WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.240 This What's on Tap Radio podcast is brought to you by Cast Branding. I 2 00:00:04.280 --> 00:00:07.759 remember of the Texas craft Brewers Guild. Cast Branding has been supplying breweries, 3 00:00:07.799 --> 00:00:12.279 distilleries and wineries with top quality merchandise since twenty thirteen. If you're looking for 4 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.880 a way to promote and grow your brand, check out Cast Branding on Facebook, 5 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:19.399 Instagram, and online at Cast Branding dot com, Cast Branding dot com, 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:24.760 Cast Brandy dot com. Enjoy the show. This is about to be 7 00:00:24.839 --> 00:00:29.199 good radio. Oh yeah. To me, a craft brewer is much more 8 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:33.479 of a mindset. We just opened two cans, spread the gospel of good 9 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.520 beer. Beer. Tons and tons of stuff going on in the beer world. 10 00:00:36.679 --> 00:00:39.840 I love craft beer. I love different people's beers. It's the first 11 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:45.920 favorite. Cheers too old us beer geeks and those new to the craft. 12 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:50.960 What's on Tap? High five? Who? This is What's on Tap Radio 13 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:57.560 Beer and the culture that flows with it. Pears Beer Guru James Simpson and 14 00:00:57.719 --> 00:01:07.159 Beer Logics Chadpilbean. All right, here we go, Here we go, 15 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:18.079 we are Chad. I want to start this show off with an email? 16 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:23.799 Got an email here? Oh my gosh. See technology always fails us. 17 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.439 All right, well, you know what, we don't need music. After 18 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:32.200 all, it is radio, it is live radio. I'm looking over at 19 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:34.879 Bill and I'm like, you hear that? And he's looking at me. 20 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.719 He's like, dude, you gotta get me to the hospital. I'm deaf, 21 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:41.079 like I got nothing. The look I got from Chad was Bill, 22 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:45.280 you better start singing. Okay, I had, we had, we had 23 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:48.599 some music going. But you know what, live radio, you gotta love 24 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:52.519 it. But the show must continue. I just want to start off by 25 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:56.640 saying, welcome to the show. I'm James. That's Chad. Say hello 26 00:01:56.719 --> 00:02:00.640 Bill, Hello Bill. All right, we're all here. I want to 27 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.840 start this show off with an email real quick, the real quick email a 28 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.239 god from a listener, and I don't really think this is his real name, 29 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.360 but it says, what's up my beer drinking buddies? Listen every week? 30 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.560 You guys weren't on last week. Wanted to check in see if everything 31 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.520 was okay on the news. I saw you had some bad storms. I 32 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:19.599 hope you guys are okay, signed Billy the Kid. And so I wanted 33 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:23.439 to start the show off by mentioning this email from our listener and saying that 34 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.360 yes, we are okay. Yes, we were off last week, and 35 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.879 yes it was actually a planned week off. Yes we did get some storms, 36 00:02:30.919 --> 00:02:37.960 although we weren't affected. Our show wasn't. We did take off to 37 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.639 you know, do some things that needed to be taken care of. But 38 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:45.080 we are back and yes we're okay. Thank you Billy the Kid for checking 39 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:46.680 in. So yes, I want to start the show off with that we 40 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:51.520 have the most caring listeners. I like that. Yeah, you guys aren't 41 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.960 on. I hope everything's okay. Chad James, are you out there? 42 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:58.159 Are you okay? And I want to say this is not a local email 43 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.000 because he says, I heard on the news that you guys had some bad 44 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:06.560 storms. So I'm guessing this is somewhere outside of my listening area because pretty 45 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.000 much the whole area I'm in was affected by storm. So I'm assuming maybe 46 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:15.879 it's a Michigan or Iowa anywhere we're heard nationwide. But thank you Ability the 47 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:19.400 Kid for checking in. Yes we are okay. Big show plan for this 48 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.879 week. I want to start off by thanking our wonderful advertisers. Also, 49 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.039 you know, thinking Ability Kid for checking in, Although you normally think that's 50 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:30.840 his real name, but I mean, it's not his real name. His 51 00:03:30.039 --> 00:03:34.840 mother may have loved old westerns and gangsters. You know, he said, 52 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.479 you know what, perhaps you're right, Maybe you're right. I didn't think 53 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:39.400 of that. Took one look at him in the cradle and said, oh, 54 00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:45.199 he's gonna be a little outlaw. Yeah, all right. This thing 55 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:46.879 are advertisers, the ones that keep us on the radio each and every week. 56 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:50.479 That being Tantry Brewing, Superior Past Control, Bill Logic, conference and 57 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.680 Events reading, all to take an insurance group, the backyard grill, keeping 58 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:55.759 those lights bright. Thank you, harbor Light Brewing, and of course sponsoring 59 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.400 our podcast cast branding. Thank you for checking in and welcome to What's on 60 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:03.039 Tap Radio. I am ready for a beer. I know Chad's ready for 61 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.360 a beer. Bill, you're ready for a beer, Ready for a beer. 62 00:04:06.439 --> 00:04:10.360 I bet our listeners don't even wait. I bet you right now. 63 00:04:10.680 --> 00:04:12.840 They don't have to wait. They don't have to wait. It's just one 64 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:15.280 of those things that we have to do because you know, rules are rules 65 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:16.959 on the show. But if you're at home doing whatever you're doing listening to 66 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.879 the show, you don't have to wait. You you don't have to turn 67 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:23.040 your phone down. All that stuff. You just just hang out with us, 68 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:26.639 That's all I ask. So I wonder if some do, though they 69 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.199 might they might wait, they're like, Okay, James and Chad haven't cracked 70 00:04:29.199 --> 00:04:31.439 a beer yet. We're waiting. There's integrity and listening, all right. 71 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:34.360 I mean, we got a neighborhood watch out there. James, you okay, 72 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.560 they're on the storm. Okay, that's cool, all right. Yeah, 73 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:40.079 And the good news is I don't think James lost on our tree. 74 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.920 But I don't have to lose right because he lost it. All right, 75 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.519 let's crack open a beer. I'm gonna go first. This is brought to 76 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.199 the table spot brought to you by our friends at the Backyard Grill on the 77 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.319 northwest side of Houston. Thank you, b YG for all that you do 78 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:57.720 for the beer community in Houston and also for the local area. So if 79 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:00.720 you're in the greater Houston area visiting, swing out there on the northwest side 80 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:03.720 of the corner of West and Jones Road, right off a highway to ninety 81 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:06.399 and I get yourself some grub, get your grub game on, and get 82 00:05:06.399 --> 00:05:09.879 one of the over one hundred beers. Tell him what's on Tap Radio sent 83 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:15.959 you and the beer. I'm cracking open right now. Another one of Bill's 84 00:05:15.079 --> 00:05:19.240 escapades and adventures. Where were you on this one? Chattanooga, Tennessee? 85 00:05:19.399 --> 00:05:23.439 Okay? And oh crap, dang it, I did? I told you 86 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.639 where we send Bill on assignment. He really goes on assignment, see right 87 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:30.199 there? Yeah, he brought back. Now we've had beer from this brewery. 88 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.600 I want to talk about the name and the artwork. But Bill introduced 89 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:39.519 the beer that we're drinking, please, from Naked River Brewery. It's Docs 90 00:05:39.639 --> 00:05:47.079 Brown Ale and docs from what Cam looks like is Doc Brown from Back to 91 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:49.519 the Future. Well, Bright, it's the artwork that I want to talk 92 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:54.319 about. So it's Docs Brown Ailed. But if you know Doc Brown from 93 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.040 Back to the Future, it's Doc the doc as in doctor in Brown. 94 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:04.680 But this puts particular. Can has the DeLorean going off of a doc into 95 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:13.519 the Naked River and it says Docs Brown Ale, and it's Docs doc ks 96 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.800 And did you get the ABV on this? I did not? All Right, 97 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.560 good job, Bill, All right. It's a silver medal. Just 98 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:24.639 it's a silver medal winner at the Great American Beer Festival in twenty twenty one. 99 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:27.000 And we'll talk a little bit more about that, because James is thirsty, 100 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:30.680 He's gotta go. Speaking of silver medal winners, bringing a silver medal 101 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.959 winner from the twenty twenty four World Beer Cup, our friends in Houston, 102 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:40.639 Texas, True nominally brewing. I'm going to Giant here with the red shoe. 103 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:44.879 Yeah, this one silver the red Giant did. This is a footer 104 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:48.720 age Sayson fermided with Melvick grapes. So I'm gonna go ahead and take my 105 00:06:48.759 --> 00:06:53.680 barblade. Now. I got a feeling this is gonna be very it's gonna 106 00:06:53.720 --> 00:06:59.040 be very wine inspired, and it's gonna have some very tart notes I mean 107 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:04.839 downright sour, I mean foter aging is traditional Belgian style aging in wood and 108 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:11.879 a native to the Flanders region, where their beers are very acidic and sour 109 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.720 and James purple. Look at the carbonation on that almost non existent. Wow, 110 00:07:19.120 --> 00:07:23.160 the carbonation is all there, though, is it okay? So very 111 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:31.079 tart? I get very grape, I get some plummegranate and some raspberry. 112 00:07:31.079 --> 00:07:34.639 I want to say it's a black cherry. This is at seven point five 113 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:40.240 percent alcohol by volume, and this is again the seven point eight percent. 114 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:44.439 Sorry that true. Normally red giants what I bring it into the table silver 115 00:07:44.759 --> 00:07:47.199 award winner from the twenty twenty four World Beer Cup, and that is what 116 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:50.199 I brought the table. Chat kicked it off with the well, actually Bill 117 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:53.600 did. He's the one who brought it, but I want to thank him 118 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:58.560 for bringing Dox brown Ale comes in at six point one percent, so that 119 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.319 has brought a table. Thanks to you, our friend over at the backyard. 120 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:03.800 Girl. We're gonna talk more into these beers coming up, but on 121 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.720 tap this week big time interview. I caught up with Brock Wagner sent it 122 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.240 on a brewing company where he reflected on thirty years in brewing. So stay 123 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.600 tuned for that interview. All this is so much more, including coming right 124 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:16.759 up the official What's on Tap? Were you a fun Factor week? We 125 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:18.800 got an action back radio show. You do not want to miss an ounce 126 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.439 on. We'll be right back. The only thing we throw back on Thursday, 127 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:28.199 he's a pint of beer or two or three. This is what's on 128 00:08:28.240 --> 00:08:48.240 tap radio back to James and Chad right oooh the stuff that happens between behind 129 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:52.600 the scenes. I don't want to boy you with the details, but I'm 130 00:08:52.600 --> 00:08:54.200 just glad we're on the radio. Welcome back to What's on Tap Radio. 131 00:08:54.240 --> 00:09:00.320 In the first segment, brought to the table, Chad and Bill back to 132 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:05.080 the future with the Doc Brown. Is that what I feel I feel like 133 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.639 we went back to the future because we went back old school to a style 134 00:09:07.720 --> 00:09:13.559 that doesn't get a lot of love. American brown ale from Naked River Brewing 135 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:20.240 Company docks Brown and I guess there's a dock somewhere near the brewery, or 136 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:22.919 I guess, or somebody has a story, but it's a The artwork's great. 137 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:26.120 It's a DeLorean that you with the flames behind it, and it just 138 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:31.000 went off the dock and into the river. And so docs docks a what 139 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:35.639 did you say? Six percent? Bill? Six? Just a deep, 140 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:41.120 rich, multi medium bodied brown ale, all right, And uh, I'm 141 00:09:41.159 --> 00:09:43.679 going to go ahead and I'm going to back this up with a few tasting 142 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.600 notes. Here we go. The thing I like is it has a roasty 143 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:54.200 balance. It is not a lot of these brownailes don't have a strong hop 144 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.600 presence. Even though in American brown ale will be more happy than in English. 145 00:09:58.200 --> 00:10:05.080 This one has a dryness to it without bitterness, and it's got a 146 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.519 little bit of roastiness. But I should say, really a little bit of 147 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.960 breadiness, but I think it's balanced with some roastiness. So I don't like 148 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.799 liquid bread for the sake of liquid bread. Like when you get a real 149 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:20.279 English brown ale, it's very bready and you kind of I hate to use 150 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:22.799 the word yeasty, but coasting. Yeah, it's the this is this has 151 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:28.720 got a little more actually more like a burnt toast to it without being you 152 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.840 know, acrid, almost like ash. It's not that way. It's very 153 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.919 balanced. I like it as brownails go. I understand why I want a 154 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:41.960 silver medal at the twenty twenty one Great American Beer Festival, and that's what 155 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:43.960 we brought to the table again thanks to our friends at the Backyard Grill. 156 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:46.919 And James had to one up us because you know, he's like, well, 157 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:52.279 you got a silver at the Great American Beer Festival. I have the 158 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:54.639 World Cup silver. If you missed the first segment, I sounded just like 159 00:10:54.720 --> 00:11:01.279 that, Yeah, exactly like that. That was just a nice segue because 160 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.720 the beer I brought it won a silver medal at the twenty twenty four World 161 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:07.960 Beer Cup and I picked it up from our friends over at True Nominally and 162 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.919 this is a food age Seyson, which you Seyson's. It's a style that 163 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.159 really just doesn't get the respect it deserves. I love a good Seyson, 164 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:20.000 but I guess consumers don't. And that's why a lot of breweries don't make 165 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.679 seasons. It's a farmhouse ale that sit down and say I'm gonna drink three 166 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.960 or four Saissans tonight. They say I'm gonna drink one, yeah, and 167 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.200 then they go back to whatever their main's. That's okay. It's nice to 168 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.519 have in the back of their fridge going, you know what, I want 169 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:37.120 a nice farmhouse ale. And I think they nailed Obviously they nailed it because 170 00:11:37.279 --> 00:11:41.399 they won a silver metal at the World Beer Cup. And again black cherry, 171 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:48.320 pomegranates and raspberry, and it's slightly tart, not overly sour. But 172 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:52.120 yeah, this is more or less like the one of those beers that you're 173 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:54.919 more of a wine consumer, but you want to drink a beer, this 174 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.679 is the go to right here. Is this seven to fifty bottle? Or 175 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:03.279 is that? Is it five hundred milliars? Sure, Chad, sorry, 176 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.000 it is it is a little over a pint or seven to fifty milliter, 177 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.679 my man, seven fifty millions, So James is gonna be drinking there for 178 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.080 the rest of the show unless he can get Jen to come in and Hey, 179 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:16.240 Jen, you want some wine? No, I don't have any. 180 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:18.840 I don't have any stunt beer liver, although my wife can't drink beer, 181 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.759 so I'm on my I'm on my own with this beer. On my own. 182 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.360 But congratulations true. Normally I have another award winning beer I'm gonna bring 183 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:31.679 into the show later. Went round to the city and picked up some award 184 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:35.759 winning beers and I have them here in the studios that I'm gonna bring into 185 00:12:35.759 --> 00:12:37.840 the show later. So that was what we brought to the table. Now 186 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:43.039 it's time to Edge mcate. Now the official What's on Tap Radio fun fact 187 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.320 of the Week, brought to you by Who's ever checked Clear. This week, 188 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:50.840 in some parts of the country, school is out. We have given 189 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:54.559 full custody of their children back to them. I'm a teacher. I can 190 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:58.679 say that. So summer school session time, Chad, take it away. 191 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:01.519 Yeah, gather the kids. Actually, the kids may really appreciate this story. 192 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:05.399 So if you have children, gather them around the old squawk box. 193 00:13:05.480 --> 00:13:09.759 Because Professor Pilbeams about ready to drop some knowledge bombs. On you here. 194 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.799 What I want to tell you about is the X Men. Are you familiar 195 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:16.639 with the X Men? Oh yeah, the comics? Yeah yeah, yeah, 196 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:20.840 yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I love DC comics. Yeah. Oh, 197 00:13:20.960 --> 00:13:26.840 somebody just lost their mind right now? Yeah yeah. Anyway, uh 198 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.720 but yeah, the X Men, the mutants, they all have special powers. 199 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:37.360 Well, I'm here to tell you that we here on planet Earth, 200 00:13:37.399 --> 00:13:43.799 we do live among mutants. We live among those with special powers that we 201 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:50.360 never dreamed of. And I'm sorry, no, no, no, there's 202 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.840 no green news. But there is a seven year old, or was a 203 00:13:54.919 --> 00:14:00.200 seven year old in the United Kingdom who was diagnosed with diabetes and accidentally he 204 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:05.320 shot his eye out with a gun kid from a Christmas story, I guess 205 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:09.960 yeah, it's a shoot your eye out, You're shoot. No word on 206 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:15.559 how he accidentally shot his eye out, or why he was diabetic, or 207 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.519 whether it's type one or type two diabetes. However, who would have ever 208 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:22.440 thought that a seven year old from the United Kingdom who accidentally shot his eye 209 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:30.000 out and diabetic would amount to being a real life X Man. I give 210 00:14:30.039 --> 00:14:35.000 you John Evans, who today lives in the United Kingdom in England. When 211 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.039 he is sixty eight years old? Where's the patch? Does he? What 212 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:48.600 does he patch? I don't he has a classiz. This is radio. 213 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:50.600 I just listened. I did research on the guy. I didn't look up 214 00:14:50.639 --> 00:14:56.679 the When you understand what I'm about to tell you about him, you're gonna 215 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:03.879 understand why I wasn't looking at his eye. Okay, it's about his superpower. 216 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.559 That's what I want to talk to you about, all right. So 217 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:16.440 the man when they examined him because of his amazing feats, it prompted the 218 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:22.960 real life Stan Lee to say, this guy is superhuman. They tested him 219 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.120 when they saw him perform this feat, and they said, this guy, 220 00:15:28.440 --> 00:15:31.600 he's got to have like super strength or something. And they checked. He's 221 00:15:31.639 --> 00:15:33.879 like, no, I don't go to the gym. In fact, I'm 222 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:35.840 not that strong. And so they had to do tests on him, and 223 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:41.399 they determined that the sixty eight year old man has bones that are getting stronger 224 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:48.240 as he ages. What his bone density is increasing as he ages, and 225 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.799 this is allowing him to do something that no other human on planet Earth has 226 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:58.879 ever been able to do. And if you said balance two hundred and thirty 227 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:00.840 seven pints of beer on your head, well, ladies, and gentlemen, 228 00:16:02.039 --> 00:16:08.080 you would be correct. John Evans has thirty three Guinness Book World records for 229 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:15.720 balancing things on his head. The bone density of his skull is actually stronger 230 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:21.279 than that of a twenty year old male athlete, and his next drink has 231 00:16:21.480 --> 00:16:25.759 increased from balancing all of these things. I said, he has thirty three 232 00:16:26.120 --> 00:16:30.360 world records. Three of those are actually beer world records. And in case 233 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:34.360 you're wondering what some of those records include, well, he has balanced on 234 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:37.360 his head. This is pretty good. I like this one here, one 235 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:42.000 hundred and one bricks, sixty two books, what a three hundred and fifty 236 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:48.039 two pound gutted Midti Cooper, two girls on two bicycles on the apex of 237 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:53.240 his skull. And because this is a beer show, he has balanced four 238 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:59.840 hundred and twenty nine full beer cans. He's balanced thirteen full kegs of beer 239 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:07.400 on his head. But the most difficult challenge of his illustrious career as an 240 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:12.200 x man is he has balanced two hundred and thirty seven full pints of beer, 241 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.839 which come to two hundred and forty five point three pounds. He had 242 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:21.240 a little trouble getting Guinness Book of World Records to certify this record. Why 243 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:25.559 because no one ever thought of doing this. So it's like, hey, 244 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.519 can we do this or not? And he's like, I guess. And 245 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:33.920 they started out and he had to do one hundred pints and then he's like, 246 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:36.279 that's easy, that's child's play. I got this. And then he 247 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.599 went to one hundred and fifty and then two hundred and now the record stands 248 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.400 at two hundred and thirty seven. So your official What's on Tap Radio fun 249 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:47.680 fact of the week is that John Evans, a sixty eight year old man 250 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.559 who lives in England, had a rough start to life. He was diabetic, 251 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:57.039 couldn't have those candy bars and he shot his eye out. One eyed 252 00:17:57.240 --> 00:18:03.839 diabetic seven year old buddy turned into a man who has thirty three world records, 253 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.839 a real life X man who has balanced thirteen kegs on his hand on 254 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:10.880 his head, four hund and twenty nine beer cans and two hundred and thirty 255 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:12.680 seven pints of beer. That's your official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of 256 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.119 the week. Please someone tell me whether or not he has an eyepatch. 257 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.119 I just want to know that. All right, great fun fact, Chad, 258 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.319 all right? On tap this week osam have Been Lagger. They made 259 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.680 a beer with Osama Been not Louden Logger. We're gonna talk about that and 260 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:30.400 a great interview coming up next hour with the godfather of Texas craft beer. 261 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:34.119 All this so much more, we'll be at back. On average, humans 262 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.400 walk nine hundred miles per year, entering twenty two gallons of beer, which 263 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:45.799 means the average human gets forty one miles per gallon. Not ben what's on 264 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:52.119 tap radio continues, all right, everybody's got a beer. You got a 265 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:55.960 beer, I got a beer, We got a beer. You know who 266 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.519 else has beer? The Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston. But 267 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:02.839 when you're you're drinking, you want to have something to eat too, So 268 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:07.839 go get yourself some grub at the buyg The menu is amazing. They've got 269 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.440 all your Texas favorites like steaks, bahitas, chops, and it's all grilled 270 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.720 on a wood fired grill. Got burgers, You got wraps. Hey, 271 00:19:15.759 --> 00:19:21.000 if you're vegetarian, they got salads, they got soups, homemade dishes, 272 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:26.519 and specialties like smoky the beer chicken. Oh yeah, smoked chicken injected with 273 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:30.319 local beer sounds delicious. Right, Yeah, and don't forget the green beans. 274 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:32.839 I know you're thinking, wait a minute, is this guy just talking 275 00:19:32.839 --> 00:19:34.559 about all the grilled stuff and you're gonna tell me to eat your veggies. 276 00:19:34.640 --> 00:19:38.240 Hey, mom said eat your veggies. Over one hundred different menu items, 277 00:19:38.720 --> 00:19:41.759 get the green beans. Trust me, you won't regret it, and over 278 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.920 one hundred different beers head out to the backyard grill in the corner of Weston 279 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:56.799 Jones Road on the northwest side of Houston. Cheers. All right, Chad 280 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:03.400 was making fun of men break so I kind of ripped and read on the 281 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:08.000 one sheet here. So there's a story about this brewery that put Osama bin 282 00:20:08.119 --> 00:20:11.519 laden on a label. There you go. That's how it said. And 283 00:20:14.160 --> 00:20:18.519 apparently you would think that there would be some backlash about it, but there's 284 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:23.200 it's actually gone viral. So I yeah, we gotta get into that. 285 00:20:23.279 --> 00:20:26.079 Yeah, we're gonna get into it. Coming up on this episode. Also, 286 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.440 we're gonna be catching up with Brock Wagner, the godfather of Texas craft 287 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:33.000 beer, celebrating thirty years. So I sat down with him to reflect on 288 00:20:33.079 --> 00:20:38.839 thirty years in business, and we'll talk about that next hour. Good news 289 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:45.440 for you Michigan fans talk about that. Yes, we're gonna get into that 290 00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.799 here. Ultra Right Beer is announcing a special giveaway, and Bill, do 291 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:55.200 you know that Miller lt Miller LTE has a new giveaway. You're be excited 292 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:56.400 to hear about that. Yeah, we'll see if we get our hands on 293 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:00.359 that. I'm gonna get online and see if I cannot camp one cannot buy 294 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:03.880 Bill. Bill likes to set goals he can achieved. I want to try 295 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:07.720 and not buy one. Hey, look they're sold out. Go ahead and 296 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.200 get that credit card ready there. Bill, all right, he's not even 297 00:21:11.200 --> 00:21:14.039 gonna take the credit card out because he's not gonna be because he's going in 298 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.799 hoping to succeed by not getting it. We got some soccer in the news 299 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.839 and all. This is so much more coming up this hour. I don't 300 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.279 know if we can get it all in this episode. We'll try. We'll 301 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.359 try, but we're gonna try to do that. Jam. But Chad and 302 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.720 Bill have another beer to crack, and I'm gonna talk about this new restaurant 303 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:36.880 policy that I'm not not at. I could certainly see why it's they're putting 304 00:21:36.920 --> 00:21:40.559 this policy in place. Whether you believe you think it's a good idea or 305 00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:41.759 not. We'll talk about it a right good talk. It'll be good talk. 306 00:21:41.839 --> 00:21:45.240 Yeah, all right, all right, So Bill and I stunt Bill, 307 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:48.880 stunt beer lever, Bill from Harbor Light Brewing, hanging out in studio 308 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.640 with me and uh, he gonna need that stunt beer liver for this one 309 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:57.160 here. Recently went down to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and swung by the old 310 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:00.440 tap room and got a fresh bell, two hearted rite on the stick right 311 00:22:00.480 --> 00:22:04.480 there at the source. Who that's tough to beat. And I walked over 312 00:22:04.519 --> 00:22:08.240 to the gift shop and where you can buy some beers, and I put 313 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:14.480 a little pack together and they were rolling out what the taproom manager, the 314 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:21.119 store manager said is the best kept secret in the brewery and even in Kalamazoo. 315 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:22.920 And I looked down and I saw what it was, and I was 316 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.480 like, oh, yeah, I'm picking this up right now. For those 317 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.400 of you who are not familiar with the Third Coast Old Ale, it is 318 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:36.000 a barley wine style beer. And they stopped producing it. They've done some 319 00:22:36.119 --> 00:22:37.880 variants, one offs here and there, but they don't make it anymore on 320 00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:44.680 a regular basis. They went down into the cellar this particular batch right here 321 00:22:44.720 --> 00:22:49.480 comes in at ten point two percent ten point two ten point two okay, 322 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:57.799 and it was packaged on October ninth, twenty fourteen. Oh wow, did 323 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:03.519 a Spradley poor again? I'm sorry? Almost ten years old? Almost ten 324 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.240 years old, yes, as almost as old as this show. So this 325 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.559 right here is what we're drinking. Bill, I took a little too much. 326 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:12.960 You want some of this? Okay? Bill said no, because he's 327 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:15.519 got a drive, so he knows how the game works. I mean, 328 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:21.000 stunt beer livers are here to help, yes, but not to get well 329 00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:23.799 intoxicated. Bill as a professional, he drinks responsibly. Okay, he leaves 330 00:23:25.200 --> 00:23:29.200 ten year old beer. That is amazing. It's really good. It does 331 00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:33.519 not taste oaky or sorry old in papery, doesn't taste like wet cardboard, 332 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.519 It doesn't have those dark cherry notes. It actually tastes like a beautiful barley 333 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:40.559 wine. Old. Usually when they got that old, they start getting a 334 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:44.519 little sour too. Yeah. Now, I will say the long after taste, 335 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.319 long after I've had a chance to sip. That does taste a little 336 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.960 papery, so but still delicious beer. That's really good. So that's what 337 00:23:53.000 --> 00:23:56.599 we cracked open from twenty fourteen. They were just pushed it out there and 338 00:23:56.599 --> 00:24:00.480 you can buy as much as you wanted, and they pulled it out seller 339 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:04.839 the Third Coast Old Ale from Bell's Brewery. Now, I wanted to talk 340 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:10.480 about this briefly just because last year we just recently renewed our season tickets at 341 00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:15.880 Michigan State because we're glutton for punishment. Yeah, go sparty. But last 342 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:22.519 year Michigan State entered into the world of selling beer inside the stadium and that 343 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:27.079 was beautiful. And they were selling out of beer, yeah they were. 344 00:24:27.319 --> 00:24:30.559 It was a real sparty party. But I got to admit I got kicked 345 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:37.960 out of a spartan stadium for sneaking beer in once the tempting statue of limitations 346 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:40.920 ran out of that. You up, however, a professional you are billing 347 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:49.680 here you come, brothers disclaimer, But he is not like one. He's 348 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:53.160 just helping us drink beer and helps keep the lights on. All right anyway, 349 00:24:53.880 --> 00:25:00.039 But now entering into the fray, the University of mis that's right, 350 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:04.720 the big house in ann Arbor will now be selling beer this football season. 351 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:08.799 So if you're a Go Blue guy or gal, be happy to know that 352 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:12.400 it's not just going to be a spardy party, but it's going to be 353 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:15.960 an opportunity to drink beer at the Big House. So I thought i'd share 354 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.720 that now. Also, the other thing is is I mentioned Kalamazoo. We 355 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:26.440 had some really nasty storms go through and some tornadoes went through Portage, which 356 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:33.319 is the southern suburb of Kalamazoo, and so it's pretty nasty. And James, 357 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:36.799 we know about the storms in Houston. Yes, Cyprus, your old 358 00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:40.039 neck of the woods man got pounded. A lot of them are powerful. 359 00:25:40.079 --> 00:25:42.039 Five yeah, yeah, a lot of them without power for over a week. 360 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:45.759 Sixty five mile an hour winds right in my neighborhood. And so I'm 361 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:51.640 glad everybody's okay. I know, I know this is trivial in comparison, 362 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:55.119 But one of the things you normally hear about are the breweries because we studied, 363 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:56.880 you know, we follow the beer news. The breweries that were affected. 364 00:25:56.960 --> 00:26:03.359 I have not heard of a single brewery that has lost beer had damage. 365 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.960 I don't either, Yeah, so I don't know really interest, I 366 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:10.200 don't really know how many brewis are out in the Cypress area, but there's 367 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:12.599 a few out there. I mean, Location six is in Waller. You've 368 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:17.720 got also our friends at the backyard grill. They were they were safe and 369 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:22.519 they were okay out there also Creekwood Grill, so you got misfit brewing out 370 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.640 there. So there's a few others. I lost powerful Senate Avenue. How 371 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:32.160 did I forget Senate Avenue? I think the mayor. I think he lost 372 00:26:32.160 --> 00:26:34.200 power at the house. Either the house or the brewery, I can't remember. 373 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:37.680 I was kind of quite a few days. Yeah, he was without. 374 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.599 But anyway, glad everybody's okay. So, speaking of a backyard grill, 375 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.680 I'm gonna talk about this restaurant thing. And maybe you may think this 376 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:48.519 is a bad idea, but I think this might be a decent idea. 377 00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:52.279 Although I don't I don't fall victim of this. Have you ever made a 378 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:55.440 reservation in a restaurant and then did a no show or maybe just timing didn't 379 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:56.839 work so they just just didn't show up, or maybe just found a better 380 00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:00.079 option. No, because I'm not jerk, Well some people do that. 381 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:03.160 They're like, oh, well, you know, we made a reservation, 382 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:07.079 but you know, let's just let's go to Applebee's instead, said nobody out 383 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.039 call the restaurant said nobody ever. Uh, well, in the future, 384 00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:14.160 you could be charged for that. Check the story out. A new report 385 00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:18.759 says that many restaurants operate on slim margins, and when they hold a table 386 00:27:18.759 --> 00:27:22.119 for someone who doesn't show up, they lose money. So some may start 387 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:29.240 charging a non refundable deposit when you reserve a table. So I love this. 388 00:27:29.400 --> 00:27:33.119 So some high end restaurants and bigger cities already charge a what they call 389 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.880 it reservation fee, which is then deducted from your bill after you show up 390 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:41.960 and dine and drink there. There's no specific amount. Reports say it varies 391 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:45.240 from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars or fifty dollars per a person, and 392 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:49.319 it could be easy to implement, either by using apps or just taking your 393 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.640 credit card when you book. And other industries already do this. Vacation homes, 394 00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:59.319 resorts, hotels keep your deposits and tell you, you know, case 395 00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:03.359 you're canceled, I'll you know, charge you for it. Doctors, dentists, 396 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:07.440 they'd all charge appointment fees. So what do you think? What do 397 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:11.759 you think restaurants adding a non refunneable deposit for those that make those reservations and 398 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.039 go you know what, we have a better option, let's go there instead. 399 00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:18.000 And they hold this table, especially a busy restaurant that you know they're 400 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.440 holding out on this table and you don't show up, and now they're losing 401 00:28:22.519 --> 00:28:26.839 out. You know, no busting seats. I love this policy. I 402 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:32.480 am a fan because I know how difficult it is for restaurants, like you 403 00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:37.039 said, slim Margins, and they operate on volume. And if they're going 404 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:40.519 to turn a guest away because they're holding a table for you and you don't 405 00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:44.680 show, that is so rude. It is so rude. I mean, 406 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:47.720 you're the kind of person that doesn't take the shopping cart back. Not only 407 00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:49.880 do you not take the shopping cart back, but what you do is you 408 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:56.720 find the mini van that says baby on board, and you wedge the shopping 409 00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:02.440 cart between the drivers or and the car next to it. Because you're that 410 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:06.160 big of a jerk. I'm sorry all the restaurant and canceled. According to 411 00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:10.680 data at Open Table, twenty eight percent of Americans admit they haven't shown up 412 00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:14.839 for a reservation they made within the past year. And I can't figure that 413 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.680 because, well, to me, it's no big deal. One way or 414 00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:22.359 the other because I can't remember the last time I went to a restaurant that 415 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.920 actually needed a reservation. Okay, so Bill, you don't need have places 416 00:29:26.920 --> 00:29:33.640 that have cloth napkins. Not really, okay, I'm actually I'm for this. 417 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.680 I think this is maybe a good way for them to recoup losses by 418 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.680 holding a table that you know, could potentially house somebody that now they're holding 419 00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:45.079 because you were in n a hole and didn't show up. But that good. 420 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.880 It is a good idea though. It's a great idea, and it's 421 00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:52.160 not about it's not about recouping losses. Well it is, but it's it's 422 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:57.519 lost revenue and lost revenue potential. And so yeah, if you if you're 423 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.079 gonna tell me, hey, you know what you got to you're gonna hold 424 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:04.680 it for you know, twenty five to thirty dollars per person. I'm fine 425 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:08.680 with that. Just it comes off the bill at the end and I'm sorry, 426 00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:12.839 or you just reverse the charge. There's nothing wrong with that because, 427 00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:15.759 like like you said, try and buy an airline ticket and then cancel, 428 00:30:17.079 --> 00:30:18.319 you know, twenty minutes before you're supposed to get on a plane. That 429 00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:23.400 ain't happening. Yeah, so that's just some restaurant news. Yeah, adding 430 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:29.119 non refundable deposits for reservations. What says you reach out to us on our 431 00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:32.480 social what's on Taprido, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? I guess x 432 00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:34.000 or what's on taprio Gmail dot com? Let us know what you're thinking. 433 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:37.440 All right, we gotta take a break. I do want to talk about 434 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.960 this Osama bin laden on a beer label. I would think it would cause 435 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.880 a backlash, but it's actually going viral. We'll discuss that. All this 436 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:48.359 is so much more. Hang with us, we'll right back. This is 437 00:30:48.400 --> 00:31:06.640 what's on tap radio, right, welcome back. So enjoying this Red Giants, 438 00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:11.039 this giant of a beer seven drinking that the whole show. Dude, 439 00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:14.079 you're gonna have to put it aside to crack another one. There's no way 440 00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:15.839 you can. Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna able to finish it, 441 00:31:15.039 --> 00:31:18.960 but it's so acidic and sour it is. I don't even know if I 442 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:25.079 if I did finish it, I probably have like a yeah ulcer maammel off 443 00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.200 my teeth and yep, yes, that's right. I probably just my palate 444 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:30.920 be wrecked. But I do have another I want to bring to the show. 445 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:36.839 Later on this segment brought to you by the Linux Truck, Bedliners and 446 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.119 Teeth and the AML Replacement Company. I mean, come on, dude, 447 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:42.400 just spray it back on because you're gonna strip it clean. Well, I 448 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:47.559 went round and picked up these beers. I did some TV and I brought 449 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:51.839 these beers on. And when I was sampling these beers, I didn't really 450 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:55.119 prep them properly, like, hey, by the way, you're gonna be 451 00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:56.880 tasting this. They just went full on in and was like, whoa. 452 00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:01.480 Because it's not overly hour, but it's it's got some tart notes to it. 453 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:06.279 It gets you. It does get your attention. Overall very good and 454 00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:08.359 I can see why it did well at the World Beer Cup. But coming 455 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:13.440 up, I had another beer at the fridge here studio S that I'm gonna 456 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.799 be bringing. Do you want to talk about this beer? Then? I'm 457 00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:22.640 not quite sure how it's not getting any kind of backlash because I feel like 458 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:28.119 an ass chad during the break. I feel like we've done stories of breweries 459 00:32:28.119 --> 00:32:31.720 putting dictators on beer labels and them getting a backlash. I feel like I 460 00:32:31.759 --> 00:32:37.000 feel like we've done a story about a brewery putting Trump even though I'm not 461 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.200 calling I'm not calling Trump a dictator anything, but but I'm just saying, 462 00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:44.880 there are people, gentleman, that's at James in the radio, and that's 463 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:52.039 that's called crawfishing. A political figure on there, and people going wild and 464 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:58.119 I'm gonna boycott this brewery, and YadA, YadA, YadA. We've seen 465 00:32:58.240 --> 00:33:04.599 more boycott. So are fake boycott's people saying they're going to boycott based on, 466 00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:08.680 you know, just a label. I mean, I remember whenever they 467 00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:15.200 put the Hindu god on one of the labels. I think that was Avery 468 00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:19.680 label or something, or you know, it was the the idol that they 469 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.359 worshiped, the elephant. And then we've I've seen the baby on the label, 470 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:29.000 the Canadian Mountie on the label. Let's see, we've had Trump on 471 00:33:29.079 --> 00:33:34.559 the label. We've had Putin on the label. And I remember but a 472 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:37.279 lot of the ones where Putin is on the label, one of them where 473 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:45.359 Putin is a jerk, a male appendage. And then there was the what 474 00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:50.039 was the other, Oh, Southern Star Brewing Company had one where they put 475 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:55.160 a dictator on It was Stalin. I think it was for their Russian Imperial 476 00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:59.799 stout. And and i remember a bunch of people saying, oh, look 477 00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:05.839 Southern stop and Conro doing their praising a dictator who killed millions of people, 478 00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:08.480 and it's like, no, that's not you know whatever. And then the 479 00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:15.320 former Buffalo by You Brewing Company did Mao cow Bell. Where they did it, 480 00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:22.639 it was basically they put Mao from China the dictator there on a a 481 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:28.039 beer label. So it's it's not in speaking, I shouldn't say this that 482 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:34.719 we're we're we're PG radio. But speaking of dictators, yeah, uh, 483 00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:42.119 Buffalo by You Brewing Company known for hiding certain images on their uh speaking of 484 00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:50.400 male appendages at different dictator. If you turn it upside down, it was 485 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:53.920 a male I'm telling you that. I guess t ABC didn't catch when they 486 00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:58.039 were doing label approval. No, they did not. They did not catch 487 00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.719 that one. But this label looks fine. Turn upside down with WHOA. 488 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:07.119 There's a beer named after Osama bin Laden and it's sold out and is going 489 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:13.400 viral all over social media. Staff at Mitchell Brewing Company had to unplug phones 490 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:20.119 and close their website temporarily because the demand for Osama ben Lager. The company 491 00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:25.159 of Billing Hay in Lincolnshire. This is in England, also Bruce Kim jong 492 00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:30.639 Ale and Putin porter Ooh yeah, they're all tongue they're all tongue in cheek 493 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:35.039 names. A nicer outlook on some of the horrible dictators, said one of 494 00:35:35.039 --> 00:35:37.559 the co owners. Millions of people have seen the picture of the beer named 495 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:43.880 after the former al Qaeda leader who died in twenty eleven. They post on 496 00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:47.119 social media. A husband and wife run the brewery, and they woken up 497 00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:52.039 the last couple of weeks with thousands and thousands and thousands of notifications of people 498 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.559 wanting to get their hands on this beer. And they said it's been crazy. 499 00:35:55.599 --> 00:36:00.320 And the phone lions have just not stopped ringing of people trying to get 500 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:07.800 their hands on the Osama Bin Lagger beer. Interesting, Chad shaking his head. 501 00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.559 I don't know if I I don't know if I would be if I 502 00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:15.840 owned an establishment, if I would want to put that on tap. I 503 00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:21.800 mean, yeah, you're gonna sell beer, but you're gonna get more questions. 504 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.880 I mean remember when Brash Brewing in Houston had their Black Masses beer, 505 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.960 Oh my god, and they would the Catholics would protest on the Wow. 506 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:38.639 Yeah they went, they went and then and then there were bars in Houston 507 00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:44.119 that if you carried any brash beer they got phone calls and threats and people 508 00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:49.119 showing up and throwing stuff. And because you carried brash beer, it was 509 00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:52.360 that was a real like that was a scary time, Like wait a minute, 510 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:55.920 hold on, I'm just trying to sell beer. I could see you 511 00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:59.239 know somebody. I mean here, I'm just gonna say this right now. 512 00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:06.000 Osama Lagger not going to be real popular in New York. No, although 513 00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:10.000 some of the proceeds from the sale of this beer go to a nine to 514 00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:15.320 eleven survivors foundation, So that's cool. I wonder for an extra price, 515 00:37:15.360 --> 00:37:22.559 you'd get like a six pack one Osama bin Lager and five Navy Seal pilsners. 516 00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:28.159 See there you go that, yeah, yeah, that's right like that, 517 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:31.719 and then and then the bottle of Osama bin Lager has a bunch of 518 00:37:31.760 --> 00:37:36.719 bullet holes in it. All right, I'm sorry, we're getting a little 519 00:37:36.760 --> 00:37:38.400 too far off the rails there, But that also does remind me I can't 520 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:43.039 I'd be remiss if I didn't bring in this. Remember the the other beer 521 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.760 from the United Kingdom. So apparently, if you want to get you know 522 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:47.559 racy. You can go to the United Kingdom and do it. But they 523 00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.440 had the tap handle that for the classic tap handle or beer that spun upside 524 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:55.639 down, where on one side it looked like a beautiful princess and then when 525 00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.400 it spun upside down, it looked like an old hag. Wh yeah yeah, 526 00:38:00.400 --> 00:38:01.800 and old witch. Yeah that's a that's a good one. And they 527 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:06.760 got in trouble for that because it basically objectified women. But the other one 528 00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:09.880 was the the oh I wish I remember what it was the name of it. 529 00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:14.320 I have a bottle of it. It was sold in a white paper 530 00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:15.599 cloth and it had two eye holes cut out of it. It was the 531 00:38:15.599 --> 00:38:21.079 coward beer, right right, And it made fun of you know, whitek 532 00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:27.800 but the KKK it also looked like a white supremacist and so yeah, it 533 00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.360 looked like the beer bottle looked like a white hood on the K on the 534 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.079 klan. But if you did, if you didn't know anything about it, 535 00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.000 you just saw it, you would obviously think, oh my god, this 536 00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:39.840 is a you know, there's some kind of clan. It was the opposite. 537 00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:45.039 It was the opposite. They were actually making fun of those supremacists. 538 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:47.519 But yeah, there you go. Something Ben Loger beer sells out in minutes 539 00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:52.280 after going viral and people are still trying to get their hands on it. 540 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:54.480 Well, I was just talking about the whole racist thing. I wanted to 541 00:38:54.480 --> 00:39:00.000 grab this story really quick. Marco Reus of Dortmund in the Bundesliga, which 542 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:05.920 is the German Prepaere soccer league, he did something that not a lot of 543 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.880 athletes get the opportunity to do, when they say farewell to their home stadium 544 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:14.639 and decide to sign off. And I walked off the field that's right, 545 00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:16.760 And he said, that's right. He never paid me enough and that's why 546 00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:19.960 I'm leaving. I forget you. I'm gonna go sit on my beach. 547 00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.880 No, he didn't do that at all. But I mentioned this because FIFA 548 00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:34.400 is FIFA is uh looking at has a campaign to try and promote equality and 549 00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.280 racism. And so the reason I bring this up is is as Marco, 550 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:44.239 who's had an illustrious career playing football or soccer, signed off on the pitch 551 00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.440 with a four to nothing win at his home on his home pitch, that's 552 00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:52.599 the field, and scoring one goal as he stepped off before eighty one thousand 553 00:39:52.639 --> 00:40:00.360 supporters bought the entire stadium around a beer. So that's a guy I'll talk 554 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:02.480 about. I'll try to do the math on that, Chad. How many 555 00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:06.599 fans, Well, they're eighty one thousand fans, not all of them of 556 00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:12.320 drinking eight let's say, let's say seventy five thousand or seventy thousand, seventy 557 00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:15.239 thousand, Yeah, let's go with that. And how much are beers going 558 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:17.840 for at this stadium? I don't know, but the man spent a pretty 559 00:40:17.920 --> 00:40:22.719 penny. So all right, So here's to you, mister Marco Reyus, 560 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:27.039 and we want to celebrate you as and also as we sign off on hour 561 00:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.280 number one and what's on tap Radio coming up an hour number two, we 562 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:34.280 will we'll probably raise a glass and toast him, as well as hold my 563 00:40:34.320 --> 00:40:37.039 beer and watch this and much much more, including interview from the legendary brock 564 00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.079 Wagner Santa O Brewing Company. This is what's on tap radio. We'll be 565 00:40:40.280 --> 00:40:45.039 right back. Yeah, we drink water, but it has to be filtered 566 00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:53.079 through a brewery. First. You've got what's on tap radio, Hold my 567 00:40:53.119 --> 00:40:55.559 beer and watch this brought to you by your friends edwring All, the Ten 568 00:40:55.559 --> 00:41:00.679 Taking Insurance Group, located in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Holland along the Lake 569 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:15.079 Shore RTI Grand Rapids, rt I Grand Rapids dot Com. All right, 570 00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:19.320 welcome to hour number two. What's on Tap Radio? Coming up this hour, 571 00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:23.559 I caught up with the godfather of Texas craft beer, mister brock Wagner, 572 00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:30.039 to reflect on thirty years a brewing and it's a great interview. Don't 573 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:34.800 want to miss that. Quick. I'm gonna interrupt you real quick. What 574 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.079 if I don't live in the Houston or Texas market? Do I really care 575 00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:40.280 about this? You should? You should? Yeah, you should, because 576 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:45.400 chances are, chances are the brewery that you enjoy, that you love, 577 00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:51.400 the brewmasters love Saint Arnold. Yes, there there is a there there. 578 00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:57.360 It's it's it's a it's a tree with lots of roots and those roots run 579 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:00.159 deep. And why they've been open for thirty years and so they've had a 580 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.440 lot of people come through the brewery who've worked there. The chances are they've 581 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.840 left and gone and open breweries maybe where you live. And it all started 582 00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:13.199 with brock Wagner and he's gonna reflect on a thirty years. So that's coming 583 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.599 up later this hour. But I got a crack a beer. I know, 584 00:42:15.679 --> 00:42:19.639 Billin and Chattey crack a beer, but they can. They can hold 585 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.239 your damn horses. All right, guys, pump the brakes a little bit. 586 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.039 Pump the brakes, all right, all right, hold beer to crack. 587 00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:29.000 I do too, I got a beer to crack too, all right, 588 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:30.920 James, real quick, do you want to open a beer? So 589 00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:36.800 you want? Okay, we'll allow it, all right, go ahead, 590 00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:42.840 Yeah, Bill says it's okay, James, Mike one. He controlled the 591 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:45.320 entire board. Chat Well, you already ruined it. I was trying to 592 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.079 pour the He's trying to make it sound like he was pouring the beer in 593 00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.920 the glass because sound effect, because it's not. No, he really was 594 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.159 pooring. What are you drinking? Cheep? All right? Another award winner 595 00:42:55.199 --> 00:43:00.159 from the World Beer Cup, Speaking of Saint Arnold, I ain't. I'm 596 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:06.719 going to say hello with the Irish Hello, the Irish dry stout at four. 597 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.320 This is one of the best beer names. Yeah, Irish Hello, 598 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:15.639 which is opposite the Irish goodbye. That pittacoulis one. So Irish Hello wins 599 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:20.679 a medal, and then right after that, Irish Goodbye wins from Petacoulas Iris 600 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:23.599 another brewery in Texas. Yeah, they're up in Dallas. Yeah, and 601 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:27.920 so one Irish Hello, Irish, goodbye, Hello, goodbye. This is 602 00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.559 a dry Irish stout, I believe you said. Okay, so classic, 603 00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:37.119 very dry four point three and it's got chocolatey notes, roasty notes. And 604 00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:39.400 what I like about is the ABV four point three percent. So you can 605 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:44.119 have like three or four of these and you know, be fine not to 606 00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:47.840 drive, but you know, to hang out. But I want to say 607 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.599 congratulations to Saint Ernold. I'm celebrating thirty years and for picking up a medal 608 00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:57.199 at the World Beer Cup with your Irish Hello. So that's all right, 609 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.320 cracking well, we need to crack open a beer, of course you do. 610 00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:04.239 Chad and Bill, I'm gonna put you on the spot because you know 611 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.239 you keep throwing out around these awards. Fine. The beer I hold in 612 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:15.039 my hand is the single most award winning beer from the Great American Beer Festival. 613 00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:20.000 It has won more awards than any other beer at the Great American Beer 614 00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:22.199 Festival in the history of the festival. James, what beer in my dream? 615 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.159 It used to be? It used to be the Alaskan smoke Porter, 616 00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:29.719 and that is what we are drinking. But I don't think it's the case 617 00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.280 anymore. I think there's really yeah, I think there's another beer that's surpassed 618 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:37.760 it. But yeah, the Alaskan Smoke Porter. Amazing, amazing beer. 619 00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.960 Yeah it is. Yeh. Bill loves smoke beers. And he says, 620 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:44.480 I've never had this before, and I said, well, get ready to 621 00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:49.079 have your taste. But going away twenty thirteen. Excuse me, twenty twenty 622 00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.360 three, I said, twenty thirteen, twenty twenty three edition. I picked 623 00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:57.639 this up at a local beer store and we'll talk about that after we find 624 00:44:57.639 --> 00:45:00.440 out about the stupid criminal. The week brought to you by our friends at 625 00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:04.840 Ringnoldleton Acon Insurance Group. Hold my beer and watch this brought to you by 626 00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:08.360 the Ring Nalda ten Hacen Insurance Group, where they'll cover you for just about 627 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:13.639 everything except this. All right, Here we go, Here we go. 628 00:45:14.559 --> 00:45:20.199 Ummm yeah. Cops haven't said what the fake name was on the guy's ID, 629 00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:25.159 but we're thinking it might be Bigfoot. All right. A drunk driver 630 00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:30.840 was pulled over and Rock Rapids, Iowa, one Sunday after a cops saw 631 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:38.320 a twenty sixteen Ford focus, swerving all over the road, and when he 632 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:44.679 handed them his ID, they knew it was a fake immediately because I had 633 00:45:44.719 --> 00:45:50.880 one name. That's when you say mclovin. So I was like, I'm 634 00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:57.559 waiting with baited breath, James, And and what name was it? Was? 635 00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:01.719 It from a super bad No, it was not mcloven, McK lovin, 636 00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:06.320 It said mclove No, it was not mcgloven, all right, No, 637 00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:09.639 it was it was his height that was a red flag. His height 638 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:15.480 was listed at eight feet tall. Just to know age. You know, 639 00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:19.800 the tallest sleeping person in the world is eight foot three, so it could 640 00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:22.440 have been him. It could have been him, but it wasn't. Ever 641 00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.039 it's eight foot eleven. So I know a sixty eight year old who has 642 00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:30.280 diabetes and one eye and he can carry two or in thirty sot some beer 643 00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:35.719 on his head. All right. The driver was a thirty three year old 644 00:46:35.800 --> 00:46:42.320 man named Joel Vieta who's actually five foot eight, so he's over compensating a 645 00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:45.400 little bit with the eight footer. Okay, got it. He failed a 646 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:52.159 sobriety test and flunked the breathalyzer test as well. He had an open container 647 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:55.800 and the cup holder, and it actually mentions what kind of beer it was. 648 00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:02.920 Oh, finally, Corona. It was a Corona. Didn't have a 649 00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:07.519 line. I didn't say if I had a line, but either lazy journalism. 650 00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:08.760 Come on, at least we know what kind of beer it is. 651 00:47:09.320 --> 00:47:13.079 Yeah, we didn't. We know that because there was a bottle or canned? 652 00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:15.079 Was it dressed? It was? It was a bottle because there was 653 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:20.079 a six pack of bottles of Corona in the back seat. They also found 654 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:23.840 it a oh gosh, they found a folded one dollar bill with white powder 655 00:47:23.840 --> 00:47:30.360 in it, and he admitted it was meth Ooh, I would have gone 656 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:35.239 with cocaine, Bob. It turns out he needed a fake ID. The 657 00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:39.000 reason being is because he doesn't have a driver's license, so he went with 658 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:47.440 a woman with an eight foot height mclen He was wanted and for picked any 659 00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:51.360 height you wanted, but you picked eight foot five. Yeah. He was 660 00:47:51.440 --> 00:47:54.639 wanted for not appearing in court for a previous drunk driving charge. So this 661 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:59.159 guy is just oh yeah, with the previous one. He was only six 662 00:47:59.239 --> 00:48:01.599 foot eight. Yeah, he thought he was gonna be able to full of 663 00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:04.880 judge. All right, you were in here before, you know that guy 664 00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:07.239 was way shorter, way shorter. Yeah, you're confusing me, judge the 665 00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:09.920 same name. Yeah, I get that a lot, but I'm only five. 666 00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:15.360 So your hold my beer and watch this week is a drunk driver's fake. 667 00:48:15.400 --> 00:48:19.760 I d said he was eight feet tall. Again. This has been 668 00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:27.719 brought to you by her friends. Hevrey Donaldson, Insurance, insurance, Osama 669 00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:30.039 been lot, no, no, bring all the it's easy for you to 670 00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:34.480 say it. Insurance group, Well don't ensure you for lots of things, 671 00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:37.679 but they're not ensuring you for if you're going on your fake ID for eight 672 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:42.039 foot tall. Oh. I can't make this stuff up, folks. All 673 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:46.519 right, good too, still to good too. Got a great interview coming 674 00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:51.000 up, and we got to talk about the ultra right beer. They got 675 00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:52.599 a new giveaway, we got to talk about all. This is so much 676 00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:58.119 more hang with us, much more discussed. We'll be right back beer. 677 00:48:59.000 --> 00:49:05.039 It's like pouring smiles on your brain. What's on tap? Radio continues, 678 00:49:19.159 --> 00:49:21.480 Oh man, it was hard for me to get through that story. The 679 00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:25.360 hold my beer and watched this. Sorry, if I rend today an insurance 680 00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:30.199 group guy, I gotta get him love because I was. It was hard. 681 00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:31.880 It was hard. I was laughing too hard. We had to file 682 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:37.519 an insurance claim on how many times we said their name wrong? Were tall 683 00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:42.800 story? How do you mess that up? I can see you putting a 684 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:47.639 you know, the wrong name. I don't know, but putting your high 685 00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:53.159 that eight foot something. Sorry, sorry, I love it, dude. 686 00:49:53.239 --> 00:50:00.800 That's sold and it's just, oh my gosh. Reminder, do not drink 687 00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:08.000 and drive. We always ask that you and vibe responsibly. And speaking of 688 00:50:08.039 --> 00:50:13.039 being responsible, I have a stunt beer liver in studio with me Harblight Bill 689 00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:17.360 and Bill's never had this beer. In fact, I'm a little surprised. 690 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:22.880 But then again I started walking around looking for this and I realized Alaskan Smoked 691 00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:28.480 Porter from Alaskan Brewing Company. This is the twenty twenty three edition annual release 692 00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:32.760 and this particular beer. James says that there's another one out there that's actually 693 00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:38.400 won more awards at the Beliefs Great American Beer Festival. Limited though I'm gonna, 694 00:50:38.559 --> 00:50:44.840 I'm gonna go, I'm gonna I'm gonna stick with what my if and 695 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:47.840 I would be happy to ad minutes, but I feel that there's a listener 696 00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:52.280 out there who knows let us know. But I think it's well here, 697 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.800 maybe it's one more gold medals and everything the other but in I don't know. 698 00:50:55.880 --> 00:51:00.840 But this is a six and a half percent smoked porter and the story 699 00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:02.320 behind this, and I'm going to add to our fun facts a little land 700 00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.159 yap is James likes to say. The brewery was next to a fish house 701 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:10.519 where they smoked fish, and they decided to do a deal where they traded 702 00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:15.639 fish for beer. And so they sat around and the brewers would give them 703 00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:19.039 beer and then the fishermen would give them fish. And then they thought, 704 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.039 well, what would happened if we smoked some of the malts and made a 705 00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:27.719 beer with it, and Alaska Smoked Porter was born. But I went to 706 00:51:27.760 --> 00:51:30.920 a beer store in Grand Rapids and just walking the shelves and you know, 707 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:35.679 walking the aisles and looking at the shelves, and there was one bottle of 708 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:39.239 this and I haven't found this this year. You can't find it either, 709 00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:44.719 Uh huh, No, you can't find like maybe in your market if you're 710 00:51:44.760 --> 00:51:46.920 out there, listeners, let us know, but this is not readily. 711 00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.159 And there was lawn bottle, I remember they were everywhere in the Texas market. 712 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:53.360 But yeah, you won't see it much anymore. And this is a 713 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:58.639 look at this. Remember these things. It's a bomber bottle, twenty two 714 00:51:58.679 --> 00:52:02.119 ounces. Yeah, those things. So there it is. That's the story 715 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:08.239 behind it and great beer. It's absolutely dominated by smoke, but it is 716 00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:12.719 not ashy. It doesn't taste like a campfire in your mouth. So that's 717 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:17.000 why I love this beer, very, very delicious. It absolutely lives up 718 00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:21.239 to all the hype. Bill's loving it so love it. Yeah, it's 719 00:52:21.320 --> 00:52:24.559 really good. So that's what we have here. So those are your tasting 720 00:52:24.559 --> 00:52:28.119 notes. If you don't like smoky, I'm gonna say this. If you 721 00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:32.320 don't like Scotch, avoid all costs because this is a smoky all right, 722 00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:36.599 James, I'm gonna give it. You want to talk, We got conservative 723 00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:40.559 Dad's ultra right beerd that's a I. It seems like they're been in the 724 00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:45.679 news of a lot lately, but now they come out with a special giveaway. 725 00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:50.679 I love this. Yes, it's one of those. If you're a 726 00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:52.480 seven year old diabetic who accidentally shut your eye out, what do you do 727 00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.760 for a living, Well, you balance stuff on your head, Well, 728 00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:00.159 like a two hundred and thirty five beer pints. Well, if you get 729 00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:04.320 an F beer rating from the Better Business Beer because you can't deliver beer that 730 00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.679 you promised, and you decide to upset the establishment with your anti woke beer. 731 00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:13.119 What do you do? Well, you get into the giveaway business and 732 00:53:13.159 --> 00:53:16.480 you start giving away more stuff, and well, uh, the anti woke 733 00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:22.320 beer Altra Right announcing a special giveaway after being told, hey, won't you 734 00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:27.280 tone down the politics and your ads? Well, I'm just gonna go ahead, 735 00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:31.159 and you know what, CEO of Aultra Right, Seth Weathers, put 736 00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:36.440 together a new ad and uh, well we're gonna go east bounding down. 737 00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:39.119 Will you hit cut number three? And uh, let's let the listen. 738 00:53:39.360 --> 00:53:43.800 So this is his response of this advertisement. This is his response for those 739 00:53:43.800 --> 00:53:47.800 telling that, hey, let's back off the politics. Yeah, politics out 740 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.039 cut three, please, here we go. It's been a wild ride since 741 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:58.760 I started conservative Dad's ultra right beer, and we're just getting started. So 742 00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:02.480 he's in a trans am for the IC Radio, obviously an old trans am. 743 00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:07.760 He's founded downstyle. We got back to the basics, great beer, 744 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:16.639 fun, patriotism, fast cars and beautiful real women and woke free. So 745 00:54:16.760 --> 00:54:21.000 now he's doing donuts in a parking lot. Donuts doing donuts in the car, 746 00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:22.960 doing donuts in a car. And he's got this, you know, 747 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:25.239 hot girl in the car with him and just doing donuts in the parking lot. 748 00:54:27.360 --> 00:54:30.039 But some people tell me he needs to tone down the politics and our 749 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:36.960 ads. So I'm making this ad just for them. Continues with the donuts, 750 00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:45.599 donuts, donuts, donuts, drink beer, do donuts. How's that 751 00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:52.119 for tones? So now they're doing an aerial shot. They do a bird's 752 00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:58.880 eye view of the donuts he just did. But wait, there's more. 753 00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:02.920 Assuming I don't I'm giving away my gas guzzling classic American muscle car. I 754 00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:07.519 can dot com I beat that, by the way, because they're not a 755 00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:16.360 sponsor. So the bird's eye view of the donuts he just read? Was 756 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:22.480 it said? Trump twenty twenty four? How's that for toning it down? 757 00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:27.400 That's right? You like tone? How's that for tone? So now he's, 758 00:55:27.760 --> 00:55:30.719 oh, you only tone down the politics, giving away his trans am 759 00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.639 that he just did donuts in no word of whether or not gonna they're gonna 760 00:55:34.679 --> 00:55:37.800 replace the tires on it or not. Uh now, right right now? 761 00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:43.079 And this is this is a this is a reproduction and uh is a reproduction. 762 00:55:43.199 --> 00:55:47.199 Build of the classic Smoky in the Bandit UH trans Am, the t 763 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:51.880 top that was used to make the classic beer run to haul cores light from 764 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:57.920 UH Texas to or Texarkana to UH Atlanta, and he's gonna give it away. 765 00:55:57.920 --> 00:55:59.960 I love how he says this. It's like, Okay, we're beer 766 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:05.719 company, and I'm sorry, I gotta segue here just real quick. We 767 00:56:05.719 --> 00:56:09.280 were in talks with an auto parts company and they were like, yeah, 768 00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:12.400 to sponsor the show. They were like, yeah, I'm not really sure 769 00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:16.519 we can associate with alcohol because we do a lot of racing sponsorships and we 770 00:56:16.559 --> 00:56:20.760 do a lot of other sponsorships with cars and driving. Not sure we can 771 00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.320 do that. This guy says, you know what, let's go drink some 772 00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:30.079 beer and do some donuts. WHOA yeah, And if you want to get 773 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:34.440 your chance to win this trans Am, good luck. There are six different 774 00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:38.280 ways that you can enter the giveaway, including uploading a photo of an unopened 775 00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:43.360 can good lug in your hands on the can, posting on X, making 776 00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:46.280 a purchase on their website, or signing up for a text message alerts. 777 00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:52.000 In. All six ways of registering and getting their chance to get this car 778 00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:54.920 har managed by the same marketing company that does Milkers. If you missed the 779 00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:59.800 website, mess the website. It's I'm giving away my gas. Guys like, 780 00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:07.360 that's an American muscle car. I can dot com again, not a 781 00:57:07.400 --> 00:57:10.599 sponsor, so uh, we're not going to give you the address. You 782 00:57:10.639 --> 00:57:13.880 know, you can figure it out on your own if you're that interested. 783 00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:15.480 I've just shocked. You know, we talked about this a little bit of 784 00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:19.719 controversy. It's like, okay, well you gotta know some have bin laden 785 00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:23.880 beer. You got a beer company that's promoting you know, you know, 786 00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:27.880 a little bit of fun in the muscle car. You know, increase your 787 00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:30.880 carbon footprint. I mean, I guess whatever you want to do. And 788 00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:35.559 uh, I don't I don't know. I don't know. I just if 789 00:57:35.559 --> 00:57:38.159 you get an F rating for the Better Business Bureau because you can't deliver the 790 00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:43.360 one thing that you're supposed to deliver, beer to the customers. If you 791 00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:47.039 win the car, no one's want Chad, no one's gonna win this car. 792 00:57:47.440 --> 00:57:51.639 It's just a gimmick. Now. If I'm if, if you win 793 00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.599 the car and prove me wrong, I love to be proven wrong. Free 794 00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:59.760 tickets to the Katie wild West Broof, It's on us man. You you 795 00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:01.880 you show us proof that you won that car. I'll give you tickets to 796 00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:06.039 the Katie Wallah. Yeah. The Ultra Right Beer announces a special giveaway in 797 00:58:06.039 --> 00:58:07.800 its latest ad, hitting back at the critics, saying, how's that for 798 00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:14.559 tone? After they were told down to tone down the politics. The guy 799 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:17.599 jumps in this trans am, does donuts and then showing that house is for 800 00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:22.039 tone, says Trump twenty twenty four. So there you go. It is 801 00:58:22.119 --> 00:58:30.559 every stereotype exacerbated so high, and he's just like, damn the consequences, 802 00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:34.519 Damn the image. I don't care. We've already got en f rating from 803 00:58:34.519 --> 00:58:37.920 the Better Business Bureau. Can't get any lower than that. Let's go rip, 804 00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.880 all right, we're gonna take a break. Coming up next segment. 805 00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:46.480 I sat down with the godfather of Texas craft beer, mister brock Wagner, 806 00:58:46.519 --> 00:58:52.039 to reflect on thirty years of Saint Arnold Brewing Company. It's a lot of 807 00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:54.119 interesting things to say. Don't you go anywhere. It's a great interview. 808 00:58:54.119 --> 00:58:58.360 You don't want to miss out stuff. We'll be right back. Beer is 809 00:58:58.440 --> 00:59:02.800 not the answer, but it does make you forget the question. So what 810 00:59:02.880 --> 00:59:08.760 was I saying, oh yeah, more What's on Tap Radio, Superior Pest 811 00:59:08.760 --> 00:59:15.079 Control of West Michigan, Superior Pest dot Biz. They are sponsors of the 812 00:59:15.119 --> 00:59:17.159 research department here at What's on Tap Radio making sure that we have all this 813 00:59:17.360 --> 00:59:22.599 awesome content. Give a call or reach out to them at Superior Pest dot 814 00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:35.280 Biz. I'm going to start this interview off my saying I've been looking forward 815 00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:37.840 to this interview for ten years. I like to welcome back to the radio 816 00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:44.039 program Brock Wagner, owner of Saint Arnold Brewing Company, which we coined the 817 00:59:44.199 --> 00:59:46.920 term years ago, and I still call you this the godfather of Texas craft 818 00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:50.840 beer. Yeah, well, thanks for having me back. Has it actually 819 00:59:50.880 --> 00:59:52.840 been ten years. No, it hasn't been ten years, But okay, 820 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.960 because we spoke during COVID and all that we talked about. You know, 821 00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.559 your business is now your pivoting and so forth. But it it's really about, 822 01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:04.440 you know, the twenty year mark and now the thirty year mark, 823 01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:07.199 a big milestone for st. Ramle Brewing Company. He was about to celebrate 824 01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:12.079 your thirtieth anniversary. And have you thought, have you got a chance to 825 01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.480 sit back and think to yourself, Well, thirty years been doing st Rale 826 01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:21.119 Brewing Company. So the funny part to me is like, I feel like 827 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:24.599 I had thought about ten year anniversary, twenty year anniversary, twenty five, 828 01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:30.320 thirty is until it was like coming up, it was like, wow, 829 01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:35.519 I actually never contemplated a thirtieth anniversary. You know, you start a business, 830 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.039 you know, started the brewery when I was twenty nine. When you're 831 01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:40.760 twenty nine, you do not think about thirty years from then. That is 832 01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:44.800 longer than you've been alive at that point. So what we're you thinking? 833 01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:47.400 What are you thinking? Five years, five, ten, You know, 834 01:00:47.480 --> 01:00:52.199 those were kind of the timetables. If I talked about twenty twenty was like 835 01:00:52.320 --> 01:01:00.159 this crazy future where people are are like driving flying cars kind of thing. 836 01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:05.880 So now thirty just was not a milestone that was on my radar. Now 837 01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:12.119 that we're here, I think, for one, it's pretty amazing. You 838 01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:15.719 know, I've it's been a great ride. You know, we have an 839 01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:23.119 amazing team that's helped us get here, and I am more excited about being 840 01:01:23.159 --> 01:01:28.920 here and doing this for another thirty years than I ever thought that I would 841 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:31.440 be. So now we're looking ahead to another thirty years. Yeah, Okay, 842 01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:37.559 I'll kind of want to I'll be well, I'll be eighty nine then, 843 01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:39.840 so still just kicking. Yeah, I do kind of want to go 844 01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:43.960 back to nineteen ninety four. If you wanted to jump into Delare and crank 845 01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:46.639 it up to eighty eight miles per hour and go back to nineteen ninety four, 846 01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:52.360 what advice would you give nineteen ninety four Brock. The first piece of 847 01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:55.360 advice I would have given nineteen ninety four Brock is don't open a bury in 848 01:01:55.440 --> 01:02:00.599 Texas with the laws as they existed in nineteen ninety four. That would have 849 01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:05.079 been the That was the biggest headwind that we had. I mean, it 850 01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:08.519 was a tough market. Nobody knew what craft beer was, but from just 851 01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:15.519 a pure business model, not being able to sell people beer at the brewery, 852 01:02:15.840 --> 01:02:20.719 not being able to sell people a six pack to take home, and 853 01:02:20.840 --> 01:02:25.360 that is most impactful for a startup brewery. You need the cash. You're 854 01:02:25.480 --> 01:02:30.400 trying to create experiences. I mean, we started doing the tour the very 855 01:02:30.480 --> 01:02:34.599 first Saturday we were open. That was critical for our business. We did 856 01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:37.880 that, you know, I'd led the tour every Saturday. I remember back 857 01:02:37.920 --> 01:02:42.679 when y'all were on was it forty third? Yeah, it was near thirty 858 01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:45.519 fourth Street. We were on Mitchell Dale, which was back near thirty fourth 859 01:02:45.519 --> 01:02:52.000 and two ninety and it was it was free. We gave the beer away 860 01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:57.360 for free. The very first parties that people held at the brewery were free. 861 01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:00.000 And then I think we started charging five dollars for a pint glass and 862 01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:06.320 that so we started charging. So what year do you think so we started 863 01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:09.480 nineteen ninety four, What year do you think we started charging for our tour? 864 01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:15.920 I would say two thousand three, two thousand and six. Oh okay, 865 01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:20.599 okay. We went for twelve years just to get a deer. It 866 01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:23.800 was free, which is a terrible business model, but it was important to 867 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:30.599 creating exposure and educating people and creating a culture where people went to breweries on 868 01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:35.440 Saturdays. They did not do that before. Now, when you talked about 869 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:37.559 the laws and all that, was it when you were building this brewery in 870 01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:40.039 nineteen ninety four. Was the laws not something you thought about when you were 871 01:03:40.199 --> 01:03:44.639 opening it? I was aware of it. To me, Houston was the 872 01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:47.639 largest city in the country that didn't have a microbrewery. I loved Houston, 873 01:03:49.320 --> 01:03:53.480 still love Houston, and I thought that the number of people here and sort 874 01:03:53.519 --> 01:04:00.960 of the wide open market was going to make up for that out five years 875 01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.079 in I remember looking around the country. It may have been it was a 876 01:04:03.119 --> 01:04:05.840 little later. I think it was probably about eight years in, looking around 877 01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:11.480 the country, feeling like we're doing so many things well, and I realized 878 01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:17.119 every brewery in the country that was larger than us was north of a line 879 01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:23.519 that you could basically draw just under the south side of San Francisco and draw 880 01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:26.119 it all the way around across the country. And it mainly had to do 881 01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:31.159 with laws. The only two the only two exceptions were Abida and Stone. 882 01:04:31.400 --> 01:04:34.320 If you're suiting in talking to brock Wagner, founder Saint arn A brewing company, 883 01:04:34.320 --> 01:04:38.559 talking about thirty years in business, wanted to sit you down kind of 884 01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:43.039 reflect on the past thirty years and what have been. Let's start with your 885 01:04:43.119 --> 01:04:45.039 highest what do you think your highest achievement something you look back on going wow, 886 01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:47.920 I can't believe I achieved that, or I got the opportunity to do 887 01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:54.480 that. I mean, there's that's a long list. I feel like, 888 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:58.280 uh, you know, the brewery, the campus that we have today with 889 01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:04.440 the beer garden, the team that we have that operates everything here. I 890 01:05:04.480 --> 01:05:09.719 feel like that is to me, the greatest accomplishment. And like I never 891 01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:14.880 imagined the beer garden and the operation next to the brewery and this great you 892 01:05:14.920 --> 01:05:18.920 know, the old historical brick building that we repurposed, this kind of cool, 893 01:05:19.079 --> 01:05:27.400 interesting right by downtown kind of brewery campus. But it took the law 894 01:05:27.519 --> 01:05:30.960 changing for us to be able to accomplish at least the beer garden part. 895 01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:34.519 All right, let me flip the question around. Now, what is something 896 01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:38.039 you look back on and you kind of regret, Maybe that wasn't the best 897 01:05:38.039 --> 01:05:40.840 decision that you've done. Maybe something you're like, I kind of wish I 898 01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:44.960 didn't do that. I don't feel like we have a ton of those. 899 01:05:45.039 --> 01:05:48.639 I mean, there's little things here and there. You know, we definitely 900 01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:55.119 did some experimenting to see we had an intellectual experiment to see could we go 901 01:05:55.599 --> 01:06:00.400 farther afield and sell our beer in Florida? And we did that at about 902 01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:06.760 nine years ago. We went we first researched the market about ten, ten 903 01:06:06.840 --> 01:06:11.639 or eleven years ago. When we first looked at it, there were five 904 01:06:11.719 --> 01:06:17.559 craft breweries in Florida, and when we opened the market like just over a 905 01:06:17.599 --> 01:06:23.880 year later, there were almost fifty. So all anybody wanted was what was 906 01:06:23.920 --> 01:06:27.719 local, and we kind of were slowly building the market, but it proved 907 01:06:27.679 --> 01:06:31.039 to us that what we really want to do is stay close to home and 908 01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:36.480 focus on Texas and Louisiana. And you know, ten years from now, 909 01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:41.639 I will be perfectly happy if we sell our beer in Texas and Louisiana, 910 01:06:42.159 --> 01:06:45.239 so staying kind of the the South area, Welf coast. Let's talk about 911 01:06:45.239 --> 01:06:48.920 the beers. You've had so many different beers come outs, and of course 912 01:06:48.920 --> 01:06:53.880 some beers discontinue because consumers aren't buying it. Is there one beer that you 913 01:06:54.599 --> 01:06:57.159 look back on and you go, man, I wish that beer was still 914 01:06:57.159 --> 01:07:00.880 in production, but it's not anymore. What's that beer that you? Oh? 915 01:07:01.159 --> 01:07:04.679 I mean we we definitely there's definitely some there. I have my list. 916 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:10.000 I mean I can go on and on. Bronto White Noise was so 917 01:07:10.199 --> 01:07:15.719 tasty. You know. The wit we had which we called comeback with Uh 918 01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:18.199 you know, it actually came out in a couple of different iterations. It 919 01:07:18.280 --> 01:07:25.320 was part of the Icon series, The Bishop Beryl number two Britanno Miacees, 920 01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:30.039 which again we've done that again. Is the Funky Christmas or we take Christmas 921 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:34.159 Ale put it into white wine barrels, put in it, you know, 922 01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:40.760 fifty pounds of cherries and then add some britannoiasses and then wait two and a 923 01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:44.639 half years and that kind of gives a little bit of sourness to it. 924 01:07:44.639 --> 01:07:48.719 It gives it more there. It definitely drops the pH but there's more sort 925 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:55.079 of funky, earthy flavors in there. And uh, you know, that's 926 01:07:55.119 --> 01:07:58.840 a beer that I wish I had every day, but it's you know, 927 01:07:58.880 --> 01:08:02.840 Amberil was still around and Amberhill is incredibly will World Beer Cup last year? 928 01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:08.239 Yeah, No, it's still going strong. It's actually up this year so 929 01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:15.119 nice. That's unusual for a beer kind of as quaint as that one, 930 01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:17.760 but it's still delicious. And so if that one had gone away, that 931 01:08:17.800 --> 01:08:21.399 would have been my answer. But fortunately that that one is still is still 932 01:08:21.479 --> 01:08:25.479 chugging along. Well, I got you bought two more minutes Brock Wagoners our 933 01:08:25.479 --> 01:08:29.119 guest founders center on a brewing company, reflecting on thirty years. What's next 934 01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:31.319 for you, Brock? I imagine eventually you'd probably want to hang it up, 935 01:08:31.319 --> 01:08:33.760 go fishing, maybe get an RV and toward the country. But what's 936 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:38.760 next for Brock Wagner. So I get asked a lot, what is my 937 01:08:38.920 --> 01:08:42.760 exits strategy? Maybe that, but yeah, like what are you looking for 938 01:08:42.880 --> 01:08:47.239 me? I look forward to doing this. I have thought about what else 939 01:08:47.239 --> 01:08:53.239 would I enjoy doing, and there is nothing I would rather do. And 940 01:08:53.479 --> 01:08:59.439 part of that is my life is made a lot easier because I have a 941 01:08:59.520 --> 01:09:03.560 really strong team here. You do have made so I get to do exactly 942 01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:08.439 what I like to do, and I like to focus on the strategic aspects, 943 01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:14.119 the beer development, some of the marketing kind of stuff. You know, 944 01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:18.199 those are things that really turned me on, and I love doing it. 945 01:09:18.359 --> 01:09:25.680 I love I'm still very much involved in the hiring process. I mean, 946 01:09:25.800 --> 01:09:29.479 I would say ninety percent of the positions I do the second interview. 947 01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:33.800 In fact, I have one right after this, and it is the most 948 01:09:33.800 --> 01:09:38.600 important thing that we do is hire people. So I still like this. 949 01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:43.920 You know, I wouldn't mind, you know, being away a week a 950 01:09:43.960 --> 01:09:49.279 month, but honestly, that's something that's achievable because my main role is strategic 951 01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:54.720 and you don't want to be doing strategy forty hours a week, fifty two 952 01:09:54.720 --> 01:09:58.760 weeks a year. It'll drive everybody crazy because you'll keep changing and you won't 953 01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:00.520 ever be achieving anything. There you go, brock Wagoner, owner of Santa 954 01:10:00.560 --> 01:10:03.199 Al Brewin Company, and be working until he's eighties years old. At the 955 01:10:03.199 --> 01:10:08.199 sixtieth anniversary. Can't wait to do that interview. But I want to congratulate 956 01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:11.079 you on thirty years and on behalf of everybody. And What's on Tap Radio 957 01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:14.319 keep kicking it and we're proud to see what you guys have done and see 958 01:10:14.359 --> 01:10:16.239 what you guys are going. Thanks so much, Keep up your good work. 959 01:10:16.279 --> 01:10:18.600 Tag Wagner's our guests, you have one. We're a segment. What's 960 01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.319 on Tap Redo, Hang with us. We'll be right back. The more 961 01:10:21.359 --> 01:10:28.159 you weigh, the harder you are to kidnap, stay safe, drink more 962 01:10:28.199 --> 01:10:34.159 beer. You've got What's on tap Radio? We don't thank our friends at 963 01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:38.600 Tantrik Brewing Company located in Alegant, Michigan, right there on the Kalamazoo River. 964 01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:41.880 Beautiful sites, beautiful beer, beautiful food, and uh yeah, you 965 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:44.760 see the beer logic guy in there hanging out. Stop by get a free 966 01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:46.279 What's on Tap Radio? High five, great beer, great times, great 967 01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:58.840 food. Locate an Alligant, Michigan, Tantrik Brewing Company. All right, 968 01:10:58.920 --> 01:11:01.640 last segment of What's on Time Radio for this week? For this week, 969 01:11:02.640 --> 01:11:05.319 Jack gets mad when I mentioned this, But I will tell you that we 970 01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:09.840 had to battle through some technical difficulties throughout the entire show, but we made 971 01:11:09.880 --> 01:11:13.119 it. We made it to the very end. I want to thank our 972 01:11:13.760 --> 01:11:19.079 good pal Brock Wagner celebrating thirty years of Saint Arnold Brewing Company. I also 973 01:11:19.159 --> 01:11:26.439 did an additional twenty five thirty minutes where we just talked and talked and talked, 974 01:11:26.880 --> 01:11:30.479 and I asked him questions about, you know, what's that one beer 975 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:34.680 that he's disappointed it's no longer in production, what's his what's he's proud of? 976 01:11:36.439 --> 01:11:40.239 You know, what's he want to do? I mean, what's his 977 01:11:40.520 --> 01:11:43.760 ultimate end game? Stuff like that. So make sure to catch up on 978 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:48.640 our podcast where we kind of expand more into the conversation. But this segment 979 01:11:48.720 --> 01:11:51.880 brought to you by our friends over at Tantric Brewing Company, which sponsors the 980 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:57.359 last segment What's on Tap Radio of the week. Tantrick Brewing Company located Alegan, 981 01:11:57.520 --> 01:12:01.840 my hometown. Go over there and like our Andrew did, Andrew showed 982 01:12:01.920 --> 01:12:05.239 up, he was in town. I know, there's your name drop, 983 01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:09.800 Uh lives in Wisconsin and he came down. We offered. We said, 984 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:13.359 hey, anybody willing to fly in from out of state, you you as 985 01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:15.880 long as we have tickets, you guys get him for free. And Andrew 986 01:12:15.880 --> 01:12:17.159 got on a plane, flew from Wisconsin, came down to the Katye Wall, 987 01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:20.640 West Broofest. We hooked him up VIP style, came in and hung 988 01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:25.640 out. We've been staying in touch with him. Great guy and really nice 989 01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:29.680 guy. Super and then uh, he's like, oh yeah, I'm going 990 01:12:29.680 --> 01:12:31.199 to West Michigan. And you know, just like we say, swing by 991 01:12:31.279 --> 01:12:33.600 Tantrick Brewing if you're ever in the air. He was in Grand Rapids, 992 01:12:33.640 --> 01:12:38.960 drove down to Allegan and he's like, where's Chad Pilbeam. I was refing 993 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:42.520 a soccer game. Turns out I was refing a soccer game nearby, and 994 01:12:42.560 --> 01:12:46.199 we met up at a local bar and had a couple of pints and had 995 01:12:46.199 --> 01:12:48.359 some food and so it was good to catch up with him. So he 996 01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:50.720 got a free and he got a free What's on Tap Radio High five. 997 01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:54.239 So I wasn't able to meet him over at Tantrick, but he did go 998 01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.800 over to Tantrick and posted a picture, So thanks for supporting those who support 999 01:12:58.960 --> 01:13:01.760 us. That's good. That's awesome. Let's work our social What's on tap 1000 01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:06.439 radio, Facebook, x, TikTok? Where else are we? MySpace? 1001 01:13:06.640 --> 01:13:11.279 Where else? Frins, Instagram, all over the place? What's on tap 1002 01:13:11.319 --> 01:13:14.680 radio, Gmail, dot com? Let's get ahold of us? But a 1003 01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:16.720 lot of great pictures. I took a brock and then yeah, make sure 1004 01:13:16.720 --> 01:13:19.520 to catch our podcast anywhere podcasts are found. I mean, our podcast is 1005 01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:24.920 found anywhere on every single podcast platform, thanks to our friends over at cast 1006 01:13:24.960 --> 01:13:29.880 branding you Space mytube. Yeah, I want to thank Superior pest Control for 1007 01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:32.600 sending the story over I like a good, feel good story, and this 1008 01:13:32.680 --> 01:13:34.760 is a good one. Out of Iowa, we talked about hold my Beer 1009 01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:39.000 and watched this was out of Iowa where this guy was his fake ID. 1010 01:13:39.159 --> 01:13:41.960 They knew it was fake because on his idea it said he was eight foot 1011 01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:45.760 tall, when in fact he was only five but eight. But Big Grove 1012 01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:48.119 Brewery, we'll give a shout out to Big Grove Brewery out in Iowa. 1013 01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:53.359 They're in the news after launching a new beer called Brighter Days to raise money 1014 01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:56.880 for mental health charity, and a portion of the proceeds are going to a 1015 01:13:56.920 --> 01:14:03.920 group called community like Community Crisis Services. And here is Julia Winter, she's 1016 01:14:03.960 --> 01:14:09.800 a director of development and Community Crisis Services talking about the special edition beer. 1017 01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:14.880 Let's I think it's cut five. So for us, our goal here is 1018 01:14:14.960 --> 01:14:18.640 really to just raise awareness for the services that are offered for our neighbors. 1019 01:14:18.960 --> 01:14:25.000 I think it's a great time of year's graduation weekend and this beer is launching 1020 01:14:25.039 --> 01:14:28.800 on May tenth, and we're just really grateful for the opportunity to get in 1021 01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:32.479 front of an audience that might not know about Community Crisis Services. It's Julia 1022 01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:38.159 Winter, director of development in Community Crisis Services, talking about the special edition 1023 01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:42.720 beer. And yeah, Big Growth Brewing out of Iowa launching a new beer 1024 01:14:42.720 --> 01:14:45.279 called Brighter Days to raise money for mental health charity. So I applaud that. 1025 01:14:45.359 --> 01:14:47.880 I like a good fiel good story like that, So I do too. 1026 01:14:48.039 --> 01:14:53.479 That's something that's it's really never discussed. It's a huge problem in this 1027 01:14:53.560 --> 01:14:59.479 country mental health awareness. It's funny politicians will talk about it the like we 1028 01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:01.920 need to addrest mental health and brewers say, you know what, how about 1029 01:15:01.960 --> 01:15:05.880 this will brew a beer and we'll give all the proceeds to actually doing the 1030 01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:10.760 research and then then the politicians say, way to go, Way to go, 1031 01:15:11.079 --> 01:15:14.760 And then everybody looks at the politicians say yeah, we did your job. 1032 01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:19.840 So thank you to the brewing industry. They find causes that politicians talk 1033 01:15:19.880 --> 01:15:25.159 about, and brewers just have a way of doing stuff. And by the 1034 01:15:25.199 --> 01:15:28.560 way, as a beer drinker, you're doing your part because when you buy 1035 01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:30.920 that beer, you're making sure they're successful. And they keep doing those causes. 1036 01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:34.560 So cool, way to go, very cool. All right. Next 1037 01:15:34.680 --> 01:15:41.119 next president has to have a brewer's license. That's it. That's a mandatory. 1038 01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:44.359 All right, Biden, sit down, Trump, take a back seat, 1039 01:15:44.399 --> 01:15:49.560 get out. All right, this story right here speaking, James asked 1040 01:15:49.600 --> 01:15:51.640 me. He says, we got to end on a feel good note. 1041 01:15:51.720 --> 01:15:54.800 Well, you kind of want to end on it feel good. It's what 1042 01:15:54.840 --> 01:16:00.119 we learned from Dave Ward along Marcaster in the Houston market that if it bleeds, 1043 01:16:00.159 --> 01:16:02.079 it leads, it's all in the news runs. But you want to 1044 01:16:02.439 --> 01:16:05.680 shut an assault that all leads, but you want to close out the show, 1045 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:10.880 close out the news with something that makes people feel good inside. All 1046 01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:14.560 right. So this story comes to us via email good friend of ours who 1047 01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:17.319 is a brew crew member over at the backyard grill, Philly. They came 1048 01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:20.520 northwest side of Houston. It is Billy the Kid. How'd you know because 1049 01:16:20.560 --> 01:16:24.359 Billy Kid emailed us in the beginning of the show asking us that we were 1050 01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:26.680 okay because we were all last week because he knew that we had storms to 1051 01:16:26.680 --> 01:16:30.520 come through our way, but we were okay, okay. It's actually Devin 1052 01:16:30.680 --> 01:16:33.960 Bealy. Oh, it is Devin, and we call him doctor Bealey. 1053 01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:39.479 That's right, doctor Bay and he is. He's on the Cookoff team out 1054 01:16:39.520 --> 01:16:45.640 there and a great friend and a avid beer drinker, loves his dark beers, 1055 01:16:45.760 --> 01:16:48.800 and big supporter of the BYG and What's on Tap Radio. So thank 1056 01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:54.720 you, doctor Baly. Devin Bealey sent this over to us. He says, 1057 01:16:54.720 --> 01:16:57.680 guys, I think you missed this story. I've heard you talk about 1058 01:16:57.880 --> 01:17:01.960 the people with the auto brewery syndrome, but I don't think you talked about 1059 01:17:01.960 --> 01:17:05.520 this story. And this story goes back a couple of years. It's a 1060 01:17:05.560 --> 01:17:10.600 couple of years old, but we missed this one. James, a Belgian 1061 01:17:10.640 --> 01:17:13.960 man, was pulled over two times in a single month in twenty twenty two 1062 01:17:14.279 --> 01:17:18.560 for failing a breathalyzer test. It was over the Belgian's legal limit, and 1063 01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:23.600 he was charged with drunk driving. How tall, however, how tall was 1064 01:17:23.640 --> 01:17:29.840 her height? Was the eight feet tall? No, no, he was 1065 01:17:29.920 --> 01:17:33.760 not. Actually he was four foot four, which led to why he only 1066 01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:38.119 had two ounces of beer and put him over a limit. No, none 1067 01:17:38.159 --> 01:17:41.079 of that. In case you're not familiar with the auto brewery syndrome, it 1068 01:17:41.159 --> 01:17:45.760 is a very rare condition, very very rare. In fact, rumor is 1069 01:17:45.760 --> 01:17:51.960 is that according to well, let's say rumor, but statistics say that there 1070 01:17:53.039 --> 01:17:56.079 are only like twenty people in the world with this condition. I mean, 1071 01:17:56.119 --> 01:18:00.880 it is so rare. But where your body takes all the carbohydrates and converts 1072 01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:04.520 it and ferments it in your stomach and the alcohol goes directly into your bloodstream. 1073 01:18:04.600 --> 01:18:10.439 So anytime you eat carbs, your your stomach is a working brewery and 1074 01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:15.079 you are getting drunk. And so he'd previously been hit with fines and had 1075 01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:18.479 his license suspended in twenty nineteen for drunk driving because he didn't realize he had 1076 01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:23.560 ABS. But they had three independent physicians test him, and now he's on 1077 01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:28.239 a low carb diet. And again, only twenty people in the world diagnosed 1078 01:18:28.279 --> 01:18:33.680 with this, and he was acquitted of all charges, Thank goodness, because 1079 01:18:33.800 --> 01:18:36.600 I mean the guy's just trying to, you know, drive home, and 1080 01:18:36.640 --> 01:18:40.880 he had no you know, no idea. Just it's not like he was, 1081 01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:45.119 you know, playing around with a gun at seven years old and took 1082 01:18:45.119 --> 01:18:47.000 his eye out. I mean, you know, at his own accidentally. 1083 01:18:47.279 --> 01:18:53.520 This is a guy who is just born that way and his stomach fermenting pushes 1084 01:18:53.640 --> 01:18:57.000 all ethanol levels above the legal limit, and so he has to be very 1085 01:18:57.039 --> 01:19:01.600 careful. And the twist about the story not only does it end on a 1086 01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:05.680 happy note where you know, the doctor's confirmed he had the condition, he 1087 01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:12.239 was released and without being charged. But ladies and gentlemen, what do you 1088 01:19:12.279 --> 01:19:15.960 want to guess? Take a wild guess of what he does for a living? 1089 01:19:16.000 --> 01:19:20.439 No, tell me, he's a brewer. He's a brewer. He 1090 01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:28.199 works at a brewery in Belgium. How's that for reny? And I want 1091 01:19:28.239 --> 01:19:33.800 to thank Devin Beely for sending that over a brewer in Belgium suffers. He's 1092 01:19:33.840 --> 01:19:39.119 one of the twenty people in the world who has an auto brewery system. 1093 01:19:39.359 --> 01:19:44.159 And by the way, syndrome and I have to ask this question. There 1094 01:19:44.239 --> 01:19:47.680 was a story we didn't get to this week where they're making beer from killer 1095 01:19:47.720 --> 01:19:53.880 bees in Africa. My question is this, who's going to be the first 1096 01:19:53.960 --> 01:19:58.119 one to make a beer from a brewer's stomach? Lining. Oh, that's 1097 01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:04.119 an odd They've made it from worst parts of the body. Close this show 1098 01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:10.520 out, okay, on that's this is made for the testis from someone's body. 1099 01:20:10.800 --> 01:20:14.880 All right, I'm gonna give a special shout out to a brock Wagner 1100 01:20:14.880 --> 01:20:17.399 saying our brewing company for stopping by the show. Go check out that interview 1101 01:20:17.439 --> 01:20:21.840 and then also check out our podcast where we did an additional minutes. 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