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let's go to beer run. We're gonna take you out a beer run
this week. Ladies and gentlemen, let's go look out, look out,
we're here. We're talking about we started. Welcome to What's on Tap Radio?
I'm Beard James Simpson, joined by my shot Gun right here on the
passenger seat, mister beer Logic himself, mister chap Hillbeam second Mike. That's
right, I called Shotgun first way, long time ago. I called it.
And uh, sorry, STAPs, you're always gonna be fourth mic.
Oh yeah, first name drop right there, our favorite, our second favorite
weather man gets fourth mic even when there's only three of us on love justin
Stapleton. But yeah, this is What's I TAPP Radio. I'm hanging out
here Alegan Michigan, the Beer Logic World Headquarters and drink Imporium. Ready to
drink some beer. And I'm on the west side of town, Studio as
Broadcasting in the great state of Texas. We are all over the place,
We're all over the US. But it's it's time. It's time to crack
some beers. We've had a long week or actually we're just starting the week,
depending on when you're listening to the show. But uh, you're ready
for a beer? Yeah, I think I am. In fact, I'm
I'm gonna use some I'm I'm gonna have a beer. But I'm also I'm
gonna do some complaining and some splaining. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm a ready.
We can't complain spirits show material. Trust me, just go with it,
okay, because I feel like the show that was just on probably brought
people down. It's for us to bring them up. If you were listening
to something else on AM radio somewhere um or feting or whatever podcasting you were
listening to, it's like, all right, I've had enough of that crap.
Time to get my spirits lifted, and we're gonna crack open a beer.
But before we do, James, there's some horton people that we want
to recognize that make this show possible. Oh yeah, oh yeah, that
cold ain't folded. Wow, that being Tan Trick Brewing, Superior Pest Control,
Beer Logic conference Events, Renaldo to Naked Insurance Group, the Backyard Grill,
and oh real Big de Fun's huge on this cast branding cast branding,
cast branding. Thank you, ladies, gentlemen, for tuning into what's on
tap Radio. We're chat and I are gonna take you on to be a
run for the next two hours, and I hope that you would stick with
us if it's entirety because we got some good stuff on tap this week,
but we got to cruck some beers to kick this show off. Brought to
the table this week brought to you by the Backyard Grill, where I heard
a rumor that Chad was hanging out last week. I was gonna talk about
that. In fact, I'm gonna ahead and kick things off this week.
I was at the Backyard Grill, did kind of a nostalgic look at the
former formerly Well Well it was world famous award winning beer with Mark and Chad,
but Mark was not there, so our buddy Mark mcshaffrey didn't make it.
But the brewer was there. We hung out, We sampled a bunch
of beers, had a really good time. Anytime I'm in Houston, swing
out there on the northwest side off of Highway to ninety go check out the
byg because I have over a hundred different beers. But the people, the
service, the food, everything was great. And I'm gonna go ahead and
I'm gonna start the show with a beer, and I'm gonna do some complaining
and then i'm gonna do some explaining and then i'm gonna go ahead and crack
the beer. Complain. I came home from Houston and I got on the
plane and I was like, I'm not sure. I feel real good.
And then I broke out into a sweat that night in fever and everything else.
And then I got a sinus infection. So if I sound a little
nasally, now you know why, Houston, you gave me a sinus infection.
And I'm gonna go ahead and do some explaining. So, because I
opened up my beer fridge just recently and found all those out of date beers,
I wanted to do an experiment brought to the table again, brought to
you by the back Air Girl, and I'm going to open up an all
day IPA from Founders Brewing Company that was canned on April twenty fifth, twenty
twenty two, to see if I can taste just how bad this is with
a sinus infection. I got a listener email at What's on tap Way Too
at gmail dot com that suggested that we bring a beer from the crisper drawer.
Actually the only reason I'm bringing this is because we got a listener emailnect
from this is for you listener, Kenny or who is it again? Our
game was sorry, sir, but yeah, they suggested, why don't you
guys bring those beers to the show that you brought from the Cristopher drawer.
Okay, Chad did that. Well, I'm getting some floral notes from the
hops on an all day I PA. It's a session IPA, which is
not a real beer style, as one person quickly called me out on,
it's an American palele. But whatever comes in at four point seven percent ABV
forty two IBus, so I should have a decent amount of bitterness to it.
But I'm a floral notes. It doesn't smell too bad. But then
again, I do have a sinus infection. Chad's blaming the Great State of
Texas for a science affection. There's no evidence. Not gonna lie right now.
Maybe because it's too cold, not but that's a sinus infection. So
that's why whenever you do beer judging, make sure or even ratings on untapped,
make sure your palette is adjusted and calibrated, because if you give something
a really high score because you had a sinus infection couldn't taste the flaws,
well, that's on you. So that's what I brought to the table founders
All day IPA, but not just any all day IPA, not a limited
release one that I've been sitting on since well April of last year, and
that's that's what I'm drinking. I might bring up beer until I get tired
of it and I don't like the taste of it. I might bring up
beer from my crisper draw next week, but not this week. I did
look in the I have a refrigerator right here in studios, and I started
look it through and I got a lot of different beers in there, and
I was like, you know, it wasn't feeling this one. I wasn't
feeling this one. And then I saw one in the back that I didn't
remember having it. So I'm remember bring that to this show. Our friends,
Melvin Brewing Company. I don't even know where they are. They're like
Wyoming or they're you're tall. You look up on the internet where they are.
They have like six locations. I don't even know which one's like a
black op, right, But the beer I'm bringing is an India Palel,
just like Chad. But this is the Huckleberry Hayes India Palel with huckleberry and
strawberry flavors. Oh so you're gonna be there, Huckleberry. I'm gonna be
there, Huckleberry. See what they did there, and I'm gonna crack that's
and I'm gonna pour this What's on Tap Radio Cast branding glass aka the water
glass WoT R. I'm gonna pour that, oh romas of citrusy, but
I'm gonna let that breathe. I'na take a little sip of that's my glass
is not. Oh, that's kind of embarrassing. Oh hashtag DGM Oh wow.
I'm not sure what huckleberry tastes like, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
And are you a fan? It's uh, your face did not.
Your face did not caught me by surprise. But I'm gonna let that breathe
for a second. This segment brought to you by the Backyard Girl brought to
the table Chat kicked it off with a year old all day over, a
year old all day IPA from Founders, and then I just cracked over in
this Melvin Brewing Company Huckleberry Hayes, which I'm gonna let breathe for a second.
But on Tap this week, we're gonna talk about, Oh, Samuel
Adams, it's got a magic eight ball game. We're gonna try to see
if we get our hands on and Garth Brooks in the news all this so
much more, but not before we do the official What's on Tap Radio fun
fact of the week. We'll be right back. Yeah, we drink water,
but it has to be filtered through a brewery first. You've got What's
on Tap Radio. Hey, you know, it doesn't matter what kind of
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dot com. That's the backyard Grill dot com. All right, trying to
find notes on this beer I brought to the table. By the way,
welcome back to What's on Tap Radio? Taking you on a beer run this
week. Chat and I are at least and we started off this beer run
with the Chad did the all day every day. I pa that's over a
year old from his beer fridge that he has a crisper drawer where beers to
go to die. Yeah. You know what I like about this the canon
here you talked about a beer run. There's a like an old wagon eer
with a canoe on top, Like, hey, we're going on a run.
You know, we're going on a vacation. We're heading out, just
traveling down the road. You can drink this thing all day. Not in
the car though, No, no, no, no, not in the
car. You get to your destination, you know your destinated driver's driving,
and you pull over and crack these beers at a location. That's legal to
do that. Yes. Also, I have some tasting notes that i'd like
to add to this. See, that's what I'm trying to dig up right
now, Chad is all right, That's why I knew you're struggling, yea
by you, and I appreciate that. I'm trying to, Okay, give
us a little bit of all right, So James is gonna look this up
while I tell him what this tastes like. Okay, it tastes old back
to you, James, really like wet cardboard. No, I'm not gonna
lie. I don't know why it. Maybe it's the sinus infection that I
have. Right now. I don't drink this beer in a regular basis.
I can tell you right now, I'm gonna finish this beer. It does
not taste bad. Now. The next beer I open in that crisper door
was another brand. It was a Bell's Too Hearted. Now old too Hearted
tastes terrible. If I can, if I can drink the Too Hearted,
then it's definitely the sinus infection. Okay. And that they say on the
label on a Too Hearted Bell Too Hearted, the shelf lives about six months.
Chat chats. Definitely, um exceeded that. Chad shakes his head.
No, I'm just telling you what it says on the label, Chad.
I'm telling you that a six month old too hearted does not taste anything like
a fresh too hearted. And the thing is is, obviously I had,
but according to the label, Yeah, I mean, it's you're you're you're
pushing at six At six months, you can tell it's like, okay,
it's time to it's time to hit the it's time to hit the tape.
It down that marathon. Okay, boom, we finished the race. It's
time to go, all right, So my beard does not taste old.
However, I try to look up the notes, you know. I went
to untapped. I typed in Huckleberry Hayes Melvin Brewing comp An India pale Ale,
and it just said Huckleberry India pal Ale. That's it. That's no
tasting notes whatsoever. And I try to dig up some tasting notes some specks
on this beer. Did not find anything. However, I did look up
the tasting notes on a huckleberry. That's what we need right there, call
Huckleberry farm. Let's go with this. It's it may be tart with flavor
similar to that of a blueberry with a hint of wildness, and the fruit
is a versatile and shines and jams, syrups, chocolates, barbecue, sauce
and apparently beer. Basically, it's a it's a crazy blueberry. So that's
exactly what it is. And if I mean, you look at the label,
it's got a little blueberry print on there, and again India pale ale
with huckleberry and strawberry flavors. I get no strawberry flavors whatsoever. But as
I let it breathe, it got better. But it packed that tartness that
punch was not expecting that I was getting. I was expecting some mild flavors.
But this is woo. This is really tart. But overall, I
mean, it's getting better as it opens up. And of course I got
the perfect glass to let it open up, with the what's on tap radio
cast braining water glass, w tr glass, perfect beer. Bring that up
to breathe, you know, Yeah, I'm glad you brought up the glass
because maybe part of the reason that I enjoy this beer so much is because
it's in the greatest drinking vessel ever made. The Sam Adams Boston lagger Glass
where oh yeah, oh yeah. If you pour beer into here and you
drink from it, just think real hard, and you can bring back lost
relatives from ages ago. Yeah, they will be resurrected. It resurrects dead
beer. It'll bring your relatives back to just by the way. Results may
vary. It depends on your faith. Yeah all right, So was that
too far? Oh yeah, no, no, not at all, And
of course not at all said that on the internet. Six point seven percent
alcohol by volume thirty three IBus brewed in Salt Lake City, Utah. But
according to the untapped this is from um Wyoming, So Wyoming. I don't
know where it's from, but Katie, Texas. It was brewed in Park
City, Utah. But the breweries in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, who the
heck knows where they are. Let me give a shout out to Brian Holes
in KPRC Channel two dropped his beer off a few weeks ago, so I
want to thank him for that. Had in the back of the beer fridge
here at studios. Forgot about it, and then I opened the fridge Thingcome,
what am I going to bring to the table this week? And here
we are speaking of here we are now the official What's on Tap Radio fun
fact of the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked clear? This
week here people are thinking that just because the summer, they're not going to
learn anything. No, yep, that's right. That's why we're dropping knowledge
bombs and fun facts. In fact, you can't see this, but James
just did. I had to throw on my readers. He did. He's
got his dad readers on. And the reason for that, though, is
because this sinus infection is hurting so much that my eyes are all watery and
sore and everything looks blurry. So this is just making everything look less.
And I wrote this stuff. So here we go, folks. All right,
it's trying. Time for some knowledge bombs and go do some learning.
And I want to ask you a question, James, all right, what
if I told you that chugging beer was responsible for helping raise millions of dollars
for feeding the homeless and getting medical research to find cure for diseases like leukemia,
lymphoma and lou Garrig's disease. Would you want to chug a beer?
Chugging a beer as we speak, Let's go. That's right, it's for
a good cause, right, I mean, if it's for a good cause,
why not. Now, you remember we went to the Great American Beer
Festival. Pints for Prostates. They organized that beer chugged toast at the gabf
where everybody was gathering around out there in the parking lot. We all chugged
a beer all at once. I think we all had to pay like ten
dollars or twenty dollars for a beer, but it was worth it because all
the money went to pints for Yeah, that was so cool. That was
probably one of the most fun events of the Great American Beer Festival because,
yeah, you had to pay the money, but it was a good time
that barbecue and they yes, it was a cornhole all sorts of fun games.
Yeah I remember. Yeah, Well, speaking of cornhole, pints for
prostates, they haven't figured out a cure for prostate yet, so I'm still
getting a finger up my cornhole and well, i haven't found a cure yet.
But speaking of yeah, right, speaking of butts, you might be
willing to chug a beer for a good cause. But today's subject of the
official What's on Tap Radio Fun Fact of the Week gives us the history of
how beer chugging inspired charitable giving, just not the way you think. All
the way back in two thousan eleven, social media was still pretty young,
and they're in New Zealand. There was this act called neck Nominate and it
spread throughout the United Kingdom in Ireland, and on December twenty fifth, twenty
thirteen, it really took off when a rugby player chugged a beer. This
is neck nominate that started in New Zealand. He chugged a beer and then
said, Merry Christmas and anybody who doesn't have a birthday today, I challenge
you to chug a beer and then nominate somebody else. Well, people started
getting more extreme with the beer chugging, and as a result, people started
dying from over chugging. How it was bad, drink responsibly, that's right.
Some people switched the vodka, some people switched the cocktails. Some people
got really strange. One person in the UK urinated in a cup and then
filled the rest with beer, then chugged. Another guy bit the head off
a baby chicken, swallowed it and then chugged a beer. But believe it
or not, there is good news that came out of all of this because
the people in South Africa were watching, are like the rest of the world
is nuts. We're going to turn this into something good, And so they
started doing random acts of kindness and posting those videos and challenged others to do
the same, and they called it nack Nominate, only it was the South
African edition, and it resulted in homeless people being fed and clothed, communities
rebuilding after a fire, and even helping out stranded motorists. In the South
African version then when on to inspire Canada to do Fee the Deed, and
here in the United States the ice Bucket Challenge, where all kinds of money
was raised for cancer research. So your official What's on Tap Radio fun fact
of the Week was nac Nominate. Started out in New Zealand as a challenge
to chug a beer and then nominate somebody else to chug a beer, which
then got crazy and wild and people started dying. And then people in South
Africa said that's crazy. We can do something good with this and turned it
into a charitable cause, which ended up leading us to the all too successful
and very awesome Ice Bucket Challenge. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is
how beer chugging turned into random acts of kindness and charitable works to raise money
to cure diseases and help the homeless. I contributed to the ALS challenge.
That was funny times. Yeah, I poor Oliver. And they're not donated
yet, I think, yeah, a lot of people. So the whole
point of that was weird because they said, either make a donation or we're
gonna dump a bucket of ice water over you. And I'm like, okay,
I'll make a donation, and then people got buckets of ice water dumped
over my Never that guy, I just dumped over me and I donate it.
So it's goods. So that's when your ficial What's on tapredo fun factor
of the week where you could be the official sponsor just getting a hold of
us. All right, we gotta get we gotta take a break. But
on tap this week, we gotta talk about this bar did a promotion that
went horribly wrong. We'll explain what happened there. This is what's on Taprido.
We'll be right back. If you encounter wine snobs, just take a
full glass of wine and put it to your ear. Mindes will be blown.
This is what's on tap radio. All right, good news. Thanks
to the Internet, I'd just some big and during a break, finally found
some tasting nose, some specs on this Huckleberry Hayes beer I'm drinking from Melvin
Brewing Company, some beer I boughts of the Table, which has been sponsored
by the Backyard Grill. But I finally found some some tasty notes. Well
before I read you those tasty notes, let me take a sip of this
and I'll tell you what I taste now that I let it breathe for a
few minutes. Sometimes all you gotta do is let the beer breathe for you
know, a bit, let it really open up those aromas. So that's
what I did during the first two segments. So now that's um, nope,
opened up a little bit. Let me go and take a swig of
this. M hm hmm. It's definitely gotten better, but not my favorites.
I will probably not drink this beer again. It tastes medicinal. Those
are my tasty notes. But according to what I found on the internets,
it's a refreshing beer with notes of huckleberry, tropical fruit, citrus, and
hints of strawberry. There's no strawberry in this This IPA is what you've been
looking for, according to this, but I feel it tastes medicinal. This
is not a hit with me and I will not be drinking this again.
I have an I have a question. This is I'm going off script here.
So you said it says strawberry. You then immediately said, there's no
strawberry. Somebody, somebody either put strawberry notes in there because they wanted that
in the copy, or there was an ingredient that had it and it didn't
come through, or it did come through and you just don't taste it.
So here's my question. In truth in advertising, you never hear a brewery
put out a beer and say it's our most okayst beer we've ever made.
And we had it in the tank and we didn't want to dump it down
the drain, so we had to do something with it, so we canned
it. Hope you enjoy. I mean, no nobody ever does that.
So they always get the marketing department, and I'm a marketer, so I'm
very familiar with this to write the most uplifting copy that they can without overselling.
Did they oversell that one? Well, here's the deal, chat.
I don't think they try to sell it at all, because I went to
their websites. I went to untapped, and I couldn't find any tasting notes
whatsoever. Finally, I would dug up some rating beer site. I don't
know, but it had a beer description and that's what it had written on
the description. So I don't think they're trying to sell us at all,
because I don't think it was a hit with them. Now on the can,
you're you're a correct chat. On the can it says huckleberry and strawberry.
Yeah, there's no strawberry, there's no See this this goes back to
my previous thing. We've talked about this plenty of times. I've mentioned this.
Be weary of those beers that say premium on the can, because if
it says premium means it probably isn't. Normally, the cheap, mass produced
beers, the really cheap ones say premium logger and they're really not. So
I'm I'm just curious. You ever go to a brewery and you walk up
and you say, um, well, yeah, can I get a sample
of this? They never say yeah, that's not our best batch. Yeah,
but yeah, I'll give you a taste anyway. They always say,
oh, that's a good one. Oh yeah, that's a real good one.
Oh yeah, that's a good one. I've actually oh that's great.
Yeah. We've been in a few breezes where they pulled a beer out like,
hey, this is not really our favorite. I don't know if they
say that the public, but they told us that told us that. But
but if you're if you're just Joe six pack going in, they don't you
know, you're not you know, you're just going in there, and you're
like, yeah, they're always selling, and it's like they may hate that
beer. And I I'm advocating for truth in advertising. And uh, you
know, there was a time that we used to drown people who made bad
beer, at least make them dump it out and then stand there and watch
it go down the drain. But not anymore. I don't know anyway that
was. That was me complaining and splaining at the same time. Meanwhile,
this beer here the all day, I pa as it's warmed up, I'm
starting to get more and more of the bready notes, the sinus infection not
being able to mask all of the oldness of it. But that's what I've
got, all right, So playing more beers to drink on this beer run.
But Chad, I'm about to introduce the story. And while I'm introducing
this story, I want you to do some I want you to and you
can put it on what's on half radio credit card? Okay, but I
want to shopping. We're gonna go shopping here. Okay. Speaking of beer
runs, So some beer companies want to be in the life of the party
marketing, right, But Samuel Adams's fine being the beer you drink when you
bail out on your friends and just sit at home alone. So what does
that mean? Well, Samuel Adams is selling a mock beer cant toy online
called I Can't Can. Oh Can't has the word can in it, I
Can't can And it's basically a variation of the magic eate ball. And then
the description it says, when you shake it like you do magic eateball,
it'll provide you with an excuse to quote ditch unwanted obligations and get back to
what summer is all about. Drinking beer apparently on your porch, far far
away from insanity, from your nephew's Little League game or your your wife's friends
bridal shower that you're getting dragged too. You know you got an excuse from
the matchic gate ball, but there are twelve excuses inside the can with beer
puns. Beer punt excuses like working on a six pack, making poor choices,
see poor, like you're pouring a beer. Oh, I see and
caught an ale mints alee mins. This is like, it's just like a
dad joke beer can. And so they are available for pretty order on their
website for five dollars and thirty cents. Chat, how's that digging? Did
you got the website? You try to find one? I'm there, dude,
I got I got five dollars and thirty cents. You put on the
ones on top of radio cards. It's cool, buy me one too while
you're at it. Oh for that price. Yeah, I'll get some far
listeners to get them away, all right, So Sam Adams, I can't.
I'm on the page right now. It's on a Square site. So
you know they take Apple pay as well. Umu, Sam M's I can't
can the ultimate summertime accessory to help ditch your unwanted obligations to get back to
what summer's all about, drinking beer, shake the eye can't can and an
excuse will appear at the top of the mock can. How many does it
say on that website? Only got three and it's oh check back soon sold
out? Oh is it yep? Check back soon sold out? There it
is um translation, it does not exist. They got together with the marketing
department at Miller Laite and the same company that did the Christmas the Miller Lake
Christmas ornaments and the Miller Lte drops and all the other Miller Lake gag gifts
that don't exist, and they get suckers to go there, and they up
their algorithm, get people to go to the website. James sold out.
Wait what, Oh it's sold out. Oh there's gonna be more soon.
Oh yeah, second drop gonna be late. Yeah. That's how they get
you to come back and check. And they get you to come back a
second type. The first ships on July tenth. Okay, so Sam Adams
is selling a beer can magic a ball to get you out of obligations.
You know they're not. They're promoting a magic eight ball on their website to
get you go to their website to get to to pretend that they're getting out
of obligation. That's kind of the irony of this gift. Sam Adams is
creating something that gives you excuses that allows you to stay home and drink beer.
However, this one thing that gives you all the excuses. They have
the excuse that it's sold out, and but an is it a beer can?
It's okay, story. Just take think of a beer can, and
then instead of the lid on top, it's got this black window, and
you shake it up, it's got water, and then all of a sudden
waters have beer in it. I'm sure it's water better. It feels like
a Boston logger and it explodes, right, But then you'd be shipping beer
through the mail, and you couldn't do that, okay. See yeah,
plush, you'd be wasting beer because nobody's ever gonn drink that beer. So
working on a six pack? I don't know if you've ever used that in
his excuse. You know, Hey, are you still meeting us for lunch?
Yeah? I would love to you, but I'm working on a six
pack. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't see. See, some of these
excuses just don't work. No, I'm sorry, No, they went,
they tried there, I can't can I think they they they they tried too
hard to make that. I want to be honest with you, ladies and
gentlemen, that these are gimmicks and not in the history of this show we've
been on a long time, We've tried and tried and tried and tried to
order these gimmicks. Every time we got on the website sold out. Whether
it's in ornaments or there are beer drops, what else. You had a
speaker that it's a beer can speaker, Oh yeah, the beer can speaker.
One. There was a I think there was a beer can USB drive
or something like that that we tried to get. There were some. I
mean, we've seen all kinds of these things, I mean, and every
time we try to go order them, they don't exist now. Just oh
so if you want to prove us wrong, please do so. I would
love for you to prove us wrong. If you've gone to these websites and
we're not gonna give them out because they're not a sponsor, but if you've
gone to the line and you've purchased some of these gimmicks, please reach out
to us at What's on Tap Radio Gmail dot com, or you can reach
us into our DMS at What's on Tap Raredo, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
or TikTok. We would love to be proven wrong. But I've never met
anybody who's gotten one of these, nor have I seen or heard of anybody
getting one of these. They're always always sold out. So but if you're
lucky enough, one of those lucky people that were able to get your hands
on one of these, please let us know. I would love I'll probably
get you on the show. We'll probably hang out with you. Yeah,
and we'll hang out with you. And the same person who got the Winnebago
and traveled around the breweries all year for three hundred and sixty five days,
or the one who got paid to drink beer on the Appalachian Trail, or
the one who got paid to run the curate the Beer museum at the Smithsonian.
None of those people exist, But those contests were out there, damn
it. And I'm sure there's gonna be plenty more of those stories coming up
this summer. You know this. Look, if we're an intern to go
out and drink beer for money, we're always seeing them. But are we
ever hearing of anybody ever getting these jobs? I don't know. I don't
think so. But all right, there you go. Samueliams is selling a
beer can magic eight ball. See if you get your hands on one of
those, and let us know. All right, we're gonna take your break
still to come. There's a bar out there that ended a promotion that went
horribly wrong, and boy are we gonna get into that. This is what's
on tap Radna hang with us. We'll be right back. Craft beer.
It's not alcoholisms, it's a hobby. This is what's on tap radio.
All right, welcome back to this beer run of an episode what's on tap
Radio? Um, I can't do it anymore. I Am going to have
to tap out on the Huckleberry Hayes India pale Ale from Melbourne Brewing Company.
Look. I like Melbourne Brewing Company. They make great beers. I got
a nice history with them. I am needs a plaque because that's the only
brewery to ever shut you down for a shotguns facts and check our social media.
We got a video dropping soon. But anyways, just to prove that
we don't like every beer that we try on this show, so I told
Chad it kind of tastes like an air freshener. You know, I never
taste an air freshener. But you know, sometimes you can just taste it
when they're so strong. You step in at uber or lift and you're like,
whoof that pine tree? In this case huckleberry. But I'm gonna tap
out. And Chad's already on his next beer. From the Christopher drawer.
From the Christoper drawer, What are you cracking now? A May seven of
twenty twenty two, Aged Perfect Aged to Perfection bells too hard at ale?
Now, I've had old bells too harded before. If I can't drink this,
the sinus infection is not in the way, and that means the founders
all day, I PA, that was over a year old. Not that
bad, but we're gonna find out. So oh gosh yeah, okay,
whoa uh yeah, Um, that smells old? Okay, well you say
beer smells old for our listeners that aren't educated with that familiar smell, what
does that's? What does it smell like? What does old beer smell like?
Okay, that's terrible, Okay, Well, good news is I get
to open another beer. Um that's not gonna be drank new. Okay.
So when we go old, typically with an ipa or a palel anything that's
hopped forward or has a pronounced hop note to it, whether it's floral,
piney, reside, citrucy. When those hops die out and they get old,
they kind of get this musty, wet cardboard, wet newspaper. Remember
when we had newspapers. Yeah, it's weird. We're not gonna be able
to use wet newspaper to describe how old's that beer? Judge, he said,
wet newspaper. What the hell's a newspaper? Um? Okay, boomer,
Yeah, it's it's that. Yeah, I mean it's it's got that
just musty here, musty basement smell. There we go, that's a good
like an old Well wait, if you're in Texas, you don't know what
the hell a basement is either. Shoot, oh yeah, that's right,
basement in the Alumo, that's right, Pete Herman. So if you were
to just like think wet cardboard, just kind of old dingy, like just
damp dank um uh, just like a like cave air, IFA's you're down
there, it's just like it just kind of has a weird wet smell and
feel to it. But it's not a refreshing, bright anything. It just
that's what that's what essentially what it means, and it smells old. But
the other thing is is with a IPA like this, it's supposed to be
bright. It's supposed to have just a very light, very very faint multi
note to it. This turned into essentially liquid bread with wet cardboard. It's
very multi now. So the question is what do you do with this beer?
Do you throw it away? Or when you have a get together,
like, hey, I got some beers in the fridge for those that you
know aren't beer savvy, do you give those bears to them? You could
do that, but then I don't consider myself a good host. What I
would prefer to do is actually have somebody. I got in this discussion with
my sister the other night. She said, I got a question for you.
I'm gonna give you a beer. Can you tell me who you think
of it? And it just so happened. Goes back a couple of weeks.
She gave me a Bell's Too hearted and it was a year old and
it tastes just like this. But she gave it to me and I took
one. I took one smell of it and I said, well, it's
old. How out of date is it? And she says, well,
what do you think? And I taste it and I said, I'd be
shocked if it's I said, I'd be shocked if it was anything less than
six months out of day. It's probably more like a year. And she
says it's over a year old. Bell's too hearted, And I was like,
okay, and you can tell it just it doesn't have especially with a
beer that you drink at a regular basis. But even if not, you
know how the beer is supposed to taste because of what the brewer is going
for. So and if you get that wet cardboard taste that smell, it
just smells old and you'll know it when you get it, you'll know it.
Okay, But what are you gonna do with this beer? Because I
saw it in a video? You go check our social media. I'm gonna
holding on Instagram. You're gonna you're gonna hang on to it. It's a
resource I can use to teach others. Okay, there you go. Chad's
gonna use for educational purposes. I like that, good answer, Chad,
all right, we gotta do some updates, so on tap this week.
Far as updates by Light's officially been dethroned, the Cheers bar sold in auction,
and what will be the official beer of the twenty twenty six World Cup.
See this is interesting here, so we're gonna tie in two stories together.
This is the update segment here where we want to tell you what it's
been happening since we last reported. You may recall if you go check our
podcast brought to you by Cast Branding, we gave you a report that beer
forecasters were projecting that bud Light, if their sales slump continued in the wake
of the Dylan mulvaney backlash, that they would no longer be the number one
best selling beer in the United States. Now, what's interesting about that is
that Budweiser was at one point in time, even during the reign of this
show, while we were on the air, Budweiser was the number one selling
best selling beer in the world and even in the United States. And the
King was dethroned and lost its title to bud Light. Well because of the
plunging sales, which are down by more than twenty three percent to year over
year, their sales have slipped and bud Light no longer the top selling beer
that title now belongs to an import beer. Oh yeah, you know what
time it is, James, I'm not gonna do it. Oh yeah,
I'm You're not gonna do it. It's Modello time, fool. Oh yeah.
The Mexican Lagger sales went up in the same time that bud Light has
lost twenty three percent. The Mexican Lagger MODELO Especiale has increased fifteen percent and
now has surpassed bud Light and sales by oh about thirty six million dollars.
Wow. Wow, that's a lot. That's a lot of beer. Yeah.
When you consider thirty six million, just to put that in perspective,
um, that is about twelve to thirteen percent more than what bud Light is
selling. So yeah, it's it's it's a it's a significant amount. So
that is the latest on the bud Light model down bud Light. So we
have a new King, That's right, we have a new King MODELO especial
You thought maybe it would be Corona. I figured it would be I've figured
that's exactly who I thought it would be. I thought it would be Corona.
Well, I mean Corona is you know, crown means crown, So
I thought maybe they'd be the new King. No, but that's just marketing
Bdello especial. Now, in case you're wondering, based on the cutter Qatar
corrupt World Cup that we just went through, in the fiasco where they pulled
all Budweiser sales during games and made it virtually impossible to get drunk or even
get a beer during the World Cup last time around, Well you think Budweiser
might resent that. They're like, all right, we're not gonna do that
again. Well, turns out the new official beer for the World Cup to
be held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico in twenty twenty six
will be none other than Budweiser. Yeah that's right, bud Yeah, Budweiser.
They're like, yeah, okay, we're willing overlook it. Now.
The deal was reportedly worth something like seventy five billion dollars or some ridiculous amount
of money, or it was a lot of money. I said seventy five
billion. I think it was seventy five million. Sorry, that was just
the report, seventy five million dollars. But no word on what exactly that
sponsorship was worth. That they did not disclose it. But I'm betting there
were some exchange of favors, and let's just say the World Cup probably had
some apologizing and groveling to do in or to make that thing whole. So
that's the latest update there. But we do have one more update coming out
of Boston which actually takes us to Dallas. I think it does. From
Boston to Dallas. The Cheers bar which we reported on was going up for
auction. Somebody owned us and there decided to sell it in an auction,
and we didn't know how much it was gonna go for, but the bar
from the television series Cheers sold for six seventy five thousand dollars, garnering the
highest bid among the nearly one thousand props costume sets from the classic TV shows
offered from a collection of mass by one Man over the past three decades,
including items from All in the Family, Batman, and Robin. All different
items sold at this auction, but going for the most was the bar's Cheers
set for six hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. That's pretty cool. Does
it come with NORM? No, it does not come with NORM, but
however it does come with costumes, wardrobes and other different items from the sets.
So very cool Cheers bar set sells for six hundred and seventy five thousand
at at Dallas auction of items of classic TV shows. All right, that
is our number one of What's on tapreto coming up next hour. We got
hold my beer and watched this anchor Brewing is in the news, Garth Brooks
in the news. All this is so much more coming up next hour,
so much on tapredo, will be right back. Did you know that six
beers a day can reduce your risk of giving a rants ass? That's the
less nine in the arms of a girl in Louisiana. All Right, welcome,
how through What's on Tap Radio? Starting you right now? A lot
of good stuff on tap this hour, including a bar promotion that when horribly
wrong. We're talking about Garth Brooks and some other great stuff coming up on
this edition or this hour of What's on Tap Radio. But Chad is on
beer number three. I don't think he finished beer number one or two because
he pulled it out of a crisper drawer and those beers were wildly old.
Yeah, they were so the all day I PA from Founders held up much
better than the bells too Hearted. But you were asking me during the last
segment, how can we tell when a beer's old and when you smell it?
And I kept describing the hot characteristics to it. But one of the
other things that you'll notice, particularly with IPA's and even some ambers and brown
ailes, if they start to as they warm up and you smell them,
if it's smells like apple juice, Oh yeah, that's a sign they're old.
And so I took that two Hearted, which was over a year old,
and I got outside the studio and went to pour it down the drain
and I went and I picked it up and I just smelled it again,
and I was like, oh, there it is. How did I forget
to describe the beer like that apple juice? Because that's exactly what it smelled
like. Definitely old but fresh. From my trip to Aspen, Colorado,
and on my way back, I stopped it Berthed, Colorado to the Birthed
Brewing Company. Want to give a shout out to Mark and justin there,
thank them for their hospitality. Had a great time, and one of my
favorite double IPA's is the Birthed fifty thirty. So I dropped names for them.
Yeah, you do Mark and justin boom Birthed Brewing. They have two
locations. The one I went to, actually I don't think isn't. Actually
it's in Loveland, So it's in Loveland. I want to say I've had
that brewery before I've heard of it. I've definitely been there more than once,
went there with producer Dusty and uh Travis og And by the way,
look at the color on that. That is just beautiful, bright, beautiful
cold. Yeah, it's it's really copper copper gold yep. Yeah, Oh
my goodness. The nose. Oh and what's the style of it? This
double I pay okay, yeah, see that sinus infection can't even stand up
to this beautiful beer. Like the the hop aroma on this just goes papapa.
And let's just take a sip a Batman Robin episode from the sixties that
is so good, clean, delicious, bitter. Um. It's it's not
balanced as it shouldn't be, but it's also i'd say it's a little more
on the bitter side and super clean. Oh my gosh, is that clean?
Fermented and attenuated really well, which means the body's nice and light.
You could drink a few of these, but be careful because it's eight point
eight percent and it'll put you in a bad spot in a real big hurry,
which we may find out about getting in a bad spot later on the
show. I got a story I might share, but to Mark and Justin
at Birth and Brewing, thanks a lot. All right, So I have
a beer to crack, but I'm gonna do this before I crack a beer,
Hold my beer and watch this brought to you by the ring Nalda ten
Haken Insurance grew where they'll cover you for just about everything except this chad without
even giving any details of this story. When you want to guess what state
in the United States, this crime took place in Rhode Island, Florida,
and alm this screams Florida. You can't get more Florida than this story.
So a Miami man is in a swampy situation after he was caught trying to
details to come. So let's meet Fernando Aglia knows, I don't think so.
He's sixty four years old and he was cited by officials after he trapped
a four foot It's alligator at a nearby park and brought it into a Santa
and a market. Well, yeah, where else you gonna take it?
I'm telling you what. Aguilera then walked up to the counter asking for a
twelve pack of beer and exchange for the alligator. What do you think the
clerks hold it to him? It is Florida's Florida chance, there's a chance.
I look at him like that could be turned into a belt. Nope,
the clerk didn't go for it to clerk decline and actually called the Miami
police instead. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissioned spokesman Jorge Pinyo,
he said that he has never in his twenty five year in law enforcement
heard of a person capturing an alligator for the purpose of exchanging it for alcohol
or anything for that matter. His alligators his beer currency. Apparently he tried.
I mean he did try. Aguilera apparently needed to quench his thirst.
Buds Pinot called the incident extremely unusual situation and in a sad situation for the
alligator. The alligator was unharmed, the good news is and was to return
to the wild by wildlife officials. Ig Litera was not injured in the process
of trapping or transporting the alligator. And he's been charged by wildlife officials with
taking possession and selling an alligator, which is a second degree misdemeanor, and
he faces six months in jail and a five hundred dollar fine. Well,
he didn't sell the alligator. He tried to barter with the I think of
a good lawyer with a suit that fits him. If Aguilero has a money
for a good attorney, he couldn't even have money for a beer or six
pack of beer? Do you think he has money for a good attorney.
Even that public defender could say, well, technically he was bartering. You
know Perry Mason in there. Anyways, Um, they did go on and
say it was unsure of what beer ig literal request did. There was no
news or details of what requested any specific brand of beer, but your hold
my beer and watched this this week a Florida man tries trading a live gator
for beer. I'm telling you that it's Florida renal over that one. Yeah,
so remember hold my beer and watched this brought to you by Rinalda Tenhcan
Insurance Group. Well, yeah, though I'm shure you for lots of things,
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I think Renalda. Tenhakin could have a nice side hustle doing bail bonds,
like this is an idea. Clunder, Yeah, if you're here in West
Michigan, call my buddy John Clunder at our Ti Grand Rapids and just let
him know that we get we get royalties on that idea if they decided to
do a bail bond business, because that's some good stuff. I'm kind of
curious of. Yeah, he said he trapped the alligator at a nearby park.
I kind of want more details of how he trapped it. I mean,
did he go like gator hunting or you know, jumps on the gator
like Joe dirt dude. This is uh, you gotta remember though, this
is Florida guy. You guys, probably anybody who's gonna go have the guts
to do that. One of two things either hammered already and that's why he
needed more beer a little more maybe a little meth actually maybe maybe, or
or he's lived in Florida's whole life and it's like you just don't ask questions.
You gotta live here to know. I kind of giving away that secret
that's a secret sauce. Now it doesn't say what kind of beer that he
requested. What do you what do you think of Chad natty light? I'm
going natty light. You know why because he was probably he was probably walking
around and borrowed flip flops uh some uh and a camel bag uh that it
is used for old softballs as a pair of pants. Dude was trying to
trade an alligator for beer. That's your home, my beer and watching is
all right? We gotta talk about this beer promotion that went horribly wrong.
What did they do? We'll discuss what's on tap Rado. We'll be right
back. The more you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap, stay
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All right, welc back. What's on tap radio? James said,
we're taking a road trip and we've kind of I've been on the road a
lot lately and picking up beers everywhere I go. I want to thank everybody
down in Houston for the hospitality. Want to thank everybody out in Aspen and
Colorado as well for their hospitality, including Mark and justin Birth at Bring where
I'm enjoying this fifty thirty double IPA, one of my favorite double I pas
I've had. Also just want to also say when I was there in Houston,
I want to say nice thank you to listener Brent, who I ran
into at Spindle Tap Brewery. I stopped in there for a pint before heading
to the airport with producer Dusty and Travis Og and uh, guy just sitting
there at the bar, Brent, and he happened to just apparently he recognized
my bald head from radio. And it's like it's like, Hey, Chad
from What's on Tap Radio, A big fan, listen to the show every
week. Thanks for you know, thanks for listening. You know, shook
the guy's hand, talked for a second and he was enjoying his pint and
just really appreciate it when listeners let us know that they're listening, and if
you really want to let us know, if you don't see us out there.
I mean, if you see us, feel free to stop us,
shake her hand and get up What's on Tap Radio high five? But also
follow us on social media at What's on tap Radio on Facebook, Instagram,
Twitter, and uh yeah, let us know that you're listening. Let us
know what you like, can send us, send us emails. What's on
Tap Radio at gmail dot com. So again, Brent, good to see
out there, Thanks for listening. Jamesie thirsty, I am thirsty. I
couldn't do any more of this, Huckleberry Hayes, so I am moving on.
I want to give a shout out to our friends over at Saint Arnold
Brewing Company celebrating twenty nine years in business. They had an anniversary party last
week, so I wanted to give a special shout out to them twenty nine
years. Rock Wagner a long time friend of ours. I've interviewed him one
hundred times and that's it's time for us to catch up with him. But
celebrating twenty nine years. And so the beer I'm bringing is a beer to
that. I mean, this is my summer jam, this is my drink.
Pretty much the second school gets out until we go back to work and
the award winning Summer Pills. I drank a lot of that when I was
in Houston. I know I had a few with you, Chad, That's
true. I want to do it. I'm wanna do another I want to
do another show. I know they own sponsor the show, but I'm gonna
go ahead and say it to Philip over there at Hughey's. Oh for sure,
Man. I know we always talk about, you know, whenever I
go see Channing at Noby. But you know, I haven't really given Philip
any love. So he hooked me up with the Well, I'll just say
this, I get the spring rolls when I go there. He made a
spring roll burrito for me. I'd eat it was like two handed, Jeff.
It was awesome. Good people. Yeah, Hughey's is two locations here
in the Houston area. So if you're driving through, driving through, stop,
if you're driving it ten from California to Florida, make a stop in
Houston for like a day or two, Go to Huey's, go to the
backyard grill. Two places that will not disappoint you. I'm just telling you.
So this is a Summer Pills Multay Award winning. I mean, this
beer has won so many damn medals from the Great American Beer Festival, Roll
Beer Cup, you name it, they won an award. This is a
Bohemian pilsner. So Saint Arno Brewing Company, it's their summer seasonal, which
is just it's perfect. It's my favorite beer in the summertime. So it's
crisp, it's light, it's delicious. It's it has all that light breadiness
like white bread notes. But then it has a nice little hop bitterness,
little bite to it. But it's not piny, it's not resiny. It's
crisp. It's just delicious. In fact, if I remember correctly, it's
one of only at one point in time, it was one of only two
logger beers that they made, the other one being the springbok Um. Those
are the only two logger beers. Everything else was a nail and used a
nail yeast. But now who knows. So, I mean, they're doing
so much wild stuff over there at Saint Arnold. But uh yeah, like
I said, very good beer. Four point nine percent alcohol by volume.
That's what I'm drinking. Much much better than the beer I cracked in the
first sentence. But speaking of beers that we've had on this show. A
beer that we featured, oh man, it was a wild bag. Flagship
February. I was just gonna say Flagship February. We're not gonna be able
to do this anymore. Some news dropped out of San Francisco, California.
Yeah, I might want to let Mark mcshaffery at the Backyard Girl know this
for the Holiday Beer Dinner too, because an annual favorite which they always feature
at the Holiday Beer Dinner is the Anchor Christmas Ale. Well, this information
comes to us from San Francisco, California. It's being reported through multiple news
outlets and originally start out as as rumors, then it said comments, then
it said confirmed. So we're going with confirmed out of San Francisco, the
Sapporo owned Anchor Brewing Company is no longer going to distribute any Anchor beer outside
the state of California. What. Yeah, Well, I mean it's not
It's not like it's a big deal because if you think about it, Anchor
is only distributed in all fifty states. Yes, they are cutting forty nine
states from their distribution in one big sweep. Now, a lot of people
people are blaming it on the label redesign because oh yeah, because that's what
sells beer, you know, labels. Well, they redesign the label in
twenty twenty one, and fans all over the country are saying, it's that
marketing department that we've got to blame. However, Anchor Brewing did mention that
while sold in fifty states, seventy percent of the sales come from I want
to take a guess which state, California, Yeah, which means forty nine
states made up thirty percent of the sales. It's not a smart investment for
a business. So they're going to go ahead and cut that other news from
the Anchor Brewing Company. Hey, Mark, time to find another beer for
that holiday beer dinner. Because Anchor Brewing, not only will they not be
distributing there are very special ale, their annual Christmas ale, which they've been
distributing since nineteen seventy five, but they are no longer going to brew an
annual Christmas ale. That's the our very special ale, the Christmas Ale,
the new year's beer from Anchor Brewing Company, which featured a new redesigned label
every single year with a different tree, will no longer be produced. So
big news coming out of California Anchor Brewing as a way of shoring up some
of their distribution and being able to focus on their core customer where seventy percent
of their beers are sold, they want to focus in on the demographic of
the California beer drinkers, cutting all distribution to forty nine states. If you
want it, you're gonna have to go there. Anchor Brewing turning into the
New Glaris of California. And if you're familiar with New Glaris, oh Andrew
of Wisconsin. He'll tell you all about it. You know, order to
get New Glaris, you gotta go to Wisconsin to get Yeah, there's another
listener out there, Andrew, our good buddy. Yep. So that's the
big news that Christmas humongous. I mean, I love the Anchorstein. Now
it's been a while since I've had it, but it's a great beer.
They've been a round for you long time. A nineteen sixty I want to
say sixty eight. I think it's the first year. And so pardon yeah,
yes, Fritz Maytag. In fact, you know what we're gonna go
off script here? I know, I know we got a break coming up
here in a couple of minutes, but we're gonna do this. So Fritz
Maytag was drinking this the anchor steam beer at a bar and he went there
every day to drink. And what happened was is the bartender told him,
yeah, they're going to close the brewery down. He's like, what,
No, I don't want this to go. So he went down to the
brewery and he talked to him and now Fritz Maytag of the Maytag washer family,
yeah, he used that money to save the brewery. And then he
ended up trademarking the steam name. So any beer made using the same technique
or in the same style is called the California Common. So he did that,
and then he gave us the first and I don't quote me on this,
I'm going off memory, but he gave us the first resurrection of the
American porter because the American porter was a colonial which was very popular during the
George Washington era, and he resurrected that because there was no porter being brewed
in the United States. And I believe with Liberty Ale, he gave us
the first American I want to say it was the first resurrection of the American
pale ale and a lot of people are gonna say, well, wait a
minute, what about Ken Grossman. Yeah, I know, I know that,
but there is there is that, but I'm trying to remember all the
details on that. But Liberty Change Liberty was one of those early beers.
The Porter was one of them. And then also they helped introduce us to
barley wine. Reintroduced us to barley wine as well with Old Foghorn, So
there's a lot of different beers that came out of that. Due to Fritz
Maytag's love for beer and the fact that he had a bunch of money from
selling washers and dryers and things like that, that helps, and he was
able to save the brewery and give us those beers. But since nineteen seventy
five, that are very special Christmas sale, and that recipe never disclosed.
They always give you the tasting notes, but they never tell you what ingredients
are in it. So all that's gone. That's sad. That's sad.
All right, we gotta take a break still to come. We're gonna talk
about this bar that has to apologize after doing this horrendous bar promotion, and
Garth Brooks is in the news. We'll talk about that. It's what's on
tap Radio. We'll be right back here. It what's on Tampa Radio.
We know two types of people, those you drink with and those that make
you drink. Oh, your parents are coming for the weekend. Either way,
we're drinking. I went to her that I feel like this is the
most country music we've played in the history of What's on Tap Radio on ten
years. But I'm a fan of Garth Brooks and he's in the news.
So if I can a chance to play some Garth, I'll do it.
Like I said, I don't really drive around in jam country music more or
less wu Tang clan, but you know, every now and day, every
now and then I get some some some Garth Brooks in ahead and throws it.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here. So I've worked with you,
and I've known you for a long time, and never in the history
of you and I going on a beer road trip, road trip, going
any bar, taking over any jukebox. If I ever heard you say I
need me some Garth Brooks, well you've never done karaoke with me, because
one of my one of my karaoke jams Friends and low Places, and that
brings us to our next story. Wait a minute, what do you say
are you? Are you saying that about me? Am? I am?
I one of those low Place friends you know, remember yond I love you
Chad? All right? Oh, I hope that's a compliment. So Garth
Brooks is set to open a new bar in Nashville called Friends and Low Places
Bar and honky Tonk hasn't opened yet and Nora has a grand opening. Dates
been yet to be announced. However, he has come out on the record
and said that he will be selling Anaheiser Busch owned brands in his Nashville bar,
despite the controversy. I'll see, I heard a different quote. I
heard a different quote. I heard he was gonna sell all brands, all
brands, including the Anheiser Busch products, because people are asking, well,
are you going to be selling these products? And he said, look,
I will be all right. Well, I got a question for mister Brooks.
Can I just want to know this is hey, Garth Brooks. If
you're listening right now, which we know you do. He's a regular listener,
which thanks for listening. Yeah, if you'd like to call in and
explain yourself, I want to know how you're going to get Anchor steam.
You said all he said all beers. Okay, I want to know all
beers that you can get your hands on. Obviously, I want to know
how he's gonna get Tantric Brewing Company into the Friends and Low Places bar in
Nashville. I want to know. Obviously he's not having plenty of the Elder
on tap. Okay. Oh, so he's not gonna have so Okay,
so he lied first of all, he's not gonna have all beers. He's
gonna have all the beers that he can get his hands on. I'm being
facetious because I was gonna get I was gonna take a trip to Nashville because
I didn't want to go to California to get Anchor steam. And I also
thought it would be cool to drink Tantric beer on tap in Nashville. So
that's what I was gonna do. But thanks for getting my hopes up.
Garth so Brooks has not been one of those that sounds off on his political
views, although he has stated that he is a Republican. However, he
did anger many when he performed at Joe Biden's inaugural in twenty twenty one,
but he did come out and say, yes, I will be selling an
Haser Bush owned brands in his new Nashville bar called Friends and Low Places Bar
and honky Tonk. That moves on to the next John Rich. Now we
spoke about John Rich, another American country singer songwriter who's come out on the
record saying that he will not be consuming any Budweiser products. But he did,
however, come out and sound off because of course people are gonna run
to him and saying, hey, did you hear what Garth Brooks He's gonna
be selling Annhisher Bush products at his new Hockey Talk bar. What are your
thoughts on that? And John Rich says, hey, look, it's Garth
brooks business. If he wants to serve every brand of beer at his Nashville
club, that's his business. Now, it may suffer if nobody buys it,
but also his business. Can you roll cut five? Garth Brooks has
always been the guy that said, everybody come to my show. You know,
he makes his music for everybody, and that really is what music's about.
You're making your music for everybody. Beers for everybody too. If Garth
is serving bud Light in his bar, that's fine Garth can do that.
Garth might find out not many people are going to order it. And at
the end of the day, you have to put things in your establishment that
people are gonna purchase if you're gonna run a successful business. He probably sees
the pain and division that's going on in the country and wants to try to
help that. Good for him. I wish him the best. Now that's
John Rich reacting to the Garth Brooks serving by light and at his bar.
Now you know the journalists they rant, What do you think? What do
you got to say? Because journalists they want controversy because that's more clicks.
I don't know if you knew that or not, but that's what they want.
Yeah, But that, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna tell you right
now that in a lesson of civility being taught right here on what's on TAPP
radio, compliments of John Rich. That is how you respond to a leading
question where somebody's trying to get something get you to say something filthy or something
derogatory about somebody. And that's how you respond with class, and that's how
you show you disagree with something without making the other person look bad. He
just says, you know, that's his business. If that's what he wants
to do, it's his right to freedom, go ahead and do it.
And if it doesn't work out for him, he'll probably have to make a
change. But if it does good for him, I'm all about bringing people
together, or he's all about bringing people together. He's always been that and
I wish him well. That is classy. That's how you do it.
Now. They do this in sports all the time when anytime there's controversy,
they'll try to get somebody who will they think the journalists will think that will
give them a sound bite, and then that will drum up some controversy on
social media because every time you get a click on social media that helps your
algorithm. They don't really care. Honestly, do they really care what John
Rich has to say. No, they just want a response. They just
want a response, and they wanted something that like, oh did you hear
what John Rich said? Now you know, I'm gonna take that back real
quick, James. They don't want a response, They want a reaction,
right, that's what they want. They want to see an emotional, knee
jerk reaction where you say something and then they can take it out of context,
or they can take a part of it and put it in a headline.
Because even even the headlines where we found this it was what was it?
Was it? John Rich reacts to or whatever the title was. Yeah,
he reacts to Brooks deciding to sell anhydro bush products at his new Nashville
bar. He really didn't react. What happened was he was asked a question
and he gave a response. I guarantee that's not the response the person who
asked the question wanted. They wanted. I can't believe that. I hope
his bar failed. They want that sound bite. News was pissed when they
asked that, Like damn it, they didn't get it. So obviously Garth
Brooks got pushed back on social He heard all the noise about him promising to
sell bud light at his new Nashville bar. People came out on social media
and gave him a beating. But he's saying, look, I'm going to
continue. I'm going I'm gonna sell anhydro Busch products. So he hopped on
the camera to address all these comments that were flying in all social media,
and I have to I kind of look, I kind of agree what he
has to say. This is a cut eight. This is Garth Brooks coming
out and talking about why he's signing. He's doubling down on selling bud Light
was new Nashville bar or anhydro Busch products at his Bart's talking about being a
bar owner. I'm a bar owner. Now, are we going to have
the most popular beers in the thing. Yes, it's not our call if
we don't or not, it's the patrons call the bosses, right, bring
them in there. If they don't want it, I gotta go to the
trooper. Same and your stuff's not sell them and then the action gets taken.
Right. But the truth is it's those people in those seats that make
those decisions. And that's what Friends and Little Places is going to be.
So here's the deal, man, If you want to come to Friends and
Little Places, come in, come in with love, come in with tolerance,
patience, come in with an open mind, and uh it's cool.
And if you want of those people that just can't do that, I get
it. If you ever are one of those people that want to try,
come, let's let's go have some fun. Okay. Yeah. I like
his response. I like the fact that He's like, look, if you
don't want to drink it, then don't drink it. But if you do,
come on in. I know this is this is going to open up
a Pandora's box here. But it's kind of funny how there is this really
extreme, extreme, extreme hardcore left who will point at country music and say
they're racists and bigots and all this other stuff. And I just heard two
guys who are on different sides of this issue very intelligently and articulately say it
is everybody's freedom of choice to go ahead and make a decision, do whatever
you want to do. If you want to support the bar, support the
bar. Even the bar owners said, hey, if you don't want to
support me, that's cool. Hey, and if you ever change your mind,
we'll be here. I'm like, that is that is such a great
attitude, And I just love that perspective because it requires you to do something
that most people aren't capable of doing with an emotional situation, and it's called
pause and think. And they nailed it to both of them, which doesn't
matter which side of the issue you're on, you have to respect both of
their responses. And I like what he said. Look, if it doesn't
sell, then I'll talk to my distributors and we'll go from there. But
we'll let the customers do the talking. And if it doesn't sell, you
can always replace it with anchor Steam. No we can't. I'm gonna have
all beers. No, you're not Garth, but so there you go.
Garth Brooks has said that he will be selling every brand of beer that he
can get his hands on Chad, including bud Light products after the fiasco at
his new bar Nashville, called Friends and Low Places Bar and honky Tonk,
which is set to open hasn't been announced yet. So no, no,
they haven't. No. Yeah, you've been in Nashville a couple of times.
Yes, I've been there once. Yes, Oh, just okay,
I I love it. It's a fun town if you don't like even if
you don't like country music, it is a fun town to go because you
get to see people just really embrace it. But also the beer scenes really
solid there too. So well, I mean that's kind of why they held
it the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville. Yeah, and then it took a
beating for it. Well, of course, anything you do, he's gonna
resolve into beating anything you do anything. We were We weren't safe. There
was not enough to ensure our safety. Stop it anything, Stop any good
that you do. Somebody out there will complain. That's all we learned.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I like that, Chad,
all right, coming up in the last segment of What's on Tap Radio,
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horribly wrong. What happened. We'll get into it, and there's a porn
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summer pills before I get into this barn promotion that went epically wrong. And
this is well, this story I was sent to us by Superior pest Control.
So shout out to them of West Michigan. Thank you for that inbox.
Yeah, they send us stuff all the time. In fact, I
remember when they sent Yeah, they sent that story over and they're like,
can you believe this? And I was like, uh no, and thanks
for sending that. So again that came from our friend Fred over its Superior
past Control here in West Michigan. And I'm like, okay, all right,
So this kind of seems like something I would happen at I have eighties
comedy, not something that would actually happen in you know, twenty twenty three,
But it did at a nightclub in Australia. It's a nightclub called wolf
Shed on Hinder and they're in some hot water after a promotion where they offered
women free drinks. Were okay, free drinks? What's the big deal.
Okay, I was based on their brass eyes. Yeah, and oh.
An add on social media said quote the bigger the better, and that women
would get no, no, they would get one free drink for an eight
cup bra size. No, two for a B cup size Okay, this
is just cringe worthy, and three for a sea cup size, and like
what about a D cup? Well, they got drinks all night. No,
I don't I don't even want to know. No. Oh, this
is so cringeworthy. And if that wasn't bad enough, they also encouraged women
to remove their bras, saying quote, if your bra is uncomfortable, hang
it up and let loose. That means you as well. Boys, I
don't know what that means. But and of course Chad, and of course
there was a lot of backlash online as there should be, people calling it
misogynistic. It was, as you can imagine. So they heard this backclash
online and the bar decided to cancel the promotion and they apologized and in a
Facebook post they claimed they never intended for people to feel quote uncomfortable and body
shamed, and our work shopping ideas for different promotions that provide a fun,
safe and cluse environment for all. So here's some local women. You know,
porters go around asking the local women how they felt about this promotion.
I'll be like, what are the manager thinking. I'm would try and go
somewhere else. For sure, I wouldn't go there. I'm not quite sure
with it sending that type of message. Yeah, I don't think I'm comfortable
with it. NA, So obviously they won't be attending. But here's I
thought this is a little interesting. So we tried to call this bar to
do an interview. I was like, look, we got to try to
get these guys, all right, not, so we called this bar.
Unfortunately, we're unable to reach anybody to get somebody on this show, because
you know, we wanted to talk about, Hey, what were you guys
thinking? Maybe get them a chance to say, hey, look response to
the backlash. Unfortunately they had an answer. However, they did have an
answering machine or a voicemail whatever it is that did pick up and I did
roll on this. So when I called to try to book these guys for
an interview, I didn't get them, but I did get a recording.
Let's roll cut nine. Good ay, and thanks for calling. We at
the woolshed On Hindley would like to get something off our chest. We realized
that some of our patrons felt, hey, uncomfortable and be body shamed.
Those are two very nice points and we're in double trouble. Thank you so
much for letting it all out. We were very touched. We can feel
that you're really squeezing us for an apology, and this butt promotion was a
total bust. We were bouncing around some ideas because this improper promotion has been
a real handful. If you want to get in touch or if you want
to share some tips, we want you to know that we're overflowing with regret
and I hear if you need any support. Sincerely, the wolf shed On
Hindley so again, trying to get those guys on got their voicemail instead.
So a bar's apologizing for offering women free drinks based on their brass eyes.
Chad shaking his head. I don't think I'm shaking my head all right.
Well, i'd like to say let's end the show on a high note,
but unfortunately Australia down Under is trying to actually take the world with them.
They are trying to drag all of us down under because an Australian brewery is
following in these footsteps with I can't believe I'm going to say this, but
they have created a beer that is inspired by a porn site. You heard
it, Adult Entertainment, Adult Film told you we're gonna talk about porn.
Pornography. A brewery is facing backlash over its latest IPA, which was supposed
to hit the market and it was called barely Legal. Now I know what
you're thinking, barely legal. Okay, maybe it has a slight double on
Tendra. Oh, but there's more to it than that, because the social
media backlash was pointed out by other brewers, people who are in the craft
beer industry, not just in Australia, but in other regions as well.
Despite the fact that this beer was supposed to be released at the Great Australsian
Beer Spectacular the gab S Festival, and the organizers pulled that IPA due to
a lot of complaints that left started that event. Yeah, well, don't
say yeah. Well, here's the thing. First of all, they had
a logo designed to mimic the graphics of I don't even believe I'm saying this
of the pornographic website. I don't even want to name the pornographic website because
I don't want to give them any love. Okay, no, but it's
a pornographic website and their alcohol content was eighteen point one percent, hence barely
legal. Why what they did there? Yeah, they actually tied it.
Yeah, so it was a really boozy beer. So in other words,
it's one of those beers that you need to drink very right. Why make
an ipa I want to make it like a barreledaide stout. Why an iPad
eighteen percented? Oh that's gonna be saying it's like garbage. Yeah, I
guess, I don't know. But the eighteen point one percent, and of
course the legal age to drink in Australia also the legal age to participate in
adult film eighteen eighteen point one barely legal. But they made the logo look
just like that of a very popular I'm not going to say the name of
it, pornographic website. Australian feminist writers Clementine Ford and several others spoke out
saying, oh wow, isn't it totally interesting you and your funny name for
a beer that doesn't in any way imply that you're a bunch of creeps in
a bunch of sense of humor. Yeah, we'll just leave it at that.
UM used a few expletives that the FCC won't appreciate with total disregard for
women. And oh, by the way, if you google barely legal,
the things that come up all around you involve young women involved in some sort
of well pornographic or sexually explicit acts. In other words, the brewery knew
exactly what they were doing, and since the backlash, of course, it
always takes the backlash for them to go, oh, crap, we shouldn't
have done that. Um, like that's a great idea. Yeah. Yeah.
They posted an apology on the Instagram page saying we regretted any offense or
distressed cause by our recent sounds like the same Australian U, the same pr
firm that the Australian bar used for the braw beer promotion. We apologize for
it, Dundee Relations Department. Yes. Yeah. The brewery claimed that the
campaign was intended to be a lighthearted, engaging but quote miss the mark.
Yeah, yeah, dead sorry, black Flag Bury, I will go ahead
and black flag Black Flag Brewery in Queensland Australia. So sorry we didn't end
it on a high note, folks, but we do have to put a
bow on the show and wrap it up. I do want to try that
beer though, but I probably won't. No, but all right, we
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