Short Pour #2: Do We Miss...?

Short. Poor. Short. Poor. Just a little more craft beer Republic short. Welcome back in, everybody. I guess not back. It's the next episode, but whatever. Uh, this is a short port. I'm on vacation still. This is Greg. Over there is big Flex. Daddy, I'm not on vacation. Not on vacation. But he has to suffer the consequences of me being on vacation. Uh, apologies to everyone. We're keeping these short. We're just keeping your hustle

whetted as we're gone. We'll be back in the studio next week. Assuming I don't get taken out by a hurricane or some shit. And a lot, a lot of, uh, activity in the Pacific right now. Hopefully I make it back. If not, um, my beer collection goes to Flex. Hey. I win pretty decent collection still back right behind me. Anyways, another short pour. This one is a do we miss? And I've not read past the first couple of items to rapid fire.

I've got 25 questions. Do we miss these things in craft beer? I have to admit, I use chat for this because I didn't want to know all the items so I could answer it with you. I like that. Uh, rapid fire list, but feel free if anything sparks your whatever, we can talk about it. So, do you miss beer trading? No. Okay. Damn it. I knew that was gonna be your answer. I do, and I don't.

I miss getting beers that I'd never heard of before, but it's kind of honestly, I think Madison, Brian and I had talked about a trade like a year ago, and I just I said, yes, and here we are. And it's totally my fault. And I'm so sorry. I, I'm still open to trade. I just need to be better about it. The shipping is a bitch. It's such a. Bitch. Like just packing. Yeah, the price of it and then all of it, depending on who or where you're trading for and from you, you could send some really good stuff

and you can get some really not good stuff back. Yeah. It's true. Now I trust Brian and Brian, right? So I'm saying depending on who and where you get it right. But I've definitely traded with some people who are like, oh, thanks for this. I'm not gonna specifically say about state like the states, Washington and Florida. Mhm. Not the best beer. Yeah. I put it out there. I'm not gonna name names, but Alabama. Damn. You actually traded with Alabama.

This is early in the days. And they. They asked, and I said, sure. Wow. Not great. Uh. All right. Do we miss number two Wales? I like it. I think they're fun. I think it's like, uh, nostalgic and vintage. Okay. I mean, I like having something to look forward to, but I don't. I'm not a let's wait a three hour line to have a beer kind of guy. Um, I think it's fun. Yeah. Okay. 22 ounce bombers. Yes. Miss bombers. Bring em back. Okay.

I miss bombers for stuff like barrel aged beers. It was fun to, like, be able to share with your friends. Sure. You know, it seemed like everyone went away from that. I like the sours. Yeah. Yeah, I see that. Uh. Oh, I guess I already answered this one. Do you miss standing in line for bottle can releases? So I've never had to stand in line more than, like, 20 minutes. Yeah. I think my longest line was for Pliny the Younger. Yeah.

Do I miss it? I, I don't. But it was kind of part of the fun of craft beer at the time. So in that sense. It's fun to be excited for. Sure. Sure, sure. Uh, do you miss Growlers? No. Same. Not at all. Horrible beer delivery. Especially here. There were certain places that did them, and then you would go back to them and they're like, oh, we can't do growlers anymore. And we're like, why.

Then why did I spend money on this growler? Because legally we don't have a way to like fully seal them. Oh fuck off. And because it was, you know, a legality thing. Yeah. And then it turned out that you could literally just take a piece of tape, right. And put it over the cap into the bottle. And that would be a technical seal. Yeah. Just to make sure you haven't opened it. Right. Yeah. It's not like sealing. Like nothing can spill. It's just to make sure you haven't

opened it until you get out of the brewery. Exactly. So that that. Yeah, I don't miss it. Mammoth brewing used to put shrink wrap on it. They'd put a little sleeve on it, hit it with a hairdryer. I mean, yeah, it's easy. Uh, do we miss the IBU wars? Absolutely not. No. You know, at the time, it was fun. I remember five threads out here had like a 225 IBU beer, which you technically can't even measure. But no, I don't miss that. Yeah, I like flavor. I don't like, uh, having to grit my teeth. Yeah, same.

Do you miss session IPAs? I'm going to say no. Oh. I really don't. I think an IPA at 6% is not considered sessionable, but I'd say that is prime drinking quality. Okay, here's the fork. I'm going. Right. I do miss him. So we do have lakefront. Just recently came out with a beer, an IPA here. It's called Noon Game. Okay.

Um, and it's a 3.4% IPA. I'm here. Which I totally understand what it is, you know, with the name like, hey, it's an all day drinking beer. It's a game day beer. I get it. I just not here for it. Okay. It's fair. Uh, black IPAs. Yes. I missed the shit out of him. I miss, like, the one special release of the year. Mhm. Black IPA, It where you get a six pack or two and it's enough

to enjoy for the year. And then it makes you, you know, excited enough to wait for it the next year. Yeah. I will say Brit over at Knotty Pine puts one out like once a year and I'm always excited for it. It's local. It's delicious. I look forward to it. Um. Bottle shares. Yeah, I do miss those. I do too. That's some fun. Bottle shares. Social aspects. Yeah. Uh, trying beers that you've never had because somebody else is willing to either pay, travel or trade for them. Right.

Uh, and that that was always a fun thing to do. Listener. Michael, if he's out there high one time did like a road trip across the country and then came back and invited us over and we just had all these beers that he picked up on his road trip. Damn great. So much fun. Did he ask for money? No. He wouldn't. He wouldn't let us. Come on. Yeah. Great guy. What a stud. Yeah. So that was a lot of fun. Do we miss beer festivals being a huge deal? You know, I, I don't. Do I miss it for the breweries? Sure.

Do I miss it for my personal sake? No. Yeah, I do. I feel like I've been the last few that I've been to have just seen real like bam, bam, bam bam, like not exciting. You get there, you you work yourself up for it. Like, even if I went to Firestone a few years ago, which is a huge festival, at least in California, one of the, the biggest it's like the gabf of California and it was just fine, wasn't amazing. Had some good beers like no doubt, but it wasn't like what I had heard and even going to Gabf. In fact,

Firestone was better than Gabf. Uh, when I went to Gabf a few years ago with Erica, like the most fun part about Gabf was the group we were with. Right? You you did say that multiple times. So, um, dude, do we miss checking every beer on untapped? I do, I, I wish I could get myself to do it again. It's a great way to have like, a memory of what you've had. And I just talked to somebody, I think I was talking to pilot Tom

about Untappd, and he said the reason he checks beers in is to know if he's had them already or not. Same. But I don't do it very often. And I never do. I haven't done it in maybe three years. Yeah. Same. I don't miss it. In fact, I hated doing it. I felt like such a loser when I did it. But I do miss not having it. Like, I wish it just did it automatically. I hated trying to think of a description. I hated trying to think of description. I hated like, hey, we're just here enjoying beer and I'm sitting here fucking writing something on my phone like,

just hang out, have a good time. Right. Because I've been again. You brought beer share thing. I've been to beer shares where there's at least one person that's taking a picture of every fucking beer and then posting it and writing something, and then on to the next one, and they're not even there to enjoy the company. Right? You don't even talk to them the whole time, right? They're just trying to check Checking as many beers as I can. Yeah, exactly. Uh, do we miss mug clubs? No. Yeah.

I was never really in for it. Funny enough story. We just went to the local brew pub a couple of weeks ago, and they have all the mugs hanging up around. You know, the walls of the the the place. And one of my daughters said, oh, what are those? And I said, oh yeah, you know, you can become a member and, you know, you get to drink from there. And she said, oh, that's dumb. And on that note. Oh, she fucking nailed it. Um, barrel aged everything.

Not everything. Yeah. There was a big barrel age push for a while. And I like a barrel aged beer, but I don't. I don't need it like I used to. No. Absolutely not. Yeah. Um, I don't think I ever did this. Driving hours just for a beer release. Never once. Yeah, I don't think I drove hours. I don't think I even drove hour for a release. Um, do we miss collecting brewery stickers or glassware? I was a sucker for glassware.

I was a sucker for stickers. So I will say yes. Yeah. Not just stickers. Coasters. I love collecting coasters too. I will still snag sometimes a coaster from places I'm at. Yeah. If it's if I really like it and I won't be back soon or anything like that. Yeah. Uh, beer dinners. Like pairings. Yeah. Uh, not for me. I love it. I miss the shit out of it. I know it's a you thing for sure. It's very much a me thing. Lady face, which is now Malibu Brewing's second location. Back in the early days of craft,

did these big pairing dinners and they were great. Food was great. They would brew a couple of special beers just for that night. They'd make sure everything paired nicely. There were plenty of revisiting opportunities, got hammered, it was delicious. And we'll end it on this one. Do we miss arguing over whether something was to style. Uh. I mean. I still do. I'm gonna say I don't miss it,

but then I'm also gonna say, if you're hazy isn't hazy, don't call it a fucking hazy. Yeah. Like, I think we still argue over the beers, though. Do we like it? I'm not gonna say I like it. Right. Just start labeling your shit the way it should be labeled. Exactly. Uh. All right, out of everything. What's the one thing you missed the most? Out of beer? Yeah. All the things we talked about trading bombers, black IPAs, uh, festivals. Nothing that we've talked.

I just think, like the traditional sour style. Mhm. Right. If if there's something that I truly miss. It's traditional sour styles coming from breweries. Yeah. Please come back to. Gosa as we talk about Gosa all the time. Favorite, please. Yeah. Bring em back. Give me that tart, boy. Daddy misses it. Give me a tarp, daddy. Yeah, I, uh. I mean, I want to, like, be real basic here and say I missed the fun because we always talk about that. But of the list, I mean, I, I miss the, the beer dinners.

I feel like that was something that was more of a pre-COVID thing. I definitely miss black IPAs. I do miss shares. Yeah. And yeah, shares were fun. Like that was probably one of the most looking forward to type events. Yeah. All right. That was a short port number two. Hopefully next week back to to normalcy. Hopefully I haven't been taken out by a hurricane. Thanks all for hanging out with us. Keeping your whistle whetted. And you know where to find us and all that good shit. Flex. Thank you sir. Safe travels, my friend.

Hope to see you soon. I'll do my best. I hope to see me soon. Too short. Poor, short, poor. Just a little more craft beer, Republic. Sure.