Some Beer That I Used To Know

Welcome to the Craft Beer Republic. Today we've got boozing on a budget, a round of beatboxes for everyone, a trip to Florida and our dry January updates. Let's go. Welcome in everybody. It's craft beer Republic. It's a photo of the Craft Beer Republic. We've been doing a lot of Nickelback singing between shows, a lot of. Creed singing to a lot of Creed. Yeah. Our arms are wide open. Uh, the Scott Stapp to my Chad Kroeger.

That's Flexy. What's up, big fella? Yeah, my legs are wide open. Wow. Here we go. Starting hot. I'd say, and rocked. Uh, follow us on the socials. @CraftBeerRepublic. Of course. Flexy beer, all that good stuff. There is so much to get to today. I'm so excited. We're still on this New Year's high. We have. Uh oh. Someone wrote in to you, big fella. No, people don't do that. Someone did. They've got a correction. Oh, we've got a voicemail from

Vanessa. Okay. Tons of booze news. I am going to booze on a budget. I haven't done that in God knows how long. I'm very excited. Uh, but before we find out what you're drinking, I want to say shout out to topless city of last week. And that is Thousand Oaks, California. What's up, my hometown homies? That's right. I was really hoping it'd be Hong Kong. Sorry. You know, it's funny. So. And then in parentheses I wrote next to it, it says special shout out to Japan because we had a huge spike. So we had that spike in Hong Kong.

Now we've had a huge, weird spike. Not quite as big as Hong Kong's in Japan. I don't know what the fuck's going on, but, like, we might need to gas up the jet. And after we're done in Finland, cruise on over to Asia. Hey, I'm totally cool with that. I really want to go to Japan. That's like one of my bucket list trips. Yeah, Tokyo. Disney, but, like, not even for, like, any, like, the touristy stuff. I just want to go to a fresh fish market and pointing to one of the vendors and say, that's what I want. Yeah. And then to have him just cut it up for me right there and eat it raw.

Dude, I bet the sushi over there is so good. Oh, it's gotta be phenomenal. I've watched Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. It was, you know, a long time ago. Yeah, way, way like ten years old. Uh, but I never forget the time he went to Japan and he just trolled the fresh fish market, and he would, like, found a dude with a sea urchin. And he said he wanted the sea urchin. So the dude just fucking chopped up the sea urchin right there, and he ate. It. Fucking raw. That's amazing. And all I've ever wanted to do since is just eat a fucking sea urchin.

Kind of a weird thing. Yeah, it is kind of a weird thing. It's a little spiky. Well, yeah. They cut all the spikes off. Oh, okay. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah. You just get the the urchin meat. Right. And that uni. That's uni. Right? Um, I don't know. Sounds that right. I don't know. Maybe I don't know. You're smarter than I am. I'm gonna. Correct. Us. Everybody knows that you're way smarter than I am. I don't know about that, but. Somebody correct us, please. I think it's funny, though. I'll look it up while you tell us what you're drinking over there. 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? Well, first of all, I just want to let everybody know. Um. My IMDb app is right next to my untapped app. Okay. And they're almost the same color. Yeah, they're both yellow. And I often open up the other

whenever I want to open up the other. Uh, did you go looking for your beer? I just went to open up for my beer. I was like, oh, search a movie. I don't want to search a movie. Um, so I hope other people. So do you come to Milwaukee often? Yeah. Enough said. I just I just hope I'm not the only person that does shit like that. Got it. So I'm actually super intrigued about this beer. After last week's wonderful start to the the new year, I got, uh, a local ish beer brewery. Uh Mikerphone.

I've had. You know, it's funny. I saw the writing at the top. I can't read it, but I can see the writing around the top. Yeah, I bet he's drinking Mikerphone. Yeah, yeah. So I caught a Mikerphone beer. They are wonderful. They always put out really good stuff. They're out of Elk Grove, Illinois, uh, which is like, I think like northern ish. Illinois naught. Yeah. And this one is called Breakfast at Tiffany's. Uh, which they're a music brewery. So it's more for the song. And I think the blue label might be

for the band Deep Blue something. Or maybe it's like the Tiffany blue. I don't know. Either way. Works either way. I love the song. So this is a Berliner style advice ale because, you know, you gotta say German. Sure. And, uh, this is with. This is what intrigued me. Blueberry and maple syrup. So obviously it's supposed to, like, mimic blueberry blueberry waffles. Mhm. And I kind of like this. They got like this little gem on it and then like a little maple leaf gem. Yeah.

But this, this gem right here, the little blue one reminds me of the original Sonic game when you got into like a bonus level. That's right. And the everything's spinning and you got to get, you know, the one gem, but then break all the other, you know, real nerds know what I'm talking about. Uh, so, anyway, I haven't taken a sip of this beer yet. I really wanted to save the inaugural sip for the show. Uh, it is a 5.25% ABV, uh, 5000 ratings on this one and a 405 collective.

Three friends of mine apparently have already had this beer and they rated it a 3.5. So a little under and said Berliner Weisse with, uh, blueberries and maple syrup. So no nose buds here. Looks very blueberry. It is. You could tell there's definitely blueberries in there. I'm expecting a strong, uh, hint of blueberry here. The aroma is phenomenal. It's like a perfect balance of the maple syrup and blueberry. So I'm really hoping that the maple syrup doesn't overpower

the blueberry on the palate. So, without further ado, warm up the old Tongue-jobber. Dive in while you do that. I will say I was looking up the cannot and I found Josh home. Homie, I don't know from Queens of the Stone age. Okay, apparently somebody jokingly posted that he did a version of Breakfast at Tiffany's and I got so excited and found out it was fake and got mad. Um, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah. Here we are. So this, uh, this kind of falls flat. Oh. Let me.

It's just kind of tastes watered down. Yeah. Yeah. Like, uh, I go to have a sip. Yeah. And I smell it, and it smells like somebody just made me breakfast. Oh, okay. And then I go to, uh, put it in my mouth as I do. Here in your mouth. And it tastes like, uh, like blueberry maple syrup water. Mhm. Yeah. That's too bad. Uh, they got me. Damn it. I mean. They got me good. And Mikerphone always puts out

quality shit. Yeah. I've never had really an issue with any of their stuff. That's too bad. Yeah. This is underwhelming. Mhm. It's like you kind of want it to just like pack a punch and it. Did you buy four pack. Yeah. Uh you know they they got me. They got me pretty good. Yeah. That's too bad. He's only, like, 15 bucks, but. But you still gotta finish those other three. Yeah I do. It's Flexy. No drain pore. Maybe I can get back into chugging, I don't know. Please.

It's just gonna be, like, chugging water. Film it. Let's post it. See how sexy you can chug? I don't know if I can anybody actually look sexy? Chugging. Um, depends what they're chugging. Okay. Moving on. Oh. My voice still sounds like half gone from our pre-show singing sesh. Yeah, I wish people could have heard that. I'm glad they can't. I'm glad I was not recording. I was gonna say I don't think it was recording. No, it very much was not. That was on purpose. Okay. Yeah,

but let's just say we did our best Nickelback and Creed impressions. They were getting better, too. Yeah, it was a little bit there. Yeah, they're all pretty similar. Little country twang action. Yeah. My Eddie Vedder started off okay and then really went country for some reason. Yeah, just like your Chad Kroeger started off all right and turned triple H in no time. Yeah, yeah. It did. Triple. Yeah. Yeah yeah. No, no, that was your Scott. Sorry. Not your. Yeah, that was my. You're right. That was my Scott Steph. So anyways, uh. All right I talked about it last week.

We've been posting some questions on threads which we've been blowing up on. It's very surprising. I didn't think anybody was actually on there. I still never got one. Well, you have to do it through Instagram. And I never did. Right? Yeah, you could get it, but you'd have to get back onto the gram, right? But I'm just saying I never even got a thread to start with. I only did it for the show. I didn't do it for my personal accounts because I was like, yeah, one more place to promote. And now it's actually like, kind of picking up a little bit. It's weird. The other day, I guess last week I posted what's a beer you used

to love and just don't anymore? And at this point we've gotten well over 200 comments like people are blowing up one of the most repeated answers is Newcastle. Oh, so funny you bring that up. We were watching some aimless TV today. Okay? And my wife just threw on a rerun of Big Bang Theory. Oh yeah, and they were out at the bar in a scene, and one of the characters had a Newcastle. How funny. And I thought to myself,

what a terrible choice. Yeah, and I like brown ales, but I was never a big Newcastle. Oh, I think it smells like shit. I can't take the the nuttiness. Just way too. Nutty. Nutty? Yeah. It's too much for me. Oh, yeah, I was never. It's to me it was like too watery for a brown. From what I honestly, I haven't had in a million years. So it was like the diarrhea of a brownie. Yeah, exactly. Too. Too far.

Too far. Got some good answers. Um, got a couple people saying Pliny. Oh. I got somebody who said, arrogant bastard. I was like, I feel that. I remember back in the day, arrogant bastard was the fucking chase. Yeah, I remember they had it on tap sometimes. We had this, uh, still have this wine bar down in the little village where I live now. It's much bigger. But they used to have, like, a six tap craft beer station amongst all their wine. They would have arrogant bastard on tap every now and then. And I was like, oh. That was a big deal back in the day. Yeah. Stop in and grab that.

Yeah. So, uh, let us know. You can either hit us up on threads or, you know, email us, leave us a voicemail, whatever. Uh, you got me thinking, though. Yeah. What's a beer you used to love and just don't anymore? Oh, man. I mean, my my real easy, like, cheap way out of this answer is like any of those old school West Coast IPAs, you know, like stone IPA. Stone IPA. Yeah. And like, or, you know, uh, what's Ballast Point sculpin, any of those kind of things, like, back in the day, it's like, oh, this is the jam.

And now it's like, get this loaf of bread away from me. Ah, man. Honestly, the one that I have a hard time even putting to my lips. Which it's almost like blasphemous for me to say, especially because now it's a year round beer for us. Summer Shandy. Oh, shit. The thought of one's nice and it smells really nice and refreshing. But every time I get a sip of it, I'm like, that is.

Swear to God, it used to taste better. Hmm. And I'm just. I think I'm over it. To some of the people who responded. I asked them, I was like, is this a, you know, a change of preference, or is this like a lack of quality? And the answers were mixed. Little of this, a little that. So yeah, let us know and let us know. Why is it a like I said, change of preference. What? You're talking not that long ago. Like our taste buds change every three years or something. Somebody told me that I Can I eat onions on something? I was telling somebody at work

and I said, oh, yeah. I said, you'll be proud of me. I ate onions on this and said, yeah, I eat onions now. You know, mushrooms, onions. I always used to think those were fucking disgusting. Like, look, texture, taste everything. Mushrooms especially. And now I'm just like, yeah, onions on this. Sign me up. Oh, mushrooms on my steak. Sign me up. I still can't get past tomatoes. I think tomatoes is just the texture. Yeah, I'm not a tomato texture fan at all. Yeah. The only time I tolerate it is like I can do a thinly sliced tomato on a burger.

Maybe if it's thinly sliced thinly. Don't give me your fucking beefsteak tomato. Go fuck yourself. I don't want a chunk of tomato. Yeah, this needs to be less tomato than meat thickness. Or like grape tomatoes or cherry tomatoes. Yeah. If you cut them. And the the juice just squeezes out with the seeds. It's it's gross. That's a little weird. If you cut them in half or quarter them and put them on a salad. I can tolerate it, but I'm not going to ask for it. Okay, that's pretty big of you. I still couldn't do it. Oh, that's why I'm about mushrooms now. Like mushrooms used to be a hard no.

Now I can tolerate them. I'm not gonna ask for them onions. I fucking love onions. I hated them as a kid. And around the time I was becoming an adult, I was like, oh my God, onions are the best thing in the world. Raw, grilled, I don't care, I want all onions everywhere. Oh, I hated onions until my honeymoon. And we were down in Playa del Carmen and there was a taco vendor on the corner of the hotel that was like they'd shave off, pork off the spit, and they would just put cilantro and onions on the tacos. Were they Pastore?

Tacos are, I think. Must have been. If they're shaving them off the spit. Maybe you would know more than I would. But I didn't want to be the gringo. That was like, oh no onions. Yeah. No. Yeah, yeah. See see see see see see. So I was like, oh fuck it, I'm just gonna mount out, mow All this down. Now, the only thing I get on my tacos ever is cilantro and onions. Oh, yeah. What else would you get? Right? Like, I don't I don't fuck around anymore. But those fucking. I'm like onions on everything now. Yeah. And I don't even care.

I used to be really preferenced with my onions. I only liked the white onions. The yellow onions gross me out, and I couldn't stand red onions. Oh, really? Yeah. Now I'm just like, fuck it. I don't even give a shit. Give me onion. Yeah, I love them all. Put some red onions on my pizza. Some white onions on my tacos. I mean onions for every occasion. Yeah, I'm totally down for the onion train now. Yeah, my tacos should have three ingredients. And that is meat, onions and cilantro. That's it. Yep. End of story. Yeah. You know what? I'm sorry.

I will take some hot sauce. I really don't like putting hot sauce on my tacos. Just as pinch because I do want to taste it. I don't want to be blown out. I want to taste the taco. Just like a little spice in there. Okay, I can respect that. Just a wee bit. But like, I don't want, first of all, these fucking gringo tacos with like, their lettuce and cheese and whatnot. Like lettuce, cheese, tomato. Yeah. It's a fucking burger. Went to a wedding one time in Colorado, and they swore to me there was gonna be a taco bar, and I was fucking stoked for a taco bar. And you know me, Mr. Taco Guy.

You got a taco guy? Yes, you do. Got a taco guy. Couldn't get too far into the new year without talking about my taco guy. And we show up and it's legit. Like, here's your shell. There's the ground beef, there's the lettuce and the cheese and the tomato chunks. I'm like, what the. I thought you said tacos. I was not happy. Yeah, that's. Yeah, I can eat ground beef tacos. I don't prefer ground beef tacos. That's the only thing I. We call those our guy at work calls those white people tacos. Yeah, they're gringo tacos. They're like, oh, what are you

guys having for dinner tonight? Like him and his girlfriend. He's like, oh, we're just doing white people tacos tonight. And there's some people that still don't know what that is. And we're Or just like, oh, yeah, we get it. They're like, what is a white person, Taco? Like, you know, just ground beef, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes. Like. Yep. That's what it is. Yep. Pretty much. Uh. All right, enough taco talk, cause I can go all night. Sorry. We got a letter from a listener who went nameless. Oh, for some reason.

That's not cool. But it was for you. Flex. Okay. It says. Hey, Flex. First time writer. Long time listener here. Love the show. You and Greg always crack me up and make my Monday commutes way more fun. Does that mean you're listening to the show, like, almost a week late? I'll let it go. Uh, but, man, I've gotta say something that's been bugging me for a while. Every time you say my sister in law's husband, I find myself yelling at my car stereo. That's your brother in law, dude. No, it's not.

Your wife's sister's husband counts. You don't have to make it sound like a mystery relative. No it's not. There's no word for it. Not trying to give you too much grief. Just figured it was time someone set the record straight. Keep the laughs and the short shorts coming. Cheers. First time, long time. I googled it after we received this. And he's not wrong. Really? Cause we. We have googled this. When he became my sister in law's husband. Take that, anonymous listener. Uh, so that was what?

So I've been married for. 12 years, which means he's been married for 11 years. So 11 years ago, we had looked this up and there was no actual term for said husband of my sister in law. Just saying. I just googled it again, and I said. I said, what is my sister in law's husband to me? Says, your sister in law's husband is typically called your brother in law.

Interesting as he's the spouse of your siblings. That doesn't work. The spouse of your siblings? Spouse? No. Yeah. See, whatever you're looking up is wrong. Hold on. You know what we're gonna do? We're gonna go to ChatGPT. We're not gonna fuck around. Because my sister in law is my wife's sister. My brother in law is my wife's brother. That's what I initially checked. Was my wife's sister's husband. My wife. My wife. But here, we're gonna. We're gonna do this the right way.

Live and in living color. You guys ready for this? What is my wife's sister's husband to me? That's the right relationship, right? Yeah. Your wife's sister's husband is your brother in law. The term covers a few relationships. Your spouse, brother, your spouse's sister's husband, and your siblings spouse. Well, there you have it. So in your case, brother in law is the correct and standard answer. Thanks, ChatGPT. Thanks, ChatGPT. And anonymous guy. Well, all right, I guess, uh,

I'm gonna confuse everybody with my two brother in laws now. Or I can just keep being myself. You do. You boo. You do you. Thanks, anonymous listener, for. Yes. Thank you for writing in. Even if you didn't feel safe enough to share your name. I hope your steering wheel's okay. Sincerely, Flex. Is that a threat? I say bash the steering wheel. Is that what he says? I find myself yelling at my car stereo. O yelling at the car stereo.

Yeah. Fuck it. Keep yelling. Yep. Keep going. Flex ain't changing for no one. I'm me. That's right. All right, I threaten this earlier. We have a voicemail from Vanessa. Oh, hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. So I have had a beatbox for different flavours. Actually my friend who is SIP SIP Bandit on the gram, she used to work for them.

So one time she brought four different flavours. We opened them all up. We tasted them. I kept them in my fridge. I believe the fruit punch was my favourite. Um, I never had a whole one all by myself in one sitting, but I've definitely tried a few of them. They're pretty good. I mean, in terms of juice, so it's almost like a fruit punch drink. It just has. It definitely has a kick. Like I think they're like 14%.

And yeah, they'll definitely fuck you up if you drink the whole thing in like 20 minutes, but I've never bought one. All right. Remember when we told her about the Margarita Topo Chicos? Because those are your favourite, right? The margaritas or whatever. Yeah. And was it her or her husband that told us she passed out on a raft in the pool? That's right. Wait a little hard on those margaritas. Yeah.

Easy on the Beatboxes and Topo Chicos. That's right. (800) 553-8233 seven. If you wanna leave a voicemail. Yes. So, a few weeks ago, Flex, I was talking about Beatboxes and, like, would we ever do wine, cocktails, blah blah blah. I have an update. Yeah. You said you wanted to talk about this. I had some beatboxes. Some beatboxes. Well, not full ones. I was so here's what happened. I was walking through total wine, getting some champagne for New Year's, and they have a little demo

station where they used to back in the day, like, sample beers all the time. Show up, sample beers. I haven't seen beer there in forever. The lady standing there, I kind of look over and she goes, hey, you want to try some? Beatboxes. And I just was like, no thanks, I'm good. I just kept going and I hit the beer aisle and I went, hold on. I think I should try, like, I need to try it for the show because we talk so much shit about it and we've they've come up a lot lately. I was like, I need to go back. How do I how do I make this right? And so I thought.

You said beatboxing. You need to enunciate better. I thought you said meat boxes. Which also. Well. So I, uh, after I was disappointed in the beer aisle, I went back over and I said, you know what? That was very close minded of me. I will try a beatbox. You did not say that 100% did. And she goes, yeah, let's do it. And so she goes, if you're having these. I said, I've never had one. And I've heard they're very sweet

and I'm not a huge sweet drink fan. I'll just warn you. But I'm game. And she goes, okay, well, I'm gonna start you off with this one. And I don't know what flavor it was. And I went, if they don't get any better than this, we can stop here. And she goes, that's my yeah. And she goes, that's my least favorite flavor of all time. Because if you ask me, I think it tastes like cough medicine. And in my opinion, they only get better. I said it absolutely tastes like cough medicine. I would never even take this for free beyond this little shot

you've given me. And she goes, yeah, she goes, I'm the same way. I can't stand that one, but I have to pour it for people. I was like, all right, I appreciate your honesty. We'll continue. And she went down the line. I honestly don't remember the flavors. I just googled, like the beatbox flavors. I only remember one of them, which was the last one. They have a mystic grape, a blueberry lemonade, a watermelon lemonade, a lemon squeeze, an orange blast, cherry limeade, a blue Razz. I don't know which one I had first. It might have been the fruit punch. I honestly don't remember. Like the second one I think was

green. I don't remember the only one. Only one I remember was the last one and that was sweet heat. Cinnamon. You. Yeah. It's like a fireball shot. Fireball shot. Thank you. Yeah, it tasted like fireball, but didn't have as much alcohol in it, so it's really pointless. I didn't like any of them. They were all fucking trash. The first one was the absolute worst of all four. But I could not stand any of them. I would never pay for them if I was at a concert. And you said to me, hey Greg,

would you like to go buy your own beer or drink this free beatbox? I would go buy my own beer. They're not worth taking for free was so bad. God, this free beatbox. Greg, what are you gonna do? Greg? Yeah, yeah. They didn't get any better after the first one. Or not. At least not much. So, uh, I tried it. Here we are. I'm better for it. But boy, will I not be partaking in beatbox. Yeah, I've only ever seen him. Zero interest in ever trying them. Well, I would say you should have

negative interest now. Yeah. I appreciate your, your your research and the co signage here. Really, really took one for the team. Yeah we we all appreciate that. Yeah sorry Vanessa and hi Vanessa. But those are awful. Hello, Vanessa. Hello. You talking beatboxes like, let's stay in, like, the RTD cocktail range. So I didn't have this, but I just found out about this through some guys at work. You know, you always talk about buzz balls. Deb and Brian love the buzz balls. Deb loves her buzz balls.

I never knew that. They used to have buzz balls that were like punch bowls. Mhm. Like, they were like basketball size shaped. Oh they still do. Oh they still do. Oh yeah. There's one at my local grocery store right now in the clearance section 50% off. See every time we walk by I'm like should we buy that for Deb. I didn't know that that was a thing. Giant and the guys at work were talking how they used to get those. So I thought it was a thing I didn't know. It was still a thing. Still a thing. That's messed up. Yeah. It's disgusting.

I gotta imagine it's no better than a beatbox. Jury's out on this one. Right? I've never had either. But you've had both. I've not had a buzz ball yet. Oh, never. No, never. I've buzz balled a la iced, uh, Deb on her birthday, but that was it. I just remembered, actually, uh, when we did Christmas at my parents house, uh, we got done wrapping gifts, and then my older brother and his girlfriend sat back down, and they each had a buzz ball.

Oh, like on purpose. Yeah. I said, oh, I said buzz. Balls. Really? And he said, don't judge us too late. You have been judged. Yeah. Thanks for, uh, rekindling that memory of mine. Yeah, I'm glad I could sear that in. Yeah. Something I tried to block out. Oh. Sounds awful. Yeah I have. I have no interest in baseball, especially after trying the beatbox. That's a that's a big no for me, dog. Well, I threatened it earlier.

I cannot remember the last time we did this. It's one of my favorite segments. Just because I like the song so much. It's time for a little boozin on a budget. Boozin on a budget. We can't buy pockets like, you know, this boozy budget beer on tap. It's hopeless. We all sober. Beer so fly can't buy you notice. Boozin hops and malts. Oh, my. Stay focused on the budget.

By the way, I wrote that and had somebody wrap it. And it's my favorite thing because he was so bad. That is amazing. Yeah. So good. But, hey, he's got the balls to do it. I don't. So here we are. I saw this at Costco and I've seen it for a year or two off and on. And I thought, you know what? We gotta do it on the show. I've talked about it with friends. I don't think I've really talked about the show, but it's time we pick one of these up. So for boozing on a budget, I am drinking Kirkland Signature Vintage Ale.

Okay, 12% out of 4100 ratings, it has a 3.88. Not bad. Not the worst. And they say brewed for Costco stores by Deschutes Brewery. All right. Yeah. Using dark chocolate malt, milled oats and Dutch cocoa before being aged nine months in oak barrels previously used to produce Kentucky bourbon. These are all words that are fine. Just like Bourbon County Ale.

Yeah, just, you know, it's like Deschutes by Deschutes. Yeah, it's like Deschutes. Uh, not Black Butte. I can't remember the name of their big barrel aged one. Anniversary, I guess. Anyways. The schnoz, it's already not a great start. Okay. So it's got, like, the classic bourbon y, chocolatey, stout y smells. Yeah, but it also has a huge hit of banana. Ooh.

And a little bit of nail polish remover. That's not good. No, neither is the banana. And when I say banana, I mean like runts, not like real banana. Yeah, that excites me. Oh, it gets me so soft. Um. The nail polish remover really turns me off. Nothing like a little paint stripper to get you going. Well, give me a paint stripper, and I might get going. All right, here we go. I'm gonna torture myself. I think. I'm excited.

Everyone's on the edge of their seat. It's 12%. It's not a 12% face. Oh, um. Here's the the nicest thing I can say about it. It tastes exactly how it smells. I was hoping you were gonna say it was 50% off. No, it was only eight bucks and eight bucks for a giant bomber of, uh. What did I say? 12% barrel aged beer. That's booze on a budget right there. You're not gonna find any Firestone's for that kind of price.

I got proper glassware, and I noticed, uh, this is a hot runtz chocolate bomb. A little in a bad way. All around. That's, uh. Try it again. Is that ethanol in there, or is that, uh. Um. Yeah, some E85, I think. Oh, yeah. I'm. I'm good. All right. $8 drain four. Yeah, I think so. We gonna ever be able to financially

recover from this? Oh, yeah. I wish I would have saved some of my last beer. You were. The funny thing about your last beer is you were holding it on so long, you were even drinking it a little bit into the show. A little bit, cause you didn't want to try this beer. Yeah. I'll see if the wife likes it. She won't, she won't. She's got better palate than you do. She really does. Especially with beer. She can fucking pick out those flavors like no one else. I hope she says. Why did you just feed me nail polish

remover? Nail polish remover. Has anybody else tried this? Like, if anybody listening has had this, please let me know your thoughts. I know a lot of people have, at least in years past, because I've heard people talking about it. But this is, um. I've heard Kirkland vodka is very good. I heard it's the same thing as goose. Yes, I've heard Kirkland's Tequila is pretty good. Oh, okay. So I would just assume people like their sparkling waters.

I drink all of their sparkling waters. Yeah. I figured anything Kirkland is just good. And this isn't even made by Kirkland. It's made by Deschutes, the respectable brewery. And this is just. Oof! This is a nail polish runt bomb. They gotta rethink their inks. I think so. Uh. All right, we'll quickly move on and talk a little news. Bosque brewing, New Mexico's largest craft brewery, has abruptly closed all of its taprooms after its chapter 11 bankruptcy case was dismissed.

So I could talk about all the dollars and millions and whatever that they owe. But basically they filed for chapter 11 and the judge was like, nah, we good homie? Wow. Yeah, I guess I never knew they could do that. I didn't know either, but I guess when you owe that much money. They said they didn't think they'd be able to ever, uh, pay off their debts or whatever, so they they denied it. Oh. So the brand will live on. They're going to contract brew and whatnot, but they're they're closing all their locations except for the restaurants. The restaurants are separate.

The food must be good. Hope so. Brewery openings and closings in 2025, the Brewers Association expects 2025 to be the second consecutive year in which brewery closings outpaced openings. Over the course of last year, the BA tracked 268 new brewery openings and 434 closings. While the BA notes that closures still represent just 4.4% of operating breweries, the trend signals a market that no longer absorbs new supply easily.

For independent brewers, this shift changes how success looks. Survival, profitability and local relevance now matter more than a scale or footprint expansion. Craft beer by the numbers in 2025. The BA by the numbers snapshot puts the size of the craft segment into context. 9778 small and independent breweries operated in the US. The industry supported more than 443,000 jobs nationwide, and craft beer generated an estimated

$72.5 billion in economic impact. That's a lot of billion. A lot, a lot of billions with a B. It's unfortunate, but the local relevance thing is absolutely true. Yeah. The ones that are thriving are are mainly these small, you know, local following type breweries. Right. The ones that have had like the cult since they opened and you know, and if you're not or if you're like a brewpub like where you got the food and the beer, at least

if you're putting out good food, people are still showing up. Right. They're going to show up and drink. Whatever you got because. Right. Hey, you're still putting out good food. Exactly. So. So you gotta have at least one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Growth is not, uh, not the magic cure all. No. And then that's been, uh, evident within I mean, even before this past year. Mhm. You know. Yeah that's true. Breweries trying to expand. Uh I mean look at Stone. Yeah. You know prime example right there. Locations you know from the West

coast to East Coast and got big for their britches. And now they're owned by Sapporo. Yep. Uh, or I think Ballast Point is a great example, the billion dollar buyout. And then they sold for pennies on the dollar and they closed the brewery recently. So. Yeah, just, uh, don't get too big for your britches if you got good shit. Just just keep it local. Yeah. Keep putting it out. Yep. Um, people using GLP one medications may become intoxicated more quickly during holiday drinking. Or any drinking for that matter.

Isn't that just science? I guess so. Uh, Ian Marber, author of the GLP one Handbook, told The Sun he has already seen strong reactions among clients. One client reported becoming absolutely hammered after just two glasses of mulled wine, an amount that previously had little effect. Marber explains that GLP one drugs slow digestion, causing alcohol to absorb faster and stay in the system longer. That increases the risk of still being over the legal driving limit the next morning.

He cited another client who believed she remained over the limit the day after drinking three small glasses of wine. Come on. He also warns that alcohol can worsen common GLP one side effects, including nausea and dizziness. For people in early treatment, especially those experiencing side effects, he recommends avoiding alcohol entirely. For those who choose to drink, Marber advises planning ahead. Eat protein and carbohydrates first. Have something sweet before bed and prioritize hydration the

rest of the next day. He notes that plenty of fluids and rest along with painkillers if needed, can help with next day symptoms. Well, isn't like the GLP ones that just curbs your appetite, though, right? I mean, that's the end result, but like it slows your digestion and it messes with the receptors in your brain for thinking how hungry you are and that sort of thing. But I mean, if you're not eating, you're obviously going to get intoxicated quicker. And yeah. That's the easy part. If you're eating less,

you're gonna get drunk quicker. But there's even more to it. Like the slower digestion keeps the alcohol in your system longer. That makes sense. And I've seen this firsthand with people I won't name names. There is a guy I'm thinking of who has been doing it for, I know, over a year, who knows how long in total. But last year we were at. I'm gonna keep this as vague as possible. We were at an event and he had had a few beverages. And this person, who is normally

quite the heavyweight when it comes to drinking, was hammered very quickly, like silly hammered. And it was like, who the fuck is this person? But he'd been or has still been doing the shots. And so it makes total sense. Mm. I know of nobody personally who who's done this. I've never seen anything firsthand. Yeah, I know multiple people. I can think of at least three. Okay. Yeah. Four. Whoa. Yeah.

You keep you thinking longer. Maybe you'll. Maybe you'll get five. Yeah. But, yeah. So, uh, I guess be careful and stuff. There were similar things when I started, like when I, I used to be much better in, like, actually keto. Now I'm just kind of low carb. When I was keto, keto, there's a huge thing where, like, without all those carbs in you, your, um, bac spikes higher than it would if you had carbs. So if you get pulled over, even though you may not be drunk like it reads drunker than you actually are. Interesting. Yeah. And my, my friend who's a lawyer

sent that to me and was like, hey, just be aware. Good to know. Thank you. So you got to get the keychain. Breathalyzer. That's right. I gotta find mine. It's gotta be somewhere. Ready for a trip to Florida? Always. Florida man tried to blame drunk driving on a medical condition that he couldn't pronounce. Just before 11:30 p.m. in Wildwood. Calls began flooding dispatch about a red Ford, red Ford that was swerving crossing lanes and nearly striking other vehicles. The vehicle was first spotted near County Road 25 and Griffin

Avenue before being seen heading south in northbound lanes. Talk about taking opposite direction a little too literally. Police quickly blocked traffic and stopped the car near Water Oak Boulevard behind the wheel. Officers found 44 year old Christopher Johnson, Xul whitest name ever. Super white. Who they say was he definitely eats tacos with ground beef and lettuce, who they say was showing signs of heavy impairment and could not stand on his own. They also noted open containers of alcohol in his car. Breath test showed Johnson blew

a 0.27. Pretty close. Uh, he blew twice. One I did one was a 245. There was a 236. Okay. That was fucking drunk. That's pretty hammered. Yeah. In fact, footage shows one officer asking Johnson to follow his finger with his eyes. Johnson's response. That's where I've always had a problem with my efd. It's hard to actually follow. When the officer asks what Efd meant, Johnson answered, hyper, hyper.

To which the officer replied calmly. One of those. All right. Um, we do believe you're impaired. Johnson admitted he had been drinking earlier. The officers later discovered he had prior DUI conviction Convictions and was driving on a suspended license. He was arrested on charges of DUI and driving with a suspended license. Released on $15,000 bond. Huh? Classy. Yeah, I'd say it's his class. He's Florida gets. Yeah, that sounds about right. Yeah, it's pretty on brand. Yeah. Uh, we'll end it with one more

Florida story. Oh, it's like Christmas. Yeah, it's a gift that keeps on giving. Florida man arrested after attacking Publix manager with Salvation Army donation. Kettle. Tripod. Oh, no. It is Christmas. Ho ho ho. Stephen Pavlik, 63, of Stuart, Florida, was arrested after the Tuesday incident at the Publix on Kanner Highway in Stuart. Charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and resisting

arrest without violence. I'd argue that there was violence. The sheriff's office posted to its Facebook page that Pavlik was a part time charity worker who rang bell rang the bell outside the Publix. The arrest report stated he had been volunteering there since Thanksgiving. According to the sheriff, the manager came outside to speak with the very intoxicated Pavlik when he became violent and attempted to impale the manager with a sharp end of the donation. Kettle tripod. Okay. The arrest report stated. Witnesses said he tried to spear the manager in the chest.

Pavlik fled the scene, but deputies were able to locate him at his house and take him into custody. I hope he lived like right next door. I hope so. Nothing like running from the cops at your own fucking house. Like 63 years old. Impaired. I'd say when you think you're running, you're probably walking. That's probably also true. They're probably right behind him. Just walking. Just like waiting for him to stop. Right. There he goes, guys. He just walked into his house. We got him. Yeah! Way to go, Florida. Keeping it.

Classy. That that is classy. Um, although, I feel like if there's one job you could show up drunk to. Is this a bell ringer? Yeah. I mean, as long as you can keep the violence out of it, just be as hammered as you. You just gotta stand there and ring a bell and say thanks. Yeah. People just come in and they put money in. That's it. Yeah. You just sit there and keep ringing that bell. It's annoying as shit, but. I was gonna say, if I had to hear that bell all day, I'd have to be hammered. Right. You would think the store manager was gonna stab him. Right? Right. You know, like, goddamn that fucking

bell. I hate those things so much. Yeah, I used to work, you know, in a store that had that. That's true, I bet. Yeah. Like a month and a half straight. Just. Oh, Bell. Bell. Bell. Do you ever get hammered and try and stab him with his own tripod? No, but I thought about it. Yeah. Should a lot of self-restraint. I'd be lying if I said I didn't. Yeah, you should have. No. No one would have blamed you. Let's be honest. All right, let's, uh, let's hit him. Let's hear a little Hillbilly

music and get out of here. Thing was, you know, 12%, though, I've only had like, four sips. You didn't drink it? Yeah, not at all. Not good. Uh, thanks for hanging out with us and all that good stuff. Follow us on the socials. @CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer. Send us a email, mail, a crappy. Com and 80553 beer. I think that's just about everything. Hope everyone's fucking getting down to the new Funkadelic song. And I also hope you're staying very well hydrated. And on that note.

Good night everybody. I do like that music good. I do so much more fun. That was my thought. It's fun. It's a little less like, hey, look at my balls.