Band-Aid Beer Science

Today we're kicking off PSL season, going snorkeling for beer, getting grossed out by Goose Island and 12 drunk hosting tips for her. Let's go. Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer Republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I am Greg, and over there eating candy bars is Flex. What's up, big fella? I, uh, I'm actually not eating

candy bars, but it's true. Here, here's a little, uh, relative statement. We watch Super Troopers a couple weeks ago. I've never seen Super Troopers two, so I had watched that this past weekend. Oh, did you watch it? Yes I did, I finally watched it. Good. I intended for us to do like a group Super Troopers two thing, and I just haven't been home. I figured that. Yeah. Um, but I also was like, I don't know, I assumed you would have already saw the third one since it just came out. I have not, I haven't been home. And I, I, I was unaware of that.

And the wife wanted to, uh, watch Super Troopers two before we went and saw Super Troopers three which I am happy to oblige with. And I tell you what, I'll do it again. I thought it was. I thought it was way funnier than it was gonna be. For a sequel. It's really. Good. Yeah, it's super solid. And the Canadian accents that all the actors use in it are phenomenal. Not only. So stupid. I don't know, man. It's pretty accurate. But at the same time, it's like

super satirical. And I loved it. And Rob Lowe was fucking fantastic. Rob Lowe stole the show. Stole it. So good. Anyways, not a super trooper show. Not. But I just wanted to get that out there. Yeah. No. Good. I'm glad you did. Uh, if we ever wanted to branch off and, like, stop doing a beer show. I feel like we could fill at least, you know, a year's worth of content just breaking down Super Troopers. Scene by scene. Yeah. Or something. Just start analyzing the script.

And I could spend three episodes alone on, uh, evil shenanigans. Um, you could probably do, like, uh, two months worth of just the opening scene. Yeah. Oh, easy. I mean, that was just comedy brilliance, but not a movie show yet. Correct. Now we'll move on. Uh, shout out to our top listening city of last week. And that was Council Bluffs, Iowa. I don't know why, but thanks. Yeah, a little Midwest action. Yeah. Much appreciated. Yeah. Um.

World's largest truck stop, by the way. Iowa. Oh, okay. Yeah. Drove by it. Got a big sign stop there, too. Yeah. How was it? It was big. It's big. All right. Yeah. As advertised. Glad it wasn't false. Uh, and apologies again. I am once again at a hotel, so if you hear the. This AC is so fucking loud, when it stops, it sounds like someone whining, like it turns off and you're like,

okay. So I can hear that. Thought it was just the mics going on or something with the sound. Nope. So if anybody hears that, uh, real sorry about that. Oh, I think it's about to do it. Oh, no. That was my fridge kicking on. More noise. Great. Uh, all right, before we get into it, let's find out what Flex is getting into. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers, only one tongue can guide us.

One man, one tongue, one Tongue-jobber. In this world we must find out what is Flex drinking? Well, well well. It is that time again. Uh, and tiny little, I guess hot funny story at all. But, uh, a customer came into work yesterday wearing a Drekker hat. Mhm. And I thought nothing else.

I wish, um, but I thought to myself, it's been a minute since I've had a Drekker beer. And, uh, there's stuff. It's usually pretty solid. So I went to the liquor store today with my kids, and I had to make them make me buy this because it is called Shredneck DDH double IPA. And this cannot it's like, got this buff guy. Oh yeah. He's got the dumbbell in his hand. He's got some. Version of tungus from the a MPN commercials. Yeah.

Or who's that? Uh, Muppet. The big hairy guy. Oh, Sweetums. Yeah. It kind of looks like him. Yeah, I could see that with a. Yeah, but with horns. But it's neat. And there's some weird like ghosts and ghouls all over the can. And they've always got great can art. Yeah, it's it's wonderful. So the can art got me the name of the beer. Got me Shredneck. I love working out. The guy's jacked. He's got a, you know, dumbbell. It just totally works out for me. Mhm. 18.99 a four pack. Not bad. I don't have a, uh.

No, I don't have a can on date, but it does say on the bottom of this, it is pretty funny. Uh, 16 ounce curls, four by 16 rpe. I don't know. Just kind of funny. And then they got the time stamp on there, which is weird. Anyway, not a time stamp show. Um, again, I always like to talk about Drekker labels and how I love the ingredients that they show on there. Oh yeah. Um, so the malts are used extra pale, premium Pils, malted wheat Unmalted white wheat Torrefied wheat and flaked wheat.

Yeah, I believe that's the word. Whatever the fuck that means. Yeah, I don't know. My eyes are terrible, but I'm pretty sure it says Torrefied. Um, and then the hops are using this one. Simcoe Pickering and Pickering hop kief, and then their house IPA yeast. So I cracked this beer, and I smelled it right away. And I gotta tell you, it was phenomenal. Before I really get into the spirit, I'm gonna do the whole untapped thing that we always do because. But I'm really excited about this beer. So I got really excited.

Uh, it's 8% ABV, only 221 check ins with a 415 overall rating. Uh, and they read, uh, Shredneck comes ripping out of the garage gym, double dry hopped with Simcoe Peach Green and Petrine Hop Kief. Expect notes of peach and citrus wrapped up in a swole juicy double IPA that's packed with enough hop powered muscle to make a shake weight. Nervous shake. Wait. So I cracked the can. And with Drekker IPA. Sometimes they're so pungent that

you can smell them as you open it. Mhm. And this was one of those IPAs. It was absolutely insane. I had to keep putting my hands over my nose in the can. It smelled so good. And I would just take, like, a big whiff of it. Um, and all you would get was like, peach and nectarine. Fresh off the truck. Super, super fresh. It was awesome. So then I poured it out. Greg. And it's got this wonderful.

Dude, that. Bright yellow. It's amazing. It had some effervescent head. It dissipated rather quickly, which I was okay with. Um, and then I have had tasted this. I sometimes I don't like to taste the beers before the show, but I did. So without further ado, keep drinking and I'll tell you guys all about it. It's like the perfect color for a hazy. So this fucking beer.

Not only does it smell delicious, but it's amazing. The taste is amazing. It is swole, juicy citrus. Like everything that they said it was. You don't get the stone fruit on the palate as much as the citrus, which I kind of bummed out about because it smelled so good. But with how good this tastes, you can kind of forget about that. Okay. And the one thing that really impresses me with this, which I kind of steer away from now, is double dry

hopped or triple dry hopped beers. How hop resinous they get, you know, when you get the coating on the cheeks and the tongue and it. Yeah, you know, it's kind of unpleasant at times. Couldn't even tell that this was double dry hopped. Out. You don't get that at all. It is all flavor. No bitterness, no lingering, no nothing. I would say this is a five out of five beer. Wow.

What was the untapped? Uh, for one five on just over 200 check ins. So you would call that a little low? I would say that's very low. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Big words. Yeah. I'm telling you, this is if you're a hazy IPA lover. You're a haze whore. This is everything that you look for in a hazy IPA. Okay. So I'm. Just. Yeah, I just want to throw that out there. This is a great offering. Sometimes, you know, there's stuff isn't the best.

You know, it's good, but it's not the best. Sure. This. This one, they knocked it out of the park. So, um. That's fantastic. I'm super jealous. Yeah. Cheers to them. I wish you had one. Me, too. Hey, Drekker. Hey, pilot. Tom, you coming this way anytime soon. There you go. Oh, well, uh, we got a new review on the old Apple podcast. Oh, I always like to spotlight reviews because, uh, you know, it makes us look good. We're still doing the whole thing. If you want to leave us a review

on Apple podcasts, you know, use the word or the phrase craft beer in it. It helps. And craft beer podcast just helps the algorithm. It worked. It totally. My experiment worked. And so the more we can get, the better. I'm not against trading you reviews for stickers, everybody. If you want to throw a review down, send it to me. Send me your address. I'll throw some stickers your way. I'm not against bribing. I'm not too proud to beg. Yeah, do it anyways. This one comes from, uh, VNH6V6. Says the best Craft Beer Show

exclamation five stars. The Craft Beer Republic is the best craft beer podcast out there. Short and sweet. Thank you very much. Vanessa six. Yeah. Heck yeah. Yeah. We were just talking about it earlier on the show or pre-show off air, you know, just, uh, you know, we, we were really appreciative of the people that listen, right? Yeah. And, uh, you know, you can make a couple people laugh and you feel like you're doing something. Yeah. We literally talked about two people,

one run from each of our sides of the, of the, uh, craft beer verse that reached out to us individually, like, hey, this was really funny. And that was really funny. It's like, you know what? If it takes two people to make two people laugh, I'm here for it. And coincidentally, both named Brian. Right. Touche. Uh. All right. Flexy boy, we have had a lot of disgusting beer origin stories. We have. I'm almost embarrassed to bring this one to you. Is it that bad? I don't know.

The problem is it's not. Well. We'll see. Oh, you tell me. Okay. Uh, we've had bowl balls, beer, Beerfest elephant poop coffee ground up bugs. Sure. Bring this one on. This one. Would you drink a beer brewed with mushrooms and sea salt? Oh, yeah. That's weird. It's weird. It's weird how? Not weird it is, right? And it's weird, but it's not like I'm gonna throw up weird. No. Jester King out of Texas made a farmhouse ale ale called snorkel with the, you know, two dots over

the o snorkel. I don't know. I don't know how that works. Inspired by a traditional German gosa. But instead of just adding salt, they went with Alderwood smoked sea salt and oyster mushrooms. Okay, the mushrooms were locally grown and sometimes cultivated using spent grain from previous jester King beers. Then the mushrooms were added during the boil to give the beer an earthy, savory character. So we basically got a beer. Uh, we've got beer ingredients growing out of old beer ingredients, then going back into another beer.

Apparently snorkel is actually pretty darn drinkable. It's tart, dry, a little savory, and only 4.5%. Uh. Which brings me to the question would you drink that beer? And I think I know the answer. Yeah, I mean, ten out of ten. Yes. Yeah. Look, you lost me at smoke. I hate smoked beers, but, I mean, it's smoked salt. Yeah. So who knows how. Much is that? Yeah. Say, how much is that gonna add into it? I don't know, but I would try it. That's that's a, that's pretty much a zero on the old gross o meter.

But also I've never even heard of smoked salt before. Oh you haven't. No. I mean, I've heard of it in terms of like food and stuff, but never. No, not once have I ever heard of smoked salt. Oh crazy. Um and then real quick, this is not quite beer related. I just figured I'd mention it. I went to a tiki bar. A new tiki bar. Do you like tiki bars? Do you guys have tiki bars out there? Uh, there was one in, uh, Wauwatosa. Mhm. And that's like, I don't know, 15 to 20 minutes from me, depending on how you travel. Okay.

And we went, I honestly, I don't even know if it's still there. We went like a hundred years ago. The original tiki bar. They had a book of all the drinks and every drink came in its own signature glass. Sure. Which was neat. And yeah, I mean, I had a good we had a good time when we went. So I would say, yes, I like tiki bars. Yeah. This is um, it's a city called Camarillo. It's not far from where I live.

And, uh, my, my friend was in town, my friend from Vegas was in town. And so we met up for some brunch and then. Dana. Deanna. Deanna. Damn it. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry, Deanna. Sorry. Dana. Uh, they were like, hey, brunch is done, but let's go grab one more beer down the street from Topatopa. And then we were walking down there and she goes, oh, it's the new Tiki Room that just opened. You want to try it? And I was like, all right, let's give it a shot. So we We went inside. Great job with the theming. I mean, almost Disneyland level theming inside. And it's kind of like Rainforest Cafe where, like, every half an hour,

like rains or whatever, you know, that sort of thing. Sure, sure. So we, we each ordered a cocktail. Uh, the wife and I ordered off the menu two separate cocktails. Deanna ordered. Um, she just wanted she wanted a strawberry, uh, mojito. Okay. Which which not that weird or, you know, seems easy enough to do, especially at Tiki bar. They're like, oh, yeah, we don't have strawberry. He's like, all right, can't get a mojito. Anyways, her mojito is actually pretty good. Um, the wife and I, our drinks were and I told him, I said, look, I'm gonna order this one because,

uh, I want it to not be very sweet, sugary sweet. And he goes, oh yeah, that's a great one. Get that one. All right. Same with the wife. And let me tell you, they were so fucking sweet. Really? Yeah. By the end of it, we were all sorry we didn't go to Topatopa. But, look, I know tiki drinks are sweet in nature, but we went to another tiki bar one time and we told them we're not into super sweet drinks. We know we're in the wrong place, but do you have any recommendations? And they're like, oh, here's some tart drinks. Like we're down with tart. Sour it up, baby. And they did a great job. That was a different tiki bar.

And, uh, we'll be going back to the different one. Okay. Okay. So it was all right. It was great theming. Look, if you're into, like, super sugary drinks that maybe you drink when you were 21 and you got really hungover from them. See, that doesn't bother me. I still enjoy those. Mhm. I can't it just I can't do it. So anyways, it was all right. Two stars, two and a half stars. People were nice. They were weird, but nice. Uh, the main guy. Here we go.

The main guy was definitely a mixologist and not a bartender. One of those kind of people. Oh, was he, like, uptight about the drinks? Like, snotty about it? A little uptight little snob. Like when she asked for the strawberry, you know, basically ordering off off book. You know, he was a little like, well. Mhm. And then when I, I think I originally ordered a Mai tai. I just wanted something rum based. I don't like vodka or gin. And, uh, he goes, well, that's okay, but if you get this one, it was a different rum based drink,

which was basically a mai tai with like something else. He goes, it has notes of this and it's just way more complex and whatever. And I was like, comp complex. Like, what? What are we fucking talking about? I just said, look, I just don't want a super sweet drink. He's like, get the one I recommended. I was like, okay. And then it was super sweet. So fuck himself. So anyways, I don't, I don't need to tiki it up anymore. But if you don't mind, I'm gonna beer it up. He calls to the bullpen for beer. As I said, I'm in the hotel again.

And if you remember, a couple weeks ago, I had my whole conundrum of like hitting up a basically a liquor store and finding something to drink. and I basically did the same thing. I asked ChatGPT. I told it where I was and where my hotel was. I was like, I'm away from work to the hotel. Are there any like craft beer bottle shops along the route or within reason along the route? And it's like, yes, you should go to this place. And I thought, great. So I blindly followed ChatGPT. You trust that thing way too much. Well, I didn't trust it all that much

because last time it totally fucked me because I asked a similar question last time and I even told it. You fucked me last time. And they said, oh, you're totally right. You should try this place. It's got reviews that mention craft beer and blah blah, blah. I'm like, okay, great. I went there blindly, totally took me to some dicey ass neighborhood. I thought, all right, maybe it's like a, you know, a little hole in the wall type place. And I go into this liquor store and it sure is a hole in the wall. And their craft beer selection was basically all big beers like lesion. And, uh. Oh. What else was in there? Uh,

Golden Road and that kind of shit. And then because we're in Orange County, they did have Brewery X. I thought, all right. Brewery X can be real hit and miss sometimes. They have a great beer. Sometimes it's a bad beer. It never seems to be in between. It's usually an up or down. And I they had this hazy which I'm about to drink that I'd never heard of. And I thought, let's give it a shot. So I'm drinking Brewery X roulette. Hazy IPA is brewed with Citra and mosaic hops has a 7.4% on

the old untapped know. It's been a long two weeks. Oh God damn it, it is 7.4%. It has a 3.85 on untapped with 7700 ratings. Uh, it's a fairly fresh can as we record is exactly two months old. Not too bad. I maybe should have looked up the reviews before I purchased it because it was a full six pack.

They didn't have any singles, and I was surprised that it was a six or not a four. Like, how often do you see a sixer with the 16 ounce cans? I was gonna say, that's pretty fucking wild. Yeah. You know, a 12 ounce can. Sure. I'm all for it. But that was that was surprising. Uh, anyways, that's all they say about it is that it was, uh, Citra and mosaic hops. The color on it. I'm holding it up for Flex in my shitty hotel plastic cup, which I poured it into because I wanted to get a better smell on it. It's it's a little dark. It's a little on the dark side, a little on the, um, you know,

next morning pee when you didn't have enough water situation. It does. That's actually a little bit what it looks like. You're right. It kind of does. Um, the schnoz when I stuck my nose into the little can hole, it was much more pungent, but it was like it had this sort of, I don't want to say green apple, like the smell of green apple, but like green like it wasn't quite finished fermenting, kind of yeasty smelling. So that's why I poured it into the cup to get a better smell. Honestly, when I pour it in the cup, I don't get much smell out of it, which is weird. Um, head dissipated real quick.

Slight lacing. Here we go. I've been hoping this beer would be a little bit better as time went on. I did try it before we started. It has not. Oh. Um. It's a bummer. It you know what it oh, I know I just I couldn't put my I at first I was thinking it was like a waxy taste and it just hit me what it is. It's band aid. Oh that's not good. And Band Aid taste is chlorophenols, which usually is a water issue with

either like chlorine in your water. And they didn't filter it out enough, or wild yeast or even bacteria getting in there. It totally has that band aid taste. Oh, I'm going back in like at first hit. You go, yeah, it's fine. Nothing wrong. But. Mhm, mhm. And then it just full pack of band aids. Oh, you're gonna make me vomit. Sorry about that. Me, too. Just thinking about eating band aids. Yeah. I wish I had bought, like, a Coke Zero to rinse out the old mouth or something.

It really is a Coke Zero right about now. Yeah. This is not great. Uh, like I said, Brewery X generally good or bad. This is definitely bad. 3.85. Somebody was feeling generous over those 77. Maybe they got the fact that this is a Citra and mosaic. Hazy. Yeah. Makes me think it's like a flagship. Oh. Because the. I've never seen it before. I've seen a lot of their stuff, and I don't think they have a ton of flagships. They do a lot of different ones each time. Okay. Okay. Um, I don't know a ton about Brewery

X, but from what I've seen at the, on the shelves and whatnot, I'm looking for people's reviews where they actually said anything about it and no one has said anything. But all their pictures definitely match my picture of it looking like next morning's piss. Damn. Um, 60 IBUs. Yeah. Oof! Not good. 60. I'll be using a hazy. Oh, man. Yeah, that's a lot. Got five more of these bitches to get through. It's gonna be rough. Brian, you can give one to John. You can? That's fucked up. Again. What did I.

Oh, I gave one of my bad ones not that long ago to, uh, listener Andrew when he was in town. Yeah. If anybody wants a shit beer, you live near me. Uh, if I ever make it home, I am happy to. For research. Purposes. Right. For science. Well, you know, it's funny. It was interim, Brian. I gave Andrew and Brian that same bad beer interim. Brian got the good can. Yes, I remember that. Do I need to open all five of their other cans? No. No no. Bullshit. I thought about that. Mhm. When you were taking your first sip of that, I was like, I wonder if

he opened a second can if it would taste any better. Should I do it? I think it would be a fun little twist here. All right. What do I have to lose? Here we go. From a bottle. From a can. Why don't people understand my inebriation? Beer science. Here we go. This is science in real time. It's like, is it going to be band aid or is it gonna be fresh beer?

It doesn't smell as pungent. Okay. Oh, this one is better. Oh. Holy. Hold on. I'm gonna pour it into a cup so it's fair. Well, this is fun. I'm so glad we did this. I. Me, too. This is exciting. Okay, I'm currently pouring into a fresh, not the same plastic cup. And before anybody says, maybe it's the plastic cup that makes it taste like this. No, it tasted like this out of the can. Yeah. Oh, God.

I just took a swig of the original can to make sure. So in the cup, the fresh one. It does have the same color. It is pretty. Come on, let me hold them up next to each other. So the fresh cup looks a little darker. That's just the angle I'm holding at. If I turn. It'll look a little lighter. Okay. Okay. When I look at it down on the desk. Actually, the older one looks slightly darker. Okay. With the light very even. I don't get any weird apple smell

on the fresh one. That's good. Okay. I'm going in for the taste. Get it? You fucking scientist! You. Look, it's not the best beer I've ever had. This is a better can. That's great. It's got better head on it, too. It's actually staying. Yeah, yeah, I see. Oh, my God. That's so fun. I'm so glad we did. This is insane. Now you need to give the other cans away to see if they're good or bad. All right.

Non-Murderer John intern Brian. Anybody else? Anybody wants to do some science? Oh my God. He's actually pouring more into the cup. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah. That's um. Yeah. I mean yeah, the color is not much better. I'd call it just minutely better. Um, yeah. Holy shit man, I can't believe this. That this is actually happening. I'm gonna I'm gonna keep sipping as I would anyways as the show goes on. So so 385385 untapped. Yeah.

Look, I'd give the better Ken closer to a 3.5 probably. Okay. Not a drain pour, but, you know, drinkable and fine. Sure. Uh, where the first one is a band aid drain pour and 3.5 would be a compliment. Oh, man. Wow. This was okay. I gotta keep it going. So it warms up a little to be a little more fair as the show goes on. Excuse me. So we'll check in one more time before we end things. All right, but a little news real quick. Pumpkin head is going to waste

more shelf space in the category of who wants this? The Na space is getting a pumpkin spice your face this fall. I'm just gonna chime right in right now and say nobody needs that. Yeah. Shipyard brewing will be launching their N, a version of Pumpkin Head, their iconic in quotes pumpkin ale. Go fuck yourself. Hey, by the way, I tried an athletic beer over the weekend, and, uh, it was okay. It was their hazy. Yeah. It's just like. It's just like, uh.

It's okay. It's just okay. It tasted like, um, an old school hazy, like one of the OG hazy where they hadn't quite figured out how to make it fluffy. And so like, yeah, it was like juicy. More juicy. Because. It still had a lot of the West bitterness to it. Um, it wasn't just didn't taste like a hazy, to be honest, but it did taste like an IPA. Um, the one thing that did it didn't really allow me to enjoy it as a beer was the finish. The finish really just fell off and

it was kind of watery on the end. Yes, it just goes away. Just kind of goes away. Yes. Which is why I'm like, I would never pay the same price for that if I'm out. Right? Not just the same, but sometimes more. You're right. So yeah, thanks to stout Jack for letting me try his because he knew I wouldn't spend money on one. But you know, it was fine. It was, it wasn't, it wasn't the worst thing. It was better than this fucking band aid shit. I was drinking earlier, so I'll give him that much cosign. That.

Uh, Goose Island unveils their sweet 2026 Bcbstx collection. Goose Island is hoping to steer the conversation towards dark, moody, imperial stouts in the middle of a summer full of hard sports drinks and the revitalization of light beer, the 2026 Bourbon County brand stout lineup is here, and it goes heavy on desserts and barrels. You ready for this? Uh, I'm kind of on pins and needles over here. Yeah. First is the tiramisu cask finish

stout, aged in bourbon barrels and finished in rum barrels with espresso, cocoa nibs and vanilla. Not gonna lie, I would probably try that. Of all the ones, I might try that one because I do love me some tiramisu. That's what I thought of right away, was I don't know if I've ever had a bad tiramisu. Mhm. Well, so you put that in a beer. Think I'm into it? Goose Island might be able to figure that one out for you. How to ruin it. Uh, the next one is apple crisp, stout, aged in bourbon barrels with apple oats, cinnamon, clove, and panela sugar to mimic the warmth

and aroma of a homemade apple. Crisp bacon in the oven. Okay, not gonna lie. I might try that one, too. Uh! Damn it! Damn it! This is not going as planned. Two for two. Uh. And then finally, triple oak barley wine, aged in Kentucky. Straight bourbon barrels and finished in a variety of oak casks. Uh, chinkapin, French and Hungarian toast barrels. Oh. Oh, sorry, I missed one.

And then their last one was the toast Barrel Rice Stout, aged in Heaven Hill owned Elijah Craig, Kentucky straight, straight rye whiskey barrels and finished in toasted barrels, which imparts elements of creme brulee, hazelnut and lingering oak finish. I would try the tiramisu one. Yes. So I'm not into the final two. The second two. The first two. I'm actually kind of like curious about. I'm just afraid it would be just a sugar bomb. Uh, I'm willing to share it with

somebody. I feel like with those, those big, uh, bourbon counties. You don't usually know. I can't say it. You don't usually drink them on your own, but, you know, you go to a share and somebody's got the apple, the the tiramisu, and you're like, oh hell, hell yeah. Like, I'm gonna give me some of that. Yeah. It's true. Just for science purpose. If anybody wants to buy one and let me try it, let me know. I'm not a hunter, so I'm not gonna hunt that. Yeah, exactly. Uh, thanks to the wife for sending me this one. Old Guinness found at the bottom of the ocean. A bottle of Guinness, believed to

date from 1864, has been recovered from the wreck of the sailing ship Mindoro in the English Channel. More than 160 years after the. After the vessel sank. Belgian diver Stephan. Yeah. Try not to say penis. Discovered a crate containing roughly 18 to 20 bottles at a depth of about 30m, and researchers are now studying the contents to see what has survived. The fascinating part isn't whether the beer is still drinkable,

but what it might preserve. Scientists hope surviving microorganisms, including yeast, could potentially reveal genetic clues about how Guinness was made in the 19th century and helped recreate a version of the beer from that era. Guinness. Guinness is reviewing the discovery, while researchers continue testing the bottles and searching the wreck for more. I wonder if they could figure out how it tasted good at some point. Yeah. So, um, I forgot to bring this up. I went up out for my high school, uh, 20 year high school reunion. Wow. Makes you feel old. Couple weeks ago.

Made me feel really old. But my buddy, I. Didn't go to mine. I shouldn't say my buddy, one of my buddies, uh, just was ordering Guinness all night, and he started talking about how much he loved Guinness. And I had to stop him and say, I'm sorry, man. I just. Can't. Cannot stand that beer. Yeah, but but would I try a sip of a 160 year old beer. Fuck yeah.

You goddamn right I would. Yeah, I drink that before that smoky mushroom bullshit we talked about. I would, too. And it's funny, they're talking about, like, we'll see how they brewed it 160 years ago. It's like, well, I know they used sheep's intestines to filter it. So you're gonna start doing that again. Bring it back. Bring it. Bad idea. Nicely done. We'll end it on this one. Drunk soldier allegedly steals 15 ton armored vehicle.

Two British soldiers have been arrested for an alleged drunken joyride in a 15 ton armored vehicle, which caused roughly 100,000 pounds in damage. Pretty heavy. According to reports. The soldiers had been drinking away from Swinton Barracks before returning to Tidworth Garrison. These damn names. This is British as fuck, dude. This is so British. My teeth are going crooked. And are turning into wood.

At around 1 a.m. Friday and taking a bulldog, armored personnel carrier video appears to show the. I like this video appears to show no. It fucking shows the vehicle traveling down a civilian road in Wiltshire, leaving a damaged van and SUV behind it while struggling to squeeze between rows of parked cars. The bulldog is more than nine feet wide, 17ft long, and powered by a 240 horsepower Rolls-Royce engine. I gotta say, the vehicle that size, that feels like an underpowered engine. I'm thinking they watched the

movie stripes. Yeah. And then we're like, hey, let's get in on this shit. Yeah. Uh, it requires a two person crew can carry up to ten soldiers and has a top speed of 32mph. Oh, man, I was gonna say 11. Yeah, they're not going back to the future anytime soon. No injuries were reported, and the bulldog itself was apparently undamaged. Duh. It was later returned to a parking area near the barracks. One soldier was reportedly arrested in his room at dawn after other

soldiers discovered the damage. Second soldier was also taken into custody by the Royal Military Police. The British Army says it expects the highest standards from its personnel, and confirmed the two soldiers had been arrested while the investigation continues. This is also not Tidworth first unusual drunk driving case in 2024. Another soldier from the area was convicted after crashing into a telephone pole while dressed as Batman. Amazing. I want to know more. About that one. My goodness. Yeah, man.

They're they're partying in Tidworth. I feel like if there is a place that sounds like a party place. That's where it is. It's all going down in Tidworth, let me tell you. good times. All right? Before I hit the music. I'm going back for one more check of the science. I'm so excited. I hope it's so good. Still pretty light smell. And also no band, Eddie. Waxy smell. Just to confirm, I'll hit the can as well. Confirmed.

Drinking out of the cup. Yeah. Look, as it warms up, I get a little more like the hot Bernie type flavor. Sure. I mean, 7.4%. You know, you might get it. Yeah, but overall, no fucking band aids. This is amazing. Yeah. I'm so glad you convinced me to open another bad can. And we get a good can. I love it. It's amazing. Now I want to open all the cans. Good thing you got a six pack of 16 ounce beers. Thank God they have these till I die. Who does that?

Well, this was good science. Good job. Live science. Live, live good. And, are pretty conclusive. Get me hard kind of science. Yeah, well, daddy get rocked. All right, we're gonna get some music. Gonna say hi to Vanessa. Hey, Vanessa. Hi, Vanessa. Gonna encourage you to follow us at @CraftBeerRepublic. @Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. Mail at @CraftBeerRepublic dot com. 805538 beer. Send us those beer stories or

your band aid beer stories or or whatever you got. Uh, I do believe that's pretty much everything. Hope everyone out there is staying very well hydrated. And on that note. Good night everybody. How many bad cans of beer do I have to get?

Craig, I don't know, it seems like you got bad luck.