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 --> 00:00:12.160 distilleries, and wineries with top quality merchandise since twenty thirteen. If you're looking 4 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:15.359 for a way to promote and grow your brand, check out Cast Branding on 5 00:00:15.400 --> 00:00:19.039 Facebook, Instagram, and online at Cast Branding dot com, Cast Branding dot 6 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:25.239 com, Cash Brandy dot com. Enjoy the show. This is about to 7 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:29.600 be good radio. Oh yeah. To me, a craft brewer is much 8 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:34.079 more of a mindset. We just opened two camps spread the gospel of good 9 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:37.079 beer beer. Tons and tons of stuff going on in the beer world. 10 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:40.840 I love craft beer. I love different people's beers. It's the first favorite. 11 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:46.799 Cheers two old US beer geeks and those new to the craft. What's 12 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:54.039 on Tap High five? This is What's on Tap Radio beer and the culture 13 00:00:54.079 --> 00:01:06.280 that flows with it. Kears Beer Guru James Simpson and beer logics Chad Pilbet 14 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:08.760 start to show some bad news for all the potheads that are excited about going 15 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:14.000 to october Fest this year. It's coming up on today's episode, What's Up 16 00:01:14.760 --> 00:01:18.799 I'm doing? Hey Ben glad you're here with us. By the way, 17 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:21.719 bad news for all you potheads. By the way, I like how James 18 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:26.239 just labeled everybody who uses marijuana. Hey, pothead, guess what if you're 19 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:32.000 planning on going to Octoberfest. We've got an update, yeah, coming up 20 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.480 on this episode of What's on Tap Radio, Welcome to show. I'm James 21 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.840 as Chad. We've got coverlight Bill hanging out. Say hello, Bill, 22 00:01:38.719 --> 00:01:42.079 Hello, everyone. Glad you're with us. I'm glad that you are with 23 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:46.959 us as well. We got an action packed show. I got a beard 24 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:49.799 to crack. Chad's got a beer to crack. Bill's got a beard to 25 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.560 crack. I hope wherever you are safely have a beer to crack as well, 26 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.439 because we got a action pack of radio show on tap this week. 27 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.920 It's been quite the couple of weeks. Chad know, I need a beer. 28 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.400 I need to be here. There's been a lot of drama out there, 29 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:08.560 and uh, I don't even know how to It's not even drama, 30 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:14.639 it's it's excitement. I think it's got the makings of a good movie script. 31 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.919 Yeah, I mean it's Mother Nature and me. Yeah yeah, so 32 00:02:20.360 --> 00:02:25.120 yeah, imagine Twister the movie only without the really bad CG effects only. 33 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:30.520 Instead, it's got a guy sitting there drinking craft beer in Houston, Texas. 34 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:34.039 That would be It's not Bill, It's not Bill Packed and it's it's 35 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.240 me Berger James Simpson. But Sunday's Film Festival, here we come, James. 36 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.520 I got you said you got an idea for a podcast. I got 37 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:44.520 an idea for a movie. But before we do, we gotta start drinking 38 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:47.000 beers, because you know what, before we can come up with these million 39 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.280 dollar ideas, we h we need to have a beer. And before we 40 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:54.039 can have a million dollar idea, we got to thank all of our wonderful 41 00:02:54.039 --> 00:03:00.479 sponsors for the millions and millions of dollars. These are our investors. Yes, 42 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.879 they contribute to this program because it literally costs millions to put together a 43 00:03:05.919 --> 00:03:09.360 show of this quality. Seems that way. Without the sponsored we wouldn't be 44 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.080 here. That being Tantrik Brewing, Superior Pest Control, being a Logic conference 45 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.680 and events, we knowledge anag insurance group, the Backyard Grill, keeping the 46 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:17.960 lights on, Thank you, Harbor Light to Brewing, and of course sponsoring 47 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.360 our podcast cast, Brandingcast, branding dot Com and I am ready for a 48 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:25.199 beer. I know everybody else is as well. It's been quite the week. 49 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.479 It's been quite a couple of weeks, and it's been in a lot 50 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:32.800 of today again doing yard work because well I'll talk about that here in a 51 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.719 little bit. But I'm ready for a beer. Who's going first, Chad, 52 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:38.599 brought to the table. I'm gonna take I'm gonna take it. Brought 53 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:44.520 to table thanks to our friends over at the Backyard Grill. Yeah, that's 54 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:46.719 right now on the northwest side of Houston, the byg. Get there for 55 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:51.199 your crawfish, get your barbecue game on the grill, and of course over 56 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:54.759 one hundred different beers the Backyard Grill, dot Com and Harbor Light Bill. 57 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.639 He's got his hand on the can. Here, go ahead, Bok, 58 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.280 crack that thing open. We are gonna start things off. We were talking 59 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:05.840 about million dollar ideas well, I've got million dollar flavor right here. Oh 60 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.240 that's a good slogan. Oh yeah, well check this out. This here 61 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:18.160 from Upland Brewing Company, the former number one best selling beer in Indiana, 62 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:26.199 originally brewed in nineteen o two by Walter Brune and his sons, who are 63 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:30.120 all German immigrants. We have they know us. No, they don't know 64 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:38.279 us. But this is none other than the premium Pilsner Champagne Velvet, the 65 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:44.480 beer with the million dollar flavor. Whoa, I feel like Ted Dibiassi here. 66 00:04:44.519 --> 00:04:47.959 Now there's a reference right there by the way, Ted DIBIASI does not 67 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:53.879 know us at all. He does not, but should Yeah, I know 68 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.560 he should so and I just broke a rule. I don't know if you 69 00:04:56.600 --> 00:05:00.160 caught that, but oh well, but this is a beer that tastes like 70 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.959 beer. It's a pre prohibition style lagger, so it should have a nice 71 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:09.439 balance of corn and pilsner malt. And it is a crisp, very bright, 72 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:13.560 very carbonated lagger. I'm gonna take a swig here. Yeah, wonderful 73 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:17.680 white head and a really clean crisp flavor. And it has just a hint 74 00:05:17.720 --> 00:05:20.560 of residual sweetness. And yeah, it does. It tastes like beer flavored 75 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:29.839 beer pretty much tastes like every Oh, what's the every American beer existed from 76 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:39.399 nineteen oh two, from post prohibition to nineteen eighty four. Whenever Ken Grossman, 77 00:05:39.560 --> 00:05:42.439 now he does know us. There's a name drop, Ken Grossman, 78 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:46.800 a Sierra Nevada brood, Sierra Nevada pale Ale and after. But it's just 79 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:53.000 tastes like American light lagger. But it does have a little residual sweetness to 80 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:56.639 it. I think I'm drinking it more for two things. One nostalgia, 81 00:05:56.839 --> 00:06:00.680 just because it was one of the best selling beers in the country, uh, 82 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:04.279 circa nineteen oh two, and it says hits the beer with a million 83 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:06.920 dollar flavor on it, and I just wanted to see if that was true, 84 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:11.279 And well, does it tastes like a million dollars? Tastes like it 85 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.199 was like about seventy five cents for the can maybe a buck buck two ninety 86 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.319 eight, you know, I mean maybe you have to drink it fresh right 87 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:20.759 off the canning line to get that million dollar taste. That's what it is. 88 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:24.879 I think it's a little better than that. I mean, I think 89 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:30.279 that's worth about fourteen ninety five for a thirty pack. Okay, all right, 90 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:35.319 on our college listeners that are listening, like what yeah, speaking of 91 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:38.560 which, yeah, yeah, when we were drinking in college, We're going 92 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:41.279 to talk about a place we used to go. But James, quickly before 93 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:43.839 we have to go to break what did what did you bring? Listener suggestions 94 00:06:43.879 --> 00:06:46.600 slid in our DMS at What's on Tap Radio with this suggestion, and I 95 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.439 went for it because I like Shandyes, and this is a beer with a 96 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:54.680 twist from our friends over at Saint Arnold Brewing Company, their brand new spring 97 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:58.639 shandy, the Citrus Shandy beer with a twist, And this is a lemon 98 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:00.879 and grapefruit and I like shandies. I'm a big fan of shandies. I 99 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.439 know people out there are like, listen the big finish sandy because it's made 100 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:09.600 with soda, but I I love shandies. And this is in my What's 101 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:13.199 on Tap Radio glass which I only have like three of these, since we 102 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:15.959 don't have a glass maker anymore. So if this one breaks, I'm down 103 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:17.199 to two. And if those break, I don't have any more What's on 104 00:07:17.240 --> 00:07:20.879 Tap Radio water glasses, James, that's how math works. Yeah, if 105 00:07:20.879 --> 00:07:26.519 you have three and you lose three, you have none. James enjoying the 106 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:30.360 shandy. Taking the sip here from Santrald Brewing Company, very very rich, 107 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:35.560 grape fruit and lemon, and then citrus sandy comes to you at four points 108 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:41.800 something percent out four point four point five percent alcohol by volume, and that 109 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:44.680 is what I brought to the table the Santrald Citu sandy, which I'll talk 110 00:07:44.680 --> 00:07:46.680 about coming up. And then Chad kicked it off with the the Upland Brewing 111 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:50.759 Company remake of Champagne Velvet, the beer with a million dollar flavor five point 112 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:56.120 five percent pre prohibition Logger. That has been all right, James, thanks 113 00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.120 to our friends over at the backyard Grill. But we have got to take 114 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:03.040 our first break on TAPT this we got a lot going on, including the 115 00:08:03.079 --> 00:08:07.199 first I've ever heard of this a clear beer fest no weed at october Fest. 116 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:13.040 Brewer Association's got some numbers out and rip to the ginger man. All 117 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.519 this is so much more on tap this week. Hang with us for an 118 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:18.839 action pack show coming right up to the official What's on Tap Radio Fun Factor 119 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:20.240 of the Week. You don't want to missnounced this episode. I promise you 120 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:26.519 we'll be right back here at What's on Tap Radio. We know two types 121 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:31.399 of people, those you drink with and those that make you drink. Oh, 122 00:08:31.480 --> 00:08:39.440 your parents are coming for the weekend. Either way, we're drinking all 123 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:43.679 right. Everybody's got a beer. You gotta beer, I got a beer, 124 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:46.279 We got a beer. You know who else has beer the Backyard Grill 125 00:08:46.360 --> 00:08:50.639 on the northwest side of Houston. But when you're drinking, you want to 126 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:54.759 have something to eat too, So go get yourself some grub at the byg. 127 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.399 The menu is amazing. They've got all your Texas favorites like steaks, 128 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:03.039 the heat chops, and it's all grilled on a wood fired grill. Got 129 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:07.000 burgers, you got wraps. Hey, if you're vegetarian, they got salads, 130 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:13.279 they got soups, homemade dishes, and specialties like smoky the beer chicken. 131 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.080 Oh yeah, smoked chicken injected with local beer. Sounds delicious, right, 132 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.559 yeah, and don't forget the green beans. I know you're thinking, 133 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:22.519 wait a minute, is this guy just talking about all the grilled stuff and 134 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:26.159 you're gonna tell me to eat your veggies? Hey, mom said eat your 135 00:09:26.200 --> 00:09:30.320 veggies. Over one hundred different menu items, get the green beans. Trust 136 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.879 me, you won't regret it, and over one hundred different beers head out 137 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:35.600 to the Backyard Grill in the corner of Weston Jones Road on the northwest side 138 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:52.320 of Houston. Cheers. What's on Top Radio? The movie? So I 139 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:58.519 got an idea for a new podcast, Chad, I was thinking about this 140 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:03.840 the other day, we're pitching the movie script where craft beer drinker's house gets 141 00:10:03.879 --> 00:10:07.039 hit by a tornado. No, not that nomb and the only thing that 142 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:09.120 survives is is beer fridge because there's craft beer in it. I think we've 143 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.399 done a story like that before. That's a good story. There was the 144 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.960 one where the flood, the flood, that flood and then what was it? 145 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.559 Somebody was rescued by a floating cooler and inside the cooler was beer. 146 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.399 Right, Yeah, that was a pretty story. The idea that would make 147 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:28.639 it a good movie. But you got an idea for a podcast? What 148 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:31.080 chess pill at now? Or should I? Uh no, no, no, 149 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:33.639 you teased it. Let's go, man, I want to hear this 150 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.960 idea. I hear this million dollar idea. Well, it's not a million 151 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.840 dollar that's gonna get there one day. I didn't realize that, did you 152 00:10:39.919 --> 00:10:43.879 know? There's a puzzle championship or a competition where all these people get together 153 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:50.960 and they all start with the same box. It's like a maybe two thousand 154 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.759 puzzle pieces, right, and they're all sitting at tables and they're all on 155 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:58.679 teams, and they'll say ready, set go, and everybody will open the 156 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:03.000 box of puzzle pieces together and then see who puts the puzzle together the fastest, 157 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.559 and whoever puts together fastest wins. What if there's a podcast that did 158 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:11.320 a play by play of them putting in the pieces together. Okay, hold 159 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:15.759 on, James put that next to the other idea of the podcast of watching 160 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.720 paint dry. All right, folks, Yeah, he just finished up the 161 00:11:18.799 --> 00:11:24.360 last coat. We can save that as planned. B I'm just thinking how 162 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.200 fun it would be to do a play by play of Edna and Gladys and 163 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:33.240 Ruth, you know, putting these beautiful puzzle together and on the last edge 164 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:41.240 piece, on the last X page and Ruth's got together. No, okay, 165 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:45.919 if it's competitive, listen only if it's like full contact puzzle, full 166 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:50.440 full contest and there's better involved, so you have to Yeah, that's every 167 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:52.440 fifteen minutes you got to chug a beer and that makes putting the puzzle together 168 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:56.120 harder. And then yeah, full contact just just to straight putting a puzzle 169 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:00.240 together and do and somebody doing a play by play of it as a podcast. 170 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:03.759 Okay. Anyway, well, somebody, somebody said Napoleon Dynamite was a 171 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:07.519 dumb idea, and it turned out to be genius. So James, I 172 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:11.399 hope you make a million dollars with that idea. I also hope you find 173 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.720 a co host, because it's sure as hell is not going to be me. 174 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:16.840 I'll help you out, James. Thanks Bill, Bill, I'll knock 175 00:12:16.919 --> 00:12:20.039 yourself out. Also, Bill, find a new friend, because you're not 176 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.000 coming over anymore. All right, we want to take our friends from the 177 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:28.840 Backyard Grill on the northwest side of Houston for bringing us brought to the table 178 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:33.080 the first segment where James and I cracked open a beer, and Bill and 179 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.360 I went first with the Champagne velvet beer, the beer with a million dollar 180 00:12:39.360 --> 00:12:43.639 flavor, which I'm just gonna say is false advertising, but it did not 181 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.559 stop us. It was, as Bill said, very clean, crisp. 182 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:50.960 And also, here you go, it's gone. It's gone, so we're 183 00:12:50.960 --> 00:12:52.799 gonna have to crack open another beer here in just a second. But James, 184 00:12:54.200 --> 00:12:56.200 that's what we had. That was the at one point in time, 185 00:12:56.240 --> 00:13:00.480 the number one selling beer in Indiana circa nineteen oh two. It's a pre 186 00:13:00.559 --> 00:13:03.279 prohibition style lagger for those who don't know what that is, that is a 187 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:09.279 beer that has corn as a primary ingredient. In there, and a lot 188 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:11.600 of people say, oh, that's a cheap ingredient and it's gonna make it 189 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:16.320 taste different fundy, and that's how brewers corners. No, actually, that's 190 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:22.440 just it was an abundant grain that brewers used in the United States before prohibition, 191 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:26.600 and it carried over post prohibition, although a lot of them switch to 192 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:33.720 rice as well as barley. So this is quintessential American lagger, post colonial 193 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:37.320 times, pre prohibition times, and that's what we brought in. James. 194 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:43.320 You had. I had the Saint Arnold citrus, sandy, lemon and grapefruit. 195 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.360 It's a beer with a twist, and I put it in my what's 196 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.360 on tap radio glass, which I only have three left, and I'm you 197 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:50.000 know, that's it. If I what happens. If you lose one, 198 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.000 then I have two left? Okay? And then if you lose both of 199 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:56.440 those, then I have one left. No. No, if you lose 200 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:58.279 both of them, oh, then island then none left? None? Okay. 201 00:13:58.320 --> 00:14:01.279 Yeah, your wife's English teacher, not math. We had to help 202 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.639 you with the answer on that one. But that's okay. It's not a 203 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.159 testing week, James, that's next week. So this is just a just 204 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:09.600 a practice. I'm not doing a show on math. I'm doing a show 205 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:13.799 on puzzles. Okay, I'm puzzle podcast. All right. Let me tell 206 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.080 you what I got in this what's on tab rideo glass that I only have 207 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:18.960 three left. But it's a citer sandy. It's pale logger mixed with lemonade 208 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.240 and grapefruit soda. M hm m. The aroma presents itself with a citrus 209 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:28.360 burst of lemon and grapefruit. Slight floral note, chad and bill flavors of 210 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.399 lemon and grayefruit play perfectly with the subtle notes of light, refreshing beer. 211 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.159 And again, this is the citrus shandy at four point five percent alcohol by 212 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.399 volume. So if you like a good citrusy soda and mix with beer, 213 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:46.279 this is a good mix for you. Sat Arnold Brewing Company, some Texas. 214 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:48.120 Okay, well, James, I want to go ahead and take a 215 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.879 second here real quick, to crack open another beer, because that one went 216 00:14:50.919 --> 00:14:54.440 down. We talked about the beer with a million dollar flavor. We talked 217 00:14:54.440 --> 00:15:00.000 about your million dollar idea of puzzle making podcast play by play of a puzzle 218 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:01.159 competition. I'll send you the video. You'll see what I'm talking about. 219 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:03.879 Okay, this is a beer that I've had on the show before, but 220 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:09.000 since we were talking about a million dollar flavors, I always wanted to find 221 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:11.159 this and we have yet to find it, not even in a ballpark. 222 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:16.080 But I brought this to the show before from hoof Hearted Brewing company. That's 223 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:22.600 h Oof Hearted h A r t ed from Connecticut. It's hoof Arted Brewing. 224 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:28.960 The sixty dollars nachos. I've never had sixty dollars nachos, James, 225 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:31.919 Yeah, but I've had park here because that's how much nachos cost it the 226 00:15:31.919 --> 00:15:35.120 ballpark. This is a double IPA coming in at eight percent, and we're 227 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:37.679 gonna have some Bill and I have something else to drink. This is what 228 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:41.440 happens when you bring a stunt beer liver into studio with you. You can 229 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:45.759 go ahead and have extra beer and we'll talk about this beer a little bit 230 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.159 more. But James, you know what time it is. We have a 231 00:15:48.200 --> 00:15:52.039 contract in now. The official What's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the Week, 232 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.960 brought to you by Who's ever checked Clear This week, studies have shown 233 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.879 that this is why they tune into What's on Tap Radio and all I know 234 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.559 is if I had to try and read my copy through this beer, this 235 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:08.799 murky, cloudy milkshake of a beer, I don't think I would be able 236 00:16:08.840 --> 00:16:12.120 to read my copy. But all right, folks, ladies and gentlemen, 237 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.559 harbor Light. Bill in studio with me on stunt beer, Liver and Mike 238 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.320 number three over there. He he was telling me that whenever he feels a 239 00:16:22.360 --> 00:16:26.399 little too confident about himself, and he's feeling really good, and he's like, 240 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.879 yeah, I just need to throw all that out the window. He 241 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.759 hits the links, he hits the golf course. Nice. Yeah, he 242 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.440 paid for eighteen holes. When he got to the tenth and he hit a 243 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:41.000 T shot. How'd that T shot go? Bill? Well, kind of 244 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:42.799 puffed up a little bit, landed about thirty yards in front of me. 245 00:16:44.240 --> 00:16:45.919 I turned to the three guys that were waiting for me to play through, 246 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:49.559 and I just said, guys, mice will go ahead and play. I 247 00:16:49.639 --> 00:16:53.559 quit before I break something walked up. Of course, before he threw the 248 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:56.480 club at something, he's like, I'm out of here. That's it. 249 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.879 I know my limitations, man, I knew if I would have continued, 250 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:03.679 something would have got broken. I don't I disagree with you if I think 251 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:07.279 if you would persistent and optimistic, you could have completed those eighteen holes. 252 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.519 Uh yeah, Phil michle can sorry, Phil Michels can say that. I 253 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:17.160 can't. You can't say, Phil Michlelson. It's okay, I can't do 254 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:21.599 math. You can't talk. I mean whatever. Yeah, it's the sixty 255 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:25.480 dollars nachos in his mouth here. It's a double ipa from who farted? 256 00:17:25.759 --> 00:17:29.680 All right? Anyway, you will not find sixty dollars nachos on the golf 257 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:33.240 course at the at Augusta, at the Masters. In fact, the food 258 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:41.000 and concessions are notoriously inexpensive, from the dollar fifty cheese sandwiches to some of 259 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.480 the I think they had some wraps for a while that were going for three 260 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:48.480 dollars, but they did away with those. Beer is only five dollars, 261 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:53.839 and I mean everything is just notoriously inexpensive, but including the national beer, 262 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.319 I should say, the official beer of the Augusta National Golf Club there Crow's 263 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:03.079 Nest beer. But here is your official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of 264 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:07.200 the week. No one knows exactly who it is who makes the Crow's Nest 265 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:12.880 beer. When you ask anyone at Augusta National and anyone associated with the Masters, 266 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:19.119 they keep this a closely guarded secret. However, someone did some investigating 267 00:18:19.160 --> 00:18:22.160 for golf dot Com. No they're not a sponsor, but they did the 268 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:26.920 work, so let's give them credit. And they dug into it and they 269 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:33.200 found out that Terrapin Brewery is located just down the road, and Terrapin Brewery 270 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:40.599 is owned by Molsen Cores and Pete Cores is a member of Augustin National. 271 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:48.160 And the Crow's Nest pilsner style beer. Excuse me, excuse me. It's 272 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:53.440 a Belgian wit style beer, recently replaced Blue Moon Belgian Wits, so we 273 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.799 believe it is Blue Moon Belgian Wit with lemon peel instead of orange. So 274 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:00.119 you're official What's on Tap radio? The fun fact of the week is that 275 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:06.119 the Masters, the golf tournament at Augusta National, has many deep secrets and 276 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:10.440 people aren't willing to talk about, but most recently, the Crow's Nest beer. 277 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:14.519 You cannot find it anywhere except on the golf course and only during the 278 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.359 Masters, but no one knows who bruise it. And that is your official 279 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.039 What's on Tap Radio fun fact of the week. All right, we gotta 280 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:25.519 take a break. Coming up on this episode, we caught up with a 281 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:30.920 very very interesting man who knows a lot about the brewing industry and why a 282 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:33.720 lot of breweries are closing, and he's got a million dollar idea. Yes, 283 00:19:33.079 --> 00:19:36.079 all, this is so much more. Hang with us. We'll be 284 00:19:36.279 --> 00:19:42.480 right back because it's five o'clock somewhere, Live Life, every old and menanovits. 285 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:48.359 It's always time for those slackers of What's on Tap Radio. We want 286 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.799 to thank Superior Pest Control West Michigan for flooding our inbox with stories each and 287 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.480 every week. Proud sponsors of our research department, Superior Pest Control, you 288 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:00.559 can find them here in West Michigan at Superior Pest dot Biz. That's Superior 289 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:19.200 Pest dot Biz. Right, it's gonna open this segment by saying rest in 290 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:26.799 peace with the ginger Man. Talk about that here in a second. Yeah. 291 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:30.880 The way this Lemon and Grapefruit Citrus Shandy, it's a beer with a 292 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:33.799 twist from Central Brewing Company, brand new release. The way it's drinking. 293 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.279 I'm gonna have to open a beer pretty soon too, because it goes down 294 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:41.920 really, really really fast. Four point five percent now called by volume. 295 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:45.799 And this is the beer for people that don't like beer, you know, 296 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:48.519 those that are like I don't like beer, But give this in their hand, 297 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:52.799 they'll come around. They'll come around. Now if they only made an 298 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:55.319 I p A like that for a fire Marshal Matt, we could probably get 299 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:59.160 him to turn around on his no no it's no no, no, no 300 00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:03.440 no, So fire Marshall Matt talking about it. If it says ip A, 301 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:04.559 yeah, you gotta get a name drop in there. So thank you. 302 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:10.200 He is a good friend of the show, my former neighbor. But 303 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.240 he's a just been a friend of mine for over twenty years and we have 304 00:21:15.319 --> 00:21:18.079 yet to find an IPA he likes. In fact, I think even some 305 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.039 ip I think. I don't want to say that. We've given him a 306 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:23.799 beer. He's like, that's not bad. And then we told him it 307 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:29.759 was IPA. He's like, hate it. And I can't say he's ever 308 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.240 done that. Maybe he has. I can't say he hasn't either, but 309 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.119 he just he doesn't like him. But he has another thing too. It's 310 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.359 just and don't ask me why, but I'm gonna just tell you. It's 311 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:45.000 it's like he loves music. And we we we listen to a lot of 312 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:51.279 tunes, but if Journey comes on the radio, that channel's getting changed in 313 00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:56.640 a second and like zero hesitation. In fact, I think he's a big 314 00:21:56.680 --> 00:22:02.640 brown ale and porter guy. I think if there if Journey collaborated with a 315 00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:04.559 brewery to make a brown ale, he's not drinking it. I'm just going 316 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:07.279 out on a limb and saying that, So wow, what's that about. 317 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.200 It just doesn't like he doesn't like Journey music. It just it. It 318 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:12.759 just there's gotta be a reason. Just like Chatt, there was a period 319 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.559 I think. I think there was a period of time in his life where 320 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.319 it was just played too much and he got sick of it. I think 321 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.680 it was either a friend of his or somebody liked it way too much and 322 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:26.119 he's just like, I've had it, I'm done. Well. So no 323 00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:30.599 Steve Perry fan, I see all right, man. I actually I think 324 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:33.559 he might be okay with Steve. So if it's a solo project, you 325 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:41.279 know, Sherry Steve Perry solo songs, SHU gone all right. So I'm 326 00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:45.200 still working on this puzzle podcast where I do a play by play of somebody 327 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.079 putting a puzzle together. I thought that'd be a great idea for a podcast. 328 00:22:48.119 --> 00:22:53.240 But let me know, uh that if that's an event, they can 329 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:57.240 sell sixty dollars nachos at that event. I feel like they could. I 330 00:22:57.799 --> 00:23:03.000 mean that, I've never bought sixty dollars nachos o, I know, but 331 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:07.279 I want to now. But I've been to games where they sell like the 332 00:23:07.599 --> 00:23:12.240 giant helmet that comes with the nachos and you put like jalapenos and sour cream, 333 00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.839 and then if you don't want to do that, you can just drink 334 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:18.839 the beer that Chad's drinking, right. I like the artwork on this is 335 00:23:19.160 --> 00:23:23.839 fantastic because it's clearly a very wealthy woman and she's got this bling on her 336 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.279 hands, and then she's hitting the nacho cheese pump, you know, with 337 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:32.960 the gooey fake nacho cheese, and instead of cheese coming out, it's twenty 338 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.240 dollars bills and there's three of them coming out at once, So they got 339 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:41.039 sixty dollars man, So sixty dollars nachos right by the way. This beer, 340 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:44.880 I'm not a fan bill. Do you got any thoughts on this? 341 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:48.640 Because it's a double ipa, but it's a double hazy milkshake, lots of 342 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:53.319 lactose in it. It's very like vanilla milkshaky to me. And yeah, 343 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:59.240 they need to advertise it more as a hazy lactose IPA rather than just a 344 00:23:59.319 --> 00:24:03.720 double IPA. I don't love it, not hating it. But and by 345 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.119 the way, if I hated this beer, really really hated it, I 346 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.799 would explain why I wouldn't just say beer sucks. So we get it's a 347 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:15.200 hazy ipa. You tell me. Take a look there for our audience. 348 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:21.000 That's definitely hazy. Wow, that is definitely soul cloudy. So there's this 349 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.079 beer fest and we're gonna talk about it coming up called the Clear beer Fest, 350 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:29.640 the Clear Beer Fest, and that might be a beer that will not 351 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:33.039 be offered at that festival. We'll talk about that coming up. This would 352 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:34.960 not be there. No, I do want to talk about this. This 353 00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:41.160 really hurt man. The news broke a few weeks ago, but after three 354 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:48.319 glorious decades in business. That's thirty years for you who don't know. The 355 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:55.119 Rice Village staple known as the ginger Man that became a nationwide chain is no 356 00:24:55.279 --> 00:25:00.640 more. Recently, war crews transformed the ginger Man into a a pile of 357 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:06.079 wooden splinters, planks, tubes, and loose wiring. The Rice Village establishment 358 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:07.839 had it a close to three years earlier, which I'll talk about it in 359 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:12.880 a second, and it looked like New Stewart's Rice University figured grounding the ginger 360 00:25:12.880 --> 00:25:17.839 Man would be a better than just leaving it as a pile of rubbish. 361 00:25:18.200 --> 00:25:21.839 So if you're not familiar with the Gingerman, a New York native name Bob 362 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:26.640 Prescus opened the ginger Man in nineteen eighty five, and the Peterborough was a 363 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:33.160 noble forts rotating selection of imported and micro brewerysource bruise and like previous mentioned, 364 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:37.799 the ginger Man location in the Rice Village closed in the year that we will 365 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:42.319 not mention during the COVID nineteen pandemic. Yeah, during the pandemic. Yeah, 366 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:47.440 you couldn't get in there, and they were hit pretty hard. But 367 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:51.319 there was it morning Side, yeah, I believe so, Yeah, right 368 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:55.720 there at the corner of University in Morningside and in the Rice Village area of 369 00:25:55.799 --> 00:26:00.640 Houston. And the number of locations, so the original owner they sold that 370 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:04.440 location if I remember correctly, and then they moved I think to Baltimore something 371 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:07.880 like that. It was somewhere up north, and so there were two. 372 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.880 There were two locations, one in Houston and then one in the northeast, 373 00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:18.079 and then a couple of them popped up around Texas. One was in Austin. 374 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:22.920 I think there was one in San Antonio. No, was there one 375 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:23.319 in Austin? No, no, no, no, no, there were 376 00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:26.640 two. There were two in DFW. That's what it was. There were 377 00:26:26.640 --> 00:26:32.920 two in DFW. Yeah, so they were up there. Great beer bar, 378 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:36.880 excellent selection. The thing that I will remember the most though I know 379 00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:45.880 the ginger Man is the the international beer selection that they had. The international 380 00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:49.960 beer selection that they had at the ginger Man was fantastic. It was the 381 00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:52.920 first place you could go and get chem on draft. Oh I remember, 382 00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.160 Oh my god. It was so good. It's just sad to see it 383 00:26:56.359 --> 00:27:03.720 just being crumbled. And I know everybody, not everybody, but a good 384 00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:08.559 majority of craft beer and enthusiast that you know had the ginger Man had great 385 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:14.720 stories. I reached out to our buddy Chris Black. Chris Black former owner 386 00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:18.920 of the Falling Rock in Denver, Colorado, he worked at the ginger Man. 387 00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:22.960 I know our buddy Scott Birdwell has great history over there, and they 388 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.160 actually sent me a picture years ago when Chadnow were doing the show of The 389 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.559 Beer Hunter, Michael Jackson doing a cast tapping over there, and I want 390 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:36.000 to say after the cast tapping, they gave him a ride of Michael Jackson, 391 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.400 there was a story they gave him a ride to Austin. Yeah, 392 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:41.839 yeah, so, okay, yeah, I know a little bit about the 393 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:42.759 story. This is a great story. By the way, real quick, 394 00:27:42.799 --> 00:27:45.319 I'm sorry, I have to just do this because we're gonna have a listener 395 00:27:45.400 --> 00:27:49.200 do it. There was a second ginger Man location that did open in midtown 396 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:52.880 Houston. It was short lived. It was over on Gray Street, but 397 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.119 it was very short lived. It did not last very long at all. 398 00:27:56.240 --> 00:28:00.960 Okay, but yeah, Michael Jackson was doing The Beer Hunter, was doing 399 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:06.279 a cask tapping and they were sitting around and they were talking and talking with 400 00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:08.079 guests, and he wanted to sign all the books and he wanted to shake 401 00:28:08.119 --> 00:28:12.119 hands and take all the photos. And they kept telling it was Bev Blackwood 402 00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:18.880 and was it Chris black Yeah, and I it was Scott Burdwell not in 403 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.680 the mix. I can't remember. I don't know. Maybe it was Scott 404 00:28:21.720 --> 00:28:25.880 Birdwell, but I thought it was Bev Blackwood. And and these are these 405 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:30.519 are Houston beer icons who have written for different beer publications, o homebrew shops 406 00:28:30.680 --> 00:28:37.200 and basically got everybody in the greater Southeast Texas into beer. I mean, 407 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:41.599 these are guys who are just icons. Legends. Yes, but they were 408 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.240 like, hey, you're flying out of Austin and that's three hours away. 409 00:28:45.279 --> 00:28:48.720 He's like, nah, we'll be fine, Like no, you don't understand. 410 00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:51.200 And they they finally got him out of there, and they got in 411 00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:55.640 the car and they sped as fast as they could to get there, and 412 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.240 I think they had time to stop for a beer because they were traveling so 413 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:00.279 fast, so they stopped had a beer, and then they kept going. 414 00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.960 Got him to the airport and it was and I mean he hopped out, 415 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.799 ran ran through the terminal, and you know, he was on the plane 416 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:11.559 gone. And again I think it was Chris black and Birdwell or not Birdwell 417 00:29:11.680 --> 00:29:14.680 at Blackwood, Jeff Ben Blackwood, and they looked at each other it was 418 00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:18.319 like, well, now we got to drive home all the way back after 419 00:29:18.400 --> 00:29:22.599 hanging out with Michael Jackson the Beer Hunter for like eight hours, and and 420 00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:25.839 they didn't really get a chance say goodbye. It was like I gotta go 421 00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:33.119 buy see it. Okay, But so uh, that was that adventure. 422 00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:36.359 But that was a That's one of those things that you know, you hear 423 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.880 about, you hear these stories. But another another really good story about the 424 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:45.680 Ginger Man that I want to share is that a story about glassware. You 425 00:29:45.720 --> 00:29:52.079 could always get really good glassware, but people would brag about stealing glassware from 426 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.079 the Ginger Man because the glassware was so unique. And I gotta tell you, 427 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:03.039 I gotta tell you I I never stole a glass from the Ginger Man. 428 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.920 I never once stole a glass, but I know plenty of people who 429 00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:11.440 did, and they would have a separate shelf. They would have a separate 430 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.359 shelf just for the glasses that they stole from the ginger Man because the glasses 431 00:30:15.400 --> 00:30:18.960 were so cool, right, But I never stole glasses from there. So 432 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:25.480 there's there's my story. Yeah, sad to see the ginger Man demolished. 433 00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:27.039 Like I said, a lot of great stories out of there, including Saint 434 00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:32.119 Arnold Brewing Company of one of their first accounts, and uh yeah, just 435 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.079 sad to see it go. But rest in peace, ginger Man. All 436 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:37.160 right, we have got to take a break. Coming up, we got 437 00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.039 a great interview coming up next hour where I caught up with Kelly Meyer, 438 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:44.400 who has a lot of insight of what's going on in the brewing industry. 439 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:47.720 And also what's going on in the brewing industry. The Brewer Associations released some 440 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:51.480 annual craft brewing numbers we'll talk about and the Clear Beer Fest. All this 441 00:30:51.559 --> 00:30:53.440 is so much more. Hang with us. We'll be right back. Beer. 442 00:30:55.319 --> 00:31:00.319 It's like pouring smiles on your brain. What's on Tapper Radio continues, 443 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:17.880 All right, welcome back What's on Tap Radio? To get ahold of the 444 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:22.119 show. Number of ways to shout out to us on our social that's Instagram, 445 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:27.519 x, TikTok, Facebook, email the show What's on Tap Radio at 446 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:30.000 gmail dot com. We'd love to hear your stories. If you have a 447 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.279 great story hanging out over to the Ginger Man, I know that Chad and 448 00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:37.640 I have plenty of them since I hung out. That was my college hangout. 449 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.839 I remember hung out over at We started at two Rows. I had 450 00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:44.799 to go to two Roads, and this is in the Rice Village, which 451 00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:47.400 is next to the Rice University, which is University of Houston, which are 452 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:49.079 also attending. At the time, wasn't too far down the road, so 453 00:31:49.119 --> 00:31:52.880 we would go down to the Two Rows and then hang out there, have 454 00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.160 some beer, and then go down the road to Morningside where the Ginger Man 455 00:31:56.400 --> 00:32:00.400 was and of course have you know, good times. And that's the that's 456 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:07.839 the the genesis really of craft beer in uh in Houston. I mean, 457 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.160 I know, I know we were on in other markets and so you but 458 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.319 you have to appreciate Houston, to be very candid, Houston fourth largest city 459 00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:21.680 in the United States, huge, huge city and great beer scene now, 460 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:24.359 but they were so late. Oh right, yeah, they were behind the 461 00:32:24.359 --> 00:32:29.200 curve, way behind the curve. I mean, I mean, you know, 462 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:35.839 Michigan has eleven million people and Houston metro area has like what six million 463 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:38.160 people, Like the entire state of Michigan has eleven million. Michigan was just 464 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:44.759 kicking butt. And now you can't say that Houston's behind the curve or Texas 465 00:32:44.759 --> 00:32:46.799 is behind the curve anymore. I mean, they're so they're they're just doing 466 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:52.279 so many cool things. But back when they were there, I remember somebody 467 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:53.880 said you got to go to the ginger Man, and I couldn't find it. 468 00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:58.319 Oh really and they're no. You know why because you pull up and 469 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:01.319 you're like, well, okay, there's a here, there's an apartment building, 470 00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:06.839 there's a house, and then there's another bar. And I'm like where 471 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:08.440 is it and you're like, it's right there, dude, you're right on 472 00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:12.000 to I'm like, no, I see an apartment building, a bar, 473 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:16.200 a house, and another bar, and they're like, it's the house. 474 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:21.720 Yeah, it wasn't an old house. I mean like literally, there was 475 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:23.359 a fence that looked like a you know, the old white picket fence, 476 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:28.599 and there's a front porch and you just walk up. That's That's kind of 477 00:33:28.839 --> 00:33:31.200 the thing with the Rice Village. What was the name of the Hans beer 478 00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:36.400 House was like that too. Hans beer House was also a house. His 479 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.920 the name Hans beer House. Yeah, it was also a house at one 480 00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:42.160 time. But uh yeah, if you have a great story, we'd love 481 00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:44.960 to hear it. Love just love to read about it. Like I said, 482 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:47.799 reach out to us through our social or what's on tampoo at gmail dot 483 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:52.559 com. But Chad's jones enough the bit to crack a beer. Will it 484 00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:55.000 be a hazy beer? No? I don't. I don't think it's gonna 485 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.240 be hazy, but we're gonna slow down because I do have a stunt beer 486 00:33:59.279 --> 00:34:01.799 liver in studio. So we're cracking open the third one here. This one's 487 00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:08.280 from Evil Twin brewing company called even More Biscotti Break Now Harbor Light. Bill, 488 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:10.119 he's over there doing the research. By the way, this is a 489 00:34:10.199 --> 00:34:13.920 beer he brought. That's the reason he's sitting in a chair and not on 490 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:16.440 the floor because rules are rules. I didn't turn my phone off to start 491 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:20.400 the show. Oops. You don't crack a beer until the mics are hot, 492 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.920 and if you don't bring a beer, sit on the floor, right, 493 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:24.800 And well, Bill brought beer, So we're gonna go ahead and crack 494 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:27.679 this. So Bill, do you have any stats on this, anything you 495 00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:34.599 want to share? That's your cue? I know a big heavy stout twelve 496 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:38.199 twelve percent? Oh good, yeah, great browed with coffee, almond, 497 00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:42.920 a little vanilla. Evil Twin has a lot of beers, and then they 498 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:47.960 up their beers. Instead of like Imperial IPA or imperials, they call theirs 499 00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:54.480 even more so they have even more of their standard beers, load of beers. 500 00:34:54.840 --> 00:35:00.840 Language they have a bunch of beers called even More beers. So this 501 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:07.440 is their Piscatti break, but it's even more Piscatti break. Okay, Yeah, 502 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:09.800 they have the sweet Baby Jesus and then they have the even more sweet 503 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:15.360 baby Jesus. Yes, and by the way, get right with the watch 504 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:19.639 your mom. All right, here we go, moving on. But this 505 00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:25.800 is a big coffee beer. Yeah, dark black mochahead, sweet but not 506 00:35:27.360 --> 00:35:31.119 overpowering as far as sugary. A lot of adjuncts in there, you know, 507 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:35.639 adjuncts, you know, things that are giving you the residual sugars in 508 00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:40.320 also formentable sugars for other than the greens. So yeah, it's a fun 509 00:35:40.360 --> 00:35:43.599 beer at twelve percent. We'll see where this show goes. Now. I 510 00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:45.800 can't wait to see you what our number two sounds like for you guys, 511 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.400 I know we beep in once. All right. So this is the first 512 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:52.000 I've heard of this beer festival. And I'm not sure this could have been 513 00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.119 a beer festival going on for years, but this is the first I have 514 00:35:55.159 --> 00:35:59.840 heard about it. Thanks to our friends over at Superior Pest Control for sending 515 00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:02.000 this story our way. But this is an event that will appeal to folks 516 00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:07.639 who appreciate a less hazy approach to IPA and other hot Ford beer styles. 517 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:10.239 What is this, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Clear Beer Fest twenty 518 00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:15.800 twenty four, the Clear Beer Fest twenty twenty four. And this is happening 519 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.960 a five rights brewing company. And where is this I don't even know where 520 00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:22.719 to bill get on it. Think it's in Washington, Washington. And by 521 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.880 the way, when I heard Clear Beer Fest, first thing I thought was 522 00:36:25.880 --> 00:36:29.039 like, Miller Clear Beer. That's what I was thinking to, Like, 523 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:30.519 remember that clear pepsi they came out in the nineties, Like that's what the 524 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:34.800 thing is, just gonna look like water. Yeah, No, is everybody 525 00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.519 drinking vodka? No, they're just talking about those beers that you can see 526 00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:42.719 through. And yeah, but apparently there's gonna be a number of breweries. 527 00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.800 I'm looking at the lineup here. The lineup includes pale Als, IPA's Double, 528 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:51.039 IPA's, West Coast Pilsners, New Zealand Pilsners, and a very impressive 529 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:53.559 lineup. He got break Side in there. You have Flatline Brewing Company, 530 00:36:54.039 --> 00:37:00.480 Ghost Town Brewing, Radiant Beer Company, Russian River Brewing Company. You know 531 00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:02.760 who should be on this list that's not on it? Infamous, Yeah, 532 00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:09.119 Harbor Light. Yes, but but Bill not wasting an opportunity. Infamous brewing 533 00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:14.440 company in Austin, Texas. Oh, because I have a sticker on my 534 00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:19.599 beer fridge that says make IPAs clear again. I yes, Oh my gosh, 535 00:37:19.679 --> 00:37:22.599 dude. By the way, if you ever get to infamous, that's 536 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:25.719 that's a that's a cool place. Yeah, it is an Austin Texas. 537 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.920 Josh Horowitz, the man, the myth, the legend. Yeah. By 538 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:32.480 the way, if you if you see Josh Horowitz, and I can say 539 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:35.639 this, okay, by the way, if you have kids in the car, 540 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.800 kids, don't do this. Don't try this at home or anywhere else. 541 00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:44.000 But if you ever meet Josh Horowitz, give him the middle finger. 542 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:47.920 It's a absolutely. Just walk up to him and say, Josh boom. 543 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:52.280 Hit him with the bird, and he'll know he's like, dude, that's 544 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:53.760 a term of endearment for him. That's it. That's like giving a guy, 545 00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:58.000 giving the guy a hug. You'll know it's him because he's the guy 546 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.199 who's cussing with a cigar hanging out of his mouth and he's given you the 547 00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.719 finger. Yeah. Absolutely, if he likes you, he gives you the 548 00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:06.960 finger and I will back this up because another sticker, which I have right 549 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.719 right next to the make I Pas clear again, is an infamous middle finger 550 00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:14.519 sticker. Yep, that's true story he has He actually has stickers with the 551 00:38:14.559 --> 00:38:20.639 giant middle finger. Not kidding, true story. But yeah, So if 552 00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:22.599 you know you're one of those folks that hates those hazy I p as and 553 00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:28.320 you just you know can't stand them, head out to the Clear Beer Festival 554 00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:31.639 twenty four, which is that five Rice Brewing Company, is happening late April, 555 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:36.320 so the next couple of weeks. But at the brewery. Tickets are 556 00:38:36.360 --> 00:38:39.840 on sale wherever they sell tickets at tickets dot com or tickets dot com. 557 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.920 Clear Beer Fest tickets were Washington. That was talked about on Once on Top 558 00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:50.920 Radio dot com. And I want to take just a second here to go 559 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:55.920 ahead and also just just drop a little plug here in Allegan. We uh, 560 00:38:55.960 --> 00:39:00.000 we've got we got a pretty solid beer scene in the area. I 561 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:06.079 mean, everybody knows the Kalamazoo beer scene with bells and everything going on down 562 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:07.920 there. In fact of shout out to Larry who I had a beer with 563 00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.840 over at Tantrick Brewing Company the other night with who got me turned down to 564 00:39:12.920 --> 00:39:16.079 wax Wings. Of course, we're not very far from Grand Rapids Beer City, 565 00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:21.119 USA and Holland, home of New Holland Brewing Company, and of course 566 00:39:21.159 --> 00:39:24.519 Harbor Light Bill's down there in south Haven. But between south Haven and Alligan 567 00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:29.559 where I am there is quite a few breweries and in the outskirts of Kalamazoo 568 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:36.960 and they are putting together. I believe it's the third Alegan Craft Beer Fest. 569 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:40.320 On Saturday, June first at the Alligan County Fairgrounds is the twenty twenty 570 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.719 four Alligant Craft Beer Fest. I'm gonna be there. I know Harbor Light 571 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:47.400 Bill's gonna be there. He's gonna be there, porn beer, hanging out 572 00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:52.000 talking to people. Tantrik Brewing Company helps put us on. I want to 573 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:55.679 thank Tanya and Patrick from Tantrik Brewing Company who helped organize this. They are 574 00:39:55.679 --> 00:40:01.559 a big part of the economic development here in Alligan and supporting the Algin Fairgrounds 575 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:06.719 and the Algin beer scene and also the beer scene in southwest Michigan and so 576 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.159 lots of local breweries there. There's gonna be food trucks, live, live 577 00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:14.360 music and yeah free what's on tap radio? High fives if you can find 578 00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:17.039 me, but I will be there. I'll have a big giant size hat 579 00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:22.440 on. I guarantee yellow sunglasses probably yep, yellow sunglasses and a big giant 580 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.639 size hat. So that's the Aligan It's a L E G. A N 581 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:32.559 so ale again craft beer Fest Saturday June first, get your tickets. Just 582 00:40:32.599 --> 00:40:37.400 look up Algin or Alligan craft beer Fest. All right, we have got 583 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:38.519 to take a break. Coming up next hour, we're gonna catch up with 584 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:42.360 our longtime friend Kelly Myers. He's the host of How Not to Start a 585 00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:46.400 Dan Brewery. Great insight on what's going on in the brewing industry. Also, 586 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:50.840 we got the Brewer Association and release some craft brewing numbers and no we 587 00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:53.760 did Octoberfest. And if we can get to the story how some men lives 588 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:57.760 were saved by a case of beer. All this is so much more coming 589 00:40:57.840 --> 00:41:00.760 up next hour, including hold my beer and watch this misann ounce of it. 590 00:41:00.800 --> 00:41:05.039 We'll be right back. Beer. It's why we wake up every afternoon. 591 00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:08.960 Wakey, wakey, what's on test? What's on tap? This is 592 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:15.960 what's on tap radio? Hold my beer and watch this brought to you by 593 00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:19.239 your friends at Ringing All the ten Taking Insurance Group located in Grand Rapids, 594 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:35.760 Michigan and Holland along the Lake Shore RTI Grand Rapids RTI Grand Rapids dot Com. 595 00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.880 All right, have you logged on? I got your tickets at Clear 596 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:43.079 beer Fest, the first event I've ever heard of the beer festival that no 597 00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:47.840 hazy's allowed. They're discriminating. If there would be some guy outside the gate, 598 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:51.880 he's like, hey, you want the hazy stuff. I got it 599 00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:53.599 right here, man, I got it right here. I got you want 600 00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:58.039 the hazy stuff. And then some pothead's gonna come by and he's like, 601 00:41:58.079 --> 00:42:00.480 oh wait, I heard about that at October. Yeah, and you're like, 602 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:02.960 no, no, no, I got the other Hayes guy's got a 603 00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:08.719 jockey box out of his trumpet stuff. It's hard for me to crack a 604 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:12.519 beer. Welcome to our number two What's on Tap Radio if you missed the 605 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.559 first hour, and make sure to catch up on our podcast anywhere podcasts are 606 00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:17.320 found thanks to our friends over our cast branding. But a beer I can 607 00:42:17.400 --> 00:42:22.679 imagine probably not available at the Clear Beer Fest, which is happening very soon. 608 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:30.320 It's from Spindle Tap Brewering Company. This is the Gorilla Press Double IPA 609 00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:32.719 now I'm not sure if this is a hazy beer, but knowing the brewery 610 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:36.840 came from, I can imagine it probably is. So I'm gonna go ahead 611 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:38.639 and crack this port. Listen to my What's on Tap radio class? You're 612 00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:45.159 joking, right, yeah, I'm sorry, but Spindle Tap, I mean 613 00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:49.039 they're number one selling beer I think is called Houston Hayes. Oh look at 614 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.480 that. It is a hazy I want to know what gorilla press is. 615 00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:54.119 That's what I want to know. So there to go. This is yep, 616 00:42:54.239 --> 00:42:58.800 it is a very hazy beer. And this is at eight percent alcohol 617 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:00.639 by volume. And I'm gonna not dive into the specks of this. I'm 618 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:02.440 just gonna go and take a sip of it now. But let me go 619 00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:08.000 exclude this. Okay. So gorilla press is a military style throw that you 620 00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:12.800 do when professional wrestlings. Oh yeah, I mean that makes sense because if 621 00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:15.519 you look on the can, oh yeah right there, yeah, here it 622 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.639 is, you're lifting them up over your head like a military style press, 623 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.960 which is straight up over your shoulders, and then you just throw them into 624 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:30.559 a chair or table. Yeah yeah, see Bill has cable. So there 625 00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.440 you go gorilla press, and I will talk more about the specs of it. 626 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:36.920 But it's it's good. It's very good, and it does not drink 627 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:39.639 like an eight percent beer. And it's a very hazy double India pl from 628 00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:44.320 Simiddle tab Bering Company out of Houston, Texas. Again, our double I 629 00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:49.000 PA was a hazy two so again beers that would not be available at this 630 00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:53.280 Clear Beer Festival which is happening coming up. I wonder if you smuggled hazy 631 00:43:53.320 --> 00:43:59.039 beer into the Clear Beer Fest if they if they kick you out for you 632 00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:02.039 know, it's like that's you know, contraband they patch you down. They 633 00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:06.280 patch you down to see if you have like a growler or something of it, 634 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:07.599 or a crowlery, and you're why do you wear a trench coat? 635 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:13.880 It's very warm out here. It's a lagger really, he's got crowlers in 636 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:16.800 his jacket. Hey, come over here, manute what a different label over 637 00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:20.199 the top of it. It's not a hazy I just don't know how to 638 00:44:20.199 --> 00:44:23.199 brew. Okay, you got the haze. You got the haze. You 639 00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:28.039 got the haze. All right, hold my beer and watch this brought to 640 00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:31.559 you by the Ring Malda ten Hacen Insurance Group where they'll cover you for just 641 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:37.480 about everything except this. This is becoming a theme on the show. And 642 00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:38.880 you'll see what I'm talking about here in a second, but I'm gonna start 643 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:45.599 with this. Chances of this crime being reported one hundred percent. Okay, 644 00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:50.119 you want to guess what this took place? Uh Bill, bohy gotta be 645 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.960 Florida. Not Florida this week. It's our wait wait wait wait, it's 646 00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:57.119 it's our neighbors to the north. Oh in that case, in that case, 647 00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.679 uh, Rhode Island. If you see joh you said Canada, you 648 00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:05.000 said Canada. You're right, all right? Oh oh, so we got 649 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:07.920 we got crimes up there in Canada. Hey, oh that's just a beaute 650 00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.719 yay way north, well way up there north. Yeah, right, there 651 00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:14.199 were the plane hockey. So someone in Canada, you call, by the 652 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:17.719 way, I do you know where the trees are in Canada between the two's 653 00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:22.920 and de fours? Oh my gosh, okay, dude, all right, 654 00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:25.280 that's uh at. Don't put that bar soap back in his mouth for me. 655 00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:30.800 Yeah, I will, yeah, stop talking, okay again. Uh. 656 00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:34.360 Someone in Canada called the cops last week when they saw an impaired driver 657 00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:42.079 crashed through a sign that said report and paired Drivers. Does this story sound 658 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:45.920 familiar, Chad? It does because it doesn't seem too long ago where I 659 00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:51.000 did a story that happened in Alabama where a guy did the same damn thing 660 00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:55.199 into a sign. Then he then he crashed into like a don't drink and 661 00:45:55.280 --> 00:46:00.159 drive sign. Yes, and he and he wasn't in to poxicated the guy 662 00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:08.119 who signed in Alabama Canada Report Impaired Drivers. I know that you know what 663 00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:12.440 he did. He saved people time. He turned himself in. He's like, 664 00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:14.880 well, I guess I can't. By the way, they tell you 665 00:46:14.920 --> 00:46:19.280 not to use your phone while you're driving, I'm impaired. He's like, 666 00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.159 hey, look, I'm taking one for the team. Guys. But this 667 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:27.440 happened on a Thursday night on Vancouver Island, just across the border from Seattle. 668 00:46:28.199 --> 00:46:30.880 So they the people that call the cops, they said that they saw 669 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:36.079 a truck jump a curb onto the sidewalk and take out the sign. And 670 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:38.719 then you think the guy stopped and waited for the police to arrive. Oh 671 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:42.800 no, no, no, he definitely took off. He definitely took off. 672 00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:45.440 Police pulled the truck over nearby and thought it was the same guy, 673 00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:49.760 maybe because the front and right side of his truck was all dinted up. 674 00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:53.400 They eventually confirmed it was him after another officer showed up where they had pulled 675 00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:59.880 him over with the impaired driver's sign. Oh and also the guy's license plate. 676 00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:05.559 Turns out it fell off in the crash. Hey, wait a minute, 677 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.159 hold on a second, James, I got an idea for a podcast 678 00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:14.559 instead of watching people put puzzles together. This puzzle. This is a puzzle 679 00:47:14.639 --> 00:47:21.320 of license plate, sign, car parts, curb, piece it all together, 680 00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.559 dude, and we can do a podcast about that. They released a 681 00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:29.360 photo of the sign leaned up against his truck. No word on the charges 682 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:36.360 he's facing, but uh yeah, an impaired driver crashed into a report impaired 683 00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:42.039 driver's sign. Again this is becoming a theme of people taking out report and 684 00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:45.320 pair drivers because again I talked about this a few weeks ago for the hold 685 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:50.119 my Beer and watched this where this time this happened in Canada. But the 686 00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:54.199 last hold my Beer and watched this, this happened in Alabama where a man 687 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:59.599 intentionally crashed into it and to sign the sign said zero tolerance drugs and alcohol 688 00:47:59.679 --> 00:48:02.800 sign. That's what it was, yeah, a zero tolerance drug and alcohol 689 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:07.440 sign. That's happened in Alabama. But the story in Canada where he took 690 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:13.559 out report impaired drivers and this guy was actually impaired, but he doesn't say 691 00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:16.000 what they if they found any open containers or anything. But we don't know 692 00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:21.039 what he was drinking. They don't know he was drinking or what led him 693 00:48:21.039 --> 00:48:23.119 to do it. But yeah, he hopped a curb and took out a 694 00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:28.920 report impaired driver's sign. And this has been brought to you by our friends 695 00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:31.119 over at mean, not a take an insurance group where they all ensure you 696 00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:35.679 for lots and lots of things, could insure me for this roof that I'm 697 00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:37.599 about to have to replace because the storm I'm about to talk about, But 698 00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:44.119 not this guy who drove and ran into in a report and pair driver's sign. 699 00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:45.840 What is it? Is it becoming a theme, Chad? It's becoming 700 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:51.079 a theme. We're seeing a lot of those. Yeah, and I hope 701 00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:53.599 this isn't the last because I like to report to these stories. Yeah. 702 00:48:53.639 --> 00:48:55.519 Well, the thing is as long as they don't hurt anybody, well, 703 00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:58.840 yeah, as long as one's Yeah, as long as no one's injured. 704 00:48:59.199 --> 00:49:01.280 They we don't want you to get drunk and impaired and go say, hey, 705 00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:04.199 what can I crash into? I want to be on the show. 706 00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:06.679 Give us a call. We'll bring you on the show. Okay, we'll 707 00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:08.320 find a way to get you on the show. Just don't drink and drive. 708 00:49:08.360 --> 00:49:10.800 All right, James, we got to take a break, and when 709 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:15.880 we come back, I know we have an interview. Very interesting guy we 710 00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:19.480 got to talk to. Also, the Bruise Association has more numbers that we're 711 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.119 going to crack open. Some more beer that and so much more this what's 712 00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:27.599 on tap Radio. We'll be right back when someone says, hold my beer. 713 00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:34.400 You know a trip to the er is in your future, So hold 714 00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:37.440 your own beer, buddy, and just listen to more of what's on tap? 715 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:58.079 What's on tap radio? All right? I kind of flew over this 716 00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:05.039 mental tapery Grilla Press double I p A got a listener feedback. You got 717 00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:06.400 a hold of us, and they said, you know, we talk a 718 00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:07.519 lot about the beers that we brought the table kind of break them down. 719 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:10.440 But then then the second beardy that we bring, which is kind of skate 720 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.639 over it real quickly. So I kind of want to make good on this. 721 00:50:14.519 --> 00:50:17.320 Uh, the Spintle Tab Brewery Grilla Press. This is that a percent 722 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:23.440 alcohol by volume. It's an Imperial I p A and it's hazy brewed with 723 00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:30.360 heap viisen yeast m but uh, definitely get some banana notes on it. 724 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:39.440 Yeah, I'm just tasting this. Uh, banana notes, lime, definitely 725 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:44.519 some limes, some sweetberry, stone fruit, light, nutty malt character in 726 00:50:44.599 --> 00:50:52.000 it. Mm hmmm mmmm. Definitely get some rassle and moves out of it. 727 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.800 It's a tropical fruit cocktail. Again. This is the Grilla Press Double 728 00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:58.800 India Palel from Sin coming out of here. So did you just say you 729 00:50:58.880 --> 00:51:04.119 tasted wrastling move rattling note, Dude, James has Cable two. All right, 730 00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:09.159 that's out staying. Meanwhile, I'm sitting here at the Beer Logic World 731 00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:14.760 headquarters and Drinking Emporium and Harbor Light. Bill and I were sitting here and 732 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:16.639 we're nursing this beer a little bit. Bill, you brought it to the 733 00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:21.119 table or you brought it? Tell everybody what we're drinking. Yeah, even 734 00:51:21.199 --> 00:51:29.039 more. Biscottie Break from Evil twin twelve and a half percent stout brewed with 735 00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:34.800 coffee albond and vanilla. It holds a really nice, clean, dark head. 736 00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:39.679 But it's thick. It's brewed with a little bit seems like it's brewed 737 00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:45.159 with some blacktoase. Very heavy, thick beer. Not bad though, I'm 738 00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:49.400 enjoying it very much. I'm gonna say two things. One, as it 739 00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:52.800 warms up, the flavors really come together a lot better, and it's very 740 00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:57.000 delicious. I mean, it's like they were meant to be together. And 741 00:51:57.079 --> 00:52:00.679 second, good job not cussing that time. Good job. We stuffed a 742 00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:04.159 bar of soap down in his throat and when we took a break out after 743 00:52:04.280 --> 00:52:07.320 a first hour, so high here at what's on Tampa radio. Yeah, 744 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:13.400 he's comfortable. Let's talk about october Fest for a second. So october Fest, 745 00:52:13.440 --> 00:52:19.280 you can get drunk, but you can't get high. So the southern 746 00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:24.320 German state will ban any smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens 747 00:52:24.400 --> 00:52:28.639 or even at the october Fest, the world's most popular beer festival. So 748 00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:34.280 local authorities in Bavaria will be announcing the prohibiting cannabis consumption in public areas such 749 00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:37.360 as outdoor swimming pools and leisure parks, and their aim is to limit cannabis 750 00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:43.039 consumption in public spaces, said one of the health ministers. It's important for 751 00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.639 the health protection and especially for protecting children and young people. I don't get 752 00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:51.679 that. So people can smoke cigars cigarettes, but the weed can't do the 753 00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.360 weed. I don't know. Well, first of all, I know they 754 00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:01.760 don't let cigar cigarette smoking in the beer tents or anything like that, but 755 00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:06.039 it's the public areas, public area. I find it interesting. Yeah, 756 00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:10.239 So this this move comes after Germany legalized possession of small amounts of cannabis for 757 00:53:10.360 --> 00:53:15.920 recreational use over the country at the beginning of the month. Germany's nationwide law 758 00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:21.840 of allowing the legalization of cannabis went in an effect on April first, which 759 00:53:21.880 --> 00:53:23.519 is April Fool's Day, which is interesting. I'll picture a lot of people 760 00:53:23.559 --> 00:53:25.480 are like, ah, April Fools. No, no, no, no, 761 00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:30.760 it's actually really really think okay, but yeah, apparently legal possession for 762 00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.079 adults up to twenty five grams, which is nearly one ounce of marijuana for 763 00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:38.239 recreational purposes, and allowing individuals to grow up to three plants for their personal 764 00:53:38.360 --> 00:53:44.239 use. And then also a second part of the legislation. Under the legislation 765 00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:47.679 says. German residents age eighteen or older are allowed to join a nonprofit cannabis 766 00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:53.000 growing clubs which they can buy marijuana, which takes place in July. But 767 00:53:53.159 --> 00:54:00.320 if yeah, they legalized cannabis for you know, small amounts, small recreational 768 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:04.679 use. However, if you're planning on going out to Octoberfest, leave that 769 00:54:04.719 --> 00:54:08.559 pot at home, folks, leave that pot at home according to the new 770 00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:15.239 barbarian restrictions. So no weed, just beer because Bavaria bans smoking cannabis at 771 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:20.280 Octoberfest and beer gardens and swimming pools or any leisure of spots. I think 772 00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:23.599 it's funny that so you said that they just recently legalized it. Yeah, 773 00:54:23.639 --> 00:54:28.519 April first, which is right, Yeah, okay, all right, okay, 774 00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:32.079 if if you ever want proof that the government does not know what the 775 00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:37.320 hell they're doing, okay, James identified it. This is so good. 776 00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:40.039 All right, So on April first, we're gonna legalize weed. Okay, 777 00:54:40.039 --> 00:54:45.280 cool. What are we gonna do about Octoberfest? Oh yeah, all right, 778 00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.840 Well let's let's let's let's ban it. But let's say it's to protect 779 00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:52.199 the kids. Well, what about cigarettes and cigars? No, those have 780 00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:54.679 been legal forever No, I'm not talking about bann them. I mean, 781 00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:59.239 like, what about the kids. Nobody will ever ask that question. Have 782 00:54:59.280 --> 00:55:01.679 you ever listened to what's on tap radio? They'll ask the question. There's 783 00:55:01.760 --> 00:55:07.840 James bringing it up, finding a loophole in the idiocracy known as politics. 784 00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:09.360 Well, they probably you know, pitched this idea and like, oh yeah, 785 00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:13.679 I mean, what could be the problem? There's nothing, and all 786 00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.159 of a sudden they pass it. Right, Wait a minute, some's not 787 00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:20.039 right, some's not sitting right. You know, we have this one of 788 00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:25.119 the biggest beer festivals. That's right. People smoke pot now at October Fest. 789 00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:29.239 Damn it. Why didn't we think of that before? Yeah, that's 790 00:55:29.280 --> 00:55:30.480 it, you know what, Yeah, it must be big Wu Tang clan 791 00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:34.320 fans, you know, for the children, for the children. Absolutely, 792 00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:37.480 that's what they're thinking of. I don't get it though. You know, 793 00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:43.320 Cigars not a problem. Pipe's not a problem cigarettes, But the weed a 794 00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:45.400 weed. We gotta protect the children have that, it's right, get to 795 00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:50.440 watch out. Yeah, we can't have we can't have dad smoking and weed 796 00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:53.559 in the corner because you know, the kid gets second hand the kid, 797 00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:57.639 the eight year old kid gets second hand weed. The next thing you know 798 00:55:57.679 --> 00:56:00.360 he's smoking crack and shoot heroin. Yep, that's it. Yep. Gotta 799 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:07.679 protect the kids. Ye. All right, let's jump over to the Brewers 800 00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:15.000 Association. I'm getting out of the from smoking crack heroin. Let's talk about 801 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:20.000 production numbers out of the Bruis Association quick. That's right. According to the 802 00:56:20.000 --> 00:56:25.960 Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson, heroin production of brewers still at zero percent. 803 00:56:28.280 --> 00:56:30.920 Bill you guys brew you guys making a heroin a harbor light. No, 804 00:56:31.480 --> 00:56:34.800 all right, that's out of the question. All right, However, 805 00:56:34.840 --> 00:56:37.119 they are making beer. And I want to go ahead and give you a 806 00:56:37.159 --> 00:56:40.639 little update on the association, or rather on the industry, according to the 807 00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:45.199 association, which just recently did release numbers. And we want to thank our 808 00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:50.800 good buddy, Bart Watson, chief economists there at the Brewers Association trade association. 809 00:56:52.599 --> 00:56:55.039 Oh yeah, yeah, good guy, he's uh. But the Bruce 810 00:56:55.039 --> 00:57:00.519 Association trade association for craft brewers out of Boulder, Colorado, and only twenty 811 00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:06.719 three all in all craft brewers they increased. I couldn't believe this one, 812 00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:12.840 because we've we've been talking about how the market has gone flat, but craft 813 00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:17.960 brewers are up an overall number of breweries and twelve up eighty two breweries, 814 00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:25.599 and the number of breweries that have opened has decreased for the second straight year, 815 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:31.119 and the number of breweries that have closed have increased as well for the 816 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:37.639 second straight year. But we still have a net of seventy seven new breweries, 817 00:57:37.719 --> 00:57:40.880 so we are still seeing growth in the industry. However, this is 818 00:57:42.039 --> 00:57:46.639 interesting though. Overall production is down one percent, so that means there are 819 00:57:46.719 --> 00:57:50.920 more still more people compete. By the way, Bill close your years, 820 00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:53.360 I'm sorry, he owns two breweries here, folks. I'm sorry to bring 821 00:57:53.400 --> 00:57:58.199 this up, but there are more breweries competing for an even smaller market share. 822 00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.880 But overall beer consumption down five percent. But I want to go ahead 823 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:08.519 and hit the top brewers in the country. I want to mention New Glaris 824 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:12.320 honorable mention here at number eleven. I remember when they were like in the 825 00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:20.039 forties, Number eleven largest craft, number ten athletic brewing company. Okay, 826 00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:22.559 what's that. I'm surprised that's not higher on the list, but okay, 827 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:27.599 oh I'm not. They were like twenty last year and forty the year before 828 00:58:27.679 --> 00:58:30.880 that. The Canarchy group or Monster group. They're coming at number nine. 829 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:36.800 Then Brooklyn Artisonal Beverage Ventures. I'm not familiar with them till ray. They 830 00:58:36.800 --> 00:58:40.840 bought a lot of the Budweiser brands. Their number six Gambrinas, which is 831 00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:45.719 Shiner, is number five. Duval mort got basically the top four unchanged. 832 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:52.360 Dubal Mort got Sierra Nevada, Boston Beer Company, and Yingling. Saint Arnold 833 00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:58.159 came in at number forty one on the list, And just real quick, 834 00:58:58.320 --> 00:59:01.719 I want to mention the overall largest we're in the United States still Anheuser Busch. 835 00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:07.119 Still Molten Cores at number two. But I wanted to mention that Karen 836 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:13.000 Lyon coming in at number nine. They're the ones who bought New Belgian Brewing 837 00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.800 Company and Bell's Brewing Company, and the top craft brewery on the overall list, 838 00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:20.159 Boston Beer Company at number ten. Those are the numbers from the Bruises 839 00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:23.679 Association. Speaking of numbers, we're gonna catch up with Kelly meyerd. He's 840 00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:28.039 the host of How Not to Start a Dan Brewery podcast, and we're gonna 841 00:59:28.039 --> 00:59:30.840 talk about why we're seeing so many breweries closed, his thoughts on it, 842 00:59:31.239 --> 00:59:35.880 and his thoughts on breweries opening, and his advice to those breweries that are 843 00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:37.800 opening. All this is so much more. Hang with U is a great 844 00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:40.119 interview. You don't want to miss anounce. We'll be right back. This 845 00:59:40.320 --> 00:59:54.079 is What's on Tap Radio. All do I have a special treat for you 846 00:59:54.119 --> 00:59:59.559 guys. Welcome back to What's on Tap Radio? Joining me in studio. 847 00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:06.960 SA very special guest. A man who's had more jobs than I successful jobs. 848 01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:12.719 I think what you owned A successful jim then he sold his gym, 849 01:00:13.199 --> 01:00:16.639 opened a brewery. While he open he had a brewery, wrote a very 850 01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:23.320 successful book, then sold his brewery, started a very popular podcast. Let 851 01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:29.039 me reintroduce Kelly mother Meyer. Welcome back to the radio show. Welcome to 852 01:00:29.039 --> 01:00:30.440 studio. Ask my friend's been a while, and I'm so happy to be 853 01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:34.400 here. You have no idea it's been about what we said about two and 854 01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:37.119 a half years. Yeah, I think it had to have been at least 855 01:00:37.199 --> 01:00:40.079 it was like the summer of twenty one. Yeah, and I remember when 856 01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:44.119 you came on. I don't know if it was like a bittersweet day for 857 01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:50.559 you, but you had just sold the brewery. It was. There was 858 01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:53.920 a lot there, so yes, selling the brewery was a lot of emotions 859 01:00:54.239 --> 01:01:00.639 positive negative in the middle. Ultimately was a massive relief, and I was 860 01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:02.239 happy to be here that day. But I went through ups and downs for 861 01:01:02.280 --> 01:01:07.119 sure, Oh sure, roller coaster ride New Brothels Brewing that was the brewery 862 01:01:07.400 --> 01:01:10.039 was How long did you have New Brothels Brewing Nine and a half years? 863 01:01:10.079 --> 01:01:14.920 Nine and a half years. How has your life been since the day you 864 01:01:15.079 --> 01:01:19.280 sold and you got out of the industry. Well, so I did a 865 01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:22.519 I wrote an article kind of about that experience. And so the first company 866 01:01:22.519 --> 01:01:25.559 that I sold you mentioned the fitness centers, that was a seven figure exit. 867 01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:30.039 And when I sold the brewery, I sold it for eight percent of 868 01:01:30.079 --> 01:01:34.800 what I sold the fitness centers for and I was about twenty four times happier 869 01:01:34.920 --> 01:01:37.760 with the experience. Like it was just in the day after. I remember 870 01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:42.719 just driving around and listening to ska music. I had nothing to do, 871 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.000 and I was just at peace in a way that it had not been for 872 01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:49.280 years. And I don't want to say it's been a every day's been better 873 01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:51.719 than day before, and I'm not some idiot, but at the same time, 874 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.480 it has in a way like it's just the further away from ownership of 875 01:01:55.519 --> 01:01:59.559 a brewery, I get the happy aream to go back and drink a beer 876 01:02:00.159 --> 01:02:02.360 out with guys in the industry like you. It's just I can enjoy beer 877 01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:06.159 for the reason I got into it again, and that is beautiful for me. 878 01:02:06.199 --> 01:02:07.800 I really enjoy it. Is that what it was that you just weren't 879 01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:13.400 didn't have that drive, that fire anymore when you were just getting out. 880 01:02:14.199 --> 01:02:15.960 If you really at the end of the day, it was just a lack 881 01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:19.000 of profitability. It wasn't that I didn't like what I did. It wasn't 882 01:02:19.039 --> 01:02:22.639 that I didn't love the beer and the creation and the artistry that we made. 883 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:24.639 It was just that I couldn't find a way to turn that into enough 884 01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:29.119 money to keep the lights on consistently enough to keep my kids going to college. 885 01:02:29.719 --> 01:02:32.159 And that's people talk about burnout in the industry now a lot. It's 886 01:02:32.280 --> 01:02:37.079 kind of like this buzzword. It's not what it is. It's doing the 887 01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:39.960 same thing over and over for no pay. It doesn't matter what you're doing. 888 01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:43.960 If you're mowing yards and like you can't afford to pay the car payment 889 01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:46.000 to get the truck that you need to go mow yards with, it's stressful, 890 01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:50.280 right, And so that's ultimately what it was. I miss a lot 891 01:02:50.320 --> 01:02:52.639 of the art that I got to create. I still have some of the 892 01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:54.639 beers in my cellar. I don't miss that part of the industry. I 893 01:02:54.719 --> 01:02:59.559 just it's the business part, just the getting up and brewing, the whole 894 01:02:59.559 --> 01:03:02.760 production process, the daily grind. Yeah, but I mean those were fun, 895 01:03:02.840 --> 01:03:07.840 like it was kind of like a workout. And the brewing process itself, 896 01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:10.280 it's it's art artistry, but at the same time it's work and so 897 01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:14.719 on a big enough systems, it's not like when you have a two barrel 898 01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:17.039 thing and you're scooping grains out and spilling them on your toes like it was 899 01:03:17.079 --> 01:03:22.639 fun. But so I have missed that part in a way. But the 900 01:03:22.679 --> 01:03:25.320 fact that I haven't brewed a single drop since would probably argue that fact. 901 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:28.760 Maybe, So maybe I haven't missed as much as I think I did. 902 01:03:28.760 --> 01:03:30.840 All Right, we're a couple of minutes in. Let's go ahead and do 903 01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:34.559 this. I he just drove in. He's making the rounds, stopped my 904 01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:37.639 studios, and I told him, hey, you can whatever kind of beer 905 01:03:37.719 --> 01:03:39.800 you wanted. He went into Belgian quads, but unfortunately I was out, 906 01:03:40.280 --> 01:03:45.800 so instead I decided to do let's do something special. Since it's a special, 907 01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:49.239 you know, having you and studio. It's a nice pleasure. Brooklyn 908 01:03:49.239 --> 01:03:52.519 Brewing Limited or release black Ops. One pint of barreled age stout, it's 909 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:55.519 only twelve percent. Well that one's aged. And four roses barrels too. 910 01:03:55.800 --> 01:04:00.280 I've had black Ops. I've never had an age four roses barrels. Pour 911 01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:04.760 this in the what Chad Pilbum calls the mecha of all beer glasses, the 912 01:04:05.480 --> 01:04:10.440 Sam Adams. He says that it will cure a male pattern baldness if you 913 01:04:10.480 --> 01:04:12.719 creak out this glass, and it will do your taxes for you. He 914 01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:15.559 would know. Yeah, oh yeah, I mean he's him and I almost 915 01:04:15.599 --> 01:04:21.679 have the same kind of barber. Oh all right, oof, that's tasty. 916 01:04:23.239 --> 01:04:26.760 All right, got you in studio. Let's talk about you wrote a 917 01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:30.079 book called it How Not to Start. Well, I can't say the word 918 01:04:30.239 --> 01:04:33.559 brewery. But then you change. I guess you got your publicists like, 919 01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:38.000 hey, maybe you should x that word out. Well, the Amazon would 920 01:04:38.079 --> 01:04:40.639 let me publish it, but they wouldn't let me advertise it. Okay, 921 01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:43.039 so even they would, they didn't tell me that when I named it. 922 01:04:43.079 --> 01:04:45.639 So I changed the name because it gave it marketability, right, and there's 923 01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:48.760 an F word in there that it's not sec friendly. But then you kind 924 01:04:48.760 --> 01:04:54.320 of turn that book into a podcast, a very successful podcast, very entertaining 925 01:04:54.360 --> 01:04:58.239 podcast. It's called How Not to Start a Damn Brewery? Yep, and 926 01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:00.800 that's the name of the book now too. So so you've been going around 927 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:05.039 interviewing breweries from around the country, around the world. Now around the world. 928 01:05:05.159 --> 01:05:09.400 Yeah, okay, now around the world. And uh, what is 929 01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:14.960 the overall I guess mentality of brewers these days as you're going around talking to 930 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.800 them. Oh, there's a lot of defeatism. Okay, fortunately, what 931 01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:23.119 are you learning? And so keep in mind to you that I do occasionally 932 01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:27.480 interview breweries that are still open and or successful. I interviewed Dave at the 933 01:05:27.559 --> 01:05:30.519 Southern Star, for example. And but the primary focus is the interview breweris 934 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:33.000 that went out of business, to figure out what went wrong, and then 935 01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:38.159 ultimately to aggregate those stories together to find out if there are similarities that we 936 01:05:38.199 --> 01:05:41.800 can tie together. So in a way, I have a myopic view of 937 01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:44.440 failure. So keep that in mind that I don't I'm not talking to the 938 01:05:44.480 --> 01:05:48.559 CEO of Brooklyn. So yeah, Garrett Oliver yea. Now, if you 939 01:05:49.000 --> 01:05:51.920 Kelly Meyer shows up to my brewery, does that mean oh, no, 940 01:05:53.199 --> 01:05:56.440 something, he's looking at my numbers something, I'm doomed. What do you 941 01:05:56.519 --> 01:06:00.559 know? Man? Yeah, I've had some people like, or was actually 942 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:02.639 what was I'm not going I'm gonna butcher the story. I don't remember, 943 01:06:02.679 --> 01:06:08.159 but there were Oh. It was Tommy Arthur from Lost Abbey. He interviewed 944 01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:11.599 because his whole thing was he had grown down, so he had expanded to 945 01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:15.639 a point where the model didn't work and he had to restructure, retrench and 946 01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:16.840 he called it growing down, and so I wanted to have him on the 947 01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:20.079 show to talk about that. And I had told some people I was interviewing 948 01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:23.800 Tommy, and I got these messages off site. People were like, is 949 01:06:23.800 --> 01:06:25.719 he closing? What the hell? What's going on? Like no, no, 950 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:27.920 no, no, I'm sorry, sorry, sorry? What do you 951 01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:30.000 like? The grand reaper of the brewery industry don't be seen with Kelly? 952 01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:34.039 Yeah. What is it? The contributions to why breweries fails? Is it 953 01:06:34.039 --> 01:06:40.159 a bad beer, bad location, customer service, bad marketing. Why are 954 01:06:40.360 --> 01:06:43.360 we seeing a lot of breweries close these days? Well you may not want 955 01:06:43.400 --> 01:06:45.719 to know the answer to that, as a consumer. Some of what we 956 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:50.679 appreciate the most is actually what's worse for the industry. And so for example, 957 01:06:50.719 --> 01:06:55.679 scales and one of the number one and then right now it's twenty twenty 958 01:06:55.679 --> 01:06:59.119 two, I think less than it was. Seventy three percent of the breweries 959 01:06:59.239 --> 01:07:02.360 United States made lefts sent a thousand barrels and that model is just not profitable. 960 01:07:02.599 --> 01:07:06.440 It wasn't in the nineties, it hasn't been since, and unfortunately, 961 01:07:06.519 --> 01:07:11.199 there's too many breweries in the marketplace to be able to get enough of them 962 01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:14.760 over that thousand barrel hump. So that's a big problem. And then just 963 01:07:14.880 --> 01:07:19.000 rising costs and the fact that prices aren't matching those rising costs. Everybody knows 964 01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:21.199 during COVID everything went up right, right, you know, it didn't go 965 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:25.760 up the price of cans like or the price of cans at retail. So 966 01:07:25.800 --> 01:07:28.760 you go in the grocery store, ten bucks for a Pilsner six pack is 967 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:31.280 still kind of like, hmm, that's up there, But realistically that should 968 01:07:31.280 --> 01:07:33.679 be a thirteen dollars six pack. It needs to be based on costs and 969 01:07:33.719 --> 01:07:36.480 margins, and it's just it can't. But it's kind of nowadays. I 970 01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:40.360 mean you're seeing about two to three dollars more six pack than it was, 971 01:07:40.400 --> 01:07:42.880 you know, two years ago, three years ago. Then volumes are down. 972 01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:45.639 So what you find that out, Like there's this kind of threshold in 973 01:07:45.679 --> 01:07:47.360 there where the consumer won't pay it, but the brewer can't make money on 974 01:07:47.400 --> 01:07:50.480 it. So those are two big problems and you'll have to read the second 975 01:07:50.519 --> 01:07:53.800 book to find it all the rest of them, but that's one big part 976 01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:56.599 of it. Again, How not to start a Dan Brewery podcast? Kelly 977 01:07:56.599 --> 01:08:00.679 mars I guessed according to the text carw Brewers guill this is just breweries that 978 01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:04.000 are a part of the guild. There are seventy breweries in planning in Texas. 979 01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:09.559 What do they need to know to be successful? Like? What is 980 01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:14.559 maybe two big tips they need to know to be successful? So I would 981 01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:19.279 temper that with one sort of I guess off off business statement is that you 982 01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:21.880 need to define, first of all, what your definition of success is, 983 01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:27.960 because if your definition of success is to make money, you're not going to 984 01:08:28.039 --> 01:08:30.159 period. I'm sorry like that one of them might they might get lucky and 985 01:08:30.199 --> 01:08:33.520 be in a market in an area that has, you know, an anomalous 986 01:08:33.600 --> 01:08:36.880 situation. But I can promise you that as a rule, most of them 987 01:08:36.880 --> 01:08:41.159 won't make money, but that does not mean that they are not successful as 988 01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:44.039 long as you went into it knowing you're going to create. You've got someone 989 01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:46.960 who will fund the project, back the expenses. Do it, have fun, 990 01:08:47.039 --> 01:08:49.479 make create cool art. I want to drink it. I want you 991 01:08:49.520 --> 01:08:53.119 to make it, but you know at the end of the day, you're 992 01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:55.680 going to need to find a way to fund it. Okay, what defines 993 01:08:55.680 --> 01:08:59.159 a successful brewery today and how's it different from five to ten years ago. 994 01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:01.760 Think you get two choices. The number one thing that you really have to 995 01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:06.920 consider is that a successful brewery in twenty twenty four America is not what we 996 01:09:06.960 --> 01:09:11.159 would think of as a brewery. It is a bar or a restaurant, 997 01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:14.840 or a combination of both that happens to have beer. If you're leading with 998 01:09:14.920 --> 01:09:16.439 beer. If the number one thing that you put on your Instagram is the 999 01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:20.199 new IPA release with Strata hops versus what you have before, you're screwed. 1000 01:09:20.640 --> 01:09:26.000 You got to have more so you can be successful opening a brewer today. 1001 01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.359 I think you can. I think it's harder than it's ever been, and 1002 01:09:29.399 --> 01:09:32.039 I think it's going only going to get harder. But again, what I 1003 01:09:32.079 --> 01:09:35.279 say you can open a successful brewery. What I mean is you've got to 1004 01:09:35.319 --> 01:09:39.039 temper that. So if you want profitability, it's going to be slim. 1005 01:09:39.119 --> 01:09:41.359 You're going to need to work there. You're going to need to actually create 1006 01:09:41.399 --> 01:09:44.720 revenue with the position that you have and be very strategic to who you hire. 1007 01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:47.640 Kelly Myers, our guest, How not to start a Dan podcast? 1008 01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:51.720 How not to start a Dan brewery? How can people find it? Where 1009 01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:56.239 can people listen to it? So the book of the podcast, the podcast, 1010 01:09:56.319 --> 01:09:59.119 the podcast is on everywhere. It's Amazon, Apple, I've got it 1011 01:09:59.159 --> 01:10:00.199 shared it all over place if you should be able to google it if you 1012 01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:02.800 need to, and they'll they'll sendywhere you got to go in the book books 1013 01:10:02.800 --> 01:10:05.880 on Amazon exclusively right now. And then we just got a scoop that there's 1014 01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:09.319 a second book in the works. That was the whole point of the podcast. 1015 01:10:09.399 --> 01:10:12.119 I wanted to get to one hundred episodes, but I'm at seventy. 1016 01:10:12.199 --> 01:10:14.800 We'll see how long I made before I start writing the second book. All 1017 01:10:14.880 --> 01:10:16.439 right, Kelly Myers, our guest, make sure to check out his podcast. 1018 01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:20.720 His podcast is very entertaining and if you're a brewer. You know, 1019 01:10:20.720 --> 01:10:24.880 on a brewery you might learn something to be successful. Kelly mar thanks for 1020 01:10:24.880 --> 01:10:27.199 stopping by studios. Hi, thanks for having me appreciate it. This is 1021 01:10:27.279 --> 01:10:29.199 what's on tap radio. Hang with us. We got one more segment. 1022 01:10:29.239 --> 01:10:32.119 We'll be right back. And the teacher said, no, Bobby, there's 1023 01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:39.119 no such time as bureau clock. Fire that teacher. This is what's on 1024 01:10:39.199 --> 01:10:45.520 tap radio. We don't thank our friends at Tantrik Brewing Company located Alligan, 1025 01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:47.479 Michigan, right there on the Kalamazoo River. Beautiful sites, beautiful beer, 1026 01:10:47.479 --> 01:10:51.039 beautiful food. And yeah, you see the Buera logic guy in there hanging 1027 01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:54.560 out. Stop by, get a free what's on tap radio? High five? 1028 01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:57.399 Great beer, great times, great food. Located an alligant, Michigan, 1029 01:10:57.479 --> 01:11:08.239 Tantrik Brewing Company. All right, big shout out to our friend Kelly 1030 01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:13.560 Meyer stopped by the show How not to Start a Damn Brewery podcast. I 1031 01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:17.399 will tell you that we did the interview, we recorded it. That's why 1032 01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:21.479 Chad wasn't around during the interview because he was on assignment. But I will 1033 01:11:21.520 --> 01:11:26.119 tell you that after the interview was done, we went and enrolled for an 1034 01:11:26.159 --> 01:11:30.880 additional thirty minutes. That will be released coming up soon. And man, 1035 01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.920 did that boy have a lot to say, including his thoughts on some up 1036 01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:39.640 and coming breweries opening. I asked him about Buffalo by your Brewing Company, 1037 01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:42.880 Buffalo by your Brewing Company, and I asked him about his thoughts on them 1038 01:11:42.920 --> 01:11:45.880 closing, and he shared his thoughts. All this is so much more. 1039 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.840 There's a great, great interview coming up. Check out our Anywhere podcast or 1040 01:11:49.840 --> 01:11:55.199 found thanks to our friends over at Cast Branding. But this segment What's on 1041 01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:58.039 Tap Radio the last segment of the week, brought to you by our friends 1042 01:11:58.039 --> 01:12:03.279 over at Tantric Brewing Company. Yes, located in downtown Alligan and my hometown 1043 01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:09.079 brewery. I'm there probably too often. No, there's no such thing. 1044 01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:12.560 Support your local brewery. Get out there and if you're ever in the g 1045 01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:16.479 R area, you need to swing in to Tantric. It's only what thirty 1046 01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:20.199 five minutes outside of downtown And if you see me there free What's on Tap 1047 01:12:20.279 --> 01:12:25.279 Radio? High five great beers, great food, great scene. It's just 1048 01:12:25.359 --> 01:12:29.920 small time, small town vibe. Easy for me to say small town vibe, 1049 01:12:30.319 --> 01:12:33.680 but big beers and just great flavor. And I want to thank them 1050 01:12:33.800 --> 01:12:40.640 for continuing to support What's on tap Radio, And speaking of What's on Tape 1051 01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:45.520 radios show about beer, beer drinking, James talking about money and about putting 1052 01:12:45.520 --> 01:12:48.560 puzzles together. Remember that's my parent. Yeah, I'm gonna do a podcast. 1053 01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:51.199 You make a million dollars with that idea. But I'm gonna just tell 1054 01:12:51.199 --> 01:12:54.840 you right now. I think it's gonna taste more like Champagne Velvet, which 1055 01:12:54.920 --> 01:12:58.199 was the beer with a million dollar flavor, but tastes more like a dollar 1056 01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:02.520 fifty according to and then we tried the sixty dollars nachos. But James, 1057 01:13:03.119 --> 01:13:08.199 I have I had to do this. I saw Liberacchi on the label, 1058 01:13:08.680 --> 01:13:12.680 and I saw a bunch of nachos on a Steinway piano, and there it 1059 01:13:12.760 --> 01:13:18.439 is, dude Liberachi playing for nachos. James, I give you the Triple 1060 01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:24.039 India pale Al twelve percent, one hundred and twenty dollars nachos. They're twice 1061 01:13:24.119 --> 01:13:28.520 the price of sixty dollars nachos. They use. What kind of cheese? 1062 01:13:28.560 --> 01:13:31.520 It must be some really really really fancy French cheese or something. This is 1063 01:13:31.600 --> 01:13:36.560 from who farted? I mean sorry, hoof Hearted. Hoof Hearted Brewery out 1064 01:13:36.560 --> 01:13:41.800 of Connecticut, which by the way, we're staying with Connecticut beers here because 1065 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:45.760 we had Evil Twin beer and that's Connecticut, and so now we've got who 1066 01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:49.840 Farted Connecticut beer. We've got Evil Twins, so and this is gonna be 1067 01:13:49.840 --> 01:13:53.319 another hazy Let me take a quick sip and tell you what I think here. 1068 01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:57.399 But it is oh whoa, whoa, it's chunky. Look, we 1069 01:13:57.479 --> 01:14:00.359 got the yeast in there to Okay, what are you getting out of that? 1070 01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:02.960 Chat? As he drinks it from his Boston lager? Like that a 1071 01:14:02.960 --> 01:14:05.800 lot better than sixty dollars. Like I like that twice as much as the 1072 01:14:05.840 --> 01:14:09.479 sixty. I like one hundred and twenty dollars Najos twice as much as I 1073 01:14:09.520 --> 01:14:13.880 like the sixty dollars Najos. So yeah, pretty, Actually this tastes more 1074 01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:16.199 like a hazy ipa and has less sweetness to it. I like it, 1075 01:14:16.279 --> 01:14:19.960 all right, So that's what we have. Thank you who Fearted for making 1076 01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:25.760 me laugh and also making these wonderful beers. All right. Gotta to get 1077 01:14:25.800 --> 01:14:28.479 a couple of stories in before we get out of here for the week. 1078 01:14:29.159 --> 01:14:33.760 But I like a good field good story, and this story is how a 1079 01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:39.680 case of beer saved some men's Lives. But if you didn't know this, 1080 01:14:39.760 --> 01:14:42.279 I hadn't really talked about it on the show at all, whatsoever. I've 1081 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:45.359 been talking about how I've been doing a lot of yard work, doing a 1082 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:47.840 lot of yard work because my house was hit by a tornado last week. 1083 01:14:48.239 --> 01:14:53.359 A tornado ripped through Katie, Texas, where I live, where I broadcast 1084 01:14:53.359 --> 01:14:57.960 studios, and my house was hit. Luckily, no one was injured, 1085 01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:00.840 minimum damage. I will talk about what happened, because yeah, we're okay. 1086 01:15:01.640 --> 01:15:08.199 But apparently what happened this tornado touchdown I about a mile from my house 1087 01:15:08.680 --> 01:15:14.319 and a parking lot of a bar called the Bourbon Street Sports Bar shortly around 1088 01:15:14.319 --> 01:15:19.520 three am one Wednesday morning, where five employees were in the bar, but 1089 01:15:19.800 --> 01:15:26.079 luckily, luckily, no one was injured. Luckily it was no one customers 1090 01:15:26.079 --> 01:15:28.680 were injured because it was after three am and you know, they were already 1091 01:15:28.720 --> 01:15:30.960 closed. But yeah, all five workers were in the back of the building 1092 01:15:31.039 --> 01:15:36.079 when the tornado destroyed the front of the building. So people of faith would 1093 01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:39.880 call it a miracle. Others would say it's a lucky coincidence. But the 1094 01:15:39.920 --> 01:15:43.039 tornadoes did suck in front of the building, so the front of the building 1095 01:15:43.079 --> 01:15:46.239 got all destroyed, but luckily the men were not injured because they were in 1096 01:15:46.319 --> 01:15:53.039 the back of the bar cleaning up a broken case of beer bottles. So, 1097 01:15:53.079 --> 01:15:56.479 according to the owner of the bar, the bar back dropped a case 1098 01:15:56.479 --> 01:16:00.159 of beer in the back corner and everybody was helping clean up. An employees 1099 01:16:00.199 --> 01:16:03.640 called around two forty nine am saying, in a tornado, I'd sucked the 1100 01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:09.199 front wall of the bar into the parking lot. But luckily all five men 1101 01:16:09.319 --> 01:16:13.960 were physically okay. Also, additionally, the tables, chairs, pool tables 1102 01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:16.800 in the front of the bar were wet, dirty, but otherwise unscathed. 1103 01:16:17.439 --> 01:16:20.760 But yeah, saved by a case of beer, all because they were cleaning 1104 01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:24.800 up glass that they They weren't in the front, because there could have been 1105 01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:28.359 somebody in the front maybe mopping or you know, cleaning up in the tables 1106 01:16:28.439 --> 01:16:30.560 or something. But yeah, they were on the back clean up this mess 1107 01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:34.880 when a tornado ripped the front of the building off. This is going to 1108 01:16:34.920 --> 01:16:40.279 be a side plot or just like a side like a side shot in the 1109 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:43.560 movie that we produce. We just got to come up with a good name 1110 01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:51.279 for about a tornado that goes through West Houston and a craft brewer who does 1111 01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:57.800 a podcast, right, a podcast puzzle ber who does podcast and does does 1112 01:16:57.840 --> 01:17:01.079 two podcasts, one about old ladies put and puzzles together and one about beer. 1113 01:17:01.680 --> 01:17:04.239 By the way. One lasted one episode and the other one last has 1114 01:17:04.279 --> 01:17:08.039 been on for over ten years. I'll let you figure out which one's which. 1115 01:17:08.600 --> 01:17:14.600 And the only reason he and his family survive is because people need to 1116 01:17:14.640 --> 01:17:17.159 eat his wife's food and he has a beer fridge. And that's it, 1117 01:17:17.399 --> 01:17:20.279 because you got to have the food connection too, because not everybody drinks beer, 1118 01:17:20.319 --> 01:17:25.439 so you can't make it about just beer. Meanwhile, you're gonna look 1119 01:17:25.479 --> 01:17:28.720 and off you know screen, right, there's gonna be five guys who are 1120 01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:33.319 saying, thank goodness for that broken case of beer. We're alive all because 1121 01:17:33.319 --> 01:17:40.039 of that case of beer. Bourbon Street Sports Bar in Katie, Texas was 1122 01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:44.359 just the front was destroyed, although everybody was safe because they were out in 1123 01:17:44.399 --> 01:17:46.640 the back cleaning up case of beer that I dropped. But yeah, so 1124 01:17:46.720 --> 01:17:50.600 this tornado touchdown. This bar is about a mile from my house, and 1125 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:59.000 the winds from this tornado flew through my neighborhood and I had this giant pine 1126 01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:01.760 tree in my front yard. Saw the picture it's probably about one hundred and 1127 01:18:01.800 --> 01:18:10.920 something feet and the way the winds pushed the tree, the tree fell not 1128 01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:15.279 onto my home but into the street. No cars wouldn't hit your car either. 1129 01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:20.680 No cars were damaged. My house wasn't damaged. Luckily. It was 1130 01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:23.760 late at night. Like I said, it was about three in the morning 1131 01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:28.680 when the storm went through, and nobody was on the road. But yeah, 1132 01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:31.239 I woke up the next morning and I knew this storm had come through. 1133 01:18:31.279 --> 01:18:33.479 It was very loud, and it woke the kids up. The kids 1134 01:18:33.479 --> 01:18:36.279 were all terrified. It was a light show. We lost power on three 1135 01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:40.039 AM, so we didn't have any power. So I get up and I 1136 01:18:40.039 --> 01:18:42.920 look in my driveway and I realized, oh, there's a giant branch in 1137 01:18:42.960 --> 01:18:45.119 my driveway. I need to go out and clear that because my wife and 1138 01:18:45.159 --> 01:18:48.439 I had to go to work. So I go out there and it was 1139 01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:51.720 very dark, and so I put my flashlight on to realize it's not a 1140 01:18:51.760 --> 01:18:57.079 branch in my driveway. No, it's a whole ass tree. My whole 1141 01:18:57.159 --> 01:19:00.399 ass pine tree was in it right now. I mean that thing is he 1142 01:19:00.560 --> 01:19:03.880 Yeah, I'll post I haven't posted to our what's on tap radio social. 1143 01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:06.479 I've posted on my personal social but I'll post it on What's on Tap Radio 1144 01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:10.239 just so you can get an idea of just how big this was. But 1145 01:19:10.479 --> 01:19:13.000 I want to give a special shout out to tell my neighbors who came and 1146 01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:15.720 helped them cleaned up. You know, they brought chain sauce. I had 1147 01:19:15.760 --> 01:19:19.800 a neighbor that dragged the tree into the street with his truck, and because 1148 01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:24.640 of that, the county that I live in, Harrison County, they came 1149 01:19:24.840 --> 01:19:29.279 and brought chain sauce and chopped my entire tree up, used a giant cherry 1150 01:19:29.279 --> 01:19:30.680 picker thing and picked it up, put in a dump truck and haulered it 1151 01:19:30.720 --> 01:19:35.199 off. But yeah, very lucky, very lucky that that tree did not 1152 01:19:35.279 --> 01:19:39.159 fall onto our home. But if you know, yeah, if you know 1153 01:19:39.199 --> 01:19:43.359 where James lives, you've heard the hold my beer and watch this crashing into 1154 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:47.079 signs if you're going through his neighborhood and you and you're like, wait, 1155 01:19:47.079 --> 01:19:49.600 isn't there supposed to be a stop sign here? Yeah, that's that's sign. 1156 01:19:49.680 --> 01:19:54.279 That was not James crashing into it on the way home after drinking too 1157 01:19:54.279 --> 01:19:56.840 many beers. No, he would never do that, Never drink and drive 1158 01:19:56.880 --> 01:20:01.199 folks. Ye, but yeah, there's a I'm missing because the tornado took 1159 01:20:01.199 --> 01:20:04.039 it and I got a photo of it here. That's right the house. 1160 01:20:04.720 --> 01:20:09.720 So again we're very lucky, and so are these guys who are saved by 1161 01:20:09.760 --> 01:20:13.000 a case of beer. And that is this addition of What's on Tap Radio, 1162 01:20:13.039 --> 01:20:14.880 we have got to say goodbye. I'm hearing the music. But I 1163 01:20:14.880 --> 01:20:18.079 do want to thank Kelly Meyer from How Not to Start a Damn Brewery Podcast 1164 01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:21.720 for stopping by. I also want to thank Harbor Light Phil for hanging out 1165 01:20:23.159 --> 01:20:27.720 also along with our sponsors. Our sponsors being Tantrick Brewing, Superior Past Control 1166 01:20:27.760 --> 01:20:30.399 be a Logic Conference Events, Rinaldson ac Insurance Group, the back of a 1167 01:20:30.439 --> 01:20:32.680 grille keeping the lights on, Harbor Light Brewing, and course sponsoring our podcast 1168 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:35.439 cast branding. So for mister Billlachi Chap, he'll be my brew good James 1169 01:20:35.479 --> 01:20:38.359 the same. Thanks for checking out What's on Tap Radio. We hope you 1170 01:20:38.399 --> 01:20:40.600 enjoyed it and we hope that you would join it for another action back radio 1171 01:20:40.600 --> 01:20:42.720 show next week. See it then, folks, cheers