Portugal: Where Beer is Cheaper Than Airport Water!

That'd be such a cool thing with a choir We need to hire a choir Oh wait, sorry Hi, hola! Everybody, hello, welcome Welcome in the Craft Beer Republic Where this is not a choir show I am Greg, being joined over there by He's gonna cut that out, you're gonna cut that out Yeah, we'll see, we'll see, 'cause I'm being joined by the voice of Fergie and Jesus over there That's flex I'm an angel, truly Yeah How's it going? You know, a little tired, but Yeah, you had a week Ten days

Yeah, eight, yeah, well, it really was ten, 'cause I had to go travel for work and then left from work trip to vacation trip Yeah, it's been a tough seven for you Yeah, let me tell you, I had 25 hours of traveling yesterday Ooh, wee! Yeah Traveling's rough, man, like 12 hours for one flight, then layovers and like, well, I'll talk about it in a second Yeah, just like one second Yeah, welcome everybody, @CraftBeerRepublic and @FlexMeABeer_s in between

Quite the show for you I'll give a quick recap of some of the beers abroad that I had and some drinking we did What about abroad? Yeah, just checking out abroad I think that was one of the first times my wife got, like, grossed out by me, 'cause she was early on in our dating, was like, "Oh yeah, I studied abroad for you" I was like, "Oh, I've studied abroad for many years," and she's like, "Uh-oh" Do you know where that term came from, calling women broads? No Uh, they're broad hips Oh, really?

Like men have broad shoulders Yeah Women are referred to as broads because of their broad hips They're birthing hips? Right, so, uh, I don't think that's offensive Is it offensive? I don't know I mean, I guess if you say fat hips, but I mean, women just by nature have broader hips because they produce children Right, and men have broader shoulders? Yeah, usually Evolution or something? Yeah, I don't know It's not meant to be sexist It's just fancy stuff, but who knows? Uh, anyways, we got shit to get through Uh, happy, happy, wow, excuse me, one of those kind of shows

Shout out to Fremont, California for being our top listening city of last week Right on What up, what up? It's like the third or fourth time Yeah, they're, they're really coming out You know, Psycho Bear, I think is up in that region somewhere So, uh, getting the, we'll call it the Psycho Bear bump What a caricature that guy is He is something Not convinced that he's a non-murderer I will cosign that Yeah, non-murderer John Uh, Andrew didn't murder me Psycho Bear? Undecided on that one

With a name like Psycho Bear Right, you kind of put it out there Kind of got to expect it Yeah, at least a little bit of murdering So anyways, uh, shout out to Fremont All right, let me get some, some liquid courage in my system here I'm sober as can be Speaking of non-murderers, this one comes from Andrew, aka Ventura County Beer on the 'gram

Thank you for hooking this one up This is Desert Flyer from Casa Agrio We know how much I just boner over Casa Agrio Who doesn't though? Yeah, so good Uh, this is 7% It's a hazy IPA, has a 394 and untapped And on the can they say, "Desert Flyer is your home away from home, your escape from reality, and your base camp to adventure Late kettle additions of Nelson are joined with loads of Enigma and Strata in the dry hops"

Loads, dropping loads Uh, "for heady fruit and wafting herb" All right, let's see Schnoz time Ooh, very tropical Uh, it's almost like a fruit punch-like smell Ooh, like fruit salad? Yeah, exactly Not gross like Hawaiian punch, like good fruit punch smell Digging the old tongue dropper Dig it, baby Dig it Jesus

Uh, the taste follows suit Some of that, uh, tropical fruit salad, if you will, followed by a nice bit of dank on the finish And a lot of hazies can miss that dank cleanup at the end And this one is coming in full force with plenty of cleanup So this is, uh, this is quite nice What did I say the ABV was? Seven percent Yes, this does not drink like it's seven percent The words are only going to get harder to pronounce from here

I feel that Yeah, so here we go Uh, all right So thanks again, Andrew Go, go follow Ventura County Beer, underscores in between Um, Algorithm We talked about it last couple of weeks Don't forget to go try the Flex Algorithm, craftbeerrepubliccom/algorithm We've had a few people It's a blast Yeah, I should have filled it out for this one, but I guess I didn't pay for the beer So it wouldn't really work out very well I get really high marks at that point Um, we had a few people test it So thanks to all of our beta testers as I'm calling them so far

Also, happy 40th birthday to Mel, Beer Girl Mel She had a birthday last week Yes, she did Yeah Lou does not look 40, by the way No, it doesn't look a day over 39 and a half Let me tell you Just staying in shape, right? That's a nice way to say it Is that the edited version of like looking hot as hell over there? Yeah, you know, it's like the super PG Right, exactly She posted a picture like, or a video or something on the gram on her birthday with her and a couple of the girls And I was like, here comes trouble

Just her and two friends going out I was like, good Lord Hope they wore their wedding rings that night Cause, uh, or don't, or don't depend on what you're into that night Hey, it's your birthday Yeah Yeah Partied up Who am I to judge? Who am I to judge? So anyways, happy birthday Now that we've thoroughly creeped over Mel, uh, happy, happy birthday there Uh, like I said, did some, some traveling We're in Portugal for eight ish days Quite some traveling That's not just like some traveling

That's that's a, it's a 12 hour flight for us It's like California traveling It's like around the world in 80 days or some shit No, it totally got me That's what it felt like Yeah The 12 hour flight, like leaving to come back home I had to wake up at six in the morning there, which is 10 PM my time And then, you know, flew to San Francisco from San Francisco to Burbank Burbank drove home Didn't get in the house till 10 PM or I guess like nine 30 So we'd traveling for like 24 and a half hour

By the time we went to bed, it was 25 hours And that's terrible Yeah Tired as fuck So see how this goes So let me ask, let me ask you a question Yeah, I know we told each other we're going to keep this one short today Sure I don't choose We never do Whenever we choose crying after he just heard that, right? He's already preparing a 10 minute voicemail when traveling What is better? Travel jobs to or traveling back home Oh, well, you know what? I think that has to do with which way on the earth you're going

Well, so like you were in an unfair spot, I guess, because you traveled eight hours ahead, right? California to Portugal Yes, there are eight hours ahead of us Right So that's quite the lag of time Yeah So traveling there, I'm sure it was much better than coming back But as far as like adjustments Yeah Let's just say like on an average trip, like is going better or is going home better? I guess going there, you know, you have a little excitement built up

You're on your way to vacation where when you're coming home, you're on your way to go back to work Right So there's that as far as the flights go, like coming home was easier for me for the most part on the way there I don't know what it was I wasn't like my legs and my back were in so much pain for sitting in one spot for 12 hours And that was brutal I don't my knees don't handle that very well I can't sit for very long without moving around But that part of it sucked Coming back wasn't as bad I don't know why But yeah

But yeah, it was easier to adjust to the time when we got there We just forced ourselves to stay up We landed at like, I think, noon their time So we left at 4 pm Our time landed at noon the next day, their time And we just no naps, no nothing like power through to a normal nighttime and went to bed And the next day we were we were fucking on their time It was great Jeez Yeah, that's something, man Just drink and ate our way through that fucking country If they have any alcohol left, that's what you should do there Yeah, that's how we plan most of our trips

Just anywhere we go It's like other breweries around wineries We were discussed with Steph last week how fancy I am with all my wine club members He's the fanciest Yeah So we had a ton of fucking wine on that trip Went out to the Duro Valley, where the only place you can grow port wine grapes Did some wine drinking, lots of port drinking They have this stuff called green wine or Verde wine over there, which just gross It's not as bad as it just means it's young The grapes are younger

So there's like less sugar and all that stuff OK, and the whites tend to like have a little effervescence, like a little bit of carbonation to them I generally hate white wine These were drinkable We did like an evening booze crew, not booze crews, wine crews, like so you can see the sunset and all this stuff And they just unlimited pours of green wine And you got a nice buzz That's awesome Yeah They just kept coming over You guys want to stop off your glass? I'm like, yeah, who would say no?

Was there a lot of English speaking over there? Oh, they're so much better than we are I mean, most European countries are like we're Neanderthals here Right A lot of them spoke two, three, four languages Wow Especially in the north We started in Porto and it's much closer to France They get a lot of French travelers there And we Exactly Merci They would come up and a lot of times like you go like maybe buy a bottle of water So they just look at you and they go, "Oh, rigato Thank you Merci" And they just wait for your reaction to see which language it was

Which language you speak Yeah And then they'd continue on in that language A lot of French A lot of people thought we were French We'd walk up, "Oh, bonjour" Like, "Hello" Not French I know a few words in Portuguese French or if Shannon looks French Well, Shannon's half Portuguese and looks like your typical Portuguese person Okay So once we got into Lisbon, everyone started talking to her in Portuguese until she'd open her mouth and only knew three words

She, you know, she understands a little bit, but speaking, she's not real confident with So, but they'd walk up to her, "Oh, hola" You know, "Bom dia, blablabla" You know, they started asking her like, "Where do you want to sit? How many people?" And she's like, "Ah, two people" "Oh, okay Stupid American, this way" But man, I had a fucking blast Like I could move there if work would allow it It was so good Really? It's that cool there? Especially Porto Yeah Lisbon, had a great time in Lisbon But Porto, I was telling someone today, I compare it to like LA and San Diego in terms

of like city size Like Los Angeles is ginormous city that I fucking can't stand Right Lisbon was, I could definitely stay in Lisbon, but it was a giant fuck off city Just things everywhere to do, so much walking around But Porto was a little bit smaller, still a big, I thought it was gonna be like a small city, the way people described it It's not It's still a big city It's kind of like San Diego where there's still plenty to do, some great nightlife People don't eat dinner It's like nine, 10 o'clock over there Real late It's my jam That's me

Spain is the same way Yeah We're like, you don't eat dinner to like nine or 10 o'clock and then you're not going out until like 11 o'clock midnight Yeah That was one of my favorite things about Spain I went to Spain as a single fella Yeah Just go out at like 10, start drinking, then, you know, be out till three in the morning No big deal Drink on the streets, all that stuff So Right Because their discos and stuff don't close till like four or five in the morning Yeah At least at one point I was even doing the math with the wife I was like, so if we're in Portugal, that's six hours ahead of flex

What day of the week could we get together and do the podcast? Jeez, man I don't even know why you're thinking about that Oh, it'd be amazing We'll see what happens though So, but the bad news is the hard part about doing a podcast in Portugal, the beer was not that great I had, there was one place that I went to, it was called Churve So Churvesharia, there's much more accent on that than I'm giving, but that's a brewery So Churvesha is a beer You know, they shh everything over there

So this place was called Churvesha or Churvesha I keep making it sound Spanish because that's what I know Caneel Baixa And it was a brewery hole in the wall in some alley in Lisbon And we heard about it from some other guy that we were at drinking beers And he was like, yeah, my buddy who's super into crafts says it's the best And you got to go So we made it really good beer, best beer we had the entire trip Well, that's nice Yeah, really good They had a great hazy, a great pale They made a sour that was more like a Berliner, you know, it's tart, but really, really good

And the entire time we're there, they had like a Foo Fighters playlist on So get out of here after my own heart So they knew you were coming Yeah They had it prepped for me We went twice and both times they were jamming out to Foo Fighters That's weird Yeah, I can't go wrong with it Yeah, I don't know if the brewery like roughly translates to like, I love Dave Grohl or some shit, but it was fantastic Probably does Dave Grohl's new illegitimate child I don't know Oh, man

But so it was great We went to a place called Ocho Lado It was fine It was pretty deep Probably like the next best beer or brewery we went to another place just called Brew, which is a beer bar they had It was funny They had a tap takeover from this brewery, local or Lisbon, I think, brewery called Musha and some of the beers hit and miss Some were like really good Some were kind of weird They also had a couple of American beers and they had something from Equilibrium Had a ton of American cans like that I think I sent you a picture of the phase three cans that they had

And they were really old And they were like $17 or 15 euro, which is like $17 a can per can I was like, those things have to fucking swim over or what? So needless to say, did not buy They had some Sierra Nevadas in cans Even those were like nine euro for one can of Sierra Nevada That's not going to happen, you guys But their big cheap beers over there were Superbok, which is like the most famous one It's fucking everywhere I mean, you go to just a regular cafe, Superbok

You can get beer and wine anywhere you go It's amazing And you were saying that Superbok was more of a brand, not necessarily Yeah, it's like their Budweiser because they had like a light version and a dark version and this and that It was OK To me, the taste was more on par with like a Budweiser They had another big brand that wasn't quite as big called Chagrish And that one was my jam in terms of, you know, that was like the banquet basically OK So that one I would definitely drink again Whenever it was between the two shitty beers, I'd always go with the Chagrish because much,

much Chagrish Chagrish So, but yeah, good times, good times abound Can't wait to hopefully go back someday soon ish Hell yeah And figure out next, you know, we didn't do the layover because I was like, oh, let's fly direct How much better that be? Don't waste time flying and sitting in airports I do a layover next time So my knees and my back and take a little break But wouldn't you just sit on the layover? You walk around the airport OK Yeah, I don't know We'll see Maybe I'm just a bitch and I tend to just sit on layovers

It's like, what else are you going to do? Yeah Yesterday, when we had a layover from San Francisco back to Burbank, we walked to the airport a couple of times We had plenty of time Then went and had dinner Oh, here's the best part Portugal, super fucking cheap compared to the United States, especially California Our most expensive meal was a hundred and like five euro And this was, I mean, we were amazing food, fucking stuffed, whole bottle of wine Tip everything like a hundred and five euro

Oh, our most expensive meal The trip was our layover meal in San Francisco Airport where we each got a salad and two drinks That was like a hundred and fifty dollars Airport Anything is dumb as fuck Yeah, I was like, fuck you, airport I can't believe my most expensive meal of vacation was in the San Francisco Airport It's just a fucking salad I was so pissed Oh, fuckers I heard of Manhattan and Mitchell International, which is a Milwaukee airport

Okay It was like 30 bucks It's probably the worst Manhattan you've ever had It wasn't terrible Oh, okay But I wish I could remember what fucking bourbon they used in it Or I did a whiskey Manhattan Bathtub No, they even asked me, they're like, oh, would you like this, this or this? And I was like, oh, I've never had one with that before And it was good And then I got the bill It was like 30, 32 bucks I was like, well, that's the last time I ever ordered a drink at an airport

Yeah We just had to be like, I had a Sierra Nevada He's a little thing And, you know, I think it was like 17 bucks is fucking Dodger Stadium pricing right there Not worth Yeah, not worth Yeah, man, it was rough So super solid beer Super solid Yeah, but not worth it Not for one Yeah, that's for sure So we did get we caught someone's attention at security coming back on the way First of all, Lisbon Airport, you had to show your passport four fucking times just to get

on a plane Like, do you want me to stay here? What is happening? It was weird They pulled the wife over to the side for like a random inspection And here's how Portuguese she looks She has a Portuguese maiden name and she's still using her passport with her maiden name on it And like when the Portuguese officials would see it and they look at her, they go I forget how you said, do you speak? Oh, follow Portuguese And, you know, do you speak Portuguese? Every time she's like, no

But they always thought she spoke So she got inspected like extra at the Lisbon Airport Then we landed in San Francisco We're going through customs and they took our thing And like other people were getting asked questions Hey, how long were you gone for? And did you buy anything? And, you know, did you get any hookers? Whatever And they just took our passports, put them in this little plastic lockbox And like, yeah, all right Go down to the next thing where they thoroughly inspected all of our bags And they just kept them for the time being

Yeah You don't get them back until they go through your bags It's so you don't skip it and they don't have to take the time to walk you down there because they're lazy fucking assholes Oh, man Yeah, it was ridiculous So then he's like going there He's like throwing dirty socks everywhere And I don't know if you ever watched the show to catch a smuggler We watched it a ton But it's just like you see on the show, like they go through your stuff Shit flies everywhere And then they go, all right, pack it up and get out of here It's like, I'm going to need a minute, motherfucker Right after they just ravage it Right This was very carefully packed

I still have one more leg of the trip to go And I'm not just going to jam it back in there and go So it's protecting wine bottles right now So go fuck yourself I'm just glad they didn't like stick a finger in my butt or anything Or are you bummed? You know, not a finger in butt show Not yet Could be So anyways, enough about me and my trail Any good drinking? We haven't talked in a couple weeks I've been gone Any good drinking?

Let me think here Man Any bad drinking? No bad drinking Today's my dad's birthday, as you record Happy birthday, Mr Flex Happy birthday, Mr Flex 67 years old he is Ripe old age I took him out to the local Eagle Park tonight because I love it so much And you know, Fry's Burger And he had some Oktoberfests

And I've had a couple of their Bowie spacesuit beers on the show Well, they recently released one with the Motueka And it's like, I would probably die for it It's definitely a to die for beer All right It's actually So I actually went there last week, Monday, to try it as it had released the Friday before And you know, when you put like you take one sip of beer and you say, holy shit

Yeah It's been a while And yeah, the beer tender served me that And I took a sip without even smelling it And I said, holy shit And it's probably been a good, I don't know, nine months, a year since I've had that reaction to a beer So that was really solid Really good beer there Really good French fries They were doing trivia tonight And I thought of you We did not play trivia

Oh, you should have We would have done OK with all the questions they were asking But, you know, maybe next time Yeah, that's cool Thanks Go with the pops every now and then Right And he even said, because he came out Obviously, and I have a younger brother and an older brother And they're both kind of what's the word? Not shady, flaky, flaky, flaky So they're definitely not shady, flaky

And they both ended up making it out tonight And it was such a great time And my dad even said, he goes, we need to do this like once a month Yeah, it's like get all of us dudes together And I was like, I honestly don't see why that can't be a thing So look out for the flex boys coming through Monday nights Who knows what we're going to roll into Yeah Look out for the flex sausage fest coming to a brewery near you You got to pay extra to see that

That's, well, that's good That's a nice time Yeah So that was my fun drinking nightly fun, I guess Yeah Dig it Yeah I've been busy, man I really haven't been making it out lately I get it Fucking busy Yeah, I understand Well, speaking of you and drinking, let's fucking ask some questions Or one really Ask it, baby 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? Tonight, what is the prospector drinking? Flex Higgins is drinking abomination brewing company, and they're out of North Haven, Connecticut, which is like the most Connecticut city name I've ever heard

You know, and I think I had a Christmas theme beer from these guys before Okay And it was similar to this IPA series, and it's called wandering into the fog And it's a double IPA But Greg, it is a double dry hopped with anchovy hops Have you ever heard of anchovy hops? Oh, I think we just talked about these Not like I think I had a beer that had them in them or something Because I remember being thoroughly disgusted, and I needed to research it before I drank

the beer Because that is a very off-putting name for a hop Right It'd be really bad if it tasted like fish Unless you like fish Yeah Oh, what's this? Then it's like gross So this, like I said, it is a double IPA, double dry hopped as well 86% ABV Super solid $1699 for this four pack Oh, talk about algorithm The Canhart, wicked simple

Kind of like Stephen King novel, like cover novel-esque You know, it's got the fog and big letters and kind of like a sunset theme I didn't put this in the algorithm Maybe I will share it on the next episode But Untapped has this at a collective $418 It's a relatively new beer There's only 317 check-ins And the description reads double India pale ale, double dry hopped with anchovy hops

So we will dive into this with the old schnaz So it is very dank on the schnaz A little bit of citrus coming through on there It's like fresh orange with like a touch of pine on there Oh, all right Then we'll dabble into the old tongue jabber The moment we've all been waiting for So for a double dry hop, double IPA, this is real light bodied, like shockingly

There's little to no carbonation on this The mouthfeel, you wouldn't expect It's great I enjoy it Doesn't fill up the mouth Doesn't fill up the tummy You know, it's like, it's not like drinking water, but it's very viscous, right? Not gonna feel bloated after a couple of those And the flavors on this It's a lot of hop resin comes through You get a little bit of that citrus It's a little sweeter on the palate than it is on the schnaz But this is really good

It was actually recommended to me by the guy who works at my local shop Oh I walked in there and I said, man, I need to get a couple of beers And he said, oh, have you ever had this? And he said, it's wandering into the fog And I said, I think I had one of those I said, is it? Forgot what I asked him what kind of beer it was And he said, oh no, it's got this anchovy hop So cheers to Rob for recommending this to me, a consumer This is a fantastic beer I'd probably rate it like a four out of five

All right You know, like if I was to rate this on Untappd Yeah, very respectable I would say the 418 is pretty close to being spot on I wouldn't rate it any higher I wouldn't rate it any lower Solid four, eight out of ten I would drink this beer again I'd drink it all night I'd probably throw up if I drink it all night But Well, it's 16 and change from four pack How do you go wrong there? Right $1699 for 86% That's Yeah That alone pays for itself

In fact, you're losing money if you don't buy it Exactly So, yeah, I don't know if you've ever had any abomination brewing I don't think so I know it's on the complete opposite end of the country Right And it doesn't sound super familiar You know, if I did, it came through table or something like that OK But yeah, I can't off the top of my head I don't I don't think so But yeah, I wish you could see I don't know if I can if you can see the logo Oh, I looked it up I've already I'm looking at the picture right now

It's like this little monster, one eyed monster Yeah What a setup Yeah It's a horny one eyed monster, too Wow Man, there we go again Put the monsters in the shape of an A and that's not dirty So Unless it's never mind Very nice All right There's a hole in the damn it Not an A show Bend over and it might be Before we get to the news or into trouble Michael, listener Michael called and left us a voicemail

Let's let's check in and see what he's up to Hello No one is available to take your call Please leave a message after the tone Good evening, Craft Beer Republic It is I, Michael Fairfax Sitting here Drunk off my ass and waiting for you at Naughty Pine for the third anniversary But you don't seem to be here So I'm drinking all of the anniversary beer, which you would probably enjoy Anyway, I'll I'll see you soon, man

Take care Bye You're right I probably would enjoy it Hers last year was fucking chef's kiss Delicious But the last I was I was out of town for the anniversary I feel bad for Brit I was telling her the last time we saw her I was like, look, I swear we're not avoiding your parties We're just always out every time she has an anniversary party I had a weekend Yeah, it's always like right around our anniversary So we're always out of town And so I'm glad he said he was drunk because he sounded very awkward Yeah, he was a little

So that made sense when he Yeah, yeah Yeah So thanks, Michael, for coming We seem to Michael's got his own chair He actually sounded like he was like drunk in Alaska and trying not to sound like that I am at Naughty Pine I have only had my allotted 36 ounces of beer Stupid Alaska, stupid fucking Alaska So it'll five five three beer That's number to call So he's got his own chair like he goes there that much like he's

Yeah, he goes so much that they they made him his own chair That is awesome Does it just have his name on it or what is it? Yeah, somebody actually like carved, you know, it's a barstool in the wood stool part Somebody carved it super nice and like has his has like a logo, not a logo, but like a design on it and stuff That is so awesome Yeah, it's really it's really quite nice So I think what it was is Britt told him if you went there for like the first 30 days of her being open, she'd give him his own seat

And so he did and she did And he went 30 days in a row Yeah, I mean, they're closed Mondays, but beyond besides the Mondays, yes And he has a little plaque in front of it at the bar, too This is like this is Michael's seat And if he comes in, he gets to kick people out of it That's awesome Yeah, pretty cool So all right A little bit of news before we get out of here Latitude Brewing has acquired Thorn Brewing This comes from San Diego Beer News Shout out to those guys Or Brandon, really, those guy

We're thrilled to bring Thorn Brewing into the budding craft coalition, says Ingram from Latitude 33 Their dedication to quality, creativity and community aligns with our values and compliments our strength They were both started around the same time in 2012 Thorn Street Brewery then became Thorn Brewing They opened up their own contract brewing side of things where Latitude 33 has been brewing for a few years now So it's really just a sort of a match made in heaven They're merging The weird part of the story is Ingram says Thorn Brewing facilities, as well as its tap

rooms in Barrio Logan and North Park, will continue to operate independently under their TSB to LLC company Furthermore, the company's beers, which figure to remain largely, if not entirely the same, will continue to be distributed throughout San Diego County by Classic Beverage and other Southern California locations by Scout Distribution What will be different are the added financial management and business resources being provided by Latitude So it's weird It's like, hey, we're acquiring you, but like you're still your own thing

Interesting Yeah So we'll see how that goes Like me some Thorn Brewing Latitude 33, not my favorite Sorry You do you boo Yeah Their big beer that like kind of launched them was this blood orange something And just boy, was that not my jam? It doesn't sound good Yeah Governor Newsom signs AB 2174 into law, giving California craft breweries better access to public and private events Hell yeah

We talked about this a couple of months ago Probably California's thriving craft beer industry just gained a major boost thanks to new legislation signed into law now officially a part of state law It'll allow craft breweries to sell their beer at public and private events through the use of a beer caterers permit This will significantly expand opportunities for small beer manufacturers across the state New law set to go into effect in January on January 1st is expected to provide a much needed growth opportunity for California's craft breweries So basically starting 2025 breweries holding a type one or type 23 license can apply for

a beer caterers permit, granting them the ability to sell their beer at various events held off of their licensed premises These events can range from street fairs and civic gatherings to private parties and sporting events anywhere in California approved by the Department of Alcohol and Beverage Control With this permit, craft breweries can sell up to 124 gallons of beer at each event for a maximum of 36 events per year Okay So basically, you know, beer festivals, you can like sell cans to somebody like, hey man,

I really am hammered and love your beer Can I buy a four pack? They can sell them four pack I like that Yeah, it's kind of cool So, um, Hurricane Helen has destroyed basically Is it Helen or Helene? That fucking hurricane that ripped through the east Stand back Yeah Stand back everybody Uh, has ripped through Asheville, North Carolina Several Asheville area breweries are closed due to devastating flooding in the aftermath of the hurricane The Western North Carolina locations of Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are temporary closed

with no date to reopen Asheville headquartered High Wire Brewing shared a photo of its main facility underwater at 1 PM The multi-state taproom operates for Asheville locations are closed until further notice Employees at other locations will be working on relief efforts Burial Beer hosted a free cookout for the community members at its south slope tap room last Sunday Highland Brewing, the first craft brewed over in Asheville is closed until further notice That's just a few of them I've seen a bunch of pictures on the gram and such Um, I've also seen in some industry discussion boards and groups that they're talking about

organizing a collab charity beer, kind of like resilience or black is beautiful So, um, as I, as those sort of things start to emerge or any sort of like brewery help type thing, I'll, I'll, I'll post on the socials or we'll talk about it on here Of course So, uh, some crazy shit going on over there Yeah That's wild, man Yeah Not 90 people dead I think they're tailing it up to so far I think there are 200 at this point Yeah The wife has a college friend who lives just outside of Asheville

In fact, the reason I went to Asheville a few years ago was for her wedding and, um, they were actually in California when it all hit and they tried to get back to Asheville and ultimately couldn't So they just had to rent a car and drive across the country to get back Holy shit Yeah So it was, it was crazy and their houses are okay But, um, her husband's business was like destroyed Her businesses are okay So it's, it's insane, but hopefully, hopefully things get a little better Uh, all right, let's, let's end it with this one

Woman accused of driving drunk on a runway at Riverside airport How do you get on an airport? How do you get on a fucking runway? Like, how do you get on that? Yeah Tulsa police arrested a woman who's accused of blocking the runway at Tulsa Riverside airport Sunday evening with her SUV Police say they got a call around 6:00 PM on Sunday of a drunk driver and a silver Nissan Pathfinder on the runway blocking a plane They arrested 50 year old Bonnie Campbell of Plano, Texas

They say she blew a point three, four, four times Okay That's a lot of fucking booze That's how you end up on a runway Okay That is Yeah What she Starsky and Hutch it over the fence or something Police say there were, there were 18 empty beer cans in the SUV and more empty beer cans in a trash bag There is a photo there is a trash bag in the car as well Yeah It's on the floor in front of the passenger seat

It's just got a bunch of beer cans And then all over the passenger seat or even more Oh man They say they took Campbell to a hospital for medical treatment I bet And then to the Tulsa County Jail Probably Yeah She's facing a DUI second offense charge Yikes Makes you wonder where she ended up on the first one Yeah Yeah If the runway was the second one, what was the first one? Oh, fucking subway line or some shit

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