Pool Water Pale Ale

Today we've got a story from pilot Tom. Bad Pool beer, the Return of Your Worst hangover, and five beer related products to help you out in bed. Let's go. Sign me up. Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg, and over there taking some beer. Agra. That's Flex. What's up Ben? I'm scraping by over here, big dog. Bottom of the barrel. It's been a rough night.

We'll get through. It keeps getting rougher. You. You've got a tasty beer to talk about. Can't wait. Yeah. Nice and light. We'll get to that shortly. But first, @CraftBeerRepublic @Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between. And shout out to our top listening city last week. And that was Thousand Oaks, California. What's up hometown. Hometown. Yeah. Thanks for listening in you. Some of you. Yeah. You're the best, I think. So thanks for listening. Uh. All right. Without further ado. Uh, the moment I've been waiting

for since Flex sat the fuck down. 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? What is. Flex. Drink so good I had to massage my face. Um, well, last week you know,

I talked about my Trader Joe experience with their beers. So unlucky for me. The last beer in my fridge that I hadn't already had on the show is, uh, the speculoos Cookie Butter Beer, an Imperial Golden ale with toasted coconut, vanilla beans and natural flavors from Trader Joe's. You can tell how psyched I am about

this. I'm psyched. Thank you. Hardywood Park Craft Brewery out of Richmond, Virginia for making this delectable beer. No. It's great. It says it's made with vanilla beans, milk, sugar, and toasted coconut. This full bodied should emphasize that full bodied ale pairs with just about any treat, topped with your favorite deliciously unusual cookie butter spread. MM. Have you ever had the cookie butter

spread? Not this one specifically. Oh. It's delicious. Oh, okay. The ice cream. Delicious. I love me some ice cream. Uh, yeah. Their cookie butters, like a whole. It's like better than peanut butter kind of thing. Like worse for you, too. Oh. It's so delicious. Because it's not peanuts instead of just sugar, right? Yeah. So this one here, it weighs in at, uh, 9.5%. Ooh. Oh. It's hefty. It's a Trader Joe's exclusive.

10,000 chickens on attempt. Oh, okay. It's got a three, four, seven. Oh, that's like Diet Coke rating. I had two friends who raided this beer, and, uh. What did they give. It? It's a collective three one, three. Okay. Somebody gave it a four. By the way, Diet Coke. I just looked it up. Has a higher rating. Oh, God damn. Diet Cokes at 355. Oh, man.

I should have known what I was getting myself into. Ooh. Maybe. Maybe I'll just start with the nosebleeds here. Smells fucking delicious. It really does. Everybody. That's what you're talking about for, like, five minutes before we start the show is like, how good it smells. Yeah, it smells like cookies in a glass. Like freshly baked cookies. It's amazing. And it's just everything you'd want in, like a dessert beer. Mhm. Then I'll warm the Tongue-jobber up. Yeah. Do you need new spark plugs?

Yeah. Dead battery. Maybe. I just want to get this over with, man. Yeah. Um. All right, here we go. Taste Tongue-jobber. Well, you Tongue-jobber. I'll tell the people. Didn't know what this was. Speculoos. It's a thin, crispy, spiced biscuit from Belgium and the Netherlands, traditionally associated with Saint Nicholas Day, but enjoyed year round. Oh, the faces. Often with a coffee. It just doesn't go away. This is absolutely terrible.

Oh, fuck. Um, the lingering is bad. Um, it tastes like bad. If you guys can picture a robot breaking down from, like, an 80s movie, that's what Flex face is doing right now. It, like, gives you, like, the chills. It's so bad. Like lots of jerking activity. It makes me want to vomit. It does. It makes me want to vomit. It's so bad. So you're sorry you didn't get a four pack? I'm the worst part about this beer beside the beer itself is

that my wife is like, oh, hey, they got a cookie butter beer. You should get it. And I'm like, oh, hey, the the one person who really hates my alcohol intake is enabling me to get alcohol. Like, oh, hey, that's like a plus. Yeah. Right. You don't want to be like, hey, dummy. Right. You're like, oh, thanks sweetie. For idiot kind of thing. Yeah. No. Like you stupid idiot. She said, get it. And I was like, yeah, all right. I think it might be fun for the show,

but it's it's bad. That's the only way I can really describe it. I might take another drink just for kicks. Okay. But Brett W he said, special thanks to somebody for the snag. It's a unique beer. Oh, but this was my favorite line. Gurgle was completely awful. That's what it said. That made me laugh. Can you concur? Yeah, I because I'm thinking if I have another sip, I actually

might throw up. I can't wait. I don't know why it's so bad. Like I can't even. Get. Any flavors of it. Um. Oh, I don't know. I'm doing this. I don't know why you're doing this. I didn't ask you to. No, nobody asked for it. I'm just trying to get another sense of the beer. Um. God damn it. Beer with a question mark. Oh, it almost smells like nail polish now. Which is funny because you thought it

smelled delicious. Yeah, now it's. Now it's smelling like nail polish. Honest question. Does it get better or worse as it warms up? It's way worse. That face. I don't think I've seen Flex ever make that face before. Oh, I don't want to live. Oh. That's bad. Please stop drinking it. Yeah, it's Trader Joe's. It might be your beer. Stop! And I love you for it.

I thought I would try to take my hand at it. Uh. I have to tell you, though, I don't buy the Trader Joe's beers. I buy the beers that they bring in. So I've had them sometimes, you know, they come in the the six pack the bottles and sometimes they're pretty good, like the regular, like we got the Mexican ale ones. They're Mexican. Like the Trader Jose's or. Yeah. You know. Yeah. And that was good. Sure. So my thought would be like, why wouldn't these be good? Well, you know what? Those regular Trader Joe's beers, I assume it's still the same. I could be wrong.

They're always brewed by Gordon Biersch. Oh, so, you know, not the world's best brewery, but some level of quality control there. Yeah. I can't believe they actually allow this to be canned and sold in their establishments. That is rough. Do you know how much you paid for that? I want to say somewhere between, like three and a half and $4. If I see one, I'm gonna try it. Just don't do it. You don't want to do it? No, it's not worth the comedy. I it's not you. Do you dude. Um, I would say do it for misery

loves company. Yeah. But this is just like zero out of ten, okay? It's like zero out of zero. Just how about this? Next time you get a Trader Joe's beer, that's like a Trader Joe's beer that you know, they have at all the Trader Joe's. Tell me I'll go out and get the same one so we can live in misery. Almost texted you, but yeah, you should. You know what? I'll surprise Greg that I was like, hey, I did Trader Joe's beers and they all fucked me. Yeah, except 3 or 4. That was. Yeah, but that wasn't a Trader Joe's

beer. It was just at Trader Joe's. That's true, that's true. That's where I score is the Trader Joe's beers. Fair enough. Anywho. Sorry, Trader Joe's, stop sucking. Air. Um, we got another poop gate email. You'll. This will brighten your palette right up called swimming pool pale ale. Ooh. Just. Hey, guys. I've been loving the horrible beer stories lately, so I figured lately they've been going on for like. Seven years at this point, seven months. So I figured I'd send one that still haunts me.

A few years ago, I stopped at a brewery while traveling. Traveling through Arizona. How was your first mistake? Ordered a pale ale that the bartender described as super crisp and refreshing. First sip tasted like straight up pool water. Not subtle either. It literally tasted like someone carbonated a glass of chlorine with a little grapefruit peel thrown in for balance. At first I thought maybe the glass had sanitizer residue or something, but my buddy ordered the same beer and immediately made the same face. We both just sat there quietly trying

to process what was happening. The bartender mistakenly asked how we liked it and my friend goes, honestly, it tastes like the YMCA. That's pretty good. I love it. The bartender did not laugh. To their credit, they replaced them with another beer that tasted completely normal. So I'm guessing something definitely went sideways with that batch. Cheers, fellas. Ryan from Tempe.

Oh. Hi. Ryan from Tempe. Hey, Ryan. Uh, I don't think I've ever had a chlorine beer situation. Uh, never have I ever. Yeah, I mean, I've had chlorine splash into my beer, but, uh, that's about it. Just like the bartender's face tastes like the YMCA. Oh, man, that shit's good. Oh, that is. I love that description. That's a great. Line. Cheers. Uh, that guy's friend. I'm gonna. I'm gonna save that one.

The old back pocket, if you will. Uh. All right. Male. @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. If you want to, uh, join the misery train with all these crappy beer stories. Flex. You were, uh, talking to pilot Tom recently? Uh, yes, I did talk to pilot. Tom. Made a bit of an ass of himself. Uh, so, Tom, first of all, nicest guy in the world. Yeah. For any new listeners, pilot Tom. Nicest guy in the world. Flies all over the place because he's a pilot for a major airline.

And whenever he stops in specific cities, we'll pick up beer and quite often shares those beers with Flex. Yes. And he's a wonderful guy for doing it. Um, he apologizes for things that he doesn't even do wrong. Like he's just like, the best guy in the world. But Tom texts me. He listens to the show, which I absolutely appreciate 100%. That's my favorite part about Tom. He's a good friend of mine. And, uh, he had recently heard the story about when I was

talking to the Molson Coors lady about Yuengling. Oh, yeah. And how I, I shit on their Yuengling beer. And she worked for him, and it was hilarious. I think that was 509 or 510. If you missed it. Right, right, right. So Tom Sent me this text and I just want to share it with everybody. Please. Unbeknownst to me, operating as the captain, Dick Leinenkugel’s was on my flight. He had apparently given his

business card to the captain or to the cabin crew, and told them that if any passengers ordered a Linnaeus to start a tab, that he would pay for it. Which obviously is a super cool thing to do, right? Which Tom says makes him an even bigger asshole in this story. Uh, because they used to carry some varieties of the Leinenkugel’s on the, uh, on the planes. I know what airline he flies for. And I remember when they used to carry the lines on the plane, right. So he says, so normal flight takes place. Everything's cool. And after we landed and parked,

I happened to be standing in the front as the people were deplaning as this dude is getting off, he thanks me for the ride and asked if I was a Leinenkugel’s fan. I still didn't know who he was, so I said, well, I'm kind of a beer nerd, and the Big Eddy series don't know if you remember that one. It was their one attempt at small batch higher gravity for pack craft beer. Kind of like New Glarus thumbprint. Not terrible, but not great either. It's probably the only interesting thing they've done in a while. Ouch.

Dude then asks, what about the rest of the lineup? And I'm like, meh, not my go to. He told me to have a good one and sort of sad nodded and left up the jetway. I asked the lead flight attendant why he looked like I killed his puppy for not loving a mid beer brand. This is about the time they told me who he was and that he was buying free beers the whole flight. Of course, I felt like a huge prick and was like, yeah, now you tell me. Thanks. I never heard anything about it

later. But understand Dick is a very nice guy and would never have complained. Uh. I read shortly after that that they had canceled the whole Big Eddy project, like literally that week. So to make it all worse. The one complaint I attempted clearly was a fresh wound probably inflicted upon him from the MillerCoors Miller overlords. We all know how the story ends with the brewery closure fiasco and Chippewa Falls and the families the attempt to buy it back from Miller. I really got the feeling from that press coverage that he's a good

dude who cares about the brewery's legacy and was hurt by the closure, impact and the community. Of course, the smartass response is then to ask, why the fuck did they sell it to Miller? Fair question. I like to think Dick and family probably regret that decision, but now that I've been accused of giving too much grace in these situations. So take that as you will. Anyway, if anyone sees Dick Leinenkugel’s wandering around Chippewa Falls in retirement, take him on a boat ride and buy him a beer for me. Poor guy. Bit of a mouthful, but, uh. Yeah. Yeah. Imagine that.

Telling the guy who started, uh, owns his own brewery that, hey, your beer sucks. And the only thing that was good isn't there anymore. Dude, I totally would have done the same thing. I, uh, if I didn't know what what he looked like. I can totally relate to that story. And so I messaged you this story like as Tom message, I copied and pasted like right away said, hey, this is great. And you said that was your response. Was that that's something you would do? Mhm. 100% fit suit. Yeah. Like, yeah, that is you to a T.

You asked me a question. I'll give you an answer. You're like, you're not gonna like it, but you're gonna hear it. Yeah, I remember not beer related, but I went for a job interview one time and, uh, it was for an editing gig at a, I, I wasn't a TV station. I think it was like a production company. Didn't know a lot about it and, uh, met this person. I think it was like at a Starbucks or something for the interview. And I showed up and she started asking me questions, you know, how do you, you know, What do you like? What music do you like?

I'm like, oh, you know, this and that. And tell me about the music I like. And something you should know about me is I hate country music. Really? Oh, yeah. Just lost all of our listeners. But I cannot stand country music. I mean, as country as I get is like the Eagles. It's like country rock, you know, like that kind of thing. I don't even wouldn't even call that country. Right. You know, some of their songs Lean Country like Tequila Sunrise and Take It Easy, they lean a little country, but, um, that's about it. And so she starts asking me, you know, are you like this?

And you like that? What do you what do you think about country? I was like, I'm not, you know, I try to be political. Not a big fan. It's you know, it's fine. And I know a lot of a lot of people like it. Whatever. Just no, but but like really. And she starts doubling down and asking me more. I was like, yeah, I just really don't like country music. She goes, okay. And it's like nothing at all. Like no country artist. I'm like, I said, I like the Eagles. You know, I went through the Eagles thing and I was like, no, know they're not country country, but they're like country rock. And she goes, yeah, not really. And they're like, yeah, like, yeah, I really don't. She, uh, very nicely told me that

this gig was editing country music video shows and that I don't think this is gonna work out. And I was like, ah, fuck. Oh my God. Because how do you recover? You don't. You can't also go. I was just kidding. Yeah, I love country. You can't recover from that. There's no recovery. You just go, all right. Well, uh. Well, I'm really good at what I do. Uh, that's the thing. I. I don't think I needed to be a huge country fan to edit their shows. Like I did a bunch of, like, editing for celebrity interviews and whatnot. I went to a bunch of red carpets

and was filming red carpets. I didn't know any of those people are. I am so bad at recognizing like celebrities and all that. It's it's horrible. I have like that mind or that face blank thing that Tom cruise has. I just don't recognize people. So I think I would have been fine. All that to say. But yes, So I totally relate to to Tom. I totally would have done the same thing and been like, I don't know, this guy is Leinenkugel’s is fine. I wouldn't pick. It out fine. I wouldn't pick it out of a lineup. You know, if somebody handed me a free one, I'd drink it, you know, and oh, here's a free one. Oh,

why are you giving me a free bill? Oh, because I'm declining Google, you know, like. Oh, great. Oh, well, anyway, your beer. It's alright. Yeah. In that case, I love it. Yeah. Uh, sorry. Uh, speaking of love and beer, I got a beer to talk about. Sure hope it's a good one. I guarantee it's better than yours. To the bullpen for beer. Yeah. He does. Uh, thanks to Erica. This is one of the other ones

she sent me. I am drinking urban roots, brewing me again. The West Coast IPA. Uh, 6.5%, by the way. Cannot a little Polaroid camera on there. I do like it a lot. That's fun. Blue background, Polaroid camera. The picture coming out was shiny, so it's like a mirror. You see yourself in the little picture. 6.5%. Three. Eight. Nine untapped with 669 ratings. Oh, you dirty dog. They say West coast IPA with Citra hops, notes of passion fruit,

lychee and citrus. Very long description on the schnoz nose buds. What would you say lychee berry smells like? It's like winey. Okay, then. That's what I'm smelling. Yeah, I always think of it as like, smells like a fermented fruit. Okay, then I'm definitely getting lychee. Not getting a ton of citrus. Definitely not getting passionfruit. I'm getting the lychee. It's like fermented and funky and a little hoppy on the nose. Let's stick with the old Tongue-jobber. Yeah, so lychees are, like, kind of gross. I don't like them.

Oh. Are they? I've never had one. They're like sweet, but it's a texture thing for me. MM. It makes me think if you were to chew through an eyeball, That's what it would be. Oh, no. That freaks me out. Um, this, as you can see, is an extremely clear bodied. Yeah, I can see your room behind it. That's right. Through it. Yeah. Uh, West coast IPA. Which is how I like my Westies. Nice and clear and light bodied mouthfeel. Like I said, super light, super crisp, a little dry. You do get a little bit of the

citrus. I assume that's lychee coming through. I actually really like it. It's nice and easy to drink. There's no huge flavors of this or that. It's not, oh, super piney or super citrusy. Just a nice little well-balanced light. I don't mean light because it's 6.5%, but lighter flavor profile beer. It tastes like a pool beer, but 6.5%. Not quite a pool beer. Yeah. No, not at all. Um, yeah. That's crazy. That lychee shines through. He said it's just citrus Citra hops. Nope. 100% hand-selected Citra hops. Bright passenger.

Oh, this actually has a better description of the can I should have read this bright passion fruit, guava and citrus shine over a clean and crisp malt body. I didn't get any guava either. Hold on. Yeah. Not. I'm not really picking up guava. It's just a nice sort of, uh, easy to drink. Little citrus, a little lychee beer. It's very pleasant. Oh, fuck. I wish I had a pleasant beer. Yeah. You know, I could say this is garbage. It's still better than your beer. Yeah. Uh, yeah. This is real pleasant.

I obviously didn't buy anything. I got one, I would definitely have another one or a couple of these. Lucky. Nice. Just nice hot day. You know, it's really hot here. I don't know what it is over there in Wisco, but, uh, the high today was 85. And this is, uh, this is hitting the spot high. Today was like 53, but it felt like 38 or something. Oh my. God. It's fucking may. What's wrong with you people? And we went golfing. It was it was a rough day out there. Mhm. Rough day on the links. You know it.

Did you go real golfing or fake golfing? No. Like real golfing. Oh, okay. Yeah. I wish I could real golf. Um. I'm not I'm not good at it at all. I can hardly like fake golf, let alone real golf. Uh, so, yeah, I I'm not good at golf at all. But it's fun to just go out there and, you know, it's like you hit a good shot every eight tries or something. It's like, man, that's why I fucking do this. You know, for like for that one shot. Yeah. Then I hit a few pretty good ones.

But I hit, you know, obviously a lot more bad ones than good ones. But it's so it's so fulfilling. It's I enjoy it a lot. It's like, uh, what's humbling? That's the word. Oh, okay. Yeah. I, um, yeah, I think, yeah, it was last year, last summer when I was in Colorado, I went to Topgolf for the first time. And, and that's what I refer to as fake golf. No, I understand. Just enjoy the shit out of it. Like I loved the top golf experience. I would I always wish I could golf, golf because it seems like a

relaxing. You go hang out with your buds, you put down some fucking Coors banquets and you just spend a couple hours having fun. That's exactly what it is like. But I'm so bad. Like, I can't even get the ball to go 20ft that it's not fun. But that's where the fun kicks in, where, like, you try to get better. Sure. And that's where I would go to Topgolf, where I try to get better because I'm not embarrassed at Topgolf, but I, I can't fucking 23 shot my way down a fairway. I would be a little too embarrassed.

I've never hit a 23. That's a lot. Um, I feel. Like that's all I would hit. The the tough thing with going from like a Topgolf type facility to the actual golf course. What I learned is like everything you hit off at Topgolf. It's like a flat surface. Right? Right. So I had to play the elements on an actual golf course. You know, you get in a little bit of tall grass, or you're on a hill or on a slope, and it's tough, right? And it's like you have to hit the

ball different at each, you know, set angle or whatever it is and. Know which club to use. Yeah. So you get an idea of going to like a range or like a top golf place. Get an idea of like what clubs you hit so far or so, and you're kind of like, okay, when you're out on the course, this, you know, there's always a marker that is like 150 yards to the hole. Mhm. So then you kind of have a mindset of like, okay, I'm about 130, I'll take this club out and see what happens. But yeah, it's, it's a super

good time again. I'm terrible. I would go, go ahead and say terrible, but it's a lot of fun. Okay. I mean, it looks fun. It feels like it would be fun. I really want to. I should get lessons. Not not a golf show, but I feel like I should get lessons. So at least I have some sort of base, you know, whatever. Yeah, I would say that would be a great idea. Yeah. And then who knows? Give me lessons. Maybe you'll be good at it. Oh, maybe it's like. Maybe it's like your secret talent. You're great at golf. That'd be.

Amazing. Golfer. Yeah, that would be a lot easier on my body than wakeboarding, let me tell you. I would think so. Oh, my God. Went wakeboarding last weekend for the first one of the season is always the worst one in terms of recovery. I feel like you feel like you got in a car accident or something. Oh my God, let me tell you so much. Feeling like I got in a car accident like a bad car accident. You know, the first day we got done and I was like, you know what? For the first run of the season, I feel fucking fantastic. And the next morning, morning two, I was like, so like really sore, but still first run of the

season Not doing too bad. And then after day two, it's always a two day thing after day two. Like we got off the lake, we washed the boat, got in the shower, and as I'm getting out of the shower, I'm like, I'm gonna fucking die. Like, that's, that's all that's left to do is die. Now. I'm pretty sure there's internal bleeding somewhere. Wakeboarding. Slept clean the boat. Death.

It's the order of events. It's a life cycle, man. Yeah, it felt like death. Anyways. Not a wakeboarding show. A little news. Crazy mountain beer scores $15 million seed round. Have you heard of Crazy Mountain beer? Not once, not ever. Okay, well, it's not that crazy because it's in a beer. And it's founded by George Clooney and his partners. You know they did. Oh, maybe we have heard of that then. Uh, well, nothing crazy about a beer, but they did a seed funding round. raised $15 million, and they're gonna go nationwide in this.

And next spring, it seems like. All right. Can't wait. Huh? I'm on the edge of my seat. Clooney. Me too. Me too. Uh, as if Apple wasn't bad enough, uh, Molson Coors reveals that Keystone light apple cans are hitting shelves. They'll be out in time for Memorial Day. Fucking sick. Which is worse, I wonder? I'm gonna say the Keystone light.

Probably. It's gotta be. That Busch light might be, like, the worst domestic light. No, it's not even the worst. It's like the. I would say it's the best college beer. Busch light. Yes. Okay. And then I feel like it's just made its way out since like it beats out Keystone, it beats out Natty, it beats out any other of those 13 to 30 packs. Is PVR still a thing?

Yeah, but it's more like a hipster beer. Well, I feel like, you know, I don't know, I don't want to say ten years ago, but let's say mid to late 20 teens, like PBR was this huge fucking hipster thing that all the lame ass hipsters were drinking. Yeah, I feel like I haven't heard about it since. Like, I don't know, Covid ish. Uh, it's really big here just because it's local, but. Oh, sure. But yeah, it's just like a hipster beer. Like if you don't want to drink, you know, Miller Lite and you get

a Pabst and it's like, it makes you feel better, but it's like, oh, hey, who brews this? Oh. By the way, PBR, I think is one of the worst beers I've ever put in my mouth. I don't enjoy it. I do not like. I had never had one until I was, let's say mid 20s. I remember I it's so bad. I remember the first time I had it, I was in Vegas with my best friend Deanna, and she took me to this bar where on certain nights they'd do like, I think it's $10 to get in, but with that $10 you get all

you can drink PBR. Okay. And I thought, well, we can do some damage there and we pay the $10 we got in. I had my first PBR in hand. I'm like, here we go. And I was like, and this is before I was a craft drinker. I mean, this is my Bud Light days. Yep. I was like, oh my God, this is fucking. I ended up paying for beer that night because I could not put down more than two pbrs. Oh yeah. Um, one of the first times me and my buddy had my older brother buy us some beer, gave him some money, we're like, hey, get us a couple 12 packs. He got us 12 pack of Budweiser

and a 12 pack of PBR. Mhm. And we're just like, okay, like whatever. Like, that's the beer people drink, I guess. Like, hey, thanks a lot for getting it. We cracked open the Budweiser and we were like, man, this is fucking sick. And then we cracked open a PBR and we said, man, this is fucking sick. So we were just like, you shit out of luck, man. Right. So gross. So then my older brother, who loves Pabst, he used to drink it all the time, and then we

would go out to the bar together. He would buy me beers, and I would have to, like, take a little tiny sip of it because he would like to play jokes on me and. Get you a PBR. PBR instead of a Coors Light. Yeah, it's fucked up. Yeah, it's super messed up. You could just bring me a banquet, please. And thank you. Yep. Just. Hey, if you're gonna spend your money, like, you know, just make sure it's something I'm gonna drink. Yeah. Otherwise, you're drinking two beers. Yeah. Thanks, bro. Yeah. That reminds me. That same friend who took me to the PBR night. We were out in my hood, and she

had brought her friend out here. Her friend was fucking nuts and only drink. I think it was Bud Light, nothing else. And we were at this bar and I thought, all right, she drinks Bud Light. I don't I'm gonna get a picture because it's like we're all getting pictures. I'm gonna get a picture of 805. It's light. No one hates 805. We can all drink it. I brought a picture over. I didn't say what it was. I just set it down. She pours herself a beer, just about spit takes. And I was like, what is this garbage? And I was like, bitch, first of all, not garbage. Uh, it's 805.

She's like, I don't want this crap. I was like, you would rather have Bud Light than an 805. She's like, I only drink Bud Light. It's the best beer. I was like, then go buy your own fucking pitcher of Bud Light because I'm not spending money on it. That's crazy. Yeah. It's like you're fucking weird. It's not like it's a gross beer. It's just not Bud Light. The exit's that way. Right? And I also feel like craft, like even craft light lagers. Yeah. Just oust anything that is mass

produced. Yeah. I mean, I say it in the nicest of ways, but 805 is the Bud Light of craft. Yeah. You say it all the time, at. Least in California. So anyways, speaking of Keystone, you ready to relive the worst part of college because Keystone Ice is set to return? Oh, why. After discontinuing it in 2021 to enforce further Premiumization Premiumization. Easy for me to say of the Molson Coors brand. They announced last week that Keystone Ice will be returning to store shelves and college

frat parties in 2026. All I think is who's gonna buy it? Hopefully nobody. They'll learn they made a huge mistake. The hobos are gonna steal it. That might be about it. That's probably about it. Yeah. Uh, let's end it on this one. Drunk man with chainsaw arrested at a campground. Oh my God, this is California. A Northern California camping trip took a very aggressive turn after a man allegedly chased another camper with a running chainsaw while drunk.

According to the Amador County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the Gold Country Campground in Pine Grove on May 7th after getting reports of an intoxicated driver and what they described as a violent confrontation. The caller told deputies his neighbor had sped out of the campground while allegedly under the influence. A short time later, deputies located the suspect's vehicle at the Pine Grove Market off highway 88. During the stop, deputies reportedly noticed several signs of intoxication. In a preliminary breath test showed the man had a blood

alcohol level of oh. .23. You're very close. 0.20. Damn. More than twice the legal limit. Things got even worse when deputies discovered the suspect already had an outstanding felony warrant out of Calaveras County tied to a previous assault with a deadly weapon case. This is not the first time. He was also reportedly on probation prohibited from drinking alcohol. Then came the chainsaw part when deputies returned to speak with the original caller. The camper told them the suspect had allegedly charged at him

while holding a running chainsaw. So on top of felony DUI charges and the existing warrant, the suspect suspect was also hit with a new assault with a deadly weapon charge. How terrifying. Yeah. Of all things to come running at you. Fucking chainsaw. Yeah. I mean, like, even a knife is scary, but it's like. Sure. Hey, the chainsaw is like 40 moving knives on. At least, you know, like, Jesus Christ.

It's not even, like, a funny thing to do. No. Yeah. That's, uh, like, I get freaked out at the Halloween displays when they take the chain off, but still, like rev the engine, right? Like even that freaks me out. I'm like. Yeah, it's like the noise alone. It's what? Yeah. There's something about chainsaws where they chainsaws freak me out. I think they're extremely terrifying because they're extremely dangerous. Yeah, I guess that's what it is. Yeah. Well, yeah, like you said, take the chain off or not, I don't care. Get that shit away from me. Get that shit away from me.

They got the guys at the haunted houses that just chase you with them. Fucking hate that. First of all, I don't. I don't do the haunted house. Me neither. I hate. Them. So you know what? I have enough real problems in my life. I don't need you to add scary things. Why am I paying you to scare me, right? I could just look at my bank account. That's scary enough. Oh, man, I just. Hey, Greg. How's your retirement? Ah! Damn it. I don't need your made up chainsaw shit. Oh, man.

Yeah, I think yeah, don't. Dumb idea. Very dumb idea. I hope this guy gets locked up and whatever. Anywho, uh. That's it. Before we hit some music, I'm gonna say hi to Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Hello. Now, here's some music. Follow us on the socials at @CraftBeerRepublic. @Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between 805538 beer, that's 2337 uh, male @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. If you've been drinking some cool water, beer, or anything similar.

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