June 18, 2025 • 38 mins
Welcome in, craft beer lovers! This week’s episode is tart, tangy, and packed full of laughs—Greg and Flex accidentally twinsies their way into a sour-off, proving once again that great minds drink alike. Greg gets VIP treatment at a local beer fest (even if he has no idea what that means), there’s a hunt for Flex in the wilds of Milwaukee, and somehow Chew Your Beer runs into Coley and BDN in the middle of a baseball circus. There’s also some family time, a little heat, and Flex has to go on a big apology tour.
Beers We’re Drinking
- Greg is drinking Tropícal Brut from Blue Owl Brewing – A funky, fruity sour with a dry Brut finish that hits perfectly on a hot day.
- Flex is sipping on Ooey Gooey Guy by The Brewing Projekt – Basically a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a glass, and somehow it totally works.
There’s a full-on Flex hunt going down in Milwaukee, but Vanessa and her hubby end up at the wrong Eagle Park. Meanwhile, Greg enjoys VIP status at Topa Topa’s 10th anniversary bash and may or may not have figured out what "VIP" actually means.
Flex gets real about palate sabotage via Tex-Mex trail mix (a very specific flavor crime), and issues a heartfelt apology to the breweries he unjustly judged last week. There’s also a touching moment of family bonding—Flex celebrates a belated Father’s Day with his kids, beer shopping included, while Greg endures the mariachi madness of a boozy brunch. Plus, the guys trade stories about cheap Midwest beer, Topo Chico price hacks, and playing lawn darts like it’s 1979.
And of course, Chew Your Beer calls in with stories about his chemical engineering kids, LA Beer Week, and a wild run-in with Nicole and Big Dick Nick at a Savannah Bananas game. Peak chaos. Peak CBR.
Booze News
- Cape Cod Beer joins the Triton Beer Avengers.
- Wilding Brands snatches up another Denver brewery; Station 26 Brewing.
- The Brewers Association adds new styles to the guidelines!
- The very unofficial top 30 California Breweries list enrages Greg.
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Episode Transcript
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This beer is good, by the way.Damn, I miss sours.
I have a sour too. Oh, look at us.What a sour. Show. Hashtag Twinsies.
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Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg, and I'm being joinedby the man who's definitely built
for comfort. And that is Flex.What's up, big fella?
Uh, hanging on, man.Looking forward to a solid show, I
hear. I don't read what you send me.I apologize, but I hear we got
we got a lot of stuff to.We have tons of stuff.
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Like too much stuff.We're gonna jam it all in,
like a impacted filling. Or.Like, so unattractive.
PB and J sour. Yeah.Yeah, it's gonna be a sour show.
Oh, man. Well, welcome in everybody.Like I said, thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.This is The Craft Beer Republic,
the number one rated craft beerpodcast that has never listened to by
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my wife. So you've you've made it.You texted me that this morning and
I actually laughed after readingthe message. That was hilarious.
I was like, if Flex laughed,maybe it's worth repeating. Yeah.
Uh, and shout out to our toplisting city of the week and
that's Los Angeles.I'm glad you guys are listening.
And I love you guys and I support youguys. An entire city full of angels.
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Who knew? What can I say?If you've ever had the tacos down
there, you know why they put.Angels in the tacos? Wait, that.
That made it sound gross.Uh, no. They're all angels.
Making taco like nothing better thantacos in LA. Okay. I think. Yeah.
It probably didn't come acrossas how I meant it to great food
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in Los Angeles.I would segue from that pretty quick.
Find us. On. The socials.@CraftBeerRepublic @Flex_me_a_beer
Underscores in between. Super smooth.Great. Good job. No one noticed.
Uh, like Flex alluded to.Super solid.
Lots to get to, multiple voicemails.Uh, Chew was meeting up with some of
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our friends. There's a hunt for Flex.Apparently, he's missing some booze
news to get to, some anniversaryparties, some drinking. So much shit.
So I should stop wasting time.And if you don't mind,
I'm gonna just crack one open.I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
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Out of my way! I Love My Beer! Ooh!Tart. I am drinking Blue Owl brewing.
Who we talked about a couple weeksago in the news. Uh Tropícal Brut.
Passion fruit and guava sour ale.Ooh.
Who we all know how I feel aboutguava in my sours. Love it.
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7% has a 3.81 and untapped out of2100 ratings. Wait, you said 7%.
7%. Wow. Yeah.Which, let me tell you,
I've had this beer before.We brought it back from a trip.
Uh, doesn't doesn't taste like 7%.It's very, uh, very sneaky.
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I don't see anywhere on the canto actually back that up.
Oh, here we go. The cans is 6.7%.Okay, so the listing is a little off,
but 6.7%.Uh, all it says is passion fruit
and pink guava sour dry ale.So there you go. Right on.
Hence the fruit. Hence the Brut.Uh, on the schnoz. Excuse me?
The nose buds.You get a little bit of that fruit
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coming through, especially the guava.Uh, but let me tell you, it's
that sour funkiness that's reallycoming through that I can't put my.
I don't know how to explain it,but, you know, when you're drinking
a sour. It smells sour. Yeah.It's just like it smells sour.
Exactly.All right,
here's the Tongue-jobber. Woo!This bad boy is deliciously tart.
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Fruit up front.Very dry Brut like finish. Yeah.
Uh, this.I can't believe this is almost 7%.
I know I've had it before,but I didn't realize how strong
it was. Uh, this is delicious.I picked it out. It's so funny. We.
We had no idea what each otherwas drinking on the show.
Spoiler alert, they're both sours,and, uh, I picked it out because
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it's fucking balls out today.Like, summer is like, hey,
I'm here, motherfucker. And, uh.It's kind of jealous.
Today was the hottest day inMilwaukee in, like,
I don't know, all year so far.Like, we've had a shit ass summer.
So it's not summer, technically, but.Yeah. Yeah. Close. Like a shit ass.
Late spring, beginning to June.So what's hot right now?
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Uh, it was 82 today. Okay.Yeah, it was, uh, 89 here. Yeah.
That's warm. Just sweat my balls off.I wanted something refreshing.
This fucking nailed it.Uh, something else I saw about
this beer on the untapped thing.It said 60 SU.
I was like, what the fuck is SU?Uh, so I looked it up.
Apparently, it's souring units.Interesting.
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I've never heard of it. Yeah.Uh, so I did more souring units.
Research says it's not an officialthing like IBUs, but some brewers
and beer lovers use Sour Units todescribe how puckering a beer is.
It's basically a fun way to ratesourness.
Kind of like Scoville units forspicy food.
The real science behind it,it's all about acidity and pH.
The lower the pH,the more sour it tastes.
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So next time someone says a beer hashigh sour units, they just mean it'll
make your face do that sour face.So then it's a low pH. Yes.
Lower the pH.The more sour it tastes.
Okay, so there you have it.I'd never.
Yeah, I'd never heard Susebefore or Sour Units.
So look at you getting allsciency nerd shit. Uh. All right.
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What's even nerdier is that youprobably loved looking it up,
too. A little bit.That's why I love you. Yeah.
I was like, I gotta figure this outbecause I could have just said, ah,
Suse probably stands for Sour Units,but who cares? My little nerdy Greg.
That's me. Uh.All right, like I said,
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lots to get to.Um, I dude, we finally had our first
wakeboard trip of the season lastweekend. That's exciting. Yeah.
It's good. Good wakeboard sesh.New boat. Well, new to us. Boat.
So that was great.Um, did a little wine tasting,
as per usual. Because, um.Why wouldn't you when you're in
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the area?Yeah, especially when we got all
those memberships and it'susually free or close to it.
Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah.Uh,
no beer stops while we're up there.You know, a lot of times we'll stop
at like there's not exist on theway back, but we had something to
get to and time was of the essence.So. Sucks for me. Yeah.
At least you had fun. Yeah.Good trip though.
But I did do some beer researchover the weekend.
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Topa Topa had their 10thanniversary party.
We talked about it on the show.Congrats.
Yeah, congrats to Topa Topa.Congrats to Cambria, as well as
their, um, events coordinator,Emily. Great event.
Uh, they were nice enough to putme on the VIP list, which. Well.
Yeah, which was kind of funnybecause I was like,
I don't know what that means.And so I showed up and we bought
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our beers, and I saw this tableoff to the corner after we
already got our beers.And I just walked up and I said, hey,
because they're handing out lanyards.And I was like, hey, um,
I was told I was on the VIP list.And I'm going to be real honest,
I don't know what that means.And she goes, oh, okay.
Well, you know, what's your name?She looks delicious.
So yeah, sure enough, here you are.Here's your two passes.
And I said, great, what is this for?And she goes, oh, you get two free
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beers. And I was like, oh, fantastic.Thank you so much.
So yeah, it was very nice. I got a.We each got a couple of free
beers out of it and uh, it wasthey had a 10th anniversary IPA.
And look, I know I've been a bitof a haze for the last few
months this year, basically.But, um, their 10th anniversary was
a Westie, and it was really good.It was really hitting the spot
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the other day. Single steer.Single hop. No no no no no.
Like single double triple.Oh, yes. Just an IPA. Okay.
Um, and then the other one I gotwas their single hop IPA, which
was all Nelson, I thought of you.I love that. Yeah, that was good too.
So that makes my heart happy.Yeah. Uh. Great event.
You know, they had some bands,some food,
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some vendors and that kind of stuff.We had to leave a little bit early,
uh, for some family shit, but,uh, glad we got to hang out for
a few hours before we had to doall that annoying stuff.
So, uh, cheers to Topa Topa.Um, all right,
I alluded to this before.People have been hunting for the
great Flex.Apparently, it's all over.
All over Milwaukee. Uh, Vanessa.Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa.
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And her husband are in theMilwaukee area, and I.
I guess they went to Eagle Parklooking for you.
You you texted me this? Yes.Yes. You know, it's a Monday.
Everybody knows Flex goes toEagle Park on Mondays for lunch.
Um, I won't give out which one theywent to, but turns out they went
to the wrong one. There are two.The wrong location. Absolutely.
(09:18):
So, uh, her husband sent me this clipwhile they were at the bar searching
for Flex. What's your name? Nicole.Nicole. Do you recognize this person?
No, I don't know who this is.All right. You don't know?
I don't know. Flex me a beer.I don't you don't know him.
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I just I clicked off, but.That was it. Kind of ended abruptly.
But I was getting messages of like,Flex says he's famous around here.
Nobody knows who he is.Yeah, so they went to the downtown
Milwaukee location and I go to the,uh, Muskego location, which is out in
the suburbs here, not in the city.So, um, yeah, also, I've been,
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you know, laying, as you know,and a lot of people don't know,
I've been off the gram for like fourmonths, almost something like that.
Just kind of laying low,taking care of myself,
not really going out too much.So, uh, I know they were looking
for me, and my apologies, but,you know, uh, I also did have, uh,
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Father's Day with my kids today sinceI worked all day on Father's Day.
Right. So slinging. Some sausages.We. Yeah. Tons of sausages, man.
People love my meat. It's crazy.I, for one, am a big fan.
But yeah, so we took the kids,hit some golf balls.
They love doing that shit.Oh, nice. Uh, got some pizza.
A little Chelsea action on theside and, uh, finish it off with
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a little bit of pool time.Even though there wasn't a shit
ton of sun today, it was warm.Not a lot of sun, but, uh,
humid and hot, so. Oof! That's the.Worst. Gross. The humidity was gross.
Makes me think of Florida.Yeah, not that humid.
Oh, I still have PTSD from that.Yeah, I bet your balls do, too.
As I say, they're still not dry.Did you, uh, did you take the girls,
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uh, beer shopping for Father's Day?I actually did.
It's funny you brought that up. Um.They were. They did pick, actually.
Kind of picked out the beer I bought.Actually, I'm drinking right now,
and, uh, they found it in a fourpack, and I really didn't want
to buy a four pack because I gotspurned a little bit last week.
Right. Hashtag? No, not too much.But, uh, I did find a single can
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of it. They. Oh, fantastic.Yeah, they re-upped their single
can section,so I was happy I could oblige. Good.
We don't have to blast them all overthe show for no singles. No, no.
Thank you. Consumer beverage.Well, fuck, since they picked
out your beer, let's just.Let's just talk about it now.
In a world where craft beer is king.A world where muscles are bigger
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than growlers.Only one tongue can guide us.
One man, one tongue.One Tongue-jobber.
In this world, we must find outwhat is Flex drinking?
All right, well,I it's been a while since I've had
one of these beers. Uh. Damn it.Uh, this brewery, I should say,
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since I've had this brewery, uh,the brewing project up in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin.That's like four hours ish away.
Three and a half.Uh, quite a jaunt northwest.
Yeah,it's a little a little bit of a trip.
Uh, but this is their peanut butterand jelly sour called Ooey Gooey.
Guy.I know this kind of makes its
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way around.I think it's on the old Tavour
every now and then.Um, I think kind of a flagship sour,
if I'm not mistaken.And I could be mistaken, uh, because
it's been a while. There we go.Uh, I like how they do their abvs,
too.They get to, like, the hundredth of
the decimal. So this is a 5.93% ABV.Very accurate.
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Very, uh, I would say sessionable.Right. It's under six or something.
So, uh, for sour,it's not not not bad.
Uh, collective 407 out of3.4 thousand ratings can't go wrong
with the 407 and untapped reads,uh, peanut butter and jelly sour.
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Oh, yeah. Okay.Can can says, uh, Concord grape,
blackberry,peanut and peanut flavoring.
So I know the flavoring isalways kind of scary because,
you know it's going to be artificial.Is it not going to be artificial?
Is it going to taste like peanuts?Is it going to taste like peanuts?
Who knows?Um, well, as Nick always says,
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if you don't hit the T,you get the D. He's not wrong.
Yeah, think about it, everybody.It's pretty solid. Peanuts. Ben.
He's a smart guy. Smart guy.All right, so on the old nose
buds here. Lots of peanut. Mm.Tons. Tons of peanut aroma.
Little, little fruit shining through,but definitely heavy on the nut.
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So, without further ado. Oh.See what the old Tongue-jobber has to
say about this? Well, he tries it.I'll tell you, this looks like
grape jelly. It's like purple.Yeah, it's fucking lacing.
Look at that lacing. Mhm.Gorgeous. So this is wonderful.
This is like stupid. Good.The peanut and the peanut
flavoring works so well with thisgrape and blackberry together.
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And there's it is legitimatelylike you took a bite into a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich.You're not getting too much peanut.
You're not getting too much of thefruit. It is just so well balanced.
I wish I would have gotten thefour pack now. Mhm.
Well that can go back and get afour pack. I can.
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But isn't it funny how it worksout that way right.
It's like man what the fuck.Had you gotten the four pack.
It would have been garbage right?Just would have been my luck.
Terrible shit.I gotta finish three more of these.
Yeah. So, uh. Yeah.I couldn't be happier about this. I.
I actually had to stop drinking itas I poured it before the show,
because it was already so good.It's too bad Voltron ended up
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being such a shit box last week.Well, so I do.
I did want to do this to Greg.I wanted to issue a public apology to
4 Hands Brewing and three sheeps.Um, I kind of shit bagged that
beer a little bit last week.The Voltron series eight.
And I think I figured out somethingthat happened because I had a
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can a day or two later because Ididn't want to throw it out.
I didn't want to pour it or whatever.It's wasteful.
And it was super drinkable.It was like it wasn't a great beer,
but it was drinkable. Okay.Much improved.
So then the next day I drank it outof the can, and it was actually
significantly better out of thecan than it was pouring, even
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though poured was still drinkable.And then I started trying to
scrape my brain.Why could that first can have
been so disgusting. Right?And I thought to myself, Flex got
hungry in between shows last week.Flex ate some Tex-Mex trail mix.
Oh no.From target in between the shows,
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and I'm pretty sure one of the spicesor the spices got caught on my
tongue and it totally wrecked mypalate for the beer. That's funny.
And I'm convinced that's what it was.So today, no trail mix.
Sorry, target. No trail mix today.We're gonna give these beers 100%
of my Tongue-jobber in love.That's so funny. Uh, well, then.
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Sorry. 4 Hands.I guess your beer didn't totally
suck. Yeah, no it didn't.So, you know.
Is it safe to say still wasn't thebest of that series? I would say so.
I would say the first beer in thatseries was by far the best. Okay.
I can't remember who they collabedwith, but it was a stylized,
hazy. Mm. And it was.You boner over. Those.
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Oh, I fucking boner so hard overstylized yeast.
Um, it's like my boner gets a bonerand boner. But, yeah, it was.
It was like drinking guava juice,and it was seven,
And a half percent, and they wereselling four packs for 9.99.
Like you don't forget something likethat. No you don't. You just don't.
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You know,speaking of four packs for 9.99.
Vanessa sent me a beer menu,a picture of a beer menu from a
different brewery.I forget which one in the Milwaukee
area. And legit four pack she goes.Flex isn't lying.
Four packs were ten bucks and 12bucks and she's like,
he's so fucking lucky. Yeah.Oh, beer's great here. Yeah.
Those of us from California,New York, Florida are like the ten
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bucks for an entire four pack.Even when we went to Saint Louis
last year, I was, uh,we stopped in one of, like,
the local grocery stores, uh, pickup a few things as we were taking,
like, another trip through the state.And I took a look at the beer
coolers, and I was like,Holy shit. 9.99 10.99 12.99.
Like, I think I ended up gettinglike four four packs and I didn't
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even plan to buy beer, but it waslike just looking at the prices and,
you know, breweries, you can't gethere because of distribution issues,
right? Because of Abe.And, um, yeah, we're just Midwest.
Super lucky. Yeah. Why is it.That's why everyone's always so
drunk in Wisconsin.The beer is cheaper than the water.
That's accurate.Four pack of crafties for ten bucks.
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Man, I can't believe it.Here's a funny story.
So my man cave also like,I guess doubles as my wife's.
There's like a hair chair down here.And she does like some family
members hair.And my sister in law and her
husband and their kids come overto get their haircut.
And my sister in law's husbandmade a comment.
I had some topo chicos, margaritas,seltzers in my fridge. Nice.
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And he asked me about them and hesaid, how much is a 12 pack of those?
And I said, oh, it was on sale atthe grocery store for 15.99. Wow.
And he said, that's funny because a12 pack of regular non-alcoholic Topo
Chicos is 15.99. It's free alcohol.So it is free alcohol.
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You just start putting those inyour kids lunches and shit.
You cheaper than a Capri Sun.You're actually stupid if you buy a
12 pack of that shit, right? Regular.Now I know why that trashy client
of your wife's thought it wasthe alcoholic Topo Chico and not
the regulars. Shit's cheaper.They make those non-alcoholic.
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Now it's all tracking.It's all making sense. It does.
It makes perfect sense. Wow.Well, to close the loop on the
search for Flex, Vanessa also didcall in and leave us a voicemail.
Hey, it's Vanessa, the real beervixen. I am here in Milwaukee.
@Flex_me_a_beer town at Eagle Park.And guess what?
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@Flex_me_a_beer is nowhere to befound. Where are you, Mr. Flex?
We wanted to have a beer next time.Cheers. There you have it.
My apologies. Yeah.He's too busy being a dad.
Someone's gotta be.Someone's gotta be the dad.
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Your wife sure won't do it forsome reason.
Yeah, I don't think she's up for it.She really needs to step up her game.
Yeah.It's time for her to dad a little
bit. Uh. What are you gonna do?I know, well, speaking of
Father's Day, I am not a dad.Just a dog, dad, as people say.
But, uh,did take the dad out for a brunch.
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Did did the old, uh, Mexicanbrunch where, you know, buffet
and limitless, uh, or unlimited?Uh, I keep saying margaritas.
Mimosas? Jesus Christ, this is 7%.We had, like, the best waitress
waitresses, you know,heavy for a serve yourself buffet.
But she was the one bringing aroundthe, uh, the mimosas the whole time.
And she was hilarious.She was great. Not hard to look at.
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And, uh, was just cracking jokes withus talking shit about the mariachi
band, because at one point, the,uh, the guy doing trumpet, like,
almost took her out, like, swung overand almost knocked her in the face.
And I was like, are you all right?She's like, yeah, I had to do
some matrix shit over here.So she was great. Um.
Sometimes those bands are so loud.That was the problem.
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So, like, it's cool because, like,legit mariachis are cool and, like,
they had them in the restaurant.We were out on the patio.
They had them in the restaurant.I was like, oh, this is cool
ambiance. And they're super talented.And the singing and the
harmonizing like, it's it's great.And then they came out to the
patio and they were, you know,4.5in from our ear holes.
It was like, oh my God,what the fuck is going on?
I feel like I'm under attack.I guess we'll stop having a
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conversation. Oh yeah.And they, you know, they kind of look
around to see who's, uh, you know,into it, making eye contact,
that kind of thing.And so all of us at the table
were like, oh God,please don't come play at our table.
Like. It is. You guys are great.It is loud enough.
We don't need the extra volume of thetrumpet directly in our eardrums,
so keep it to the other side ofthis tiny ass little patio.
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But then they went back insideand I was like, all right,
this is perfect volume.They're back inside. Sucks.
All the people inside the restaurant.Oh, that would be so much worse.
Yeah, so did that.Then we had to go because we had
some family thing going on.Uh,
the wife's dad was in town as well,so then at night took him out and,
um, did a little dinner thing and.Yay! So much family. So much family.
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I know you hate that.Yeah, it's good times. Even.
Even the wife was like,what are we gonna do?
I was like, do you mean, what are wegonna do? It's your fucking dad.
What do you want to do?And she's like, ah.
Sounds like my wife.My wife sent me a text.
It was last week sometime.She's like, she's bought her dad
a hat and something else.And she's like,
so Father's Day is done for him.She goes,
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you're on your own for years.I was like, oh, so what did I do?
I, I went to the local mall on lunchon Saturday before Father's Day,
and I went and bought my dad a hat.Nice. Yeah.
I just, you know,we just took him out.
Paid for brunch slash dinner. Okay.I think we've all gotten to the
(23:44):
point where, just, like,how much stuff can you have?
And there's nothing meaningful Icould buy my dad,
or she could buy her dad.Um, you know, it's so just spend time
instead and have or something. Right.Well, we, uh, we went over there.
I bought him a new Brewers hat,and he, of course, took it out of
the bag, put it on right away.Wore it the rest of the night.
(24:07):
Didn't even take the stickers off.That's a classic. Uh, Papa Flex move.
Mr. Flex. And, uh, he all star Flex.All star Flex.
Yeah, it's a long story. Really?Really fun.
Uh, my my dad's Just the greatest,really.
Uh, but, yeah, so we got to play me,him and my two other brothers.
We all played lawn darts.Like actual lawn darts for, like.
(24:31):
Been sitting in the garage sincethe 70s, like, uh.
Facebook Marketplace or somethinglike that. They're not legal, right?
No, I don't think so.I mean, these ones don't have points
to them. Oh, it's a it's a blunt end.Oh, gotcha.
But it's not the old school lawndarts.
No, not with like, the pointed.Right where they were stabbing
children and stuff. Yeah.If you're not paying attention.
(24:52):
Which those things fly, man,I haven't ever played.
It was my first time playingactual lawn darts.
Yeah, I've never played. Yeah.Them shit's fucking carry pretty
good. Look out! Yeah.So I almost, you know, maybe got my
foot stabbed once. Yeah. No big deal.But yeah, she's just once.
Just a foot.Then you start paying attention.
(25:13):
Yeah. It's like a lizard's tail.It'll regrow.
I think so, I think that's howthat happens. Yeah, yeah.
You lose a toe, it'll come back.It's fine.
Uh, well, speaking of dad's, uh.It's funny.
He actually mentioned being a dad.Chew Your Beer.
Leftovers of voicemail.Everyone's favorite homey.
So let's, uh, let's check inwith Chew. See what's up. Hello?
No one is available to take yourcall.
(25:33):
Please leave a message after thetone. Yo, what up, homies?
It's your friendly neighborhoodchulo.
Chew Your Beer @CraftBeerRepublic.How you guys doing?
It's been a while since I called in.I figured I'd call in and give
you a little.Just a little lowdown about
what's been going on.My youngest has graduated from
high school and should be on hisway to college. Congrats.
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My oldest should be graduatingcollege and by the end of next year,
both chemical engineers.I went to San Diego,
actually went to Little Italy just tohang out over the weekend. Nice.
And then, uh, funny thing,I was in Anaheim to go see the
Savannah Bananas perform.Oh, that's fucking cool.
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Actually, that is.The wifey and I decided to go
get another beer. Walked out.I didn't get a beer.
I ended up getting myself adouble Bulleit Bourbon and Coke
because I was tired of drinkingbeers and waiting for the wife.
She's getting a michelada.And then I hear in the in the far,
far background, through all the noiseof the cheers and the people walking,
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I hear, hey, Nicole, is that you?And I turn around and like about
25ft, I see the nickster.I see big Dick Nick staring,
making sure that's me.And I'm like, Holy shit.
And then he goes, hey, Nicole,it is Chew Your Beer. And they.
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It was hilarious.They got to see Nicole and Big Dick,
Nick and I think one of Nicole'sco-workers.
They were out there, uh, watchingthe Savannah Of bananas and took
a couple pictures with them. Man.So that was to be in Anaheim and
to run into these two.It was hilarious to me.
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I was like, I don't know where Iwould expect that.
Maybe at a brewery or somewherein the Valley,
but all the way down in Anaheim.And then I guess we were sitting in
the same zone because they came outof the same tunnel that we came out
of. It's just fucking hilarious.So, uh, my hat's off to them.
Was nice seeing them. Great show.If you haven't seen it.
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Savannah Bananas show,I highly suggest you go watch one.
And I would totally go back, homies.All right, so just give you some
of that this weekend.Uh, June 14th, I'll be at the,
uh, L.A. Brewers Beer Festivalin Long Beach.
So looking forward to hanging out outthere with Mikey of the taproom, uh,
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podcast and some other friends and,uh. Yeah, man. So it's summer's here.
Beer festivals here.LA Beer Week is coming.
Looking forward to going toTemple Week.
And hopefully I get to hang outwith you, Greg, and have a beer.
All right homies.This is Chew Your Beer.
You hate to watch. Yo. Peace out.Hey. So the Savannah bananas.
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They came here. Last summer.Question mark. Two summers ago.
Uh, because we have this baseballstadium. Six minutes from my house.
It's like the eight ABL Americanbaseball league or some.
It's not a minor league system.It's like its own minor league.
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The XFL. League.Yeah, it's it's weird, but it's
cool because super solid stadium.Uh, like I said, it's only like
six minutes from my house.It's actually. Yeah.
Next to where I go golfing whenI hit like those go to the range
or like golf bays.And, uh,
they played there a year or two ago.Tickets sold out so fast,
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they added another game the nextnight or another show,
whatever you want to call it.And then that sold out in like,
I don't know, like three minutes.Yeah, I guess there was like a
lottery system for this Anaheimgame he's talking about. Yeah.
The popularity for these guys islike through the roof.
It's like the Harlem Globetrotters ofbaseball, but way more entertaining.
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Oh, really?Because the shit they do is,
I don't know, it's wild.It's like any anybody can, you know,
be athletic, dunk all the alley.Oops. The dribbling.
Like there's a lot of people outthere that can do that.
We're talking like backflipsinto catching the ball and just
all this crazy, goofy shit.I don't know, man. It's wild.
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And is it one of those things, likethe Globetrotters where the bananas
always win? I believe so. Okay.But like,
it even got so big that, uh.Because I think they always play,
like, the same team.Kind of like the Globetrotters.
Others, okay.But they got so big that John
Cena actually participated atone of their shows and came out
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as a batter for the other team.Oh how funny. Yeah, so they're huge.
I bet it's really hard for thepitcher to see him hate you.
Damn, it.Must be hard to find that strike
zone when you can't see your batter.It's a wrestling joke for the for the
rest of you. Hopefully people get it.Yeah. Nobody will.
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They've now turned off the show.I thought this was a beer show.
Uh, well, cool. Yeah, I've.I've seen some clips. Seems fun.
I didn't know it was like that.Popular. Didn't.
Didn't the Savannah bananas usedto be a legit minor league team.
That I'm unaware of.I think they were actually a minor
league team, and they started doing,like, some fun things,
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and then it just spiraled.I think somebody will correct me.
I'm sure of it.You'd have to do some research.
I would, and I did not. So.All right, let's do a little
news before we get out of here.Cape Cod beer has been acquired
by Triton Beverage Group.Less than two months after
acquiring Plymouth based Mayflower.Mayflower Brewing, the parent
company of Hog Island Brewing,has acquired Cape Cod Beer,
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the oldest craft brewery on theMassachusetts peninsula.
Triton CEO Mike McNamara toldBrewbound that this marks a major
milestone for our team as we bringtogether three of Massachusetts most
respected coastal breweries under onelocally owned, independent banner.
There you have it. Classic. Yeah.Wilding brands who just bought
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or acquired Great Divideacquires another brewery.
Wilding brands,the Colorado based craft beverage
and hospitality platform, hasexpanded again with the acquisition
of Denver's Station 26 brewery.Station 26 founder Justin Bakery
will remain in his role.Roy nailed it, leading the brewery
as it joins the collective,which also includes Stem ciders,
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Denver Beer Co and Great Divide,among other brands.
Production and packaging of thestation 26 portfolio will shift
to Wilding Can Works facility inDenver's Sunnyside neighborhood.
Wilding brands will be minimizing thebrewing equipment at station 26,
which will allow for expandedtaproom seating.
No cuts are planned for taproomstaff, but the number of production
jobs affected is yet unknown. Dang.The Brewers Association adds new
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beer styles to the guidelines.They have added Mexican style light
lager, Mexican style amber lager,Czech style amber lager,
Czech style dark lager and WestCoast style pilsner. Cool. Yes!
Additionally, the categoryBohemian style pilsner has been
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renamed to Czech style pale lager.Okay. That's legit. Yeah.
So there's some some nerd news foryou. Let's end it on this one.
It's a list, but I don't thinkyou're gonna get angry about it.
Okay. I'm okay with that.It's the top 30 breweries in
California. Yeah.You know, pretty impartial. Yeah.
Maybe you would get angry,I don't know. Well. We'll see.
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I'm not gonna go through all of them,because that would take all day.
I'll talk about some notables.30 is three Weavers brewing.
28 Emigrant Brewing. What up?Emigrant?
24 Pizza Port Brewing Company.Are they overrated? Are they decent?
Uh, I like them, you know,they're real old school.
So you got to be careful if youdon't want that, like, you know,
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multi IPA situation. Got it.Um, but you know what they do,
they do really well and they havegood pizza. So 23 Society brewing.
Love me some society 22 Kern River.Oh see all right now I'm angry. Okay.
Lay it on me. 21 Ballast Point.Gross. Fucking gross.
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I think listener Jay sent this in.Jay, you should have read this
before you sent it. God damn it.Maybe he did.
Maybe he's trying to piss me off.20 Sierra Nevada okay,
feels a little high up the list.That is kind of high.
Yeah, since it's like the numbertwo brewery. I did see.
They just released, uh,recently. A peachy little thing.
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It's like a hazy IPA. Oh, yeah.But I haven't had it yet.
I haven't seen it yet, but I'll try.I like their hazy little things.
I like the hazy little thing a lot.Yeah, it's fucking just easy.
Super solid. Solid. Yeah.And when you're at a shitty bar, that
happens to have it super safe. Super.Uh, number 18, Beechwood 17,
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Moonraker. Here we go. Good.Yeah. Moonraker. 16. Humble. See?
Finally. See? Here we go again.14. Stone brewing. Cat. Damn it.
Obviously not. Craft beer.Uh, 13 Firestone Walker 12.
Alvarado Street Brewing 11.Cellar maker. Here we go.
Ten Highland Park.There's a good one for you.
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Nine pure project. Here we go. Nine.Yeah, man,
I feel like they're way better. Yeah.That's true. Eight. Green cheek.
That could be higher as well.That could be. Seven.
North Park, love me some. North Park.North Park, solid. Six. Ale Smith.
Yeah. Look, I like Ale Smith a lot.No, no problems with them being
on the list, but, um,they should be a little higher
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up in my humblest of opinions.Or lower up. Lower, higher number.
Lower rank. There we go.Because I think we said the other one
should have been higher up. Right.Uh, talk about hype. Breweries.
Number five, the brewery number four.Bottle logic. Yeah.
Another hype number three.I don't even know what this is.
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Sante Adairius, rustic ales.The fuck? Got me, man. Yeah. Two.
You live in California? Yeah.Where is this? Capitola, California.
That's nowhere near me. Uh.Number two. Monkish brewing.
And, of course,number one is Russian River.
I mean, monkish is super hype,but, I mean, every beer I've ever
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had just delicious. Yeah, yeah.I mean, look, they're good.
You know, I don't think the breweryis nearly as good as their hype,
but monkish is pretty fucking good.Well, doesn't like the brewery
and bottle logic.Aren't they big on barrel age stuff?
Yeah, and the brewery is notoriousfor bottle bombs and just
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fucking shelf turds and whatnot.Like, sometimes you spend, you know,
$30 on the whatever brewery Christmasbeer and you open it and it's gone
bad. Like, they're. They're bought.Especially back in the day.
Their bottling practices werehorrible. Got it. Yeah.
And you'd have to, like,wait in line for this shit.
And I was like. Well, still.I don't think it's like it was no,
no, no, but like back in the dayand yeah, you know,
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you know who knows. Nicole. Nicole.2025. Come on. Right. Exactly.
Kohli's always getting there.Um. Black Tuesday.
So I wonder if she's still gettingthose and if it's still, like,
a line or if it's just an online.I think it's just an online like
lottery, essentially. Okay.So who knows. Anyways, that's it.
Let's wrap it up over here.Let's hit some music.
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Tell you all to follow us on thesocials.
@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beerunderscore in between. Uh, 8553.
Beer. 2337.If you want to leave us a voicemail.
I think that's just about everything.Hope everyone is a keeping their
balls cool, but be staying verywell hydrated. And on that note.
Good night everybody.
This beer is good, by the way.Damn, I miss sours.
I have a sour too. Oh, look at us.What a sour. Show. Hashtag Twinsies.
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Welcome in everybody.It's the craft beer republic.
Thanks for drinking.Thanks for joining.
I am Greg, and I'm being joinedby the man who's definitely built
for comfort. And that is Flex.What's up, big fella?
Uh, hanging on, man.Looking forward to a solid show, I
hear. I don't read what you send me.I apologize, but I hear we got
we got a lot of stuff to.We have tons of stuff.
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Like too much stuff.We're gonna jam it all in,
like a impacted filling. Or.Like, so unattractive.
PB and J sour. Yeah.Yeah, it's gonna be a sour show.
Oh, man. Well, welcome in everybody.Like I said, thanks for drinking.
Thanks for joining.This is The Craft Beer Republic,
the number one rated craft beerpodcast that has never listened to by
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my wife. So you've you've made it.You texted me that this morning and
I actually laughed after readingthe message. That was hilarious.
I was like, if Flex laughed,maybe it's worth repeating. Yeah.
Uh, and shout out to our toplisting city of the week and
that's Los Angeles.I'm glad you guys are listening.
And I love you guys and I support youguys. An entire city full of angels.
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Who knew? What can I say?If you've ever had the tacos down
there, you know why they put.Angels in the tacos? Wait, that.
That made it sound gross.Uh, no. They're all angels.
Making taco like nothing better thantacos in LA. Okay. I think. Yeah.
It probably didn't come acrossas how I meant it to great food
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in Los Angeles.I would segue from that pretty quick.
Find us. On. The socials.@CraftBeerRepublic @Flex_me_a_beer
Underscores in between. Super smooth.Great. Good job. No one noticed.
Uh, like Flex alluded to.Super solid.
Lots to get to, multiple voicemails.Uh, Chew was meeting up with some of
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our friends. There's a hunt for Flex.Apparently, he's missing some booze
news to get to, some anniversaryparties, some drinking. So much shit.
So I should stop wasting time.And if you don't mind,
I'm gonna just crack one open.I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.
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Out of my way! I Love My Beer! Ooh!Tart. I am drinking Blue Owl brewing.
Who we talked about a couple weeksago in the news. Uh Tropícal Brut.
Passion fruit and guava sour ale.Ooh.
Who we all know how I feel aboutguava in my sours. Love it.
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7% has a 3.81 and untapped out of2100 ratings. Wait, you said 7%.
7%. Wow. Yeah.Which, let me tell you,
I've had this beer before.We brought it back from a trip.
Uh, doesn't doesn't taste like 7%.It's very, uh, very sneaky.
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I don't see anywhere on the canto actually back that up.
Oh, here we go. The cans is 6.7%.Okay, so the listing is a little off,
but 6.7%.Uh, all it says is passion fruit
and pink guava sour dry ale.So there you go. Right on.
Hence the fruit. Hence the Brut.Uh, on the schnoz. Excuse me?
The nose buds.You get a little bit of that fruit
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coming through, especially the guava.Uh, but let me tell you, it's
that sour funkiness that's reallycoming through that I can't put my.
I don't know how to explain it,but, you know, when you're drinking
a sour. It smells sour. Yeah.It's just like it smells sour.
Exactly.All right,
here's the Tongue-jobber. Woo!This bad boy is deliciously tart.
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Fruit up front.Very dry Brut like finish. Yeah.
Uh, this.I can't believe this is almost 7%.
I know I've had it before,but I didn't realize how strong
it was. Uh, this is delicious.I picked it out. It's so funny. We.
We had no idea what each otherwas drinking on the show.
Spoiler alert, they're both sours,and, uh, I picked it out because
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it's fucking balls out today.Like, summer is like, hey,
I'm here, motherfucker. And, uh.It's kind of jealous.
Today was the hottest day inMilwaukee in, like,
I don't know, all year so far.Like, we've had a shit ass summer.
So it's not summer, technically, but.Yeah. Yeah. Close. Like a shit ass.
Late spring, beginning to June.So what's hot right now?
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Uh, it was 82 today. Okay.Yeah, it was, uh, 89 here. Yeah.
That's warm. Just sweat my balls off.I wanted something refreshing.
This fucking nailed it.Uh, something else I saw about
this beer on the untapped thing.It said 60 SU.
I was like, what the fuck is SU?Uh, so I looked it up.
Apparently, it's souring units.Interesting.
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I've never heard of it. Yeah.Uh, so I did more souring units.
Research says it's not an officialthing like IBUs, but some brewers
and beer lovers use Sour Units todescribe how puckering a beer is.
It's basically a fun way to ratesourness.
Kind of like Scoville units forspicy food.
The real science behind it,it's all about acidity and pH.
The lower the pH,the more sour it tastes.
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So next time someone says a beer hashigh sour units, they just mean it'll
make your face do that sour face.So then it's a low pH. Yes.
Lower the pH.The more sour it tastes.
Okay, so there you have it.I'd never.
Yeah, I'd never heard Susebefore or Sour Units.
So look at you getting allsciency nerd shit. Uh. All right.
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What's even nerdier is that youprobably loved looking it up,
too. A little bit.That's why I love you. Yeah.
I was like, I gotta figure this outbecause I could have just said, ah,
Suse probably stands for Sour Units,but who cares? My little nerdy Greg.
That's me. Uh.All right, like I said,
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lots to get to.Um, I dude, we finally had our first
wakeboard trip of the season lastweekend. That's exciting. Yeah.
It's good. Good wakeboard sesh.New boat. Well, new to us. Boat.
So that was great.Um, did a little wine tasting,
as per usual. Because, um.Why wouldn't you when you're in
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the area?Yeah, especially when we got all
those memberships and it'susually free or close to it.
Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah.Uh,
no beer stops while we're up there.You know, a lot of times we'll stop
at like there's not exist on theway back, but we had something to
get to and time was of the essence.So. Sucks for me. Yeah.
At least you had fun. Yeah.Good trip though.
But I did do some beer researchover the weekend.
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Topa Topa had their 10thanniversary party.
We talked about it on the show.Congrats.
Yeah, congrats to Topa Topa.Congrats to Cambria, as well as
their, um, events coordinator,Emily. Great event.
Uh, they were nice enough to putme on the VIP list, which. Well.
Yeah, which was kind of funnybecause I was like,
I don't know what that means.And so I showed up and we bought
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our beers, and I saw this tableoff to the corner after we
already got our beers.And I just walked up and I said, hey,
because they're handing out lanyards.And I was like, hey, um,
I was told I was on the VIP list.And I'm going to be real honest,
I don't know what that means.And she goes, oh, okay.
Well, you know, what's your name?She looks delicious.
So yeah, sure enough, here you are.Here's your two passes.
And I said, great, what is this for?And she goes, oh, you get two free
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beers. And I was like, oh, fantastic.Thank you so much.
So yeah, it was very nice. I got a.We each got a couple of free
beers out of it and uh, it wasthey had a 10th anniversary IPA.
And look, I know I've been a bitof a haze for the last few
months this year, basically.But, um, their 10th anniversary was
a Westie, and it was really good.It was really hitting the spot
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the other day. Single steer.Single hop. No no no no no.
Like single double triple.Oh, yes. Just an IPA. Okay.
Um, and then the other one I gotwas their single hop IPA, which
was all Nelson, I thought of you.I love that. Yeah, that was good too.
So that makes my heart happy.Yeah. Uh. Great event.
You know, they had some bands,some food,
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some vendors and that kind of stuff.We had to leave a little bit early,
uh, for some family shit, but,uh, glad we got to hang out for
a few hours before we had to doall that annoying stuff.
So, uh, cheers to Topa Topa.Um, all right,
I alluded to this before.People have been hunting for the
great Flex.Apparently, it's all over.
All over Milwaukee. Uh, Vanessa.Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa.
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And her husband are in theMilwaukee area, and I.
I guess they went to Eagle Parklooking for you.
You you texted me this? Yes.Yes. You know, it's a Monday.
Everybody knows Flex goes toEagle Park on Mondays for lunch.
Um, I won't give out which one theywent to, but turns out they went
to the wrong one. There are two.The wrong location. Absolutely.
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So, uh, her husband sent me this clipwhile they were at the bar searching
for Flex. What's your name? Nicole.Nicole. Do you recognize this person?
No, I don't know who this is.All right. You don't know?
I don't know. Flex me a beer.I don't you don't know him.
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I just I clicked off, but.That was it. Kind of ended abruptly.
But I was getting messages of like,Flex says he's famous around here.
Nobody knows who he is.Yeah, so they went to the downtown
Milwaukee location and I go to the,uh, Muskego location, which is out in
the suburbs here, not in the city.So, um, yeah, also, I've been,
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you know, laying, as you know,and a lot of people don't know,
I've been off the gram for like fourmonths, almost something like that.
Just kind of laying low,taking care of myself,
not really going out too much.So, uh, I know they were looking
for me, and my apologies, but,you know, uh, I also did have, uh,
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Father's Day with my kids today sinceI worked all day on Father's Day.
Right. So slinging. Some sausages.We. Yeah. Tons of sausages, man.
People love my meat. It's crazy.I, for one, am a big fan.
But yeah, so we took the kids,hit some golf balls.
They love doing that shit.Oh, nice. Uh, got some pizza.
A little Chelsea action on theside and, uh, finish it off with
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a little bit of pool time.Even though there wasn't a shit
ton of sun today, it was warm.Not a lot of sun, but, uh,
humid and hot, so. Oof! That's the.Worst. Gross. The humidity was gross.
Makes me think of Florida.Yeah, not that humid.
Oh, I still have PTSD from that.Yeah, I bet your balls do, too.
As I say, they're still not dry.Did you, uh, did you take the girls,
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uh, beer shopping for Father's Day?I actually did.
It's funny you brought that up. Um.They were. They did pick, actually.
Kind of picked out the beer I bought.Actually, I'm drinking right now,
and, uh, they found it in a fourpack, and I really didn't want
to buy a four pack because I gotspurned a little bit last week.
Right. Hashtag? No, not too much.But, uh, I did find a single can
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of it. They. Oh, fantastic.Yeah, they re-upped their single
can section,so I was happy I could oblige. Good.
We don't have to blast them all overthe show for no singles. No, no.
Thank you. Consumer beverage.Well, fuck, since they picked
out your beer, let's just.Let's just talk about it now.
In a world where craft beer is king.A world where muscles are bigger
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than growlers.Only one tongue can guide us.
One man, one tongue.One Tongue-jobber.
In this world, we must find outwhat is Flex drinking?
All right, well,I it's been a while since I've had
one of these beers. Uh. Damn it.Uh, this brewery, I should say,
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since I've had this brewery, uh,the brewing project up in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin.That's like four hours ish away.
Three and a half.Uh, quite a jaunt northwest.
Yeah,it's a little a little bit of a trip.
Uh, but this is their peanut butterand jelly sour called Ooey Gooey.
Guy.I know this kind of makes its
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way around.I think it's on the old Tavour
every now and then.Um, I think kind of a flagship sour,
if I'm not mistaken.And I could be mistaken, uh, because
it's been a while. There we go.Uh, I like how they do their abvs,
too.They get to, like, the hundredth of
the decimal. So this is a 5.93% ABV.Very accurate.
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Very, uh, I would say sessionable.Right. It's under six or something.
So, uh, for sour,it's not not not bad.
Uh, collective 407 out of3.4 thousand ratings can't go wrong
with the 407 and untapped reads,uh, peanut butter and jelly sour.
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Oh, yeah. Okay.Can can says, uh, Concord grape,
blackberry,peanut and peanut flavoring.
So I know the flavoring isalways kind of scary because,
you know it's going to be artificial.Is it not going to be artificial?
Is it going to taste like peanuts?Is it going to taste like peanuts?
Who knows?Um, well, as Nick always says,
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if you don't hit the T,you get the D. He's not wrong.
Yeah, think about it, everybody.It's pretty solid. Peanuts. Ben.
He's a smart guy. Smart guy.All right, so on the old nose
buds here. Lots of peanut. Mm.Tons. Tons of peanut aroma.
Little, little fruit shining through,but definitely heavy on the nut.
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So, without further ado. Oh.See what the old Tongue-jobber has to
say about this? Well, he tries it.I'll tell you, this looks like
grape jelly. It's like purple.Yeah, it's fucking lacing.
Look at that lacing. Mhm.Gorgeous. So this is wonderful.
This is like stupid. Good.The peanut and the peanut
flavoring works so well with thisgrape and blackberry together.
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And there's it is legitimatelylike you took a bite into a
peanut butter and jelly sandwich.You're not getting too much peanut.
You're not getting too much of thefruit. It is just so well balanced.
I wish I would have gotten thefour pack now. Mhm.
Well that can go back and get afour pack. I can.
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But isn't it funny how it worksout that way right.
It's like man what the fuck.Had you gotten the four pack.
It would have been garbage right?Just would have been my luck.
Terrible shit.I gotta finish three more of these.
Yeah. So, uh. Yeah.I couldn't be happier about this. I.
I actually had to stop drinking itas I poured it before the show,
because it was already so good.It's too bad Voltron ended up
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being such a shit box last week.Well, so I do.
I did want to do this to Greg.I wanted to issue a public apology to
4 Hands Brewing and three sheeps.Um, I kind of shit bagged that
beer a little bit last week.The Voltron series eight.
And I think I figured out somethingthat happened because I had a
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can a day or two later because Ididn't want to throw it out.
I didn't want to pour it or whatever.It's wasteful.
And it was super drinkable.It was like it wasn't a great beer,
but it was drinkable. Okay.Much improved.
So then the next day I drank it outof the can, and it was actually
significantly better out of thecan than it was pouring, even
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though poured was still drinkable.And then I started trying to
scrape my brain.Why could that first can have
been so disgusting. Right?And I thought to myself, Flex got
hungry in between shows last week.Flex ate some Tex-Mex trail mix.
Oh no.From target in between the shows,
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and I'm pretty sure one of the spicesor the spices got caught on my
tongue and it totally wrecked mypalate for the beer. That's funny.
And I'm convinced that's what it was.So today, no trail mix.
Sorry, target. No trail mix today.We're gonna give these beers 100%
of my Tongue-jobber in love.That's so funny. Uh, well, then.
(16:56):
Sorry. 4 Hands.I guess your beer didn't totally
suck. Yeah, no it didn't.So, you know.
Is it safe to say still wasn't thebest of that series? I would say so.
I would say the first beer in thatseries was by far the best. Okay.
I can't remember who they collabedwith, but it was a stylized,
hazy. Mm. And it was.You boner over. Those.
(17:19):
Oh, I fucking boner so hard overstylized yeast.
Um, it's like my boner gets a bonerand boner. But, yeah, it was.
It was like drinking guava juice,and it was seven,
And a half percent, and they wereselling four packs for 9.99.
Like you don't forget something likethat. No you don't. You just don't.
(17:41):
You know,speaking of four packs for 9.99.
Vanessa sent me a beer menu,a picture of a beer menu from a
different brewery.I forget which one in the Milwaukee
area. And legit four pack she goes.Flex isn't lying.
Four packs were ten bucks and 12bucks and she's like,
he's so fucking lucky. Yeah.Oh, beer's great here. Yeah.
Those of us from California,New York, Florida are like the ten
(18:05):
bucks for an entire four pack.Even when we went to Saint Louis
last year, I was, uh,we stopped in one of, like,
the local grocery stores, uh, pickup a few things as we were taking,
like, another trip through the state.And I took a look at the beer
coolers, and I was like,Holy shit. 9.99 10.99 12.99.
Like, I think I ended up gettinglike four four packs and I didn't
(18:29):
even plan to buy beer, but it waslike just looking at the prices and,
you know, breweries, you can't gethere because of distribution issues,
right? Because of Abe.And, um, yeah, we're just Midwest.
Super lucky. Yeah. Why is it.That's why everyone's always so
drunk in Wisconsin.The beer is cheaper than the water.
That's accurate.Four pack of crafties for ten bucks.
(18:53):
Man, I can't believe it.Here's a funny story.
So my man cave also like,I guess doubles as my wife's.
There's like a hair chair down here.And she does like some family
members hair.And my sister in law and her
husband and their kids come overto get their haircut.
And my sister in law's husbandmade a comment.
I had some topo chicos, margaritas,seltzers in my fridge. Nice.
(19:16):
And he asked me about them and hesaid, how much is a 12 pack of those?
And I said, oh, it was on sale atthe grocery store for 15.99. Wow.
And he said, that's funny because a12 pack of regular non-alcoholic Topo
Chicos is 15.99. It's free alcohol.So it is free alcohol.
(19:43):
You just start putting those inyour kids lunches and shit.
You cheaper than a Capri Sun.You're actually stupid if you buy a
12 pack of that shit, right? Regular.Now I know why that trashy client
of your wife's thought it wasthe alcoholic Topo Chico and not
the regulars. Shit's cheaper.They make those non-alcoholic.
(20:04):
Now it's all tracking.It's all making sense. It does.
It makes perfect sense. Wow.Well, to close the loop on the
search for Flex, Vanessa also didcall in and leave us a voicemail.
Hey, it's Vanessa, the real beervixen. I am here in Milwaukee.
@Flex_me_a_beer town at Eagle Park.And guess what?
(20:26):
@Flex_me_a_beer is nowhere to befound. Where are you, Mr. Flex?
We wanted to have a beer next time.Cheers. There you have it.
My apologies. Yeah.He's too busy being a dad.
Someone's gotta be.Someone's gotta be the dad.
(20:47):
Your wife sure won't do it forsome reason.
Yeah, I don't think she's up for it.She really needs to step up her game.
Yeah.It's time for her to dad a little
bit. Uh. What are you gonna do?I know, well, speaking of
Father's Day, I am not a dad.Just a dog, dad, as people say.
But, uh,did take the dad out for a brunch.
(21:08):
Did did the old, uh, Mexicanbrunch where, you know, buffet
and limitless, uh, or unlimited?Uh, I keep saying margaritas.
Mimosas? Jesus Christ, this is 7%.We had, like, the best waitress
waitresses, you know,heavy for a serve yourself buffet.
But she was the one bringing aroundthe, uh, the mimosas the whole time.
And she was hilarious.She was great. Not hard to look at.
(21:32):
And, uh, was just cracking jokes withus talking shit about the mariachi
band, because at one point, the,uh, the guy doing trumpet, like,
almost took her out, like, swung overand almost knocked her in the face.
And I was like, are you all right?She's like, yeah, I had to do
some matrix shit over here.So she was great. Um.
Sometimes those bands are so loud.That was the problem.
(21:52):
So, like, it's cool because, like,legit mariachis are cool and, like,
they had them in the restaurant.We were out on the patio.
They had them in the restaurant.I was like, oh, this is cool
ambiance. And they're super talented.And the singing and the
harmonizing like, it's it's great.And then they came out to the
patio and they were, you know,4.5in from our ear holes.
It was like, oh my God,what the fuck is going on?
I feel like I'm under attack.I guess we'll stop having a
(22:13):
conversation. Oh yeah.And they, you know, they kind of look
around to see who's, uh, you know,into it, making eye contact,
that kind of thing.And so all of us at the table
were like, oh God,please don't come play at our table.
Like. It is. You guys are great.It is loud enough.
We don't need the extra volume of thetrumpet directly in our eardrums,
so keep it to the other side ofthis tiny ass little patio.
(22:36):
But then they went back insideand I was like, all right,
this is perfect volume.They're back inside. Sucks.
All the people inside the restaurant.Oh, that would be so much worse.
Yeah, so did that.Then we had to go because we had
some family thing going on.Uh,
the wife's dad was in town as well,so then at night took him out and,
um, did a little dinner thing and.Yay! So much family. So much family.
(23:01):
I know you hate that.Yeah, it's good times. Even.
Even the wife was like,what are we gonna do?
I was like, do you mean, what are wegonna do? It's your fucking dad.
What do you want to do?And she's like, ah.
Sounds like my wife.My wife sent me a text.
It was last week sometime.She's like, she's bought her dad
a hat and something else.And she's like,
so Father's Day is done for him.She goes,
(23:23):
you're on your own for years.I was like, oh, so what did I do?
I, I went to the local mall on lunchon Saturday before Father's Day,
and I went and bought my dad a hat.Nice. Yeah.
I just, you know,we just took him out.
Paid for brunch slash dinner. Okay.I think we've all gotten to the
(23:44):
point where, just, like,how much stuff can you have?
And there's nothing meaningful Icould buy my dad,
or she could buy her dad.Um, you know, it's so just spend time
instead and have or something. Right.Well, we, uh, we went over there.
I bought him a new Brewers hat,and he, of course, took it out of
the bag, put it on right away.Wore it the rest of the night.
(24:07):
Didn't even take the stickers off.That's a classic. Uh, Papa Flex move.
Mr. Flex. And, uh, he all star Flex.All star Flex.
Yeah, it's a long story. Really?Really fun.
Uh, my my dad's Just the greatest,really.
Uh, but, yeah, so we got to play me,him and my two other brothers.
We all played lawn darts.Like actual lawn darts for, like.
(24:31):
Been sitting in the garage sincethe 70s, like, uh.
Facebook Marketplace or somethinglike that. They're not legal, right?
No, I don't think so.I mean, these ones don't have points
to them. Oh, it's a it's a blunt end.Oh, gotcha.
But it's not the old school lawndarts.
No, not with like, the pointed.Right where they were stabbing
children and stuff. Yeah.If you're not paying attention.
(24:52):
Which those things fly, man,I haven't ever played.
It was my first time playingactual lawn darts.
Yeah, I've never played. Yeah.Them shit's fucking carry pretty
good. Look out! Yeah.So I almost, you know, maybe got my
foot stabbed once. Yeah. No big deal.But yeah, she's just once.
Just a foot.Then you start paying attention.
(25:13):
Yeah. It's like a lizard's tail.It'll regrow.
I think so, I think that's howthat happens. Yeah, yeah.
You lose a toe, it'll come back.It's fine.
Uh, well, speaking of dad's, uh.It's funny.
He actually mentioned being a dad.Chew Your Beer.
Leftovers of voicemail.Everyone's favorite homey.
So let's, uh, let's check inwith Chew. See what's up. Hello?
No one is available to take yourcall.
(25:33):
Please leave a message after thetone. Yo, what up, homies?
It's your friendly neighborhoodchulo.
Chew Your Beer @CraftBeerRepublic.How you guys doing?
It's been a while since I called in.I figured I'd call in and give
you a little.Just a little lowdown about
what's been going on.My youngest has graduated from
high school and should be on hisway to college. Congrats.
(25:56):
My oldest should be graduatingcollege and by the end of next year,
both chemical engineers.I went to San Diego,
actually went to Little Italy just tohang out over the weekend. Nice.
And then, uh, funny thing,I was in Anaheim to go see the
Savannah Bananas perform.Oh, that's fucking cool.
(26:17):
Actually, that is.The wifey and I decided to go
get another beer. Walked out.I didn't get a beer.
I ended up getting myself adouble Bulleit Bourbon and Coke
because I was tired of drinkingbeers and waiting for the wife.
She's getting a michelada.And then I hear in the in the far,
far background, through all the noiseof the cheers and the people walking,
(26:41):
I hear, hey, Nicole, is that you?And I turn around and like about
25ft, I see the nickster.I see big Dick Nick staring,
making sure that's me.And I'm like, Holy shit.
And then he goes, hey, Nicole,it is Chew Your Beer. And they.
(27:04):
It was hilarious.They got to see Nicole and Big Dick,
Nick and I think one of Nicole'sco-workers.
They were out there, uh, watchingthe Savannah Of bananas and took
a couple pictures with them. Man.So that was to be in Anaheim and
to run into these two.It was hilarious to me.
(27:26):
I was like, I don't know where Iwould expect that.
Maybe at a brewery or somewherein the Valley,
but all the way down in Anaheim.And then I guess we were sitting in
the same zone because they came outof the same tunnel that we came out
of. It's just fucking hilarious.So, uh, my hat's off to them.
Was nice seeing them. Great show.If you haven't seen it.
(27:48):
Savannah Bananas show,I highly suggest you go watch one.
And I would totally go back, homies.All right, so just give you some
of that this weekend.Uh, June 14th, I'll be at the,
uh, L.A. Brewers Beer Festivalin Long Beach.
So looking forward to hanging out outthere with Mikey of the taproom, uh,
(28:08):
podcast and some other friends and,uh. Yeah, man. So it's summer's here.
Beer festivals here.LA Beer Week is coming.
Looking forward to going toTemple Week.
And hopefully I get to hang outwith you, Greg, and have a beer.
All right homies.This is Chew Your Beer.
You hate to watch. Yo. Peace out.Hey. So the Savannah bananas.
(28:29):
They came here. Last summer.Question mark. Two summers ago.
Uh, because we have this baseballstadium. Six minutes from my house.
It's like the eight ABL Americanbaseball league or some.
It's not a minor league system.It's like its own minor league.
(28:52):
The XFL. League.Yeah, it's it's weird, but it's
cool because super solid stadium.Uh, like I said, it's only like
six minutes from my house.It's actually. Yeah.
Next to where I go golfing whenI hit like those go to the range
or like golf bays.And, uh,
they played there a year or two ago.Tickets sold out so fast,
(29:13):
they added another game the nextnight or another show,
whatever you want to call it.And then that sold out in like,
I don't know, like three minutes.Yeah, I guess there was like a
lottery system for this Anaheimgame he's talking about. Yeah.
The popularity for these guys islike through the roof.
It's like the Harlem Globetrotters ofbaseball, but way more entertaining.
(29:35):
Oh, really?Because the shit they do is,
I don't know, it's wild.It's like any anybody can, you know,
be athletic, dunk all the alley.Oops. The dribbling.
Like there's a lot of people outthere that can do that.
We're talking like backflipsinto catching the ball and just
all this crazy, goofy shit.I don't know, man. It's wild.
(29:59):
And is it one of those things, likethe Globetrotters where the bananas
always win? I believe so. Okay.But like,
it even got so big that, uh.Because I think they always play,
like, the same team.Kind of like the Globetrotters.
Others, okay.But they got so big that John
Cena actually participated atone of their shows and came out
(30:19):
as a batter for the other team.Oh how funny. Yeah, so they're huge.
I bet it's really hard for thepitcher to see him hate you.
Damn, it.Must be hard to find that strike
zone when you can't see your batter.It's a wrestling joke for the for the
rest of you. Hopefully people get it.Yeah. Nobody will.
(30:41):
They've now turned off the show.I thought this was a beer show.
Uh, well, cool. Yeah, I've.I've seen some clips. Seems fun.
I didn't know it was like that.Popular. Didn't.
Didn't the Savannah bananas usedto be a legit minor league team.
That I'm unaware of.I think they were actually a minor
league team, and they started doing,like, some fun things,
(31:04):
and then it just spiraled.I think somebody will correct me.
I'm sure of it.You'd have to do some research.
I would, and I did not. So.All right, let's do a little
news before we get out of here.Cape Cod beer has been acquired
by Triton Beverage Group.Less than two months after
acquiring Plymouth based Mayflower.Mayflower Brewing, the parent
company of Hog Island Brewing,has acquired Cape Cod Beer,
(31:27):
the oldest craft brewery on theMassachusetts peninsula.
Triton CEO Mike McNamara toldBrewbound that this marks a major
milestone for our team as we bringtogether three of Massachusetts most
respected coastal breweries under onelocally owned, independent banner.
There you have it. Classic. Yeah.Wilding brands who just bought
(31:51):
or acquired Great Divideacquires another brewery.
Wilding brands,the Colorado based craft beverage
and hospitality platform, hasexpanded again with the acquisition
of Denver's Station 26 brewery.Station 26 founder Justin Bakery
will remain in his role.Roy nailed it, leading the brewery
as it joins the collective,which also includes Stem ciders,
(32:14):
Denver Beer Co and Great Divide,among other brands.
Production and packaging of thestation 26 portfolio will shift
to Wilding Can Works facility inDenver's Sunnyside neighborhood.
Wilding brands will be minimizing thebrewing equipment at station 26,
which will allow for expandedtaproom seating.
No cuts are planned for taproomstaff, but the number of production
jobs affected is yet unknown. Dang.The Brewers Association adds new
(32:39):
beer styles to the guidelines.They have added Mexican style light
lager, Mexican style amber lager,Czech style amber lager,
Czech style dark lager and WestCoast style pilsner. Cool. Yes!
Additionally, the categoryBohemian style pilsner has been
(33:01):
renamed to Czech style pale lager.Okay. That's legit. Yeah.
So there's some some nerd news foryou. Let's end it on this one.
It's a list, but I don't thinkyou're gonna get angry about it.
Okay. I'm okay with that.It's the top 30 breweries in
California. Yeah.You know, pretty impartial. Yeah.
Maybe you would get angry,I don't know. Well. We'll see.
(33:23):
I'm not gonna go through all of them,because that would take all day.
I'll talk about some notables.30 is three Weavers brewing.
28 Emigrant Brewing. What up?Emigrant?
24 Pizza Port Brewing Company.Are they overrated? Are they decent?
Uh, I like them, you know,they're real old school.
So you got to be careful if youdon't want that, like, you know,
(33:46):
multi IPA situation. Got it.Um, but you know what they do,
they do really well and they havegood pizza. So 23 Society brewing.
Love me some society 22 Kern River.Oh see all right now I'm angry. Okay.
Lay it on me. 21 Ballast Point.Gross. Fucking gross.
(34:07):
I think listener Jay sent this in.Jay, you should have read this
before you sent it. God damn it.Maybe he did.
Maybe he's trying to piss me off.20 Sierra Nevada okay,
feels a little high up the list.That is kind of high.
Yeah, since it's like the numbertwo brewery. I did see.
They just released, uh,recently. A peachy little thing.
(34:31):
It's like a hazy IPA. Oh, yeah.But I haven't had it yet.
I haven't seen it yet, but I'll try.I like their hazy little things.
I like the hazy little thing a lot.Yeah, it's fucking just easy.
Super solid. Solid. Yeah.And when you're at a shitty bar, that
happens to have it super safe. Super.Uh, number 18, Beechwood 17,
(34:51):
Moonraker. Here we go. Good.Yeah. Moonraker. 16. Humble. See?
Finally. See? Here we go again.14. Stone brewing. Cat. Damn it.
Obviously not. Craft beer.Uh, 13 Firestone Walker 12.
Alvarado Street Brewing 11.Cellar maker. Here we go.
Ten Highland Park.There's a good one for you.
(35:14):
Nine pure project. Here we go. Nine.Yeah, man,
I feel like they're way better. Yeah.That's true. Eight. Green cheek.
That could be higher as well.That could be. Seven.
North Park, love me some. North Park.North Park, solid. Six. Ale Smith.
Yeah. Look, I like Ale Smith a lot.No, no problems with them being
on the list, but, um,they should be a little higher
(35:37):
up in my humblest of opinions.Or lower up. Lower, higher number.
Lower rank. There we go.Because I think we said the other one
should have been higher up. Right.Uh, talk about hype. Breweries.
Number five, the brewery number four.Bottle logic. Yeah.
Another hype number three.I don't even know what this is.
(36:00):
Sante Adairius, rustic ales.The fuck? Got me, man. Yeah. Two.
You live in California? Yeah.Where is this? Capitola, California.
That's nowhere near me. Uh.Number two. Monkish brewing.
And, of course,number one is Russian River.
I mean, monkish is super hype,but, I mean, every beer I've ever
(36:23):
had just delicious. Yeah, yeah.I mean, look, they're good.
You know, I don't think the breweryis nearly as good as their hype,
but monkish is pretty fucking good.Well, doesn't like the brewery
and bottle logic.Aren't they big on barrel age stuff?
Yeah, and the brewery is notoriousfor bottle bombs and just
(36:45):
fucking shelf turds and whatnot.Like, sometimes you spend, you know,
$30 on the whatever brewery Christmasbeer and you open it and it's gone
bad. Like, they're. They're bought.Especially back in the day.
Their bottling practices werehorrible. Got it. Yeah.
And you'd have to, like,wait in line for this shit.
And I was like. Well, still.I don't think it's like it was no,
no, no, but like back in the dayand yeah, you know,
(37:06):
you know who knows. Nicole. Nicole.2025. Come on. Right. Exactly.
Kohli's always getting there.Um. Black Tuesday.
So I wonder if she's still gettingthose and if it's still, like,
a line or if it's just an online.I think it's just an online like
lottery, essentially. Okay.So who knows. Anyways, that's it.
Let's wrap it up over here.Let's hit some music.
(37:27):
Tell you all to follow us on thesocials.
@CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beerunderscore in between. Uh, 8553.
Beer. 2337.If you want to leave us a voicemail.
I think that's just about everything.Hope everyone is a keeping their
balls cool, but be staying verywell hydrated. And on that note.
Good night everybody.
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