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What's on Tap High five? This is what's on Tap Radio, beer
and the culture that flows with it. Keears, Beer Guru James Simpson and
Beer Logics Chadpilbe. You know we had to do it. What's up?
Welcome, Welcome to the show. James. Then Mike cad Can Bill,
this is What's on Tap Radio? I did sure Bill's my god. I'm
like, yeah, I was, like you said, you get a little
premature introduction, Bill, settle down, all right, hold on, try
that agains here. Wait wait three two. This is what we do to
count down the show. Three two. Hello everybody and Bill. Right now,
I'm gonna kill your mike again. All right, kill those mic again.
Oh man, tell me, Keith, can you believe that sixty two
years of young? What the heck? Man? You know what? And
I have I felt bad because when somebody told me the news, I didn't
have a beer in my hand, but I almost spit my beer because I
was like, no way. And then I realized I don't even really care
for his music. But yeah, I was still sad. Well, we
play music from time to time here on the show, so yeah, but
hearing that, it's like, it's totally Keith fan sixty two. Man,
all right, well today we're gonna drink too. Uh well, you and
h our folks out there listening and to Toby Keith, why not? But
welcome to the show. Before we get underway, let's do some housekeeping.
I took out the old feather duster and I'm dusting around a little bit.
Get their shelters nice and shiny, so I could sell those. Ah boy,
here we go, I got it. Okay, go on, No,
let's say thank the sponsors, because you know what they keep They keep
this show going. And if we don't thank them, we don't get to
open the beer. Well, I mean, we can open beer, but
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Branding. So I'm excited. Chad's got to go to it. I'm having
a great time. I mean this is radio, so people don't get to
see the expression on my face, but I am literally beaming from ear to
ear almost like I don't know, I'm excited to drink some beer and talk
about it. Like you said, the inbox is full. We got plenty
of stories to talk about, but before we do, we need to jump
start the old liver Taste buds and everything else. Papa, Yes, and
you mentioned breaking out the old feather duster. Bill was telling me before we
got started he found some shelfterns. I'm sure we'll get to talk about that
during the show here, but before we get started, we want to thank
the Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston. Our good buddy Fred out
there talking to her. I'm ready earlier, Yeah, name Drop talking to
him earlier in the week. And dude, the food menu out there is
just amazing. And if you haven't eaten out there, head out to the
northwest side of the Houston. If you're in the area, you know the
beer is gonna be good. You know the beer is gonna be there.
But the food menu for over two decades, the Backyard Grill, and they're
bringing you this segment brought to the table where James brings a beer. I
bring a beer and one of us has to go first, and I don't
know James. I'll go first because I had because he's on first MIC and
he founded the show and he reminds me my place. He's gonna go first.
Well, I'm only doing that because I literally had to break out the
feather duster because I took the whole month of January off for dry January.
So I had some beers in the in the in the fridge that had been
collecting dust, you know, while all was taking a sabbatical, and I
took it out. So you know what, I figured my first beer that
I blew the dust off of, and I didn't get a chance to bring
it before we took a break for the holidays. But I want to do
it right, and I still had this in the fridge, Chad, because
literally I took the whole month off. But I'm gonna do it right now
in February. I don't care. It might be a little dated, but
I don't care. I'm going with a nice celebration Fresh hop India, Pallel.
I'm laughing for one reason only because, okay, Rule number one,
turn off your phones, which I did not do. Okay, so I'm
gonna quickly turn off my phone. Rule number two, don't cuss because the
FCC listens. And rule number three, no cracking open a beer until the
mics are hot and well, well, it seems like we broke a few
of those rules because Bill and I had one of those before the show.
I'll start, Okay, so you're not laughing at this fact that, oh
that's not fresh, James. No, we were doing the exact same thing
as like, well, we got to get these out of here, might
as well grab one. We had one anyway. I had it in the
back of the fridge just because I you know, I took a whole month
off of drinking bit so now I am making good at six point eight percent
alcohol by volume Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hop India Pallel, which I still had
in my fridge thanks to January. That's what you need. I think this
is all you need to say about that beer. And if you disagree with
me, James, look on your face tells me everything that I'm gonna say
is gospel truth. Just say the absolute best West Coast ipa ever made.
Dude, for two months old, it's so good, it's still so good.
I mean it is it is bright, it is piny, it has
just a total hit hint of citrus. I mean, I'm drinking it with
you and it's in your glass. I don't even have a beer in my
glass yet, and I know what it tastes like. I don't even have
to tell you what it's all about, because Chad's doing it for me.
So that's what I'm kicking things off with. For the first beer I'm bringing
for twenty four, twenty twenty four whatever it is, two thousand and four
four IPA from Sierra Nevada, which I am happy to be enjoying for the
person. Ken Grossman found a Sierra Nevada brewing company in seventeen seventy eight,
two years after the Constitution. Wait not the constitutions. Declaration in one of
these is what you brought to the table? Man? Here it is.
We're gonna talk about this when we come back from the break, But this
is a beer I brought before, but I thought because of the fun fact
tease coming up in the next segment, I'm opening up the Wizard burial Ground
from a little brewery known as Brewery Levant, a bourbon barrel age quad made
right here in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of President Gerald R.
Ford. Oh yeah, fun fact, fun fact upon fun fact and old
Harbor light bill and I We're gonna go ahead and pour this into the glass
and we're gonna talk about this. But this is an annual release beer coming
in at thirteen point eight percent, and we'll give you the tasting notes and
talk about that when we come back from the break. But this has been
brought to the table, brought to you by our friends at the Backyard Grill
where I brought the Wizard barrow Ground from Bewy Vivant and James the Celebration Ale
from Sierra Nevada. James, tell them what's on tap this week? We're
gonna talk about seller our Toallas, got a very odd promotion, truly has
a new flavor. All this is so much more, including coming right up
the official What's on Tap Radio fun factor this week. Don't worry, we
got tons more on tap. That's just a little teaser. Hang with us.
We'll be right back. Sometimes we write drink beer on our to do
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Houston. Cheers all right, welcome back with What's on Tap Radio, where
we were just talking during the break and we kind of got into an argument
on who's beer tasted better. As James is over there, this beer tastes
so good and by the way, hanging out on third Mike here this week,
we pulled them out of the cellar from Harvard Light Brewing Company Harbor Light
Bill and he took one sip of this brewery of Bourbon vil Age quad,
which we're going to talk about here in just a second. And I believe
his direct quote was it's so good. Yeah, he said that, and
I said, save it for air pel and we got to let the listeners
know. But thanks for tuning in. We appreciate you joining us because if
you weren't here, you know, our advertisers would ask questions. And you're
here every single week. And I want to thank you. Podcast numbers up,
yeah, yes they are. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for those that are going over to our you know, wherever
they subscribe to our podcast, we see the analytics, you know where they're
they're listening to us. I mean, of course, we have people from
all over the country. Say, we're huge in Texas, We're huge in
Missisange, in Iowa, Chicago, yeah, you know, the Midwest,
all over the Midwest. But I started Arizona, even Arizona's big. Yeah,
New York, we get New York numbers California, but it's India.
India is a strong second, and I don't know, I don't know.
Hey, shout out to India. I know you guys are listening. Okay,
it's weird. It's weird. The entire country of India is in the
top ten. It doesn't break it down. But but when we break it
down by geography, and we were able to do it more domestically, you
can see, Hey, it's showing up in Arizona's showing up in the Chicago
area like that, like the Phoenix area right obviously, Houston, Dallas,
Fort Worth, West Michigan, Grand Rapids also in this in central Michigan.
I was well more Kalamazoo area. I think it's because of all the India
plale we drink. That's what it is. No, but he shout out
to our friends out in India. They're listening right now. And I appreciate
you guys, I really do. By the way, I think India just
just knocked out Finland as a listener because Finland we haven't heard much from that
anyway. First segment of the show brought to the table where James and I
both bring a beer and that segment brought to you by our friends at the
Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston. And I want to talk about
this beer really quickly because not only does this taste good, the Wizard Burial
ground the quadruple bourbon barrel aged ale at thirteen point eight percent. This is
the twenty twenty three release. This is an annual release for Brewery Vivant in
East Brand Rapids, Michigan. And the thing I noticed right away when we
pour it is the head retention. There is none, so as a visual
you may be thinking, Eh, this is not going to be a good
beer, and then you let it hit your lips and then oh my gosh,
as Bill said, Bill, it's so good. Yeah it is.
It really is delicious. It's got a little bit of hold on, h
h. It's got a little caramel vanilla note to actually a lot of vanilla
sweet malt. I mean, if there are hops in there, it's just
to basically tone down that whatever sweet malt there is. I mean it is,
it's really great, but it also finishes dry, and I think that's
probably due the elevated alcohol level. But nice beer, and of course,
uh that's uh now, Bill was talking about a beer earlier and James mentioned
he blew the feather duster off of his Well, it's only because not because
it's just bad. It's just I took a hiatus for you know, a
month, right. So Bill asked me, He says, where can I
find this? And I said, chances are if we go to Brewer Vant,
they're going to be sold out. But there are a couple of beer
stores we could probably hit up, and I bet they'll have a canner two
or three and we can get them before the feather duster, meaning that they
haven't set on the shelf long enough to collect dust. But we were talking
about that. Oh, it might be a good topic for us to talk
about the old feather duster how to shop for a beer. But meanwhile,
James, you have an iconic beer in your glass. I do. But
let that sit for a second because we have to do this. Chad now
the official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of the Week, brought to you
by Who's ever checked Clear? This week producer As I look, if you
don't push the button, I will. I'm like, okay, okay,
okay, all right, I know, I know. Well, the thing
is is I was setting it up because this is what's called a toss in
the in the industry. I was letting James set up his iconic beer in
a glass so that I could do the official What's on Tap Radio fun fact
of the week about an iconic beer in a glass. Yes, and then
unfortunately, this is a beer that I had I brought to the show a
while back, and I haven't had it on in just in just a hot
minute, but it is one of the most acclaimed beers in the world,
and there's a little bit of a controversy around this, but I discovered a
brand new fun fact about this. I want to thank our good buddy Sam
from the Backyard Grill. Yes, Sam and Joline there. Oh, I
didn't do a name drop for Joeline, got to drop one for her Joe.
They sent Jolene, hey, you want to play that? They would
love that. Oh it's queue it up all right, bump music. But
they are regulars at the Backyard Grill and they sent me this and they said,
hey, did you know this about Saint bernardist app twelve, the ABT
twelve. And I'm like, yeah, I know everything about this beer because
Saint Bernardo's app twelve. A lot of people don't know this. This is
from Belgium. It is a Belgian quadruple ale, similar to what I'm drinking
here, Bill and I we have from bere Vivant, except it's not barrel
aged and it comes in at twelve percent ABV. Hence why it's called APP
twelve. It is a Belgian quad or Belgian dark strong beer. But I's
like, yes, I know the story behind this. Basically what happened was
is they were affiliated with the monks that made West of Letteran twelve. Now
West Letteran twelve is considered one of the most coveted and highly sought after,
hard to get beers in the world, and you have to go to the
monastery in Belgian to get it. It's one of the highest rated perfect beers.
And they say you got to go there and get it. And it's
like, yeah, I know this story because it's the same recipe. Now,
some people will say there's a difference. West of Letteran twelve is made
by monks. Saint bernardist APP twelve not made by monks, but it's the
same recipe in two different breweries. And I was like, yeah, but
if they taste the same, they taste the same. Okay, I know
this story, but that wasn't what he sent me. Mine equals blown And
when I discovered that the marketing behind Saint Bernardo's App. Twelve, they didn't
have a lot of money to be able to promote their beers, and they
didn't have a lot of money to be able to create kind of an underground
cult following or anything like that. But the brewers there wanted to do something
without consulting the owners or the marketing department, and they pulled it off.
And I'm blown away by this. If you've ever gone to a restaurant that
has a secret menu the locals know, well, apparently the locals found out
on Saint Bernardo's App twelve And this is the subject of your official What's on
Tap Radio fun Fact of the Week. Did you know that Saint Bernardo's App
twelve, which has the monk on it with his headcock sideways, holding his
chalice up in the air in one hand, beer in the other, smiling.
One out of every one thousand bottles, the monk is winking, he
is smiling at you with both eyes open, in nine hundred and ninety nine
bottles. But they pull one out and they stick one bottle in where the
monk is winking. And if you happen to come across one of the one
thousand bottles where the monk is winking, well you may be thinking you're seeing
an optical illusion, as many people have claimed, like I swear, I
thought the monk had one eye closed. I thought I saw that, But
I'm looking at a bottle now and his eyes are wide open. What happened,
Well, you didn't drink too much that night, It's not an optical
illusion. Your official What's on Tap Radio Fun fact of the week is that
Saint Bernardo's app twelve, in an attempt to create kind of an underground pop
culture following little marketing buzz, had somebody at the brewery pull one of the
bottles out and throw in a new label where the monk winks at you.
And that is done for every one thousand bottles in the batch of Saint Bernardo's
Appe. That fun fact is brought to you by our friends Sam and Joline
who hang out at the backyard. Girl. That's your official What's on Tap
Radio fun fact of the week. I want to bottle that wings at me.
I want when I want that one too. I don't think I have
that one, all right. That's a good fun fact. I want that
all right. We gotta take a break. On tap this week, there's
a woman who lost her dog. You'll never believe where the dog was found.
We talk about Patrick Mahomes and dad and a liquor store catches on fire,
and you'll never believe how A'll just so much more. Hang with us.
We'll we're at back. Well, that meetings sucked. We wonder you
can't wait to get home. Is there beers somewhere out there? Crack open
that new Iba thinking about us too. This is what's on tap radio.
Back to James and Chad. We want to thank Superior Pest Control West Michigan
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Julie, Joey. That's gotta go out to Sam and Jolie. P
don't take moment like part man's still killing it, Julie, Julie. She
the uh won the Super Bowl. What was it she did recently? Oh,
it's a Dallas Cowboys game. Oh it was sad Thanksgiving. Yeah,
and she dressed up in a Cowboys cheerleading off it. Good on you,
Dolly, good on you. I know she's like one hundred and twelve years
old or something, and she looks fantastic. She is she she doesn't look
a day over sixty. You guys, we're gonna sixty speaks to Keith ages
sixty two. We lost him. Wow, that is just young young young
enjoy life while you're young people. That's U. Yeah, thanks for hey.
Yeah. Bill's back in studio. We sent him on an assignment last
week and he's back and he chad, I understand, has something to say.
I put a beer. I know, we poured this wizard burial ground
from a brewery levant and he's never had it. He's like, oh h
I with this barrel age quatda like he's like, it's so good. And
then and then he didn't stop talking. I had to kill his mic and
I was like, save it for air, but go speak. You have
the floor bell guy just wanted to say that the multi sweetness is really accentuated
by almost a Belgium candied flavors that comes out in a spectacular festival in your
mouth. Okay, he's he knew the mics were hot. Here's what he
did. He's like, it's freaking candy man. I feel like Sammy Davis
Junior, the candy Man, the Candyman, and he was he was sitting
there singing and I was like, holy crap, dude, dude, save
it for air. He was so excited, like it's liquid candy. And
I'm like, tell the audience, well, if Chad would have given me
a little top hat, I'd have been doing a little two step over here,
like you can't. Meanwhile, both Bell and I we have a meeting.
We have an appointment with our doctor to get tested for diabetes because this
thing is so sweet. It is actually, it's not that sweet. It's
just it's just good. It's so good. I mean, it's rich,
it's it's maple le. Yeah, it's got a lot of maple flavor to
it as well. And levant makes great beer. Amen, they do make
great beer. I want to play. Can I play two guys? Yeah?
It sound like you don't have so much fun. I want to play
Reset refreshed baby God, the celebration fresh Hop India Paleole. I'm gonna go
ahead take a sip of this. And I told Chad and Bill off the
air. But when you take a hiatus, especially for a whole month,
and you come back and your your taste buds have reset, man, beer
tastes so good. If you don't remember, James took a month off dry
January. He didn't have beer beer and he cut back on his consumption to
kind of reset his body. And now look at dude, the smile.
Dude, So didn't you mention that how long it takes your taste buds to
die off and regrow on your tongue. Yeah, so these taste buds are
tasting beer for the first time. I feel like I'm brand new to craft
beer, Bill, because I mean, the long cold nights of winter are
a little brighter with the celebration al I don't know if you knew that,
but I did. It's wonderfully robust, it's rich. I read that somewhere
somewhere. I don't remember where, but I read it somewhere. It's a
wonderfully robust it's rich. I read that somewhere too, dry hopped with a
lively, intense roma. I could tell it's brood for the especially for the
holidays. It's a perfect festive gathering for quite an evening at home or maybe
doing a radio show with your friends. Again, this is a celebration.
Siara Sierra, Nevada, India, pallel at six point eight percent alcohol by
volume. Hey, James, you missed a line. Layered pine and sittress
hop Aroma's balance delicately against rich malt sweetness to shape this bold winter time classic.
You forgot that on the label. Oh no, chat, I got
it everything, I got everything. Oh sorry, Oh okay, all right,
what label are you speaking of, Chad? I'm just taking a sip.
You hear that, Hold on second, you hear that that was a
bus And I don't know if you. I don't know if you felt that,
but I just gave you a nudge right in front of it. But
actually it was Bill who didn't because he's like, he hnd me the bottle.
He's like, hey, dude, show him when he missed a line.
But he had a different label on your bottle of than ours. What
botting? What label? I'm just taking? I took a sip of my
water tasting. Yeah, James is an expert. I'm just telling you what
I taste every time I take a sip, and that's what I taste.
I taste a beer that's brewed perfectly for a gathering or a quieting me at
home and maybe hanging out with friends on the radio show. A all right,
anyway, So all right, James, Well, listen, we've got
a couple of beers in our glasses, and Bill and I. You know,
at thirteen point eight percent, we're actually going pretty slow. We're pumping
the brakes here. We may be crack up in a beer in the next
segment, but right now, we kind of need to let people know what
is going on in the world, what people are talking about. And I
don't know, I've got this interesting take on thievery. If you want to
talk about that, yeah, I do. But before we talk about that,
because it's a very odd promotion that Celerotwall is doing and I'm not necessarily
I don't know, I'm still scratching my head on it. This is a
this is a weird one, like like, yeah, theft, let's celebrate
it. Yeah, let's celebrate theft. But real quick, before we do
that, can we give a shout out to our friends at four J Brewing
Company. Yeah. So for J Brewing Company, great people. Four daughters
and the fourth daughter started the brewery Jennifer Jennifer Edwards right and her three so
they're all they all have the same initial J. Jay. So they started
for J Brewing And I used to stop buy for J all the time.
It was on the way home from the radio station. And sometimes traffic would
be really bad, really bad, And so what I would do is I
would just pull a pitstop into four J and let traffic die down and hang
out with them. And if you're in Houston, you got to understand,
James, you're one hundred percent right. I did the same thing. I'd
be driving like, is for J open? Please tell me they're open because
traffic sucks, and they'd be open. Yeah. And a small little place
but very cool. But they put out branch right, yeah, Spring branch
area. Yeah. But they put out the news that they're permanently retiring and
they want to theyre on their Facebook page that's at for J Brewing Company said
thank you to all of our wonderful customers for your support throughout the years.
They're retiring to go fishing. So I want to thank them for the time
they were open, because we certainly enjoyed their beers, their conversation. And
I'll never forget. I'll never forget. Chad and I were doing a show
over at the backyard Grill and uh oh yes, before j came on,
and I remember that mom showed up. The mom showed up, and the
mom was a huge, huge fan of the show. I hope she still
is. I hope she still is. And I get a text from Jennifer
and she says, Hey, we're on her way and we're bringing the biggest
fan. Yeah, And so I was excited We're having them on the show.
And when they showed up, they brought the biggest fan because they could
play that fan and keep us nic so cool because it was a rotating as
we joked about that. Yeah, no, they literally bought a fan.
But do you remember she would It was the mom who said she wouldn't listen
to us on podcasts. She would tune in every Sunday in Houston from three
to five. She'd sit there on KPRC and she would sit there and listen
to our flagship station every week, and she would take notes about the show
and listen and share and tell her, Hey, you know what they talked
about this week, huge fan. So we want to say thank you to
four J for serving the Houston community. And then the crop beer. The
Chronicle came out and they I don't know if they wrote a piece about it,
but we were in the chronicle with the picture of the mom with the
fan. It was it was pretty cool. It was a pretty cool ride
up the Houston Chronicle did. But uh, hey, congratulations guys on the
retirement. I don't know it was five years. I guess they were in
business, not long. Yeah, I don't know I remember exactly. But
but go out and support your local craft breweries, please please please. Obviously
there's you know, other circumstances. I'm sure. Yeah, right now that
that that that I tend grind is gonna get a little bit longer because you
can't pull over and go get one there. Yeah. I mean there's other
spots in this in the in the Spring Branch area that are Soeah there's but
there was a craft beer that closed there not too long ago. Twenty twenty
four man really shape it up to be a good year for craft beer,
and especially we lost in Genius Brewing. We've lost Buffalo By Brewing Company.
Now four j there's so many that's all in Houston. That's just in Yeah,
that's just in our Houston market. Now we don't know what's happening obviously
in another market. Oh, although I did see a headline that scares the
crap out of me. I'm going to bring this up. Okay, go
ahead, go ahead, Bounders, Founders burn Okay, ladies and gentlemen,
if you're here, heard it here. First, Founders Buring Company tap room
closing temporarily for remodeling, for remodeling. They're closing for two months just to
remodel. Dude, I read the headline that Founders is closing their tap room.
Oh my gosh, like no way for remodeling, remodeling. Like,
by the way, that's good marketing. By the way, if you if
you're good journalism, because we all clicked on it like Founders Brewery tap room
closing, and we're like, what you got to say? Just how big
Founders is a big monster. It's it's the largest brewery in the state Michigan.
I mean there is huge and so James James and I sub the same
article, like did you see this, and we were talking and we clicked
on it. It's like four remodeling and so they're closing down for two months.
They're gonna remodel the kitchen, come back up, and they're gonna talk
about how you're gonna have a different experience there. I like the fact that
they're making that investment because I'm excited about it. Rest assured, if you're
not in the Grand Rapids market, I will be there to give you a
full recap of the changes and we will talk about that. But if you're
ever in the Grand Rapids area, it's a great place to stop buy good
food, good beer obviously. But yeah, they're not closing, which is
good. Yeah. Bill's looking it up right now on his iPhone five.
So oh wow. All right, man, we gotta take a break.
All right, let's come back, Chad, let's come back. We gotta
take a break. But let's talk about this odd promotion that cellar Wall is
doing. And then we got some other news to get to. So all
this is so much more. Hang with us. We'll be right back.
Okay. We will buy no more beer until we drink all the beer we
have at home, we said, And then we laugh and laughed and laughed.
I cut it out. This is what's on tap radio. Back to
James and Chad. We go together better with James the weather? All right,
what's on tap radio? Get enough doing a lot of stuff to get
to it. By the way, Chad, I'm being told that next hour
we got an interview coming up. We do. I've got an interview about
this kid in Iowa who put his money where his mouth is and we're gonna
get him on to talk about a tweet that went viral and uh, he
walked the walk, he talked to talk. We'll tell you all about it
coming up next hour. I'm pretty fascinated with this guy. I love.
When I heard what this guy did, I was so excited, as I
said, you know what, I kind of want to get in the car
and drive out there and have a beer with him. But I did reach
out to him this past week and I said, hey, Ragbriy just announced
the route. Are you anywhere near the route? And he said, I
am, And I'm gonna try and hook up with this guy somewhere on the
route and have a beer with him. So he lives, he lives in
Iowa. Do we know where des Moines. I don't remember where exactly where
he is, but it's not I only it's in Des Moines, but maybe
around the outskirts of it. Yeah, yeah, but it's somewhere else.
But anyway, big Hawkeyes man, Oh, big Iowa hawk Eyes, big
Iowa Hawkeye fan. And we we thought our boy Mikey g was a big
Hawk Eye fan. Oh there we go over at Radio Kiah Cook kok X.
But no, this guy's fascinating and so we're gonna get him on next
hour, which I'm pretty excited to talk with him, so stay tuned for
that coming up. But there's a story that came across our news desk and
Chad's got in front of him Whilestellar, Autois, and they're known for their
chalices, right, I had probably about five of them. I got one
gifted. No, I have two of them gifted to me from different folks,
one being Silver Eagle distributors. Oh yeah, we got you and I
both got one. Yeah. They had our names on him. Yeah,
they had our names written on them. And then one time that Silver Eagle
shout out to our friends over Silver Eagle. Uh. They had a stellar
twall party and they had this artist coming from Belgium who was basically like engraving
the chalices. Yeah, and I have one that is sitting up here on
my shelf. That's really cool. But the problem is they know, you
know, Sellar twelve knows that the chalices, that a lot of them have
the gold rims on them. A lot of times people go walking off with
them. I know, I don't, and I don't. I'll be I'll
be honest with you. Statute of limitations. I used to be that guy
in college iced to steal pint glasses from bars. Now I don't do that
anymore because when I got married, my wife was like, what the hell,
why is your why is your what's wrong with you? You're a grown
ass man? What the hell your capital bar? I'm like, well,
I have to have my Astros pint glass, my Texans pint glass, my
rockets pot class. So she after after a while, she kind of just
started slowly getting rid of them. So she noticed she noticed what I had.
I had two of each, and so one of them would magically just
break on their own, and she's like, oh my gosh, how would
that happen. I was just trying to go for a glass and it just
fell and I started noticing all the glasses that were breaking. We're ones that
duplicates of I like how James says they magically broke and these glasses would magically
appear. Speaking of magically appearing, my glass magically just filled up right here
because I got stunt liver Bill, Harbor Light Bill in studio. Bill,
what did you just crack open? We brought a brand new beer for us
here called the Slovenian Psyclops. Who bred that Harbor Light Brewery did downtown South
Haven? Who's that guy? That would be me? Okay? You brewed
it? Okay? Cool? And what what style? It's a kind of
a triple double? I p a triple double trip. Well I can't remember
if I double hopped it three times or triple hopped it twice? But is
it a basketball ip? A double? But it comes in around ten point
nine and and it's all Slovenian hops, Stereian gold, Sterrian wolf, and
Sterian dragon. Nobody knows what Sian, but I will tell you this right
now. No, no, no people out there, they know this right
here. It's a hot punch in the mouth that is a very unique flavor.
But not just unique. It's absolutely delicious. I am not making this
up, dude. I've never had a beer that tasted like this, and
it is. It's it's floral and herbal, and normally I associate that with
English style beers. This is like the West Coast version of an English beer.
It is bright and big and bold and strong. So nice beer here
reminds me actually a little bit of this Shorts Brewing winter Pills Imperial Pilsner that
we had with spruce tips. But that's what we had. So as James
was saying, I want to bring this back full circle, because James was
talking a little bit about how things magically appear in your collection and glass,
there was a time in a day and an age whenever people would thieve glasses
from bars and and it was a major problem. And then in college I
did not weak. Can we just be honest. We all did it.
She did, I did it. Jed Ice is still toilet paper from bars?
Were you that poor? So poor in college? Yes? I was
that poor. For us it was the dog and SuDS mugs. Oh my
gosh, dude, I'm earlier. Yeah, you are old. Geez well.
Anyway, Stellar Artois has a chalice and if you're not familiar with it,
it is a beautiful chalice. It has a etched stem, has a
wide base, and it has a open chalice receptacle to receive stellar atois,
which is both inviting beautiful. It it showcases the color, the bubbles and
also the head retention. But is it a better Is it a better glass
than Samuel adams Boston Logger Glass. I'm gonna say this right now. Okay,
I'm gonna go on record. You asked the question, all right,
this is wats on tap radio. I feel like we had to hit the
disclaimer button because I'm gonna get nailed for a freaking libel or slander or something
here. All right, there is nothing that compares to the sam Adam's Boston
Logger glass. And this is not even close. Okay, but it does
look pretty, and let's be honest and let's get into pictures. It does.
Who hasn't taken a bar glass by mistake? Right? Air quotes by
mistake? Oh I forgot. I wasn't supposed to walk off for this glass.
Ice have it, ice, have it down. I would like dump
it out and pour a little water and then throw some pip towels in there
and then put it into my wife's press. Oh, I can tell you
right now the bar is closed. But the ginger Man in Houston, reason,
oh my goodness, they had so many glass pieces of glass where dedicated
to different styles. And yeah, I'm not going to say that super fan
number one Christine was an accomplice, guys, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anyway, Uh, stealing glasses. Stellar Artois has a chalice that is very
coveted and they recognize that because how many of these glasses magically disappear from bars.
Well at Stellar Artois, they are now saying that we admire you for
those who admire the beauty as such and are aware of the beauty of our
chalice and made it an iconic object of desire. Wow, that's that's a
that's quite a quote. Anyway. Uh, they are now saying, while
it's inconvenient, we understand that borrowing borrowing, because of course we're all gonna
take them back, that's right, the glassware, just so you can go
home and celebrate the beauty of your Stellar Artois. We understand. And so
now they have a campaign a tribute to those who are able to discern and
enjoy the beautiful things in life, which is enjoying a stellar artois from a
stella artois chalice. And so we are now asking you to probably display I
love this. We want you basically to admit your crime and post posts on
social media you enjoying your stellar artois from your stellar artois chalice for a chance
to win some swag. So seller artois now, which is owned by Anheuser
Busch ABM bev, is now inviting people who have stolen glassware sorry borrowed,
borrowed glassware from bars to photograph themselves enjoying a stellar artoa from home for a
chance to win some swag. If I steal the glass, go home and
take a picture with it, I can win the prize. I'm in.
You get a glass and a T shirt. It's a very odd promotion.
It's a very weird vision, like it's inviting people to steal more glass.
All right, that's our number one and what's on tap radio coming up an
hour number two, Hold my beer and watch this and some more stuff where
we talk about what James, we got a big time interview coming up.
I'm excited about that. All right, we got a big I'm to find
me stolen a Stellars wall glass I have somewhere on my studio. All right,
all this so much more, we'll grab back. We like to have
at least five practice beers before we have our actual beer. All you need
now, there's lots of practice. What's on tap radio continues, Hold my
beer and watch this brought to you by your friends at Ringing All the Tenhacing
Insurance Group located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Holland along the Lake Shore RTI,
Grand Rapids RTI, Grand Rapids Dot Com. Well an hour or two
both on that video got a lot on store. But you never heard wold
to say that, man, it's two years old, too young, too
young. Stomach cancer. I lost my dad's stomach cancer. Not a fun
I mean, no cancer is fun. But man, it's just no I
know, I know it, and you know it's funny. Say it's funny.
I shouldn't say funny, but you bring this up. But I saw
this story and you talked about cancer. We mentioned Wordy Thompson, a good
friend of ours, our boy Warton Wordy. Yeah, Orty and Sarah Thompson.
Thank you, just you know for what you mean to the crappier community
and uh people rallying around them trying to help them out, but also our
good friend Channing and his daughter Olivia just uh, you know what they're going
through. We mentioned this on an earlier episode of What's on TEP Radio.
By the way, go listen to our podcast brought to you by Cask Branding
if you missed it. But I want to mention give a shout out to
Adam Cheatham, who may you don't if you don't know who he is.
If I've met him, I don't. I don't know if you have.
But this is a guy who just recently went uh and said, you know
what I'm gonna do. He's a dude with I mean a monster long hair
and a monster long beard and he's gonna shave it all off to raise money
to help with the cost the fundraiser for Olivia. She's a three year old
good good friend of ours. Channing is the general manager of a great beer
bar on the south side of Houston, Nobe Public House, and Adam Chadam
decided he would shave every everything off beard Head, Boom Gone if they could
raise ten thousand dollars, and they raised it under a week over ten thousand
dollars, which is amazing, I know, I know, and he's holding
up his end of the deal. And so just a shout out from Channing
and from the What's on Tap Radio family to Adam Cheatham for doing this and
just helping out watching the beer community pull together to help people out. And
again Wordy Thompson also good friend of the beer community. He is going through
a bunch of different transfusions and tests right now, and so just keep your
thoughts with him and be on the lookout for the fundraisers if you're in the
Texas area, and we will continue to post updates and links to those gofundmes
and fundraisers on our social media at What's on Tap Radio pages. Yeah cancer
sucks, you know sucks. Yeah, F cancer. I'm gonna say,
F cancer. You know it also sucks people that break the law. Hold
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one this week. Guys. Never ever, and I'm sorry if this is
your name, but never trust a person named Frankie or Bruce. So if
you know Frankie or Bruce, you can't trust him, at least in one
state. You want to guess what state, Bill Ah, Florida, A
right Florida is How do you do this every time? One of the chances,
I'm telling you what man. So there's a guy named Bruce Hudson.
He was arrested and charged with burglary with his salts or better, criminal mischief,
aggravated assault and attempt to commit a felony, and larceny grand theft.
So let's find out what happened here. So deputies were called out to the
scene and we're alerted of a possible burglary. The homeowner said an unidentified man
who was just walking in front of his house, So he asked this man
if he could have something to drink. The guy walking by asked the homeowner
if he could ask him to drink. So the victim reportedly invited the man
in mistake, yeah, to give him some water. So he said,
Hey, the guy asked me for something to drink. I invited him in
for some water. But the man didn't want water. He wanted a bear
instead. He didn't want water. Probably not the most polite move as a
HouseGuest. But however, it gets worse. Apparently, the guy starts getting
aggressive and starts pushing the homeowner, and when the homeowner asked the man to
stop, the man responded by punching him in the nose. After being punched,
the victim went outside in an attempt to alert the neighbors. While asking
for help, the man grabbed a mallet style hammer and destroyed a wall and
shattered a glass table. Hudson then allegedly threatened the homeowner with the hammer before
running out the back door with a bag of several items from the home.
Hudson usually grabbed the homeowner's immigration papers, passport, laptop, iPad, three
watches in a gold ring. I did the same thing last Saturday at Bill's
house. Hey, I'm still waiting for those, Okay. So deputy soon
caught up with Hudson, thank goodness, and I located the bag of stolen
belongings. However, Hudson deny taking anything from the house. I didn't do
it. It was the one armed man. Yeah, that one armed man
has a name. After finding the items, Hudson told police he was set
up by his friend Frankie. Oh my gosh, Frankie did it, dude?
How how do you You can't trust that guy? No, you can't
trust Frankie, you can't trust Bruce. So this is why you don't invite
random people into your house, all right? In anything, maybe bring them
out water outside, but don't bring them in your home. No good can
ever come from that. I was gonna say the I believe the saying is
the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Tell you what Hudson remains
in custody in jail. So a Florida man story started friendly, but then
in the same way, the Florida man robbed a house after the homeowner invited
him inside for something to drink. So, yeah, he invited him in
for some water. And then Bruce got a little aggressive, so he said,
hey, hey, you need to settle down a little bit there,
buddy, and that's when he picked up a hammer. The guy ran out
of the house and they Bruce guy started beating up the house with the hammer.
So Florida man rob's house after homeowner invites him in for a glass of
water. How about that, anyone? All right? Then, I don't
know what the because the thing is is when you have insurance on your property.
You have insurance group, by the way, that's right. I know,
I know the homeowner. He's covered for it. He's covered. That's
I think he's good on the liability. But bringing a lieutenant ticking insurance group
bringing you this segment and reminding you that they'll cover you for most things,
just met out everything. But if you decide to punch a homeowner in the
face, especially after the homeowner invited you in for something to drink, Hey,
you look hot. He looks like you need a drink of water.
And he's like, I don't want water, i't want beer. He's like,
all right, look I'll get you a beer. And then guy gets
a little aggressive. All right, but the guy's being nice, opening up
his own home for him for you to get a glass of water, and
you end up beating up him, beating him up in the house, see
him on you floor to man, all right, we gotta take a break.
Still to come, Still to come. We're gonna talk about a woman
who lost her dog and you'll never believe where that dog was found. All
this is so much more. Hang with us. We'll be right back.
And the teacher said, no, Bobby, there's no such time as beer
oclock fire that teacher. This is what's on Taperadio. You know when you
have a stunt beer liver in studio, do you have a unique opportunity?
Ohay, welcome back to What's on Tap Radio. James hanging out in studio
s on the West side of Houston. I am the Beer Logic guy.
Chad Pilgrim hanging out Algan, Michigan at the Beer Logic World headquarters and drinking
ooreum and uh hanging out on third Mike. Hi, folks, there it
is there. It is Harror Light Bill brewer Bill from Harvard Light Brewery.
There it is Okay hanging out and so you know I can crack this open
and share this with him. We're gonna crack open another beer. This is
b I L Vanilla Marris Bill Bill. That's why I did that. See
it's a collaboration beer and it is an English style barley wine aged on vanilla
beans and it comes in at twelve percent. And when you have a drinking
buddy, you can share that. So I'm gonna hand that over to him,
let him do his job. Fill up the glasses. But as we
come back, I kind of want to tag onto something here. I'm i
we have another story about Patrick Mahomes' dad, and I was thinking about Ring
Noldaton Hacen Insurance Group, and I'm thinking about you know who they're covering by
the way we try to get I'm gonna go ahead and do a name drop
John Klunder, my good buddy from Ring Noldton ten Hacen. I was like,
dude, come on, you you can make it out here too,
Aleigan and he said, no, I can't, can't make it this week.
Well, you're gonna get him on the show soon. And I said,
I want to know, would you cover this? And well, Patrick
mahomes dad is in the news. And now you may be thinking, well,
of course he's in the news because it's the old daddy O of the
Super Bowl quarterback. Yeah, I mean, come on, you're gonna cover
this, right of course. Well. Patrick Mahomes recently was featured on the
show and throughout social media for promoting the cores Light Bear. Remember also the
cores Light l I G h T. The flashlight right, the flashlight and
the bear. Because he can't promote beer. He's an active player. If
you are an NFL superstar, you cannot promote beer. Can't do it active
players, well, right, but it's all part of the cores Light thing.
And we talked recently about how core is light. He's gonna have the
cors Light train. They're bringing it back for the Super Bowl, which is
pretty amazing, all right, and Patrick Mahomes back in the Super Bowl.
Well, Patrick Mahomes dad also making a spectacular splash right before the Super Bowl.
And for cors Light, how to do that by getting his third DWI
whoa whoa an extension of harm under and watch this brought to you by ringing
all the ten Hagen insurance group where we remind you not to drink while intoxicated
or drink with an open container. Patrick Mahomes Senior, he said, three
was driving. Oh yes, he was driving and pulled over with an open
sixteen ounce cors Light beer bottle in his console. And this is his third
d WI. Now Mahomes his son's the quarterback for the Chiefs. And he
told police, yeah, I was watching the game. I had a few
beers. And they were said, all right, well how about you step
out of the vehicle and let's let's talk for a little bit. That did
not go well for Mahomes Senior. Hold on a second though, he kind
of knew how it was going to go because this was his third DWI.
He's had some experience, right, he could have saved the officer some time
and just said, listen, I know how this is going to end,
but we don't need to go through the exercise. But they did. And
yeah, he's found guilty. Basically he's found Sorry, technically he's not found
guilty. He is alleged. Yeah, but he did fail and he was
cited in two thousand and eight and twenty nineteen, according to police records,
this being his third d WI conviction. If well, if he's officially convicted,
he risks up to ten years in prison in a ten thousand dollars fine.
Ouch did to say what state has happen? Yeah, Texas. I
know everybody was thinking Florida, but no, it was in Texas. And
this is the other thing that I was a little surprised to learn that apparently
Patrick Mahomes because Patrick Mahomes Junior, which we know as a Super Bowl quarterback
for the Kinas City Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes Dad, Patrick Mahomes Senior, was
a pitcher for the New York Mets. Yeah, he also played for the
Twins. I remember when he played for the Twins. Yeah, played for
the Mets as well. Yeah. Yeah. First time I heard the story,
I was immediately reminded of the Don Mattingley story where Don Mattingley's kid got
pulled over Hanny Blue. Remember that. Go back and listen to our podcast
Brought You a Cask Branding and Don Mattingly's kid blew ba c that was his
dad's batting average. And that was my favorite, my absolute favorite hole by
Beer and watched this story exact Battridge was when Don Mattingly's kid blew a BAC
his dad's Hall of Fame batting overage. That was pretty awesome. So this
is like the trifecta. D w I s it is? It is?
Well, remember when Jason Kelsey jumped out of the suite at the Chiefs game
there? Who are they playing? I've got it? Who are they playing?
Chad? They the Chiefs? I don't know. I don't watch enough
football, because here's the thing. Were they playing Miami? They are playing
Miami? No, No, okay, I'm sorry, I'm drawing a blank
right now. But he jumped out of suite and it was the Patrick Mahomes
who was trying to be the voice of reason, going, hey, settle
down there, mister Kelsey, let's come back into the suite. And here
he is. That's a uh, that's a mess right there. But we'll
see that third That must be like that's the third strike, right, yeah,
yeah, it is. Well, we'll keep our eyes peeled on that.
We'll see any further developments in that story, we'll bring it. But
I do have some news coming across my the Ravens. They play the Ravens.
Ravens. That's what it was. God dang it. Anyways, continuing
on, So got the story across my desk. Now it makes sense to
Patrol West Michigan sent you this one because you know what they said it.
They said, it's like every story we're doing this week, but this one
here, we gotta give them credit for one of them because they loaded the
inbox. Look, every good party needs a hot vomit. You heard me,
hot vomit. Because hot sauce flavored hard Seltzer is now a thing that
you can buy. Finally, the brand truly is behind it. In that
Jim Cook. In that Jim Cook, I do believe that is the Truly
brand, Yeah, Jim cooka Boston or Samuel Adams. So they say it's
a limited edition batch, so not something that you're not planning to do long
term unless it's somehow good and people want more of it. But I can't
imagine that many or would want. Yeah, be a fan of it when
I want that refreshing alcoholic taste that doesn't have all the calories and filler of
beer, but I want heartburn. Yes, give me buffalo hot wing flavored
heart Seltzer. So chat, here's the deal. So you have to go
through the website, which is dot com because we're not plugging that website because
they don't sponsor. But bad News already sold out, Chad already sold outs.
Really, but they say a second match is dropping rather soon. Four
packs of this stuff will run you about twenty four dollars, so it's not
cheap. No, No, Each chan is sixteen ounces though, because twelve
ounces of the hot sauce and booze just wouldn't be enough, So there needs
to be sixteen. Kid, just have twelve, you need to have sixteen.
So Truly is selling a hot sauce flavored heart Seltzer. They dropped it
for Super Bowl, but it's out now. So if you're in there are
only two answers to this. Either they they they they didn't exist, or
people are really that stupid. I think I want to say it does exist,
because I don't see why they wouldn't. People are that stupid. People
are gimmicky and non alcoholic. Version don't guess. I don't, all right,
not alcoholic hard seltzers. I don't know. You know what you know?
I wish boy. Anyway, we got a great interview coming up in
the next hour, or excuse me, the next segment. And when we
come back, a guy in Iowa who puts his money where his mouth is
and he says, I'm gonna buy some beer. We're gonna tell you how
much beer he buys. This is what's on tap Radio. We'll be right
back, and now your weekend forecast, a chance of beer. You've got
what's on tap radio? All right, sick the ninth caller, If you
can name this fight song, we'll set you up with a pair of What's
on tap radio high fives. Take the ninth collar at seven to three.
Oh, actually, we don't have a fun screen to They already left for
the day. Yeah, we don't have you can't call into the show anymore.
Okay, Well I do know somebody on the line who probably does know
this fight song. Let's bring in Alex Brainer. We have a lot in
common with Chad. Alex. Welcome to What's on Tap Radio. Hey,
thanks for having me. Do you know this fight song? That's a that's
an easy one, that's yeh. I would fight song boys, you know
the lyrics. I don't want to embarrass myself on your radio show, but
yeah, of course you do. All right. So here's a guy,
Chad who talks a big game. He puts his money where his mouth is.
And he didn't just talk the game, he walks it. I mean,
that's the That's the thing is is in this era of social media when
you can go and post all kinds of crap and zero accountability, and this
case is no, we're here in the heartland. We've got integrity. Well,
there's yeah, there's this bury called there's this bury called Exile Brewery,
right, and the first year they wanted it, their goal was to sell
fifteen thousand cases. Well then Alex came around, and now they sold thirty
thousand cases. This we got to set this up, Alex, tell everybody
about the beer that you bought. I want to know, because it's a
beer radio show. Tell everybody about the beer you bought. So what beer
did you buy? So it's a very specific beer. I don't know how
familiar everybody is with the landscape of college sports, but it's more or less
pay to play at this point, and a lot of that goes through like
nonprofit donations and the Iowa variation of that, it's called Form. It's called
Iowa's Form and they partnered with Exile Brewing Company to create this beer called Form,
and twenty percent of all proceeds of that beer go to the nil fond,
which is support or the athletes at the university, which is it's It
depends on where you're looking at it, what university and how well they follow
the rules. But like Iowa, Yeah, Iowa does a really good job
with it. I think you see a lot of the guys in the community
actually actually working for that funding. There's actually an exchange there which is the
intense. But anyway, so the twenty of this beer sale goes to that
fund, which in turn gives us the opportunity to bring in some higher profile
players and therefore put a better product on the field. And let's say,
Alex Brydon, this is probably it has to be your favorite beer. Now,
it's I mentioned it in the last last conversation I had, and it's
I've switched almost exclusively to Swarm only. I was a big bush Light guy
before naturally being Iowa, but I've switched almost entirely to Swarm. The only
time I don't drink Swarm is if I'm at a bar that doesn't have it,
and then I and then I do judge that bar accordingly. Well,
there's a certain reason why this is the only beer you're drinking. So let's
talk. Let's talk about this tweet that you sent out that now millions of
people have heard about. So yeah, so yeah, long story Shore.
I'm following along on the Iowa message boards as as fans do, as obsessive
fans do, and I'm there's there's rumors going around that Cayden Proctor, huge
recruit from the state of Iowa who went to Alabama last year, might be
entering the transfer portal, and they're the conversations talking about how if he does,
we're more than likely going to have a very good, realistic shot at
bringing him home. So it's all of this is building, I'm getting excited,
and I fire off a tweet that just says, Wow, if we
actually get Cayden Proctor backed, I'll go to exile and buy out, buy
him out of form right now. And that was I mean, it was
at the time, it was tongue in cheek. I'm not a big Twitter
or a popular Twitter by any means, so I didn't expect it to go
anywhere. But the brewery retweeted it, and then a couple of the local
writers picked off on it, and then it just spread like crazy, and
there was a point where I every time I looked at my phone there was
another twenty five thirty notifications, and it was like at that point, I
was just like, holy smoked, I'm in trouble. How many beers had
you consumed when you send that tweet out? That was I want to say,
that was a Saturday morning that I tweeted there, So it wasn't there.
It was not beer fueled. Oddly enough, it was just fan excitement.
So I figured that it was like a Saturday night or Friday night,
and you woke up the next morning going, oh my god, what did
I do? Yes, it was it was it was a mid day,
didn't think anything of it. Xile retweeted it and it hit the fan.
Talking to alex brainer here the man who puts the money where his mouth is.
So the tweet went out. Then what happened tweet went out. Those
rumors start getting more solid. It's starting to look like it's actually going to
happen. And he enters the transfer portal. There's rumors that he's on campus
like that next day for a visit, and I'm like, oh man,
this is actually realistic, and I'm I'm I'm in trouble. Howrs were you
at this point? I financially Right off the bat, I was like this
is this is bad because I kind of started texting some of my buddies who
like, I've got buddies that work in breweries and I've got buddies that work
at bars, and I was like, Hey, how much stock do you
think they have like on a given day. And one of my buddies was
like, yeah, dude, you're gonna spend well over one thousand. I
was like, oh god. And then at that point where like, hey,
can I borrow one hundred dollars, right, So then so then things
starts spiraling. It happens, and I'm like, I'm not even thinking about
the tweet at this point time. I'm just excited. I mean, it
happened on Saturday. We then had a we had a women's basketball game Saturday,
and then a men's basketball game Saturday night, and then we had NFL
football on Sunday. So it was like a it was a it was a
weekend of a. I was already excited watching sports, going out with friends,
and then it hit me on Sunday when Exil like followed up on the
tweet. They just sent me like the the eye emojis, and I was
like, oh, oh crap. So I was like, yep, I've
got to do it. I have to. And so you did, and
you pulled up to the brewery with an okay, with the back open.
YEP. I walked in and the young lady up front obviously had no idea
what the heck I was talking about, and I was I was just like,
hey, I'm gonna buy a lot of form today, and she was
like, oh, yeah, okay, how much? And I was like
all of that sitting over there, you know, the barrel. I don't
want that. Yeah, yeah, what is it? Parkson Recreation? I
want all the bacon and eggs that you have. Okay, well I think
I think you yeah, Ron Swanson, It's like, excuse me, holdan,
I think what you heard was I want a lot of bacon eggs.
No, I want all the bacon and eggs. So you get all the
beer. How many cases of beer? I ended up with thirty six I
think roughly just shy of five hundred individual camps and you packed it all in
this suv. Did it all fit? Yep? Yeah, it all fit.
I was running out of space at the end. It was I moved
like I had to take my golf clubs out and I had to take a
bunch of stuff out shiving room, glove compartment, take the spin tire out,
put where the spare tire goes. And the folks at XI were great.
They helped me carried out, They helped me sack it. I mean
they had yeah. I the the initial girl that I spoke to wasn't privy
to the previous tweets and conversation, but the their marketing person came out and
she's like, WHOA are you the guy that tweeted this, and I was
like, yeah, that's me, and she goes, I never expected to
see you here, actually, and I was like, well, honestly,
I was like, I figured I'd be cyberbullied on Twitter if I didn't show
up. So you picked this beer up twenty cases, you took it home.
Now you live on the fifth floor, Is that right? Yep?
I'm I'm in an apartment of complex on the fifth floor. We've we've got
some like of the those wheelie carts for like move moving in and out and
stuff like that. So I had to make three individual trips up and down
with that full of cases of beer. And then I got it up here
and I was just like, man, where do I even? What do
I? What do I put this? What do I do with it?
Alex Brainer's our guest, the man who puts the money where his mouth is.
And what were your neighbor's reaction as you're going up and down this elevator
with all this beer? You know, I don't think I actually saw anybody
in the entire interaction. I did. I went over to exile like in
the afternoon, probably four o'clock, so kind of late work day, so
I don't think anybody was around, which was probably fortunate because they would think
I was a huge ranging alcoholic. Now do you have a girlfriend? You
married? I have a girlfriend, No, no marriage, And what's your
girlfriend think about all this? Uh? It was really hard to explain initially
because she's not a sports fan and she follows along as much as I share,
which is probably too much, but it was. Yeah, it was
a difficult explanation, but she she'd come around to it. She thinks it's
funny now that she's seen the story, and initially it was an interesting conversation.
I want to know what how many other players you're intending I'm buying for
the University of Iowa, because I mean, I'm sure they'll brew a beer
for you if we can get some more high profile talent to come to the
big again there in the heartland. I mean, it's it's kind of a
unique scenario where we can us as fans can actually really make a difference on
the court, on the field, Like we could show up, we can
be loud, we can do that, but we now we can more or
less what our money where our mouth is. I mean, do I need
to be spending my discretionary income on Iowa sports in this way. Not really,
but I'm a big fan and if we have a better product on the
field, that's going to make me happier. So, Alex, we got
about thirty seconds left. Alex Bander is our guest, million dollar question.
What are you gonna do with all this beer? I'm gonna drink it.
I'm making progress. So I guess if you're you're in the Brainer family,
look for Christmas presents and birthday presents as the Swarm Golden Nail come in your
way. Well, this is an amazing story, Alice, you're a man
of your word. Alex Bander's our guests buying out Exiles Swarm Golden ale They
you know, they set the goal to sell fifteen thousand, and yeah,
Alex still bought fifteen thousand, sending them over their gold to thirty so not
quite that many. But Alex, hey a best of luck with all this
beer consumption. We want to update on how you're doing. Let's check in
maybe around the fourth of July and see how that beer consumption's coming along.
Absolutely great, All right, Alex Banner's our guest. This is what's on
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All right, like I said, a couple of stories, get to but
before we do, I'll want to crack a beer now. Over the holiday
break, went up to North Texas hung out with family, and my wife's
aunt gave me a plethora of different beers. So she had a party and
people, dude, no, no, you got to understand, it's a
running joke with the show. You have to say plethora. You have to
if you if you're a longtime fan of the show, it's never plethora.
It's always pu thora. Right. So anyways, Uh, my wife's aunt
had a party and she had this beer left over, and so she not
a beer drinker, she gave them to me, and so I'm gonna bring
one of those beers to the table that she gave me. And this is
from nine oh three brewers, Oh big beer. And this is a beer
called Live Laugh Fluff. It is a fluffer Nutter inspired beer, peanut butter,
banana, marshmallow flavor, tart cream ale, a collaboration with you want
to take a guess with brewery Martin House Brewery. Come, I know that
that was a total guest. People listening right now are gonna say that was
stage No, it was not. I promise you. That was one guests
as a collaboration with Martin House Brewing Company at Paris. Well with keeping it
country and keeping it weird and high fives. Oh it's weird, alright if
it came from Martin House. What's the ABV on thisa beer? You know?
Seven? Just seven? That's a light that's basically that's a that's a
session beer house Martin House right there? All right, let me crack this
peanut butter and jelly fluffer a Nutter beer marshmallow, peanut butter. Yeah,
Oh my gosh, dude, that's a that's a light color. It is
a light color. I expect to be all right, what do you go
like a James head snap back. Now he's got whiplash. He's got a
class like Jiff peanut butter, and it tastes just like Jeff Wow. All
right, James, all right, we got that's a beer. Uh.
We got a couple of things we gotta get do. I gotta find out
how this liquor store caught on fire. There's this liquor store. There's an
investigation going on, and then they are some investigators come out and they looked
at it and you'll never guess how this fire started. So people who needed
money. We don't know. Yeah, it could have been put police respond
into a liquor store warm and they went out, and the fire department came
out and they put out the fire. And while the cleanup efforts they were,
you know, doing their investigation, they found out the fire was started
by the sun global warming. Sun. The sun started this fire at this
liquor store. See the sun. This guy looking down and says, I
don't want this liquor store here anymore. All right, I smite you ignited
the boxes. But investigators are unable to determine. But this is a theory.
Their theory is that it was light passing through bottles that caused the boxes
to light up. It's like magnifying glass and ants. Yeah, when you
were a kid and you had that and you burned a little ant hill.
Although it has not been confirmed. But what has been confirmed is that the
sun started this fire at the Syracuse liquor store by igniting the boxes. But
the theory is, but again hasn't been confirmed, that light passing through the
bottles heated up just enough on those boxes to start a fire. But yeah,
they came out and luckily they put out the fire and nobody was injured.
But the sun is out there starting fires. So all I know is
if you worship Ra and you own a beer store, you ever start making
a bigger offering because he may smite you. By the way, Ra's the
sun god. But anyway, if that's what you worship, how about that?
Have you ever heard of that bill? A fire starting by sunlight and
nighting boxes? That's first for me. There was actually a house in Grand
Haven, Michigan. It was a local artist who made some glass thing put
it out in front of his house, and it actually did focus the sun
started the siding on fire and burned his house down. True, story.
I've heard of this about windows, new windows being put on houses and the
light reflects off it and it melts the sides of hot tubs that are on
people's decks. I've heard of this. So this is the real deal.
So there you go. Now that's something we gotta worry about. We gotta
worry about the sun catching things on fire. So I guess put some curtains
up or some tent on those windows. I know. Anyway to close out
the show, Jan Door, we got it. Let's end it up.
I know, let's do some Dave Ward action here. And also, it's
another bear story. It is another bear story. It is another bear story.
I got another bear story. So a woman in Milwaukee, her name's
Jenny Hazard, Well, she would frantic because her elderly dog, a sixteen
year old shitsu named Bear, went missing last week. And she got all
upset because her bear, elderly dog probably can't see that well, went missing.
But good news out of it. She got a text message letting her
know that he was okay because he was just hanging out at the bar down
the street. See what happened is he showed up our company. He showed
up in a popular drinking spot called the Finks or called Thinks. It's a
friend of a friend that was there who called the owner and a group of
women were there bar hopping apparently found him outside and the bar says he was
very popular. Bear was. So here's Ginny talking about losing and finding her
dog Bearing Dark. I was outside with all three dogs. I'm looking and
where's Bear? After about fifteen or twenty minutes, I was just sent chairs.
I was just because he's old, he's got a heart condition. I'm
like, where could he have gone? Right there? We get a text,
your dog is down at thanks great. I believe he's okay, But
what's he doing in a bar? They took good care of him, and
I guess he was pretty popular. Yeah, he was so popular. Was
doing karaoke. But she had to come pick up figs. She had to
come pick up Bear because Bear had a little too much to drink. So,
dude, hey, good news. I'm old and I have a heart
condition and you don't know where I am find the closest bar. Good for
that dog that dogs like, you know what? I want one more before
I'm taking from this world. Good on the sixteen year old Shitsu I'm sorry
we let go with Charlie at twelve. Maybe that dog should have had one
more rendezvous at taking Charlie to the bar. All right, man, we
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