Mug Club Olympics

Today we've got a bunch of drunk Scots legal advice from intern Brian, another brewery, another mug club and 28 reasons beer makes soccer tolerable. Let's go. Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. And most importantly, thanks for joining. I am Greg and joining me from the Fresh Coast with no hat on. That's Flex. What's up, big fella?

I always wear hats and I admitted today that I hate wearing them with the headset, so I. I get it. Me too. Yeah, it's it's it's got the little bump on the top, you know, and the right baseball cap. It's always in the right spot or the wrong spot. Wrong spot. Yeah. But, uh. Yeah. Love me some hats. Yeah. I am not a hat wearer, so I totally understand not wanting to wear a hat. Okay. So you're on the other side. Yeah, I wish I was more into wearing hats, like I think I have a decent, you know,

like some people look funny in hats. Like I think my face is like all rightly shaped for hats, but I just they're not comfortable for me. It's weird. I, I'm very picky on my hats. It has to be like certain type of hats and I can't wear new era hats. Oh, because they make my melon look enormous. Oh, interesting. And, uh, I actually don't have a big head, so it makes. It. Look it makes it look even weirder. Oh, so you have big hat, little head. Right, right, right. And it looks like very domi over the top. And, uh, so yeah, new era, not,

not not for Flex. Yeah. You're more of an old era kind of guy. Yeah. There's that 47 brand. What is. That? Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Yeah. Like a spin off of New ERA or something. Uh, I don't know. I'm. I'm assuming it's just like another, like a hat brand that was like, hey, we can make hats to like new era doesn't have a monopoly on this, right? Let's make some hats and yeah, uh, yeah, their hats fit me Amazingly. There you go. Not a hat. Show, everybody. Not but. Not. But, uh, yeah, maybe we should get into some beer stuff, huh?

Maybe we should. Uh, quick shout out to our top listening city of last week. And that was Atlanta, Georgia. Okay. Yeah. What's up? GA. ATL yeah. Yeah, if you will. Uh, all right, lots to get to. But first let's get to what Flex is drinking. 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. This isn't a video show. I was just gonna say that. Uh, so a little backstory on this beer, if you will. I will if you're all right with that. I did a little bit of research. Uh, we took a family trip a couple Fridays ago. There's this place near Madison called cave of the mounds. And it's one of those, uh, natural cave formations. As is, most caves are natural cave formations, but it's like one that's like, uh, touristy and, uh, fun to check out. So my wife.

Was like roadside attractions. Yeah, yeah. And it was really neat because I had never been there and it's been there since, like, I forget what they said, like 1937 or something like that. But, uh, yeah, so it was neat. We drove out there like two hours to check out this thing. And, uh, of course I was like the nerdy dad who was more amazed by it than my kids and. Sure. Anybody else. And I was asking questions and took a shit ton of pictures, which is very unlike me. So that's how, you know,

I was very interested in this. Um, and I learned a lot about caves and that was neat. But, uh, we had, we had some lunch and my wife was like, hey, I heard this, uh, grumpy troll brewpub is supposed to be really good. So it's this place called the Grumpy Troll Brewpub. And you know, when you go to brewpubs, it's like very hit or miss. And you should usually stick with the classics. Yeah. I did not stick with the classic. I picked the hazy on the menu and it was fine. It was good.

Okay. It smelled a little malty. It was hazy. All right. But on the palate, the malt didn't really go over on the palate. So I was kind of psyched about that because, you know, I hate that multi flavor. Yes. Especially in a hazy. Right. So we got done with lunch and we got in the car and my wife said, hey, uh, didn't you say New Glarus is nearby? Mhm. And I said, I did, and I looked it up and it was about 24 minutes south of us. So she said, let's go. So I got to go to the Holy Grail

of Wisconsin brewing. Oh, shit. And, uh, it was it was cool. But I do want to say it was a bit underwhelming. Oh. Like I expected, I don't know. I think just like a a bigger production than what it was. Sure. Okay. And it is in like, the middle of nowhere, which was kind of eerie, uh, like nothing but farm fields and hills everywhere. And then you have this little brewery and where you would buy like their

beer and their gift shops and their souvenirs and everything was in a completely separate building across the street. Oh, weird. And they did have a big sign that says beer here, like buy beer here. Um, but it was neat. You went inside, you know, of course they had shirts and koozies and all the beer collectible kind of things you want. And they had, uh, then there beer sales room and every single beer that they brew at that time. And they had it in 12 packs. They had it in six packs or four

packs, and they had everything in there that you could buy as a single can or bottle as well. Oh, nice. Yeah. So I walked away with like 14 cans, bottles, everything there you can get anywhere in the state destroyed. So it's not like anything is like crazy special. Uh, but again, it's like the ambiance, it's, you know, when in Rome kind of thing. And, uh, so we drove over to the other side of the street where the actual brewing facility was. And, uh, I don't know, taproom, beer garden, I guess you want to call it. Um, so it was kind of neat where

you go up into the facility and, you know, they have like those keg trucks, like those tap trucks in there. They have one of those and you go to the hostess stand and they ask you if you want a taster or if you want a pint. Okay. So $8 for a pint, but you keep the glass. Oh, nice. So $8 for a glass and a beer. Not a bad gig. Yeah. Pretty good on the Flex o meter. Yeah. And there's, like, I saw a couple people that had,

like, cases of the glasses. So I'm assuming every time you buy a beer, you get a, you can get a glass. And then people were just taking home like 12 glasses. That's funny. So, um, yeah, I thought that was pretty solid. But so the beer I'm having today is called Pear 26 is a fruit beer. Fruit fruit, uh, only 443 check ins at this time on Untappd. And it's got a 412 rating on it. I have no idea what the ABV is. I'm assuming it's small.

And, uh, no description on untapped here, but there is a hefty note on the can, and it reads luscious notes of pear totter between sweet decadence and bright orchard tartness, the perfect balance of five pear varieties traveled from the Pacific Northwest to ferment in our wild fruit cave. American wheat and barley malted in Wisconsin and Minnesota politely support this pear perfection.

It's kind of hard to read this because I got to keep going. Moving the can back and forth. Yeah. Inspired by Berliner Weisse styles of brewing and the creative genius of our brewmaster, Dan Carey. A rare and unique triumph to celebrate the return of sunny days. Thanks for supporting the arts. So yeah, a little a little bit of a mouthful here, but, uh, neat. Can. This is like other specialty cans are. Oh, yeah. Kind of neat. Very simple.

I appreciate the 12 ouncer. Yeah. And the beer name is like on the back right above the description. It's not like it's just there. New Glarus, big label on the front. So I thought that was kind of neat to kind of makes it a little bit unique. And, uh, so this is a beer I got on tap there because most of the other stuff I had already tried. And ironically enough, I don't love pears. Oh. I think the, uh, the flavor's fine, but eating an actual pear, the texture of it. Oh, I could see that. Gritty and. Yeah.

It's like, uh, it was Charlie Day says it was like eating sand. Uh, so, uh, anyway, I'm the old nose buds here. Definitely a pear tartness. Like like a sour pear. Mhm. Uh, which usually you don't, you know, pay money for, but, uh, in this case, it does sound wonderful. Uh, we'll dig the old Tongue-jobber in here. Here we go. We already have. But. Sorry, I had to, uh, here we go.

This is where I should insert the digging sound effect from a couple of weeks ago. So I really enjoyed this beer very much. It is. uh, pure flavor, but it's not like over the top, like a, like a over fruited kind of thing. The pear is there, it's present. And then it comes with this. I'm gonna say perfect, like 100% perfect level of tartness. Oh. To where it's not shearing off your taste buds and making your like face cringe. It is absolute perfect tartness right

before it hits that breaking point, it starts to dissipate back into that pear sweetness a little low on the carbonation for my liking. I wish it was a little bit zippier. You love that effervescence. I do, I really do. But all in all, I talk a lot of shit about New Glarus, only for the fact of, hey, Spotted Cow is beer, right? It's just everybody loves Spotted Cow. It's beer. This beer is really good. Nice. And I found it. Uh, at least according to Google,

5.39%. Okay. That crushable range and. Super crushable and yeah, 12 ounce cans. Everything's in 12 ounce cans or 12 ounce bottles. They're big fan of that as well. Yeah. Bring back the 12 ounce cans, man. I agree, nobody wants to be chugging those 16oz anymore, right? Especially when you got those big boy 8% hazes or whatever. It's like, give me some twelvers so I can get through a couple of these. Yeah, have two of them. Yeah, I can have two and they can be two different ones. I don't have to have, you know, just one of the same beer or whatever. Yeah. Call me old man, but bring back those

Twelvers. I'm a grumpy old man. I will say, though, the 16 ounce can just visually is a sexier packaging than a 12 ounce can. Oh, absolutely. But I appreciate the 12 ounce. I mean, you just look at yourself holding a 12 ounce can to holding a 16 ounce can. Yeah, it's kind of like dick size, isn't it? I was gonna say that's kind of where porn got its luster. But yeah. But not a porn show. Not a porn show. Could be, but it's not. uh, well. Very nice. I did some research as well.

I had to go up to San Francisco last week for work, as I do all the fucking time. And there was this place that I had never heard of that was about a block from my hotel that I've stayed probably within two blocks, a block or two of at least three different times. I'd never heard of before. And you would think with the name that this would be somewhere I go all the time. It's called the beer hall. Okay. Yeah. So I would say that's right up your alley. Yeah. And I look, I was looking for dinner and I looked on their, uh, their Google, whatever. And, you know, they had like wings

and burgers and I think some pizza or flatbread type stuff. So I was like, yeah, let's go check it out. So I went in there, had some wings. First of all, great wings. Chef's kiss. Really enjoyed them. Then I had a couple of beverages, had myself a hazy. I don't remember where it came from. It was fine. It was serviceable. Nothing wrong with it. But then I noticed they had double dry hopped Pliny on tap. Elder. Okay. And I have seen it, you know, on the grams and whatever for years.

I've never come across it in the wild. And I was like, this motherfucker needs to have some double dry hopped Pliny. So I did, and delicious. Okay. Like it reinvigorated my boner for Pliny. Because you know me, I'm pretty down on Pliny on Elder, especially. Like Russian River. You're like, it's good beer, but. It's a great beer. But it's nothing to, you know, ship across the country or anything, right? Double dry hopped, fucking delicious. So it's funny you say this because pilot Tom was in San Diego this past weekend. Oh, shit.

And he texted me himself a glass of double dry hopped Pliny. What did he say about it? He said, DDH Pliny on draft. So fucking good. Pilot. Tom is correct. Okay, so. That is a quote of the year right there. Yeah. Uh, so fucking good. I was I was pleasantly surprised because look, like I said, Pliny, good beer, solid beer standard when it comes to IPAs, but just it's old school and that doesn't quite do it for me these days.

But that double dry hopped, if you haven't had it, if you see it, I definitely recommend it, especially if you're in a, you know, similar boat as I may be. So do is that something they ever package or is that something that just goes out on tap randomly? I've seen pictures of cans on the gram, like I think they're blue cans. Um, so yes, so I'm pretty sure they package it. I don't know how frequently or how wide they distro and that sort of thing. Um, so I've never seen it down here, but I, you know, I see regular Pliny and Blind Pig and other

sours right all the time now. Like it's, it's pretty frequent down here. It's not the chase that it used to be for sure. Um, but I've never seen the double dry hopped in the wild. So if I get, if I see a can, I will definitely get it and have it on the show. Uh, because it was good. It deserves some. Some recognition is really good. It kind of brought. It was a lighter malt bill, I think, than regular Pliny. At least it felt like it. And it just brought some of that aromatics that Pliny is missing.

Pliny to me is so like Piney right on the nose and the taste. And this really brought some, some lighter fruit and, and tropical notes and that sort of thing. So it's just a real nice beer to put down with some wings. Highly recommend. Yeah. Good night. Good night for sure. And now that I know that place exists, I will be going back for sure. Right. Because you do frequent San Francisco. I do monthly basically. So, um, also, I think it was about six months ago, we talked about a

local brewery local to me that was doing a mug club. And I was saying. Six months ago, we talked about that already. I think it was like early January when we talked about this late December, early January, I think it's been about six months. If you remember, I was pretty down on it. I said, look for what you're getting. You have to have X amount of beers per week, which was kind of a lot. And I just to me, it wasn't worth what they were advertising. Right. New brewery in town. Once again, I'm not gonna name names. They're new. They're getting started.

Uh, they have offered them their own mug club to members. Here's what it is 150 bucks a year, and it's limited to 100 people. You get a personalized mug, 20 ounce pours for the price of a 16 ounce, pour 10% off merch free Birthday Pour Monthly member discount night. For first timers, you get a welcome package, which includes a t shirt and a hat. And like I said, limited to 100 members. Here's the math. If a pint, let's call it eight bucks,

then the extra four ounces is worth two bucks. So to make back your 150 and just beer. You have to have 75 beers a year. So six and a quarter beers per month, basically. Not the not not hard to achieve six beers a month. Not probably not hard to do if you're a single. Yes. Be have no kids also. Or see your empty nesters. And and you live within like two miles of the brewery.

That also helps. Yeah, you got to be close. And yes, you got to be able to just on a whim go. I feel like a beer at said location tonight. Right? Or go have dinner somewhere and be like, oh, hey, when I go stop back at said place and get said beer. Yeah. Once again, it just doesn't feel worth it to me. And instead of just complaining, I came up with some ideas and I ran them through. I'll admit I used chat with this a little bit. I had chat do my math for me. Nobody surprised at this point,

by the way. And I also gave it some of my like, fun ideas and said, help me expand on this list. And because I want, I feel like mug clubs used to be fun. Like, hey, you get the discounts, great. But you also get, you know, like parties and special releases. And when I say special releases, I don't mean you get to drink it a day before everyone else does, right? That to me means nothing. I'll come in on a Saturday instead of a Friday, gladly. And not pay the 150 bucks a year like that, to me is so fucking silly. Uh.

All right, so here are some of the things I slash we came up with. Tell me what you think and feel free to add to it. Uh, a members only beer night. One small batch or experimental beer just for club members. So that'll never hit the menu. Eagle Park does that. Okay. Every month they have a member's beer that isn't on the menu. But you go up to the bar and you can order, hey, I'll take the member's beer of the month or whatever. And again, it's a small batch. We'll never hit the shelves.

We'll never, I guess maybe if it's good enough, we'll hit cans. Sure. Experiment. Look, if it goes like gangbusters, I'm all for you then re brewing it for the public. But let this be for the bug club, right? Right. So. So I know for a fact that that brewery does that. Okay. Love that. Uh, this this was a chat idea. Mug club. Olympics trivia. Stein holding blind tasting, other dumb prizes. I think that's fun. Yeah, that could be fun. I always think of the Office Olympics. That was my favorite episode.

Such a good episode. Uh, a secret tap password. Beer members get access to a hidden port. That's sort of the same thing as the the members only beer. Yeah, but I do love the password concept. Yeah, kind of old timey and. Right. If you just walked up to the bartender and you say something like, uh, like Snuffleupagus, right? Oh, hey, like, yeah, you win the game, right? Hey, Blowjobs. Oh, oh. That's not the. Password. Oh, darn. Create a beer. Vote.

Members get to vote or pick the name of a beer. An upcoming beer that's being released. I'm down with. That. Would be fun to be able to put your creativity into something like that. I like that idea. Yeah. Here's another chat idea. A better mug wall. Oh, here's, here's the thing that bugged me. You're supposed to keep your own mug for this mug club. Like take it home with you and bring it back. And I'm like, come on. The only thing is mug club is you hang it up on the wall or on the ceiling or whatever. Right, right. They, they should have an industrial sized dishwasher that they dishwash everything. Exactly. Better mug wall nicknames or funny

titles instead of just names. All right. You know, that's fine. Whatever annual party I say monthly party or maybe quarterly party. You know, with rare beers, games, awards, food, just anything to get community involved in craft again. Yeah. Or like half off for members like every quarter or something like that. And allow them to bring a guest. And what if the guest comes and then wants to join your mug club as well? Right, right. Yeah. So anyways, I paired it way down. There were a ton of ideas both from me and Chad most. Then Chad kind of got crazy and

was like, here's 30, you know, other ideas. I'm like, all right, Chad, we're really going too far. So I paired it down. It was these just feel like fun ideas that also, uh, add a little community to it. And just once again, try to make craft fun again. Yeah, I like it. I definitely like that. That definitely has to make it feel special, like something to make it feel special. Not just like a run of the mill. Hey, you paid us $150. Now good luck getting your money back. Yeah, it sort of starts to feel like, um, like a Costco membership,

like you've paid your dues and now you get your discounts on whatever it is, right? And that's it. There's no like fun stuff with it or your, you know, your grocery store membership, whatever, put in your, your phone number, get your discount, get the fuck out. Right. And I understand like, it's essentially, you know, it's money going straight to the brewery to help out the brewery. Totally. Right, I get that. That that's first and foremost, number one. Right. But then at the same point, it's like, don't waste my, if I'm helping you out,

don't waste our time. Like let's, you know, you gotta have somebody on marketing or something that can come up with this stuff. Or like my friend Greg here knows how to use ChatGPT, you know, same thing. Yeah, give it a few ideas. Gives you a few back, you know? Anyways, so, um, all right, before we get to what I'm drinking, let's check in interim Brian called. Remember, we last week we had Florida man who was driving backwards down the highway because his car was supposedly stuck in reverse. Well, this is, of course,

a legal issue. So interim Brian called in. Hello? No one is available to take your call. Please leave a message after the tone. Hey guys, this is intern Brian calling. I'm actually on my way to court right now, so I figured I would call and comment on the last episode. Florida man driving reverse on the highway. I would take that case in a heartbeat. You know why? Because the police have to demonstrate that there is a legitimate safety issue before they pull you over. And if that guy had working signals

on the back of his car and the front of his car, I would argue that he could signal and he could drive. So I might not win because obviously, and I know this, the rational idea is cars stuck in reverse. Have it towed. But I think the most important thing and the most impressive thing about that Florida man story is that guy was not under the influence. I mean, he was probably under the influence of meth or something, but wasn't under. Definitely. Alcohol. And he was driving. And that is awesome. Florida man,

you don't have an attorney already. You're shit out of luck because I'm not licensed in Florida. But good on you, man. I feel like the license in Florida must not be hard to achieve. I would assume not. I feel like they just handed it to you when you turned 16. They're like, nope, no test. Just yeah. I mean, to get licensed as a lawyer. I mean. Same thing. Yeah. You turn 16. Here's your license. No test. Have you have you ever had an

argument with somebody? Uh, yeah. Congratulations. You're a lawyer? Yeah. Uh, so I wonder, like, is there a law against driving backwards? As long as everything else you do is safe and you're keeping up with traffic and all those other things? Yeah. Is that something? Uh, I don't know. Maybe you're, uh, famous AI could could let us know that. I, I guess maybe famous AI could. But thank you, interim Brian, for providing some legal to that story. 805538 beer is the number to call.

Can we make that like a segment like, uh, intern Brian share some legal advice? We should. I'm sure he'd love to give out tons of free legal advice. Well, you know, not so much for listeners, but. Oh, okay. You know, just, uh, we do stories on the show or we say something or have something brought up, and intern Brian can just shed his little intern light on us and. His intern like, yes, we should especially like Florida man stories when they get arrested and shit. That would that would be good.

Yeah, the world needs more. Intern Brian. Maybe I was so tired at the time, I didn't even realize that he wasn't under the influence. Well, I mean, I still have the clip. He sounds under the influence. I don't think the story specifically had, like, a back on it. Okay. We got multiple people calling on you. Driving in reverse. This is 100. This is the car. The car was stuck in reverse. Well, I mean, I didn't think like, I didn't think that it was that that bad when you know what I'm saying. I wasn't I wasn't even swerving or anything like that or driving faster.

Driving backwards on the road. Yeah. I mean, it's the same thing as if you were reverse. Not not dude. You got to figure it out. Leaving your mouth. Just turn around. Anyways, uh, he sounds very intoxicated. I think he just sounds Florida. Yeah. That's true. I don't know. He just got bit by a gator or something. Uh, all right, before we get to some news. I'd like to tell you what I'm drinking over here.

Who calls to the bullpen for beer? Yeah. He does. I was telling Flex before the show started. I'm having a hard time putting this beer into words. Um, it smells good, but I can't quite tell you other than, like, it's got some nice tropical ness to it. Uh, and it smells light, maybe a hint of melon and like it tastes good. But once again, it's very like nondescript, but I'm also very much enjoying it. So I am drinking separation anxiety from Mother Earth Brewing Company.

It's kind of a cool, cool can if you can see it's like someone looking through blinds or whatever. Oh yeah, I like that. Yeah. Uh, 7.2% has a 3.9 on untapped. It's pretty fresh. Only 209 ratings, uh, came out. Uh, yeah, about a month ago. Canned about a month ago, I should say nothing on untapped, but on the can, it says they use strata. Strata CG crush, which we love. And Citra. Um, I wonder if this is warmed

up enough to get some different notes out of it. Let me dig in the nose buds. I'm not gonna lie, every time I hear crush now, I'm just like, man, I kind of missed HBC 586 I. Know we made such a big stink. Yeah, the nose is very like tropical fruit salad. Like I said, I'm having a hard time picking out anything specific, but it smells nice. I would, you know, make this into a candle. Tongue-jobber very similar. I'd say it's a more more potent than the nose is, but it's just it's good.

I'm really enjoying it. But I couldn't tell you like one specific flavor that's that's sticking out and it's just kind of a tropical fruit salad in a hazy IPA. Yeah, it's definitely hazy. Yeah, it's definitely hazy. Um, I would drink again, I got one. Um, this is not one of those cases where I think I would prefer to have gotten two. Wow. Needs more two packs. That's how you know, it's a good one. Yeah, honestly, I would. Here's the thing. I would buy four of these.

This is a great just hanging out beer. Like if I was gonna have people over, you know, whenever interim Brian comes over, I always make sure I got some some good beer in the fridge and stuff, and I would definitely buy a four pack of this to, to share with people. This is this is a tasty beer. Nice. Well, I guess I never said it about my beer either, but I would buy a four pack as well or six pack or whatever it came in. What did you buy? Just a single. I did snag two cans of this. Okay. Oh, you got the two pack. I did, I did, I got the unofficial two pack. Yeah. But yeah, I got a bunch of

different stuff from them. But two of these for sure. Nice. I got this from Trader Joe's, my favorite bottle shop. So in theory, I could go make a two pack, a three pack, a six pack, whatever I want because you can just open shit up. I I'm so jealous of your TJ's. Yours doesn't let you do that. Well, it does, but beer? Shit. Oh, yeah. I think it helps because this is a California brewery. And I mean, we got Wisconsin breweries, but it's still they have like two of them there. And one of them is like, ah.

And then the other one they had the beer was just. Yeah. Yeah, that's too bad. Yeah. Uh. All right. Little news before we get out of here. As if Apple wasn't bad enough, AB is continuing the Bush Lite flavor game into the summer following the Busch Light. Apple selling 2.3 million cases in six weeks. Which I know. I know what it is. I never saw one. What is it? The new one. Yeah. Lime Busch light Lime back for year two. Got it at work. Oh. Do you? I think it's gone already. Are people searching it out like

they did the apple? They must be. Why? I dude, I don't know. So my brother in law, uh, I can't remember if I said this on the show. Um, he went up north to his best friend's campsite. You know, they're on like a campground. Mhm. And it was the first time you ever had a Busch Light. Because that's all that they drink up there. And like his, his mind was blown. Oh. And he's he's been drinking Busch Light ever since. And I, I did try one.

I think it was late last summer just to appease him. And I don't get it. Busch light is just not. No, I've had regular Busch light. No, it's not good at all. Yeah, it's not good at all. So the fact that people I I've never had the flavors either. But the fact that people are, are up in arms about these flavors. I just don't get it. How good could it be? And if it came in anything less than a 12 pack. I'm gonna tell you, like, give a big maybe. Right. Maybe I would buy it just to try it. But I'm not gonna buy a 12 pack.

At this point. I think I'd buy a 12 pack just to try to see what the hype was about. And then I'd just start offering cans to, you know, anybody who walked by my house. I guess that's not a bad idea. Yeah. Hey, kid. What a apple. Damn it. So the apple ones, I just they gross me out. Because when I first started drinking beer as a nine year old. Uh huh. I, uh, Leinenkugel’s had this holiday Apple beer that they used to come out with. It was fucking delicious. But I drank so much of it cause I

hated the taste of actual beer. Oh, sure. So now, anything apple flavored, beer wise, really, really hits my gag reflex. Yeah. And, uh, it's really tough for me to handle. Yeah. I feel I'm similar with pumpkin. One of the many reasons I hate pumpkin beer is because early in my drinking career, uh, someone brought. I think it was a six pack of who knows what this is. A million years ago, like 20 years ago, a six pack of some pumpkin beer over. It was like Halloween ish. Time. And we just proceeded to drink,

drink, drink. I think I had like, it must have been six pack cause we had a ton of it must have been like a 12 pack and we just drank a ton of them. And then I got sick on pumpkin beer and then she got sick on pumpkin beer. It was it was a nightmare. I was like, this is gross. Sounds like the inside of a pumpkin. Mhm. Like if someone threw up in it. Yeah. Yeah. Gross. Anyways, not a puke show. Yeah. Apparently, it's a Busch Light Lime show, though. So it is. You're welcome for the free ads.

Busch light. Go on with the story. Uh, that was it. That was. Oh, that was it. Okay. So, uh, Boston, we talked about last week or the week before, but, uh, I think I expressed my feelings for how I feel about Boston. Boston bars. Say the Scottish soccer fans are drinking them dry. I have heard this. Yeah. Scott. I actually had multiple people send this story to me. So thanks to all of you. Uh, Scottish soccer fans are being credited with a boom in Boston beer sales that caused some bars in the city to run dry. Sam Adams, Boston Taproom said the

influx of Scottish fans in town to attend FIFA World Cup games caused it to sell four times as much Sam Adams Boston Lager from Thursday to Sunday, as the bar normally would on a four day weekend. The taproom ended up running out of Boston Lager, leading the company to schedule an emergency delivery on Saturday morning. Wow. Noel Summers, chief operating officer at Hennessy's Bar in downtown Boston. The facility sold out of beer on Sunday. We've been here for over 30 years and we've never seen anything like it. We tripled Saint Patrick's Day. Holy shit. Yeah.

Uh, Paul Morris of the White Bull Tavern said his business also ran out of beer with a particular rush on Tennent's Lager, the most popular beer in Scotland. Pretty much everything we, uh, we ran out of everything. Morris told NBC. Boston tenants being number one, federal wine and spirits in the financial district ran out of Budweiser and Corona on Saturday. Ooh, they reverted to Corona, huh? Yes. Resorted to. Uh, Scottish. Gotta do what the Scottish gotta do, I guess. So, uh, an employee said one of

the business refrigerators broke from being opened so many times. She's all right. If it broke from being open so many times. I feel like it was already on the Fritz. I just can't. This is unreal. Yeah, this is nuts. I did hear that they were also bringing their bagpipes everywhere. And they were playing. Oh. Were they. Really? Yes, that is what I heard. Stereotypes are there for a reason, I guess. This one I pulled for Flex, the beer and ketchup partnership no one asked for. You. Heinicke. You love ketchup. Heineken and Heinz have announced a limited edition collaboration that

pairs beer and ketchup in the same package. Okay. That's terrible. Do they call it Heineken? They should. Damn it. The special six pack includes five bottles of Chinese and one bottle of Heinz tomato ketchup, celebrating what the companies call an unexpected but familiar pairing. What is familiar about that pairing? Familiar. The brand say the promotion is meant to highlight the connections people make over food, drinks and shared gatherings while embracing that idea that some of the best combinations

come from unexpected places, whether consumers see it as a perfect match or a strange one. Heinz and Heineken are officially making their relationship public. But I just don't understand what. When have you ever drank a beer and you're like, you know what would go really good with this? You know what? This is. Missing. Ketchup. It'd be one thing if it was like the the beer comes with, you know, a pack of hot dogs and ketchup. Yeah, yeah, yeah, like a pack of brats or something. Yeah. Not that I put ketchup on literally anything, but that's fucking weird. Like, have it come with something

you might put ketchup on. Hey, this is coming with some fucking potatoes. I don't know, some French fries. I love ketchup on potatoes and French fries. The only thing I would consider putting ketchup on at this point in my life, I think, is hash browns. Okay. Everything else I just it's children's play. So I saw Heinz commercial tonight that actually grossed me out. And I thought of you. Oh, good. Uh, so this is kind of full circle moment with this story. It was a Heinz ketchup commercial, and it was about this family. And they were sitting down eating

dinner, and this little girl left her broccoli on her plate. She didn't want to eat the broccoli. No. Oh, no. So she reaches for a bottle of Heinz ketchup. Oh, no. And starts squirting ketchup all over the broccoli. And the last scene of the commercial is her eating the ketchup covered broccoli. And I said, fucking sick. That's disgusting. I would never do that. And that's saying something. Yes, that's that's crossing a line. Yeah.

Because if you're new to the show, one thing you should know is Flexy loves ketchup. Yeah. Yeah. He puts it on almost everything. I yeah. But not broccoli. We found a line. That's fucking disgusting. But no broccoli, no Chinese. Yeah. You know, corn. If I get ketchup on my corn, I'm gonna eat it, I don't care. That's weird. Well, you know, if it's, like, on your plate and it gets into the ketchup, if you're having something else, like fries or something. MM. Yeah, but no broccoli. Yeah. Fucking sick. Yeah. No, thanks.

Hard pass. Be like putting broccoli in, like, your pasta sauce or something like. Like you don't you don't do that. I mean, I do put broccoli in like a cream sauce, but not a, not a tomato, right. But not like a tomato sauce. No. Let's chop up some broccoli and toss it in a pico. You know, like, you see how stupid this sounds? Hey, why is this pico so crunchy? Oh, just a awful commercial. Fucking weird. Super weird. Well, we'll end it with this

palette cleanser. I hammered drunk British Airways flight attendant has been suspended for well being fun. The incident reportedly occurred last month when a group of four flight attendants arrived at the airline's layover hotel in Belfast. At around 9 p.m., the crew headed straight to the hotel bar for a drink. By 1 a.m., the group was still chatting away in the bar, despite the fact that bar staff was tidying up and closing down for the evening. One of the female crew members headed to the bar for one last drink and was told that service had finished.

At that point, she allegedly lifted up her top, exposing her breasts, and said to the barman, what if I let you have a go on these funbags? No. Oh so good. The barman not only refused to accept the proposition, but reported the flight attendant to managers, who in turn informed British Airways of the incident. British Airways immediately suspended the entire crew of four flight attendants. The entire crew. Entire crew had to dispatch a new

set of crew to Belfast to bring back the plane they should have been working on the following day. The airline has confirmed that it is investigating the incident, with a spokesperson noting we expect the highest standards from our crew. While that might be a British Airways expectation, its crew certainly has a history of letting the airline down with a long list of past misdemeanors attributed to drunken antics by flight attendants and pilots. The extensive number of incidents is at this point getting too numerous to list, but it includes. In 2022, British Airways aircrew were

banned from buying an all inclusive package at a luxury hotel in the Maldives after a newbie flight attendant was found collapsed and drunk on a beach at the resort. A year later, a British Airways flight attendant was arrested for being drunk and possibly even high on drugs during a flight from Gran Canaria area to London Gatwick. I don't know. The same year, a British Airways pilot was terminated after it was discovered that he had been snorting cocaine off a prostitute's breasts during a layover in South Africa.

And last year, a British Airways flight attendant was found by his colleagues dancing naked in the lavatory of an Airbus A380. High on drugs following a layover in San Francisco. Clearly, they don't do background checks at British Airways. Clearly. Also, I want to party with the employees of British Airways. Uh, yeah, we got to line that up. That sounds like it'd be a blast. I don't even know if I can hang. These guys know what they're doing. I definitely couldn't, I'm gonna tell you that right now.

Yeah, but I'm gonna do my best. I would treat it more as like, uh, like, I would be like the documentary filmmaker where I would just kind of be there to partake in view. But you do it like a nature doc. You're like, over there in the corner. The female crew member is offering up her funbags. Yeah, she just released her Funbags. I love that she used the term Funbags. I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that since the 90s. I think. Uh, it's been a while. It has been a minute.

Tell her she's wrong, though. Tell her she's wrong. I dare you. Nope. Not gonna do. It. Can't. Can't do it. She's 100% correct. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, British Airways. Yes. I'd like to party with you. Party the friendly skies. All right. That's all we got. I'm gonna hit some music. Gonna say hi to Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Hello. Hello. I'm gonna encourage you all to check us out at @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. Follow us on the socials at @CraftBeerRepublic. @Flex_me_a_beer underscore between 805538. Beer 2337.

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