whoa whoa whoa. So.
All right, well,let's let's fucking get to it.
Let's make a call to the pen so I cantalk about this beer. Can't wait.
He calls to the bullpen for beer.Corn in the ready.
I hope you're not left handed.Only when I'm pulling a stranger.
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I am drinking straight out of AustinFast Friends Beer Co Matamata 6.6%.
It's a hazy IPA, has a 3.89 onuntapped out of a 871 ratings.
The brewery says our House NewZealand Hopped Hazy IPA,
designed specifically aroundsome of our favorite hop
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varietals grown in New Zealand.We utilize a two row pale malt,
some oats, and a touch of ryehops solely with freestyle hops.
New Zealand grown cascade in thewhirlpool, then dry hopped
heavily towards the end offermentation with freestyle hops,
which I've never heard of before.Nelson Waimea, Pecherin and some
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CG cryo riwaka from our friends atCrosby Hops, these meticulously
selected hops come together for anexplosion of pineapple, citrus,
dank grape, orange blossom Matamataboasts an incredibly soft finish
leading to massive drinkability,a constant that we strive to
achieve with all our beers.We're so excited to bring our
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years of hoppy brewingexperience to you all.
This beer means a ton to us,so we can't wait to continue
elevating it to an even higherquality with every batch.
And I'll just show Flex here, I know.Oh wow, that looks amazing. Hazy.
This bitch is. Holy ballsacks.Yeah, it's it's it's a chunky boy.
(21:17):
Not a ballsack show. I'm sorry.Everybody give it time.
I just couldn't get over theamount of hops.
You know, I heard they recentlydecided to add more hops to it.
On the unyielding schnoz,I really get the the citrus,
I really get. Orange.Orange really comes through on
the nose. Okay. The schnoz.The wizard of oz.
(21:44):
I almost spit my beer.That would be the tongue jabber
character's sidekick.The Wizard of Oz. This is so dumb.
I hope after this show,you tell ChatGPT to come up with
a comic strip of.I was already thinking about it.
Dumb jobber in The Wizard of Oz.I was thinking about having to
come up with a script for us toact out on the next show.
(22:04):
All right, what do we get on the old,old tongue? Jobby.
Fucking tropical fruit salad.Get the pineapple.
Get the citrus, of course.Follows the nose.
Don't get so much dank grape.Uh. Orange blossom. Yes. Um.
some fruit punch like notes.It is soft af. I really enjoy this.
We we had it there when we werein Austin. We went.
(22:27):
This was one of the last breweries wevisited, and we visited because of
the news that I can finally tell.As we know, our friend Monica,
formerly of Pedals and Pints Brewing,moved on. Monica. Hi.
Monica moved on from pedals andpints.
She was working somewhere elsefor a while out here,
and she got an incredible joboffer to come be their lead
(22:48):
brewer at Fast Friends in Austin.They got a new I don't know what the
person said like director of beverageoperations or something like that.
Sounds legit. Sounds super legit.She came in like as their
basically brewmaster with theability and authority to bring
in somebody underneath her andin the tell me more.
(23:10):
And in the process,somebody else left the brewery.
So not only did she offer Monicathe lead brewer job to
eventually become head brewer.She was able to also offer Monica's
husband James a job as well. Damn.Formally now formally of integrin.
So he was brewing at integrin andMonica was not actively brewing.
(23:31):
She was, I think at a distillery.And so anyways,
a couple weeks ago they had to go in.It happened so quickly.
She made the announcement and thenum, within I think two weeks,
two. Weeks, I believe it was.Yeah. Yeah. She was moving.
So I had I've been sitting on thisinfo for like a month now at least.
And it's like,I want to tell everybody.
Um, but I couldn't I didn't know ifit was public or not, but now it is.
(23:53):
And I'm so excited for her.The brewery is a really cool space.
Um, really big brewery and wasreally nice and, you know,
well kept like not your typical like,hey, we're going to a back
alleyway brewery or anything.Like that, right?
Really nice weird location like offthe side of the freeway next to
nothing but, uh, really nice spot.That was all the Southern Grist
(24:16):
location.When I went to Nashville was okay.
It was right off the expressway,and it was next to this,
like abandoned, like auto garage,like weird building.
And it was it seemed super sketchy,but the the brewery was really
nice and it was packed and tonsof fucking people, you know.
(24:37):
So yeah, this was towards theend of the night.
We got there like within an hourof them closing wasn't packed.
There were definitely people there.It wasn't packed.
But we we got a couple flights tried,you know, basically as much as we
could in the time we were there.We did not order the food, which we
found out afterwards that one ofthe co-founders of the brewery or
co-owners is a michelin rated chef.And I was like, oh, maybe we should
add some of the fucking food.Out of here. I'm like, God damn it.
(25:00):
So anyways, I'm super excited forMonica and James and this opportunity
for them and can't wait to go out andvisit them as. Stop, stop stop stop.
I'm sorry they took our jobs.I apologize as we were talking to
her at their going away party.Please call me.
I hate when I do that.I get all excited. No, I love it.
I thought it was so cute.You're so cute.
(25:22):
As we were talking to them atthe going away party.
You know, Shannon,the wife is already saying like,
hey, you know, we'll come out nextyear for your pink boots brew.
And I'm like, wait, we will.And you know, so. Like.
You wouldn't say no to that.I know, I know.
But she's like, yeah, yeah, we'llplan it out. I'll let you guys know.
So um, hopefully we get to goout there and I'm excited.
You know,we had a bunch of their offerings.
(25:42):
Most of them were pretty good orbetter.
There were a couple that's like,all right, it's not bad.
But, you know, I wouldn't orderit as is. And she even asked us.
She was like, you've had more oftheir beer than I have,
you know, what did you think?And and we told her, like,
for the most part, you know,really good stuff.
You know,these couple of beers have a little
work to be desired or whatever.And she goes, yeah, I already have a
plan for those beers, apparently.Like they don't have a filter on
(26:04):
site.And so, like,
they're not filtering their lagers.And I was like, how are.
You not filling your lagers?She goes,
so my first request is a new filter.And so she's already got plans.
It's fucking awesome.I'm so excited for them.
So their beer about to come uppretty good.
Yeah I think it's a it's a goodthing for Austin, Texas.
They're getting a couple of reallygood brewers quite honestly.
Good for them. Fast friends.Fast friends. Check them out.
(26:28):
Go go and check it out.This hazy is delicious.
It's pillowy soft.And oh I forgot to show you I love
the can art. What a fun can art.It's super fun.
It looks like two friends whobecame together really fast, right?
You know, or they're running veryfast and there's a volcano. Oh, yeah.
Get the hell out of there fast,friends.
(26:50):
Hope, hope the fast friends are fast.Maybe they should join the Olympics.
Oh. Good idea.Maybe they would win a Fast
Friends relay race.This is really taking a turn.
Not a fast friend show. I'm sorry.Or an Olympic show. Uh, next year.
All right, a little news beforewe get out of here. Uh oh.
And we also have some Saint Patrick'sDay. Fun facts we gotta get to.
(27:12):
Oh, monster! It's coming up.I keep forgetting. It is coming up.
Can't wait. Oh, wait. Oh.Oh, okay. Yes. Right.
I thought you were gonna startsinging the Rolling Stones for a
second. Oh, no.Uh,
monster beverage takes $130 millionimpairment on their alcohol brands
in quarter four of last year.We've talked about impairments
(27:34):
before.It's basically when someone buys
a brewery or anything.But in this case, a brewery.
And, uh, the value is not anywherenear what they paid for it.
So if you remember, monster boughtKannaki a couple of years back and.
Yeah, uh, still losing money,you know, Oskar Blues, Cigar City,
Deep Ellum, Perrin, uh, Wasatch andsquatters are the main brands there.
(27:56):
Can't say I love any of those. Yeah.You know, back in the OG craft days.
In the OG. You're right, Oskar Blues.I was thinking Cigar City.
You know,my first keg that I ever had on
tap here at the house was highly,highly Jai alai. Jai Jai alai.
Soft jay. They're ruining some beers.They're disgusting too. So whatever.
(28:20):
Yeah, they're energy drinks.And aren't they owned by Coca-Cola
as well? I don't think so.I know they're distributed by
Coca Cola here at least.Okay, so I didn't know if that
was like an ownership.No, I think it's enormous.
I think monster is the parentcompany. Okay.
I'm pretty sure just becauseI've seen it all over with the.
(28:40):
I'd believe you. Yeah. You know what?How about this monster is the
parent company? Wow.Smart said with conviction.
Conviction, conviction. Con.There's an extra in there.
It was said with conjunction.What's your function? Hey, yo.
Schoolhouse Rock. That's right.That's what that's from, right?
(29:02):
Yeah. Conjunction junction.What's your what's your function?
Yeah, yeah. Never seen it.Oh, you got a edumacate you?
I'd rather not be edumacated.That was a magic school bus guy
myself. Oh, I love Miss Frizzle.Oh, yeah. She's the best.
Had a little crush on her.Did you ever see the.
There's a post because you neverreally think about it when
(29:24):
you're a kid.When she takes the kids in the school
bus and they get inside of a fish,but then the fish comes into the
other fish to make eggs.So the school bus actually shoots
out of the fish's dick into thefemale fish, and they're in the
(29:46):
the the the fish sperm.I did not know that. Yeah.
It's a super, uh, you know,under the radar, but. Yeah.
Yeah. That's hilarious.Those kids went on a fucking ride,
man.Now, I want to go watch that episode.
Pretty sure you could look it uplike Magic School Bus Phish.com
(30:08):
or something like that.That'd be quite the Google history.
Oh. Sorry everybody.Act like yours is any better. Oh.
Um. I'm not a Phish come show.No! Damn it!
(30:30):
Do you have a list or something?You didn't get the memo. Oh, man.
All right, what do we owe news?Anybody a fan of Revolver Brewing?
Oh, okay.This is so hard to come back from.
Uh, the now Tilray ownedRevolver Brewing.
They're moving all their productionaway from Revolver's facility to
(30:52):
Granbury, Texas. Oh. Excuse me.In Granbury, Texas,
to other Tilray facilities.They'll keep the taproom open for
now, but they won't be producingthere anymore. Bummer. Yeah.
Another fucked up brewery. Classic.Classic. Tilray. Classic. Tilray.
(31:13):
Uh, we, you know, we try not toget political on this show.
Other than you should have votedfor Flex and Greg, 2024.
You fucking idiots. Amen.Uh,
but I've seen a lot of things aboutthe tariffs going back and forth.
This one I thought was interesting,you know. All right.
Cans are gonna get more expensive.Grain's gonna get more expensive.
All that good stuff.But it's going to affect
(31:34):
constellation and some Mexicanbeers extra hard.
Not just because the grains andthe cans and all that stuff.
And I'm not going to explainwhat a tariff is.
If you, uh, if you don't know by now,Google it, bitches.
So constellation cannot brew in theUS as of a 2013 legal settlement.
A consent decree which sounds fancy.In 2013, AB InBev wanted to buy
(31:58):
modelo, the maker of Corona, modelo,etc. the US government stepped
in to prevent a beer monopoly.AB InBev was forced to sell Modelo's
US business to Constellation Brands.The catch?
The deal required constellationto import all their Mexican
brands from Mexico.They legally cannot brew them in
the US. Huh.And now where the tariffs come in.
(32:20):
Constellation has no way to avoidthe 25% tax on Mexican imports.
Prices go up.Beer lovers might feel it at the
checkout.So anyways, all that to say,
because they legally cannot brewit here in the United States.
Extra interesting to see what'sgoing to happen with those
Mexican beer brands.Maybe they just start coming in
in bottles. Maybe.Well, I mean,
like Corona already does.That's what makes it taste like shit.
(32:42):
True God, who decided to putbeer in clear bottles?
I don't know,but aren't you can fact check me?
Aren't green bottles even worse?I don't think they're worse.
I always heard they were worse.Is that because of rolling Rock?
Well. Rolling rock! Heineken, Stella.I don't all this shit. Green beers.
(33:03):
Is there an easy way to Google this?Let's see. I don't know.
You're the the brains of theoperation. Clear is the worst. Yeah.
They provide the least amount ofUV light reflection.
Which makes sense. It's clear.Well, yeah, it's not opaque.
And I think I've told this on theshow before, but I heard I think
it was rolling Rock, you know,has that sort of distinct
rolling rock taste. Right.It was the first full beer I've
(33:25):
ever finished in my life. Yeah.Years ago, they tried to upgrade
the brew house and they moved itto a bigger brewing facility and
all this stuff, and they weregetting letters complaining
about it didn't taste right.And what had happened was they
figured out it took tons of wecan't figure out why this is
tasting different and why peopleare saying this.
In fact, if anything, it tastesbetter in the new brew house.
(33:46):
Well, it took them forever to figureout that in the old brew house,
there was like this little lip atthe top of the steam vent. Okay.
It was catching condensation anddripping back in the beer and,
like, essentially skunking the beerwhile brewing. Oh that's wild.
And people were missing that taste.And so once they.
And it took them forever to figurethis out, once they finally figured
(34:07):
it out, they actually installedsomething in the new brew house to
catch the steam and drip it backinto the beer. Come on. Yeah.
For reals. That is embarrassing.Enjoy your rolling Rock! Idiots.
Oh, yeah. Let's end it on this.Some Saint Patrick's Day fun facts.
The first Saint Patrick's Day paradetook place in 1485. I meant location.
(34:30):
Oh. I'm sure you're close. Yeah.1485 Street. Yeah. Nailed it.
In America, not in Ireland.Okay. I don't know.
The New York City Saint Patrick's DayParade is the world's oldest civilian
parade and the largest in the US.Chicago began its annual
(34:50):
tradition of turning the ChicagoRiver green in not 1485. Five.
But wait, um, I'm gonna say, like,probably recent, like 19 or 1992.
No. 1962. Ah, damn. That was close.Close by 30 years. Uh, in Ireland.
Saint Patrick's Day was viewedmostly as a religious observance,
(35:13):
and up until the 1960s,even had laws that forbid bars
from being open that day.Yeah, because didn't the dude, like,
get, uh, executed or some shit?Saint Patrick.
I know he sent all the snakes outof Ireland, which isn't true,
but that's the the law.Well, damn, he sounds like a fucking
(35:34):
hero. Real Ireland hero. Yeah.Commercials for him and everything.
You don't want snakes, you callSaint Patrick. Real Irish hero.
Here's to you,Mr. Snake getter outer.
He snaps his fingers andpotatoes grow.
(35:57):
We should make that into acommercial.
I should put some music on it.That would be pretty solid.
It wasn't until 1798,the year of the Irish Rebellion, that
the color green became officiallyassociated with Saint Patrick's Day.
Before that, it was blue.Is there any explanation as to what
the green. Just like clovers and or.Clovers and balloons. Uh, no.
(36:21):
Saint Patrick's Day switchedover from a strictly holy day
for Catholics to an officialIrish public holiday in 1903.
So they filled in the holes.Yes, they sure did.
Although Saint Patrick's Dayfalls within the period of lent,
a time when the Catholic Churchprohibits eating meat,
the ban is lifted on the specific dayof celebration. Per Irishcentral.
(36:44):
Each year, 5.5 million people visitNew York's Saint Patrick's Cathedral.
Britannica reported that beforeSaint Patrick became a missionary,
he had been kidnapped at the age.Of. 16, became a missionary.
Oh,I just heard missionary and was like,
whoa, excited? Yeah, I was like.Wow. He also invented porn. Yeah.
(37:09):
Well, the snakes were four.Oh, oh, he had been kidnapped at
the age of 16,taken to Ireland as a slave.
He's originally from England,actually. Wales.
Traditionally, Catholic familiesgo to church on the morning of
Saint Patrick's Day and partake ina meal that includes cabbage and
Irish bacon. What about Irish bacon?Is it just like corned beef?
(37:29):
Maybe, I don't know.Isn't that all they eat over there?
I've never been.I can't, I can't wait to fucks
me up some corned beef.Oh, it's my favorite.
We got some in the fridge right now.Time reported that Dublin's
first official celebration ofSaint Patrick's Day did not
occur until 1931. Huh?In terms of beer,
there's a Hundred and 74% increase inbeer sales on Saint Patrick's Day
(37:53):
compared to the rest of the year.That's it. Yeah. 74%. Huh?
I thought it'd. Be 153% on. Spirits.Uh, $6.85 billion is the amount spent
collectively on Saint Patrick's Day.That's a lot of money. Yeah.
31.5 million is the number ofAmericans who claim Irish ancestry.
(38:13):
Second only to German at 6.4. Yeah.Um, growing up, my dad always
told me I was like, 2% Irish,which means I'm 0% Irish, right?
Just enough to enjoy a couple beers.Yeah,
just enough to make the the red comeout of my beard when it gets long.
Maybe that's my excuse, too,for my red beard.
Once you hit a week,it's all except for here.
(38:36):
It's gray, but the rest of it's red.Mine takes, like, three months.
But that's just because Ihaven't hit puberty yet. Yeah.
One of these days,those balls will drop. Yeah. Yeah.
Beautiful. Beautiful balls. Haha.Seems like a perfect time to end
the show. Speaking of balls.Hi Vanessa! Hahaha. Hi Vanessa.
(39:00):
Sorry, I'm so sorry about that.Yeah. Apologies. Damn it!
You know where to find us on thesocials at Craft Beer Republic
at Flexy.Beer underscores in between 80553.
Beer 2337. Mail a craft beer.Com all that good stuff.
Hope everyone stays extremely wellhydrated on Saint Patrick's Day.
And on that note.Top of the night, everybody.
(39:24):
The show in the morning.Da da da da da da da.
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