Chuck Ducking Knows How to Party

Today we've got beer, costumes, breakfast buzz balls, things floating in, beers, and 14 chores to do with the beer. Let's go. Welcome in everybody. It's a craft beer republic, man. Two weeks in a row, hanging out with my good guy Flex. Guess who's back in the motherfucking house? Back again? That's right. Uh, thanks for listening. Thanks for drinking.

Thanks for joining. Shout out to Sacramento, California. What's up, SAC City? That's, uh, yeah, that's, uh, Erica's hood. Maybe she's telling some friends to listen or something. Maybe she's catching up. Maybe she's finally catching up. Erica Erica was supposed to hang out with us a couple of times over the last few months, and it's totally my fault. We were at hotel or I was at hotels, and and it just I was like, I can't deal with third person when I'm at a hotel with shitty internet. I'm so sorry. So we're gonna get Erica on, I promise, but keep listening.

Sacramento just love when she gets buzzed up off that first double. Oh, yeah. Nothing like when she starts with a double IPA. Oh, yeah. That second bow, yeah, is a doozy. It's giggly. That is for sure. So good. Uh, what were we at? Oh, socials. Craft Beer Republic @flex_me_a_beer underscores in between, of course, Craft Beer Republic dot com, all that good stuff. Smash that like button. Anyways, that's getting old. Hulk smash! Hulk smash. Uh. Before we get to anything,

let's get to what Flex is sipping on. It's a sweet looking can. Oh yeah. Can you see it? I just see I love a good black can. I couldn't even see the art. Oh, but I love art. Black can. Super neat. Oh, that is super neat. All right, let's find out what you're drinking. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers. Only one tongue can guide us. One man, One tongue, one Tongue-jobber in this world, we must find out what is Flex

drinking. All right. Today I'm drinking my favorite OG brewery. Phase Three has, uh. It's another Illinois beer out of Lake Zurich. And today I'm drinking Spring Road. A very fun, colorful can, like, very trippy. Yeah, flowers, but trippy and, like, almost spacey. I don't know, really hooked me in. That's like 90% of the reason

why I bought this beer. Nice. It is a double dry hopped double IPA weighing in at 7.7% Untappd. I got it at a 411 on 1200 reviews. It reads hops, Nelson Sauvin, Citra and Vic Secret Spring Road is saturated with notes of white grape, tropical fruit and citrus in a 7.7 double dry hopped, hazy Double IPA package featuring the beautiful and iconic outside mural painted by Mia Larson.

So I guess the can art is a mural outside of the brewery or. Oh, okay. I don't know. I've never been there. I'll take their word for it. Sure. Me too. Um, so let's get to this color. First of all, of this beer. It is just wonderful. That is gorgeous. Everything you would hope to see in a hazy. Uh, that's that's what they got here. That's like if you asked AI to give you a picture of a hazy IPA

in a glass, right. That's. Yeah. You know, because they're so smart. They're very mild, uh, head retention on there, but it's already sticking to the glass. Yes. Do you see that? That's kind of lovely. I'm excited about that. We'll get the old nose buds in there, kind of like a it kind of smells like it's like a like a rye hazy or it's like, almost like notes of spice on the nose buds. Maybe. Maybe I'm going crazy. Maybe. I don't know. I'm not getting a lot of that.

What I think it is, it's like something that comes from the Nelson hops. I feel like anytime I have a beer with the Nelson hops, it almost kind of has like, yeah, like a hint of spice. I don't know, maybe again, maybe I'm going crazy. Everybody out there tell me if I'm wrong. Maybe you smell it too. But, uh, without further ado. There it is. We'll get the old Tongue-jobber in there. Man, that is such a gorgeous beer. Great glass too. Oh. It's one of my favorite glasses to drink from. Uh, let's get another sip. Real.

Just real quick. Gotta dial this baby in. So real effervescent carbonation. Nothing is like punching me in the face. Okay. But in a good way. It's like everything is real light and subtle. MM. Well rounded. Yeah. Very well rounded. I'd say more of the white grape and the citrus. Not really getting anything too tropical there. Um, very, very little. Uh, low end bitterness on that.

Uh, dry finish for one one. I'd probably give it like a, like a three nine or a four. Okay. Not far off. No, not at all. Bought a four pack. Glad I got three more to drink. Okay. Again, this is a very tasty beer. Uh, I got nothing. Nothing else to say about it other than, you know, Phase Three always bangs it out. Coming in hot. Yeah, just real tasty beers. So nice. Yeah. Cheers, man. Cheers. Uh. All right.

Well, uh, one of our favorite parts or segments of the show. We got a fresh email. All flavors. We smell bad taste Poop Beer Gate. Never gets old. Does not subject. There were things floating in it. Oh hey Greg and Flex. I've been hearing these terrible beer emails and finally remembered one I've tried very hard to forget. A few years ago, I ordered a white Russian blond ale at a brewery.

That already sounds awful. Yeah, I'm not ordering that. Yeah, count me out. Uh, coffee? Vanilla. Creamy. Sounded pretty damn good. In a blond ale. Yeah. I'm out. Uh uh uh, uh, beer shows up, and there's stuff floating in it. Not yeast at the bottom. Not a little haze. Brown floaters. Oh. I asked the bartender if that was normal, and he looked at the glass for a second and said, yeah, I think so. Not exactly the confidence I was

looking for, but I'm an idiot. So I drank it anyway. The best way I can describe the flavor is coffee flavored vomit. Oh. And for reasons I still can't explain, I took three more drinks trying to decide if I liked it. I did not. I finally pushed it away and my girlfriend goes, you know, you don't have to keep drinking it, right? Apparently, I needed someone to tell me that. Keep up the bad beer stories. They make me feel better about my decisions. Mike.

I have been there before. Yeah, you get that shitty beer, and you just keep taking a sip and keep taking a sip, and you're just like, ah, do I drink it because I spent money on it or. That's the. Thing. What do I do? Yeah. Sometimes it's like, I just don't want to waste it. Right. It's like throwing ten beers or ten bucks down the drain. Yeah. And I'll give it another try then. Like three, four sips in and you're still wanting to puke.

It's like, all right, I guess I should give up. I'll never. It's like the infamous movie theater beer I had. Oh, it was the local beer, a local craft brewery, the microbrew pub attached to the mall, which is like on the other side where the movie theater is like in the parking lot. And they had it on tap. And I got a Cream city crusher, man. That's like a fucking classic. Uh, around these parts, real crushable, uh, lager. Or maybe it's an ale. It's one of those. And, uh.

The way it's crushable. Either way, it's crushable. And I remember taking the first sip when I sat down in my seat, and it just tasted like coconut. And then every sip I took just tasted like coconut. I thought to myself, maybe this is like a tropical version of it, I don't know. And, uh. Y you clean your lines. With every sip. I just kept thinking, This is just so bad, but I paid movie theater price for it, which is way different than. Like 15 bucks.

We're talking about 15 bucks for a beer, so you suck it up at that point and you drink that coconut crusher. You. Said nobody ever. Yeah. The one that reminds me of is, uh, we were at a dinner and this is back before 14 cannons had, you know, gone the way of the naughty list. And they had a 14 cannons on tap. That was one of the ones we drink regularly. And they, we ordered it and the

wife ordered it and they brought it out as their Pilsner and a. It tasted nothing like it. B it tasted awful and C it was completely flat and the guy came back and I don't I mean, I could probably count on one hand how many beers I've sent back before. And I went, hey man, I don't mean to be rude, but this beer is awful, and we know this beer is so bad. Can we get something else? And. And he was nice. He was like, yeah, sure. You know, what else do you want? He goes, do you want the same beer?

I was like, no, you fucking idiot. Like, did you all of a sudden fix the tap? Like, no, I don't want the same beer. So anyway, she ordered something else and it was fine, but I was like, oh, so bad. I believe I've only ever sent back one beer. I can think of two, that one. And then there was another time in a different restaurant where, uh, I ordered an institution and it was like their one of their cause it was their Mosaic pale, which I know very well and very

similar where like it showed up, it was mostly flat, tasted like soap and I, and we ordered like a, you know, 22 we ordered the big glass and I was like I said, I can't, I just can't drink this. And they were cool about it, which makes me think they knew. Right. So in fact, that restaurant. Uh, way back in the day. Monaco, formerly of Petals and Pints, now fast friends in Austin. Uh, she was like the manager there. And she told me she goes after I left. They, like, did not do a good job

of cleaning their lines. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we were at the restaurant. These parts like kind of like a little nicer, not like uppity, but like, kind of like their food's a little gourmet. It's called Parkside 23. It's really good food, and they have a pretty good selection of craft beer. And I ordered an Eagle Park Hazy Citra on the dock, and I've seen this beer before. I've had it countless times, I loved it. I was shocked that they had it on their menu. So I ordered it. And as I ordered it and it came

to the table, it was see through and it did not taste very good. And it was one of those like, like, you know, the story on the email where I took like 2 to 3 sips of it. And I looked at my wife who has no idea about beer, nor does she even care. But I said, this doesn't taste how it's supposed to taste. And she said, just send it back. Tell the waitress that it does not taste good and just send it back. So I did.

And I just got whatever Pilsner was supposed to pair with my burger, and that was fine. Yeah. You know what's funny? I think I remember that story. Yeah, it was, uh, it was bad. It was really, really bad. Yeah, yeah, I hate doing it, but sometimes you gotta. Uh, anyways, speaking of beers, hopefully I don't have to send this one back because Non-Murderer John was nice enough to hook it up. He calls to the bullpen for beer.

Yeah. He does. Uh, full disclosure, I had another beer lined up, and I didn't want to talk about it, so I ran down and grabbed a freshie. So I am drinking, thanks to Non-Murderer John Fidens Brewing company. Impulse, who? I've had a fight. Have you? Yes. And this. This can is pretty dope. They do cool beer. Yeah. Gray background with some pink text. A lot of negative space, I like it. Uh, 7.5%.

It says IPA brewed with Galaxy, Citra and Motueka hops. And it has a 4.31 on Untappd. Wow. Uh, a little over 2000 ratings. Those are some big numbers. Uh, no description on the can either, other than the hops. So let me dig in the nose buds. That looks like a cup of juice, by the way. Isn't this like what a fucking hazy should look like? That looks nuts. It almost looks like a cartoon beer where it's just solid. Yeah.

It's like if you said, put a hazy in a cartoon. This is what it would look like. That's that beer. Absolutely. It smells like a cup of juice. Like this is. This is real nice. Real tropical on the on the schnauzer. Let's dig in. Mhm. So it starts off like tropical fruit. You know, like a fruit salad kind of thing hitting you. And then real quickly gives way to a lot of citrus notes, I guess. Citra. Makes sense.

So I kind of feel like I start off, you know, real mocha. And then I come in kind of citrus Citra and Galaxy as it warms up in the mouth a little bit. Uh, pretty low carbonation, honestly, almost zero lacing on the glass. Pretty looking beer. Just a smidge, smidge of hot burn on there on the finish. Coats the tongue a little bit. I think if I had to to complain about it, I'd say a little more carbonation would be nice just so

it cleans off a little better. Okay, a little less sticky. Other than that fucking fantastic beer as good as it looks. Dang. Thanks to Non-Murderer John for not only giving me a great beer, but yet once again. Yeah, what a stud. They're not murdering. Me. Non-Murderer John is. Yeah, he really gets the hookups. You know what would be crazy, though? What would be really fucking crazy. If you murdered me? If this was just a huge setup and a ploy, you know, like, like a two year plan B, like I'm gonna give this guy beers and he's gonna think we're really cool. Bam!

You're dead. Yeah. Is this the, um. Who are the stupid kids? Was it Jack and Jill that got fattened up by the witch? Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel. Thank you. Jill went up the hill to get the. Yeah, I was like, this doesn't feel right. Uh, yeah. This feels like the Hansel and Gretel treatment made me just like, here, have another beer. AM I pretty? And then he goes home and just stirs his big pot of whatever. Yeah. I almost kind of hope that's the case. But also don't.

I don't hope that's the case. Please don't. Yeah. So far, I've escaped full murderousness. Let's. Let's keep it that way. Well, no. Though, when I go on one Monday night for a podcast. And I just never. You just never sign on. Yeah. Non-Murderer John. If you do decide to murder me, at least, like, get my password first so that when Flex signs on, it's just you staring at him. That'd be kind of good. Or like, the name is just like Greg is dead. Yeah.

You know, that would be helpful. Something like that. Yeah. Very informative. Informative name. Yeah. So if if Non-Murderer John. If you turn into murderer John, just, you know, step up your game, I guess. And yeah. Add some pizzazz. Yeah. Let's let's get pizzazz. But I should circle back to the fact that I'd prefer you to stay Non-Murderer John. Like, just want to be very clear. It's a great nickname. It's working for both of us.

Keep it that way. A one job? Exactly. Oh, shit. Sweating over here. A little news before we get out of here. Spirit Halloween has partnered with Tilray Tilray Shock Top on a candy corn beer costume. Oh, okay. Tilray brands is taking a sweeter approach to Halloween as several other brands pair up with slashers. The Craft Brewing conglomerate's shock top brand is partnering with

Spirit Halloween, North America's largest spooky season retailer. Together, the companies collaborated on a limited edition beer on a limited edition of beer Candy corn wheat spirit Halloween will also offer shock top wedged jumps, wedge head jumpsuits, essentially the wheat ales orange slice mascot. Oh! Don't you like candy corn? I do, but I hate shock top so much. Mhm. And back in my early beer heyday, I remember seeing I was like

into pumpkin beers. Then we're talking like 2010, 2011 and shock top. You know, I saw in the used to work at a grocery store, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, classic Flex. But on the end cap in the in the liquor department was a shock top pumpkin beer. And I'm like, oh, I'm gonna fucking try that. Oof! The kicker was it just tasted like shock top. Oh, it was awful. It was absolutely awful. Like shock top wheat. Like gross. So was it just packaging or did

they fuck up the beer? I'm assuming it's just shock top being shock top. Weird. That's what my guess would be. Okay. But yeah, it it. I was so bummed out. Yeah. I'm pretty sure I threw the other beers away. I don't blame you. Yeah. I remember years ago, someone brought shock top. I mean, I'm talking more than ten to a party as, like, hey, I brought some beer and then proceeded to drink like, all my good beer and left all their shock tops. I think I was left with, like,

five. Oh. Man. Those sat in my fridge so fucking long. I think one of them ended up being turned into a Will Scott poured out segment. Like I, you know, I used to give him blind beers and ask him if he poured out. I almost never did he pour it out. Um, and I think the other four, uh, went to Davy Jones locker. Where they belong. Yeah. Pretty much. Cool name for a beer, really? Or brewery? Whatever. It's cool. Could have been cool. Yeah.

Terrible beer. Terrible beer. I will admit, there was about five minutes in my early drinking days where I was drinking shock top. Okay, I don't know if that's something you want to admit, but probably not. This is a this is a safe space. Safe space. And then I graduated to Blue Moon. Uh. Then I graduated to like regular halfs, not fruited halfs. So regular halfs I'm into. I haven't been into in quite some time, but back. Then I was so into.

I guess that's a weird way to say. Yeah, acceptable. I can. Yes, I used to like enjoy them like the franziskaner, like classic German hefe. Yeah. Super great. Um, yeah, like I could have one now, but all those other ones just. Yeah. Yeah. Did I ever tell you the craziest thing about Blue Moon? Like the Belgian wheat? What? I can't remember, we were at some restaurant and they had all the different beers on the menu with the calorie content. Mhm. And the Blue moon actually had

the highest calorie content of all the beers on the menu. Yeah. So much wheat in it. Yeah, it was like three, three, 70 per 12oz or something. Yeah, it was insane. I believe it. Uh, get ready to chill. Flex North Coast Brewing is rolling out an unlikely companion to its famed old Rasputin Russian Imperial stout. Have you had old Rasputin? I've heard of it. Never had it. It's.

You know, it's at least in California. It's a classic. It's been around for a million years. If you're looking for a nice big stout, it's 9%. Nailed it. They're rolling out Chew Rasputin, oh, 4.5%. Oh, okay. Yeah. Launches this month. I would say as long as the flavor is there. That's what I'm. I mean, we've talked about this before. We're like, sometimes you go out and you're just like, I don't want a 7 or 9% because I want to have a few of these and be able to drive home. Correct. So assuming it's full flavored,

I'm on board. Yeah, absolutely. I think that's a great idea. If you can Replicate. You know, I feel like even the body is kind of difficult, right? I feel like it's going to be a little bit lighter bodied, maybe even like zippier on the carbonation because it's lighter. Yeah. So this would be an interesting one. Yeah. As long as it doesn't taste like old Rasputin lite. I think it should be, uh, good. Well, maybe you'll find out faster than I will. I'll look for it.

I'll see if I can find it. Please do. I'll be intrigued. Yeah. If I can find it, I'll get both and have them next to each other. I like it. Science. Real? Yeah. Real science. Uh, Sam Adams, Boston brewery. Front of house staff has voted to unionize. The bargaining unit consists of 27 front of House members. Boston Beer confirmed to brew. They will join the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 328 union group that also represents workers in southeastern Massachusetts. Boston Beer said, we are committed to bargaining in good faith and remain

focused on supporting our coworkers, our customers and brewing great beer. Okay. Right on. Uh, Sapporo layoffs are incoming. Sapporo USA's layoffs will total 272 workers. Yeesh! Once the shutdown of the former Stone Brewing facilities in Escondido is complete later this year, according to a Warn act notice, which is the notice you have to file. If you're laying off a bunch of people, uh. Following a first phase of 58 layoffs

set for October 19th, the second round total 212, effective between November 13th and November 27th. The third phase will be announced at a later date. Yikes. Yeah. Merry Christmas. I know it feels like those sort of things always happen during the holiday seasons. Too bad they had to plan it out a little bit better. Yeah. You think maybe February. Yeah. February or even September. Like what goes on in September? Just started early, I don't know. There you go.

Uh, sad news for Deb pop tarts. Oh, I was. Gonna say dicks aren't a thing anymore. Nope. Very much a thing. Still pop tarts. Parent company has pulled the plug on a collaboration with Buzz Balls after accusations that the rtds with Pop Tarts inspired flavoring could appeal to minors. Okay, can we just talk about how stupid that is? Yeah, I mean, what how much out there is flavored,

like blue raspberry or strawberry? And let me tell you what. When I was a kid, I mean, even now I'm 38 years old. I fucking love blue raspberry flavor. Sure. So when I'm a kid and I see something blue raspberry, I want it. Right. So this is dumb. This is dumb. Yeah. They're already marketed to children. So dumb. Yeah. This is just another step. Um. All right, we'll finish on this one. Florida Man.

Oh, I feel like we haven't been to Florida in a while. Has it been a while? It feels like it's been a while. Damn it. But I could be wrong. Hi, Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa. Uh, Florida Man tells cops he's drinking rum, then admits to cocaine. A 76. You heard that right. 76 year old Florida man was arrested for DUI after allegedly admitting he was drinking rum and had recently used cocaine. Deputies in Polk County said Charles

ducking. That's kind of a cool name. Chuck ducking. Yeah. Chuck. Chuck ducking, you son of a bitch. I will henceforth refer to him as Chuck ducking. Deputies in Polk County say Chuck ducking was pulled over after he was seen swerving on U.S. highway 27. The deputy reported smelling alcohol and said ducking was slurred, had slurred speech and watery eyes. When asked for his license,

Chuck Duncan allegedly told the deputy it was suspended because of a previous DUI, then admitted he'd been drinking. He also held up a silver cup and said, this here is my rum. I'm drinking. During the search, the vehicle, deputies say they found cocaine in a small orange container. Chuck ducking then allegedly told the officers he had done a line about ten minutes before being pulled over. Chuck ducking may be a little too honest. I'm not a lawyer, but. 76 years old.

What have you got to lose? True. That true. That breath test came back at 0.094 and 095, just above the legal oh eight. He was charged with DUI, possession of cocaine, driving with a suspended license, and possession of drug paraphernalia. And this wasn't his first recent DUI arrest. Authorities say Chuck ducking had been arrested for DUI just four months earlier and had been released on the condition that he not possess or consume alcohol.

Oh, that. Chuck. Chuck ducking. If there's one thing I know about Chuck ducking he fucking parties. He knows how to have a good time. Yeah, he's not messing around when it comes to the party department. Dear God. Rum and coke. I got. Literally new meaning to rum and coke. Oh, I didn't even think about that. That is so good, Chuck. Ducking everybody. That's got to be the name of this episode, right? It's got to be the name of the century.

Yeah, that is too fucking good. Thanks, Chuck. Ducking for that one. Vanessa. If you know Chuck ducking, please. I feel like there's got to be, like, at least three Chuck Duckings in Florida. Like, something tells me it's just a common name down there. I don't know. Everybody knows a chuck ducking. I figured Chuck ducking was a, you know, like a unique butterfly or something. Well, I guess. Yeah, I guess I guess we will.

Oh, that's so good. All right. I think it's time we we head up on out of here. We had some music and thank you all for listening. Make sure you give us a follow at Craft Beer Republic. Of course, @Flex_me_a_beer underscore in between 805538 beer, it's 2337 and mail at Craft Beer Republic dot com. I think that's everything. I hope everyone is staying very well hydrated. And on that note. Good night everybody.

Good night Chuck ducking.