Sour Sips and Slalom Canoes: An Olympic-Sized Episode

Welcome in, everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg, and joining me is the Finn Balor to my Damien priest. What's up, big fella? Hey, that's not good right now. Oh, that's true. They're about to. They's going at it. Two weeks ago, the Finn Balor to my Damien priest. I just hope that's a reference to my body. Oh, that is absolutely a reference to your body. And maybe that's not the greatest.

What do they call Damien Priest? Like the metrosexual undertaker or something? Yeah, it's something like that. Yeah. I don't think I can quite pull off that look. So we'll rework that reference. Don't you sell yourself short there, Greg. We'll work on that. We'll workshop a little bit offline. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. Find us on the socials, of course, at Craftbeer Republic. And flex meabeer underscores in between. Quite the show to get to today. I have some great news to talk about involving one of my favorite breweries that was about

to go under. We got more booze, news, a voicemail. I did a little traveling. We'll talk about that. And so much moss. In the meantime, if you don't mind, I think I'm going to crack into a little hydration.

Oh, yes, indeed. I am drinking from green cheek brewing lizard gym 5.7% 404 untapped. It is a west coast pilgrimage which, when it's 900 degrees, you know, I'm getting a hard on for a west coast Pilsner from the brewery. They say our very own James Barnett, aka Lizard Jim, aka distribution coordinator extraordinaire, jumped in on a brew day at the rave cave to spin out something ultra

slithery with the brew team. He wanted something crushable, super lean, dry and heavily saturated with his favorite hop, HBC 586. So here it is. The result hits with all the white gummy bear vibes, fresh orange blossoms and some pink grapefruit on the schnoz. I would tell you that the orange blossoms come through the most but very light fragrance.

After all, it is a Pilsner on ye olde tongue jobber. Oh, I definitely get that white gummy bear. That is fantastic. My favorite gummy bear flavor. It is the best. It's the only one worth eating. The white gummy bear. I get some peach, I get a little that orange blossom. I don't know that I get so much pink grapefruit peel, but I guess I do because it's real pithy.

It's like bitterness. So it's not like the grapefruit taste, it's bitterness from the grapefruit. So, yes, I do get that. This is so crushable. Even at 5%, it drinks like, it's way less. I mean, we're talking. This thing drinks like, it's like four and a half. It is so easy to go down. Perfect summer beer. So glad I picked this up. As I announced, I don't know, a week or two ago, I was going to have to do some work, travel, including a bunch of time in Orange County. I was asking people for suggestions, which they gave to me. So thank you. I got villains brewing was an idea.

And I was like, oh, yeah, I should check that out. They've got food, not murdered. Jim was saying, go check out rip. He texted me the day. He goes, hey, non murderer Jim here. I was like, oh, this guy's great. What a nickname. I just said it was the best nickname around. It really is like coming to the ring, waiting in nine, murderer Jim, which may be not the most intimidating. Wrestling. I was just gonna say that, too. Not a wrestling show. Not. Well, we'll see. Anyways. Yeah. So thanks for the tips.

I had to go a little off schedule, but I think I'll be back down there. And so I really like the idea of villain. Cause I think they do some, like, barbecue there. So maybe go get some barbecue. Hell, yeah. I've heard some real mixed reviews about the beer. They are still fairly new. I think they've been open for around six months. So we'll see. But barbecue will soak up the tears if the beer is not great. But this beer is fantastic. So thanks to green cheek. So glad I picked it up. The can is a fucking trip. It's, like, green and pink with lizard Jim on the COVID and looks like some stoner put it

together, basically. Definitely looks very stoner esque. Yeah, it's good times. Very, very slithery, or whatever they said. Very slither. What a strange description in a beer. Yeah, very strange. So. But very tasty. And they got food and so went down there, had some dinner, had a few green cheeks. And, you know, when I'm traveling, I get, like, you know, expenses covered, obviously, because I'm traveling for work. I do the whole thing where I'm like, I'll order one beer and food on the company card.

And then, like, if I go back for more beer, I put it on my card so I don't get a raging alcoholic. Well, even if you do who cares? Yeah, they kind of know, but I was like, I don't want. Oh, wait, you mean, like, if work doesn't think you're a raging. I don't want work to know I'm a raging. Oh, right. Oh, I thought you meant the people there. I was, like, dumb. No, no, it's very clear. I'm there by myself. Wow. So it's very obvious that I'm a radiant. Alcohol. Just making things clear here. Yeah, but on the company card, I'll just put, like, the dinner and one beer on there.

Cause I gotta submit receipts so it'll show, like, you know, food and then beer, whatever. Like, all right. I feel like one beer is responsible, but if they saw that I had, like, three beers and took home a four pack, they may not appreciate that. Yeah, I think that's a little much. Yeah. So I put the other beers in the four pack on my own card and. Or just keep doing it until they talk to you about it. Well, I could do that. Yeah. I wonder how much attention they pay to, like, what I put on those receipts. I don't think it would be that bad. Think about the people who go to, like, nice dinners with those.

Oh, yeah. Boss fucking racks it up. He's like, hey, let's go for steak dinner. I'm like, you're the boss, boss, right? Steak dinner. Grab a cocktail. I'm sure you get, like, a nice dessert. Pay for the sides. You know? I'm sure people are putting on some change. Yeah, they're probably like this fucking Greg guy, man. Thank goodness for him. He's saving us a buck. Yeah, that's always the weird thing. Like, if the boss takes you out and it's like, all right, we had a meal, we had a drink, and the boss will have a drink with me. He's, you know, he's no prude or anything like that, but it's like, hey, you want dessert?

I'm like, not really. I'd rather just have another drink. Yeah. So whatever. That's how I am. Yeah, I don't. I don't need dessert, especially not from, like, a restaurant. If I'm going to go buy dessert, I gotta go to a bakery or I'll go to an ice cream shop. I don't want your fucking frozen cakes. Right. I was gonna say, yeah, there's just thaw. Thaw and serve cheesecake or something, which, I mean, I'm gonna get cheesecake if you offer it to me, but, yeah, but I'm not going to voluntarily order a cheesecake dessert.

At a restaurant? Yeah. No, not for me. No? No. Gracias. Tomorrow is national root Beer float day, and I might get a root beer float. Is it? Yeah. August 6. Oh. Last week, national IPA day and International Beer Day were back to back. I thought they were the same day. Are they not the same day? That was a day off, I believe. I think, like, one was Thursday, one was Friday or something like that. Okay. I celebrated. I trust you. Yeah. I posted on one of them, I think. I'm sure I celebrated. Why not?

Why not, you know, I celebrated with some Oktoberfest. Oh, oh, some linies. Did you see that? Yeah. Yeah. So here's a story on that. So the Wisconsin State Fair had started this past Thursday, and just, you know, how do I want to say to get it out of the way? But the wife and I were off the next day, so we went as a family, and every place that was selling beer had, like, at least one Oktoberfest on the menu. And I was kind of blown away by that, being that it was like, August 3 2nd, August 2.

It's pretty early. Really early. And I did not get an Oktoberfest on the fair grounds. But we went home. We kind of chilled out. It was about 05:00 in the evening, and all I can think about is an Oktoberfest beer and how great it would taste. So I actually got up, grabbed my keys, drove to the liquor store, got me a six pack. Oktoberfest went home. Oh, boy. What a great decision.

I'm not even gonna lie. People say stout season's year round normalize Oktoberfest year round. Yeah. I want to see martins more or mertons more often. Yeah. Yeah. Like, some of my favorite from around. I mean, you know, Anagran obviously does a great one. Britt over at naughty pine does a good Mars in. I used to be a huge fan of Knicks over at 14 cannons, back. In. 13 guns, whatever it was called.

Yeah. Let's get this a little more year roundy. Sometimes I just want a good, crisp Merzin. The local brew pub over here, they have theirs year round genius. But they, you know, they market it as a merzen, and then when it becomes October fest season, they basically just rebrand it as it works. Yeah, but it fucking works. And it's delicious. Yeah. That's so good. Bring back the Merritt. Yeah. Do you want to hear what I ate at the fair? Oh, do you fucking put it down? Well, I mean, so I didn't, like, put it down down.

But they had this one dish I'm not going to bore you with everything. Not even a dish. It was a sandwich. It was a hot ham sandwich. Okay. Right, so let's start from the inside out, right? So we got the ham, swiss cheese. Okay. Then there is a air quotes, spicy raspberry jamden. Oh, not very spicy. And instead of, you know, bread or roll, it was two glazed donuts. Oh, dear God.

And let me tell you, Greg, that shit was delicious. We all know flexi likes a donut, but it just. Everything worked together. Like the ham and the glazed doughnut and then the raspberry jam and a little bit of that cheese in there. Just the combination of flavors was almost surreal, you know? Surprised they didn't then batter it and deep fry it, too. Nah, we usually don't get too much deep fried stuff when we go there. Just kind of look like the wacky stuff like that.

Yeah. Have you done, like, the deep fried snickers and that kind of stuff? I mean, we've had, like, the spaghetti and meatballs on a stick thing. Can't remember years back. I have a terrible memory. But, yeah, we've definitely done the deep fried peanut butter jelly sandwich. Yeah. You know, so it's basically just like a deep fried uncrustable or whatever. Right, exactly is. You're absolutely right. It probably is, but, yeah. So I just thought that was kind of a fun little out there item. That is fun. I've had some good ones, some bad ones, like deep fried snickers.

Like, honestly, it's fine. It is what it is. I think I'd rather just have a Snickers, Reese's, that kind of stuff. What else have I had? It's been a decade, I think, since I've been to the fair. But, you know, sometimes you get some fun shit out there. Yeah. You guys got a good fare over there? It's pretty good. I just. Man, I'm going to sound like some cheap old man now. I don't like paying to get in and then paying for Ryan's. Like, by the time you get done. And this is something that's probably a little more unique to me than the rest of the

country, but by the time you get done going the fair for the same price, you could just take yourself down to Disneyland. Yep. So it does get expensive. Yeah, Disneyland. That's something that my wife helps me come to terms with. Right. She's very good with the. We're here, like. Like the one in Rome kind of. Right. Mindset. Enjoy yourself. Like, this is what we're doing. Just get what you want. And, you know, two. $300 later, whatever. Like, we had a fun day. Yeah, $300 later. Still hungry.

Still? Yes. And that's what I was thinking too. Although maybe I really wasn't too hungry. We had that sandwich. We had cream puffs. We had some sour cumin, chive fries. We had corn. We had a flash fried cheese curds, gluten free corn dogs, and a beer. Found the eagle park stand there, of course. A couple more things in there. Oh, apple cider donuts. Oh, my God. Um, they had this thing there this year was kind of a cool idea. It was fucking delicious. It was a cup filled with, like, cut up strawberries, like, tipped strawberries.

Okay. And then instead of, like, you know, chocolate covered strawberries, you dip each strawberry individually. They just poured melted chocolate into this cup all over the strawberries and gave you a fork. Not bad. It was low key, like, super simple, delicious as hell. I. Here's where I'm gonna sound like a snob. I have a problem ordering strawberries anywhere else in the country than California. Yeah, for one of two reasons. One, they're either not as good, or two, I shit you not. I've seen this in multiple states.

They're packaged where I'm from. Really? Yeah. Oxnard, California is 15 minutes from my house. It's where Casa agri is. And so many times I've been out of state, like, most recently was in Colorado. Went to Trader Joe's in Colorado. And strawberries packaged Oxnard, California. That's wild. That's like, all right, well, I know they're good. So funny. So anyways, enough about me being a show off. Yeah. You got to get past pretentiousness. Yeah, I know. Strawberries are just better from out here. I'm sorry. When in Rome, Greg.

Yeah, when in Rome. Have an orgy. Before I forget, shout out to Fremont, California, for being our top listening city of last week. What up, nor? Cal. Yeah, Fremont. Yeah, we got a voicemail. This is a short one. This comes from Scott. Let's see what Scott has to say. Hello? No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Happy birthday, Greg. Have a beer on me and put it on a flexor's cat.

Not even a buy. Classic Scott fashion. Yeah, classic Scott. In fact, he didn't even say his name at any point. I just recognize his phone number on the missed call. But thank you. And in fact, thank you, Scott. You're the hero that we waited for, Scott. We won't ever forget Scott. And thank you, everyone. Else who was nice and said birthday things to me last week, everybody kept asking me what I was doing. Like, Nick and Nicole, like, hey, what are you doing?

You gonna hang out for your birthday? I was like, mm mm. I'm doing the ultimate old people thing. We went to Big Bear. Big Bear Lake. And I got a cabin that was, I don't know, 30ft from water. Yeah. You said yeah, right off the water. Yep. Yeah. And I just fucking sat there for you. Woke up and drank coffee and then ate bacon and then snacked my way through the day and started cracking beers and just sat on that fucking porch staring at the lake. Not gonna lie, that's a hell of a vacation.

Yeah, it was like two and a half days of that. What a nice birthday. Oh, I loved it. I was always worried that, like, I'd go somewhere and not do something and be bored out of my mind. Like, I need to constantly do things, which is usually how I am when I go places. I think it helps going places that don't have much to do. Then you're forced. I was not bored. I fucking loved the entire time. I loved the view, I loved the company. It was like the serenity too, of the environment, you know, that really helped.

So nice. Drank a lot, ate a lot. On our way out of town. They have an alpine roller coaster in Big Bear. Do you know an alpine coaster is. I think you. Did. We talk about it on the show? We might have talked about it off air. I think it was off air, but. You definitely sent me like the Google video of it. Shit's wild. Yeah, you control, basically. You've got brakes if you want to stop yourself, which I'm like, fuck no. So did that on our way out of town and had a blast and it was good times. So hit a few breweries on our way back home.

We passed a few. We stopped at one, which was so bad, I'm not going to mention the name of, because I know people who are friends with the brewer there and they've multiple times like, hey, you should stop there. We didn't even finish our flights. Come on. I shit you not like there. We finished most of them, but there were a couple beers that, like, try to sip. Oh, my God, it's horrible. I gotta try again to make sure, you know, the pallets cleanse, blah, blah, blah. So bad. I could not drink all of the beers in our flight. Well, I can't wait to hear about this off air.

Yeah, sorry, everybody. We'll take the rest of the comments off air. That pieces on pins and needles over here. Yeah. That being said, we did hit up one of my favorites, which is way out of the way. And that's Arrow Lodge brewing. Nice. Yeah, I've hear. I've heard really, really good things about aerolog. We love them. We haven't been since their head brewer left to go start shred brewing up in Norcal near Erika, actually. So we're a little worried, like, hope it's still good. Still good. One of our favorite beers, though, is the guavana or something like that.

And it's not as tart as it used to be, so I was a little disappointed about that. But other than that, everything was great. Love, love arrow lodge. Um, smog city has a tap room out there. Stopped at Smog City for a bit, had a couple beers there. They had a great sour on tap. So, um, definitely did some, some research on the way home. Those good times. Hell, yeah. All right, before we get on to some news, let's ask some important questions. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only

one ton can guide us. One man, one tongue. One tongue jobber. In this world, we must find out what is flax drinking. Dun dun dun dun. I picked up something a little different today. I've never had these guys on the show. I haven't had these guys in quite a while. I'm drinking hacienda beer company. I just heard about them. Really?

Yes. Oh, man. Yesterday I was reading a story. I think it was with them, or they're opening up, like, a joint tap room with two other breweries. Yeah, I think that it's familiar sounding. With three sheets and something else. Yeah, it's open downtown right now. Okay. Yeah, I just read the news story. That's so funny. I'll find you that too, because I was reading, too. But anyway, so they have a spot downtown already, like their own little tap room. And then they also have one up in Door county, which is like, a real popular vacationing

area up here. Mm hmm. So, yeah, I haven't had these guys in quite some time, and I figured I would snag some up, so I bought creative truths. It is a newer release of theirs. The can art is awesome. Just, it's like a chameleon painted can where it goes, like, golden to purple, and then it has this hand grasping a snake, and I, that's in like a bordered frame. I don't know. It just looks really, really neat. It's a double hazy ipa. Nobody's shocked about that.

But this. This hop combo is a little interesting. It's Eldorado. I'm sorry. El Dorado salvo, and then strata CGX. I don't know what the difference is with these from regular El Dorado and strata. Sounds fancier. Super fancy to top it off, to boot. Uh, it's got thyla's yeast, and we all know how I feel about thylacies. Yes, you get a hard on for. Thylacies, super hard for thialize yeast.

So this one weighs in at 7.3% abv. Like I said, it's a newer release, so not too many check ins. But it's a hair over four at 406. And it reads creative truths is a double IPA hopped with El Dorado salvo and mosaic pellets in the whirlpool, and double dry hopped with El Dorado mosaic and strata CGX. Hmm. We'll cross information here. Lush and aromatic notes of guava, candied watermelon, juicy pineapple, and orange

tangerine. It sounds delightful. So we'll get a little sniff going. Faint watermelon. I wouldn't call it candied necessarily. That's kind of neat. That's not usually an aroma you pick up on a beer, so we'll get the old tongue jobber warmed up. Oh, here we go. That's great. It's really great. This is a really great beer. It's probably one of the better beers I've had recently. It is medium bodied, real, real low carbonation. I mean, you could see there's only, like, a little bit ahead.

Surviving on this guy. Great color. A lot of guava on the palate here. You get some of that unripe pineapple, and then that orange tangerine kind of finishes out. I don't get much watermelon here on. On the palate, but, uh, everything else kind of jumps out at you in different spots, and this is just really, really great. I sounds. Sounds delicious. Got some nice color to it. Yeah. I love when I hit. Hit a beer on the head like this, you know, it's like something you don't normally get, and

you just reach out and your one hand, and I try something else, and I didn't love the price point. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. I know we've had a conversation of price. The other day, it was $16.99, which isn't terrible. I try to keep it around $15.99, but I was in a splurgey mood. I dropped that extra dollar. I know that sounds super. What the hell's the word. Stingy of me.

Very stingy of me. But, yeah, I got a reputation to uphold. Oh, and an algorithm to uphold. Wow. That's a reputation. I found it. It's called the triple taproom. It's three sheeps, not sheets. Apologies. Yes. Three sheep's brewing. They're up in Sheboygan, hacienda, and Deer county. Okay, I've never heard of Deer county. Me either. But three sheeps is a banger. Okay. They actually do some above average beer. They're really well known for their wolf series, which is fairly stout, but they also have

this really gnarly, hazy ipa called chaos pattern. And you can find it at, like, the Pfizer forum where the bucks play. So, I mean, shit, I feel like we haven't talked in a while. It went to sad summer fest. Oh, that's right. Right. Went to see Mayday parade and the wonder years and the main. And it was fucking sweet. Yeah. And driving down to the venue, I kept thinking about how ironic it is living in Milwaukee where Miller products are aplenty and they carry a b shit at this venue, which kind of

blows my mind. So I was just, like, rattling it around in my head, what beer am I going to drink tonight? You know, this and that. And sure. I looked over in the fridge and they had chaos patterned by three sheep. So I got kind of drunk on that. Nice. But, yeah, the concert was great. Beer was great, company was even better. My had a really good friend of mine that came with, and he was there for the music. Second. He said, I just wanted to. Wanted to hang out with you.

God damn. Isn't that a friend? That is a friend of the year. Friend first, music second. Yep. Beer first, est. Yep. So. Thanks, Kevin. I don't know if he's listening. Sometimes he does, but you better. He's no longer a friend. Dead to me. Yeah. It's funny you mentioned, like, the one good beer being there I was not too long ago at Burbank airport. Of course, airports are notorious for their shit beer selection. But I'm looking around and then they had this pile of ice underneath their taps, and I look

over and there's 818 brewing. And they had one of their. I can't remember the name of the beer right now, but it's their hazy, like, snuggle bear or something like that. It's got as long as they can. But I just. I had already ordered insert shit beer here, and I'm sipping on it because I just. Nothing was on the menu about craft. And I look over, like. So the lady comes back, how you doing? I said, are those cans for sale or are you just holding onto those? And she goes, oh, yeah, yeah, you can get those. I was like, God damn it. I said, well, next round said, do not let me order the same beer. And don't just surprise me with another one.

Right? Yeah, no surprises, no other rounds. I'm going for those cans next time. I got time. So you mentioned the price not being so great. I'm not going to give out any names, but a certain listener of this show always talks about a certain bottle shop and how great it is and tells me all the time, you should go. And I happen to be in the area, and I went to said bottle shop and I was amazed at the prices in not such a good way. I am talking $25 to $30.04 packs of shit that I can get for half the price.

Because like everywhere brewing, anytime in Orange County, I always look for everywhere brewing because it's. Or everywhere beer, it's delicious. And if you stop by the brewery, you know, you get yourself a four pack, $16, whatever it is. They had this shit for $20, $22. I was like, are they paying retail? And then trying to turn around and resell them. I don't know what the deal was. I can't afford to shop. I don't know how he does. I don't know how anybody does. I was like, holy shit. Got the wife a four pack of something sour is dollar 25. It was insane.

That's wild. Yeah. $25 for a sour? Yeah. Just like a regular or over fruited? We don't drink that over fruited. Well, hey, I'm just asking. I'm just asking. No, no regular sour. So you're looking at a 4% beer for $25? Yeah, maybe five, six, somewhere in there. But either way, $25 for like, what is happening here? What world have we stepped into when we can get it from the brewery for 15, $16 a four pack? So I'll leave it there. I don't. That's crazy too, because here in Wisconsin, there's some law between breweries and

distributors where if you sign with the distributor, you are not allowed to. It's weird. You can't sell the four pack cheaper at the brewery than they put it out for as retail. I don't know. I don't know if that's a normal law or if it's just like a thing amongst Wisconsin. I don't. I mean, so confusing. I don't know. I think. Don't quote me. I think in California, if you produce under x amount, you can self distribute. So then there's none of that bullshit, right? So, like, everywhere.

Beer, I'm sure, is self distributing. At least that's my guess. Which usually makes their beer cheaper as well, right? Exactly. So, anyway, I'm 2020, $5 from a four pack of stuff. That's, you know, we're not talking some crazy, hard to find shit. So, like, what is happening here? Oh, let's do a little booze news before we get out of here, before I accidentally say the name of the person or place. Did you know at the Olympics you can't drink? I actually didn't know that. Neither did I until I saw this story.

The vast majority of spectators at the Olympics in Paris are not able to catch a buzz while watching any of the events. A 32 year old law makes it illegal to serve alcohol at most sport sporting events in France. As a result, parisian bars are packed with fans who are trying to get as much booze in their bodies as possible before getting to the competition. And the caveat here is that alcohol can be served at a sporting event if it is accompanied by a full meal, so that people in the vip sections are actually able to drink because

they're getting food with their vip ticks. Okay, sounds like some Covid bullshit. I feel like it just makes for safer environments, too. Probably. But come on. I don't know. You know how wild some of them fans can get. Die hard for their country. And, you know, like, there's always, you know, soccer brawls. That's because soccer's boring and they need something to do. Not boring. So boring. You're boring.

Oh, we just played. For. What do they play? 90 minutes plus overage, and we scored one goal the entire time. Look at us. It's not easy, Greg. It's not an easy thing to do. Look, it's not easy to paint a house, but it's boring. Also, you'll never convince me that soccer is fun to watch unless they start fighting, like in hockey. Okay, I would watch. All right. I'm. I trust you. Do you regularly watch soccer?

No, I'm just, like, a big fan of, like, world soccer. Okay, so it's boring. You don't regularly watch it because you regularly watch baseball? Yes, but, like, anytime, like, Team USA plays, like, we're talking, like, all throughout the year, like, any kind of cup tournament they're playing in, or if they have a friendly, like, I always catch Team USA. So you one of those that will watch, like, gymnastics all of a sudden, because it's on the Olympics. I like, I won't seek it out if it's on. I'll watch it, like, with the Olympics going on.

We've watched, like, some gymnastics, some swimming, some volleyball here and there. Um, geez, I think we saw some archery. I missed, like, all track and field events. Haven't watched one basketball game. Yeah, I've hardly watched any. I always laugh at the people who also get, oh, I gotta tune into the Olympics. Like, you know, gymnastics is starting or archery is starting. It's like, oh, do you like archery? No, but it's the Olympics. But it's the Olympics, right? So you don't watch it the other three and, you know, nine tenths of the year or the time,

but you'll watch it now also, and you're excited, like, fuck, either watch it or don't watch. It's weird. That being said, here's where I get. Where you're coming from. Here. Here's where I throw myself under the bus. We were at a brewery, and they had on a canoeing slalom course or something like that. What? And I was intrigued. I could not stop watching to the point where we came home and I've got the Peacock app. I rewatched all the canoeing slalom course events. Canoe slalom?

Yeah, kayak canoe. I think it's canoe, I'm sure. Same thing. They're in those little tiny boats, you know, and they're so they're going down the rapids and they've got to go through gates. And if it's a green gate, you go down through it. And if it's a red gate, you actually get and turn and go up through it and then back down the river. And it's basically like skiing, but on a fucking rapid. See, now that just sounds really interesting. Yeah. I was glued. I could not stop. We were at the brewery, the bartenders, while, hey, you guys need them?

Shut up, shut up, shut up. Watching the fucking canoeing over here. If you guys haven't seen it, like. Go, please shut your mouth. Please shut your mouth. Shut your mouth. Are you saying pan? Anyways, fucking fantastic sport. I would watch that any day of the week now. I kind of want to watch it outside the Olympics, though, because it was so cool to watch. But it's like, how do you find stuff like that? No fucking idea. Probably on the ocho. That did cross my mind.

I saw there's, like, Microsoft Excel, which. My wife would probably be pretty good at anywho, but not a sports show. Or for that matter, definitely not. Yeah. Renegade brewing. Excited to hear about this. Renegade brewing is going to reopen under new ownership. Uh, the Denver craft brewery is opening under new ownership by CPA and home brewer Dan Colburn and former. I don't know if it's ul or Yule brewing owner Aaron Yule. Um, the duo plan to reopen the brewery this fall, with news coming less than three months

after Renegade closed its doors. We talked about this a few months ago that they were closing. I love me some renegade. I hope they make it as good, if not better, than it was before. If you're ever the Denver, I say if you're ever in Denver, go check it out. But, I mean, that's assuming they don't fuck it up. So go renegade. Yeah, if you like it, thank us if you don't. You didn't hear it from us, right? Exactly. You heard it from the booze league or something. Exactly. Ohio based urban artifact brewing is suing the Department of Astronaut food makers.

I totally forgot about that. Oh God, I forgot. That was disgusting. Now I'm not. Not for them in this anyways. They're filing DTC lawsuit against the state of Pennsylvania. Cincinnati, Ohio based urban artifact Brewing has filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board chairman Tim Holden and the state police commissioner, Colonel Christopher Paris, alleging the state enforces cost prohibitive trade barriers on out of

state breweries, and that those barriers prevent out of state breweries from competing freely with in state breweries in violation of the dormant Commerce clause. There's a lot more detail, but I feel like people will fall asleep if I keep reading about it. Basically, they want to be able to sell their shit in Pennsylvania and not get fucked for it. Boy, wouldn't we all? Yeah. The in state breweries can sell and ship beer directly to Pennsylvania consumers in unlimited quantities under their brewery licensing using third party carriers such as UPS

and FedEx. However, out of state breweries must obtain direct malt or brewed beverage shipper licenses from the PLCB, which also requires those breweries to hold wholesaler or off sell retail licenses in their home states. The direct shipper license costs $250, and it goes on. There's limits such as 192oz for out of state breweries, uh, for the same person per month. Like, how do you fucking track that? That's crazy. Yeah. Only 96oz of any single brand per person per year. There's all these weird rules. So, like I said, I won't get into the nitty gritty, but it's fucking weird.

And fuck astronaut food. Thanks. Thanks for reading those details, because that is really fucking messed up. It's super weird. According to the Brewers association on site Pint Prices on site pint prices are trailing behind inflation at the brewery. Pint prices have not kept pace with inflation. According to a recent report from the Brewers association, the nationwide average price of a pint of beer was $6.05 in January of 2021. That average price rose steadily over three years to $6.85 in December of 2023, although

this increase amounted to 13.2% when adjusted for inflation. The price of pints sold on site did, in fact, drop. Tell that to my wallet. Maybe you're just drinking more. It's not. It's not unlikely. I might be drinking more, but it went up like $0.80. What do you mean it dropped? I get it. Adjusted for inflation. We'll end it with this one. Tell us more. Maybe I'll cut that up.

We'll end it with this garbage. Abev owned Goose island has unveiled their lineup from Bourbon counties. Oh, geez. 2024 Bourbon county brand original stout. Available in 16.9 ounce bottles on draft agent Buffalo trace, Heaven Hill, four roses and Wild turkey. Bourbon barrels for an average of 16 months with notes of fudge, vanilla and caramelized sugar with rich, decadent mouthfeels. There's also 2024 Bourbon county brand vanilla rye Stoutenhouse.

I'm not gonna get into every description. 2024, Bourbon county brand macaroon stout. 2024, Bourbon county brand what kind of macaroon, though? Oh, that's a good question. It doesn't say. Inspired by late nights in the kitchen with mom. Sounds dirty. Notes of toasted coconut, dark chocolate and sweet ginger. Makes me think of misses Jones. I was gonna say, makes me want to drink Flex's mom, but you beat me to it.

Bourbon county brands proprietors Barley wine. That was a big one. Like two years ago. Sure. This one's inspired by mexican spoon candy. I don't even know what that is. Made with tamarind, lime, guajillo, chilies, and piancino. It's a stout, so they say. And it's got chilies. I'm in. And lime. And tamarind. Do you know what tamarind is? I'll try it. Oh, I'm out. Bourbon county brand Bardston Cask finish stout made in collaboration with Bardstown

Bourbon Company. Notes of vibrant cherry, toasted oak and Allegra herbal finish. I will say no fucking mountain dew jizz bomb this year. So I was really hoping for a mountain dew jizz bomb. Aren't we all? Like just one year do a Mountain Dew? Well, didn't they do. Was it like a doctor pepper one or a coke one or something? It was a coke one. Yeah, it sounded fucking horrible. Oh, terrible. Go get your Budweiser, bourbon County stouts, everybody. Whee.

Anyways, I think that's everything. First of all, hi, Vanessa. Hello, Vanessa. I'm gonna hit some music here also, tune in next week. Mel is gonna drop in and hang with us. We'll be hanging with beer girl Mel. Find us on the socials at craft beer Republic, as well as lexmeabeer underscores in between 805 three beer. That's the number. Milk crabbeerrepublic.com. i think that's pretty much everything. Hope everyone is staying very well hydrated.

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