Life’s Too Short for Horror Films and Low-Cal Beer

Knock, knock. Who's there? Start the show. Welcome in everybody, to the Craft Beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg and I am being joined by the Jonathan Davis to my Fred Durst. And that's Flex. What's up? But I really want to be Fred.

Oh, you can be Fred. He looks like a total molester nowadays. Pass. Okay. Have you seen like. Yeah. Have you seen Fred recently? No, I haven't. I just assumed he still wears a red hat and a white T shirt. I don't think he's allowed outside without one. But yeah, he looks so like molesty uncle nowadays, huh? Yeah, it's not. Not a good look. I think it's on purpose too. I don't. Whatever. Maybe. Maybe I'll have to Google it. I don't know. Yeah. Hey, but you know What? Not a TRL throwback show. So we'll wrap Rock 90s show.

Yeah, like we said, thanks for drinking, thanks for joining. Find us on the socials at Craft Beer Republic and of course at Flex Me a beer underscores in between. We got a lot to get to today. First of all, shout out to Pennington, New Jersey. Yeah. New Jersey. Yeah. Coming back around. Thanks for being our top listening city once again. I don't know what's going on in Pennington, but they're constantly at the top of our charts. I don't know, I like it. Especially with all the people talk about their legalities and.

Yeah, their horrible liquor laws and beer laws and all that horrible. Although they did loosen them up. I remember that. So now they can host events and football games. Now they can. Now they can have trivia and not get like fined for it or whatever because can you imagine, like, hey, what's. What's the cause of the find? Oh, we had trivia one too many nights this year. You would think that'd be a joke. Yeah, we played the radio last night and we've been fined. Oh, you're not supposed to do that, right?

Fucking. Hey. Unreal. So anyways, hey, painted. And by the way, I was looking at the charts when I was finding our top listening city and Finland coming back around. Shout out, Finland. Little, Little special shout out to them. International cbr. I know we really need to gas up the jet. McDreamy's jet or boat, whatever he's got these days and head on over to the Finland area. All right, before I get into what beer I'm drinking, I wanted to say one thing.

The election was last week. Yeah, the election was last week. If you listen to this when it drops. I think we all know we do a pretty good job of not talking about politics on the show other than when we made fun of the idiots who shot their Bud Light cans. And I think those of you that know me probably know where my politics if you know me outside the show. And I just want everybody to know that I'm. I don't know. I'm really disappointed. I'm disappointed in everyone that did not write in Greg and flex for the 2024 ballot.

Did not see that coming. I purposely didn't warn Flex. I just wanted to see his face. But fuck all y'all. We were fucking shoe in. All you had to do was write us in, and you couldn't even show up to write in flex and Greg. 2024. What a shame. But now we're stuck with what we're stuck with, so way to go, everybody. Hey, cheers to 28, man. Yeah. Not going to make new shirts, but I'll get four years out of the wear. I guess it'll be, like, a little bit more worth it.

I like it. Yeah. So time for some new shirts for 28. Oh, Jesus. All right, so now that everyone thought I was gonna get real political, let's drink some beer over here. You know, I really miss this song.

Really? We don't record. I really miss it. Oh, yeah. You should just have as like, a ringtone or something. Yeah. Because people have ringtones nowadays. Yeah. I haven't had a ringtone in a decade. My phone's just. In fact, if my phone ever falls off a silent, it's like, what the is that noise? Oh, yeah. I'm like, I must have dropped it and the button must have clicked. Yeah, something every now then my wife hits her button when she, like, puts it on the charger because she has to take her case off and, like, all of a sudden you hear like a. Like, what. What the is that? Oh, it's my phone. Make noises. Yeah.

How old are you? Anyways, I am drinking. I'll tell you the story behind this in a second, but I am drinking. Four legs brewing. Just haze, baby. I don't love the can art because it invokes some Raider Nation Raidery. Yeah. So the can art. But this is my favorite untapped listing to read. It doesn't give me the ABV. It doesn't give me the IBUs. It's got a 3.9 and no description, so that was nice and quick.

Yeah, that's real cool. Yeah, the can tells me that it's got 6.6%. And there's a government warning about drinking while pregnant. And that is about all I have to go off of which I hope. You'Re not pregnant, but did you know your sister is having a baby? Really? Is this out of wedlock? Oh, she got married, too. Fuck, where was I? Crazy. Anyways, on the old schnauzer. Real light, not a lot of fragrance coming off of this thing. Maybe like some citrus notes.

That's what shines through on the nose. Let me stick in the old tongue jobber. Dick it, baby. All right. Citrus. I'm going to say heavily on the grapefruit side of the citrus. Yeah, say it. There's some, like some bitter pithiness that you get from that grapefruit. Okay. But my favorite part of this beer, the best characteristic it has is the fucking mouth feel. This thing is so pillowy, soft. You know, sometimes you go to those breweries that are very small, you maybe you've never heard of them, and you get a hazy hazy in quotes and like, yeah, it looks hazy.

You go to drink and it's like. This is like harsh. Like they use really hard water or something. Yeah. You don't get that softness that a hazy is really meant to have. This is not the case. This is the mouthfeel that I want in every fucking hazy I drink. It's like. It is so ballet dancing in your mouth. Exactly. It's like the perfect metaphor. It really is. I don't want that fucking tap dancing in my mouth. This is some light ballerinas galloping across my tongue with notes of grapefruit and

orange. It might be a little bit of peach in there as well. This is just so easy to drink. It's got a nice bitter back end, which is more like a fruity, pithy bitter than a hop bitter. Geez, man, you better. You better slow down. This is not a boner show. You need a break for some napkins over there. This is. This is really good. So I had to bring some home. So backtrack, went on a little trip up north. Had to do some. Some family things with the wife. And there is a brewery in Brentwood, California.

And for those from Southern California who have never heard of the real Brentwood, California, I was on that list until had to go meet my wife's family too. Brentwood, California is up north, the one everyone knows about, like where O.J. simpson lived. Not really a city, just in a neighborhood that's down south next to UCLA and all that stuff. Anyway, so we were up in Brentwood, the NorCal one. And we've been to Four Legs Brewing before. The last time we were all up there and enjoyed what they had then. In fact, I think I brought some back. Had it on the show.

Walked in, had a flight, had this just haze, baby. In my flight, I was like, holy shit, we're bringing back four packs. We brought back three, four packs in total. Hell yeah. Because we, we enjoyed our flight so much, we had this. I had a West Coast IPA. They're. They're dog themed. Four legs. And instead of 49ers, it was called K Niners. But it had like the 49er logo. And we all know I'm a sucker for 49. Yeah. And dog stuff. And then they had a really good pog. They call it a sour. They should call it a tartar. A pog. We'll call it a tart ale. And it was delicious. And the wife was all horny for that one, so we brought that one home too.

Good for you. Yeah. You know, when you're out visiting family, you gotta get your beverage in. Otherwise long days. I heard that. Yeah. So we got some beverage in. And it is kind of funny, the in laws. Very friendly. Hey, where do you want to go? You want to go check out your brewery? They know I'm into beer and. Yeah, they know you're not calling. Right, Exactly. Well, the funny thing is they don't drink at all. Zero drinks. But they're the stepdad type. Figure is very happy to drive.

Hey, wanna go get your beer? Let's go get your beer. But I don't really know how it works. Your beer. Yeah. He kept saying, let's go to your brewery. I'm like, I wish, man. I fucking wish. He's like, let's go. Let's go to your brewery. Let's get your beer. So we all roll up to the brewery after some other stuff. And he goes, all right, should we wait here? Like, oh, am I just buying cans of stuff I've never had before? Like, what's the. What's the plan? So I just look at my wife. I'm like, save me. And she goes, oh, you guys don't want to go in? She's like, I don't know.

He's just buying beer and leaving. I was like, well, it's not like a grocery store. They don't know. Right? They're older folk, not into the city. Yeah, I get it. It's just really funny. Yeah. And I knew we had dinner reservations. Like, oh, are we in a rush? Oh, no, we have an Hour and a half or whatever it was like each end. So you could just go in for like 20 minutes, get one flight, just see what we like. Oh, sure. So we did it. So that was fine, but at least. Have food or anything that they could nosh on. They had a food truck, but we were sort of in between our last thing and then going to

dinner. So it was. We ended up not eating there. But they did have burger truck. Looked pretty good. Maybe we'll get to try it sometime. But yeah, so had all these beers. Delicious. Smuggled back some. Some four packs in the old luggage, as I'm apt to do. And here we are drinking a. A hazy with a Garbage Raider logo on it. I think it's funny, you know, NorCal still putting the Raider logos on things like, hey, didn't they leave your ass? Well, come on, come on. Maybe they got some fans there. Maybe they got some fans there. They do. I don't get it.

If I lived in Oakland, I wouldn't be a Raider fan anymore. Just like the Raiders left me when I was born, the raiders were in LA, right? And when I was like 5ish, they left LA, went back to Oakland. You know what I said? Fuck you, Raiders. When I was a little kid, I liked the Raiders. I probably would do the same thing. I don't know how they have any fans at this point. And most of them are criminals anyways. Most of the Raiders or most of the fans? Yes. Okay, trick question. Yeah, so now that people want to kick my ass, we'll stop talking about.

The Raiders that you know, just convicts and criminals. Dan's a big Raider fan. Okay. That's all you. Cool guy. I know. I'm joking. ADS fan. Cool guy. I don't know. I still don't understand that, but me neither. Him and his. And his fish Fry Fridays and Admiral games. I wonder if he's been out there this season. I should ask him. I told him. I was like, if you go out there, you got to hit up. Well, I was gonna say, he better not have been out here because I haven't gotten notification.

Yeah. Nobody enters Milwaukee without letting Flex know. I'd love to hang out with Dan. Yeah, hanging out with Dan is always a good time. Remember a few years, a few years ago, Jesus. A few weeks ago, we were talking about jelly. This was with Erica. Was that when I had the beer? The jelly Beer, Yeah. We're talking about, like grape jellies, especially as a kid, was like the only jelly that you and I ate. And we didn't Know it existed until we met other people.

Like other jelly existed? Yeah. Like strawberry. We never had strawberry. Yes. Yeah. And Erica thought we were crazy because. Especially me, because it's like, well, it's California. How do you not have strawberry jelly? A few days after that episode aired, a box appeared in the mail. It was an Amazon delivery. I'm out of town for work. The wife texted me, your Amazon delivery is here because it's got my name on it. I said, I didn't order anything. She goes, well, it's got your name. And I even checked the app. I was like, fuck, I must have ordered something.

I forgot about it. Nope, I did not order anything. And I said, well, I don't know what it is. She goes, well, can I open it for you? Sure, go right ahead. Hope it's not a dildo. So she opens it and she kept. She kept telling me how heavy it was. That was really hoping it was a dildo. What? The first thing that crossed your mind? Right. Every time. So she opens it, it's a package or it's a jar inside this large. Normally a large box because it's Amazon classic jar of sugar free grape jelly.

Yeah, the skinny girl stuff. Right? Skinny girl stuff. And I immediately started going through who, A, listens to the show, B, knows my address, and C, knows that I don't really eat sugar. Like, all three of these things need to come together. So my immediate thought was, well, Flex knows all these things, but Flex is notoriously not of. Not a sender of things. Well, no, not of beer shipping.

Right? So, I mean, no shade, but you hate chipping beer and all that stuff, so, like, probably do not enjoy it. Yeah, I was like, probably wasn't Flex, but I asked you anyways, just in case. Yes, I did not send the jelly. Yeah. And then I thought, well, maybe it was Erica, because Erica was on the show was not Erica. Did you. Did you find out yet? So I took it to Instagram and I said, was this you, like on the stories? Yes or no? And I got one yes hit from Enigrant Brewing. And I thought, what the fuck?

And I know who runs their gram. It's John. At least it used to be. So I assume it's still John. And so I reposted, like, integrin sent me the jelly, blah, blah, blah. And then he responded, nope, sorry, it wasn't me. Accidentally hit the wrong button. Jesus. So the mystery continued for a while until I received a text message that said, hey, do you like the jelly? What a strange text message. Well, I'M glad it didn't say KY in front of it.

My. My guess would be hi, Vanessa. Okay, that was Shannon's guess. That was my first guess. Yeah, Shannon went. Well, Vanessa has your number or your address and you know, listens to the show all the time, so knows probably that you're sugar free and this and that. By the way, hi Vanessa. And I thought, I just don't. I don't know. It doesn't seem Vanessa E to me. I said, if anything, maybe it was her husband making fun of me with the skinny girl brand. Like that would make sense.

But the text message came from, drum roll please. Scott. No. Well, I hope you said, thank you, Scott. You know what I did. I'm gonna say it again. Thank you, Scott. You're the hero that we waited for. Scott. We won't ever forget Scott now. I hope this is jelly he uses every day. I doubt it. I don't think he'd go sugar free, but maybe.

I don't know. I didn't ask him actually. Maybe he's trying to be a skinny girl. I mean, who isn't, right? Yeah, who isn't? So thanks for the fucking jelly. So weird. Oh, so weird. What a. What a conundrum. I mean, the wife's just like, what did you order? I was like, I don't know. Just open it. I don't know. Have you ever received just like a random Amazon package? Hmm. I mean, I have now. Yeah. It happened to us a couple times, like during the height of the pandemic.

And how this happened to Coley. We received like random packages with our address but not our name. And we'd open it. One time it was like salt and pepper shakers and I can't remember what the other item was the next time. But we're just like, what the fuck did. We were checking our Amazon accounts, like trying to figure out, did we accidentally add this to our cart and buy salt and pepper shakers that don't match anything in the kid? But.

And no. And then my wife started looking it up and it just said that it had been happening and that if you get the package, just keep it. Yeah, it's like some sort of scam, right? I don't know if it was a. Scam, but we're like, if you returned it, then they got your information. I forget what I. I heard something cuz it. This sort of happened to Coley where she got like a hair dryer from Amazon. Was like, I didn't order a hair dryer. Like, what is this? And Then looked it up and found out there's some scam going around. And this.

This was in the height of COVID Yeah. Okay, then that's probably the same thing. The one thing we did get one time we had lived here. Yeah, we'll say six months. Ish. Long enough to where we shouldn't be getting old people's mail. Right. And I got a box. I didn't look at it. I just opened it, and it was something like face cream or some sort of like, lotiony thing. And like, oh, this must be for you. Sure. What is it? It's lotion, Obviously. I'm not ordering lotion. I didn't order any lotion, so what the hell? So looked at it, and then I realized, like, wrong name, right address, wrong name.

And it was the person who used to live here. And first of all, fuck the person who used to live here. It took us years to get her mail to stop coming here. I think she was doing it as like, some sort of scam or she wanted people to think she still lived in this area or something. We'd get voter registration for her. And so just every time we'd write, do not, does not live here. Put it back in the mailbox. So this time we contacted Amazon and said, hey, we got this package, it's not ours, whatever. And they go, oh, okay, well, here's a sticker.

Just print it out, put it on the box, put it outside, we'll come pick it up. Huh? Fine. No problem. So we did that. And then like three days later, I guess she got my wife's number from the neighborhood. It was like, hi, this is Bitch Face that used to live there. Did you get my Amazon package? Did you get my face cream? Right. Got your face cream right here. And the wife says, yeah, we shipped it back. And she starts getting pissed. Why would you do that? Like, we could have just started using it.

I mean, right? We contacted Amazon and they said to send it back, so we did. Why would you ship it to our house, dumb fuck? Yeah, what are they gonna do? Try and sneak by and just hope it's on your. Your stoop? Yeah, so I was. I took the phone from the wife and started texting in her in her place because I was tired of it. Good for you. But anyways. Yeah, but hey, you know what? Not a face cream show. Not a face cream show. That's all for me. What about you? What's going on over there? Had an awesome day today, you know?

Yeah, Just like ice cube style. Like, today was a Good day? It was. I don't know, I would even say wonderful. Oh. I haven't had a flex day in a while. My year has been busy. Sick kids and vacations and just errands. So today I got to spend the entire day all by myself taking care of a bunch of shit around the house. And I was able to go have a nice lunch with my friends. Who? Tom. He should be a new listener to the show.

Hi, Tom. Hi, Tom. Tom's a pilot and clearly not a murderer. And not. He's not a murderer. Like, actually the nicest guy I've ever met in my life. Oh, the epitome of a Midwestern guy. And is he too nice where he might murder you? No, he's too nice to where Today I said, tom, if I were to punch you in the face, you would apologize to me that you're sorry Your face got in the way of my fist.

He must be. He's just an amazing human being. But. So, you know, Tom's big into craft beer, and he has for a while. And being a pilot, he gets to experience a lot more breweries than anybody else would. Sure. So today we were having a nice little conversation, and he said something about being out in California, and he had Pliny the Elder. And I said, oh, yeah, I still haven't had that yet.

And he said, oh, the next time I go out to California, I'll just bring you a bottle back. I said, what? He said, yeah. He's like, there's pilots that have a group, like a closed Facebook group. Apparently pilots really love beer. And he said, so glad to hear these. Right? I guess pilots are exempt from bringing liquids onto aircrafts. Oh, sure, you can bring whatever you want.

So he said, these guys tell them. No, you can't fly, Right? He said, these guys will bring extra suitcases to work on their flights. Go to the. You know where they're at, spend the night, wake up the next day, buy a suitcase worth of beer. I love it. And then fly it back home like they are. That's amazing. Pilots are allegedly the top tier beer mule in the world. Fuck, I need to know more pilots then. Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at right now. I said, tom, every time you fly somewhere, I'm just going to start having to give you,

like, 100 bucks. Right. Just get me beer from wherever you are. But, yeah. How great does that sound? That sounds amazing. Does he fly? I mean, like, commercial pilot, right? Yeah, ---------. Oh. Oh, yeah. Fuck. Does that mean he flies into Burbank I don't know. I don't know. I'll find out. I got to meet him. I don't want to steal your friend. Maybe we can have a little, like, Minaj thing going, but. No, that's fine. He's basically like, probably my uncle or cousin or something.

Oh, okay. Minaj uncle, then. Yeah, there you go. That works. Yeah. Would it be hilarious if I meet him before I meet you? It's like, no. I mean, he's a. What's close? Have you ever been to Flex? Well, his pilot friend. I mean, he's a pilot, so he can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants, basically true. He should stow you in some luggage and bring you out here. I don't know if there's luggage big enough. Hell, got him. Can't carry that on. Yeah. So, I mean, that's just fun talking, like, meeting new people, you know, and just hearing

fun stories like that. Because the fact that there's a whole Facebook group. He's gone. He's. And he's a. He was telling me he's an admin for it. So there, like, there'll be people saying, like, hey, hit up this place if you're ever here, or go here and. Sure. All this information super highway going on. I would love to see. Like, you don't even need to let me, like, comment on things. I just want to see it all going back and forth and all that stuff like that. Must be so fun to watch. Oh, yeah. I couldn't even imagine.

Yeah, just like, hey, I'm gonna be in Albuquerque. Who wants, you know, fucking Albuquerque brewery today or whatever. They. I don't know what they have out there, but that's pretty cool. I don't know. I've had some New Mexico beer before. It's me. I don't know that I have. I think Marble Brewing, I think is. Oh, that sounds familiar. I had their Belgian white and it was trash, like, all Belgian white. Yeah. I was gonna say the bar is not Sarah, but. So my.

My buddy Roger, who runs craft beer gangstas on Instagram, he lives in New Mexico. He's from New Mexico. And he said that that beer I had is a joke beer amongst the craft beer scene in New Mexico. And everybody calls that beer hot dog water. And why is it the joke beer? Because it tastes like shit. Oh, okay. And they just see who buys hot dog water. Yeah, yeah. I only drank it. I had a friend, his wife went out to Arizona for something.

She said, oh, hey, you want me to bring you some beer back? And he Said, oh, yeah, that. Like, what a nice thing for you to do. And he just tossed me the. The one shittiest one, so. Super nice. Cheers, bud. Yeah, joke's on you, but I'm sure. There'S a much better beer in New Mexico. There's got to be at least one. I would hope so. Yeah. At the very least, they've brought in beer from somewhere else and just drink it in New Mexico or just relabeled it. Yeah, well. Well, shout out to not murder. To not murdering you.

And for being a fucking badass pilot. Badass dude. Yeah, Shannon's. What would you call him? God Brother. Is that a thing? I don't think so. Godparents, son. No, that's not a thing. Yeah, whatever he is to her, he's a pilot. And I guess back in his single days, he was. He was pulling it in, if you know what I'm talking about. Like, apparently, just saying you're a pilot really goes a long way, I bet. Mm. Could only imagine. Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty cool thing being a pilot.

Dude, that was when I was a kid, that's what I wanted to do. Like, I want to be, like, a FBI agent or something like that, you know? It's like, be a firefighter and an astronaut and a pilot. I wanted to be a garbage truck driver man when I was a kid. Oh, that's funny. That's what my nephew wants to do. But he's too, like, every. Every week for garbage day. When we were kids, like, my parents would call us that. The garbage truck was pulling up to the street. Here it comes. So we could run, look out the window, because we always were fascinated by the guys

standing on the back of the truck. Oh, we never had that. Oh, you never had that? No, man. The cool garbage trucks. Yeah, the cool. And then we got a little bit older, and me and my older brother watched the movie Men at Work with Charlie Sheen and Emilio Estevez when they're brothers that are garbage men. Never saw it, but okay. Oh, my gosh. Culture yourself. So that just made us want to be garbage men even more because we were brothers.

Oh, it makes sense. Yeah. Sorry you guys couldn't live out your dream. Can't believe you've never seen that movie. Dude, I went to film school. I am the worst film school student ever. Everyone's like, hey, I haven't seen Godfather. I haven't either. Okay, good. Well, then I love you, but that's mostly gives me so much. So not a movie show, but a lot of those Movies, classics that people talk about. Godfather and what's that one with Al Pacino and he's the coke guy. Scarface. Never seen it. You know, people like the Wolf of Wall street when it came out a couple years ago.

I've never seen it. I did see that one. That's actually pretty good. Once Upon a time in Hollywood, that was supposed to be a really good one with Brad Pitt. Never saw. Never saw that. You know, so just anything that's good or classics that people have said are good. I just. I like funny, you know, Same. You know what my problem is? I have enough, like, real life problems. I don't need to watch problems. I want to laugh. I want to laugh, right? Yeah. I wanted to be fun or I want, like, I'll watch a Marvel movie.

And look, I know not all Marvel movies are great. Some are pretty trash, especially if you're a real Marvel fan. Oh, yeah. Good news. I'm not. So to me, they're all fun. I just. Fun. I go in with open arms, you know? Yeah. Like, just. I don't know the comics. Yeah, I don't know the comics. I don't know any of the stories outside of Disney purchasing Marvel. So to me, it's just fun. And shit blows up and people fight. Like, it's fun. I don't get mad at. And I do get mad at Michael Bane is bullshitting into turtle movies.

But it's just. It's just fun. I want to laugh. I want to have fun. I want to see shit blow up. I don't want real problems in my movies and shows. I don't want dramas. Life is a drama. And I tell you what I don't want to do. I don't want to pay somebody to scare me. No. I can do that on my own. Horror films, you know, the suspense films. People go to haunted houses during Halloween. Hard pass. Yeah, I can say the last horror in quotes. Like, last scary movie I saw in theaters, slash, on purpose, was sixth sense.

And that's because I was like, 13 or 14. That was like 97, 98. I was like 12. Somewhere between 12 and I was old enough to have a boner, man. And a girl wanted to go. And I was like, all right, here we go. She'll fucking jump into my arms kind of thing, you know? It worked. Oh, I thought you were gonna say you jumped into hers. No, no, no. I just. I did the whole thing where, like, I was watching the screen, but I was doing my best, like, not to actually see what was happening. And then something Would jump and then she like. And grab me. I'm like, oh, you're safe.

Make out with me worked. Did not cut a hole in the popcorn, though. I was a gentleman. Those were the classy. Yeah, you are classy. Literally, like. Yeah, literally, like. The last scary movie I watched on purpose was the sixth. Mine was the first Paranormal Activity and that was the first date my wife and I went on. Oh, okay. Yeah. Luckily my wife not a horror fan either. My wife was. She doesn't do it anymore, but good.

But yeah, boy, was I scared. I did date a girl for a while and this was not scary to me. Who was so into. What's the zombie show? Walking Dead. Yes, Walking Dead. Thank you. She was super into that. And like, I watched a couple because, you know, I was trying to get laid and boy, was that like porno without the sex. The acting to me was just so. It was. Here comes zombie. We should run now. It was like, oh, my God, just take your clothes off.

It was bad. I'm sure I'm gonna get so much. Brilliant way to describe something that's awful. Porno without the sex. Yeah, that's what it was missing. So anyways. But not a sexless porno show. I would say not. Yeah, not a sex full porno show either. So let's move on and talk about some beers. Before we get to some news, let's. Let's find out what you're drinking 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 flax drinking. Need to roll that back up. Well, today I am drinking and I put a little thought into this as I picked it out. I don't think I've ever had Hoof Hearted brewing before. They're out of New Haven, Connecticut, I believe is what the.

You know, it took me like three of their beers to realize what the name was. Yeah, yeah. Let's see here. I just want to. Yeah. Yes. North Haven, Connecticut, because I think that's the only city in Connecticut. Yeah. But Bristol. Oh, yeah, look at that. They got two. They got. Let's see here. A triple IPA. It is called Conky Dong 4up Evolution, Aquatic Ape Theory. Quite a name. The can art is fun. I know you've had this double before.

I had regular Conky Dong not that long ago. This one's cool. It's got the dongs in the water. This dong, he's got a Mermaid tail. Yeah. The can art for mine was almost exactly the same. Yeah, Some bananas in the water. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah, it is fun. It is. I got it for the can art, I'm not gonna lie. So the can art, you know, you see a big dong, Conky dong on a can and it's going to drop. Like a big dong. Right, right. So this is nine and a half percent.

Like I said, it's a triple IPA brewed with Citra, Neron, El Dorado and Mosaic hops. Price on this four pack was 1799, so I thought that was pretty worth it. But here's what. Yeah, especially at 9%. Right. So here's what really drew me in though. So clearly they've done this beer before. It has on untapped here, over 10,800 check ins. That's a pretty good number of check ins. A lot of check ins. And it's got a 4.3 collective rating.

Pretty gnarly. Super gnarly rating. I have two friends that have had this and the average of their ratings is a 3.9. So I thought, let's give this a try. Let's test it out, see who's right. And the description here, real simple. We took conky dong, fattened him up a bit and doubled the dry hop for a whopping 8.5 pounds of hops per barrel. Jesus. So it's a shit ton on the old schnoz.

No, I heard they recently decided to add more hops. Hops to it on the schnoz. It is absurdly hoppy, just like you would expect with eight and a half the way pounds. Right. I'd say maybe a little orange seeping out of that, but yeah, just super, super hopped up. Great color, great head on this. Leaving some pretty decent lacing.

Without further ado. Will warm up the old tongue each. Okay, so just like you were talking about with your beer, that pillowy softness, it is exquisite on this. There's no bite. It is smooth, the carbonation is there, but it is very low. And that's what I thoroughly enjoy on these. Yeah, real hoppy.

It's like the hop flavor almost takes over though. You know, it's got that four hop combo which I'm not a huge fan of. More than two hops in my IPA because that's when the notes in my opinion, start getting lost and you know, every, everything kind of mixes together. Let's see. Take another dive real quick. It's raining hops. I'd say maybe a little bit orange juice. Coming through here, but, man, just a lot of hops in there.

I feel like this one's going to be lingering in the morning, like after you smoke the cigar and you wake up and you got that coats. The coats. Yeah. Everything at that film all over there. But I mean, all in all, Super Solid Beer would drink again, I'd say the price per abv. Super solid. Nine and a half percent there. Um, but I think I would go on the. My. My Untapped Friends rating on the 3.9 than the 4.3, because if I drink something that's a

4.3, it's going to knock my socks off. Yeah. Like, that's one of those beers, you take that first sip and you just go, holy shit. You know, which doesn't happen often, but. Right. Where has this been all my life? Right? So Super Solid Beer. Way too high of a rating in my opinion, but I'll take it. You know what's funny when we talk about ratings, like, when you really think about 3.9 and 4.3. Not that far away from each other. No, they're not. Not even a half a point.

But when you look at a 4.3 out of, like, you say you double it, right? Do a scale out of 10, that's like 86. Yeah. So you got an eight and a half compared to a 3.9, which is just over seven and a half. I mean, you're looking at a whole bunch of different. Here's what I find really funny. And here's the thing. I'm totally with you. Like, I see a 4.3, I'm like, this better be the best fucking beer you've ever had at 4.3. But when you really think about it, a less than a half a point away than the 3.9. And if you do it like A, B, C, D, F, like school grades, it's only an 86.

It's just a solid B. Not even a B plus. We are so harsh on how we grade beers. That's the moral of the story. You're not wrong and I'm not going to argue that. Yeah. Does that make us snobs? Is that what makes us snobs? Maybe? Because, like, honestly, it's probably a 92 out of 100 kind of thing. Like A minus. Okay, the way you describe it sounds a minus. But on Untapped 3.9, motherfuckers, it failed us.

Right? And it's not just us. It's. I mean, we're. I feel like we're pretty generous with our Untapped ratings. I would say so. Some people are like, there's no in between. Right. It's either great. Right? Well, people will. Right, Exactly. People will go like, oh, I hate stouts. One or zero, whatever. It's like, then don't fucking rate it, dick face. Like, what are you doing? If you don't like it, don't rate it. Right. Or at least rate it. That beer for the people that like, does it match? And I'm.

That's one thing I'm pretty good at is like, if I don't like the beer, then it's. Well, it doesn't meet the style guidelines because I don't like Belgian beers. Really. But does this have wise and taste how it should? Yeah, absolutely. Knocked out of the park. If someone actually likes this banana garbage, that's probably a four and a half. I used to really like banana garbage. See, me too. In fact, if you. Before it was the crappy Republic, when it was the other show, I think it was the second

year, maybe it was the third, but I think it was the second year. It was our New year episodes. We came back in January and I had just come back from San Diego. I don't know why I just thought of this. And I brought back a hef from Mission Brewing and I proclaimed that halfs are making a comeback. And I'm pretty sure that's the last half I ever drank. And I could tell you for certain the hefts did not make a comeback. No, that was like 2017.

Yeah. You hopeless child. Yeah. First couple years, maybe I was noob. Who knows? It's okay. It's finding my way. It's finding my way. So we're talking about how we're snobby, right? I'll tell a little story now about how I'm not snobby, you know? Oh, like a little give and take in my life. Sure. So it was shutting down the store two Sundays ago, and I went to return one of our carts or

baskets or something, make it all look nice for the next day. And I look at the beer stacks behind the server, the checkout counter. There's some random beers. Some random beers. And then a case of, you guessed it, Greg Highlife Light. The life light is back, baby. You. You texted me. You were so excited. You texted me a picture of this shit. It is back.

I've. I've yet to have it or see. It, so you bet your ass I grabbed the 12 pack right from work to get home. I don't even think I let a can Cool down because it was out, you know, outside refrigeration. I just fucking went home as cracked can. And let me tell you, it was wonderful. Oh, it tasted so good. And more importantly, I sent you a picture of this. The lacing was on that.

God, it looked like what you think a craft beer would leave. Yeah. What you would think like a hazy should leave. Yeah. I mean it was. It was gorgeous. It was phenomenal. The drinking of it was phenomenal. The flavor was phenomenal. I hope that. I don't know what's going on with it now, but it is wonderful. I hope baby it's back. I hope it's. I hope it's not just a local thing because if it is going to need not murderer Tom to. To smuggle a 12 back.

So I was. I actually told him about it today. Too, because I was. Tom, when are you flying to Burbank? Mixed excited about the return. I would love to see in his Facebook group. He's like. Everyone's like, oh, I got plan of the younger. You know, whatever. He's like, I got a twelver of Miller Highlife light. Who want. Hell yeah, Tom, I want it. I want it. Get all the high life light you can. I'm gonna go to like Total Wine or something, see if I can find it because I've never seen it in person. I've only seen it from you. Yeah. I wonder if it is local. I don't know.

One way to find out. Field trip, everybody. Yeah, any of the local. Yeah, any of the local listeners around my hood. Let me know if you've ever seen it in a store. Because you get highlife. Right. Like regular high life is the shit beer I drink. I'm just making sure that that gets out there, that's all. Oh, yeah, that definitely gets out here. So, yeah, let me know if we'll have to have like a shit beer episode. I've been threatening this for years. We need to have a shit beer episode now that. Now that this is back. I will do it next week. I'll do after.

I'll do it two weeks in a row. I don't care. We'll just talk this week again. Delicious. This beer tastes that you wouldn't think should taste so delicious. And it does, especially as a light beer. That's. I'm so intrigued. It's a light beer and you know me carbs, I don't eat them. I only drink them if I could find a tasty lower carb beer. Yeah, I don't care who makes it. They got like the nutrition label on the cans or the box now, and it's like 100, 707 calories per can. Something like that.

170. No, 107. Oh, sounds like that feels high for a minute. Yeah, 107 is more in the ballpark there, because I think Michelob Ultra is like 96 calories and 5 carbs. Something like that. Right, right, right. But it also tastes like fucking hot dog water. It's not great. Yeah, it's not. Oh, it's garbage. When I think I've told this on the show. Went to a wedding that promised nothing but craft beer, and I killed both. Craft beer. Six. No. Yeah. And then I was left with Mick Ultra. Oh. I was like, I'm done drinking, everybody.

Yeah, that. That I do not enjoy. Yeah. Then I had to crawl back to the rooms. Cool. I don't enjoy. Dude. Bud Light. I don't enjoy New Miller Light. I don't even enjoy. I. I did in college. That was. And when I was college. Now I'm saying, like, no, no, I don't drink any of the Lights. I can't fucking stand them. So I'm excited to try the Banquet Light or the High Life. Like, excuse me. Yeah. Get it right. Show some respect. Put some respect on that name. What a dick.

Oh, man. So sorry. So, yeah, just a little proof that I'm not as snobby as maybe I come off. Some of the brewers I respect the most drink some of the shittiest beer, like, High Life and Banquet and stuff. Well. Right. But I think it was Nick Bordelin who would say. He said that those big beer companies, all those brewers, being able to brew that beer as

much as they do every day and to have that consistent flavor is something in itself. So, yeah, he learned under someone who had previously worked for Budweiser, so. Right. I remember you really learned that QC process. Right. So, yeah. Whether it's craft or big, you know, at least it's an art that you're doing, essentially. Just needs to be tasty. Right? Yeah. All right, all right. Little news before we get out of here.

Lord Hobo, man. Lord Hobo was, like, so big for five minutes. I haven't seen them in the area in quite some time. Is that. What is it? Is that, like, is a brewery? Yeah. Lord Hobo Brewing. Boom Sauce. You've seen boom sauce or had boom Sauce, right? Have I? I don't know. I definitely have. And they're out of Massachusetts or Maine or something. I've never done either. Oh, I'm surprised. I'VE never seen it, nor have I had it.

Oh, man, they're closer to you. They're out of fucking Massachusetts. Not really out of Boston. So Lord Hobo, who was hot for a few minutes with Boom Sauce and a few others, they are merging with Lone Pine Brewing. Well, because they don't want to be alone anymore. Got them. Oh, does it go to Twin Pine Brewing future, anybody? No, you lost me.

Twin Pine Mall knocks down the tree when he goes back, becomes Lone Pine Mall. All right, I'll take this off air. The company's declined to share financial terms of the transaction, which is expected to close in quarter four, pending regulatory approval. Hover Walburn, Massachusetts based Lord Hobo and Portland, Maine based Lone Pine. So the merger centers on a strategy of creating a platform for the breweries to invest in brand building, quality and innovation in their home states. They're going to operate separately, but, you know, act as one, basically.

Weird. Yeah. This one affects potentially our homie Zach a little bit. Rev Brewing, Revolution Brewing, to close their original Chicago brew pub. I heard about that. Yeah. After 15 years, they're closed. They're keeping their other spaces open and trying to move some staff around. Whoever's willing to move, I think gets to keep their job type of thing. But, yeah, some sad news. They've had that place for 15 years. It was like one of the OG craft breweries in Chicago. Right. And now they're. They're closing. They ever really recovered after. After Covid, so.

Too bad. Yeah, it's always terrible to hear. Yeah. Interesting one. This went up, I mean, literally an hour or so before we started recording the show. Lawless Brewing out here in my hood in North Hollywood, California. They've been. The show had the brewer and the owner on. Go back and listen to it. They have put out a note that basically I can read the whole thing, but the short of it is they are running out of capital and they're not looking to crowdfund because that's kind of bullshit. They are looking for investors to help them over this financial hump and that they feel

that once they get over this financial hump they're in, they would be able to turn a profit and so on and so forth. Interestingly enough, they also brewed the beer Babes Collab beer recently. Oh, no. And that is supposed to be out? Yeah, that's supposed to be out at the end of the month, end of November. So anyways, if anybody wants to invest in a brewery, Lawless Brewing in northern Hollywood, they've been on the show, their Beer is delicious. Josh the brewer knows what he's doing. I like Josh a lot. Yeah. Go check him out. Go support. Ibiza Brewing gives Alvin Kamara free beer for life.

I saw this like a couple weeks ago. Yeah. New Orleans. Ibiza Brewing Co. Is giving saints running back Alvin Camara a little something extra for his love of the Crescent City. A lifetime supply of beer. Camara, who signed a two year, 24 and a half million dollar extension with the NFL franchise, expressed his love for the New Orleans. For New Orleans on Twitter, which led to the craft brewery to make their offer. His response? Do you need my address? How we do this? Yep. Yep. The first delivery dropped on his doorstep earlier this week with the player thanking Ibiza

for dropping off my lifetime id. Can't wait to fill my cooler up. Love forever. We are in the wrong business. That. Yes, that. I don't know what we need to do, but we can't become professional football players. But we gotta figure something else out. Yeah. Because he's got it. Not only does he have millions of dollars. Right. But now he doesn't have to spend a single one of them dollars on beer. Right. How much money would we save if we didn't have to spend our money on beer? Oh.

All the things we could buy. It's just exponential. Yes. My brain is just numbers just keep. Right. It's like a slot machine. Right. Here's where we're going to end it. Molson Coors to cease operations at 10th Street. And Lynn and Kugel's Chippewa Falls Brewery. That's crazy. Came out of nowhere.

And that Chippewa Falls is where they originally are from. So that's about three and a half hours northwest of me. Okay. Real nice. You know, little tiny brewery, little tap room. 157 years. That's insane. That's so sad. And they, you know, because Molson Coors owns it, they didn't give family word of anything. No employees knew of anything.

They just. Bit of a surprise. It was a bombshell. Yeah. The fact that they're just consolidating the production though. So Lightning Cougars beer will be a thing. Yes, exactly. But yeah. The fact that they're shutting down history is. It's kind of wild. It is sad. So she brewed. It's been there so long. And thanks to Davis. Shout out to Davis, listener Davis, who sent this over to me the other day. He's your Midwest buddy that backs you up on all your Midwest claims. Love me some Davis.

Brian Earthart, EVP and chief supply chain officer Shared the news in a note to the company's distributor partners Wednesday afternoon, noting that production from two Wisconsin facilities will transfer to Molson Coors Brewery in Milwaukee. So I guess technically it'll be closer to you. We made the decision to close 10th street in Milwaukee in light of the sale of the tenth and Blake breweries as production at the facility. Facility included 19.2 ounce cans of those brands. He wrote, referring to the sale to Tilray as they acquired a bunch of stuff in the case of

linen kugels. This move follows the gradual shift of production of Liney's brands from Chippewa Falls to Milwaukee as the portfolio has grown over the years. Milwaukee already produces more than 75% of total lening kugel volume. Yes. I mean, I guess 100. Yeah. Business wise it makes sense, but it's still sad. Sad day in Wisconsin. Yeah. You'd think they'd want to keep it around as sort of a historic, right? Like a keepsake, whatever. Yeah, I mean.

I mean, you know, a lot of breweries could get rid of their original location and probably be more profitable, but it's like a. It's like a museum type of thing. I don't know. Right. And there's telling you when you're driving through that area, there's nothing else to stop at, you know. So now the get yourself a liney. The tiny little town of Chippewa Falls. It's just gonna have the falls to sit. Yep. Nothing else. No, just nothing to see here. It's just. Yeah.

The fall. Nothing to say here. Move along. Yeah. That's too bad. So you got a little bit of time left. So if you're in the hood, go, go have one last liney at Liny Boom Rip. Too soon. Let's end it there. Let's hit some music. Let's get out of here. Thanks for listening. Thanks for all that stuff. Find us on the socials at Crappy Republic at flex me a beer. Under scores in between 805538 Beer 2337 is the number mail@craft beer republic.com. i think that's just about everything.

Hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note, good night everybody.