What’s the Worst Seltzer?

Four score. And seven minutes ago we embarked on a most excellent adventure. I got a pretty good voice, I'm not gonna lie. That's pretty good. Welcome in everybody. It's the craft beer republic. Thanks for drinking. Thanks for joining.

I am Greg and I am being joined by the biggest Brewers fan I know. And that is Flex. What's up, big fella? Hey. Yeah. Go. Brewers. Best team in the league I love it. I still like that hat. Oh, I wore it just for you. Actually. That's a good hat. I wish people could see it. I wore it all day long, but I kept it on for the show tonight because I know you like it. That's a good looking hat, man. I'm telling you, we've talked about before on this very audio podcast, but it is a good looking at. If anybody wants to see it, I don't

know. Just look up Panama hat. I don't know, whatever it's like. I don't even know if that's the real word. Panama. Look up the Pinocchio hat and you'll find the whole thing. Yeah. It's amazing. It's good looking. Go! Brewers swept the Dodgers this year. Not a baseball show, but that's pretty cool. Anyway. Don't you have something else going on? We got somebody. New. Yeah, it's getting real salty up in here because our friend Erica is hanging out with us. What's happening? Hey, actually, I'm kind of glad you brought up the Brewers, because I met this little kid from SoCal this weekend that was on the

spectrum and totally into baseball, and he was telling me all these things, and I said, well, who's the best team? And he goes, The Brewers. And I was like, I know someone who might think that's really awesome. And he's like, I'm a Dodgers fan. But yeah. So did you ask him about the worst team? Um, I did not, actually. I was trying to say positive. That's my favorite conversation right now is. Who is the worst. Team? Well, it's the Rockies. The Rockies? Yeah, but they're not just the worst team this year. They're the worst team in the history of Major League Baseball.

And you went and saw them recently, didn't you? Because they're the worst team in history. And I wanted to witness history. Yeah. And I love that stadium. It's a great stadium. I think I said it on here, like, I got tickets behind home plate for $30, so. Honestly, one of the classier franchises in all of baseball. Oh, the Rockies are. Yeah, I feel like like they've never really had an issue, though. They're always decent. They're never, like, bad. They're never great. They gave us Nolan Arenado and then out of nowhere, they're

just the worst team in baseball. That's why. It's so. Funny. Like I think they've allowed over like 700 runs so far this year. Is it. Really? Yeah. Which is like 100 runs more than any other team so far. Gosh that's fantastic I love it. And they have like a -200 run differential. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. It's almost like they're trying to be that bad. It's almost like it's impossible.

Yeah, yeah. It's true. Uh, but hey, alas, not a baseball show. Not a baseball show. Yeah. So, uh, hey, socials. Follow us all. @CraftBeerRepublic @flex_me_a_beer underscore in between, of course. @Neck_nosh_llc LLC, with some underscores in between as well. Uh Erica. How are things? Things are pretty good. It's been a fun, exciting summer. Kids go back to school this week. So pretty excited about that. Um. I can co-sign that. Kids going back to school is awesome. Summer's great.

Yeah, for me, it's still like three more weeks. Okay, you're that, like, after Labor Day kind of thing. Yes, yes. But yeah. Got the big Beer Babes release coming up that I've been gearing up for, I'm super excited about. So, um, collaborating with a local brewery here. Tried to get Shannon to come. She almost did. She almost did. She actually thought about it. So Vanessa's coming. Rachel or Bruce with Bukowski is coming here. Um. It's hoppy, Tiffany's coming, and a few other folks.

It's going to be a big party. I just got my shirt. I got back from camping. I got my shirt in the mail today. It's like this. Cool, groovy. Oh, yeah. That is a cool shirt I do like. It was a limited edition. So yeah, we're releasing here in a couple weekends, August 23rd from 11 to 2 at Mindscape Fermentations. It's going to be a big party, so I'm excited about that. If you're in the Sacramento area. Yeah, yeah it's like 30 minutes outside. It's not 15 minutes I'm realistic Greg. It's not quite 40 for it's you know it's about 30. Everything's 40.

What are. You talking. About. My house is 40. This is like 30 minutes outside of Sacramento. And, um. Yeah, it's it's going to be a lot of fun. Uh, gonna have six ladies staying at the house with me, I think. Oh, wow. Sterling, I've seen that movie. Actually. Sterling's excited or nervous? No, he's taking the kids out of town. Oh. So nervous. I've. I've definitely seen that movie. Pizza delivery. No, no. Uh, yeah, we're gonna have an

after party, but it'll be, um, ladies only. And, um. Yeah, it should be pretty fun. Sounds like a rad ass time. Yeah. And what kind of beer are you guys doing? It's actually a seltzer. Because they are, um. They do make beer. They make hard kombucha. They make everything, but they make some really bomb craft seltzers. So they wanted to kind of launch something a little different. And so it's a majestic peach and it's got like a purple pea flower on it. So it's going to be like a bright purple. That's cool. I can tell you I'm very much

behind this. Yeah. Are you the seltzer train? Yes. Okay. You know, it's funny how much we did. We talk a little trash about seltzer seltzers. A few about years back. I'm just. Saying. So my issue with seltzers was, was the smoothie seltzers. Oh. Those are still gross. That was always my. Yeah. Bummer. Because the idea of the seltzers is a low cal. Yeah. Still get still get a little, you know, whooshed up and then making it a smoothie seltzer. You're just bringing in all those carbs, all that sugar, etc., etc.. Totally.

It negates the whole fact that you're. Drinking a seltzer. Trying to drink a seltzer. And we gotta help brew it, by the way. So that was fun. Gotta do a brew day with, um, them. And you know, it's not the most complicated process, as you could imagine, but it was still fun and nice. That's awesome. My big complaint about the seltzers was always, always just how fruity and sweet they were. I feel like now you can find some that are are normal. Like a lot of the Topo. Uh, Topo Chico. Topo Chico are good. They've really calmed down.

They're not quite so. Like. Here's some fruit in your face, you know? Right? It's not like Hawaiian Punch with alcohol. Or you get like, that fake fruit smell to it. Yeah, like the overly fake and. Yeah, yeah, a lot of those early seltzers, they hadn't quite figured out the flavor stuff yet. And for sure. They let me pick the some of the flavors on this. So they laid it like we had a day where it came in. They put all these fruit puree things in front of me. And so that was fun. So hopefully that turns out really nice. But yeah, I agree with you. Some of those are really funky. I like the high noon's too.

Those are pretty good. Yeah, I like the peach high Noon's peach. Yeah, I think that's my favorite high noon flavor. The only one I've ever had was the watermelon. And it was not good. Yeah, it was pretty trashed. Like I've come around to not dumping it, but it's, um, it's trash, but it's not as bad as the pineapple. The pineapples. It's garbage. Yeah, I just can't. Is it the Costco one Shannon can't have or something like that? You know, let's get nerdy. Yeah. Costco, the Kirkland seltzers. Yeah. She had some weird allergic reaction to a couple of the flavors they've recently reformulated them, so we

bought them to see if things changed. And she seems to be okay now. Okay. It's weird. Super weird, but good because now I don't have to keep spending the money on iTunes. Yeah, you can go through those pretty fast. Back to being a cheap ass with my Kirkland cell tees. So hell yeah. Yeah. Hell yeah. Anywho, but alas, this is a beer show. It is not a yes. Not necessarily. I have a feeling we'll get there. We'll get there. We're working our way in. We respect it. Some of it.

Thank you. Yeah. Yes, exactly. So if you guys don't mind, I'm gonna. I'm gonna crack this open. I am so thirsty. Okay. You deserve it. You've had a day. It's been a day. Out of my beer. Out of my head. Like a hundred degrees here. I don't know about you guys, but. The 90s here. 76. It was a high 85 today. That's perfect.

Dew point was 70, though. It was very gross. Okay. Lost me. There. Uh, today I am drinking. I've never even heard of this brewery before. Sorry. Brewery. I'm drinking old Irving Brewing Co. Yeah. In Illinois? Yeah, in Chicago, according to the can. Uh, it's a collab with Chaos Brew Club, and it's called lutefisk. A sour fruited ale. You know, like the Swedish fish. Lutefisk is. So. Gross. Gross. Oh my gosh, super gross. It's a very Scandinavian. Is it?

Oh yeah. That's the fermented fish thing right? Yeah, I. Think so, yeah. Yeah. This though is a 6% with a 403 untapped. Okay. Kettle soured ale brewed with cranberries and Swedish fish candy. It's a collab with James Sai of the Chaos Brew Club. And I have to admit, this came from the Tavour. And I bought it for the wife because she loves the sour brew. The wife. She loves sours. And so, like, whenever I do some IPA orders,

you know, like, I'll, I'll get some sours for her because I'm nice and I don't want her to touch my beer. But she hadn't drank this yet, and that's her loss. So her loss is my gain on the schnapps. Bring it. The what? On the what? The nose buds. There we go. I can't pick out the fruit because I think it's the Swedish fish candy. It smells like clusterfuck fruit and like, gummies or something. And. And sourness, which I know Flex and

I always talk about sour beers. Have a specific. Smell. The sour. On yield. Tongue-jobber. Oh, man, that is taught. Maybe that's where the cranberries come in. I think. So it is super tart. You do get a little cranberry. It is kind of sweet, like a Swedish fish. Uh, luckily, it's not like, overly sweet. The sour really cuts the sweetness down. Um, and I apologize if for the rest of the show, I'm going. I'm gonna try my my best not to, because this is taut and acidic

and puckery. It's pretty. Not bad. I don't know that I'd give it the 403. Um. God. Excuse my voice cracking. I was yelling earlier. Uh, I'd probably knock this down a little bit closer, like a three, seven, five or something. Like. Good. Not amazing. Uh, I'm glad I only have one. I don't think I'd buy a four pack. Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah, I'm glad I've tried. I would say maybe a three. Then, uh, yeah. Buy a four pack. I mean. It's one of those things that I appreciate but don't need to drink a bunch of. Okay, if that makes sense. Like, you know,

the wife would probably be okay with a four pack. Okay. I on the other, because it's a good beer, but I just, I don't I don't need four of these. It's real sour. Oh, in that sense. Yeah. yeah. So. But but a good beard. Definitely a good beard. Uh, before I forget, top listening city shout out to North Hills, California for listening in last week. I think that's out near Chew, homie. Chew Your Beer out there so Chew. Hey Chew. Um, also a shout out to Jan from our mutual Friend brewing last week for for being on the show and

hanging out and all that good stuff. And, uh, if you haven't listened yet, go back to last week for 72, I believe that was, uh, Jan, the head brewer over at our mutual friend, hung out with him when I was in Denver. And, uh, the story I tell of of telling friends that were going to that brewery and them getting confused is actually when we were with Erica at Gabf a couple years ago, I remember telling the group, like, hey, we're gonna go to our mutual Friend Brewing. And I think it was, uh, Mcdreamy's sister was like, oh, your friend has a brewery. I was. Like. Yeah, no, no, no, it's called Our Mutual Friend Brewing.

And so, uh, but yeah, really good beer. And, uh, he's a cool guy and had a fun conversation. Got some really nice feedback from a couple listeners. So so thanks everybody. I like the part they, they collabed with Fort George, which is like the biggest brewery in Astoria. And Fort George is getting out there, especially with their three way IPA. Um, but we went to high school with those those guys that started that brewery. Yeah, yeah, they're same age as myself and my brother. So yeah, that's pretty cool to hear. They're like, oh yeah, Fort George, like, oh, from my small town. Yeah. Even from Astoria. I was like, oh, I know someone from.

Astoria. From Greenville. Boonville. So uh, yeah. Check that out if you haven't. It was a good time. And definitely check out their beer if you're in Denver or if you see it anywhere. I was really disappointed when, uh, he was talking about Destro. I was like, when are you coming out to the West Coast? And he's like, oh, we pulled out of the West Coast. I was like. Oh, oh. And our mutual. Friend, unfortunately strong. If if you see Fort George again, tell him, hey, you guys. Uh. See you Greg. Got it.

I smiled, I, I thought, I thought it was well played. Yeah. You know, I love that movie. It's quite an adventure. That is for sure. I never even saw it until I was an adult. I was very much an adult before. What wrong with your childhood? Let me get my list out. Uh, I don't pay you for therapy. You don't want. To pay somebody by the hour for that, bud. No imagination. Yeah, they they earn their keep. Uh, and then also just wanted to to say thanks to everybody for the birthday wishes and the birthday

hanging outs and all that stuff on the day of my birth, which was a Tuesday. How was the happy hour? It was. Good. You never got back to me on the happy hour because I was drunk. We went to this place called Plata, which is a Mexican restaurant out here, and they have a good happy hour, like, they had like $8, Margie's and, uh, $10 ceviche. And the Margie's were were not small and so had a couple margs had some ceviche, had, uh, you know, like some guac and some other apps and that kind of stuff.

And Nicole came out. So did Devin. Brian. And so did Kevin and Patty, who are, um, you know, Kevin and Patty do the trivia. They were all friends with now. And so, uh, did that, and then we went to one of their trivias that night, the one that Patty was hosting. And it was great. It was a location we've never been to. It was a pizza place, and they didn't have a ton of teams at night. It was like five teams total or whatever. And we just walked in and we fucking annihilated and we won and we got the gift card and then we just walked out. I was like, we'll probably. Never be back. We just fucked some other team

out of a gift card. And we'll. Never come and. Use it. That's amazing. I was just laughing at that. Could be like the new weekly routine. It's just going to a new trivia spot. Dude, how. Good would. That. Be? Just owning it. Yeah, and just like, mic dropping and walking out. That would be so amazing. And the funny thing is, the team we beat was the owner of the place, his team. But he wasn't there that night, and I he if he wins, he doesn't take the prize obviously because he's the owner. But so they were they thought they had a chance at at taking

the the gift card. And we swooped in and were like, no. You should, you should like like the gift card on fire too. Yeah. You're helping out the you say it was a brewery or whatever. You know. It's. A pizza place. We will never be back here or just raffle it off on Instagram. Oh, that's a good idea. It's not like we didn't like the place. We had some food. It was good. You know, they had a couple of decent beers on tap, but, uh. But, yeah. Fuck you guys. We're gonna win and never come back. That's amazing, I love it. That was kind of a birthday present

to myself. Just being a dick. But good times. It's your birthday. Oh. All right. Excellent. That was a lot good. Yeah. It wasn't that much. Oh, okay. It was. It was a good amount. That was a medium amount. Yeah, it was in the pocket. That's perfect. Nailed it. It was perfect timing right there. Uh. Good. Shit. Uh. All right, well, before we move on any further, uh, Erica want to want to talk about some beverages. Yeah, sure. That's not a beverage. Yeah. Let's make a call. Let's do it. Who calls to the bullpen for beer?

Speaking of baseball. Oh, yeah. Baseball. Damn it. No, not not not backslide, you guys. Okay. This is. I'm probably gonna say it wrong from Pfriem family brewers in Portland. Oh, yeah. Pfriem. They're, like, big time award winners for all kinds of things, right? I haven't actually ever been to the brewery in Portland, but of course, you know, we have family there. We visit. Um, so that was from one of our last visits. So it's a West Coast IPA, and it's a nice little 12 ounce package. Right. Because lightweight here loves a

nice little 12 ouncer. And it is. Wait, you're a lightweight. Yeah. Well, yeah I am. Oh. Yeah. News. News to me. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Well, I'm just slowly letting things out. I've known you guys a few years. I got to kind of ease into these things. So. A little at a time. Um, so it has had 3000 check ins on untapped 3.92. It is an American IPA, 6.8 ABV, 45 IBUs, and I love the short

little description. Citra and strata CG hops, notes of strawberry, cannabis and tangerine. Bright, crisp and lean body with an explosion of hops. Notes of cannabis like just flavoring or. I'm sure cannabis saying it's like dank. Yes, exactly. And that's what I was thinking, because it's first of all, if you take a look at it, it's it's kind of a it's a little cloudy. Like little pale straw. Yeah. Yeah. It did have a little bit of a foamy head when I first poured it. It's it's warming up. I do like me a good American IPA

though, Let me tell you. Yeah. And they're good at those really like kind of just baseline not getting too crazy with things here. They're using some OG hops right. And it smells citrusy. I mean Citra and Strata that's that's classic. Exactly. On the Yapper flapper. It is. It's really balanced. I, I agree with bright as it's warming up. I would say when I first had it it was a little cooler. It didn't really finish so dank, but it is pretty dank right now. But it's it's nice. It's it's just right. Great little balanced IPA. Yeah. That strawberry note in the

description that always gets me like whenever a beer says it's got like a strawberry or a blueberry flavor to it. It always gets me extremely curious and I try really, really hard to find it. I don't find it so much in the taste bud, in the aroma. I can kind of pull strawberry. Okay, some solid nose buds you got there? Yeah. Top notch. Not as good as notch nose buds. Top nose flavor. Yeah. Top nose. knows. Um, actually, do I have a very sensitive nose, so. Oh, really? I'm the opposite. And it's.

But it's not like it's not very good at, like, narrowing in on exactly what it is. It's either like I smell onions or shit, I. Smell. It's one or the other. Damn. This IPA smells like horseshit. Normally it's just I'm very sensitive to bad smells. So, um. Anyways, that's. We are backsliding. We're focused on beer. Lovely little beer, you guys. Good. Nice. Yeah. The wife is really good with the nose part of beer tasting and stuff. Like, she'll dig her nose in there and go. Oh, yeah,

I got some melon and some strawberry and obviously the pine. It's. She just pulls out every goddamn flavor with her nose. And I'm like, uh, smells hoppy. Yeah. Or today smells like a sour. Smells sour. Damn it. You stole my description today, too. Yeah. She's so good. and she's so good at, um, a lot of times. Firestone at beer festivals give you these little, like, tasting charts, and they'll give you an IPA, and they go, all right, Mark, you know, like, kind of what you're getting.

And every time she wins prizes because she, like, gets it dead on. That's amazing. Yeah. That's impressive. And then there's me and I'm like, I don't know. It's good. It's got like, the water. I can't narrow it as well. I taste alcohol. But McDreamy is a BJ or was Bjcp certified or whatever you have to do all like you have to get all those nuances. I would never. A lot of. Work. It was, it was. It was a way to turn a, you know, a hobby into something really kind of serious sounding. I just heard BJ and I got really

confused. He's good at it. He's BJ certified. What does it stand for? Beer, judge. Beer, judge. Judge makes a lot of sense. Apparently it's more detailed than a cicerone as far as, like, getting nuances. Oh, really? Yeah. Anyways, I could never I, I wouldn't even try. I'd be like, once again it's the onion or. Nope. Okay. IPA tastes like onion or it smells like onion. Shit. Really? I'm getting orange and pine and like, oh, I get that too, but a massive amount of shit. Yeah, Bjcp certification is,

like, more intense than gabf. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, it took a lot of studying and like, you have to weekly groups, I don't know, it was a while ago, but weekly groups. What are you guys getting together to do? Uh, drink. Some. Beer. Yeah, I went to my weekly group. Meeting, but the opposite. Sounds real shitty. Yeah. Uh, hi. My name is McDreamy, and I like beer. My weekly group. Yeah. This could have been a whole different thing. Really? Could have been. He maybe made up the whole acronym. Speaking of, uh,

judging and beer festivals, Gabf tickets are now on sale. Yeah. Erica. Are you going back this year? I am not. I actually was in conversation with, um, the same point person as I was a couple years ago. And then I kind of let it drop because it's. A little bit of a shit show last time. Yeah. And it's expensive. You know, when it comes to food, they just. They just give it to you right up the. Yeah. Yeah. So right up the bjcp. Yeah, exactly. I was yeah, I was limping afterwards a little bit.

So um, yeah, I, I would go and visit again. But it's not one of those things you go every year to I don't think. Yeah, I agree. And the only unfortunate thing is it's the last year for. Pints for Prostates. Oh yeah, I saw that. And that was pretty cool because it's kind of like that intimate. Yeah, it's much smaller. You can talk to the Brewers. They're a little more excited to talk to you because it's like, hey, I brought some of my cool specialty shit out. It's not like, hey, here's my IPA that I've sold a million of. Exactly. Who's who did we see there? A listener, um. Oh, Davis was there. Davis. Yeah.

We got gotta meet Davis and his son, I think, or something. That was kind of cool. Yeah, Davis is great. I tried to meet up with him when I was in Denver a couple weeks ago, but he was actually in Wisconsin when I was in Denver. That's right. Classic Davis. I know eating those cannibal sandwiches, man. Love it. Disgusting. Yeah. We get people in into the shop every day ordering that. It's amazing. So gross. Makes me so. Proud. Like onion. That smells like onion and shit. Well, you could smell him. Uh, well, speaking of Gabf, October 9th through 11th,

of course, in Denver. Uh, they say after retooling the event last year to add more experiences, the 2025 edition of Gabf will lean into distilling, featuring a distilling experience, full strength spirits from 20 distilleries being served on the floor. In addition to the beer and spirits, Jbf will include pours of cider, hard kombucha, hard seltzers, hard tea, rtds and fuck you na offerings. Uh themed areas will return for a second consecutive year. They included German beer garden,

sports area, Halloween, outer space, backyard and spot to quote meet the brewer. Same themes as 2024. Interesting. Didn't they have lucha libre last year? I'm kind of pissed that we missed that. It was either last year. Yeah, I was just kind of pissed. I think it was Fontana. Jim went or. Oh, I think you're right. I think he went for like a day or something. I have to say, I was when we all went two years ago in 2023, my first time going to Gabf.

From everything I heard, I was a little disappointed in their offerings. Yeah. I mean, was it big? Sure. But I felt like if you weren't one of the really big, cool breweries who that year happened to be, let's see, Weldwerks had a huge setup. Yep. Um, pure was ginormous. Like lakefront, had a great setup, and they were right by the booth. So it was easy access. Had a lot of lakefront that that weekend. and a few others. I felt like if you weren't one of those big breweries,

like it just was kind of meh. Yeah. A lot of the beer was meh. Yeah. It's mostly volunteers pouring, not people from the brewery in any shape or fashion, so you don't get to learn anything. Uh, it was it was fun. And but what I've told people is I had the most amount of fun just being with a cool group of people. That's what it's about. I think it's actually more about getting with your group in like, a cool city, doing that and then hitting the other things, like, like we did the pints and we did those other things. So I felt like I kind of missed

out because I was kind of in business mode, a lot of it. Right. And didn't get to do, like as much as I did the silent disco. That was way fun. I think we talked about how cool that. I've got a video of you somewhere at the silent. No you don't. Oh, I absolutely do. Okay. Delete that. That's not. Good. That's terrible. Yeah, because I was probably pretty sober because I was working, but it was probably. Yeah. It's never good when you're dancing sober. I know right? But I can't help. I have to dance. So fun. Dancing too. Oh, I'm the opposite.

You know, I fucking hammered. I'd have to be to go dancing. Really? Oh, yeah. Dancing. Karaoke. Any of that stuff? Oh, for me, you just gotta, like, put music on, and I'm there. All right. I love it. Nope nope, nope. I'm so. Nashville. Yes. Big fan. I'm so glad the wife is the same way. Like it'd be awful to marry someone who loves the dance. And you hate to dance, or vice versa. Yeah. That's how my marriage is. Is that I'm out on the dance floor and my wife is just head in hand, just shaking her head the entire time

because I just make a fool of myself. You know, I enjoy watching people dance or watching people karaoke because of that. Like, it's fun for me to watch. I don't want to be a part of it. Oh, I love it. Not for me. Give me it all. All right. Uh, any of you guys drink, uh, Celsius? What are those? Energy drinks? We just started drinking some. I just tried, started trying. I think there's some good ones. Somebody told me about that. They're coming out with Rtds or something. There was a mix up. There was a mix up. There's a big recall because they mislabeled the cans.

They were actually high noon's. And they sold them as Celsius. No. So you're going for your 2:00 pick me up while you're at work. You might get a 2:00 buzz instead. Not crazy. Makes me wish I drank Celsius. Same. I was like, well, now I want to drink. Them, right? So family's not feeling so, uh, buzzy in an energetic way. Maybe you're feeling buzzy afterwards. You're. You're part of the recall. So I don't think any of them made it to California, if I recall correctly. That's disappointing. Yeah, it really is.

So, uh, all right, before we move on to more news. Flexy, baby, let's find out what you're drinking over there. Otay. 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, we meet again. Today. Yes, I can't, I can't.

Yeah, I can't talk when you guys laugh. Um. Today I am drinking tropics in the toes by Young Blood Beer Company. I don't understand the name, but my kids picked the can. Yes, of course they did. So my. Fave. I give you a little shot of it. It's like a little. It's like a little beach sunset. Oh, yeah. Young Blood usually has some pretty sweet. Cannot, cannot. It's really cool. I like it a lot. And, uh, the colors like reds and greens and yellows and blacks,

I don't know. It's really neat and I. Except the neat part. Not a real word. A neat. Um, is now. Is they use a terrible color for the text on the can, so I can't read the can. Luckily though, luckily our friends here at untapped who aren't actually our friends. There's an app for. That. They have it all here. So, uh, without further ado, it says yes, we love beer here,

but no one else. We love boat drinks, frozen mai tais, tropical cocktails. So we decided to pay homage to the blender drink by taking an IPA dry hopped with Azacca and all of its braggadocious tropical sensibilities, and hit it with mango and raspberry. It's decidedly crisp, with a tart, refreshing backbone that will run from your face hole to your toes. I like that. Yeah. Okay.

Always a fun description on their beers. So it is a fruited sour IPA with raspberry, mango and azacca hops. It weighs in at a 6.2 ABV and collective four on the nose. On the nose. So on the nose buds here it's sour. Smells like. A sour. Imagine that. It doesn't smell like toes. That's what Erica would find. Yeah, right. I want to say it's like fermented raspberry. Like it's like sour and fermented raspberry.

I don't know, it's kind of weird. It's like this sweetness to it. I don't know, I'm. I'm not a doctor. So, um, just. Play one on TV. Now. Again. Without further ado, check out the old Tongue-jobber here. This is really what people come to the show for. Sure. That's why we put it in the middle. Yeah. Keep them hooked. Yep. So this is delicious. I'm biased because I love sour IPAs. Especially fruited ones. Super crisp.

I love how low this carbonation is. Oh, it's similar to, like, a sour, let alone many sours. Uh, I think that's how they should be. And the fact that they brought it that way to an IPA. Okay, this is delicious. It's not very hoppy at all. Like an IPA would be. Sometimes you get some sour IPAs, you get a little bit of that hop backbone on it. There's no bitterness. It almost just drinks fully like a sour.

But it does have that little bit of crispness to it. The raspberry is faint. The mango is faint, but that tartness, like, it's the strength of this beer. And it's wonderful. Nice. Yeah. Bought a single can. Wish I had four. Oh, maybe going back for more. Okay. Daddy. Maybe going back for more. I like it. Yes. I love the new radio. So does daddy. Yeah. You know, that reminds me. Erica. We didn't ask you.

Did you get a four pack or just a single? Um, this actually was from our beer hunt for Easter, so I. Ended up. With a single. Low barrier. It was. A. Good. Easter beer in August. You dirty dog. Yeah, I know. Somewhere I have a drop of Flex saying that I need to load it up. You dirty dog. So good. Uh, a lot of news going on over at Boston Beer. First, their CEO, Michael Spillane, is stepping down.

He's only been in the role for a couple of years. And Jim. Is it. Cock. Is it cook. Is it cock. I think it's coke actually. I know so many people. That. Probably knows she's she's dealt with them. I think it's. Coke. My brother in law's best friend. His last name is spelled the same way. And it's Coke. Um, I know some. There was a high school football coach in the area. Same spelling. He pronounced it cook. Mm. Um. I went to high school with a girl with the same spelling, and it was coach. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

And I've also heard. Coach. So what? Just admit it's cock and go on. Yeah, we all know it's cock. Yeah, everybody knows it's cock. Uh, this will be the first time cock has served as CEO since 2001. He'll remain. On. The board. Emphasis on the right syllable. Exactly. But the big news coming out of Boston Beer is that they're going to be shutting down their truly LA taproom, winding down operations there. And I didn't even know they

owned this brewery. But they're also going to be shutting down. Angel City Brewing. Huh? It's a big brewery in downtown LA in the Arts District. It's like, I don't know now. I haven't been down there in a while, but forever. They were the only good brewery in the area. There was a couple nearby that were not good. Uh, I may be wrong these days. It's been a minute, but, um, Angel city's been around for a long time, and I had no idea that Boston Beer even had had purchased them. So they are looking for a buyer.

They're trying to sell Angel city so it can live on. But I think they have basically until March of 2026 to to make that happen. Otherwise bye bye Angel city. It's crazy. I can't believe that truly Taprooms stayed there that long. I had forgotten it. Opened like. Truly. That that came out like pandemic. I remember us making fun of it. Yeah, yeah. Because we did that, uh, on the show. Yeah. Like that's back before we were ago. It was back before we were really drinking Celsius and we were making fun of it. And yeah, here we are, like.

I'm still gonna make fun of Truly's because they are still truly terrible. Um. And I do not drink them. I think they're trash. They were my gateway scelzi. That's what. Really? Yeah. I don't think they're that bad. Just like white clothes. White clothes? White clothes are the fucking scourge of the earth. Yeah. Just atrocious. So are the, um. Have you had the corona ones? Oh, no. Is it actually Corona brand or, like, a. It's a Corona brand seltzer. I haven't even seen it. They're about as bad as the Bud

Light ones. Oh, 000, didn't. You have to chug some of those? Oh, yeah. I forgot about that autumn pack. Yeah. Selective, uh, memory. Memory? Yeah. You've with that in a dark closet somewhere. That memory? Yeah. Thanks for bringing that up. Back to therapy. Uh, more bad news for LA beer. Three weavers parent company has filed for chapter 11. They have quite the story because

they sold to canopy Naki and then bought themselves back from Kannaki. And according to a motion filed on July 29th, three Weavers has suffered from a number of different factors, including supply chain disruption, inflation and general decline in the entire craft beer industry. With the shift in consumer preference going away from beer and alcohol. Additionally, they said. Additionally, Weaver, who also serves as CEO, was personally impacted by the January 7th fires that hit the Palisades area of LA. According to the filing,

the fire also temporarily shut down the taproom due to poor air quality, further hurting the damages. All that good stuff. So, uh, hopefully they restructure and make their way out of it. They do make some good beer. I don't see them around like I used to see them at Trader Joe's all the time. Don't see them on shelves as often as I used to, but, um, they had like a light. I forget what they called it. It was like a sour, but it was perfect, like summer boat beer. And the wife used to drink the shit out of that. We'd bring it up to the lake with us, so hopefully, uh, hopefully they can pull through. LA is really taking a hit, huh?

Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed. Um, we will end it on this one. Any Oasis fans in the room? No. I heard they got together and played a show. Yeah, I don't know anything else about it. It's nostalgic. Some wonderwall. Champagne supernova. I don't know. Can I just. We're gonna lose some listeners here. Uh oh. I fucking hate Oasis. Oh, really? I think they sound like the whiniest bitches Superdelic in the sky.

They just said so whiny to me. I don't it doesn't bother me. Oh, it bothers the shit. It's like listening to blink 182. It's like you could be a dick about it, or you could just listen to it. Yeah, I'll listen. To blink 182. Yeah. It's a little bit how I feel about blink. I'll be honest. They're okay, but. Well, when they like. When we were young, I will skip them and went over to the other band. Same thing with this year I will probably. Yeah. I'll see panic. But anyways, go ahead. Well, Oasis, who I can't stand, has

really helped out the beer economy. They did their little reunion whatever shows at Wembley, and there was an average of over 250,000 pints of beer sold each night at their five night stint. That's awesome. That's a shit ton of beer. Close ish. Plus those guys, they would always drink it and get super drunk. That's probably why they fought so much. Yeah. Okay. And a not close second and third to that is Coldplay averages over 120,000 pints per night. And then, just for some reference,

Taylor Swift 40,000 pints of beer per night, which that's all the dads. That's all. The dads that brought their kids. That's. For sure. Well, these 16 year old girls, you know, they got to get there somehow. Right. Exactly. And dads got to survive it somehow. Hey, so does mom. Okay, let's not be sexist. Sorry. You're right. I would be putting the pints down too. Yeah, I. Apologise. Parents. I would be drinking and singing though. That's. That's me. Yeah. And dancing. I'm not a swiftie, but some of

them tracks, they catchy as hell. I'm not gonna lie. I would listen to Taylor over Oasis. Yeah, I probably would too. I think I know, I know the two songs you said. And then there is another one. Ah, I just know Oasis. Yeah. Yeah, those are the ones that I could. Yeah, those are the ones I know. But yeah, I could listen to some Shake It Off over Champagne Supernova any day of the week. So I used to like Taylor Swift, you know, like me and my friends,

you know, we were like, those fun guys who would get super drunk at a party and we'd put You Belong with me on, and. It would. Just be like nine dudes dancing and jumping, singing along to the song. I love it. Um, but then my kids, they got into Taylor Swift and, you know, they had the eras thing on Disney Plus. Yeah. So they'd watch that like every other day. Oh, they got. Tired of it. I would start, you know, listening along a little bit more every time you're like, oh my God, this song is actually fucking banging, you know?

Why haven't I been listening the last ten years? This is fucking good shit. Flex is in the shower. I stay up too. Late. Sometimes. Hey, sometimes I'll throw around in the shower. You got that. Right? Hell, yeah. That's right. Shaking his hair around. Put my phone in the little shower caddy and just have a. Little. Party. I dig, I dig. Uh, all right, let's, uh, let's wrap things up and and call it a night over here. I'm gonna hit some music. I'm gonna thank you all for listening. Thanks for hanging with us, Erica. It's been way too long. Of course it's. Been a long time.

I feel like three years. Your faces. I mean, you haven't changed a bit. You just haven't. You look amazing. Well, CG works. Good. filter. Got a good. Filter? My internet is blurry. It's blurry. Right? It's like the VHS of back to the future. It's a little blurry. Can't quite see the detail. It's a two. TV. So I think. That was an off the air conversation. Yeah, I think so. Anyways, follow us. @CraftBeerRepublic @Flex_me_a_beer underscores in between. Of course. @Neck_nosh_llc underscores as well.

@Neck_nosh_llc. Com and look. Hi, Vanessa. Oh, and hi, Vanessa. Nice to see. You in, like, 14. No, ten days. I don't know, you're coming next week. I was gonna. Say look out for the The Beer Babes collab as well. It's gonna be amazing. I can't wait. Uh, I think that's everything. Hope everyone is staying very well hydrated. And on that note. Good night everybody.