Two IPAs Six Hours Ago

Today we've got drunk biologists. Another listener with beer troubles. The world of Pre-gaming and ten reasons why Coke Zero is the perfect hangover soda. Let's go. Bam bam bam bam bam bam bam. Welcome in everybody. Thank you for drinking. Thank you for joining. And I guarantee you're dancing to this music. It's great. Everybody loves it. I am Flex, uh, hosting another show today and always. I got my best friend with me.

We got beer, hug and Greg here. What's up buddy? Nothing much. How are we doing today? I'm all right. I'm feeling, I don't know, ready for a beer, I guess. Okay. I'm not as widely as I was before. Uh, I'm feeling a little more chill. I gotta run this thing like the captain now, right. Uh, but gracing us with her presence again, we got the salty sailor. Erica Erica. How are we? I'm great. I'm so excited to have you as captain. I feel very safe. I feel very, um, secure and just really ready to hang out with Greg and make fun of

you while you lead the show. Okay. Would you consider me the captain of the salty sailor ship? Um. Absolutely not. There's only one. Person. That's. That's overstepping. That is overstepping. I don't want to do that. No, there is only a bridge too far. Yes, but that's okay. I mean. But what I want to do, though, I want to give a shout out to our top listening city last week. Okay. Ashburn, Virginia. Ashburn. Hello, Virginia. And like we always say here on the Craft Beer Republic.

Thanks for not being. West, not West Virginia, which I was. I was thinking about that again the other day. Uh, just anytime somebody brings up Virginia, it just always irks me that, you know, it makes me think of West Virginia, but, uh, not their fault. No, no, no. But luckily they still haven't figured out podcasting yet. So that is accurate because, uh, you know, they're they're just weird. Uh, that's all you can say. Anytime I see a squirrel, I'm just like, they eat you in West Virginia.

Like, that's that's a real thing. It's a. Delicacy. Stay out of West Virginia if you are a squirrel. Yeah. But, uh, some banger news here. Mhm. I think you guys have another beer to drink. Yeah. Yeah. So why don't you fill everybody in on this one? Ooh! Let's go. Out of my beer. Out of my head. I Love My Beer.

Okay, friends, this is gonna be good because it's from Astoria. It's from Astoria, Oregon, which is my. This is where the salty sailor. Is that where you embarked on your maiden voyage? Yes. My maiden voyage came from Astoria, Oregon, which is this boy hazy Pale Ale with. Greg is also drinking that one as well. Uh, yeah. So this hazy Pale ale is 5.5 ABV. And, uh, let me tell you a little bit about it. It's bright citrus, tropical honeydew, and peach aromas.

They shine through the glowing haze, balanced by a smooth, pillowy malt body. A modern hot blend of Citra, Dolcetto and Idaho seven brings expressive fruit character with rounded aromatics without overwhelming bitterness. Pale malts, oats, and wheat create the golden haze and soft texture, giving this hazy pale Ale its refreshing, easy drinking profile and satisfying finish. That's it. That felt like the voiceover before you get on Star Tours. That was great. That's it. Never been on that. Oh, usually. Just a terrified when I'm about

to get on that one. That's the one that's in the dark, isn't it? Which one's star tours. Oh, and you just sit and like. That's the motion. Yeah. Oh yeah. That's a hoot. right? It's like the journey continued or something like that. Yeah. Anyways, uh, you know, I'm the schnoz. I really pick up the citrus notes that you discussed earlier. Okay. Real orangy. Maybe a little peach in there as well. Uh, hazy. Pale. Right color. Right. See through. Nice. Nice. Let's give it a little swig. Mhm. Oh, fluff.

Uh, real light on the tongue. I do get a little that honeydew, I think, on the Tongue-jobber. And maybe a little peach. Real light. Let's see. 5.5%. Yeah. Pretty well hidden. Uh, summer drinker, for sure. Definitely. If I had to make one complaint, I just. There is a pinch more maltiness than I expect out of a hazy, pale. But overall, really great beer. Yeah, I, um, I agree with some of the notes that you catch. I, for me, I catch a little more um,

yeastiness though on that part. Uh, I get a little bit of honeydew, but instead of maltiness, I get a little bit of a yeast character, but it is still a pretty easy drinking. Nice beer. So yeah. Bui beer. They have quite a story behind them. So Astoria is really kind of a hipster town for like, which is so odd thinking about it because it's on the mouth of the Columbia River, right where the Pacific Ocean meets. Nom nom nom. Yeah, it's exactly what it looks like. It's just blue with googly eyes.

And cookies float by. Um. Oh, wow. Was that a Cookie monster impression? I don't know, I'm just. I'm. Okay, so mouth does. Yeah. So it's. You know, a lot of. What that mouth do. I thought yours went like, or something like that or whatever you do. I don't know. Just a little this, a little that. Okay. It's all over the place. So there are a lot of fishermen and loggers in Astoria, but it is a hipster town, actually. And there's a lot of breweries. Fort George Brewing, Um Rogue

was there until it shut down. Breakside from Portland came down there and Bui um, so I mean, it has a great beer culture and. Bui right on the river, right. These like picture like pilings, you know, above the river. And it just, there was a window inside where you could look down and see lions would be like going underneath. Oh, you could see, um, on the floor and the production facility that was adjacent, I believe, collapsed into the river. And we talked about this. Yes, yes.

Was it on, I think it was on an episode. Yeah. I think one of the ones you were on and yeah, we, we talked about, I think you sent it to me. So we talked about it and I didn't realize this was the same brewery. Yeah. This is the same brewery. So they're still going strong, but they had to like relocate and all that. And so, um, yeah, this is from the Easter beer hunt that we had in. Um, so you may have seen a little dirt or grass on your beer that I sent you. I think I found it under a log. Um, someone put it in there when, uh, you know, fun little tradition, but I thought I'd kick one your way.

Well, I appreciate it. This is. Yeah, this is a nice little, uh, warm weather beer. Sure. Exactly. Heck, yeah. Well, before moving on, I forgot to do this. So everybody out there listening. Make sure you follow Erica @necknosh for all your pretzel necklace beer festival needs and follow us. Uh, because if you're listening, hopefully you already do @CraftBeerRepublic and send us some, uh, fun email beer horror story mail @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. That's it. That would be lovely. And more important news now, Greg did some research.

You guys. I did actual research. Beer research or wine research. Rare beer shouldn't be too, too rare around these parts, but it's rare, so. It can be. Uh, I had to go to San Francisco last week for work and while I was there. Well, a couple things. First, the Dodgers were in town. cool. And I have never been to Giants Stadium for a game. I've been there when it's empty. I'm a friend of a friend. Kind of. He was doing some work there. Show me around. But I'd never been there for a game. And I thought, you know what?

I'm gonna do it. I'm going for a game. And it was. They were there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. I was there Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Oh, dang. I mean, kismet. And so I was gonna go on Wednesday because Tuesday was a little rainy and it stopped raining. So I was like, you know, I'm going Tuesday and maybe I'll go Wednesday too. Yeah, yeah. So I went Tuesday and as soon as I purchased my ticket, it started pouring and not cool. So I waited about ten minutes and it stopped. So we were fine. I went to the game and then I think it was about the bottom of the sixth started pouring again.

Uh, lasted for I mean, it was, it was not very long. It was funny. I look over, I'm like, oh crap, it's starting to drizzle. And I look across the field. I'm sitting up top behind first base, by the way, glorious views of the entire bay. It was. Oh, man. I was gonna say, I've heard there's two stadiums to check out in the MLB. One is San Francisco and the other is Pittsburgh. Not I've not been to Pittsburgh, but I can tell you now that it was gorgeous views of everything I had looked up beforehand. I went on Reddit and it was like, where do I sit if I'm not going to

sit in like, you know, right behind home plate type of thing, right? And it was like, sit up top, first base, you'll see the entire bay. And boy, did that not disappoint. Um, but then like bottom of the six starts, it starts drizzling. I was like, oh no, it's gonna, it's gonna drizzle. You know, baseball players are notoriously weenies when it comes to rain. They're gonna call this, you know, and then I look across the field and across the field. I can see the rain coming like it's pouring in the outfield. And then all of a sudden, like, 30s later, it's pouring on us. I'm like, oh, no, everyone's running for cover. And, uh, they did not call the game.

They didn't even pull out the tarps. I was really surprised. It rained for probably three, four minutes and then it stopped and they just came out and they raked the infield and kept going. I was I was pleasantly surprised. Oh that's awesome. Yeah, I had a couple beers, had a couple dogs. I gotta admit, I had a banquet while I was there. And. Fine. No problems at all. Pretty okay. Beer. Pretty. Pretty solid. Okay. Beer. I went to a stand that had some ads for. They. They had hot dogs and they had ads for like, oh, we got this beer and this beer

and this Topo Chico, whatever. So I ordered one, and the guy looked at me like I was crazy. And he goes, yeah, we don't have that. And I said, well, what do you got besides. And right in front of me was the Coors Light. And I was like, well, what do you have besides Coors Light? He goes, we have banquet. I was like, banquet it is. Yeah, yeah. Banquet. And then later I had an IPA. But anyways, great stadium. The next day I was gonna go again to the game on Wednesday, except tickets had doubled because Shohei was pitching. Oh that's stupid.

And I was like, look, I'm not paying double for the same seats just to see Shohei pitch. If I was gonna do that, I'd do it at Dodger Stadium or whatever. Like, I'm just here for work and I want to catch a game and have some fun. So instead hopped on some cable cars, took it over to Fisherman's Wharf, and went to the humble sea taproom on the wharf. Oh heck. Yeah. It was phenomenal. They had a, you know, pretty good selection of humble sea beers. And it was in the little harbor there. Like I just had this view of the

bay and boats and the, the Bay bridge. And it was gorgeous. And, uh, I, I'll have to post some. I have a couple pictures. I think I'll post them on the socials. Um, it was, it was great. Uh, humble sea, obviously good beers and the view was not bad at all. And it wasn't crazy marked up. I thought, it's Fisherman's Wharf, it's gonna be $13 a beer. Easy. It was not. It's like eight, nine bucks a beer. That's not bad. So that's that's just what they do then, huh? Because we were in Santa Cruz not that long ago, and they had a pop up beer garden on the wharf. Mhm. And it was super cool. Yeah.

This is, um, permanent or at least permanent ish. It's a real building. It's a full building. Okay. Yeah. It's like. All that stuff. On the wharf or on the. Just along the water? No. On the wharf. Yeah. Like there's, um, there's all kinds of, you know, there's like restaurants and yeah, there's a little like kid zone and all this. Is a wharf. I hope I'm not the only person wondering what the fuck. Wharf. He's in Wisconsin. Oh, yeah. It's like a big dock. Oh, okay. A really long pier. Yeah, he can take a walk off of,

but. That's. Not the long one. We still just call those piers here. For anybody that's been to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, they'll know where this is because on one side is humble sea. On the other side is where all the sea lions hang out and, like, bark at people. Okay, so after I had a couple of beers, I went over, got some pictures of the sea lions and you could see like Ghirardelli Square. I got some, some really cool shots. But, um, yeah, it was a good time. So rad. Yeah. Oh, and then I took my first Lime scooter, which is not beer related.

Except I had a nice buzz going and I was. I was buzzy on my lime scooter. I had that thing at full blast as I got back to the cable car. They're kind of dangerous. They're surprisingly fast. I did not expect that. And I, of course, had no safety anything. I was like, this is great. We were downtown this past summer. Milwaukee. I don't know if other cities do it. They have a Bastille Days celebration in downtown Milwaukee, and the kids love French cuisine and baguettes and shit. So we went down there and there was this group of dudes.

I'm assuming they were already a little buzzy, buzzed. Sure, well-hydrated. And they were riding these scooters, and the one guy in the front thought he would try to do a bunny hop on the electric scooter. They are not lightweight. Yeah, so he couldn't get her off the ground, which means he fell. And then his two buddies behind him then ran over. Ran him over. Yeah. And it became almost like a fight amongst friends.

And we had to, you know, scurry away because we had the kids. Right. So yeah, it's just somebody wasn't too smart. And these things are, you know, they can get dangerous. Yeah. If you've never done it before, I highly recommend getting buzzed and driving sometimes. It was that good. It was fun. I'm definitely gonna do it again. And I have to do those kind of things when my wife's not around. I was gonna ask, would Shannon do it with you or. Would she support. That? Absolutely not. Have you tried a Waymo yet? I did, I did that my last trip to San Francisco. Yeah. Um, it was mostly great because, um,

no one's there, like, asking you weird questions or smelling weird or anything like that. The only smelly. Bad, bad, like sports team opinions. None of that. Stuff. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Fuck the Giants. The only thing that was weird was my drop off location was it was at work and behind. I don't know how to explain this well for a podcast, but behind work is this bridge that kind of goes up. Work is on, you know, ground level, sea level, if you will. And then there's a bridge behind it. Well, it dropped me off on the bridge and I had to find these stairs and walk down, which was not super far,

but it was also unexpected. So the next day I tried it again and I adjusted my drop off point. Same exact shit. So this time I was like, maybe it's just a thing. So I tried to put in my work for a pickup instead of a drop off, and once again, it was going to make me walk up to that bridge to get picked up. So I didn't do it this time. Last time I did it because I had this conference call I had to be on, so it was super convenient. I didn't have to apologize for being on a call. I was just like, hi, you know, I'm on the call and it's quiet in here, but it's cool. You get to like control the radio from your phone and, uh, you get,

you know, you can control the seats so you can have more legroom. Oh, yeah, that kind of stuff. We took some in Austin. I don't have enough to do it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. They feel safe. Because that's like, that's like the driverless car, right. Driverless car. Yeah. Yeah. No issues. I mean, they don't go in the freeway. Okay. Yeah. They feel safe. But like, um, in Austin, I, I was not a fan. My girlfriend kept wanting to call because as women too, you're like, you feel a little safer too, right? Oh sure. There's no person driving you, but we're in a group. So I was would have been fine with a regular driver. It embarrassed me so many times.

I was so over it. I'm like, can we stop calling Waymo's? Because it just doesn't do common sense, right? So right. We're pulling into this place. This giant party bus gets in front of us by this parking lot, and then the Waymo just stops and it an average driver would have like backed up and went the way we came in. And but it didn't. It just sat there. And then another car came in and it couldn't move because our stupid Waymo was stuck. Yeah. And here we're in the Waymo. And I just feel like so embarrassed that we're holding up

traffic because it doesn't know how to move around and I. Yeah. And it did stuff like that several times. I was over. It. I had that almost happen once. The first time I took it, it got up behind this delivery truck that had sort of illegally stopped in the middle of the street, and it kept getting closer. I think the Waymo was thinking like, I need to like push it on a little bit, but the truck had clearly stopped and was like, gonna empty out some shit, right? I was like, oh, no, we're gonna be. Someone's gonna get behind us. We're gonna be fucked. That's exactly what happened. And finally, after about 30s it,

like, did this little maneuver and just like, bloop, bloop, and, like, went around the truck and I was like, oh, thank God, thank God. I had Uber driver in Austin told us when we were there last year. He goes, yeah, the Waymo was here. They've actually had to change their programming to be more aggressive because the people hate them so much. They'll purposely trap them in. Oh, really? Maybe we were getting trapped in. Who knows? Oh gosh, I was. That's embarrassing. Yeah. It's funny. I'm not a. Fan. Anyways. Yeah, that sounds like a fun scooter. I would be uncomfortable not having control over. To be fair. You don't have control over an Uber

driver either. Well, no, but I. Can yell at them at least. Yeah, or they know what to do. I can give them a dirty look. I've never had an issue with an Uber driver. They're always, always pretty solid. Oh, I had one guy who was all kinds of cracked out on something. I've had I've had one that was, uh, real bad where he, like merges on the freeway at 30 miles an hour. Oh, God. That's terrifying. And then he, you know, accelerates and then lets off the gas and you feel the car slow, and then he accelerates and then back off, and it's just like you're chugging

along. Was his name Scott? Scott. He's like five, six years ago. Oh, no no no. But, uh, that was probably the worst I've had. Everything else has been pretty solid. Yeah. Well, good. And I, I'm always that guy that tries to talk to my Uber drivers. Oh. I'm not. Are you really? So I had one try to fall asleep multiple times when driving my entire family. And we just arrived from some international trip, so we were exhausted. But I had to like, I had my eyes glued on him and I had to like, keep

whacking his seat and stuff to keep him awake. The driver was trying. The driver was trying to fall asleep on us and I'm like, dude, you've got a family of four in here. Wake your ass up. I would have got out and called the new Uber. Yeah. I was like, hey, man, are you okay? Yeah, like we're going down the freeway. No, it was like all freeway. Don't fall asleep. That's true. Okay, so that's true anyways. Waymo's one, Uber zero. All right. Well, it's my favorite segment of the show. Oh! Ooh. What's that?

Poop beergate. Lives on. The gift that keeps on giving. This is just. It's the best. And the fact that all of these people have these stories to send in, it. Could not be. Makes my heart warm. Yeah, yeah. They feel empowered. This, uh, listener says, hey, guys, loving all these terrible beer stories. So I figured I'd contribute one that still messes with me. A few years ago, I was at a local taproom and ordered a West Coast IPA. Looked great, smelled normal. Everything seemed fine.

First sip. Something was off. Second sip. It hit me. It tasted exactly like Band-Aids. Mhm. Like I had just licked a fresh one straight out of the wrapper. I thought maybe I was crazy, so I took another sip. Huge mistake. And it somehow got worse. Super medicinal. Kind of plasticky with a bitter finish that just lingered forever. I asked my buddy to try it without telling him what I thought, and he immediately goes, why does this taste like a hospital?

At this point, I knew it wasn't just me. Didn't even try to power through it. I set it down and moved on with my life. Honestly shocked they were still serving it anyway. Now, every time someone says a beer has unique character, I get nervous. Love the show. Thanks for making me feel better about my bad decisions. Kevin from Phoenix. Oh, Kevin. I've I've had that. I feel so bad for you. I've had that in both beer and wine. Taste like hospitals. It's a Belgian yeast tends to

have that flavor. But then you tend to know it's like a Belgian. That's why I don't really like Belgians. To me, it's band aids. Like citizens will sometimes have that. Yeah, yeah. That phenolic flavor. No, thanks. Yeah. No, no phenols for me. Yeah. I just, I don't know if I've ever had that and I don't know. You lucky, lucky man. Maybe you're. Not immune. Maybe. Yeah. Maybe you don't pick up that flavor. Maybe I just love band aids. Just chewing on a box. You like licking things? I can just see you. Hey. Hey, Flex.

Can I get a piece of that gum? Oh, this ain't gum. It's adhesive. It is sticky, but it ain't gum. Oh, man. Well, let's see if my beer Oh, tastes like Band-Aids. Fingers crossed. Not sponsored by Johnson and Johnson. Your muscles are bigger than Growler's. 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, that was just enough time for me to remember. I forgot to look this up. Perfect. Today, Mister, a beer is drinking. MM. Young Blood beer co high horse on a soapbox. MM. Uh, because the can is kind of hard to read. I'm gonna use my old friend untapped here. A hazy double IPA hybrid fermented

with muscat grapes and dry hopped with Dolcezza and Citra leucomax. Interesting. Yeah, and. Lots of big words. Oh, so they usually have, like, a whole huge paragraph of description on the can. This one's pretty short. It says, who let that horse get up there on that soapbox he's baked out of his mind? All right. Okay. Uh, really fun can though. This is what drew me in. This is a horse. Oh, that is good. Can yellows.

It's almost like a unicorn or something. Yeah, it just looks really inviting. And then I saw the fermented with muscat grapes. And. Or is that how you say it? Muscat. Muscat? I have no idea. Muscat. You're in wine country. Uh, Erica is close to wine country. Uh, let's just go with Muscat. But I think those are those ginormous grapes that you get at Costco. They're like, the size of, like, clementines. Yeah, they're. They're the sweet grapes. Yeah. They're ginormous.

You eat them like apples. I was thinking a muscadine. Isn't that what they usually use for, like, certain ales? I don't know about Muscat. I don't know, I need to look this up. Continue. I don't know any weasels. Uh, this is, uh, 8.2% ABV. Must be super fresh. I got 33 check ins. That's it. 33. And a 3.88 cumulative on that. So we'll see how true that is. I got no, uh, tasting notes on this, which I usually love about Young

Blood is they're pretty spot on with their tasting notes. Uh, probably should have read the can before I bought it. So we'll, we'll blindly stick the nose buds in there. Oh. Trying to figure out what I'm getting here. It's, uh. Nope. Can't figure it out. It smells good, though. It's kind. Of. Kind of sweet. It's almost like stone fruity melon. Um, kind of delicious. Like candy. Like the lacing on this, by the way. You, like, can't even see through my glass. No.

At first I thought you had a white glass. And then I realized it was lacy. Yeah, that's pretty wild. The lacing is phenomenal. The head pretty small, but it stays on super hazy, a little bit darker than I usually enjoy. It kind of looks like dehydrated pee, but murky. Uh, doesn't taste like pee because I already had a sip, but, uh, we'll warm up the old Tongue-jobber. Here we go. Okay. And, uh, we'll see what I'm tasting here.

So while he's digging in, I'm gonna say that the Muscat is a large family of aromatic grapes known for their distinct floral. But anyways, blah, blah, blah wine. Greg. Okay. I didn't even think about that. Okay, see, that. Makes. Sense. I live near wine country, and that's. How's it going? Flex. America's not big on the Moscato wines. No. So it's going the spears. Delicious. Oh, good. There's like 1% low end bitterness to it. The mouthfeel is extremely pillowy.

I'm assuming this is maybe from the fermented grapes, but extremely dry on the finish. Like dries the tongue out insanely where you just gotta keep going in for another sip. The flavor though. I'm trying to figure this out. For the life of me, I can't figure this out. One second. Okay. Is it a specific fruit you're looking for band aids or. It's not band aid? Good. But it's sweet.

Maybe a little bit like herbaceousness to it, but there's. No. Like, one fruit. I keep thinking like, like melon, like melon sweetness to it. Like, kind of like candied. Okay. And it's it's rather delicious. Like, I wasn't extremely fond of this the second I poured it out. It was kind of bummed. And then the more it's warmed up, this has just become extremely

delectable. Uh, 388. I think I said on 33 check ins, I minimally rating this a four. Wow. It's probably a 4 to 5 on like the check in. This is wonderful. I just wish I knew what my brain was tasting here. I, I, I just wish I could put it out there. I just can't put my finger on it. Well, it's interesting that both our beer and yours had the dolcetto as a primary hop. And then Greg pulled out Honey

Honeydew. And when he said that, I was like, oh, I can definitely taste honeydew. You kind of said melon, maybe honeydew. I wonder if that's a characteristic that comes from. Google. I did not Google it. But yeah, it's it's, it's almost like, like a peach melony thing going on. Our, our beer has similar peach melony things going on. But the. This is delicious. I've never heard of the Dulce de hop. Yeah, yeah, I don't think I had either. That's what I thought was interesting. We both had Dulce De in our beers.

We totally planned it out because we're that professional. Yeah, that's what we do here at the Craft Beer Republic. Oh my gosh. You guys a thing. Don't see the hop. You know what it's profile is absolutely everything except melon thing about melon in here. Pineapple, coconut. The entire fruit aisle. Yeah, exactly. It's like peach. It does say. Anyways. It tastes like melon. No. No, I don't know. Maybe I'm getting peach confused with melon. I don't know. I don't know.

Regardless, we're not professionals anyway. Yeah. On to some news. All right. The Brewers Association's 2025 top 50. Sierra Nevada overtakes Boston beer at number two. That's big news for California. Here, start with number 100. Oh, okay. Uh, Yuengling. No, I'm just kidding. We do got the top ten here for you. Number ten or Erica? Well, not country, but Erica growing

up country. Deschutes brewery. Oh, yeah. That's a. Pretty legit. Where you grew up. Number nine. Monster brewing there. So great way to ruin beer. Yeah, that's not even gonna tell you any more. Number eight, Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, New York. Number seven, Gambrinus shiner, Texas. Not for long. Six. This guy is, uh, Athletic brewing company. Uh. Boom. I guess good for you guys for

making the list. I shouldn't count number five. Duval got USA. Not surprising. That's got. Firestone and. Yeah. Now Firestone. Yeah. And now Trumer. And now Stone. Yep. They just. Also Boulevard. And one more. Everything. Yeah. Not everything but everything. Number for beer brands new York, New York. Very descriptive. Number three Boston beer co Boston Massachusetts. I already gave it away. Number two Sierra Nevada Brewing Company. Yeah.

Chico, California. Chico. And, uh, number one, it wasn't a hundred guys. D.G. Yuengling and son incorporated, Pottsville, Pennsylvania. How's that light one they have? Uh, it's trash. You should tell your customers. Yeah, all of them. Absolute trash and regular Yingling. Pretty. Okay. Pretty. Okay. I'm just throwing it out there. Pretty. Not bad. Pre-gaming not just for college kids anymore. As further evidence of our

evolving drinking culture. Adults in their 30s and 40s are now having a drink or two at home to pregame before going out for the night. Millennials and Gen Xers are reliving their college days to save a few bucks before concerts, events, or even a regular Friday night. And who can blame them in these inflationary times? Are you a pre gamer? Absolutely. I. Well, it depends what it is, but. I'm usually not. Okay. Okay.

It depends on who's driving for me. Yeah. It depends on who's driving. And like if we're going to a concert and there's an establishment nearby that we can go drink beforehand. Okay. And maybe get a nice buzz going before we walk into the concert or game or whatever it is. Very much a pre gamer. So here's my issue with Pre-gaming. I just kind of lose control. Mhm. I can see that. Like I lose all willpower like because it's like the fun has now started. So now I just.

Keep it going. I just want to have fun and I want to keep having fun. Yeah. So then by the time I get to set event, I'm not pregamed anymore. I'm like Hall of Fame. I, you know what? I had that happen to me. I'm gonna say two years ago, maybe two and a half years ago, we went to a concert and we were staying near the concert. So we said, hey, and there's a brewery we liked nearby. So we're like, we're gonna go hit up the brewery. We'll have a couple beers, you know, get a nice buzz going before we go into the concert, where then we only have to buy a beer or two and,

uh, you know, it'll be great. So we did that. We had a few beers. It ended up being more than a couple. We had a few beers before we went to the concert, get in the concert, and beer selection was absolute trash and absolutely expensive. So we ended up drinking jack and diets all night. That'll do it. That did it. Because, uh, the beard or the beard. The bartender was real friendly with those pours And I don't remember getting back to the hotel that night. Oh, dang. Yeah. And I don't I don't like that is

too drunk for me. That's not fun because I want to I want to have fun and experience the concert and remember things. I don't want to be so hammered. I don't remember. Right. And I've been there. Yeah. And I woke up the next morning like, what the fuck happened? Right? And then like. Back hurt. And then you almost regret, you know, the night you're like, wow, I just wanted to have fun. And instead, I took it way too far. Not almost. I regretted drinking that much. I was like, this is I drink clearly, I drink too much. I wish either I had one less jack diet or had 1 or 2 less beers beforehand. Like I definitely,

definitely overdid it. That was not what I was looking to do. Yeah, been there multiple occasions. Yeah. And again, it's just, yeah, I start having fun and I just can't like, you know, I can't stop. It's just like one after the next and you drink too fast or you get, you know, you get those heavy pours, like you said, you had the friendly bartender and yeah, things don't end very well, so I actively try not to pre-game. Yeah. Especially when it's something that you're like, I want to remember this. Like you were saying like when

we went to, I can't remember which concert it was, but it was one of those all day ones. And I wanted to see Weezer because it was one of the people in the lineup that I hadn't seen. Right. Like Weezer and I legitimately don't remember Weezer of the night because yeah. We see, I hate that. Yeah. It was just it was too much, unfortunately. And so I missed out on that. It's like, that wasn't worth it. Unfortunately, I do very much remember my one Weezer concert. Not unfortunately. Unfortunately, not so good. Not because of Weezer.

No fault of their own. It was because the person I was with. But say it ain't so, Greg. Whoa whoa whoa. If I could have, I would have destroyed my sweater. Um, but this year, Weezer is coming back around this year, and I told the wife I was like, we must go to Weezer because I need to right the ship when it comes to my memory of being with people at Weezer. And so we are going to see them in October now, and I'm very excited for it. So they they seem like a band, too. That would just be great live. They're just a fun show.

Like they would be like, sound the exact same as they sound, you know, on an album or the radio or when. I saw them before, like they brought out some kids. I want to say choir choir is not the right word because it was band, not, it was instruments not singing. And like they had them play with them for a couple songs and that kind of thing. Um, but I do take some umbrage with this article. It says adults in their 30s and 40s are now having a drink or two to pregame. I'd argue that our generation invented Pre-gaming, and now we've just reached the age of 30s and 40s. And that's why I honestly.

The the way you bring it up like that, I think that's pretty accurate. Yeah, it's not that all of a sudden old people are pre-gaming, it's that the people who fucking invented pre-gaming have reached old. Yeah. Like, yeah, we always pre-gamed and we will always pregame. Yeah. You're right. That term belongs to us. Yeah. It's like saying. Fuck off Gen Z. Gen Z and Yeeting or something. Well, it did say Millennials and Gen Xers. That's us. Well, I'm a I'm a Gen Xer. I mean. Flex and I are millennials. Okay.

You're not a Gen Xer, are you? Yeah, I think I technically am. I was born in 80, so yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, I think that's the cutoff. Isn't like 82. Yeah, something like that. Yeah. Okay. All right. So pre-gaming is a thing. Okay. Just reminding ourselves how old we are. Yeah. Cut that part out. My my hip hurts, for sure. Speaking of that. I need to go. To sleep. Geritol. All right. Idaho fish and game biologist arrested after allegedly drunk driving on the job.

That's not good, Idaho. Yeah. Uh, I also can't believe they have breweries. Uh, anyway. Two. Uh, aren't you supposed to drink when you're fishing? According to police, just before noon on April 17th, an officer in Ashton, Idaho, was wrapping up a traffic stop when a woman approached and reported a gray Chevy pickup swerving badly on the highway 20. Uh, she said the truck had just pulled into a nearby grocery

store parking lot. The officer located the truck, which had an Idaho Fish and Game logo on it, and watched as the driver came out of the store, got back in and drove off. While following the vehicle, the officer observed it crossing the shoulder line multiple times and weaving between lanes. The driver then turned onto Fisherman's Drive, appropriately enough, damn it, and pulled into the jump off Canyon boat dock, where police say he parked in what was described as an evading manner.

He then turned around, drove back toward the highway and continued weaving and changing lanes without signaling. That really grinds my gears, changing lanes or turning without signaling. Just let me know when you're doing it right. The officer initiated a traffic stop and things immediately got a little weird. When asked to roll down his window, the driver instead opened the door. When questioned about it, he admitted the window worked fine. He just chose not to use it. Sure. The driver, identified as Martin, told the officer he only had two

IPA beers about six hours ago. He was then asked to perform field sobriety tests, which he failed. And then came the breathalyzer. Martin blew a 0.21102 IPAs. Huh. Nearly three times the legal limit. And he was arrested. So maybe he had two crawlers. Or maybe some two crawlers and IPA. IPAs. Or those. Maybe a couple of Dogfish Head won 20 IPAs like 19%.

Martin is clearly a not. Full of. Shit. Yeah, he's not an honest man. He's not honest Abe. Or can't handle his booze. I'm gonna go with yours. He popped some Vicodin in those IPAs. One Vicodin, two beers. That'll probably get you a point. 211. I mean, that sounds like a good night for me, but. Not for me, my friend. Yeah, you are one of a kind, Greg. Now I sound like a drug addict. He's really not everybody.

He's not just. He's very under control. Super. It's what we want to hear. What do you say we finish this up in Florida? Oh. Hello, Vanessa. Vanessa. No. Hi, Vanessa. Sorry. There we go. Okay. I was reading the story. Hey, girl. Hey. Somebody is sleeping. Uh, Florida. Driver. Arrested after allegedly flunking drug test while on probation for drunk driving. That's what we want in our Florida mayors.

That's another day in Florida. Teresa Heitman, the mayor of Naples, was arrested Monday night for violating her probation after testing positive for marijuana. We are aware of the situation involving Mayor Teresa Heitmann, a Naples spokesperson told The Post in a statement, adding that the city's vice mayor will step in during Heitmann's absence. Heitmann, who is, uh who has served as mayor since 2020, was first arrested on August 28th, 2024 for driving with a blood alcohol level more than twice

the legal limit after plowing into a neighbor's mailbox. Probably just had a couple IPAs. It happens. Yeah. Her probation reportedly barred alcohol use and required substance evaluations and random drug testing. Oof! Do you Flex especially? Do you remember this story? We talked about it when it happened, and as soon as I saw this, I remembered it. She was the one that she got pulled over and they were like, uh, Madam Mayor, we need you to do this. And then she's like, I am not the mayor tonight. Tonight I am just Teresa. My memory is so bad. Mine normally is too,

but as soon as I saw this, I was like, oh, we've talked about her before. She's a doozy. This sounds about right though. Pretty on brand, very Florida. Yeah. So maybe this night she wasn't the mayor either. You're right. She was just some random stuff. Yeah, she's just some random Teresa Heitman and I, you know, just, you know. What threw me off and why I got distracted when you were talking. I saw the name Heitman and Mayor and the friend that I know named Greg that lived not far from you.

Greg. Mom was the mayor of Ventura. Oh, and her last name was Heitman. Spelled just like that. Oh. How funny. Two n's? Yes. Has she recently moved to Florida? By the way, can I just say that the two ends in the last name? That blew my mind? Yeah, that's what I saw that I was like, that's so weird because I actually know another person that was a mayor and it was 2011 to 2016 and Ventura, California. And has she recently, within the last six years, moved to Naples? Well, no, but maybe they have a kid,

I don't know. No, they're a pretty stand up family, but that's pretty unusual. That's super weird. But it sounds like a thing for like, a Naples mayor to do. Because Naples is like a big like you go to retire, you go to Naples. It's like Fort Myers to Naples area. It's like. Oh, is. It retired folk? So, you know, she's probably just down there partying with everybody else. Cruise control. Yeah, yeah. The retirement. Homes. Yeah. Smoking some weed, drinking some IPAs. They don't have weed in Florida, do they? Not legally.

They're not cool enough for that. Yeah. They just got meth, I think. Yeah. That's that's a meth and grenades. And obviously Teresa smuggled some in. Yeah. You know, every time I go to Florida, too. I'm always looking for alligators. Oh, they're gonna say meth, right? Or like a manatee in a ditch somewhere, right? I mean, there's got to be one or the other. It happens every five minutes. Where the fuck did I see manatees? Was that a. You've seen one? Not in the wild. Just in a ditch. I think it was the Cincinnati Zoo.

We went to. That's so cool. And they get in manatees from Florida who are like, you know, accidents and shit. And then they rehabilitate them in the zoo, and then they send them back out into Florida in the wild when they're like, rehabilitated. Seems like it'd be more efficient if they had a manatee rehab center in Florida. You would think so. It's like, let's do. Some. Fundraising so we can transport them from one. Yeah, yeah.

They see these manatees. I'm not the one that started this program. I know, I know. Can I just throw that out there? So maybe somebody listening in Florida, maybe Vanessa, uh, you know, start a manatee rehabilitation, right? Zoo. Vanessa's got a pool. Yeah. Think about that. Transportation. Yeah. Just. Just do it in rehab. The manatees in Vanessa's pool. How do you think you transport manatees? Uh, not easily. Like. Yeah. You think you plane them like. Like you must. Pool in a plane and.

They're not fit in a smart car. I'll tell you that. Yeah. Or boat them both up. What river? Train them like one car is just all water. It seems reasonable. Don't worry about this one. It's full of manatees. My license plate cover used to say I love manatees because someone punked me. My neighbor was like, happy birthday! I hope you figure out what your birthday present is. And it took me Forever because I love manatees and I was just all about manatees at the time.

And, um, it's like weeks later I'm like, what the hell? It says, I love manatees on my life. This week. I. Kept it forever. Then Sterling would drive it to work and McDreamy and, um, at the hospital. I love manatees. That's good. Heck yeah. Special. At least everybody knows. We should get her a new one that says I transport manatees. Yeah. Just strapped to the hood of my car or something. Just wrap something giant in a tarp or something. I'm still trying to figure out.

Like it never crossed my mind before. Until you got over. There. Why don't they rehabilitate them? Just in Florida? Maybe there's some underground channel that they're just kind of like, yeah, you know, kind of like those tubes they used to put mail in Cincinnati. Yeah. Just like one of those pneumatic tubes. But for manatees. Yeah. It's like a very reasonable. Like a Mario pipe. Yeah. Tube. Oh, hey. Showed up. Went down the tube again. No no no no no no no no no no no

no no no no. Sorry. On that note I think we should. Yeah absolutely. Oh. All right. And uh everybody out there follow Erica @necknosh for all your pretzel necklace needs. Follow us at @CraftBeerRepublic. Send us a mail. Mail at @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. You got a drunk story? Are you drunk? You want to give us a call? Call 805 538. Beer. If you got a beer, horror story or a poop beer. My favorite segment on the show. Yeah.

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