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What's on Tap High five? This is What's on Tap radio beer and
the culture that flows with it. Keears beer Guru James Simpson. Here I
am in los Chad till Beam there he is, Hi, everybody. I'll
take songs I have ever heard since the eighties. Oh James, James,
that's that's too over the top, man, that's over the top. Too
much Jay Winner takes all when video game music crosses rock and roll. Welcome
to the show. I mean kind of a weird mood. I would agree.
I'm gonna I'm in a weird mood. I'll tell you why here in
a second. But I'm going to welcome you to the fine program we have
available for you. We got a lot of things to talk about, a
lot of beers to be consumed before we get underway. I like to introduce
myself. I am James. That is Chad Say Hi, Chad, Well,
Hi, thanks for introducing me too. I like to introduce myself,
and I guess I don't get to introduce myself. Oh cha, do you
want to do it for me? I'll do that. That's why you get
the big bucks, that's why you're on MIC number one. And I find
it interesting that you said you're in kind of a weird mood. I am.
I am as well, But I guarantee two very different reasons. I
can't wait to share one. Okay, they say October kind of brings that
weird. I don't know if it's like the changing of the seasons, but
it puts everybody in a funk. But I'm not really in a funk because
of that reason. But I'll explain why. But I want to welcome you
guys' the show. Got a great show planned for you. But let's get
them things out of the way by thanking our sponsors because it's very, very
very important to me. It's like something I've always done in the ten years
of this show. It started the show by just thanking our partners at crime
that being Tantric Brewing, Superior Pest Control, bio Logic, Conference Events,
Remal that Tendeka Insurance Group, the Backyard Grill and sponsoring the podcast cast branding.
Now, I've heard some rumors that Chad pill Beam has been hanging out
over the Backyard Grill lately. That's fun. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
It is a root and toot and ripper or in action pack fun feel
good old time over there, hang out with the brew crew and all the
tasty beers that are on tap. But the food at the byg just stop
stop it right now. If you live in Houston, you know how great
of a culinary city it is. If you're anywhere else in the world,
you're you're fighting for second place. Okay, I'm just gonna say it.
I want to tell you something. So the Backyard Girls inspired my wife.
You know, my wife's a cook, right, She's not a professional chef,
but she is a very she's a very good cook. Some people pay
her for her food, they do, she doesn't. She does like this
catering business. And her green beans that she makes was inspired by the Backyard
Girl. She sat with Mark mcshaffrey. Mark mcshaffery didn't tell her the secrets,
the inside secrets of the green beans, but he kind of gave her,
like the you know, some secrets here and there. She kind of
filled in the gaps and I have to say, very very delicious. But
this segment is brought to you by the Backyard Grill, And this segment is
being brought to the table where I'm bringing a beer, Chad's bringing a beer,
and I hope whatever you're doing safely, I hope enjoying a beer with
us. Now. This is why I'm in a weird kind of a funk.
If you look at today's dates, this is the last weekend of October,
which means this is probably the last October Fest I will be bringing to
the table for this year. I knew you were gonna say that James,
I knew it, so I'm kind of in a weird word about it because
I you know, I went forward to October Fests all year round and rip
the band aid, go here we go. It's come to a close,
and I'm gonna bring one of the goats to the to the table. I
haven't brought it this year, and Chill, I brought a special glass to
pour it in the Samuel Adams Boston Logger glass. There it is. We
want to take a stab of what beer Up'm about to put in this glass?
Chad uh spotting m Nope, Oh, Sam Adams, he went with
the Well, you said you were going with one of the goats. They
this is one of the American craft beer goats, the Mars. Yeah it
is. But I thought when you said goat, I thought you were going
old school like the original spot. I see what you're saying. Yeah,
I see that I should have preferenced it a little bit better. But no,
this is the Samuel Adams October Fests, which is always always in my
fridge every October Fest season, and I've yet to bring it to the table.
So I am going to make good on it now for probably the last
october Fest I bring to the table for the twenty twenty three Octoberfest season.
So there is copper color, nice, small little head, a little lacing
on the glass. But it's just it's a treat I'm going James is trying
to James is actually slow talking right now. He normally speeds through the descriptions
on the beers and his enthusiasm. But the problem is is he knows this
is the last one he's gonna open on the show for a while, and
so he doesn't really want it to end. So he's finding the words carefully
because he knows this the last time he's going to talk about october Fest.
Well, I'm gonna bring it on another october Fest to the show later,
but this is the last episode I'll probably be bringing an october Fest to the
table. Now. I might be cracking it throughout the show, but kicking
things off in the first segment. This might be the last time I'm kicking
it off with the Octoberfest. And I did it with the Samuel Adams october
Fest hardy and smooth at five point four percent, five point three percent,
I'll call it by volume. Excuse me one while, all right, So
there I go, and so I'm gonna let Chad and lighten us what he
brought the table before I die into the tasing notes and what I get off
the aromas off this october Fest from Samladams. Well, like I said,
I'm feeling a little bit weird too, because normally we end the show talking
about Tantrik Brewing Company in Alegan, Michigan. Today, kicking off the show
in the same spirit as James I figured last chance. Here it is from
Tap fourteen in the can right here, it is the October Fest from Tantrik
Brewing Company, a five point five percent delicious example of what a mars and
beer is. I love this beer. Patrick killed it this year. I've
been bragging it up, telling you to go over there get it off a
Tap fourteen. But now in the can, right here now in my glass,
the Michigan support your local Michigan brewery, Kraft Brewers glass. Look at
the beautiful color on that the clarity, beautiful white pillow. We had to
take a sip. That is a fantastic beer. We had it last week
on the show. My god, so amazing. Had to break. I
had to bring it back. I wanted to start the show by talking about
Tantrick because some big things coming up this holiday season. But we'll talk more
about that later on. I think we're gonna have Tanya and Patrick back on
the show very soon. Nice and yes, and and and that's what I've
brought to the table, the Tantrik Brewing Company Octoberfest, Mars and five and
a half percent. James kicks things off with the Sam Adams goat the one
of the og Kraft Beer original Octoberfest in the Boston Lagger Glass. And that's
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on the northwest side of Houston. James, tell everybody what's on tap this
week? Are you ready for Christmas beers? Because ready or not, here
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dot com. Welcome back to the show, Chaz, I, what are
you coming back with? Sammy Hagg whatever Ai decides that we're gonna come back
with Ais our producer. By the way, is that sad? Now?
Now we're replacing our interns and our producers with artificial intelligence. You know,
we never really needed to replace Kimberly, although Kimberly kept us in check.
Yeah she did. I miss Kimberly. Every now and then I'll get an
email from Kimberly, or not an email, but she'll DM me. Kimberly
for those that are new to the Wordio program, was our longtime producer,
long time producer, and then she ended up moving to Austin and kind of
left us well. She went on moved to Austin because during COVID we weren't
getting together and we couldn't afford to pay her, right, And so yeah,
she ended up taking a job in Austin and she does very well for
herself. And every now and then she'll just send me something snarky, just
the way, just the way I like it. I mean, that's that's
just how she was. So she's like at her quarter million dollar flat in
their it department. Dude, she drives it. She drives a like a
super loaded tesla. She does. It's nice looking too, and when the
battery but you know, when the battery quits on that thing, she's just
gonna she's just gonna leave it right where it is and put a note on
and say it's yours, and just look at the case. It's just like,
yeah, I'll go get another. You know I'm missing check. I'm
gonna send it a har check. So shout out to you can really we
miss you out there in Austin. I hope you're doing well. All right,
So let's recap. Brought to the table. I kick things off this
year, this year, this episode year, this season, this month with
the Samuel Adams october Fest. I told you all, I'm kind of in
a funk mood just because only it's because this is the turning of the season.
We're starting to see these october Fest beers go away, and it kind
of makes me sad because now it's making room for those pumpkin beers and and
the Christmas beers. Oh thank goodness. Yes, you know. I went
to a big box store the other day and those Christmas decorations are in full
blast. My man. I mean, I want you walk in and they
have the decorations like if Christmas is next week. Oh yeah, I went
to a wholesale club, one of those warehouses, right, grocery shopping experiences,
and they had the Christmas beers in the box for like the Advent beers.
Oh, we've talked about this before. You know, those beers have
been sitting in that box since like May. No, they've been sitting there
since last year. All right, we didn't sell out of these, let's
repackage them. I mean they might as well, that's what they did.
None of them taste Honestly, I don't know that any of them really taste
that good. Maybe this year, I'm gonna make you know what I'm gonna
commit, listeners, hold me accountable. I'm gonna buy one of those boxes,
and I'm gonna do the Advent Beer calendar, and I will record it
and put it on social media. There it is, I'm pledging. In
studio s here, I do have a fridge. I have some Advent beers
from last year. I think I'm looking at a peanut butter reporter and then
there's another stout in there. Maybe I should crack that they've been aging right
here all right? Anyways, Perfection, that's what it is, Just the
way the broomaster intended. It's been sitting in a box for a year,
and then when somebody buys it, your job is to put it in your
fridge for another year, and then only then will it reach its peak and
then crack it open on this fine radio program. That's the secret, all
right. Let me tell you this, this same Mom's October fift moldy,
pleasant sweetness, light hot character. Mm hmmm. It's hardy but not too
heavy. It's a signal to make the most of the crisper days ahead.
Chad. As I take a sip, it's like fall. It's here for
limited time. Mm hmm. Yeah. Again at five point three percent alcohol
by volume. I kind of like, how James there's reading that copy.
I'm bosting it's rich and roasty, all right. And then that Chad had
the mars In from Tantry Brewing Company, which he was in studio last week.
It was nice to have him in studio and now he brought that and
I'll tell you what, man, that was a fantastic beer. So shout
out to Patrick Contania for putting out a great Marsin on Tap fourteen. Yes,
this is good one. Here. Hey, let me ask you a
question, how come people in Boston don't pronounce their ours? But yet?
So if that's the case, how do you say rich and roasty? I
don't know if you don't pronounce, because I'll say pock the ca, yeah
right, right, the ca by the wada, you know, down by
the wada or we're gonna But then you get to rich and roasty? How
do you say rich and roasty in Bostonese? No, I have to ask
my uncle Ted's from Boston. Well, all I know is is that my
mind's just blown. Let's learn something else now, The official What's on Tap
Radio fun fact of the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked?
Clear? This week? Oh right, I'm gonna sit back and I'm gonna
get my learning on. This is where James just says, all right,
chadat go ahead. Well I don't know if you could tell, but I
sound a little different this week. Yeah, you lost your voice. You've
been cheering too lally at the Spartan football games. Shut up, James,
I can't say not our year okay, taught my year either? Man?
My poor kugs? Oh man? Did we take a beating against Michigan?
In fact, I almost brought two beers to the table to start things off,
but we lost our stunt beer liver. No, he didn't die,
he just didn't make it here. So I didn't want to try and open
two beers to start the show. And we'll save that for another time.
But I sound a little raspby because I had a speaking opportunity that I did
in Houston, and on day two it started to hit me. I was
getting laryngitis, and that is the worst thing as a speaker if you are
an MC for an event. I wanted to know, man, what was
causing it. So the first thing is, by the way, speaking of
being in a weird mood, I've got laryngitis and I'm recovering from it and
a sinus infection that goes with it. But speaking of weird mood, people
were asking me, do you have COVID? And I I like how everything
result like you sneeze, you have COVID, you coughed, Yep, you
have COVID. I decided I'm gonna run with it, so I said,
yeah, I do, I said, but not regular COVID. I've got
shark COVID and there's like shark COVID. I said, yeah, I was
down in Houston, went down to Galveston, walked out in the water,
got bit by a shark. I grabbed a hole of shark, punched it,
drug it up on shore, called a marine. Biologists said, I
just got bit by this shark. Will you test it for COVID? They
tested, test out positive. Turns out I've got shark COVID. But don't
worry. I'm not contagious unless I bite you. And no joke. Like
ten people that I told that story to went, so you got bit by
a shark like death. That's what you took out of the whole story.
You actually know what you say? Pty chat. It sounds like you actually
did. I know. So then I thought, well, I've been drinking
beer a long time. Surely there's no way that beer can cause laryngitis.
Until I discovered, Ladies and Gentlemen, your official once on Tap radio fun
fact of the week is that beer can cause laryngitis. Yeah. I don't
know if you've ever noticed this, but if you've ever been out on a
bender and you just had a really late night and you wake up in the
morning and you're like, oh man, and your your voice changes, there
is a reason for that. It's because alcohol actually goes in there and just
irritates the crap out of your vocal cords from excessive drinking. It's true,
that's right. Probably part of the reason why Lagernitas prints on their bottles.
Beer speaks. People mumble, oh, there you go. Yeah, beer
tells stories. But after a while, too many young people start slurring their
words. By the way, speaking of slurring your words and slurring your speech,
you begin to slur your speech when you reach the blood alcohol content of
point one three, two point one five, depending on I don't know which
individual we're testing, but science has spoken from point one three to point one
five, your blood alcohol content results in slurred speech. But back to this
laryngitis thing. Here turns out that even Buffy the Vampire Slayer had an episode
called Beer Bad where people were drinking bad beer, and before it turned them
into raging apes that attacked people, the first thing they lost was their speech,
their ability to speak. Oh yeah, yeah, before they turned into
raging apes, they lost their ability to speech. But alcohol dries out your
mouth and your vocal cords, and excessive drinking can cause vocal nodules and polyps
that need to be surgically removed, So don't overdo it. Now you're thinking
about this, Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna look and see.
Does beer cause the other thing to happen? Not you to lose your
voice, but gain your voice? It does, and ladies and gentlemen.
According to the Urban Dictionary, it is a phenomenon known as beer lungs where
you start yelling after getting drunk and you may develop a condition according to the
Urban Dictionary, known as beer ears, where you listen to yourself and think
you're way more funny than you're not. So you'r official What's on Tap Radio
fun Fact of the week or fun facts are that beer can cause long term
layringitis and you start learning your speech from point one three to point one five
blood alcohol content. Beer lungs is when you yell after getting drunk, and
beer ears is when you think you're more funny when you're really not. It
probably makes you think you're just a better singer as well. Don't do that.
There you go, put me on stage. I'll prove something. There
you go, your official What's on tap reo Fun Factor the Week. Ah,
it's a good one. All right, we got to take a break,
but still to come. We're going to talk about, Oh Sammy Hagar's
in the news, and we were going to talk about are you ready for
Christmas beers? Because ready or not? Here they come. We'll be right
back. And the teacher said, no, Bobby, there's no such time
as beer o'clock. Fire that teacher. This is what's on tap radio.
Alright, dive into some stories. Try to save Chad's voice recovering from stop
it lingitis. You know what was interesting about that is you mentioned right the
end of that segment is that probably makes you think you sing better. And
it turns out vocal coaches will tell you not to drink alcohol when you're singing,
because not only does it irritate your vocal chords and which also brings your
voice down an octave or brings down to the lower level, but it relaxes
your vocal chords to where you don't have to strain necessarily as heart or you
have to strain harder. And then what you do is is you tend to
overcompensate on your on your your voice, so you over sing the notes and
hence that goes back to beer lungs where you start thinking you're talking at a
normal level, but you really are. You're much louder. You see the
video of yourself the next morning, like, oh god, I can you
delete that video? Oh that's embarrassing. Care why? But you know,
when you're doing karaoke, you sound just like Neil Young, and you sound
just like Bruce Springsteen. You know, you just you do. And then
you see the video the next morning you're like, oh that's bad man,
Billy Joel never sounded any better. Oh man, anyways, but uh,
you know, it's all good fun, right, It's all good fun.
Sure it is, until somebody has to sit there sober and say, why
am I listening to this? Oh? My ears are bleeding? But I
know. Meanwhile, we do karaoke. We do karaoke here at studio ass
a lot. My wife's pretty good. I'm not, but I always have
to have some liquid courage before I can get up there and start singing my
Tiny Dancer. But in my head I sound just like Elton John But in
reality I sound like a dog being like it's tail being stepped on. Oh
man, you know what we we We kicked the show off with a couple
of beers and Winter Takes All You and I you don't. We got to
do. We had to have Winter Takes All. Loser has to sing Toxic
by Britney Spears. We've done that bit. We've done it. You know.
We've done a lot of bits on this show and the history of this
the show. We've done now of the best. We had a brewer for
those of you knew to the show and if you maybe if you've been a
long time listener, you forgot, but uh it was Wind Benz w of
uh Lake is like woodlake Wood Brewery, lake Wood Brewery up in in uh
just outside of Dallas, Texas. And we had him on the show and
he's he's like, guys, I gotta wrap this up. I gotta go,
I gotta go do karaoke. We're like, we have whatever. He's
like, no, I do karaoke, and like he's like a real guy
that like gets all into it. And right in studio we're like, all
right, what are you sing? He's like toxic Britney Spears really bull crap.
No no, no, no no no. I asked what are you
singing? And he's asking anything. I'm like okay, and so he pulls
out this list like Santa claus Christmas list, and he told one of us
to pick any song that's right, because he said he was gonna sing them
all the night. Yeah, and so we chose Toxic by Britney Spears and
he belted it out. And that was after drinking beer with us in studio.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were done with the show. I
was like, dang, that's something else, man. But anyway, we're
living in the past. Let's move forward. What's going on in the world
today. Speaking of moving forward, now, we're starting to see Christmas beers
on the shelves making an early return. That's the future. That's not now.
Are you ready? It is now? Are you ready? I kid
you not, man, because I went to my local beer retailer the other
day and I started seeing those Christmas beers. I saw three particular Christmas beers
that I'm a fan of, and one I really I picked up. And
the first one was the twenty first Amendment Fireside Chat Winter Ale. Okay,
yeah, that's it. If you're not familiar, that's the San Francisco based
brewery. But isn't it, I boo, No, it's English Star English
style strong al Okay, So all right, rich and dark, bold flavor,
perfect for the weather cooler months. Uh seven point nine close. Uh.
Then another one of my favorites, Sierra Nevada Celebration Fresh Hoop. I'm
as oh, no, way, that's out already. Mm hmmm, I'm
looking at such a good beer. First brood in nineteen eighty one, Serra
Nevadac Celebration Freshop six point eight percent ABV. It's in any a pale al
for those that didn't know. But uh, if you that beer, I'm
telling you right now, I'm afraid if they made that beer year round,
they wouldn't sell enough of people get over the hype and and it would go
away. I'm glad it's a seasonal release, but I'm telling you when that
comes out, every time I go to the store, I don't care if
it's regular price on sale, I pick up a twelve pack. No,
that's there, such a freshop. And then uh, coming back to Texas
the ship and I guess, can I guess? Can I guess what the
last one is? Yeah? Yeah, anchor are very special Christmas sale.
Oh my god, wouldn't it be cool they didn't have that? Oh?
No, no, no, yeah, if you didn't hear that news earlier
this year. But no, what it is on the shelf is the Shiner
Holiday Year. Oh there you go. Made with pecans and peaches, those
flavors enhanced through traditional German brewing techniques. Carbonating a beer for Christmas, I
guess it is. Apparently with this beer Shiner Holiday Cheer, the dark multi
five dunkle Vison. If it's in it's wait, it's Holiday Cheers. A
dunkle vison with peaches. Yeah, crafted with pecans and peaches, whose flavors
are enhanced through krusing a traditional German brewing technique for carbonating beer before, during,
and after fermentation. Sasha Tibo's losing his mind right now. It is
what it is, but uh yeah, it's a dunkle Vison dark wheat ale.
It takes an old world tradition in a truly his direction. So these
are some three of the holiday beers. And I'm starting to see on the
shelves. It won't be long before I start seeing that Saint Arnold Christmas ale.
I love that one. That's an old ale. That's gonna be hitting
the shelves, I'm sure pretty soon. If it's not there yet, well,
I don't know. I don't know about putting peaches in my winter beers.
I guess, I guess the pecans. Maybe you know, help it
out. I don't know. I'm not so. But are you are you
ready for pump are you pumpkin beer? Are you ready for Christmas beers?
It depends. I mean, you know what, at this point, this
is what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna make a
statement. I'm gonna make this my new I don't know manifesto. Chad Pilbeam
no longer cares when you release any beer, because you know what, it
doesn't matter what I think. You're gonna release it whenever the heck you want
to release it. It's gonna hit the shelves and we're all gonna have the
same reaction. Came out so early, and they're gonna be gone before in
the scene's over. I'm done. I'm done. I mean I'm done trying
to figure it out. You're done trying to understand it. I can't change
anything about it. I can't do anything about it. I need to just
drink it. You're not wrong, because Christmas Day you're gonna start seeing spring
beers on the shelves, the spring box, in my box where they show
up. If that's when they show up, I'm fine with it. Chat.
I have released the tension and the aggravation of being irritated by when brewers
release that beer. I mean, I get why they do it. I
get why they do it because you know, like I said, we talked
about this over and over, it's like beating a dead horse. Nobody drinks
october Fest beers in November. I don't know why, but they don't.
For some odd reason, they don't, and so they have to sell them
before November first, because otherwise those sit on the shelves That's why they start
pumping them out in you know, early July you'll start seeing october Fest beers
being distributed out. Well, all right, so we know that peaches don't
belong in holiday beers. That let's ask a pull. Let's let's put a
pull out there. Do peaches belong in Christmas beers? I don't know,
all right, Well, all I know is ingredients that are additives that don't
belong in your beer. One thing, for certain, urine. Do not
put urine in your beer. And I know some people out there thinking right
now about making I know James, like, when did this ever cross anybody's
mind? Well, in China, it crossed somebody's mind because a lot of
you might be thinking, oh, wait, are you making a Corona joke,
because there was a lot of joke about how the brewers and Corona makers
of Corona used to put urine in their beer. By the way, urban
legend, not true. But a video released from a popular online platform in
China called I Believe It's Webo I'm not familiar with it showed an employee at
the Qingtao Brewery urinating on raw ingredients. The company has since contacted the police
and investigations underway, and one of China's biggest bigger makers has said that an
investigation is ongoing of the video showing an employee urinating on the ingreen and another
employee who video recorded the entire thing. Wait, somebody, it wasn't It
wasn't like a security camera as someone actually videoed it. Well, there's somebody
who videoed it in the security camera caught them both. So like the guy,
there's a guy like, hey, dude, I'm gonna go pee on
these ingredients and he goes in there and then his buddy recorded it. Well,
the security footage caught the whole thing. Wow, oh yeah, that's
oh that's disgusting. Yes it is. Oh yes. So they were happy
to report that at present, the batch of malt in question has been completely
sealed. Well that's good. We got it on lockdown, guys, but
this one's not going out. Okay, Well that makes sense, and they
are now re evaluating their procedures for security and product quality and not that I'm
sure that they need to really evaluate product quality because they stopped it. So
that's good. But an updated report indicates that the duo were not direct hires
of the employee of Chingtao Brewery in China, but rather they were external hires.
Oh that those third party employees angry about not getting benefits or something.
I don't know. I just made up that part. But Chingtoo Brewery has
reported that employees are being investigated. Two particular employees are being investigated for urinating
on raw ingredients, which reminds us all, never ever add urine to your
beer. Oh my god, that's disgusting. Yeah, they're gonna get a
lot of trouble for that. All right, Well, you gotta take a
break. Who knows what they're gonna do. We go from here, all
right, I got an idea. Let's talk about a newly open brewery that's
up for sale. We'll say the details coming out. We'll be right back.
Beer has hops, hops or plants. Plants make salad, So beer
is salad? Yeah? What's on Taparty? James and Chad talking about beer
all the season? Took this moment to plug our social media. Ways to
get a hold of us if you want to give us a suggestion on a
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dot com. It's What's on tap Radio at gmail dot com. Put that
question out this week that you know, these Christmas beers are starting to start
to pop up on the shelves. Are you ready? Are you ready for
them? Maybe you are? Maybe you are one of those folks that are
like, hey, I've already started decorating my house for Christmas, even though
we haven't gotten past you know, Thanksgiving. But maybe you're just one of
those people. I'm not, but maybe you are. Do you do you
all out there and get those Christmas beers the second they land on the shelves,
even though it's not that cold out there. Uh, James, Yeah,
pure Michigan. That's all I'm gonna say. Dude. Yeah, it's
I forget we are not already time. We forget that we're in you know,
heard in all parts of the country and they experienced different all parts of
the world. That's right. And uh, but where I'm broadcasting, it's
still a very humid eighty five degrees outside it is. And I want to
say when I visited recently, had a great time, beautiful weather. It
was a nice change of pace, even though I got shark COVID because I
got, you know, bit by a shark. And yeah, it's so
if you if you if you missed it earlier. What happened was I walked
out into the ocean there in the Gulf of Mexico Galveston, just trying to
enjoy my time down there in Houston, and I I got bit by a
shark and I punched it, drug it up on shore and after a marine
biologist confirmed the shark had COVID, but I wasn't contagious unless I bite somebody.
And people actually believe that story. And that's why my voice sounds like
the way it does, because I have shark COVID. It's a thing now.
I was just irritated. I was just irritated that I got Larry Ginis.
While speaking, people kept saying, Oh, you have got COVID.
YEP, so you had some fun with shark COVID. You had some fun
with it. Speaking of having some fun, I love stories like this.
This comes across our desk overy now and then, and I relate to it.
It's a story about a strange beer bottle that was found any wall of
a house in Delaware, that piqued an interest on the internet. And this
guy who's a contractor says, I have never found anything like this. After
seventeen years and over three thousand demolition inspections of every type of building or facility
you can think of, I've never stumbled across a bottle while conducting hazardous material
survey. A bottle of beer, that is. And the whole inspection team
was surprised. They initially thought it was a bottle filled with urine. Speaking
of urine, because many times throughout their career, drywall workers are notorious for,
you know, just not taking breaks and urinating your bottles. You're on
the job and it's like, okay, you don't want to try and find
a bathroom. You're like, you know what, beg's the question though,
It's like you were somehow left on supervised and able to drink on the job,
and so you pee in a beer bottle. I I don't know,
I don't know. I well, I do know. After hours, they'll,
you know, after they're done working, they'll put their hearts down,
yea, they and then they'll you know, crack a beer open. And
that might have been the case, but in this case it was not.
It was not a bottle full of urine. It was actually a bottle,
a very old bottle from Gunther Brewing Company. And it was a brewery in
Baltimore, Maryland, and with the heritage predating Prohibition and operated until nineteen sixty
when it was purchased by Ham's Brewing Company, which was later a part of
Miller Brewing Company. Gunthro was the second largest brewing company in Baltimore until nineteen
fifty nine. Producing upwards to eight hundred thousand barrels a year in employing six
hundred people. And the house in question was less than one hundred years old
and is being demolished to make a parking lot. And the house was in
very poor condition. So they started doing some demo when they found this very
old beer bottle and it says it was a message on it, when in
fact the message was just the plumber signed it. But the date of the
of the beer nineteen fifty nine. Now, what was the what was the
message on there? The message was just the dates of the they put the
bottle in there and buy a plumber, right, Okay. First thing I'm
gonna say is, hey, work on your copy, okay, because that's
not good copy. If you're gonna leave something behind for somebody to find twenty
thirty sixty one hundred years later, and you want them to go wow,
like that's amazing, Wow look at that. I mean, yeah, I
know we're talking about it, but you gotta do better on the copy.
I mean, you can't just leave a message just left here by a plumber
on this date boring. I tell me you'd do better, James, tell
me you would do better. So I can kind of relate to this story.
So in what you know, was it twenty twenty one when we had
this, Dude, that's the year you're not supposed to mention, No,
I said, twenty twenty one. Oh yeah, we had this hard freeze
come through Southeast Texas and our houses aren't built for these kind of storms,
and so what happened is a lot of our homes the pipes burst because our
pipes are actually in our ceilings. And I know that's going to surprise a
lot of people in other parts of the country. And who the right mind
would put water pipes in the ceilings. That's what they do here and are
part of the country. And so one of my pipes burst at my hose
and water was everywhere, and of course I had to shut the water off,
and then we had to replace the drywall because you know, water damaged
a lot of things. And when we put the drywall back up, I
inserted a few beer cans in the wall and I wrote a note from the
storm of twenty twenty one, and I put the dates and that's all I
really put. Chat. Okay, but that's but see that you didn't just
say I was doing some home improvement projects and decided to hide beer in my
wall, also from a plumber. No, you you put on there the
date of the storm, and people would say, wait a minute, I
remember that. You know, pipes burst, drywall need to be replaced.
Here's a guy that decided to commemorate that horrible event by drinking beer and leaving
a remnant for somebody else in the future to find. That's all right,
It's not necessarily creative, but it's momentous. Right. The other guy is
just like feeling kind of cute, thought I'd leave a beer can. I
put actually two beer cans in there. They're empty. I didn't put full
beers. They were empty. Hold on what brand beer? Buffalo by your
brewing company? I put the Oh god, what what? I don't even
remember what the beers I put in there. Crush City, Yeah, probably
Crushed City, Great White Buffalo, more cow Bell. No, it wasn't
More cow It was probably Crush City, and maybe uh, Great White Buffalo.
I was gonna say on pins and I don't remembers. It was years
ago. It was years ago, and I was afraid to actually put a
full beer in there because I was afraid because it was in the wall,
and it gets very very hot off that brick, and I afraid it is
gonna explode in the wall. There there are two things we need to know,
because Fire Marshal Matt has two questions. You answered one of them.
Okay, what kind of beer cans did you put in the wall? Here's
the most important question, and it's an inside joke, but don't worry.
I'll explain in a minute. Did you use shark bite fittings to replace your
pipes? I don't know. I had a contractor do that. Oh okay,
all right, Yeah, I didn't do it myself. I didn't do
myself. I actually had actually neighbor Victor did it for me, and I
paid them a beer and then we put I purposely put two beer cans in
the wall with a little note. So when they demo this house, now
this is not the house I live in. Now, this is the house
I lived in during the time. Yeah, it's somebody else's problem. But
you just close that on a sellar agreement, you did. I didn't know
that. You know, at the time, we were, you know,
gonna move out of that house, you know, six months later. Otherwise
I probably would have put two full beers in there, but I didn't I
put two empty cans in there. Sonny, you say that maybe there'll be
a story years from now, thirty years from now. Two beer cans fell
in in a home in Katie, Texas. When I left Texas for Michigan,
I left a beer fridge full of beer for the new homeowner. And
then turns out he doesn't drink, so that didn't work out the way I
had hoped. But the reason I asked about shark bite is because we had
a former listener of What's on tab Radio reach out and chastise Fire Marshal Matt,
who's also a mechanical engineer, and tell him that shark bite fittings were
the cheap man's way to go and they don't work, and Fire Marshal MAT's,
like every engineer in the world, says they do, so I don't
know how to. So they got mad at each other, yelled, and
they never drank a beer together again. Interesting. Yeah, I'm not sure
what kind of fittings they were, but there are two beer cans in a
house in Katie, Texas. So all right, we're gonna take a break.
Coming up next hour, we got a lot to get to, including
a whole my beer and watch this and we'll tell you this brewery that's for
sale. All right, We're going to eat healthy and start exercising today.
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without any stunt beer livers like we had recently, Man, we had two
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we got pictures and the beers we consume. There's a good time.
I love having to get the opportunity to do that every now and then.
But it is fun. It is fun. It is fun. But but
yeah, speaking of more beer, I'm gonna go ahead and tap into the
old beer seller from when I went over and saw our buddy Mikey g Radio
Kia cuck over in Iowa. Yeah, I picked up some beer while I
was over there and all along the way and this is a brewery that I
don't know anything about, but they're out of Illinois. It's Triptic Brewing t
r I P t y c H triptick. I hope I'm saying that correctly.
And I'm gonna tell you this is a perfect example of where beer names
and artwork sell the beer. And then I confirmed it on untapped and it
has a really good rating. But Tryptic Brewing, this is the A Wizard
is never late. Taking a line from what Is It? The Hobbit series
that what is It? The Lord of the rings Okay series, The wizard
is never late. This is a double dry hop double India pale ale,
and I love this. Through the golden haze filled with dank notes of fruit
and green, you suddenly recall that our beers always arrive precisely when they mean
to, which sometimes means not at all. Oh that's deep. That's more
than fortune cookie wisdom right there. And this is a oh deliciously smelling,
oh dank piney touch a sit but the nose on that is pine and dank.
Oh, it's almost like a big old bag of weed, which well
maybe has you feeling like you're a wizard. But get the honker down in
my support your local Michigan craft brewer glass. Thank you Tantrick Brewery for hooking
me up with that. And mm hm how the taste tandar chad that that
uh man, I'm telling you right now, this thing arrived right at when
I needed it. That's perfect. A wizard is never late. A double
dry hopped double India palal. I need more of this in my life.
This is delicious. Citra and Apollo hopped the eight percent ABV from Triptic Brewing
out of somewhere out of Illinois. What city is this in Illinois? I
see if I can name it. Oh, Savoy, never Been, never
Been. Sounds like a lovely town though, sound here they make They got
a great brewery there, go check them out in Savoy, Illinois. But
this is what I'm bringing the table, and uh, well, what I'm
drinking in hour number two? All right, I'll mean cracking a beer here
soon, but we got to do this first. Hold to my beer and
watch this brought to you by the ring Melda ten Hacen Insurance Group where they'll
cover you for everything except this. Now, I had a listener send this
story to me, and I, for the life of me, cannot remember
whether or not I did this story. It sounds familiar, but then I
check the archives and I don't see it. But if I have, let's
revisit it because it's a good one. Well, here's the thing, James.
There are too many stories where people start throwing crap at people who won't
sell them beer. And sometimes it's beer they're throwing out it people. Sometimes
it's you know, weapons. Oh yeah, I've seen people throw keys,
keys, all sorts of things, which doesn't make sense because when you throw
your keys, It's like all right now what like, hey, oh,
by the way, can I need those I gotta get my apartments. Can
I get those keys back? But this is the first time I've actually heard
of a man being locked up for assault with a delicious weapon, not a
deadly weapon. A delicious weapon. Say twenty three year old man from you
guessed it, Florida, and he was arrested after assaulting a couple of Walgreens
employees one Monday morning. So what happened was he went into Walgreens about one
twenty am because he wanted some smokes. He wanted some cigarettes, but the
workers refused and told him to leave. It was unclear why he was denied,
but apparently he was very very intoxicated, so that probably had something to
do with it, probably a little bit, a little bit. Well,
this didn't go overwhel with the guy, Chad. He was very very furious.
So I'm paying customer, damn it. So he started throwing snicker bars
at the employees. He struck a female worker in the face, a male
worker was hitting the chest. Good news is neither her employee was really injured
by the sticker bars, but the man was arrested in charge on two counts
of mistermeanor battery, and was later released after posting a thousand dollars bond,
which these days is enough to buy about five hundred snicker bars or about ten
packs of cigarettes. Started doing some math there. I wanted to see if
h oh, snickers always satisfies right that the saying, you know, I
guess, I'm thinking. Here's the situation. They had the candy bars right
next to the register, and you know, they were working to sell them
cigarettes, and he just got mad, picked up the first day he saw
and happened to be a stickers bar and threw it at him. But luckily,
like I said, nobody was seriously injured. But the sticker bars were
pretty hurt though, So you're hold my beer and watched this this week.
A drunk guy, A drunk guy through sticker bars at a Walgreen clerk because
they wouldn't sell them cigarettes. This guy's need some anger management classes and he
needs to go to AA. I mean, because just be honest, if
you're twenty three and you're walking into a Walgreens at one twenty am by the
way, right, yeah, which I don't know, I don't know,
you know, somebody found it interesting here because the liquor laws in Michigan are
a little bit different everywhere around the world. And in Michigan you can go
to a Walgreens and you can get your prescription medication and you can buy liquor.
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Time for me to crack another beer, my second beer. I have finished
my october Fest from Samuel Adams, but I'm gonna continue with the theme while
I hand, because we are in our last week of Octoberfest season, well,
I mean Octoberfest season kind of started wrapping up, you know Munich ins
is it a first weekend and all of October that Munich October I don't remember,
Yeah, I think it was. I think anyways, wrapped up first
weekend. But I'm still been enjoying the Octoberfest beers, you know, since
it is that season. But now we've talked about how the seasons are changing
people's allergies. Are going to getting into them. Chad's voice is changing.
I mean covid. Yeah, it's sart covid, That's what it is.
But I'm gonna continue just rolling with it while I can. I'm gonna milk
it while all I can. And this time from Saint Arnold Brewing Company,
the Guten Tog toasty and clean Barbarian style lagger. I like that beer.
It's a great beer. I'm a fan of Guten Tog Center Brewing Company.
They make so many good beers, and you know, they have a whole
line of I guess it's like a seasonal rotation of beers that come out.
And I remember back when it was just I think it was three seasonals.
They had three round, year round beers and three seasonals. And now they're
they're cranking out so much beer. But they had they had winter stout that
my box, and then summer pills there. Uh yep, there's summer summer
pills. You're right, it was it was it the spring spring, yeah,
and then they had the winter stout so springbok, winter stout summer no
no, no, no, yeah, but they had the Christmas all as
well. Okay, you're good, call, right, so they had four
Yeah, there was four seasonals and three year round beers and uh yeah,
bonus fun fact if you can figure out the name of the first original three
beers. I know. But anyway, moving on about that beer, all
right, so let me talk you. Take a swing of this great crisp
and clean flavor. The malt provides a hang on mm hmm, a nice
toasty and ready complexity. Oh yeah, the hops are kind of restrained to
allow this soft and elegant finish. And this comes to about five percent alcohol
by volume. That's what I'm getting as I take a swig of this.
There's a journalism student out there who just got an a for writing that copy
for James. So ready to go kid again. This is the Saint Arnold
Gluten Gluten Guten Talk. Yeah there is gluten in there, but also guten
toalg Guten talk at five point eight percent alcohol by volume, and uh yeah,
this is kind of like one of the last october Fest style marsins I
have. I still have a few more in the fridge that I'll be bringing,
but I mean I won't be bringing to the table, but I'll be
bringing through the show. Right now, Guten tag is German for bring me
another beer. Yes, yes, I think that's what it means. Yes,
that's exactly. By the way, I'm not fluent in German, fluent
in any other language other than English. And some people say I even struggle
with that because I have laryngitis. I'm recovering from no shark covid shark covid.
I have a I have a question for those listeners out there. But
we got we got a couple of stories to get to here, Chad.
But these stories are weird because we have both of these. And we were
in the production meeting and we kept going around and around. Everybody was confused.
It's like, you want to talk about Tesla or Tulsa. And I
was like, well, no, I'll talk about Tulsa and you talk about
Tesla and it's like no, That's what I was asking, Do you want
which one you want to talk about? It reminds me of that episode of
Seinfeld when somebody says, do you want salsa or seltzer? And how does
somebody with a Latin accent order salsa or seltzer? I want seltza, You
want saltza or salza? And it's like, I Tesla Tulsa, Telsa,
Tallsa, Tesla. Anyway, how about you do talk about Tesla here?
And I never thought about it like that, but uh okay. So the
question is would you spend one hundred and fifty dollars on two beers? Depends
on who I'm drinking them with and when you When do you buy two beers
for one hundred and fifty dollars? I don't know. I just don't know
if I can do it. But we've done this segment of the most expensive
beers out there. Now, obviously this isn't the most expensive beer out there,
but this is a pricier one when Tesla has a new item in stock.
It's a limited edition set of beers for a mere one hundred and fifty
dollars. What yep? And the set includes two eleven allens bottles of Tesla
Cyber Beer. It's a hellslagger with notes of herb, spice, tea,
and citrus, and also comes with two Matt Black ceramic cyber steins that are
designed to mimic the futuristic form of the cyber Truck, which may be entered
production this year. Out orders of the beer will begin shipping pretty soon according
to their website. Now, if you remember, back in March, Tesla
launched a thirty dollars gig beer to celebrate its opening of its Berlin gigafactory and
a factory delivered its first vehicles last year after facing a series of setbacks.
But when do two beers cost one hundred and fifty dollars? Well, when
they're sold by Elon Musk, of course. Yeah, that's a great idea.
All right, how do we take something and over engineer? I mean,
isn't that really what a Tesla car is? It's over it's an over
engineered vehicle. I mean people love them though. I mean, like I
said, I'm not saying they're not bad. Are they that they're bad or
they're not good? But it's over engineer. But what I'm what I have
a hard time getting with is the fact that there's two sets of bottles that
are eleven ounces each. Why can they be twelve? I feel like,
I don't know why I don't want eleven ounce twelve ounces? Well, they're
eleven, they're eleven point two. So it's the European measure. Because European
bottles don't come to twelve ounces. They're eleven point two. That's why three
hundred and thirty sense of leaders or something like that. I'm gonna put me
out there. I don't think any of our listeners would buy this. Now.
If I'm wrong, please let me know. Maybe you cuy some for
us. Yeah, yeah, maybe try it. But one hundred and fifty
dollars for a Hellis lagger that has notes of herbs, spiced tea and citrus.
I don't know if I'm gonna spend two hundred or one hundred and fifty
dollars for a bottle. Now, maybe you're just buying it because it's a
Cyberstein and it's more or less to put on your mantle as a that's an
over engineered glass drinking vessel. I mean that's all that is, right,
It's yeah, I mean it is. Let's just be honest about what it
is. I think you're trying to overcompensate. I guess I wouldn't buy it.
I mean, I'm not uged to buy it, but hey, there's
somebody out there that might collect something like this, So there you go.
It's out there. It is all right, Well, speaking of complicating things,
and I don't know we're gonna go from Tesla to Tulsa, as in
Tulsa, Oklahoma, which, by the way, I had to look up
the mascot of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Oh what is it? What is It?
Makes no sense to me at all. They're in the middle of Tornado
Valley. It's like a Pelican or Tornado Alley or whatever. No, you're
close though, They're the Golden Hurricane. Okay exactly. And you know why
this is? This is so bad. This reminds me of when Eastern Michigan
University temporarily changed their name to the EMUSE. Listen to this. Eastern Michigan
was the Hurons. They switched to the EMUs because you know, cultural appropriation.
They didn't want to they didn't want to offend the Hurons, so they
changed. They went with Eastern Michigan University. Em you em you a large
flightless bird from Australia or New Zealand. It's like, what does it have
to do with Eastern Michigan Nothing, But it just worked wrong fast forward.
Tulsa wanted to be the Golden Tornadoes, but they couldn't because it was associated
with another school already. So they said, well, we can't be Golden
tornadoes, so let's be the hurricanes where there are no hurricane. But meanwhile,
the University of Tulsa wanted to set the Guinness Book of World Records for
the world's largest beer tasting, where they set up in a pre game tailgating
festivity on campus where participants had to taste three beers that were guided by a
certified cicerone, and one thousand and eighty people showed up to participate in the
event that was judged by Guinness Book of World Records mister Michael M. Prick,
who was there to record the results. The current record was held by
an event in Barcelona in July of twenty twenty two, which had one thousand,
two hundred and forty three people who attended. Well, two hundred and
forty three people is larger than one thousand and eighty, meaning that the University
of Tulsa, in their bid to become the world's largest beer tasting event before
a football game no less, fell short one hundred and sixty three people short
to be exact, But they are the Golden Hurricane. Maybe next year,
maybe next year they can break that record. We're rooting for you, Tulsa,
all right, that's sad. All right, still to come. This
might be some good news. There's a bray for sale. We'll talk about
that in samey hayguards the news. We'll be right back. I'm sorry,
Tulsa. Did you know that six beers a day can reduce your risk of
giving a rats ass? That's us still so much to get. Welcome back
to what's on tap Radio? I'm big good, Jamesimpson, that's been logic
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Having relationship problems. Reach out to James and I and we well,
you know what, we've been happily married now for sixteen and twenty six years,
respectively, and we'll just basically tell you sucks to be you. No,
I'm kidding. I'm totally kidding. I'll offer up, well, we'll
offer up Delilah's number. That's what we'll do. Because we can't help you.
We're not we're not therapists in that way. But we'll have a beer
with you, which is what you're doing right now. Remember when you listen
to what's on zapp radio and you are drinking a beer and you think,
well, I'm sitting here by myself. No, you're not. James and
Chad right here with you. Don't believe me, see right here? Oh
wait, it's a radio program. Home. Just know that we are we
are. We don't no, no, no, no no. We have
stunt beer livers who come in from time to time, but we don't have
like stunt beer. We have real beer. We do we do? Yeah,
yes, now, speaking of real beer, I have a question for
you. A lot of people have made these knockoff like like like remember when
Metallica tid there Butdweiser. It was basically it was Budweizer in a black can
that said Metallica it. We have all stories to us numerous times that is
no lie and there and there's so many different beers out there that are done
as kind of one off. By the way, I'm still trying to get
my hands on the Rush beer from Canada. I want to try it because
I'm a big Rush fan. I love Rush Do. The Trooper beer from
uh which James loves beer is awful. The beer is awful. Sorry,
I tried. I can respect it. Robinson Brewery from the United Kingdom,
I'm sorry you did not win the heart of James Simpsons. No, I've
tried it multiple times and I just I can't get with it. So I
remember the same brewery here in Michigan. It was the Michigan Brewing Company.
I believe it was in Webster, Michigan that bought the rights to sell US
beer out of Texas for a while. They owned it for a little while
they were making they did a deal with Kid Rock to do American Badass logger
and I went there just to try it, and I can tell you this
is a long time ago, but there was nothing American badass about it.
It was a pretty pedestrian, light, straightforward beer. Well now there's another
rocker getting into the beer game and he is all in. In fact,
he's even said this is his dream come true. What what rocker could possibly
say that making a beer is making his dream come true? Well, would
you be shocked to know it's none other than the Red Rocker himself, Sammy
Hagar. Yeah, he's getting into the beer game. Huh. Good for
him? Yeah, I know, because you know he's done successfully successful lines
of tequila Rumken cocktails. But he did he kind of the king of rock
and roll adult beverages. He's done tequila. I know that for sure because
we talked about in the show and he's done rum right, yes, So
now now he wants to get in the beer game. Okay, Well,
it's interesting because he's he's basically calling it unfinished business and he's partnering with a
brewer in Detroit, and it's I find it interesting he's saying it's unfinished business
because he went and tried to partner with some of the quote unquote big boy
breweries over the years, but never was able to reach a satisfactory deal.
And then the deal came up again when he sold his Cabo Wabble tequila line
to group O Campri and it was like eighty million dollars back in two thousand
and seven, and he said, hey, I wanted to do a beer,
but they said, we're not interested. But he never gave up the
dream. Even after he opened his beach bar, he took a back seat.
But finally he's like, and this is a direct quote, I thought
I could make a better tequila than what was on the market, and I
did. I thought I could make a better rum that was on the market,
and I did. And now I want to do the same with beer.
That's right. He wants to make a better beer than anything on the
market. And the Red Rocker Brewing Company, which has offices in Canton,
well it's brewed in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood, has created a new beer, the
Red Rocker Lagger, which is, according to him, better than any beer
on the market. It is a Mexican style brew described as golden, medium
body, light, crisp and refreshing with just a touch of sweetness, and
likens it to medello. It's going to be on the market soon all over
Michigan, Wisconsin, and just so you know, it is the best beer
on the market. According to Sammy Hagar, I wanted to make a better
rum than anybody on the market, and I did it. I wanted to
make a better tequila than anybody on the market, and I did it.
I want to make a better beer than anybody on the market. Well he's
doing it now, I do. I do so rate beer perfect one hundred.
I'm expecting that untapped, it's going to have the highest score of any
Mexican lagger out there, in fact, any beer out there. So I'm
excited about getting I can't wait to taste the best beer on the market.
I honestly don't. I'm not a big fan of ding a book by its
cover, but I got my feelings on this. It's a really bold thing
to say you're going to make the best beer on the market. That is
just I mean, even if it is, it's a bold thing. Hey,
good for you, man. I hope that you win every World Beer
Cup, in Great American Beer Festival and internationals. This in a while.
We haven't used in a while, but I'm gonna say it. Hey,
Sammy, I hope you make a million dollars with that idea. It was
the less it was the less time we used that. It's been a while
since we probably had a last last interview. That's our way of saying good
luck with that. I hope you make a million dollars with that idea.
Go with it. That's hilarious. Hey, speaking of this all right,
So I like food. I wouldn't call myself a foodie, but I appreciate
good food, like going out to restaurants like the Backyard Grill and other things.
I like good quality food. I don't like call myself a foodie for
one reason. It it puts too many expectations on me to get the right
answer. Yeah. And there's all sorts of food festivals where they had like
food truck festivals and pizza festivals where they have all these different pizza vendors and
it's they're fun. You get some really great brick up and pizzas. But
when I saw this food festival, this is a food festival like I've never
seen before. Because food festivals they're a fun way to go out and experience
culinary offerings in your area. Right, But this one's a little different.
This is a new festival coming to La so far in La and we'll see
if it takes off. It's called chain Fest, which will feature bites from
restaurants like Chili's Grill and Bar Dunkin Donuts. Jack in the Box, Pana
Express, Pizza Hut, Red Robin, and Sonic Drive in what's the name
of the festival again? Chain Fest? Those are all chain restaurants, chain
restaurants chain Fest, and drinks will be buy PEPSI wait a minute, whoa
what yep, And there will be plenty of specialty alcohol drinks like Guinness,
Smearnoff, Crown Royal and Captain Morgan. And how much is gonna cost again
in Well, it's gonna cost you about seventy five bucks. And if it's
not slammed, you can get into every booth. You can use Postmates to
get on site delivery. That's kind of nifty. I'm not really understanding that,
but okay. One of the people behind the concept is a guy named
bj Novak from the office. Yeah, but this isn't a joke. This
isn't a joke. But this is not a joke. It's just a sarcastic
stunt and it's business partner chef named Tim Hollingsworth. As a part of the
event, he's putting on a spin to one of the classic dishes from each
chain. So whether it's you know the what do you get from Chili's,
what is it the chilies burger. They're gonna put like a little spin on
it to make it more Wait a minute, what are you talking about at
chili You gotta go in there and get your baby back, baby back,
baby bag. I want all that's right, that's right, back, baby
back, baby back ribs proof. It's been a while since I've been to
a Chili's, but this is something there. But that commercial still rings true
because I'm a marketing guy. But it's it's something that you're interested in.
Like I said, it's called chainfests. It's unclear if his creations are the
only ones to be part of the fest or the chains will provide versions of
their standard food. So maybe you just go in there and get the chili
cheese caso from Chili's. But the festival is happening in Hollywood the first weekend
of December. Two days are already sold out, and they're adding another date
and there's no word if they're going to plan to expand any further. So
there's a new festival out there that focuses on chains like Chili's in Panda Express,
And I want to thank Superior Pest Control of West Michigan for sending us
that story because some of the guys over there at Superior Pest Control. Fun
fact, one of the original company owners was a chef. Really okay,
They're like, hey, what do you Yeah, they asked us, Hey,
what do you think about this? Going to eat chain food and drink
beer. I'd rather eat your food, hang out with the folks that Superior
Past Control West Michigan, drink beer with them. I would go to this
if they give us some press passes, I'll go get down on Oh yeah,
Chile Bar. And no, not for seventy five bucks. But no,
not when, not when you're staying seventy five bucks and there's a place
with like Jack in a Box that has a nine to nine cent menu.
All right, we gotta take us. We gotta take a boak still to
come. We got to talk about Oh there's this young lady who we're gonna
salute this week, all list and so much more. Just what's on top,
Right, you hang with us. We'll be right back. After reading
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in the studio last week. Very good stuff. A couple of stories to
get to before we get out of here. I've been teasing this. There's
this brewery for sales. It's only been open for a few weeks. Sin
it's already apparently for sale. How does that work? Okay, now do
the math on that one. We're gonna Some people say that certain breweries open
for the sole purpose of just trying to be able to resell and you know,
score quick profit, which those days are long gone. So I don't
understand how anybody is even considering opening a brewery that just open, you know,
just open. Now we're gonna sell it. Well, what brewer you're
asking? Well? Else the Guinness Brewery. Not that Guinness brewery. No,
not that one, Not the one in Ireland. No, it's the
one that it's been only open for a few weeks. The one Chicago.
Oh, it's the Chicago Fulton's Market district is for sale and a deal expected
to top twenty million dollars. Now a Chicago developer his Fred Latsko has hired
JLLL Brokers to seek a buyer for the Guinness Open Gate Brewery, which opened
in late September a former railroad depot building, and is confirmed that they are
actually selling it. It's Alasco and jl are billing the deal as a one
of a kind opportunity to own one of the Irish breweries properties and it's time
to pass the torch or in this case, the tap and the new stewardship.
As the only other Guinness Open Gate breweries are owned by the brand itself.
Alasco is said in a statement the Guinness operation itself won't be affected by
the properties sale and it's not clear how much Lasco is expecting this sale,
but someone familiar with the deal estimated it would be sell around twenty million dollars.
Now this is the thing people got to understand. Everything's wait, Guinness
is for sale or they're selling one of their breweries, and I can own
Guinness. Not exactly. There's a ten year lease on that building for Guinness,
so you will own the property, yes, that the Guinness bury sits
on, so for ten years, well nine years, you'll be able to
say yeah, I own that, but then it's your job to go ahead
and renew the contract. Now, if I remember correctly, the original Saint
James Gate Brewery had some ridiculous and I a simple Google search will give me
the answer. But of course this just came to me, and so I
didn't do my research, and we don't have a production team on staph or
an intern that I can call quickly and say, hey, look this up.
But the original Saint James Gate Brewery was like a nine thousand year lease
or something stupid. That's right. I think we did it in a fun
fact may it was a nine nine nine hundred, who cares, it's a
really long time, no one, and then and the one in Dublin.
But then they bought it out and now they own it outright. So but
yeah, if you want to go ahead and say you own the property,
you got twenty million dollars. By the way, it's estimated that the brewery
there, I believe. I looked at the financials that they were reporting.
They said it's gonna it's gonna net over a million dollars in net profit a
year. So good chance that brewery is not going anywhere. So you got
a good Renter, you got a good tenant if you want to go ahead
and own that brewery and they'll stick around for a few years. So if
you got twenty million dollars in your pocket just burning a hole there, you
know it's a proper sponsor this show. You know it's some property and sponsor
the show. So all right, I'm just gonna put out there newly opened
Guinness Brewery in Chicago for say, yeah, now, speaking of stick around
for a while, that's called hey segue right there, we'll have a good
see. Speaking of sticking around for a while, what if I told you
that a beer and a half a day would keep you going well past a
century yourself? That's right? What am I? What am I talking about?
I'm talking about your age, living long, living happy, and living
maybe even a little sassy. Well I'll be I'll live to be about three
hundred years old, right, I'm hoping to make it to eighty. My
wife is pissed every time I say that. She's say you better, you
better live longer than that. But if you ever met Teresina Piano, and
I hope I'm saying her first name right, because the last thing I do
I want is for her to come back from the grave and slap me around.
Because this sassy woman had a foul mouth, was known for dirty jokes
and her love of beer, dancing and loud music. And when you hear
the story about this woman and people say she got feisty in her old age,
well makes me. It makes me wonder what feisty really means. Because
this woman lived to be one hundred and six years old, and she said
she wanted drinking, laughing and good times at her funeral, and no one
was to dress in black. I tried to offer, I can sign up
for that program. And if you offered to try and take care of her,
she was capable to take care of herself. And she might call you
an sob or worse. Whoa she did? Oh? I know? Yeah,
she drove till she was one hundred and four. Wait what she Yeah?
I know who gave her that license? I mean some people have to
have their license renewed every five years. If you're one hundred and four,
you should have your license renewed every week. Good, I'm sorry. Good
for her one hundred and four though, Yeah, she walked without a king
till she was one hundred and five. But check this out. Why one
hundred and five? What happened? Well, she was dancing at a rock
band concert at a dive bar and she fell. Oh no, yeah,
she fell dancing to a rock band at a dive bar at one hundred and
five years old, and so she had to walk with the kids. We
got to get her on the shows. Cheah, we gotta get her on
the show. No, well we can't. Why she died? Oh yeah,
oh oh that's sad. Yeah, yeah she lived. Had she lived
to be one hundred and six, lived past tense. But this whole story
starts with her. One of her earliest memories of being a little sassy.
When she was fourteen years old, Terracina was walking home from school and saw
whiskey running down the gutter down the street. She ran home, thinking of
her father because apparently he was connected to the mafia bootlegging, and yep,
the federal agents were all over the house, busting open barrels. And then
started eating her mother's food, And she looked at her mother and saw her
crying, and all of a sudden, she starts tearing into the agents.
Aren't you ashamed making my mother cry? Now you're eating your food. I
hope you choke. Well, they ran out of there and left her alone.
I wish I find pretty hilarious. But her version of the story is.
And she was telling the story at her neighborhood bar, the garage,
which pretty interesting story. This is good. She's telling everybody, and she's
running out of there. She's at the garage, the garage bar post COVID.
She would go in there on a regular basis with her granddaughter and she
would again at the garage bar, she would get her drinks for free.
What that's crazy, And so she'd go in there and do it and have
a good old time. And her her secret to a long life was to
have a can and a half of beer every single night. I don't know
why. It was. It's gotta be a cores or something. Miller La
okay, but but Miller lite was acceptable. But she died of a heart
attack at one hundred. And I'm sorry if that woman was that sassy,
that bolt, that brash, and she just lashed out everything from prohibition agents
to people who tried to take care of her because they didn't think they thought
she was a frail old woman. And she died of a heart attack at
one hundred and six. I'm sorry. Her heart finally said, look,
man, we're afraid to die on you because what you might say. But
it's time to go. So she lived a good, long, happy life
and she loved having a beer and a half a day. What a memory
she's created for that bar, for her grandchildren, her children, And yeah,
rumor is that her husband tried to sneak out once and go to a
bar and she said, I'm packing up the kid and going with you,
and that was the last time he went alone. Well, cheer's to you,
miss Piano. All right, we got to get out of here,
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