The Jungle Juice Cruise

Today we have a big boozy fumble. Ballast point goes off the deep end. Gross beer, origin stories and 29 reasons bottled beer is best. Let's go. Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and joining me from his cozy little basement. That's Flex. What's up, big fella? Hey, we finally got rain today

for the first time in, uh, let's see, it's the 27th of July, so, like 27 days at least. Wow. I got rained on the other day and it was also like 95 degrees. Fucking monsoon shit. Lucky. Yeah, it was like it lasted for like four seconds. Not unlike myself. Today was the first, uh, measurable day of rain in July. So everybody's lawns have been brown for at least since 4th of July. Do you guys normally get a lot of July rain? Last year we did.

Oh, and then we got those, uh, such bad rain in August last year. It made like, national news for all the flooding and shit. Oh. So that was, uh, that was a thing last year. So we got a lot of rain last summer. Complete opposite this summer. Crazy. Yeah, we just had a lot of 90 degree weather. Yeah, that's me down here. Balls hundred degrees out right now, making. Me feel like I'm in California. Yeah. Welcome to the fucking sweatshop, everybody. Where the balls don't dry off.

Or balls. Yeah. Or the the boobs, whatever you got, whatever. Whatever. Swinging. It's sweaty. Uh, if you're still with us, follow us. @CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer underscores in between, uh, @CraftBeerRepublic dot com mail at @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. And maybe you get some poop gate stories or any of that kind of stuff. Those are my favorite. Yeah. 805538 beer. Um, apologies for any weird noises you may hear coming from my end. Um, I'm at a hotel and a the AC is quite noisy and then b a few minutes

right before we started I heard like children at the pool playing. You got a pool view room? I got a pool view. But I must admit I'm not like that close to it. So it just shows how shitty these walls are and I can't wait to try and sleep tonight. It's gonna be great. So, uh, anyways, apologies in advance to all of you listening out there. If it sounds like ass tonight. Um, and extra apologies to the listeners of Las Vegas who are our top listening city from last week. Yeah. Welcome, Vegas.

Yes, I've done a few sins there myself. Amen, brother. Amen. Amen. Anyways, speaking of sin, uh, let's do some drinking. Let's find out what Flex is sipping on over there. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers. Only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue, one Tongue-jobber. In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking?

Well, well, well. Here we go again. I. I've got friends in beer places. Um, big shout out to pilot Tom. Oh, he was very down on himself for the last beer that he shared my way. Oh, nice. Brewery or house brewing from the old total wine in North Carolina when he was out that way. North Cackalacky just wasn't,

you know, top notch. And he told me he would never shop at a total wine ever again. He said he's completely done with total wines. Smart man. And he was out in Virginia at some bottle room, taproom, bar type facility. Sounds fancy. And he sent me a text and he said, hey, man, have you ever had finest liquids? SIP of sunshine. And I said, well, as a matter of fact, their pilot, Tom, I have not. So he asked, uh,

if I wanted him to pick me up a can. And, uh, golly gee, I said, darn tootin right. I'd like to see that text string. Yeah, yeah, well that's okay, that's not exactly what I said, but, uh, I said, yeah, I'll take a can if he's willing to bring it home. And, uh, so he did. And this if you're ever on the beer, Graham, Instagram, whatever this gets posted around all the time. I think one time of year, Lawson sends a shit ton of shit out to influencers, and I've seen it probably 300 times on posts.

Never, ever, ever have I been able to have it in my hand and be able to drink it. So big shout out to Tom. Uh, this weighs in at 8% ABV. And, uh, on the old Untappd here, Greg, I've had 22 friends that have had this beer, allegedly. Okay. And they gave it a 4.22 collective. Okay. I might be one of those people. And globally, you have 214 000 chickens with a 429 cumulative rating.

So pretty high, pretty gnarly. Uh, they say our Lupulin laden India Pale Ale is packed with juicy tropical fruit character, bright floral aromas, and delectable layers of hop flavor. Pour mindfully, inhale deeply, and enjoy a tropical vacation in a glass. Okay. Yeah, I don't think they realize they put it in a can when they say that, but, uh, I'm just kidding. They already said pour mindfully so on the old nose buds here. First off, before we get to the nose buds,

pretty classic. IPA West coast. Yeah. Copper color. Copper. It's clear. See my hand through the glass? It's solid. A little bit ahead. Not, uh, too much, but. And when I poured it like. Dissipated as it was pouring. Like it was very nice. It wasn't foamy. And I enjoy that. I don't like having to fight for my foam to get down. So now we'll get to nose buds here. It's super duper faint. The aroma. Maybe it's floral.

I'm not picking out anything too tropically, so I'm gonna go with more of those floral notes like they said. Okay. Real faint on the aroma. So without further ado, we will dive in with the old Tongue-jobber and see what I may or may not have been missing. Here we. Go. Oh. And while you sip on that. I have found my check in of this beer. Which I will wait till hearing your thoughts. I have thoughts. Okay. Um, it, uh. How do I start this?

This is a good beer. I would say it's a really good beer. It's like, uh, you gotta look for it more as like, of the style it is. Right? So West Coast IPA is usually malty, super bitter. On the back end. You get that grapefruit, that, that floral, that pine, um, but everything like really lingers and it's usually pretty thick. So with this, it's a little bit thinner on the mouth. You don't really get that multi backbone at all. Oh good. And there's a super duper mild

lingering like a West Coast IPA. But like all in all, it's like a super clean beer. The flavors aren't shouting out by any means. So I'd say this is just like, it's like a really good West Coast IPA is it? Is it blowing my mind? Not by any means. And little freshness. Story on this. It was canned on June 10th of 2026. Okay. When Tom got it from this bottle shop taproom place he was at,

it was kept in the cooler and he took it, bought it from the cooler, kept it in his fridge at his hotel, packed it in his lunch box, which is a cooler. Okay. As he flew home and then fridged it to then cool it when he gave me. So the cold chain, that's what they call it was, was hardly broken. So this was kept pretty fresh. Pretty cold. Sounds like it. And, uh, so I feel like I'm

getting the most of what I could get from this beer, right. It was not altered by his transport. Right. Or, you know, mishandling on, you know, at any part before. We know that's before we know we got in the bottle shop. But that sure, sure reminds me of Non-Murderer John. He is very similar. Like whenever we meet up to exchange beers, I feel so inferior because he's like, here, let me get your beers. And he reaches into his trunk and he's got this nice ice chest with, you know, just probably dry ice for all I know, but all these nice ice packs.

And he goes, here's your ice cold beer that's been in my car for a few hours. And I'm like, oh, thanks so much. Here's this warm ass beer that's just been sitting in my backseat. I need to step up my game like, and I know it's not good for beer. It's not like I'm these guys. They take it pretty seriously, apparently. I know I need I need to be better about that. I've gotta have a cooler somewhere. My biggest problem is like my ice chest is in a weird like spot in the closet. I'm like, it's such a pain in the ass to get out. I won't be that bad. Tom tried to make the excuse that,

uh, he had a Costco trip before he went to the. When I met him at Eagle Park And he had some frozen foods in the cooler. And that's why he had the cooler. Right. You're like any food. I'm not buying it, Tom. Yeah, I didn't see any Hot Pockets. I bet you got that cooler in your trunk every day, just in case you're transporting beer. Yep. You know, he does. My kind of guy. So, yeah, another quick shout out to Tom. Thank you so much, Tom. Uh, glad I was able to try this beer. It is very good.

Much better than the heist brewing beer and, uh. And, uh, let me know when you're flying into Burbank. Okay. About that. Yeah. Let. Yeah. If you ever go to California, let. Greg meet up for a beverage. Yeah. All right. So, as promised, I found my untapped review. This is. Oh, yeah. It was so long ago that I had it. I actually checked it in untapped. And when Flex and I were talking before the show, we were. I was telling him what I remembered. I hadn't looked it up yet. I said, what I remember is, and Flex sort of compared it loosely to a Pliny. And I said, yeah, it's Pliny esque.

To me, what I remember is it's lighter than a Pliny, a little more well-rounded, a little less bitter, like a real solid sort of Westie IPA type of thing. Here's my my review. I gave it four stars. So clearly I'm a hype whore. And I said, lots of what you're looking for in a classic clean IPA hides the ABV real nice with lots of dank flavors. Yeah, I would say that's just, that's about true. Okay, that was May of 2019. As it warms up, the Dankness definitely comes out more,

I bet. Yeah. And, uh, I would say you're not a hype whore because you rated it lower than the cumulative. That's true. And I would say I would give it anywheres between the 3.9 to the 4.0. Okay. So right in that wheelhouse. Yeah. Would I rather have a Pliny? I think so. Oh, and see, I would not. That's probably because I can get Pliny. Oh and I, and I really enjoy the. I feel like the flavors of the hops come out of the Pliny more.

and I really enjoyed that. This, you know, very subtle and more florally than it is forward. Well, now we need to do science. We need to get a Pliny and a Lawson's. Yeah. Tom side by side. If you just head back out to the East coast and then fly all the way back out to the West Coast and hook me up. Yeah, that would be great. Come on, wheels up. Tom. Yeah, we know he's got his own plane. Duh. Oh, man. Well, uh, speaking of some hydration,

over the weekend, we did a little, uh, boat trip and not our typical boat trip. Instead, it was a like a it's a lake near my house, a small lake, you know, man made. There's houses on it. It's more for the people to be rich and live on it. Um, anyways, my boss has a boat that he rents a slip there. It's one of those like little electric boats. I don't, I don't think you're allowed to go more than like five miles an hour on that lake or, you know, ten or something like that. Like a pontoon boat. Yeah. You know, it's like an electric boat. It's, you know, it's not big,

but, you know, you can fit like ten people on it and. Okay. Yeah, we've done this a few times. First time this year, uh, brought some beverages out and, uh, some snackies and we just cruised around the lake for like 4 or 5 laps until we ran out of battery. I've never heard of an electric boat before. I'm gonna say. Oh, super common out here. Like in small lakes like that. Um, like Newport Harbor, which is a popular sort of touristy place. You go rent an electric boat and you can just go around the harbor.

You can't leave the harbor because I think it would be overtaken by waves in about 4.5 seconds. But okay, they're small. So but you know, we bring some drinks out, bring some beers out. And, uh, we started with champs because it was kind of, it was gonna be so hot. We started like 10 a.m. so we did, we did some mimosas. Yeah. That's the classiest shit I've ever heard. Yeah. We swapped over to beer and seltzers for some of the others. It was a good time. We, um, we did run out of battery as we were coming in. It was a little freaky. So what do you do then?

So I let my friend drive. She'd never driven the boat and I was like, yeah, you can drive. So she's like doing things and putzing around. And I'm not looking at the battery gauge because I'm like, how bad could it be? You know, when I was sitting there, it was mostly in the green. There's green, yellow, red. She's putzing around, does a couple laps. And, uh, it was about time to head back because we agreed to be back by a certain time. And as she's heading towards the dock, she goes, hey, you should probably switch. I don't know how to bring this thing up to the dock. No problem. So I get in the driver's seat and I

go to put the throttle down and just nothing. Zero. I was like, what the. So I look at the the meter and like when the throttle is up and not in gear, like it's it's almost green. It's like the top of the yellow, almost green. I'm like, what the hell? As soon as I put it into, you know, motion or whatever, put the throttle down it like drops all the way to zero. I was like, well, that's fucking weird and scary. And so I'm yelling at my wife. I'm like, hey, um, start finding those paddles. We, we may be getting a workout

in the last 20 minutes of this. And, uh, in the meantime, I'm gonna see if I can fix this. And there's a dam. It's small, but there's a dam. You certainly would not want to fall off. You'd probably hurt yourself or die. And we're floating towards it, and I'm like, fuck. So I found this little, like, breaker thing, and I flipped the breaker. Damn it. God damn. Do you have any damn bait? So I flipped the breaker, and then all of a sudden, like, I turned it back on, and then it starts working again, and I thought, we're in. We're just gonna fucking right

for the dock. If we hit it, we hit it, you know? Don't fuck around. No, no fucking around. So I did, and I told everybody, like, everybody sit down. I'm gonna full blast into the dock as much as possible. Is this may hit a little hard. And so like, you know, going towards the dock as we get close, I'm like, all right, now here's where I would normally pop it into reverse to slow us down and kind of turn into it nicely. I'm a real good docker of boats, and, uh, I bring the throttle up and I go to reverse it.

Nothing died again about that time we hit the dock. So do you have to paddle in reverse? No, no, we just. We literally just hit the dock. Oh. No kidding. Yeah. You know, like I said, those boats don't go super fast. But no, no damage was done. I was like, thank God we fucking made it. So we have a little charger there. So we just plugged it in and I was like, so do we tell the boss that it lost power? I think it's just a battery thing. We're gonna not talk about this one. I wouldn't talk about it.

I feel like there's more questions than answers at that point. So good times until the last few minutes. Yeah. What was the beer of choice on board? Oh, God. It was a multi-pack of Midwest. Oh, nice. Well, Midwest there was also like the champs and some, some seltzers and, I think that was it. Yeah. But yeah, nothing wrong with that. So you, you got to have your, uh, made West Pale ale. Yeah. Made West pale. The multi pack is the pale, the IPA, the hazy IPA and uh, I think it's a lot. Is it a blonde or a lager.

One of the, a light beer of sorts, I forget. So um, it's a nice little multi-pack so I'll get a little pale in there. I'll get a little hazy in there and you know it's a nice day after a couple mimosas. Well, that sounds like an awesome time. Yeah, I didn't, I didn't go on a boat, but, uh, we went to the Benson Boone concert that was in Milwaukee. Oh, yeah, I know you're you're sexy. Yeah. You're not completely familiar with him? Maybe other. No, we. I think we talked about it last time after the show, and I had to look him. Up. Yes. And you knew a song or something, but, um, the guy is a showman of showman's and maybe the best singer

in the entire world. Big words. Yeah. And, you know, my youngest daughter is really bougie, and I blame my mother in law for how bougie she is. Sure. So what do you do for a girl who you took to Nashville for a day trip on her birthday last year? You get her. Benson Boone concert tickets. And it was neat, though, because I got like it was my kid's first concert concert. Oh. That's cool. Because, like, we went to the Grand Ole Opry last year in Nashville,

which it's concert E, but it's not a full on, you know, like, experience. Okay. And especially because you don't know who's performing when you get the tickets, it's kind of like, oh, here's your ticket. To show up. Yeah. And then they put people on. And, uh, so the fact that my kids were able to go to see somebody that they actually have been wanting to see and love, it was like a real cool dad experience for me to hear my daughter in my right ear just

screaming out the song lyrics. Like. Singing like nobody's watching. And it was such a cool moment and experience. I was like, it was unreal. That's fun. That's awesome. Yeah. And the funniest part about it too, is that I woke up that morning and I was like, man, I really don't know how this show is going to be. Not really excited for it. And I really hope this doesn't suck. I was completely swayed once. Once we got there and he started performing. It was an amazing night and I got

to have myself a couple beers. I treated myself to a couple beers and, uh, yeah, it was a lovely evening. That's awesome. They don't stay up late very often, and by very often I mean like New Year's. Is. The only day they stay up late. And did you guys go to bed at, like, 930 last night? Uh. No, we stayed up till midnight, like two. Years. Ago. So. So stupid. Right. But so my kids usually go to bed at 9 00:19:38 00, and the opener didn't start until 8:00. Oh, shit. at 9 00:19:44 So he didn't go on till nine and he played till about 1040. 1045. Okay. at 9 00:19:50 So, yeah, they were getting a little tired, not restless, but, you know, at 9 00:19:54 just, uh, kind of done with it. But we, we taught them to sew my, at 9 00:19:59 you know, my wife and I, I met her when I was 21. She was 23. at 9 00:20:02 Most popular thing to do when you're done drinking, at 9 00:20:05 like going out, having a night, an event, what do you do? at 9 00:20:09 Snacks. You get snacks. Yeah. We taught our kids what fourth at 9 00:20:13 meal was. Now they're. They're, they're ten and 11 soon at 9 00:20:18 to be ten, 12, but ten and 11. So we had a 11 p.m. trip to at 9 00:20:23 McDonald's and we got a 20 piece nuggets and two large fries to share. at 9 00:20:28 And it was, it was again, just another cool, at 9 00:20:32 fun experience to just. Yeah. You know, be able to be like, at 9 00:20:36 hey, kids, this is totally okay. This is totally normal. Yeah. at 9 00:20:41 Like any other random night. Like if you're just doing. at 9 00:20:44 It's not okay, but because you're out and you just did something. at 9 00:20:47 Because you're drunk. Is totally okay. That's funny. at 9 00:20:51 One of them's gonna wake up some night at, like, 1030 and come at 9 00:20:54 over to you and wake you up. Dad, I could really go for some at 9 00:20:57 nuggies right about now. Remember that one night we. Had. at 9 00:21:01 20 piece nugget at 11? We should do that tonight. Yeah. at 9 00:21:05 And we had heartburn for three days straight. at 9 00:21:09 Yeah, that was not a good next day for me. at 9 00:21:11 I didn't get to bed till like 1230 and I had to wake up at at 9 00:21:14 five is brutal. Good times. Yeah, but worth it. at 9 00:21:18 It sounds like. Absolutely. I wouldn't trade it for the world. at 9 00:21:21 It's awesome. Very nice. Um, question for you. Yeah. at 9 00:21:25 What's up? Would you drink a beer brewed at 9 00:21:29 with bugs? Are they alive? Um. Probably not. Okay. But then. at 9 00:21:35 Yeah. Would I eat a bug? Not a big fan of eating them. at 9 00:21:39 Yeah, I. I don't think like. That's. Like. It's not for that one. No. at 9 00:21:43 I see people doing like cricket tacos and I'm fucking out. Yeah. at 9 00:21:46 It's so fucking weird. Yeah. Even like the chocolate covered at 9 00:21:50 stuff. No. I'm out. Like, I don't even like wafers. at 9 00:21:54 Like chocolate covered wafers, like Nutter Butters grosses me out. at 9 00:21:58 Really? Yeah. I don't, I just don't like it. at 9 00:22:00 Oh, I do, it's good stuff. Um, there's a brewery in your hood in at 9 00:22:05 Wisconsin called Topsy Turvy Brewery. Have you heard of it? at 9 00:22:08 Yeah, they are in Lake Geneva. Okay. And their brewery was like a fashion. at 9 00:22:16 It was like fashioned from an old church. Oh that's awesome. at 9 00:22:20 Yeah yeah yeah yeah. So I love old, old church, uh, at 9 00:22:23 architecture. Yeah. I looked it up because we went at 9 00:22:26 there a couple years ago and boy, you couldn't find us because they're at 9 00:22:32 like, Lake Geneva is like this real cutesy downtown, like very busy, at 9 00:22:37 very hip, very, Uh. Touristy area. And there wasn't a fucking at 9 00:22:46 parking spot anywhere. I was like, at 9 00:22:50 I drove past it and I was like, hey, man, this looks pretty cool, at 9 00:22:53 but, uh, I can't get in there because I can't park anywhere, so. at 9 00:22:57 I'm not gonna hike three miles for your bug beers. I have heard of them. at 9 00:23:01 Okay, well, Topsy Turvy Brewery decided to take advantage of one of at 9 00:23:05 those massive cicada swarms that happen every 17 years while everyone at 9 00:23:11 else was trying to avoid them. The brewers looked around and at 9 00:23:14 thought, you know what? This needs some beer. at 9 00:23:19 They collected the cicadas, dehydrated them, at 9 00:23:21 ground them into a powder, put the powder into a mesh bag, at 9 00:23:25 and steeped it in a brown ale like a giant tea bag. at 9 00:23:30 The beer was called magic Cicada Buzz. at 9 00:23:34 And believe it or not, people said it was actually pretty good. at 9 00:23:37 Light, slightly sweet and it sold out almost immediately. I feel like. at 9 00:23:43 You gotta be able to come up with a better name than, at 9 00:23:46 I guess. Like the buzz. Buzz. You know, they are there always. at 9 00:23:51 Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I don't know the fact that it's at 9 00:23:55 a brown ale grosses me out now. It's well documented that I am a at 9 00:24:01 big fan of brown ales. And if you have been listening at 9 00:24:05 since I've been on the show. Not a big fan of brown ales. Right. at 9 00:24:09 We, uh, we definitely differ there, but I'm I'm out on this one. at 9 00:24:14 I am I'm not drinking the cicada brown ale. So no. at 9 00:24:19 I wouldn't buy it if somebody was like, hey, try this. at 9 00:24:25 I'd try like, have a sip. Yeah. But I'm not gonna, at 9 00:24:28 I'm not gonna buy a four pack or a six pack or a pint or. at 9 00:24:32 I'll be honest, part of that's going to depend on how clear it is. at 9 00:24:35 I'm going to want to look at it and make sure it's not like at 9 00:24:38 cloudy or anything like that. I just, I feel like they grounded at 9 00:24:41 into a powder and that could. Yeah, it freaks me out. at 9 00:24:44 But like steep it like tea. Yeah. Still gross. And I'm sorry. at 9 00:24:49 Dehydrating cicadas. That sounds fucking sick. Yeah. at 9 00:24:54 Like like. Cicada jerky. Bit. Who's hungry? at 9 00:25:00 I just found it an untapped. And they only had seven ratings, so at 9 00:25:03 not enough to actually have a score. And the last check in was from 2024. at 9 00:25:09 Um, all the check ins, in fact, were from 2024. at 9 00:25:13 I feel like it's interesting. Nice brown. at 9 00:25:15 Someone says, uh, someone else said beer with periodic cicadas in it. at 9 00:25:20 Okay, like that's what you say after a one night stand. Interesting. at 9 00:25:28 And then he collected his boxers and snuck out of the room. at 9 00:25:31 Uh, yeah. That's weird. No, thanks. Uh, let us know what you guys think. at 9 00:25:36 Male. mail.com or something like that, at 9 00:25:38 or eight, five, five, three, eight beers. Even better. at 9 00:25:40 Is it weird that I'll drink poop, coffee, beer? at 9 00:25:42 But I'm just like, I'm not in on the cicada brown ale. at 9 00:25:46 I just was having that thought. I was like, yeah, you want to at 9 00:25:49 shit out some coffee beans and make a coffee? Porter pour me up. at 9 00:25:53 Bartender. Sign me up. Yeah. Oh, you want to steep up some at 9 00:25:58 crushed cicadas? You fucking psycho. What are you, you freak? at 9 00:26:08 Like we're so fucking weird. Yeah, it's totally strange that at 9 00:26:10 we eat or drink the poop beer, but not the bug beer. at 9 00:26:13 God damn it. Fucking weirdos. Uh, if it made sense, at 9 00:26:17 it would make sense. But it doesn't make sense. True that. at 9 00:26:20 All right, if you don't mind, I'm gonna crack one open over here. at 9 00:26:23 Please do. at 9 00:26:29 He calls to the bullpen for beer. I am drinking a classic. at 9 00:26:38 And this was inspired. I was out with some people, uh, at 9 00:26:41 about two weeks ago, I think now, and we're looking at the beer at 9 00:26:44 list and the person I was with, one of the people I was with, at 9 00:26:46 not a beer drinker, but trying to enjoy it more. at 9 00:26:50 And so he's, um, you know, he's into the German stuff, at 9 00:26:54 like the lighter German stuff and just lighter beers in general. at 9 00:27:00 And he always trusts me. He's always like, hey, at 9 00:27:01 what do you what do you think I'd like on this menu? at 9 00:27:03 And I pointed out a few things, and one of them was the beer I'm at 9 00:27:07 drinking tonight. And for some reason he was he was at 9 00:27:11 afraid to try, I think, because I told him I was like, I haven't had at 9 00:27:13 that beer in probably a decade. So here's what I remember of it. at 9 00:27:16 I think that freaked him out. So anyways, that beer is North Coast at 9 00:27:21 Brewing Company Scrimshaw Pilsner. Ooh, and this is just one of the at 9 00:27:26 OG's. I looked. It up. What is on the can there? I can't uh. at 9 00:27:30 That that is, uh, an ivory that they've carved. at 9 00:27:33 Oh, okay. That's nice. That's what it Scrimshaw is. at 9 00:27:36 It's when you, the old timey sailors would carve sea scenes onto ivory. at 9 00:27:42 Apparently, it's called Scrimshaw. Okay. And. at 9 00:27:45 And so I told him, you know, here's what I remember of it, at 9 00:27:47 you know. I think you'll enjoy it. He ended up not ordering. at 9 00:27:51 I thought, you know, I want to have this on the show at 9 00:27:52 because it's easy to find. So I'll definitely have this on at 9 00:27:55 the show and give you my full review at that point. at 9 00:27:59 So here it is, Scrimshaw Pilsner from, uh, North Coast Brewing. at 9 00:28:04 It's 4.5%, 22 IBUs has a three, five, five and untapped with at 9 00:28:10 almost 123,000 ratings. And from the brewery, they say, at 9 00:28:16 named for the delicate engravings popularized by 19th 19th century at 9 00:28:21 seafarers. Easy for me to say. Scrimshaw is a fresh tasting pilsner at 9 00:28:26 brewed in the finest European tradition, using Munich malt and at 9 00:28:30 hallertau and tettnang hops, Scrimshaw has a subtle hop character, at 9 00:28:37 a crisp, clean palette and a dry finish on the nose buds. at 9 00:28:42 Um, survey says. One more for the good guys. at 9 00:28:48 Damn, that was good. Uh, it's a little crackery, at 9 00:28:51 a little biscuity. You know, it's like a slightly multi, at 9 00:28:55 multi pilsner smell. Okay. Digging the old Tongue-jobber here. at 9 00:29:01 Dig in. Daddy. Turn that Tongue-jobber into a at 9 00:29:04 shovel. Um, yeah. This is basically what I remember. at 9 00:29:09 It's. It's not the world's lightest at 9 00:29:10 pilsner, because you do get a little bit of that hop. at 9 00:29:14 Not a ton of hop, but 22 IBUs and a Pils is a little slightly high. at 9 00:29:19 Sure, it's not quite West Coast status, but a little higher than at 9 00:29:22 your average, I would say. It's a little hop character. at 9 00:29:25 It's definitely crisp, um, fairly clean. at 9 00:29:28 You do get a hint of dank on the finish. Just leaves it a little dry. at 9 00:29:31 It does drink extremely dry. So as soon as you have a sip, at 9 00:29:36 you got to have another sip. You gotta have another one. at 9 00:29:38 So, uh, really not a bad beer, uh, hot day type situation. at 9 00:29:42 I, I think it's a very safe beer for someone who maybe not into, you know, at 9 00:29:47 all the weird beers we drink. Sure. Let's say you're, at 9 00:29:50 you're domestic drinker would enjoy that. Yeah, exactly. at 9 00:29:54 It's, uh, an easy upgrade. Something that blows my mind. at 9 00:29:58 And maybe it's a price thing for people I don't know, but to just get at 9 00:30:03 a a craft pilsner over a domestic brewed, mass produced pilsner. Mhm. at 9 00:30:12 I mean, you're just gonna enjoy it that much more. You really are. Yeah. at 9 00:30:16 And I gotta say, uh, as you can see, it's a tallboy. at 9 00:30:19 That's the only way I can get it as a single at the store I was at. at 9 00:30:23 And, um, what does that mean? Uh, 19.2oz. at 9 00:30:27 And I think it was three bucks. Well, you can't go wrong with that? at 9 00:30:32 Yeah, not bad at all. 19.23 bucks somewhere in that. at 9 00:30:36 A little over a year and a half or three bucks. Yeah. at 9 00:30:39 You can't get that anywhere. Oh the receipts not itemized. at 9 00:30:43 All right. Can't even get that in my local VFW. at 9 00:30:46 There you go. So anyways, pretty pretty good. at 9 00:30:49 I, I actually remember the last time I had this beer. at 9 00:30:52 It was at my wife's best friend's wedding. And that was in 2017. at 9 00:30:58 And I remember that because it was the same weekend we moved into our at 9 00:31:02 current house. It was a busy weekend. So, um, but yeah, great. at 9 00:31:07 Uh, great beer, solid nothing, nothing flashy. at 9 00:31:11 Just it's been around for a long time. And there's a reason. at 9 00:31:14 Sometimes that's worth it. Exactly. So glad I have it. All right. at 9 00:31:20 Little news before we get out of here. at 9 00:31:21 Uh, ballast point, man, what a shit show over there. at 9 00:31:23 Their latest disaster is not in the brew house. at 9 00:31:27 Ballast Point Brewing is caught in an ownership battle that lawsuits at 9 00:31:30 say could push the brewery toward operational collapse. at 9 00:31:34 Co-Owner William. That's that's yeah, at 9 00:31:38 that's what it is. Yeah. Is accused of taking about at 9 00:31:41 $3 million in unauthorized loans using Ballast Point and related at 9 00:31:46 companies as collateral. The brewery says it never approved at 9 00:31:49 the loans, received none of the money, and has suffered at least at 9 00:31:52 $12 million in damages. Wow. Lenders have reportedly frozen at 9 00:31:56 accounts and intercepted distributor payments, at 9 00:31:59 threatening payroll, supplier payments and brewery operations. at 9 00:32:05 Denies the claims, saying he personally guaranteed the at 9 00:32:09 loans has repaid about 2 million of it and is being pressured at 9 00:32:13 into selling his majority stake. This fight follows Ballast Point, at 9 00:32:18 San Francisco's taproom closure and comes as the brewery promotes its new at 9 00:32:22 super lager as the official craft beer of the San Diego Padres super at 9 00:32:27 lager. Yeah, what a great name. Okay. The hearing is scheduled for at 9 00:32:33 August 14th. Some nice news in San Diego. at 9 00:32:37 Beer lost Abbey's monastery. Mark's grand opening. at 9 00:32:41 And this climate. It's nice to see a brewery at 9 00:32:42 opening instead of closing the lost Abbey's new. Yeah. at 9 00:32:46 The Lost Abbey's new monastery celebrates its grand opening. Uh. at 9 00:32:50 Just last week on Saturday, the Miramar Taproom is the at 9 00:32:53 brewery's fifth and soft launched. Last month, the brewery's 20th at 9 00:32:59 anniversary beer, Duck Duck Creek, will be on tap with 14 other draft at 9 00:33:04 offerings and some really awesome vintage bottles from the library, at 9 00:33:09 said founder Tommy Arthur. Yeah, and it's really cool because at 9 00:33:12 like at one point, lost Abbey. So Lost Abbey's original brewery at 9 00:33:15 was Stone's original brewery, tiny little spot before they found at 9 00:33:20 their Escondido brewery or built, not found and their, um, at 9 00:33:24 lost Abbey was there forever. A few years ago, at 9 00:33:26 they closed up shop and they just started contract brewing and, at 9 00:33:31 uh, opening satellite taprooms. And that seems to have worked at 9 00:33:34 really well for them. They went from the one location at at 9 00:33:37 the brewery to now five locations, and I think they're not at 9 00:33:40 contracting anymore. If I remember correctly, at 9 00:33:42 they're actually sharing space at Mother Earth. at 9 00:33:46 Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong about that. at 9 00:33:49 Uh, you have to think contract. Like if you stop your own brewing at 9 00:33:53 and just do contract brewing, you gotta probably be saving a at 9 00:33:56 lot of money, right? Because yeah, I mean, at 9 00:33:59 the other companies are providing the ingredients, right? at 9 00:34:03 I mean, you're paying for the ingredients. at 9 00:34:05 It's hard to I'd love to talk to your brewer about this because, at 9 00:34:08 you know, when you own the brewery, or at least, you know, at 9 00:34:11 at least the building, whatever you're responsible for at 9 00:34:13 the building, for the ingredients, for the overhead, at 9 00:34:16 for the insurance, for the water, you know, for everything. at 9 00:34:19 When you are contract brewing, you're not responsible for any of that. at 9 00:34:22 You tell them the recipe and then they make it and hopefully at 9 00:34:25 they do a good job. But I would imagine in order to cover at 9 00:34:28 their costs for all the things I just mentioned, they're going to charge. at 9 00:34:31 So your beer cost is going to be higher because they got to cover at 9 00:34:35 their overhead, right? But so yeah, I wonder at what point, at 9 00:34:40 you know, what volume of beer does it make sense to have your at 9 00:34:43 own spot versus contract brewing? Yeah. That's interesting. Yeah. at 9 00:34:47 Somebody with, uh, more economic knowledge hit us up, at 9 00:34:51 smarten us up. Uh, report. James, what's second offer to at 9 00:34:56 brew dog tops? £30 million. More than £30 million. at 9 00:35:00 That's the value of the second bid BrewDog co-founder James Watt at 9 00:35:05 made for the brewery he once ran, according to a report from the at 9 00:35:09 London London Times, which cited unnamed sources. at 9 00:35:13 What was willing to put £10 million in an earlier offer for BrewDog at 9 00:35:18 before Tilray acquired it in March. Tilray brands paid £41 million at 9 00:35:23 for the brand earlier this year and invested another 50 million at 9 00:35:27 to stabilize the brand. I had no idea he was trying to at 9 00:35:29 get the brewery and I think. I didn't. Either. Such an asshole. at 9 00:35:34 Yeah. What a what a douche. Yeah. I'll tell you what, though. at 9 00:35:37 It's a it's a really heavy story. Heavy. It's a lot of. Um. Uh. at 9 00:35:44 I got some dad jokes over here. That's why they keep me here. at 9 00:35:48 That's it. That's definitely it. We'll end it on this one. at 9 00:35:55 Tony Romo's latest bad call comes in Wisconsin. at 9 00:36:00 I almost sent you this, but I figured you would get it anyway, so I at 9 00:36:03 held off. All right, well, I did. I'm glad I found it. at 9 00:36:07 Uh, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and current CBS NFL analyst Tony at 9 00:36:11 Romo was arrested on suspicion of operating while intoxicated at 9 00:36:14 in Milwaukee. It was right here. Actually, it's pronounced Milwaukee. at 9 00:36:20 According to the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office, at 9 00:36:22 Romo was stopped Thursday night while driving south on Interstate 43. at 9 00:36:26 Authorities said he performed poorly during standardized field at 9 00:36:30 sobriety tests, was booked for a first offense OWI. at 9 00:36:34 Romer was later released and scheduled to appear in court on at 9 00:36:37 September 21st. The Wisconsin native is also at 9 00:36:39 scheduled to compete in the Texas State Open golf tournament next week. at 9 00:36:44 There you have it. When you're from Wisconsin, at 9 00:36:46 it's just going to catch up with you. Yeah, he was just doing what you at 9 00:36:49 do there. Yeah. There's people here with you at 9 00:36:53 know 567 offense. We talked about him on this show. at 9 00:36:57 Yeah. They just you know they just at 9 00:36:59 keep going. So yeah. I mean he's he's he's what he's older at 9 00:37:02 than I am. So he's probably like. Now 46 yeah, at 9 00:37:09 something like that. Yeah. So to get his first that late 46. at 9 00:37:14 I mean he's doing a great job. That's true as a wisconsinite. Yeah. at 9 00:37:19 Uh, just do, do better next time Tony. Yeah. at 9 00:37:23 Oh, I just looked up his wife, to. Hello? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. at 9 00:37:29 Okay. Anyways. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Anywho. Enough creepin. at 9 00:37:37 Uh, follow us on the socials. Oh, no. First. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. at 9 00:37:43 Now follow us on the socials. Uh, 8553. Beer is the number to call. at 9 00:37:49 You can send us an email, mail, @CraftBeerRepublic dot com, at 9 00:37:53 all of that good stuff. Uh, at 9 00:37:55 thanks for putting up with whatever noises were coming from behind me. at 9 00:37:59 And, uh, I hope everyone is staying very well hydrated. And on that note. at 9 00:38:03 Good night everybody.