Tongue Jobber and the Wizard of Shnozz

That was dumb as hell. All right, take 72. Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining. I'm Greg, and I am being joined by everyone's favorite buff leprechaun. And that's Flex. What's up, big fella? Is that a short joke? It's a Saint Patty's Day joke.

Because this is not cool, man. It's almost Saint Patty's Day. Or as some people are listening to it, it's Saint Patty's Day or it was Saint Patty's Day. Yeah. Insert appropriate timing here. It's around the time. Yes, this is our Saint Patty's show because it's the one before Saint Patty's Day. Yeah. We will not be recording on. Oh yeah. We will not be recording on Saint Patty's Day. My head is all scrambled. My, my brain don't work no more. I know up is down. Down is inside. I can't figure it out. But, uh, follow us on the socials.

Well, at Craft Beer Republic at Flex me a beer. Uh, all that good stuff. Eight. Five. Five. Three beer. Leave us a voicemail. Got a lot to get. No more short jokes, please. Sorry, it was a leprechaun joke. It wasn't directed at you. Uh, all that good stuff. Where was I? Oh, lots to get to. I've been holding out on some huge news story that I'm excited I can finally share with you people. Uh, some booze news, some beer research, all that good shit. If you don't mind,

let's get right into it. First of all, shout out to our top listing city of last week. And that is Miami, Florida. What up? Miami? Yeah, Miami. Coming back around again. It was funny. Uh, the real beer bastard on the gram messaged me the other day about something was like, hey, in response to something we had talked about, I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. And he goes, oh, it's from, you know, batch 446. I was like, homie, you're a little behind. You can look. And he goes, oh, you're on 451 now or whatever it was. And I was like, well, yeah, sorry. I can hardly remember what I ate for breakfast.

I don't want to be a one upper here, but I just had a friend messaged me this, I don't know, three days ago and he said, awesome freaking podcast. Oh absolutely hilarious. He said, you guys are hilarious. And I responded with, duh. I don't even remember what we talked about. I know that's the problem. And it was on the very last batch. So he's he asked, this is my buddy Luke. What's up Luke, thanks for listening. Shout out to Luke. And he said what you just get

like super lit or like blackout when you record. I said, no, I just don't remember anything we talk about. Yeah. Which I probably should, I should listen maybe. I mean. Just to kind of get things going, but yeah, I don't remember anything. The only reason I do is because I listen again, because I go back and I edit the show. That's true. Back in the day, when it was a different show and it was the three of us all in one room together, and that was it. There was no, you know, outside remote stuff like we do now. Uh, there was no need to edit unless

something major happened and I would, you know, obviously go back and edit that out, but there's no need to listen to the whole thing. I would mix it all live. The audio was done live and I would never go back. I had no fucking idea. Ever. What we were talking about. Like, I just it was so hard to write show descriptions back now, at least because I edit it. Not only have I listened to it again, but I also take notes as I edit. And here's a fun fact for the people listening, especially if you have like Apple CarPlay or something like that. My notes that I take are

actually the chapter markers. So if you have a podcast player that shows chapter markers like Apple CarPlay or something like that, it'll show you all my notes that I take as I'm editing. So it might be like Flex said. And it'll be like a funny line that I want to save for later. Or it might just be my own little quip that I put in there. So Easter eggs. Man, I'm just glad you think I say funny stuff. Every now and then. Yeah, that's what I'm here for. All the time. Fucker. One time just to see who was paying attention. I actually put it is that story about the drunk guy dressed as Batman

getting arrested or whatever. Okay. And I put the picture of him in the chapter marker, and Erica actually saw it and was like, hey, I liked your little Batman Easter egg. And she was the only one, though, so apparently no one else is paying attention. But maybe they will now. Or nobody else uses Apple CarPlay. Or that too. Yeah. Who knows. So, uh, anyways, we are way too sober. Let's fix that. Let's find out what Flex is drinking. In a world where craft beer is king, a world where muscles are bigger than growlers,

only one tongue can guide us. One man, one tongue, one tongue jabber. In this world, we must find out what is Flex drinking? A little pause on what I'm drinking. Oh, I was just listening to this intro again. One tongue can guide us. It just made me think of, like, this stupid cartoon of, like, this drug sniffing tongue, you know? It's just like it, like,

doesn't talk. Maybe he has, like, googly eyes or something like that, and he just fucking sniffs out, like, the best tasting shit. It's like Addams Family. But instead of a hand, it's a tongue. That's exactly right. But it makes that sound as it walks around. La la la la la la la la la. Yeah. Or like a Scooby Doo. Minus the whole dog body. Just his tongue, you know, just the tongue. Yeah, just. It is just the tongue I'm picturing right now. Um. All right. Anyways, that's stupid as hell. Uh, so it's. Like 200 episodes to get to that. I just deep thought tonight,

I don't know, deep thoughts. By tonight, I am drinking Maplewood Brewing companies. I've had a few Moon Fruit. Um, it is a Imperial or double double dry hopped IPA. There we go. And, uh, I gotta show you this cannot. It's just really fun. I love. Oh, yeah. The pink and the blue color. Throwback colors. Black background. Just kind of, uh oh. It's like electric and bright and. Yeah, uh, fun. The neons.

It's got all the different, uh, phases of the moon on the can and, uh, just really well done. It's simple, but effective. Great use of color. I would say this is a ten out of ten can, uh, personally, but, um, enough, uh, climaxing over the can, let's talk about what's inside. Climaxing. Um, untapped has this at, uh, four, one, three out of over 3000 ratings. So it's pretty up there. Uh, they say a luscious double dry hopped double IPA brewed with Galaxy, Citra and Mosaic hops,

Cops expect pungent waves of peach, passionfruit and mango to orbit your nose and mouth. Um, I tell you what. Super pungent aroma of mango on the nose. Um, I don't get any of the peach, which I was really, really super duper hoping for. Um, or the passionfruit for that matter. It's the super mango driven nose. So without further ado. By the way, we're talking about Wordle before the show. Adieu is my first word I always use. It's too many O's. Or is that a o u?

There's zero O's. Damn it! Um. Well, not in the way you say it. There's lots of O's. Eddie. Uh, anyway, um, so after taking a sip of this with the warmed up tongue jabber, um, my new cartoon character. Yes, there are loads of peach on this fucking thing. Um, more mango after that. And then the passion fruit. Wherever it is, it's hiding somewhere. Maybe I'll find it as it warms up,

but with the amount of peach that is coming, uh, emanating, emanating, emanating. Sure. Um, I'm sure it doesn't make total sense, but that is emanating from these liquid gold. It is almost gold colored. It is pretty gold colored. It is dancing all over my my tongue jobber. And I couldn't get enough of it. Um, so then to boot, here, uh, 8% ABV here. Oh, no algorithm. No hint of it anywhere.

Um, really happy with this. I always, always enjoy anything that these guys put out. I was going to get this the last time we recorded, but I already had two packs in my hand and I just couldn't talk myself out of not getting what I had, you know, trying to control my drinking urges, You know, like a responsible adult? Sure. Um, so I was super happy to find this, and it just fucking blew it out of the water. Congrats, Maplewood. Congrats. What's the price on the, uh,

four pack? They're 15.99. Not bad. No, this is it. Totally, totally hits the algorithm. Yeah. In fact, if anybody wants to try the algorithm crafter. Com slash algorithm. And you'll find out if your beers fit the Flex algorithm. I just ran all the stats that you described, okay. Through the algorithm. We haven't done this in a while. All right. 77. Okay, we'll take it. And it got a pretty darn tasty. And. That aligns more.

I would say this is pretty darn tasty. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. The craft beers, public.com/algorithm. All right. We got we got some things to get to. We have stuff to get to. Okay. We do, we do. We got things. First of all, I just wanted to give a shout out. And by shout out, I mean make fun. Of all the craft breweries this week that are dropping their dry Irish stout that's, you know, they're going to post something on the gram. It's like, who needs Guinness when we've got our fresh new dry Irish stout dropping this Saturday? It's like, hey, joke's on you. No one likes Guinness in the first place, right? Amen, brother.

Yeah. So you've made a knockoff? Not as good version. You have a nitro pour. That's doesn't make it taste better, right? Not for me, no. So we'll see how many people I can piss off with that one. Also the red lagers or the red ales. A lot of people drop those as well. The Irish reds. Mhm. Yeah, that makes sense. How about like a. Those are fine beers I think they're fine. Yeah. They're pretty. Tasty. Like a Saint Patrick's Day fucking pale ale or something. Yeah. That's never going to happen. No it's. Not about. The hops.

Do you like a potato ale potato. That might happen. It's like some evil twin would do. Yeah. I don't know. Just, uh, wasn't Ireland known for potatoes until, like, the big potato famine of 1485? I'm sure that was totally accurate. I think it was the 1800s. I don't history either. So. So what do you do? I show up here every other Monday night. You look cute. Call it a day. Uh, 1845. Missed it by.

That was the same numbers. It was all the same numbers. Touché. See, I was close. Yeah. Just. Maybe you're dyslexic. You're good with history. You're just dyslexic. You know what? I don't numbers as well, so that might make sense. Oh, dear. I'm gonna chalk it up to a win, I don't care. Yeah, at least a half win, if nothing else. Quick! Take over. Okay. I'm back. Welcome in everybody. Uh, what's going on? Oh, best. The best. I have to pat myself on the back.

I guess it's really patting like Deb on the back. You know, we trivia and you waving at me. I was patting you on your shoulder. Oh, I was like, what? Is he doing this thing wrong? I'm slow. You can't math or number, but I'm fucking slow. But I can virtually pat you on the shoulder. Or maybe it's this way for you. Yeah. Does that work? Here we go. That works. Oh, it feels better. Just rub it a little bit, too. As you know, we, uh, we have a trivia team with the wife and I and Deb

and Brian. What's the name again? Prestige worldwide. Wide, wide. So good. Uh, and then the company that does the trivia at Knotty Pine. We're friends with the owners, Kevin and Patty. They're great. And one of the things they do once or twice a year is what they call the best of the best. And they invite 30 of their best and favorite and most fun teams to come to one big trivia about you from other locations, because they do each each of them do a different location every night. So there's like ten locations a week, and so invite 30 teams to come.

And they do like one major, like championships. They call the best of the best. Can I just say it? This sounds fucking awesome. Dude, it's so much fun. And they do it at Tarantula Hill because they have a huge space for it so that they can fit us all. Um, this was our third one. We did the first one out of 30. We came in at like 20, you know, fourth place or something like that. The second one, we improved, I think we moved up to 13th. It was like, all right, go in the right direction. Double it up. Yeah, we were hoping for this one. Maybe we break top five. That'd be a good advancement for the

third trip. We fucking won that shit. No way. Suck it. That's awesome man. Let me put this out here right when I go out to trivia, which is very rare, it feels like a waste of, I shouldn't say waste of time, but it's like you have like the regulars. Everybody's regular, everybody plays every week. And but to get noticed and to actually be invited to a specialty night like a best of the best.

What a fucking idea. Yeah. It's so much fun. I can't get over how awesome this sounds. Yeah, it's a really fun time. And, um, really appreciate that they put it on. Yeah, it's like a shout out to all of us for showing up. Right. Right. And whether, like you said, it's the best trivia teams. It's the most fun ones. It's maybe best names get invited or. Yeah. Uh, I think that's it's almost like having, like, a season, you know. Yeah. In a sports league, it's.

Like WrestleMania for trivia. And then it all culminates to one major event. This is blowing my mind right now. I it's so much. And I know. The first I would have thought of it. Yeah, well, I know the first time we got invited, we'd only been doing trivia for maybe a couple months. Obviously it was because we were the fun team, right? We were not good yet. But you know, as we worked our way up, we won. And I have to give a special shout out to, um, not only did we because you can have up to like ten people and normally it's just the four of us. And Nick and Nicole came out and Nick was clutch on a question about TEC nine because he knows his hip hop.

And we also invited there's a team that always sits right behind us at our regular trivia called The Silly Billies, and it's two girls who are in their early 20s, and the last time we did the best of the best, one of the girls was out of town, so we said, hey, just come join us so you don't have to like, be by yourself and get creamed at best of the best, right? And so this time, both of them joined us. And it was great to have, um, how do you say a little youth at the table? Oh, I feel that. Yeah, yeah. You know, to answer, like, the Taylor Swift songs and shit. So, um, that was helpful. So it was great. So it wasn't just.

So our team name was Prestige Worldwide featuring the Silly Billies. And then the next time we went back, pay homage. Yeah, I love I love the level of respect you have going on here. Yeah. I mean, they helped us out a lot. And so the next time we had our regular trivia night, we went back in and we text or actually we Instagram message not only our answers, but like when you get there, you message your team name just so you're on the list at that point. Okay. And when I, when I message the team name, it was the 2025 best of the best winning prestige worldwide.

That's amazing. And he read it out. I was just going to ask if he read it out on the mic. Yeah. He goes and because this is exactly as they typed it and then read it out, it's like, oh, that's so good. Congratulations, man. Yeah, it was good times. We, uh we oh, we also got a giant like stein thing that each team decorates whenever they win. So it's in our possession. I need to design, like a sticker that's like prestige worldwide and silly billies and then slap it on there. And so just it's like a trophy that gets passed around. Yeah.

So the next time they do best, the best we got to bring it back with with our markings on it. So would you say this trophy is like your mom? Because it gets passed around? I got it. I'm just kidding, I love you. Greg's mom. I'd say it's closer to your mom because I'm going to put my markings on it. Oh, okay. Enough of the mom's. Not a mom show. Not yet. Not yet. Could be. Um, so that was great. And then also, I just want to say I did a little trip to

Malibu Brewing over the weekend. Did a little research. Oh, it was a lovely day. Fantastic weather. SAT outside with the dog. Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day. Had some great beers. Some great foods. Yeah, I know they've been a little slow lately because PCH, the the highway that goes along the beach, you know, from from Santa Monica. I was gonna guess that was a new drug in town. No. Pacific coast highway.

Okay. Okay. Uh, has been still. It's still, like, largely closed because the fires. So I know they've not been as crowded as normal, so it was nice to stop in and see him and have some fucking great beer and great food and great stuff. They're so good. They have a new burnt end, like burnt end turkey salad. Okay. Interesting. I've never had turkey burn ends before, but, uh. I didn't know you could burn a turkey in. Yeah. Who knew? Well, ask my mom. She can definitely burn turkeys.

That's why I do the cooking at Thanksgiving. Easy now. Easy now. It's your mom we're talking about. Yeah. Touche. So, uh. So good. Shit. And they had a couple of new beers that I tried, and, uh, I ended it off with Old Faithful, which is their. I think it's called westward. It's their Berliner, and it is 3% and delicious as fuck. So you can have, like, 30 of them. It's a classic Berliner. Yeah. It's great, I love it. It's all the. 3% or less. I love the, uh, the the beer accuracy, right? Yeah. Yeah. Wonderful. Nailed it. So let me just say it one more time.

Wonderful. Is it wonderful? Wonderful. Mr.. Wonderful. Outstanding. Yeah. Any any research? Guys going anywhere? Not me. Man. My life is pretty lame right now. Just. Did you finally get over the Lingus? Got over the Lingus? That didn't last very long. It was more like a Lingus. Probably took me down to, like, 80, 85%. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Which actually reminds me of. I saw Sam Adams commercial for, uh, American Light. Sam Adams American light. Um.

Good for them. But it's all that reminded me of. Good for them. What about you, man? I know you just went on a trip. Yeah. Well, I've been on a bunch of trips. Um, I'm gonna talk about one trip next week. I'm going to save it. I don't want to bombard everybody with trips. Okay. Um, I'm going to rehash an old trip in just a second here When I talk about easy. There, Weezer. Just don't destroy my sweater. Whoa whoa whoa. So. All right, well, let's let's fucking get to it. Let's make a call to the pen so I can talk about this beer. Can't wait.

He calls to the bullpen for beer. Corn in the ready. I hope you're not left handed. Only when I'm pulling a stranger. I am drinking straight out of Austin Fast Friends Beer Co Matamata 6.6%. It's a hazy IPA, has a 3.89 on untapped out of a 871 ratings. The brewery says our House New Zealand Hopped Hazy IPA,

designed specifically around some of our favorite hop varietals grown in New Zealand. We utilize a two row pale malt, some oats, and a touch of rye hops solely with freestyle hops. New Zealand grown cascade in the whirlpool, then dry hopped heavily towards the end of fermentation with freestyle hops, which I've never heard of before. Nelson Waimea, Pecherin and some CG cryo riwaka from our friends at Crosby Hops, these meticulously selected hops come together for an explosion of pineapple, citrus,

dank grape, orange blossom Matamata boasts an incredibly soft finish leading to massive drinkability, a constant that we strive to achieve with all our beers. We're so excited to bring our years of hoppy brewing experience to you all. This beer means a ton to us, so we can't wait to continue elevating it to an even higher quality with every batch. And I'll just show Flex here, I know. Oh wow, that looks amazing. Hazy. This bitch is. Holy ballsacks. Yeah, it's it's it's a chunky boy.

Not a ballsack show. I'm sorry. Everybody give it time. I just couldn't get over the amount of hops. You know, I heard they recently decided to add more hops to it. On the unyielding schnoz, I really get the the citrus, I really get. Orange. Orange really comes through on the nose. Okay. The schnoz. The wizard of oz. I almost spit my beer. That would be the tongue jabber character's sidekick. The Wizard of Oz. This is so dumb.

I hope after this show, you tell ChatGPT to come up with a comic strip of. I was already thinking about it. Dumb jobber in The Wizard of Oz. I was thinking about having to come up with a script for us to act out on the next show. All right, what do we get on the old, old tongue? Jobby. Fucking tropical fruit salad. Get the pineapple. Get the citrus, of course. Follows the nose. Don't get so much dank grape. Uh. Orange blossom. Yes. Um. some fruit punch like notes. It is soft af. I really enjoy this.

We we had it there when we were in Austin. We went. This was one of the last breweries we visited, and we visited because of the news that I can finally tell. As we know, our friend Monica, formerly of Pedals and Pints Brewing, moved on. Monica. Hi. Monica moved on from pedals and pints. She was working somewhere else for a while out here, and she got an incredible job offer to come be their lead brewer at Fast Friends in Austin. They got a new I don't know what the person said like director of beverage operations or something like that.

Sounds legit. Sounds super legit. She came in like as their basically brewmaster with the ability and authority to bring in somebody underneath her and in the tell me more. And in the process, somebody else left the brewery. So not only did she offer Monica the lead brewer job to eventually become head brewer. She was able to also offer Monica's husband James a job as well. Damn. Formally now formally of integrin.

So he was brewing at integrin and Monica was not actively brewing. She was, I think at a distillery. And so anyways, a couple weeks ago they had to go in. It happened so quickly. She made the announcement and then um, within I think two weeks, two. Weeks, I believe it was. Yeah. Yeah. She was moving. So I had I've been sitting on this info for like a month now at least. And it's like, I want to tell everybody. Um, but I couldn't I didn't know if it was public or not, but now it is. And I'm so excited for her. The brewery is a really cool space.

Um, really big brewery and was really nice and, you know, well kept like not your typical like, hey, we're going to a back alleyway brewery or anything. Like that, right? Really nice weird location like off the side of the freeway next to nothing but, uh, really nice spot. That was all the Southern Grist location. When I went to Nashville was okay. It was right off the expressway, and it was next to this, like abandoned, like auto garage, like weird building.

And it was it seemed super sketchy, but the the brewery was really nice and it was packed and tons of fucking people, you know. So yeah, this was towards the end of the night. We got there like within an hour of them closing wasn't packed. There were definitely people there. It wasn't packed. But we we got a couple flights tried, you know, basically as much as we could in the time we were there. We did not order the food, which we found out afterwards that one of the co-founders of the brewery or co-owners is a michelin rated chef. And I was like, oh, maybe we should add some of the fucking food. Out of here. I'm like, God damn it.

So anyways, I'm super excited for Monica and James and this opportunity for them and can't wait to go out and visit them as. Stop, stop stop stop. I'm sorry they took our jobs. I apologize as we were talking to her at their going away party. Please call me. I hate when I do that. I get all excited. No, I love it. I thought it was so cute. You're so cute. As we were talking to them at the going away party. You know, Shannon, the wife is already saying like, hey, you know, we'll come out next year for your pink boots brew.

And I'm like, wait, we will. And you know, so. Like. You wouldn't say no to that. I know, I know. But she's like, yeah, yeah, we'll plan it out. I'll let you guys know. So um, hopefully we get to go out there and I'm excited. You know, we had a bunch of their offerings. Most of them were pretty good or better. There were a couple that's like, all right, it's not bad. But, you know, I wouldn't order it as is. And she even asked us. She was like, you've had more of their beer than I have, you know, what did you think? And and we told her, like, for the most part, you know, really good stuff. You know, these couple of beers have a little work to be desired or whatever. And she goes, yeah, I already have a

plan for those beers, apparently. Like they don't have a filter on site. And so, like, they're not filtering their lagers. And I was like, how are. You not filling your lagers? She goes, so my first request is a new filter. And so she's already got plans. It's fucking awesome. I'm so excited for them. So their beer about to come up pretty good. Yeah I think it's a it's a good thing for Austin, Texas. They're getting a couple of really good brewers quite honestly. Good for them. Fast friends. Fast friends. Check them out. Go go and check it out. This hazy is delicious. It's pillowy soft. And oh I forgot to show you I love

the can art. What a fun can art. It's super fun. It looks like two friends who became together really fast, right? You know, or they're running very fast and there's a volcano. Oh, yeah. Get the hell out of there fast, friends. Hope, hope the fast friends are fast. Maybe they should join the Olympics. Oh. Good idea. Maybe they would win a Fast Friends relay race. This is really taking a turn. Not a fast friend show. I'm sorry. Or an Olympic show. Uh, next year.

All right, a little news before we get out of here. Uh oh. And we also have some Saint Patrick's Day. Fun facts we gotta get to. Oh, monster! It's coming up. I keep forgetting. It is coming up. Can't wait. Oh, wait. Oh. Oh, okay. Yes. Right. I thought you were gonna start singing the Rolling Stones for a second. Oh, no. Uh, monster beverage takes $130 million impairment on their alcohol brands in quarter four of last year. We've talked about impairments before. It's basically when someone buys

a brewery or anything. But in this case, a brewery. And, uh, the value is not anywhere near what they paid for it. So if you remember, monster bought Kannaki a couple of years back and. Yeah, uh, still losing money, you know, Oskar Blues, Cigar City, Deep Ellum, Perrin, uh, Wasatch and squatters are the main brands there. Can't say I love any of those. Yeah. You know, back in the OG craft days. In the OG. You're right, Oskar Blues. I was thinking Cigar City.

You know, my first keg that I ever had on tap here at the house was highly, highly Jai alai. Jai Jai alai. Soft jay. They're ruining some beers. They're disgusting too. So whatever. Yeah, they're energy drinks. And aren't they owned by Coca-Cola as well? I don't think so. I know they're distributed by Coca Cola here at least. Okay, so I didn't know if that was like an ownership. No, I think it's enormous. I think monster is the parent company. Okay.

I'm pretty sure just because I've seen it all over with the. I'd believe you. Yeah. You know what? How about this monster is the parent company? Wow. Smart said with conviction. Conviction, conviction. Con. There's an extra in there. It was said with conjunction. What's your function? Hey, yo. Schoolhouse Rock. That's right. That's what that's from, right? Yeah. Conjunction junction. What's your what's your function? Yeah, yeah. Never seen it. Oh, you got a edumacate you?

I'd rather not be edumacated. That was a magic school bus guy myself. Oh, I love Miss Frizzle. Oh, yeah. She's the best. Had a little crush on her. Did you ever see the. There's a post because you never really think about it when you're a kid. When she takes the kids in the school bus and they get inside of a fish, but then the fish comes into the other fish to make eggs. So the school bus actually shoots out of the fish's dick into the female fish, and they're in the

the the the fish sperm. I did not know that. Yeah. It's a super, uh, you know, under the radar, but. Yeah. Yeah. That's hilarious. Those kids went on a fucking ride, man. Now, I want to go watch that episode. Pretty sure you could look it up like Magic School Bus Phish.com or something like that. That'd be quite the Google history. Oh. Sorry everybody. Act like yours is any better. Oh.

Um. I'm not a Phish come show. No! Damn it! Do you have a list or something? You didn't get the memo. Oh, man. All right, what do we owe news? Anybody a fan of Revolver Brewing? Oh, okay. This is so hard to come back from. Uh, the now Tilray owned Revolver Brewing. They're moving all their production away from Revolver's facility to Granbury, Texas. Oh. Excuse me. In Granbury, Texas,

to other Tilray facilities. They'll keep the taproom open for now, but they won't be producing there anymore. Bummer. Yeah. Another fucked up brewery. Classic. Classic. Tilray. Classic. Tilray. Uh, we, you know, we try not to get political on this show. Other than you should have voted for Flex and Greg, 2024. You fucking idiots. Amen. Uh, but I've seen a lot of things about the tariffs going back and forth. This one I thought was interesting, you know. All right.

Cans are gonna get more expensive. Grain's gonna get more expensive. All that good stuff. But it's going to affect constellation and some Mexican beers extra hard. Not just because the grains and the cans and all that stuff. And I'm not going to explain what a tariff is. If you, uh, if you don't know by now, Google it, bitches. So constellation cannot brew in the US as of a 2013 legal settlement. A consent decree which sounds fancy. In 2013, AB InBev wanted to buy

modelo, the maker of Corona, modelo, etc. the US government stepped in to prevent a beer monopoly. AB InBev was forced to sell Modelo's US business to Constellation Brands. The catch? The deal required constellation to import all their Mexican brands from Mexico. They legally cannot brew them in the US. Huh. And now where the tariffs come in. Constellation has no way to avoid the 25% tax on Mexican imports. Prices go up. Beer lovers might feel it at the checkout. So anyways, all that to say,

because they legally cannot brew it here in the United States. Extra interesting to see what's going to happen with those Mexican beer brands. Maybe they just start coming in in bottles. Maybe. Well, I mean, like Corona already does. That's what makes it taste like shit. True God, who decided to put beer in clear bottles? I don't know, but aren't you can fact check me? Aren't green bottles even worse? I don't think they're worse. I always heard they were worse. Is that because of rolling Rock? Well. Rolling rock! Heineken, Stella. I don't all this shit. Green beers.

Is there an easy way to Google this? Let's see. I don't know. You're the the brains of the operation. Clear is the worst. Yeah. They provide the least amount of UV light reflection. Which makes sense. It's clear. Well, yeah, it's not opaque. And I think I've told this on the show before, but I heard I think it was rolling Rock, you know, has that sort of distinct rolling rock taste. Right. It was the first full beer I've ever finished in my life. Yeah. Years ago, they tried to upgrade the brew house and they moved it to a bigger brewing facility and

all this stuff, and they were getting letters complaining about it didn't taste right. And what had happened was they figured out it took tons of we can't figure out why this is tasting different and why people are saying this. In fact, if anything, it tastes better in the new brew house. Well, it took them forever to figure out that in the old brew house, there was like this little lip at the top of the steam vent. Okay. It was catching condensation and dripping back in the beer and, like, essentially skunking the beer while brewing. Oh that's wild. And people were missing that taste. And so once they.

And it took them forever to figure this out, once they finally figured it out, they actually installed something in the new brew house to catch the steam and drip it back into the beer. Come on. Yeah. For reals. That is embarrassing. Enjoy your rolling Rock! Idiots. Oh, yeah. Let's end it on this. Some Saint Patrick's Day fun facts. The first Saint Patrick's Day parade took place in 1485. I meant location. Oh. I'm sure you're close. Yeah. 1485 Street. Yeah. Nailed it.

In America, not in Ireland. Okay. I don't know. The New York City Saint Patrick's Day Parade is the world's oldest civilian parade and the largest in the US. Chicago began its annual tradition of turning the Chicago River green in not 1485. Five. But wait, um, I'm gonna say, like, probably recent, like 19 or 1992. No. 1962. Ah, damn. That was close. Close by 30 years. Uh, in Ireland.

Saint Patrick's Day was viewed mostly as a religious observance, and up until the 1960s, even had laws that forbid bars from being open that day. Yeah, because didn't the dude, like, get, uh, executed or some shit? Saint Patrick. I know he sent all the snakes out of Ireland, which isn't true, but that's the the law. Well, damn, he sounds like a fucking hero. Real Ireland hero. Yeah. Commercials for him and everything.

You don't want snakes, you call Saint Patrick. Real Irish hero. Here's to you, Mr. Snake getter outer. He snaps his fingers and potatoes grow. We should make that into a commercial. I should put some music on it. That would be pretty solid. It wasn't until 1798, the year of the Irish Rebellion, that the color green became officially associated with Saint Patrick's Day. Before that, it was blue. Is there any explanation as to what

the green. Just like clovers and or. Clovers and balloons. Uh, no. Saint Patrick's Day switched over from a strictly holy day for Catholics to an official Irish public holiday in 1903. So they filled in the holes. Yes, they sure did. Although Saint Patrick's Day falls within the period of lent, a time when the Catholic Church prohibits eating meat, the ban is lifted on the specific day of celebration. Per Irishcentral.

Each year, 5.5 million people visit New York's Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Britannica reported that before Saint Patrick became a missionary, he had been kidnapped at the age. Of. 16, became a missionary. Oh, I just heard missionary and was like, whoa, excited? Yeah, I was like. Wow. He also invented porn. Yeah. Well, the snakes were four. Oh, oh, he had been kidnapped at the age of 16, taken to Ireland as a slave.

He's originally from England, actually. Wales. Traditionally, Catholic families go to church on the morning of Saint Patrick's Day and partake in a meal that includes cabbage and Irish bacon. What about Irish bacon? Is it just like corned beef? Maybe, I don't know. Isn't that all they eat over there? I've never been. I can't, I can't wait to fucks me up some corned beef. Oh, it's my favorite. We got some in the fridge right now. Time reported that Dublin's first official celebration of Saint Patrick's Day did not occur until 1931. Huh? In terms of beer,

there's a Hundred and 74% increase in beer sales on Saint Patrick's Day compared to the rest of the year. That's it. Yeah. 74%. Huh? I thought it'd. Be 153% on. Spirits. Uh, $6.85 billion is the amount spent collectively on Saint Patrick's Day. That's a lot of money. Yeah. 31.5 million is the number of Americans who claim Irish ancestry. Second only to German at 6.4. Yeah. Um, growing up, my dad always

told me I was like, 2% Irish, which means I'm 0% Irish, right? Just enough to enjoy a couple beers. Yeah, just enough to make the the red come out of my beard when it gets long. Maybe that's my excuse, too, for my red beard. Once you hit a week, it's all except for here. It's gray, but the rest of it's red. Mine takes, like, three months. But that's just because I haven't hit puberty yet. Yeah. One of these days, those balls will drop. Yeah. Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful balls. Haha. Seems like a perfect time to end

the show. Speaking of balls. Hi Vanessa! Hahaha. Hi Vanessa. Sorry, I'm so sorry about that. Yeah. Apologies. Damn it! You know where to find us on the socials at Craft Beer Republic at Flexy. Beer underscores in between 80553. Beer 2337. Mail a craft beer. Com all that good stuff. Hope everyone stays extremely well hydrated on Saint Patrick's Day. And on that note. Top of the night, everybody.

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