Best IPAs Nobody's Heard Of

Today we'll check on Flex heart. Talk about more brewery buyouts, maybe check out a list and 11 beers to share with mom. Let's go. Welcome in everybody. It's the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined by Mr. Fry. Yay himself. That's Flex. What's up, big fella? Uh, big things over here, you know,

big, big things. Big exciting things. Yeah, all all the things. Yeah, all the things. Yeah. Sounds like. It. Feeling pretty good. I bet we'll check on that in just a second. Uh, follow us on the socials at Craft Beer Republic. Of course, @Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between and shout out to our top listening city of last week. And that was Austin, Texas. Oh, okay. Austin here. Everything's bigger down there. Yeah. Yeah. Deep in the heart of Austin. That's how it goes, right? Texas.

But yeah, sure. We'll learn. Yeah. Yeah. One of these days. Uh. All right. It's been a minute since we've hung out. We're doing a special recording night. Thank you for doing that for me. You're welcome. And the last time we hung out, we had to do a special recording night. Because you were afraid that we'd be recording on. I think game four of the World Series. That is exactly right. Game four came and went. We lost. Yeah, game five came around. Yeah. Game five came around. It was, uh, it was pretty big. I mean.

How much Kleenex did it take after the win? So, um, I use the Kleenex earlier in the day to get it out of the way. Yeah, sure. I didn't want to be distracted. I feel, uh, the amount of jitters and jitters. My heart just pumping out of my chest the nerves. I don't know how you do that year in and year out as a Dodgers fan. It's crazy. I'm not good for my health,

but very exciting. The Brewers won their first World Series. Uh, 57 years. And for me, it's been like 24. As a fan. Mhm. So that's still a pretty long time to watch a team and not see anything come of it. Right? I cried, and then I woke up Thursday morning and I watched some more interviews and highlights, and I cried again. And then I woke up Friday morning, and I still couldn't believe it. And I cried a little bit more. And then it wasn't until

Saturday that I finally, like, stopped crying. Wow. Because I couldn't, you know, I finally, like, set in like, we are the world champions. Yeah. And it was probably the most I told a buddy that texted me, it's the greatest days of my life. Number one, the birth of my kids. Number two, the day I married my wife. Number three, the day the Brewers won the World Series. Like my life is complete.

There's nothing else I want to do. Uh, before I die. I saw Brewers win a World Series, and I am actually complete. That's pretty good. Well, it was good knowing you. Yeah, well, you know, I'm not saying I'm gonna go. Oh, oh. If I did, you know, like. At least you saw it. Yeah. Pretty solid. Yeah. And what, like a couple years ago, the bucks won a championship. Yeah. And 2021. Yeah. I've witnessed two Packers Super Bowls in my lifetime, which was pretty cool. So this was just like the the

cherry on top. And it wasn't even the cherry on top. It was the whole fucking sundae. It really was. And. I actually was so nervous I didn't drink at all during game five. Oh, wow. Zero beers. Probably could have used it. Uh, yeah. I was trying really hard to get my mind off of it. I would get up and, like, take care of some dishes, and then I would come back to the game, and then I'd. Oh, hey, I have a load of laundry that needs to get folded. So then I would, you know, take my mind, go fold some laundry and oh,

putz around here and there. And it was really good. It was really big on doing that to like, take the nerves down a little bit. And then, you know, when you put four runs up on the board and it makes it a little easier. Was it game three when they won 10 to 1? That was game three. Yeah. Okay. I remember was when they lost it in 12 innings. Yeah that's right. I remember texting you game three like eighth inning there. I think at that point still ten nothing. And I was like, are they gonna enact the slaughter rule? And I, I almost texted you sooner.

I thought if I text him sooner, he's gonna be so pissed and he's gonna think I'm jinxing it and whatever. No no no no. I don't know. Okay? I was like, but eighth inning, like, there's no way they're gonna fuck this up now. That's why I texted you. And you're like, shh. I said. It's okay by now. I said, shh in the sense of like, hey, you know, we're up. We would be up three zero. Anything can still happen because growing up a Wisconsin sports fan, you expect disappointment. Sure. And the fact that nobody has

ever come back from a three zero deficit in a World Series, or even pushed it to a game six, all I kept thinking to myself was, we're gonna be that fucking team. Yeah. You know? So when Tampa Bay won game four, all I could think of was, oh, here they go now. Game five. The turnaround. And they'll push a game six. And you know and then you know they will be have our backs against the wall. And then it'll be a game seven. And you know one of the most dominant runs that would have been you know I just imagined flopping and God, it didn't.

And it was such a great feeling. Well, you sent this to me. I think this is a perfect clip from from your guy. What's his name? Sal. Sal Frelick. Yeah. This was this was pretty good. And we won this trophy for you guys. Seeing all you here is just unbelievable. It's one of the best days of my life. Seriously. And I'm going to. I'm going to have a beer for every single person here. I'm having 100,000 beers. Let's go. Let's go. It does not get any more

Milwaukee than that. Yeah, well, hey, look, if he's drinking Miller Lite, that's like seven regular beers. Yeah. I mean, and that's that's about all they were drinking on. Yeah, I saw Miller lights, parade. Buses, and. Yeah, I saw Miller lights. Uh, special edition can after the win and all that stuff. Yeah. You had to like reserve those. Yeah. They only did like 4400 of them. Yeah, it was weird. And I was like, uh, who's standing in line for Miller Lite? Um, I they were already reserved in like 15 minutes. Oh.

So like, it went rather quickly. Yeah. That's like the. Whole. The whole city is just going nuts over it, which I love. Sure. But some fun facts about like post World Series type stuff is the buses that they used for the parade they rented Chicago tour buses, put their brewer's wraps on the bus for the parade, and then once they were done with the parade, the buses had to go back down to Chicago and give tours with all the Brewer's World Series

wrapping still on the buses. So for that to happen in Chicago, you know, you'd think somebody planned that, you know, like in the front office, like. Somebody might. Have, this is going to be kind of like a backhand to Chicago, which I thought was great. That's funny. But then the players have been so, you know, like we're small market, right? Yeah. And they've been doing a lot of community stuff and appearances. And, uh, like four of the players went trick or treating, uh, Halloween night and like a little city village around here. How funny.

And they just, you know, knocking on random doors together. It just super cool shit going on. Nice. Well, I'm happy for you. That's awesome. I'm. I gotta put this out there. I don't know if I said it last week or the week before we were talking about it. You're a great friend. A real great friend. Real supportive friend. Supported me and the Brewers all the way through this. And you know, you would text me very nice things. And I just wanted to let you know. I really appreciate that. Uh, yeah. You're a wonderful friend. Hey.

Well, thanks. If you're gonna beat my Dodgers, you better beat them for a reason, right? You better go win it all. So. Yeah. Uh, but yeah, I thought I just thought that was, uh, amazing of you. Very, very, uh, a top shelf human being. And, uh, fuck you. To Suzanne, the lady I met at the bar who was talking about the Dodgers. I did text her to after the Brewers when I was like, hey, you know, go Brewers or whatever. That's hilarious. Yeah. Anyways. All right. Not a baseball show. It is not. It is not. But you are looking mighty thirsty.

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, I didn't want to do anything too heavy tonight. Just the jizz of Ryan Yelich. Who? Yelich. Oh, yeah. Christian. Yeah.

Oh, why did I say Ryan? I don't know. that's weird, but. That is weird. I'll cut that out. What a stud. Uh, he's from my hometown. Is he really? Yeah, he's from, well, where I live now. Yeah. Oh, okay. I've seen him at restaurants. Damn. Here's a really nice guy. Yeah, I mean, I haven't talked to him, but just saw him interacting with people and stuff. Yeah. Just. Just. Just what I heard. Yeah. Uh, well, anyways, again, not not a baseball show. Nope. Went to my local shop today. As I was found out last night we were recording and I found some

Hop Butcher in single cans. Lord, Lord knows I love some single cans. And some Hop Butcher. It is. They're hyper pills. You know, I didn't want something heavy. I was like, I'm gonna grab a Pilsner. And, uh, this one pretty high rating for a Pilsner Greg. Oh, it's got a 2.5386. Oh, shit. Yeah, like it's up there. This description. I absolutely love it. Uh, it is an HBC. 1134 Hyper boost hopped American Pilsner. Oh yeah. 1134. Yeah!

That's what they're on now, I guess. All right. They've gone up a few numbers. Yeah. What was the last one? 586. Something like that. Yeah that was Krush. Yeah. It would have been cool if it was like double that, but it's not. Um, anyway, you know, not a lot of check ins. Only. 254 uh, like I always say, my shop gets in pretty new stuff. Yeah, it's not out there often and I do appreciate that of them. They do a great job just, uh, appealing to the, the craft freaks on the old nose buds on this guy. Kind of classic, uh, Pilsner scent,

a little hoppy undertones, little bready, nothing major. As you can see, the color of this beer it is see through. It is. Very clear. Very Pilsner. And I even have my pilsner glass. That's very proper glassware. Uh, I would drink for you. So, uh, without further ado, uh, we will see what this tastes like with the old Tongue-jobber. Um, I was looking it up in HPC 1134 alpha acids, around 10 to 13%. Beta acids, 3 to 4.5% rose pine,

lemon, and grapefruit descriptors. Good for pilsners, Italian pilsners. So the tasting notes on the can, which again, Hop Butcher is amazing. For this. It says delicate spice, pleasant floral and sophisticated citrus. I tell you what, that spice is there. I'm a big fan of that. Uh, we're gonna dive in and see if we can catch any of this fruit or floral. What do you what did you say? Lemon and, uh. Yeah, rose pine, lemon and grapefruit. Lemon and grapefruit. All right, let's, uh,

dig in one more time. Okay. Very subtle on the citrus. And it's like the citrus peel, right? Sure. So it's not actually the fruit itself. You get that faint aromatic. But if that aromatic was a flavor. You feel me? Mhm. Yeah. That kind of, uh, goes to the secondary notes. Herbal undertones, lime zest, a subtle cucumber or green fruit quality. Yeah, I get zero cucumber on this.

Yeah, cucumber is weird, but it sounds like you might be getting a little of that zest, a little of that light citrusy ness. Yeah, it's definitely what it tastes like. One more time, we're gonna dig in because this is very, very delicious. Very sciencey, very thorough. I do like to be thorough. With your beers and your women. Everything else. Checking the boxes, a little floral on the back end, a little, little bitterness. Not too bad. Okay. But boy, you just want to keep

taking sips on this crispy boy. Yeah, I feel like it does have a little bit more of a. Like a mid-range body than it does like a lighter body, more medium than light, but okay. Uh, yeah. All in all, it's super solid beer. Nice. Yeah. Good choice. I, I would, I got a single can I, I would do for big words. Yeah. If I got a four pack of this, that would be pretty psyched. How do you feel about the three. Would you say 385 the 38636. Yeah.

I'd say it's super solid 386 to a four. You know for we're talking Pilsner rating. Mhm. Absolutely. All right. Good. Uh, well, speaking of beers that you're drinking last week we talked about it was last week we talked about your heady topper adventures with Mr. Davis. Uh, yes, yes, yes. Mr. Davis listened to the show and gave us a call from a brewery. This guy will text me. Sometimes it'll be like noon. He's like, hey, I'm at such and such brewery. I'm like, I want this guy's life. Yeah. What does he do? Seriously? Uh.

All right, here is Davis. Hello. No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Hey, Greg and Flex, this is Mr. Davis. Long time listener, first time caller. I'm sitting here at Castle Island Brewing in September, and I just listened to the podcast this morning. I'm sitting here having a couple beers at 1:00 in the afternoon on a Wednesday. Um, just wanted to say it was fun meeting up with Flex last week. Glad I didn't murder him. Super nice guy. Flexy. I can see why you call him that.

Anyway, I'm not offended by your take on the heady topper. I don't really care for it myself. I used to think it was great. I just kind of like the solid West Coast beers these days. Like a rip comrade Cannonball Creek that's pounded down all that good stuff. You know West is best. I do have a theory about how you stop drinking it from the can. I think that probably when they first came out with it years ago. It was a little hazy looking and they knew it tasted good. So they were like, let's just go with it, but don't tell people to look at it.

I'm curious what you think about that. So maybe that's what they did. Anyways, one more thing. I am offended by how nice you both that I am. I'm not. That is not true at all. I'm kind of a fucking dick, so fuck you. Just go ask my wife. Anyway. Take care. Love the podcast and peace out. Well, fuck you too. Dad. He didn't mean that. He's a he's a real nice guy. Did he sound a little bit like he doesn't sound like this in person, but did he sound a little bit like Supertroopers Mac? Oh yeah, a little bit like Mac.

Had some Mac vibes going on. Yeah for sure. That was funny. And for some reason, every time he said the brewery name where he was, he like his phone cut out. He was at Comrade Brewing. At least I'm pretty sure that's what he was saying. I know that's. What it sounded. Like. Okay, good. To me. It sounded like a scratch out a little bit every time he said that. So yeah, that's an interesting theory on the heady topper, though. Yeah, because it was one of the OG or is one of the OG, you know, hazes. Sure. New England's I wouldn't even call it a hazy. I called it New England. Yeah. So it's like, hey, don't look at this. Just drink it. Right.

You know, don't judge a book by its cover type deal. Yeah. So don't pour it out of the can. It's not what we were going for. Who knows? Well, we did both, and, uh, I'm glad he was okay with my take on it. Yeah. You know, but I'm not surprised as he is such a nice guy. No he's not. He's a dick. Yeah, and you know what? So, you know, he did not murder me. We totally left this out here. Yeah. For the record, I did not murder him. You know what? Also, I just assumed you're not a murderer

because I've known you for so long. But you know what? You could be. Well, yeah, I just proved that I'm not. At least not for Davis. You have? You've met somebody from the Midwest. It's your own kin. Oh, okay. I see where you're going with that. Yeah. What if, what if, like, we met in person one of these days. I guess we'll just have to find out. Challenge accepted. Totally worth it. Uh, 8.553 beer 2337.

If you guys want to call in, leave us a voicemail or something. Yeah, look at Davis. Long time listener. First time caller. That's right. It's never too late. Never too late. Uh, Flex. How do you feel about a list? Oh, you know, I love lists. Yeah. Let's see how this one. They're the best. Let's see how this one angers you. It's the. It's. We're hitting the end of the year, so it's the best of lists are starting to drop. And. Oh, yeah. Absolute garbage. Uh, the 15 best IPAs of 2026. I like it in parentheses. So far it's like it's November,

motherfucker. You can just say of 2026. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. If one comes out in the next six weeks, we'll add it to 27. It'll be fine. Nobody's. Nobody's gonna care. Right. Exactly. Let's see if we've heard of any of these. Number 13, third moon Bruins. Sextuple. Dry hopped quad bone bone tree. No way. It's a 12% hazy quadruple IPA made with four kinds of Citra hops. Third moon bone tree. I just like the name. Oh, shit.

Yeah. Okay, here it is. Sextuple dry hopped quadruple bone tree. All right. Four. Two. Four. Two seven Untappd. All right. That's pretty big. Real cool. Cannot. Oh! All right, I'll stop talking shit, then. Uh, number 12 fight ins with Eggers axe made with New England's, uh, Eggers hops. All right. I think they would have eggs. You would think so. Uh, number 11. Satan to the masses from Brewhouse

Brewing and Troon Brewing. The brewery says it uses the most oats it's ever used in an undisclosed hot bill. Number ten ambitious ales calico cut, a West Coast IPA. I've heard of none of these so far. Zero. Number nine Fidens Brewing wrath of the Reaper. I feel like this is just based off of like, names. I yeah, I feel like one dude was like, here's the 15 beers I've had this year. Yeah. That aren't. You know, nationally. Yeah. That aren't Sierra Nevada available. Yeah, yeah. Uh, this one's 11.84%.

Jesus Christ. It has a 4.64 and Untappd. Ooh. Uh, number eight Mizoram's demoralized 0028. We're gonna move on quickly. Number seven, South County Brewing's 15th anniversary, a double IPA brewed for, yes, its 15th anniversary. See, like that's crazy. How is that? You know? Yeah. 15th anniversary beer. That's gonna be so local, so small batch. Right it.

How does everybody get to try it to decide. This is a bullshit list. New Trail Brewing's Broken Amplitude, which is actually a mashup of two other beers I've had. Or two new trails. They're out of Pennsylvania, right? Yeah. Shred sent them to me for some reason. Yeah. He's trying to get in your pants. Yeah. Please don't send me beer. But, yeah, they were all right. Neutral. All right. Uh, number six. Badlands Brewing's, uh, crash 2026 version brewed with

three New Zealand hops. Number four, rich cat craft brewing rebound from Hong Kong. It won World's Best Session IPA at the 2026 World Beer Awards. Putting a session IPA on this list. Some might call that a pale ale. Number three on a double dry hopped double IPA from Trademark Brewing and Badlands Brewing. That's two for Badlands. This motherfucker must live in an area. And that's what I'm thinking. Yeah. Uh, number two, Odell Brewing.

Isn't Odell big? Didn't they get bought out? Maybe not. Odell Brewing's modern IPA, it's MD. How cool of you. That is super cool. Yeah. And number one. Oh, we're so excited. Verdant Brewing's Putty 2026 version. We're gonna have to hone in geographically. Yeah. I mean, this came from tasting table. I think Scott sent this to me. Um, yeah. Okay. Okay. So there we are. It happened.

I feel like we should just keep having lists until we actually know of a beer. Man. Unless they're gonna be this fucking bad. Yeah, that was brutal. That was brutal. Like, don't get me wrong. I'm sure some of those beers are really good. Sure. But when they're just so localized. Right. And not globally eyes, how do you how do you figure out what's actually the best. And it'd be like if I gave you my top beers, be like, all right, made West.

Yeah. And I'd be like, oh, yeah. Enegren Brewing knotty pine. I have had some Black Hawk. That's true. That thanks to me or someone else. Thanks to you. Okay. I mean, my favorite beer in Black Hawk by far. Yeah. It's like if I just lay off all the local beers anyways. All right. There's that. Before we get to some news. Let me get into what I'm drinking over here. Call it the bullpen.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. So, as we alluded to earlier, sort of an off night for recording because I've got a crazy schedule coming up. Ran over to my favorite bottle shop. Trader Joe's. That is right. You know, I gotta be honest. Lately they've been a little disappointing. Tonight they were fucking on it. They had some great cans. This one caught my eye. I picked it up. No pun intended. Yeah. Because it's got. A giant. Eye. I think you caught that eye. That's true, I did.

It's got a big eye on the front. It's Mother earth brewing soul window. Hazy IPA 7.2%. 25 IBUs. A 388. Only 93 ratings. Ooh! It was canned on 10/13. Less than a month old. Suck on that, Total Wine. Trader Joe's has no problem having fresh beer in stock. The fuck is your problem? Sorry. Excuse for a garage sale of beer? Yeah, garage sale would be giving him a fucking upgrade. Um, anyways,

no fucking notes on Untappd or on the can other than the hops. Use Strata Strata CG Krush, Citra and Simcoe. Okay. This is part of their project X series, and they even give who the artist of the cannot is original artwork by virtual hands. Cool. Yeah, I like that. So, uh, you get to hear me struggle for this one. Real light nose. As you can see.

Not the haziest hazy, but definitely. Not super. See through. It looks a little light bodied. Yeah, a little lighter. Good color, but not very hazy. Real light nose getting like maybe some melon tropical coming in. We'll dig in on the nose or the nose buds. We'll dig in on the Tongue-jobber here. Please do. Much more flavor than aroma. Maybe my nose is broken. Uh, it is a lighter body, which I'm not upset about. It's a little surprising at 7.2 that it's such a light body, but it is very easy to drink, and.

I would say that makes it dangerous. It's a little dangerous at 7.2 is completely untraceable. I'm getting mad. I'm getting some some mango papaya flavors and some Melanie notes. It's really easy to drink if I had to complain. Uh, you know, no real lacing on here. I could use a little more carbonation. Just a pinch. Not a ton. A little more carb and maybe just a little more. A little zip. Yeah. And just a little more body to it.

But overall, the flavors are nice. And, um, look, I've had some problems with Mother Earth brewing. They've been a little hit or miss, but I would definitely drink this one again. I bought a single because, you know, Trader Joe's the best. Sure. I wouldn't mind drinking three more of these. Hell, yeah. Yeah, I'd, uh, I'd give it a solid, like three, nine, five. Damn. Hey, that's pretty solid. Yeah. What's Untappd have three. Eight, eight. I'm not far off. Yeah, I'd give it a three. Nine, five. Nobody's mad at that. Yeah, very very much. Drink this again. Uh, I'm looking up. I'm trying to find some tasting

notes on it. I wasn't far off. Notes of mango. Peach. Guava. Yeah, that's about where I was. All right. Good shit. Hell, yeah. It's a good show. And I would have a four pack and you would have a four pack. Yeah, that's a successful night. Yeah. Way to go, beer. Yeah. Way to taste good. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Good tasting. Shit. Uh. All right, little news before we get out of here. UK watchdog says beatbox packaging looks too much like juice boxes. I mean, I. Don't think so.

Let's see. Uh, AB inbev's beatbox. Beatbox has to change its packaging in the UK after a watchdog ruled the drinks could appeal to kids, the UK alcohol industry's self-regulating group, the Portman Group, looked at four flavors of beatbox highly colored cartons. A member of the public had complained about the bright, fun imagery and the juice box format. The panel's chair, Rachel Childs. I bet she's fun to party with. Warned that brands need to be careful

using the packaging that's more commonly used for soft drinks. Beatbox says it disagrees with the ruling, but it's worked with the Portman Group to change the packaging. Beatbox isn't the only one in trouble. In August, Buzz Balls broke the same UK code after it put a ten foot arcade style claw machine on London's South Bank. It held drink samples and prizes, including Le Bubu style dolls and cash buzz balls. Owner Sazerac said the arcade was meant for adults. Duh. Yeah, right. That would make sense.

The first thing that crossed my mind was how Buzz Balls is bought, bottled or contained. Mhm. Right. That's a fun package. It's a ball. Right. Exactly. Right. Would that not appeal to kids? I mean, if you really want to get stupid about it, beer cans look like soda cans. I mean. Yeah, it's all dumb. And for the record, I'm not a beatbox fan. I've never had one. Neither have I. Yeah, the only thing I've ever seen that's in a similar package in that, like, you know, that paper,

cardboard box with the cap, you know, it's got the cap on it, right? Is like water is like a protein shake. Oh, yeah. Okay. Coconut water. Yeah. But yeah, there's a bunch of protein shakes that are packaged like that. Okay. I've never once seen a child have a twist cap, you know, on a juice box. Yeah. Kids over there trying to bulk up with protein shakes. Yeah. Just that didn't make any sense to me. Zero resignation. Fucking Brits, man. What can I say? Sticks up their asses. That's right. Pull em out.

Um, speaking of buzz balls, Sazerac has purchased Full Sail Brewing and plans to stop making beer. One of Oregon's pioneer craft breweries has been sold, and its beer might be going away for good. Full Sail Brewing, founded in hood River, Oregon, back in 1987, has been acquired by Sazerac, the spirits giant behind fireball. But Buffalo Trace and Buzz Balls. Do like Buffalo Trace, though. Very good. I'll do me some Buffalo Trace. That's a great, uh, great cocktail. Bourbon. Oh, interesting.

I've never had it in a cocktail. I just drink it. Uh, drink it like, straight. Oh, yeah. It's fine straight, but it's one of those things where it's like, it's not a super expensive bourbon. So I don't mind putting it in some cocktails and makes a good drink. Okay. Yeah. Uh, but here's the interesting part. Sazerac apparently is not interested in getting into the craft beer business. It wants full sails production facilities to help expand its growing lineup of ready to drink cocktails. The deal includes full sails, equipment, production facilities and beer brands, but Sazerac has confirmed it doesn't plan to continue brewing or distributing

Full Sail beer in the long term. The brewery's longtime hood River brewpub has also closed, with reports that restaurant employees were laid off. Full sail helped establish Oregon's craft beer scene in nearly 40 years ago, with beers like Full Sail, Amber and Session Lager. Now, instead of making those beers, the facility could be producing canned cocktails. Another longtime craft brewery facing the reality of a changing alcohol industry. And I saw somebody from the production team posted, I believe it was on Instagram, that the plan

is basically to like fulfill their contracts in terms of distro. Okay. And then as soon as the contracts expire and not renew them, and once they're all done, they'll stop making beer. Weird. Yeah. It's like, why not make both? Yeah. You have the facility? Yeah. I can understand shutting down the taproom. Like, maybe you want to distro only type of business model because it's a brand that people know. You can get away with that, right? But to, to just be like, yeah, we don't want your fucking beer. Like why not? Why not buy a cheaper place with no.

Clearly it's not bad. Right? It's weird. I've never. I've only had a few full sales. I've never been in love with what I've had. But, you know, they've been around forever. They haven't closed up shop yet. So Anheuser-Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth will be exiting searching for a new North American leader. Huh? Huh? Looking for a gig? I tell you what. I'm really into the beechwood aging process. You know all about it. Yes, I do.

You know more than the tour guide does. Yes, I do. And they informed me that there are many hops in their beer. I know. I heard they recently decided to add more hops to it. And more wood. Yes. Plenty of more wood. Lots of beech wood. So much. Uh. His exit follows last year's CEO switches switches at Molson Coors and Boston Beer, as well as this year's moves at Constellation Brands and Diageo U.S. outposts. A lot of big beer, big alcohol,

CEO exits. We should apply just to see what happens. We should. These guys make so much money that like, even if we just had the job for a year, the severance package alone would be what we make for the rest of our lives. We had the job for three months. Yeah. Just get us past that. That 90 day like probation period. We're set for life. I'm in. Yeah, maybe. Oh. Oh. Hold on. We've all seen stepbrothers. Yeah.

We will be interviewing as a team. That's the only way we interview. I'm sorry. Is your name Pan? Hello, miss lady. Shut your mouth. Shut your mouth! Oh, man. I think I might apply now. That would be fun. I'm gonna have Chad make the most insanely inappropriate resume catered to this job. I'm gonna fucking apply.

I hope you get a call back. That would be so wild. Why didn't I think of this sooner? I don't know, because you just talked to me today. That's true. God, that's such a great idea. I'm gonna do it and report back. Somebody call me out if I forget. Can't wait. Oh, well, I'll remember as I edit the show. Yeah. I gotta do this. This is gonna be fucking fantastic. I'm so excited for this. I might throw your name in that in the ring, too. Okay, I'll make you a fake resume. Please do. I haven't read your bio off the

website and then turn it into a resume. It'll be great. All right, we'll end it on this one. So excited. Syracuse man driving drunk. Fell asleep at the wheel on I 81 in a work zone. Troopers arrived at the work zone in the southbound lane of I-81 between Hiawatha Boulevard and Clinton Street in Syracuse just after midnight after a safety coordinator. Sounds like a hall monitor, reported a 2018 Toyota Highlander stopped on the road. When the safety coordinator

approached the vehicle, they found the driver was asleep. Safety coordinator tried unsuccessfully for five minutes to wake him up. The driver finally woke up when his cell phone started ringing. What? The man then put his car into drive and drove away. Troopers stopped his vehicle a short distance down the road after failing sobriety tests, the man was brought to a state police barracks. Why can't we just say station? Yeah, that's. What is this, the army? Yeah. Wait. Breast samples showed he had a b, a C. Oh.

I'm gonna say something around like the two four range. That was exactly my thought. This guy is a lightweight. Point one. Oh. What? He's barely over. And he's asleep at the wheel. Yeah. The man, Christopher Jones 054, of Syracuse, was issued a, uh, issued tickets for driving while intoxicated. Like previous tickets he was issued or he was issued for this. I think it means they gave him tickets for this. Okay. Hopefully they gave him more than a fucking ticket. You would think so.

Like a, you know, maybe a DUI. Just a thought. Is that a ticket? I don't know. I don't know, maybe it's not a maybe it's a ticket until he goes to court and. Yeah. Does the court things. Yeah. Hey, uh, Intern Brian, how does that work? Let us know. Yeah. Please let us know. As two gentlemen who have never gotten a DUI. Right? Why would we know? Knock on wood. Yeah, well, keep going. Come on. You're smart about things. Well, I am, you know, back in the day. No, we were all. We were stupid back in the day. Yeah.

You know, pre Uber did some stupid shit. I would say between the age of 19 and 20. I don't even say 23. Did some real dumb shit. Yeah. I mean, I did stupid things in high school and all that stuff, but not like alcohol, stupid things, right? For the most. Part. Same here. I would say my alcohol stupid things probably started around 22. Okay. I was 22. 22 or 23.

I been with a girl long term. We lived together and because of that, I hadn't gone through like the party phase. Yep. When you're supposed to at 19, 20, 21. Yep. So my party phase really started at like 23. Oh. And then it continued. Yeah. Till I met my wife. You know, like for the next, like, you know, 5 or 6 years it was, you know, it was pretty much pre Uber. Not pretty much. It was pretty Uber. Definitely pre Uber. Like I think I've told this story on the show.

I remember one night at at uh Cinco de Mayo put down some margaritas, drove home thinking like I am a okay to be driving home and you know, ten minutes from the house, it fucking kicks in. I am not okay to be driving. And then that was when I was still working the early morning show. And by the time I woke up at 330 in the morning, still fucking shattered. Drove to work and sobered up. Mid-show. That was the first day I had a direct. I mean, so many of those types of stories. Yeah, we were just talking about, uh,

that the other day at work because, you know, we got some older kids that work for us now, you know, that are in that party stage. Right? And we have them calling in, you know, on Saturday morning, Sunday mornings. Calling in sick. Or calling out if that how you say it. I don't know. That's weird to me. Yeah. Uh, and and so we started reminiscing on stories how, you know, we, I used to party till 330 in the morning, drive to a buddy's house,

go to bed, wake up at five to get to work at six. Yeah. And it was just what you fucking did. Yeah. So many days I'd wake up and just either still be drunk or be sobering up, and you just try to shower it off and go to work. And then live the hangover at work, which. Yeah, which is always brutal, but the worst. But be a fucking adult. Yeah. I can only think of one time that I called in sick because of drinking, and that was when I was 14. Wow.

Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. It was the first time I ever drank. And I went hard, or at least hard for a 14 year old. Sure. And actually, that's not true. My mom would not let me call in sick. I ended up going to work, and I looked like ass. And they sent me home after, like, an hour. Okay. Yeah. So I don't think I've ever called in sick due to drinking. I did once, and I will never do it again. I had, uh, maybe I've told the story again. I tell countless stories.

I was 19 years old. I went to this party where I had with some ex coworkers because I was working for the grocery store now, and I used to work at Fedex, and I got invited to this party with these people at Fedex, and this chick's sister was there, and I ended up having a really good night with this chick sister. Nice. And, you know, drank a little too much, woke up the next morning and called in sick to work. And as I'm driving mid freeway

back home like the next day, like nine in the morning. Mhm. Daddy starts feeling in his tummy. Oh. Oh, no. And all I keep. I'm like stone focused now I'm like I have about six minutes till I'm home. Just breathe it down. Breathe it down. So sure as shit I'm cool enough to make it home. Park the car on the street. The second I opened the door and stand out of the car, I keel over and just start puking everywhere.

The second I'm done, I stand back up from being bent over and my dad is standing by his car staring at me, and he just gives me the. He just gives me the shake of the head because he knew I was supposed to be at work, and that was all it took for me to have. I never wanted to see that look on my dad's face ever again. First and last. Yeah. What? What a feeling of disappointment and just letting down my father. That's insane.

Have you ever been so drunk that you don't feel the throw up coming? Nope. That happened one time. It surprised me. It was New Year's Eve. We'd gone out, we'd drank a bunch, and we'd gone back to my buddy's house. I was newly dating my now wife. We'd been together for like, four months, and it was at my buddy's house with his wife and a couple of their friends, all females. We're drinking more. We're doing shots, which I hate. Shots are the worst. The worst.

Should have known I was gonna throw up just by the fact that we were doing shots. And we're sitting there playing cards against humanity. And out of nowhere, I just threw up all over the place. I had no idea it was coming. Threw up all over these cards. Drip all over there like coffee table. The humanity. You're right. Run to the bathroom. Throw up more. It's all over my shirt. It was the grossest thing ever. And she's still with you? I don't know why. That's crazy. Yeah, I got it on her. No,

I got it on one of the other girls. Oh, my God, I can't believe that. Same. And my buddy says he saw it coming. He's like, I saw your face turn. I was like, I didn't feel my face turn. Like I had no idea that was coming. I'm good at like, oops, I'm gonna go throw up now. Yep, yep. I'll be back in ten. You feel it in the old tum tum. And yeah. I'm the King of Bhutan rally. But that was. That came up out of nowhere. Never have I ever. Oh, surprise the shit out of me.

I always know what I'm gonna puke. I normally do. I look, I've puked many a times. I'm not, I'm not. Oh, I don't puke. No, I puke. Give me one shot. I'm done. My friend's nickname for me during my party years was puke McPherson. Because it didn't. It didn't matter what day or what we were doing. Yeah, it was gonna happen. People don't realize how much I puked. Like I remember being at bars. And people always want to do shots. I fucking hate shots. They make me puke. I would do shots with people and

I just walk in the bathroom, puke and walk right on back out. Interesting. Keep on drinking. I've only puked in a bar once. Oh. Many times. One time the stall was closed. That's why I've told that story before. I puked in the urinal. So did I. And then somebody walked in 30s later and was like, oh, man, what happened in here? And I was like, yeah, this guy couldn't handle his shit and just walked out. He's like, oh, it's fucking gross. I was like, yeah. What a fucking bitch.

That was the worst walking into the bathroom. And you know, it's about to come out, but all the stall doors are shut. So you're sitting there with your mouth just like zipped shut, trying to figure out what the fuck to do. I sound like a mummy. Yeah. It's just like, hands on your knees. Bend over and just, like, try to launch it. Oh, fuck! Oh! Damn it! Oh, the good old days. Yeah.

That feels like a great way to wrap this show up. Hell, yeah. Oh, fuck. We'll hit some music. We'll say hi to Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Sweet transition. Uh, follow us on the socials. @CraftBeerRepublic @Flex_me_a_beer underscore between 805538. Beer 2337. Mail at Craft Beer Republic dot com. I think that's everything. Uh, hey, send us some pukey stories or something. Yeah. You got a funny drunk story? Uh, yeah. Yeah. Share them with us.

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