You love craft beer? Welcome. This week, Greg gets blacklisted for not liking fruited IPAs, listener Dan has a skunky beer story that ends hot, and Flex reminisces about the days of Beechwood aging. Greg talks about his upcoming tattoo appointment, and Flex gives him an assignment and beer hunt. A guy has a mid-life crisis and fights with a bouncer at a strip club, his buddy steals his wallet, and Boston Beer is looking to saturate the market with apple spice.

Beers We’re Drinking:

1. Greg is drinking Cosmic Little Thing IPA from Sierra Nevada, an 8% hazy double IPA with citrus, cotton candy vibes, and suspiciously easy drinkability.
2. Flex is drinking Orange Cream Double Marbles from More Brewing Company, an orange-and-vanilla milkshake double IPA that lands squarely in dessert-beer territory.

Greg is living the worst camping trip of his life in a hotel, while Portland comes in hot with the download numbers. They also have quite the food scene. We see you, Portland! Greg talks about his trip to a brewery where he made the beertender mad by passing on the fruity IPA. Listener Dan writes in to tell us about his #poopbeer, a skunky, warm beer that was being stored outdoors in 95-degree heat. Flex confesses his love for Beechwood aging and wants a romantic trip with Greg to the land of Clydesdales. Greg talks about his upcoming tattoo appointment, and Flex gives him some homework he probably won’t complete.

Booze News:

1. JuneShine is closing its Santa Monica and Scripps Ranch tasting rooms.
2. Samuel Adams joins fall beer season with a new Apple Spice Ale.
3. Tilray is ending brewing operations at Terrapin’s Athens brewery.
4. A drunk Crazy Horse customer fights a bouncer, then his “friend” takes his wallet.

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Today we've got some apple spiced beers. A crazy dude gets in a fight.

Skunky beer stories and 19 beer skincare tips. Let's go.

Welcome in everybody. This is the Craft Beer Republic.

Thank you for drinking. Most importantly,

thank you for joining. I am Flex here at home on the Fresh

Coast coming in on the west coast. We got my main man, Greg.

That's right. How's it going, man? I'm still on the west Coast and

I'm in a hotel still. Still in one. Of these days.

It's like the world's worst camping trip.

Yeah, without the fire or, like, getting drunk around it or, like,

accidentally falling into it or. Any of the fun that goes along

with it. Yeah, I think my wife has a boyfriend

by now. Well, she's lonely. At least we can both agree.

What a lucky guy. I'm jealous. She is amazing.

What else is amazing is Portland, Oregon the top city from last week?

Thank you. Portland. Love me some. Portland. Have you been to Portland?

I've never been. Fun. Fun. I've been a couple times.

A kid at work. He goes to Oregon, like,

twice a year. His dad's best friend lives out

there. So they vacation out there a

good amount. Mhm. And he says nothing but top

shelf things about Oregon. Love me some Oregon. Well, Portland.

I've only been to Portland. Oh, I'm sorry. I.

I'm sure I would like to see whatever is near, like the coast.

Right. You know, just to. Are you are you a fan of poutine?

I've never had it, so I'm not Canadian.

Um, for anybody that's curious. You're from Wisconsin,

but I'm like super southeastern Wisconsin, right? Right.

So we're still far away from Canada, not Canadian.

Just to set the record straight. I love poutine.

It's like the tastiest thing ever. This is like. Gravy on fries.

Yeah. But other things, too. It's not just fries and gravy.

It's like, think kind of nacho esque in the sense that, like,

they can load that shit up. Like loaded fries.

Yeah, but there's always gravy in order to be poutine.

I had the best poutine of my life in Portland. I want to go.

I hope that place is still there. Because I do want to go back and

destroy my insides. Jesus. Alas, not a French fry show.

I'm sorry. Not. But I do fuck with some French fries,

so I. I'm intrigued. I've heard about it.

I've never had it. Do yourself a favor. Maybe one day.

Why don't you do yourself a favor? Gladly.

Tell us about the superior drinking.

I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer. I Love My Beer.

Well, I, uh, I hit up another liquor store looking for some craft beer.

And I have to say, selection is a bit slim at this establishment,

but they did have some Sierra Nevada, which, as we know, is craft.

Yeah, super classic, two super classic.

And they had something I have not had yet, not just on the show,

but at all. And that is Sierra Nevada's

Cosmic Little Thing IPA. It's a hazy double IPA, and it says

an interstellar wave of tropical flavor untapped has a three seven,

nine and they say, write an interstellar wave of tropical

flavor in this cosmic little thing, a hazy nebula glowing with comet

strata and Helios hops for notes of citrus berries and lychee.

The malts they use are Munich oats, two row pale and wheat.

And, of course, the hops are comet, Eureka, Helios, Simcoe and Strata.

It's a lot of hops. A lot of hops, 23,500 ratings gets us

that 3.79. That's a well drank beer. I would say.

So I've had this beer multiple times. It was a classic after work beer.

I could see why. I mean at 8% it's a good bang

for your buck, right. You know, it's, it's decent enough

in, in flavor and uh, yeah, that 8% it catches up on you. Yeah.

Especially in the 19 ounce can. Yes. And this is the 19 ounce can.

That's, that's all they had. So I got myself a single tall boy.

Um, the schnoz, the nose buds. I'm getting a lot of orange,

a lot of citrus. Not getting a ton of berry or lychee.

As we've discussed on the show before, you couldn't pay me to

tell you what lychee tastes like? No idea. I don't like the texture.

Lychee. Never had it. It's like what you would imagine

an eyeball would be like, chewing through. Oh, no.

Yeah, it's terrible texture. Well, you know what?

Now I will never have it. Uh, so this bad boy poured with some

nice head. It slowly dissipated. There's some decent lacing.

My only complaint, visually, is not the world's haziest beer for

being a hazy double. Knot, but. I can see my finger through it.

Not perfectly, but you know, I could. I could see shadows.

All right, here we go. It's a foggy. All right.

This is what I imagine lychee tastes like.

But I don't know, just from, you know, hearing it described

on like cooking shows and stuff. but it's got some real cotton

candy vibes to it. It's light. First of all, 8% doesn't exist.

Well hidden. Also,

especially this 19 ounce tallboy. Uh, why would you ever give me

this at 18 or at 8%? Like. Woo! This should be illegal. Um, flavor.

The mouth feels really light. The flavor is light.

I get, like I said, these these cotton candy vibes.

I can't fully put my finger on it. I know you think I'm nuts.

I can see the look on your face. I only think you're nuts because I've

had this beer a lot, and I've never thought cotton candy before look.

Exactly like cotton candy. It just really reminds it's light and

kind of fluffy, and it's got like, this light flavor, like cotton candy.

There's a good chance I fucked my palate with the beer that I drank

earlier. I'm not gonna lie, but, um. I'm enjoying it. Here's my guess.

I think it's the lychee that I'm tasting the most, because I think

lychee is probably a fairly lighter. It's not like orange or strawberry or

anything like that. I don't hate it. This is, um. Fuck, man.

If if you're looking to get hydrated and you want yourself a double IPA

that goes down real easy, go grab yourself a cosmic little thing.

IPA also not a bad looking can. It's got like the black and purple.

It's so cool. Yeah, the black with the like

the yellow and the green of the Cosmic Little Thing. Yeah.

Oh, what a standout fucking can. Yeah, I'm. I'm here for all of it.

So, um. I don't hate it. My, my biggest complaint is it's

just not hazy. Okay. I mean, if it tastes fine,

that's not the worst complaint. Yeah. It's juicy. It's not easy. Yeah.

Well, hey, before we move forward, uh, I just want to say, uh,

everybody I forgot. Hey, please follow us right at

at @CraftBeerRepublic. Uh, send us a mail.

Mail at @CraftBeerRepublic. Uh, and, uh, that's about all I

got before we go forward. Perfect. Nailed it. Nailed it.

As, uh, per usual. So a girl got mad at Greg for

not liking fruit. Sort of. Now, this is maybe the weirdest

story I'll read all day. Yeah. So, uh, I was at a brewery with the

wife and the pup over the weekend. We were we were at an institution.

I've talked about institution and, uh, went for a couple of beverages.

They've got some decent food, their pizzas and salads,

and they had a beer on the wall that I had not seen before.

In fact, not only had I not seen it, it just didn't say anything.

It said summer uh, IPA released 2026 or something like that.

No description, no hops, no nothing. And then it had the percentage.

I was like, well, that doesn't tell me shit.

So I asked the bartender, who was super friendly.

And I said, hey, uh, what's with the summer IPA?

What's, what's that like? And she goes, oh, it's really good.

Lots of tropical flavors, real juicy. And she goes,

I think they added fruit to it. And we know how I feel about

fruit in my IPAs. Yeah. I'm not here for it. No. I said okay.

And I started to say, you know, like this beer instead.

And before she goes and we also have and she named another beer,

I forget which one. She goes, blah, blah, blah,

this, this and that. I think this one also has fruit

in it. And before I very nicely she was

about to go on, I think she assumed I didn't know a lot about beer,

which is fine. I did ask a question. She was very, very friendly,

very much trying to help. And I just, I kind of politely, I was

like, okay. I said, no, I'm good. Uh, I, I'm thinking maybe I'll do

a different beer. I named a beer. She goes, oh, you don't want those?

I said, um, Not really a fan of fruit in my beers unless it's a sour.

And she goes, okay, is that it? Oh. She went from friendly to fuck

you in a heartbeat. Clearly that was her favorite beer on

the menu and I just got all over it. Oh man. I just said to her.

I said, fruit in my IPAs is not for me.

I didn't say they're fucking gross. I agree with you.

And I very much said, just not for me.

I did not say any blanket statements. Like if it's like a hazy or a, you

know, classic West coast or whatever. Fruit additives. No thank you.

No, I only want fruit coming from the hops.

I just I look, I have not come across an IPA with fruit added

to it where I thought, God damn, I want another one of these.

Aside from a sour IPA, have you ever had one with fruit? Oh, probably.

Man. Really racking the brain. I know I've had sour IPAs.

I know I've had fruited sours. Have I had a fruited sour IPA.

Fruited sour IPAs are top tier. I don't know, and I could see

that being fun because to me, a sour IPA is more sour than IPA,

correct? And so fine. This was not a sour IPA, and I

just don't like fruit in my IPAs. I 100% agree with you on that.

Thank you. And I didn't even say it's gross.

Flat out. I just said it's not for me.

And boy, did she get mad at me. Dang. Anyway, I just thought it was funny.

I should bring it up. Yeah. I don't hate that.

She probably thought I was nuts because I then ordered a fruited

beer because it was for the wife. They had a sour on tap with

peach in it. But you did preface that saying you

don't like fruit in your beer unless it's a sour, right? So, you know, I.

Think to her, I said, I don't like fruit in my IPAs.

I didn't, I didn't, I don't think I gave her that unless

it's a sour thing. But anyways. Sounds like she's the one with

the problem. That's right. Well, I think it's my favorite

time of the the show. If you want to hit the, uh,

hit the theme song. Uh. Our flavors. Weird smell.

Bad taste. Poop. Beer. Love it. Oh! Poop gate continues. Everybody.

Uh, this listener says, hey, guys, I've been hearing all the bad beer

stories and have one for you. Years ago, my wife and I were on

vacation and stopped at this little bar by the beach.

It was hot as hell and I ordered a beer, mostly because it came in

one of those giant frozen mugs. Classic frozen mugs.

Classic Beer runner. Damn it, beer shows up.

I take a drink and it tastes awful, like an actual skunk.

My wife could smell it from across the table.

So naturally, I take another drink because apparently I'm an idiot.

Hey, man. Been there? Yeah. We're all.

We had all done the same thing. Like, are we sure it tastes like

Band-Aids? You got that right. Go back to last week.

I'd tell the waitress, I think the beer is bad,

and she smells it and goes, oh, yeah, that's not good.

Then tells me the kegs sit outside behind the building.

Whoa! In the sun. It was probably 95 degrees outside.

This is only acceptable in Alaska. I was gonna say.

You want to know where it's not good to store your kegs out?

95 degrees, sun. I'm just gonna. Say. Yeah.

She got me a bottle of something else. That was fine.

I still don't remember how they were serving draft beer out of

kegs that were basically being slow cooked behind the restaurant.

Anyway. That's mine. Nothing tasted like poop,

so I guess I got lucky. Question mark. Cheers from Dan.

Thanks, Dan. Yeah. Thanks, Dan. That sounds fucking horrible.

Why would anybody tell somebody that? Yeah.

If I was that bartender or waitress or whatever it was, I'd be like,

oh, yeah, sorry about that. Maybe it's a bad like I wouldn't

be like, yeah, the fucking order leaves him out back in the sun. Yeah.

We fill everything and just toss it up back.

It gets to like 60 at night, so that's fine. Yeah.

So you get here at like, you know, nine in the morning. They're cool.

Yeah. That's not cold, but cool. Yeah. That's fucking weird.

Just, uh, this has to be a different country. Do you think so?

I mean, you know, other a lot of European countries drink warm beer.

Maybe this feels not American. Okay, I guess I've only been to

Mexico before, so I'll trust you as you've been elsewhere. I.

Well, yeah. You know what's funny? Thank God, in Portugal and Spain,

that's my only European countries very much about cold beer.

The wife, though the wife lived in England for a year.

And they'll give you a warm pint, let me tell you.

Not looking forward to that trip. Really? Yeah. Okay.

I guess the only thing I understand there is the first

ever distillery tour I went on. They always said you drink your

spirits. They didn't say beer. They said spirits at room

temperature. And that's where you get the best

flavor out of them. That makes sense. That's if it's room temp,

you're getting the actual flavor correct? Yeah.

So maybe that's the idea with the warm beers. Yeah, probably.

Question mark like. Dan. Yeah. I think part of like American

beer being cold is, you know, we've had shitty Budweiser and

all those things forever. It's like, you got to make them

cold so you don't taste what they actually taste like. Sure.

Anyway, I can't, I can't admit fresh Budweiser is pretty solid,

though. I hate to admit it. I hate to admit it to.

Beechwood aging process. I was gonna say that beechwood aging

process just really fucking gets it. You know, it takes 30 days.

But do you lager your beers? Know we beechwood age them.

Know we Beechwood age them. Yeah. That's maybe one of my favorite

episodes. Um, I just,

I wish you would go to Saint Louis just to go on that fucking tour.

Can you and I go together? Like that would be the best.

We may be removed. And not get our one free beer.

Come on, Greg. Might be worth it if we get removed.

I will buy you a beer elsewhere. Oh my gosh, I would.

I would pay to go there with you. That would be hilarious.

That would be amazing. I'm sorry. Miss.

Miss, any chance you do some Lagerville around here? No. We.

Beachwood age. We strictly Beachwood aging, sir.

Do you go to the beach to find the wood? Yeah. What the.

I don't even know. I've never even heard of Beachwood.

I don't. Know. It's a type of wood. I figured that much.

Anyways, they recycle it. I know that. Glad to hear. It. Yes.

You know what? We don't recycle. What's that? My beers. Oh.

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?

I gotta warm the whole body up for this one. Oof!

So I took my kids to the beer store. Classic Flex. Classic Flex.

My favorite. And so what I didn't realize is

until about, I don't know, like six minutes ago,

I was thinking about this while you were talking And when I went to the

store to like, I didn't even look at the shelf like my ten year old

just starts taking cans off the shelf and is handing them to me.

And the first one she hands me, it's got this little orange

creamsicle monster on it. Oh, I like these guys.

Yeah, one's got an eye patch. You know, they're they're like

Siamese twins cause it's like a creamsicle, you know, like the two

popsicles stuck together, right? And there's, like, scouring,

and one's got, like, blood on the mouth and it's holding a scythe and.

Yeah. And then they got some ants. There's ants firing a cannon at it.

Where? The ants. Right there. There they are. Oh, yeah.

And, uh, I just was like, wow, this is a great can.

It's More Brewing company who have had quite a few times on

the show now. Mhm. And they do a remarkable job at

the milkshake style IPAs. And this with the creamsicle on it

is an orange cream, double marbles is the marbles is the series,

and it is a milkshake style double IPA with orange and vanilla. Nice.

I would say that's like the most classic milkshake IPA. Sure.

Which isn't a favorite style amongst most.

And as you were just saying, you don't like fruit in your IPAs,

I had to make sure that we said, IPA hazy West coast.

I do not like fruit in my hazy or west coast. You bring in a milkshake?

Yes. Give me the fruit. Give me the lactose.

Give me the vanilla. Okay. Sour IPA, give me the fruit. Big fan.

So I thought that was kind of like a that was a touchy area. Mhm.

Especially with the beer I was gonna have.

So I just wanted to clear the air. Fair. If I could.

So this one, this is another eight percenter for me.

Had one last week, got one this week, 3000 check ins on this one.

This is uh, must be a reoccurring 414. Okay.

On the cumulative and amongst my two friends a three four or I'm sorry,

a four, three 8 or 3 eight. So untapped reads the double

version of our popular Orange Creamsicle inspired milkshake IPA

with Amarillo Citra Hops milk sugar with a boost of fresh, sweet

oranges and creamy vanilla. Mhm. So I'm gonna tell you on the nose,

on the old nose buds here, Greg, it is straight up orange vanilla

from concentrate. Oh, that doesn't sound great.

Oh, really? Did you not grow up with concentrate?

I did. Orange juice. Oh. That's all we had. Oh, man.

You could just, like, drink that shit right out of the

frozen can. It was so good. Um. So strong. It was so good.

But what gets me on this one is the color is. It is like actually orange.

It looks like concentrated orange juice. It really does, doesn't it?

It does. Which made me even more intrigued

to take a sip out of this one. So as we will warm up the

Tongue-jobber that is already warm and we'll dive in here.

So it's low carbonation and then it's 100% orange and vanilla.

This is a dessert in a can that's now in a glass because I

poured it out of a can. This is just maybe top two milkshake

IPAs I've ever had. Damn big words. These guys at More Brewing in

Illinois hate the Cubs. What's up? Love. Illinois beer. Fuck the Cubs.

Yeah, it's it's a it's a love hate relationship.

Hate the Cubs. Love their beer. Uh, but but yeah, this is,

I mean, everything you would think of fucking Orange Milkshake

IPA would be from here. And, uh, they just hit it right

on the head. Okay. So here's some more for giving this,

uh, dessert beer to. Cheers to more. He wants damn some more. That's good.

I lost myself in my words. Greg. You. You're like a fucking Michelangelo

of words. The Ninja turtle, or. Uh, like the painter that. Okay?

Hey, you know, I'm getting my tattoo this weekend.

This upcoming weekend? I didn't know. Speaking of Michelangelo.

The last time you talked to me, things were all because of

scheduling. Yes, it was worked out. Oh. I'm excited. I'm very excited.

The next time we talk, I will be a tattooed individual.

Now you have. You have to. You have two weeks to find a

Ninja Turtle beer. Oh, shit. Somebody help me!

Gotta find a Ninja Turtle beer. Company in California.

Post your tattoo with the beer. I don't know if you post anymore.

I don't go on Instagram. Uh, few and far between. But yeah.

That's just because I'm lazy. Yeah. Well, then at least just send me

the picture. Okay. I'd appreciate that. You know what?

I think it's time for some booze. I think you're right.

I thought that was kind of good with the nudes. Um.

All right, what do we got here? This name just hurts my mouth.

June. Shine. That is June. Shine to shudder tasting rooms.

Oh, no! Damn it! It's brilliant writing,

everybody. Thank you. Shine will close its Santa

Monica and Scripps Ranch tasting rooms on August 28th.

The company shared on Monday. The company line.

This was certainly not a decision that came easy,

but the right one for what's next. Fact is, our tasting rooms helped

build this brand. Sounds weird. Zonshine reassured its customers

that the brand, quote unquote, isn't going anywhere and will still

be available on shelves and in bars. That's too bad. I mean, hooray!

Have you ever had a hard kombucha? I tell you what,

I've had regular kombucha. And it was enough to make me not

want any kind of kombucha. I've never had regular.

Is that what that is? Yeah. It's hard kombucha. I've only had.

I've only had hard kombucha. And I only had it one time.

In fact, this was the first time I ever hung out with intern Brian.

We were pouring together for a brewery at a beer festival.

It's him and I and the booth behind us was. It was not.

I don't think it was June Shine. I think it was a different one,

but it was hard kombucha. And we started making friends with

the people behind us and talking, hey, what you got?

What do we got? Blah, blah, blah. And so when it got slow,

we'd we'd be talking shit with them. And it was a fun time.

And at one point the, the girls came over like, hey,

can we have some of your beer? And I was like, yeah, of course,

have as much beer as you want. It's not mine.

And, uh, they're like, do you want to try ours?

And I was like, you know what? I've never had it before.

Let's give it a shot. Fucking garbage. It was so bad.

Oh, it's it's like vinegar. It was oh, I don't even honestly,

this is pre Covid. It's been years. I don't even remember exactly

what it tasted. Maybe interim Brian does if you

remember, please, you know, text me or something.

But I just remember it being awful. And the girls came over again and

again and again and they're like, hey, can we get some more beer?

I'm like, you girls are welcome to as much beer as you'd like.

Like, yeah, you can have as much kombucha.

I was like, we don't need to trade. Damn it. Just enjoy your beer.

They probably wanted the beer so bad because they knew it tasted like

shit. Yeah. They weren't dummies. They didn't work for the I don't

know. You don't call it a brewery? The kombucha. Fuck if I know.

So we made friends with the girls. They were great.

And they enjoyed our beer much more than they enjoyed their own product.

Well, good. Yeah, that's how it should be.

If you have any hard kombucha, please don't send it our way.

Oh my God. Yeah. My address is 69. 69. Your mom's house drive. Classic.

Uh, and ironically, that's mine too. Oh, wow. Just different cities.

Same address, different cities. Pretty good.

Boston beer adds apple spice ale. Oh, why?

Okay, Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte doesn't return until August 26th,

but Boston Beer's fall lineup is already showing up on shelves.

I did see the Octoberfest today. Oh, I'm okay with that one.

Core fall releases. Samuel Adams Pumpkin Ale,

which I'm not a fan of. And Dogfish Head Pumpkin Ale were

stocked at a world market in Iowa over the weekend, but they're not

the only fall beers on the way. Boston is joining into the Apple

Fight with Apple Spice Ale, 5% ABV, joining its Fall Legends variety

pack a Non-alc Octoberfest. Interesting is also arriving in

time for Octoberfest season. Both are nationwide releases.

Not gonna lie. Out of scientific purposes.

I know where this is going. I might try this Apple spice beer.

Oh, I thought you were gonna say the n a Octoberfest.

I knew you were thinking. That's what I was gonna say.

That's what I was thinking. You were gonna say.

I'm intrigued on this. Wow. Okay. The first beer that I like.

Not that I drank, but I enjoyed drinking.

I could have sworn it was like a Leinenkugel’s apple.

Fucking seasonal beer. Oof! It was delicious. Okay.

And I drank a lot of it, but it it kind of ruined me for,

like, apple flavor for a while. Yeah. So this Sam Adams apple spice,

maybe I'll dabble to see what's up. Okay. I find a single. Yeah.

Or if it's in a variety, even if it's in a six pack, I don't know.

I'm sure I got five other people I can give it to. Uh, Madison.

Brian. Pilot. Tom. Pilots, I'm sure would have it.

Then he would probably trade me something way better just to be like,

oh, hey, I'm such a nice guy. Right? Please.

Thanks for this Apple garbage. Would you like this heady topper?

And in exchange. That is classic pilot Tom.

You know, that's what's gonna happen. You're gonna be like, here,

this is a joke. Try this garbage ass apple beer.

He's like, oh, that's so great. Thank you so much.

Here's a heady topper. And the rest of the lineup from,

uh, The Alchemist. And then when he would have the

Apple Spice beer, he would hate it so much, but he would text me

in such a nice way. Yeah. Thank you so much for this Apple

spice beer. How bad it tasted. But somehow it was still good,

even though it was so bad. Well, it's not something I'd

probably be buying anytime soon. I really appreciate the

opportunity to have tried it. Oh man, thank you so much.

Such a nice guy. God damn it, Tom. Such a nice guy.

Same with Non-Murderer John, man. Just stop being so nice. Right.

Maybe they're like, I don't know. Just. You think they're.

The same person? Maybe. Have you ever seen him in the same

place at the same time? I never have. Exactly. That's fucking wild.

My mind's actually blown right now. Just saying.

Well, in other news, I guess they're always in the headlines. Uh, Tilray.

Wow, this is shocking. Breaking news. Tilray to cease brewing at Terrapins

Athens facility next month. Taproom to remain open.

Didn't they just buy them from Molson Coors or something?

I believe they were part of that big deal last year.

Yeah, that was relatively recent. Mhm.

Tilray brands will shift brewing operations from Terrapin Brewing

Company's 100 zero zero zero square foot Athens,

Georgia based brewery to other facilities within its network

beginning September 25th. Tilray chief corporate affairs

officer Baron. Noronha confirmed. With robust brewing operations

across the country, this transition allows us to continue

serving customers efficiently while leveraging the scale and capabilities

of our broader brewery footprint. Terrapins taproom,

Warehouse and Repack operations will remain open and continue serving

customers from current location. Okay,

so they're just ceasing the brewery operations but still doing the beer.

Yeah, they're not going to brew at the brewery. This is I'm surprised.

So Terrapin, I mean, Terrapin is kind of like Sierra Nevada in the

way that they were one of the OGs. They've been around forever.

Um, they sold to most of their stuff is good. Their stuff is good.

They sold to Molson Coors. I interviewed one of the co-founders,

John Cochran, on the show. He then founded Up Country, which

he has since divested in and is, I think I believe he's retired.

I'm looking at it right now. That was batch 156.

If you want to hear about John, uh, and up country and Terrapin,

but at the time, his co-founder was still at Terrapin, even though

they were owned by Molson Coors and he was still doing the brewing.

So I don't know what this means for like the co-founder and everyone,

you know, the brewing team and everyone, it's kind of shitty.

I mean, Tremens been one of the OGs in the business.

Well, man, what a fucking beer. Yeah, I've not had a lot of Terrapin

because it doesn't make its way west, but I've had a couple and I've

enjoyed them. The Hop Executioner. I think that's one of the ones I had

hops cuz. That one's super heavy. I would say it's like 200 IBUs.

But yeah, it was old school. Yeah. It's solid.

I think I got that from Tavour or something. You gross.

It's probably, you know, three years old by the time I got it.

He's still around. That's crazy. No, but they were five years ago.

All right, well, we'll end it on this one, okay?

Drunk man fights bouncer at Crazy Horse in Brook Park.

I don't know about Brook Park, but Crazy Horse in Vegas is a strip

club. Um, the Neil Young song. I think that's all.

Isn't that wild horses? Isn't that Chris Stapleton?

I don't fucking know. I don't know either.

I don't know, Crazy Horse. Whatever. We clearly don't know.

Doesn't surprise me, though, that it's Ohio.

Uh, Brook Park, Ohio, an intoxicated North Ridgeville man, 44,

fought a bouncer at about midnight, July 24th at Crazy Horse.

Bouncers at Crazy Horse said the man was drunk when he arrived

with a friend. 22. Interesting. Uh, from East Cleveland. You're 44.

You're hanging out with a 22 year old. So what exactly? Half your age?

That is interesting in itself. And creepy.

The man and his friend were turned away because they were unable to

provide identification cards. The man refused to leave Crazy Horse,

so one of the bouncers escorted him outside.

The man spit and swung his fist at the bouncer.

One thing you don't do, you don't spit. That's when I start throwing.

That's disrespectful. The bouncer then punched the man

in the head as he should. Right? The man fell to the ground and

sustained a small cut on his head. Should have been a bigger cut, right?

The man's friend then grabbed the man's wallet and stole it.

I'd argue not a friend. I'm assuming he just met this guy.

Police spoke to the man who admitted that he was drunk and

had entered into an altercation with the Crazy Horse bouncer.

He didn't remember spitting at the bouncer or swinging at him.

Police then contacted the man's friend, who admitted that he had

picked up the man's wallet after the fight with the bouncer.

He returned the wallet. No one wanted to pursue charges

against anyone else. He returned the wallet much lighter.

That is. That is bizarre. I believe two weeks ago you said

you were looking forward to going to Cleveland next year.

You know, you got me in a box. That's me in a box.

Boop boop boop boop. Um. I don't know.

I'd still go to Cleveland. All right. Don't go to the Crazy Horse.

The crazy horse? Yeah. Also, I wonder if it's a bar or

if it's a strip club. I guess I could have looked that up,

huh? Yeah. Let's see. I feel like we had a horse strip

club here. Maybe it's not a horse. Can't remember. All right.

I typed in the Crazy Horse. Cleveland.

The first thing that pops up is Crazy Horse cabaret. Okay. Classic.

Oh, there's another one just called Crazy Horse Cleveland.

I bet it's that one. Okay. Damn. Say, cabaret.

What a classy way to call the strip club. Right? Our ladies are so hot.

They don't actually show skin. They leave their bras on.

Classic, Cleveland. Do you guys have weird strip

club rules in. In Wisconsin? Like in California?

If you serve alcohol, you can't be fully nude. Oh, I guess I don't know.

And so, like, if you're the bartender. Well, just.

No, no, no, not not like the establishment.

So the establishment serves alcohol. The ladies dancing are not allowed to

be fully nude. Fully nude. Right. I, I think they can show boobies.

So I don't remember. All of the strip clubs.

I would say in southeastern Wisconsin are topless.

There are, I think, 1 or 2 in the state that are full frontal.

Um, I've never been, but I think that's a thing. Okay.

Like I first of all, I, I have not been to a strip club,

I think since I was like 22 in Vegas. You know,

you do whatever you want to get drunk and see full frontal have at it.

But out here, it's like if you want to get drunk,

nothing on the lower half. Yes. Yeah, yeah,

that's pretty normal here. Boobies only that's pretty normal

here. Okay. I just think it's funny. It's like you can see me sorta

naked cause you're. Drunk 98% naked. Right? What?

What if this person is a boob person, and now all they want to see is

boobs? That's what gets them off. You know,

it's it's just a weird thing. It's a it's one of those weird

laws that I'm sure there was a reason for at the time, but.

I don't know what the I don't know, That's a weird law. It's weird.

I guess I'd have to look that up in Wisconsin. But not a strip club show.

Not a strip club show. But I think that's all we got.

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