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Pilbeam. Whoo, the heat is on and so is the show. Yon
Air lights on. Hi, I'm James, that's Chad. Welcome to the
show. Yeah, I'm here, I'm I got a little best control detail.
There's a fly in the studio, James. So the fly flew from
my studio. If you remember a few weeks a few months back, I
had a fly in my studio that bothered me and Chad was like, James,
just ignore the fly. And now the fly has flown thirteen hund miles
to where Chad is broadcasting, and now it is in his studio. Welcome
to the show. Got a good show on tap this week. Before we
get underway, I want to thank you guys for tuning in, and I
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cast branding, cast branding. So uh, Chad's quickly just he looks
like a He's just like a cat when you dig those laser pointers on the
ground. They're trying to find this lie, right, But brought to the
table first segment. While Chat is trying to he has his fly swatter in
his hand there and he's trying to No, no, it's a newspaper.
Sorry, it's a rolled up newspaper. But brought to the table this week.
That's how we kick off the show each and every week by brought to
the table. We don't crack beers until the mics are hot, and we
were about three minutes in, so it's time to crack a beer because it's
definitely hot outside. And this segment being brought to you by the backyard grill.
Backyard grills, serving up some cold beer, and it's extreme heat,
extreme heat. So, uh chat, Who's gonna kick things off this week?
Is gonna be you or me? Oh? I think you should go
first? Me? Yes, you, because I'm I kind of want I
kind of want to let you carry the whole show while I jump up next
time this fly lands on the door. I got this glass window here on
the door. I kind of want to just go jump up from the behind
the mic, open the door and let it out. And so your free
little buddy go, Chad is that's his goal for this episode is to defeat
the fly. All right. I got a listener complaint last week because I
didn't do this what time is it? We talked about Modelo dethroning bud Light,
and people were quite upset because I didn't play the Modelo Beame song.
So why am I playing this, Chad? Well, not to make good
on a listener complaints, but because what I am bringing to the table,
the number one beer in America. I'm going Modelo time food James. James,
I have to interrupt you right now. I need you to carry the
show for a minute. I need to go get another beer, otherwise we're
in big trouble. I'll be right back. Okay, Well, why Chad
does that? Now? The reason why I'm bringing a MODELO to the show
because well, but Leye sales had dropped since May, and the drop came
from, you know, the brand faced some backlash over the promotion. They're
featuring a trans influencer. But the Mexican logger a model He is now the
top selling beer in the US per Report. And that is what I am
bringing to the table. And I'm gonna crack this and put this in my
What's on Tap Radio cast branding glass, which is also known as the water
glass WoT R, and I pour that in there. That is the MODELO
ESPCLASA And yeah, I dugged up the specs on it because I want to
make sure that people know if they have never had it, maybe they've thought
about trying it. But according to the Untapped app it's a full flavored pilder
with a crisp taste, orange blossom, honey, aroma, light hoop character
makes this imported beer perfect for all occasions. That's very hot outside and this
comes to you at four point four percent alcohol by volume. All right,
what almost happened there. Well, James, I definitely did not bring Madelo
to the table. Definitely did not because if we bring the same beer again,
we never talk about this, We never talked about what we're gonna bring.
But if we bring the same beer to the table, that's the last
show. That's the last episode of What's on Tap Radio. Don't tell me
you were actually about to bring a modelo sc all to the table. I
am definitely not telling you that I was going to bring Wow, almost a
train wreck. So what I've brought to the table from Colorado Trivi Brewing Company
Tunnel of Trees, IPA and um, I'd love to tell you all about
this beer, but I'm not ready. Okay, for those that aren't,
aren't, aren't catching what's going on is that if Chad and I bring the
same beer to the table, because Chad and I don't talk about what beers
we're bringing to the show, we do not. In the event that we
bring the same beer to the show, this will be the last episode of
What's on Tap Radio. And Chad was not ready to let that happen.
I like doing this show way too much, and we were people of integrity.
We stand behind what we mean. So um uh, you know,
James, I might have to have a MODELO later on in the show.
All right, well, anyway, I guess the joy Adela as well,
so he'll be bringing that later on in the show. So look forward to
that little of Trees India pale Ale from Trivia Brewing Company. Really cool artwork,
kind of spooky looking there, and yeah, beautiful beautiful light gold to
dark straw color, white, pillowy head and big hop nose on this.
Let me take a quick sip am yep. That's when when you look up
IPA and you say, well, yeah, that's what that's what it's supposed
to taste like, and it does. Chinook Centennial and Citra Hops. We'll
talk more about that beer, um after we pause for a little break.
But before we pause for a break, we want to thank the Backyard Grill
for bringing us brought to the table where we just avoided a train wreck who
crisis. James brought the number one best selling Madonna Especial, number one beer
in the United States, and I absolutely did not bring Medello to the table.
I brought the Trivi Trvee Brewing Company Tunnel of Trees ipa Wow, close
call there. All right, we gotta take a break. But on tap
this week we're gonna talk about drink flation and QR codes. All this is
so much more, but coming right up the official What's on Tap Radio fun
fact of the week. Wow, we almost crashed this plane, but we
didn't. We'll be right back spilling a beer. Oh no, the adult
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the weather is all right, thank you want to. It's like learning that
an asteroid miss the Earth by so many miles, yeah, or an airplane
almost collided in mid air by a few miles. By the way, I
don't know why they call that a near missy a near hit, because it
missed. It's not a near miss. It's a near hit, but as
an almost a hit. We almost had that happen on today's show. We
did. I mean, if there's ever anybody who ever doubts for one second
that one we don't plan for this show, I can tell you we absolutely
do. We are people of our word. We do a lot of show
prep and this is produced radio. But also we'd never tell each other what
beer we're bringing to the table, and ten years of the show, we
have not once done that. Nope. And and I'm let's just say,
I'm glad I had to let the fly out and the beer fridges right outside
the studio tour because we almost had the last episode of What's on Tappa Radio.
That was a close call. So the fly is gone. The fly
is gone. Yeah, fly is gone. Okay, So that's what I'm
blaming on it. Okay, I didn't have to get a beer. I
had to get a beer as a result of getting up and lending the fly
out. That's what it was. That's control, all right, brought you
by Superior Pest Control. That's right. That flies out of here, brought
to you by Superior Pest Control, West Michigan, all right. So yes,
I kicked it off with a motel of time Foo, the number one
beer in America, number one selling beer in America, that is. And
I just read a survey during the break the best parts of Summer. You
know, it came up twelve on the list, number twelve, number twelve
best parts of summer. The first sip of a beer on a hot day.
So in Houston, that's like February. I will tell you, in
the part of the country that I'm broadcasting in it is in the shade.
About one hundred and three. I saw a map. Somebody put a map
up and it showed Earth in the sun, and then three quarters of the
way between Earth and the sun was Houston. Yeah, I mean that's how
it feels. It feels like what did my wife say, like that it's
like Satan's armpit or something like that. But I can agree with that the
first sip of beer on a hot day because I went to a funeral last
week. We lost a friend of ours and as an outside funeral, and
they had coolers and coolers of MODELO at the reception, And I will agree
with that survey. The first sip of beer on a hot day. Very
nice, very nice. But yeah, so there you go. That's what
I brought to the table. And then Chad, you get a chance to
dig up some notes on the beer that you brought a little bit. Trivy
Brewing Company Tunnel of Trees. Interesting. When I looked up the stats on
it, a lot of people said it's a nice, easy drinking session five
percent beer, and I'm like, wait a minute, no, says seven
percent right on the can. So I don't know who did the note taking,
but there are a lot of places that had it listed as like a
five five point two percent, but it's a seven percent beer straight up American
IPA. Also interesting. I don't know the history. I was trying to
find something on the Tunnel of Trees story and why they called it Tunnel of
Trees from triv Brewing Company in Colorado. No data on that. However,
I did discover that Tunnel of Trees is a tourist location. It's an area,
it's a nice driving scenic tour in northern Michigan along the Michigan coastline.
And apparently it's a remote highway where you can travel in the fall and the
trees overlap and they cross over and it creates this tunnel of color. It's
absolutely beautiful. But here's the other thing I discovered about this can. This
is the first can I've ever seen in this form. This is interesting.
We've talked about this on once on Tap radio before and it says on here
gives you instructions for how to drink this. It says, rip the beer,
toss the label, and recycle the can and round here there's a little
perforated tab and it says on there below that the can is recyclable. The
label is not tear perforation to remove. So I'm going to look at this.
Oh that's cool, and the label comes right. Wow, I've never
seen a beer can like that. Look at that label. It's almost like
it's like a a you know you get those FedEx envelopes. Yes, you
pull the thing off the FedEx and you can open it that little string.
It's the same thing. And then but he pulls it and then the label
comes off. That's label. That's it's beautiful because it was on their super
tight and I mean there was no creases or anything. It was and there's
nothing sticky about it at all. It's great. I love it because we've
talked about that. We've learned that, Yeah, when you recycle your your
your beer cans, take the label off, because apparently you can't recycle the
labels, which is interesting to me. I just usually throw them in the
recycling bin. But you honestly you take the label off, but sometimes you
can't. But those you can take them off. Here's another here's another beer
can from the other night. And see how see how I'm struggling here.
Yeah, like this is and it's all sticky. Yeah, sometimes they come
off a little easier. Yeah, if you really want to get down and
like, you have to soak them in some hot water. But I'll just
throw them in the recycling band. All right, we gotta do this now.
The official What's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the Week, brought to
you by Who's Ever checked Clear? This week? Like I said last week,
just because it's summer doesn't mean you're not learning. Yea, that's right,
And I'm protecting the environment. While while that was running, I managed
to get that sticky label off. Now I gotta figure out what I'm gonna
do making a mess here in the studio. All right, it's time to
drop some knowledge bombs and learn a little bit. And if you're thirsty,
you've been known to go ahead and take big gulps of beer and you refreshing.
We talked about that number twelve on the list, the first taste of
beer on a hot day. Right, that's a good time. Yeah,
that's a really good time. And chances are, though, when you're when
you're really hot and you're thirsty, you take a big gulp and a MODELO
especial or any other light beer like that really refreshing, easy, you know
drinking. But um, I started wondering about this, like, hey,
who drinks a lot? Who really drinks a lot of beer? And then
what do we typically say to those people? You know, if my doctor
is listening, not me? Yeah, right, exactly, Yeah, that's
right. Uh, insurance company Nope, nope, nope. One or two
drinks a day and that's it man, And two drinks a week, that's
right, only on the weekends. Yeah, but uh, typically, whenever
we refer to somebody who has had a lot to drink or drinks a lot
as a habit, we we use the saying they drink like a Let see
if James can answer that question. Answer it, Yes, a fish like
a fish, Yes, drink like a fish. Well, we have talked
on this show about giving beer to fish. It turns out that if you
give beer to fish in your fish tank, you will likely kill them.
We talked about what happens whenever fish get drunk, and we've even talked about
people being arrested for abusing wildlife by feeding beer to fish. But what I
wanted to know is whether or not you could use beer as fish bait to
catch fish, because my wife was out fishing the other night and I wanted
to know could you use She says, I'm all out of worm, so
I just got to use a lure. And I thought, well, I've
got a beer. I wonder if we could just pour some beer out and
see we could catch some fish. So I poured a little beer out and
now I feel bad for wasting beer, but we didn't catch any fish at
all. But I wanted to know if you could do that. Now,
many will claim that you can use beer to attract certain types of fish,
but there's no scientific evidence of that works. However, the scientific evidence is
there that if you pour out beer into a lake to try and attract fish,
you will in fact waste beer. So that is science right there.
Just so you know. You can also marinade certain meats in beer, because
fish like marinated meat as well. But none of this is totistically proven to
work. But through the process of investigating this for this week's a fishal What's
on Tap Radio Fun Effect of the Week, I wanted to know the origin
of the phrase drink like a fish, because if you're drinking way too much
alcohol, that's what it is, Well, it comes from a writing in
sixteen forty Fletcher and Shirley's The night Walker. It was at play and it
was The night Walker or the Little Thief, which had the phrase give me
the bottle, I can drink like a fish, now like an elephant.
And I thought, oh, okay, well I don't really understand the context.
But then people started associating that with drink like a fish. All that
means I can drink a lot because it said give me the bottle, I
can drink like a fish, now like an elephant. And I was like,
wait a minute, what's that last part, like an elephant. Turns
out an elephant can drink beer and suck it through. It's that big old
snout. Yeah, oh yeah, the trunk at three hundred and thirty miles
an hour. And fish don't actually drink, they absorb alcohol because it goes
through their gilt. So your fisher, what's on tap radio? Fun fact
of the week Because the next time you want to associate somebody who drinks a
lot with an animal that drinks a lot, by all means, don't say
they drink like a fish, They drink like an elephant. Because an elephant
can suck beer at three hundred and thirty miles an hour, and it's very
first reference came with drink like a fish from a sixteen forty writing and that's
your fishal What's on Tap Radio? Fun Factor of the week. All right,
coming up, we're gonna talk about cancer warnings on labels, drink flation,
and QR codes. I gotta listener an email about QR codes. You're
a frustrated with this, so we're gonna talk about that. It's What's on
Tap Radio. Hang with this, we'll be right back. If you're buying
yourself drinking a beer and listening to the show, you're not drinking alone,
So be a pal and put your pants back on What's on tap? What's
on tap? This is what's on Tap Radio. I have to say Modela
aspect of y'all is almost done. I'm almost finished with it. I think
you're good. Talk about Ferman. Oh, here we go. Every time
we go, single time I bring a mass producer beer to the show,
I'll get an email or I'll get somebody send me a message on What's on
Tap Radio? Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram give me a beating. We
good do it? They get enough love you. Remember that time I was
at the backyard grill and somebody said I would buy you a beer, but
you wouldn't drink it. I said, absolutely, I drink. If you
want to buy me a beer, I will absolutely drink it. They said,
okay. They bought me a bud light and they put the button.
This is like probably four five years ago. They handed me a bud light
and I took that bud light and I held it up to take a drink.
And you would have thought the paparazzie was there, every single person in
taking pictures Swift coming out of a concert. This guy does a beer logic
show and he's drinking bud light. He does a beer radio show. He's
drinking bud light, And oh my goodness, the trolls came out and we
took a beating. Yeah, oh I don't care. I like Modela espatio.
I do I drink it um when it's available. I mean, I
don't go out and buy it. I don't really go out and buying much
beer at all. But I went, like I said, I went to
a funeral um last week, a front of ours, and then we had
a reception and we're in a heat wave and they coolers and coolers of Modelo.
Man, those dudes were talking so much trash about the beer that used
to be number one. They're like, yeah, we're taking over. Man.
Was it was a Mexican funeral. I love those guys. They were.
They were making me laugh, like, you're not gonna catch that.
I'm like gonna use the word that they were they said, yeah, but
there were there were celebrating the fact that Modello was number one now. But
no, it's it's not a bad beer. And then a question is they
asked me put a line in or no, I don't put a line in
it. No. And the reason being is, you know why they put
limes in beers is because it keeps the flies away, not because they're in
trying to hance the flavors. Because back in the day, they would put
limes in their beer to keep the flies away when they're you know, drinking
on the beach or whatever it was. But uh there, Yeah, there's
so many different Yeah. I mean, first of all, lots of reasons
to garnish drinks. I don't see a lot of reasons to garnish beer.
I just I like to drink beer. The way it is. I remember
the one time I was with Tantric Brewing Company, Patrick and Taniel. There's
our first name drop of the show. I got, I got it.
But yeah, they came over to the Beer Logic World headquarters and drinking emporium
and we did the Martin House. It was the Buffalo Wing Beer and you
were supposed to rim the glass with ranch dressing. Gross. Well, James,
if I may, Martin House is at it again. Oh okay,
before we get into the story, I have to say I am a big
fan of Martin House. They made great beers in Fort Worth, Texas.
But every now and then they'll come out with some gimmicky stuff that gets people
talking. And here we go with a new one. I know. It's
just they never stop. They just don't stop, and I don't think,
and they don't care. They take a beating and this is just I've yet
to see anybody say this is amazing stuff. I love it and I've got
to have it. People say, oh, I got my hands on it,
can't wait to try it, and then the other half the people say,
gross, they'd never try this. Well, let's just say Martin House
is, like I said, done it again. Their annual Glizzie Fest.
Now, if you're not familiar with the slang term glizzie it is it means
a hot dog. I didn't remember we talked about that on the show before.
I forgot what that meant. But Glyzzie means hot dog. And so
it's their annual hot dog fast Glizzie Fest, and Martin House Brewery came up
with yet another one of a kind offering for its Glizzie Fest. And so
in the summertime, you're thinking about all the food essentials, of course hot
dogs are gonna make the list. And of course, assuming you're old enough
to drink, you're gonna have your beer and your alcohol. Well, Fort
Worth, Texas Martin House Brewing Company found a way to combine beer and hot
dogs. Now, last year they created a hot dog water flavored hard Seltzer.
Yes you heard me correctly, ladies and gentlemen, if you're not familiar
with Martin House, that's the kind of extremes that they're willing to go to
to shock you and also get really great press and people line up and buy
this stuff. But last year they create a hot dog water flavored hard Seltzer,
and well they're back at it again. Here they go. It's borderline
trolling, is what it is. But they have created a mustard flavored beer,
a mustard flavored hot dog beer. Yep, that's right, this is
it. So again the Glizzie sling for hot dog. They wanted to partner
with Fletcher's Corny Dogs and serve a mustard flavored beer both in tall boy cans
and on draft. Now they've offered. This is where they kind of came
up with their pickle beer and their barbecue sauce beer and even mayonnaise flavored offering.
Suit. Yeah, well that was not part of Glizzie though. That
was not okay. Glyzzie gave us the pickle, barbecue, sauce, mayonnaise.
And now they're like, well, Fletcher's Corny Dogs, what what do
you put on a corn dog? Mustard? Of course, don't tell me
you put ketchup on a corn dog? Don't you dare I put mayonnaise on
a corn dog? I don't, I don't. I'm just kiddy. I'm
just kidding. Come at me, James and Radio. Now we do have
we do have a friend in Houston. I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm
gonna go ahead, and name drop him, um channing so down there at
Noby and somebody brought him a can of this Fletcher's Corny Dog Mustard beer and
he poured it into a glass and I'm not kidding you, it looked like
watery mustard. You know that mustard water if you don't shake up the mustard
and you turn it upside down and goes I hate that when you when you
don't shake it up and it goes all over your hot dog like it looked
just like that. So anyway, fort Worth Brewery Martin House does it again
for their Glizzie Fest. Can't wait till next year whenever they come out with.
I don't know what do they what? What? What? What do
you do? You did mayonnaise, maybe ketchup? I don't know. I
don't think they've done to ketchup one hot dog water. They did hot dog
water, Seltzer mustard, pickley, onion. Oh you know how onions and
off flavor and beer. You don't our krout? Oh now we're talking.
See look at this, see this, I just bought into the hike.
Look what happened, James? I love sour krout. You got my attention
just like that, I hate myself. I'm gonna go slap myself around sweet
relish. Gross. They already got the pickle. They already got the pickle,
So why don't we sweeten it up a little bit? It with a
sweet roller. Yeah, you could do something like that, but I don't
know. I don't know, But a sour kraut beer, I don't know.
Man, I'm I'm I hate to say it, but I'm intrigued.
Let us know. If there's Martin House, there might be one's Martin House.
The gauntlet's been put out there, the challenge. Do you accept the
challenge to make a sour kraut beer? Like I said, I'm a huge
fan of of Martin House. I see those folks out there at the text
Craft Brewers Guild meetings and such super super cool people. Yeah, and they
know what they're doing. They know what they're doing, and I don't even
know if they necessarily like it, but hey, it gets people talking,
so good on them. All Right. So I got a question. You
want to reassess your relationship to figure out which ones are still worth time investing.
So you meet a friend, or you're maybe dating somebody, or somebody's
new to your group, and you're like, do I really feel comfortable with
this person? Do I really want to like spend time with this person?
Well, I got two questions. I will help you invest whether or not
this person's worth hanging out with. Okay, it's called the two Beers and
a Puppy method, and it's simple. It's a simple two question test that
tells you basically everything you need to know about how you feel about a friend,
co worker, family member, or basically anyone. So maybe yeah,
you gotta working at a job and this new person seems cool. It's hard
as this new person seems cool, maybe I'll want to go catch a happy
hour with them, but answer these two questions whether or not you really want
to go hang out with them. Question number one, would you want to
have two beers with this person? Think about two beers. Think about how
much time you take to drink each beer. So that's how much time you're
hanging out with this person. Okay, there's something there's something to that,
because real quick, I gotta interchect here. If you say yeah, I'll
have a beer. If it's going south, you could say you can just
finish the beer quick and say, hey, I gotta go exactly if you
But if you make the commitment to say, yeah, I can do one
more, that's your way of saying I can keep this going. Nailed it,
Chad nailed it. Next question on the two beers in a puppy test,
would you trust this person to look after your puppy for the weekend?
Going out of town? Can't take the puppy with you? Maybe you're flying,
Hey, do you mind watching my puppy for me? So if you
answer a clear yes to both, that means you really value a relationship with
that person and you like them and you trust them. But if you answer
to one or both questions no, you have to make a choice. Should
you invest time fixing the relationship or is it a sign that you've grown too
far apart and it's time to move on now when you fix the relationship,
does that mean if they say no to watching your puppy that you need to
fix the relationship. You wouldn't You wouldn't ask them no and they say no,
You're you're asking yourself. Would you trust this person to watch? Right?
No? No, I get that, I get that. But okay,
if you wouldn't trust them to watch, oh, I see Okay,
it's not that. No, they hate what they hate dogs, but in
general are all around a good person. And then now you're like, okay,
I wouldn't trust them watch puppy because they hate dogs, but I'd let
them watch my uh my kid. Oh see see the puppy. You gotta
do the puppy, not the kid kids a little bit, yeah, because
yeah, they gotta. So there's a two beers and a puppy test that
is quick way to figure out if you want to have someone in your life,
whether it's a new coworker or a new relationship, whatever it is.
If you can answer these two questions, would you want to have two beers
with this person? Or would you trust this person look after your your puppy
for the weekend. And that's a good assessment whether or not you want to
have a relationship with this person. So, but then in your back pocket
next time you meet somebody new, all right, we gotta take a break.
Coming up, we gotta talk to it. I gotta listener to email.
Frustrated with the QR code, So we'll get into that. It's what's
on tap radio, will be right back. Think all you want. We
prefer to drink outside the box. You have good taste. Hey, what's
on tap? This is what's on tap? Radio? So hot, so
hot, definitely hot out there. Oh, welcome back, welcome back.
Trying to cool off here on the radio. Is very hot out there.
Summer has arrived. I gotta agree with this list of things people look forward
to in the hot summer days, taking that first sip of a cold beer.
Man, I can't disagree with that. Now here's my question. We
talked about the different types of beer. Actually, I don't know if we
ever did talk about this. I'm gonna go off memory here. You know
what. This is not on the one sheet, and I think we talked
about it in a production meeting, But the different types of beers that are
the best beers. And one was the airport beer, like waiting for your
plane beer. Was the shower beer, the shower beer, the lawnmower beer,
the after workout beer, the right before bed beer, the boat beer.
You know, I mean, all the different ones. I'm gonna ask
this. This is a question for you, James. Okay, do you
do you ever find yourself looking at the yard saying, don't really need to
mow it? But I sure could go for a lawnmowing beer. So I'm
gonna go mow just so I could have a lawnmower beer. Absolutely, I
did that the other day. I did that the other day. I swear.
I was like, I really could go for a beer right now,
but I feel lazy if I'm just sitting around like day drinking and I said,
you know what, I'm gonna be productive. I'm gonna mow this grass
that doesn't need to be mowed just so I can have a beer. Well,
there would be times I get so busy and then I don't get a
chance to get to the yard and it just gets out of control. I
like to take advantage of the times I do have to knock out yard work.
So even if i'd mow the grass, I don't know three or four
days ago, especially right now and this time of year, the grass really
grows quick. Ye'hall get out there and look at him like, you know
what. I'm gonna go out there in mo because I got a nice cold
beverage waiting for me when I'm done. Oh see, see, I have
a riding lawn. More so, I actually drink while I mo Oh see,
I I have an acre. I have an acre of land to mo
so it's not like it's not like I've got you know, you know what
is it a forty by twenty area or whatever foot yard like I do?
Yeah, whatever that is? Yeah, I do the math, carry the
thirteen, move the decimal point. I don't know, but um, I
do like having a riding lawn more. I will tell you though, that
the cup holder on a riding lawn more pretty useless because first first bump you
hit, boom, it's gone, it's out, and you're like, oh,
there there goes that. Um so yeah, so I'm I'm I'm I'm
single. You know, I got one hand on the wheel, the other
on a beverage and um the only other time I've done that. I'm gonna
throw this out. I know you're thinking, Chad, don't you say it.
Don't tell me you went booze cruising and you went driving drinking and drive.
No I did not, Well, I did, but not like you
think. Dave and Busters. I love going to a Dave and Busters and
getting on one of those racing video games. And of course you got to
use automatic I can't use manual transmission because you got a beer in one hand.
And you're driving those racing games. That's a lot of fun, but
remember it stays in a virtual environment. Never ever ever drinking drive. I
know there's one person out there, Maybe not, but I like to think
there is asking me if what's the latest on my lawnmower situation? Oh oh,
did we had a listener an alley and come up and say, hey,
let James know you can still get parts for a Craftsman. Yeah.
I have this old Craftsman lawnmower. I was about twelve years old and a
part broke on it, and so I started calling around. And it's very
difficult to get Craftsman parts because Sears sold Craftsman to lows and apparently if you
want to get parts, it's a whole mess in its place. So anyways,
got a lawn moore, Chad, it's not right way to go.
I got a nice new lawn more. But I maybe remember though, when
I first got this Craftsman lawnmower twelve years ago. I think my wife somebody
bought me a cup holder four my lawn more, a swinging cup holder so
I could put a walker. Yeah, so I could put a beer on
the lawnmower on a walk behind. You have a cup holder on a walk
behind the lawn. Yeah, but it didn't last very long because once I
took a quick angle on a fence, popped right off. Oh yeah yeah,
you get too close. Yeah yeah, it works great, but in
reality is not Did you have to assemble the lawn more? Yes? I
did? Okay, So now can we add to the list the lawn Moore
assembly beer? Do you have a beer while you were assembling the law?
It's like the we should call that the Ikea beer. It's the beer that
you get to have when you have it. All I really had to do
was just put those grew things on to put the handles up. It wasn't
really like I was like, all right, carburetor goes here, uh,
you know, spark plug and it already comes pretty much assembled. All I
had to do was really just kind of pop the wheels in. Okay,
put some screws in, and it was good to go. But I mean,
I guess I could have had a celebratory Yeah, I think you're you're
selling yourself short. You miss an opportunity to have a beer there. In
fact, I'm gonna officially declare that the Ikea beer anytime you have to assemble
something, and we all know how frustrating it can be to assemble a piece
of Ikea furniture. Um, you absolutely need to have a beer for that.
So the Ikea beer adding that to the I'm adding that to the list
of best beers. How about the fact that if you put something together from
my Kea and you don't have pieces left over? Yes, celebratory beer,
because sometimes I feel like when I put something together from my kids, like,
why do I have extra pieces? Oh? It's yeah, and you
know and there's next steps yep, yep, you know what's gonna happen too,
because when you have those extra parts and pieces, you're like, well,
I don't know when, but at some point in time, it's gonna
start wobbling, it's gonna fall, and something's gonna be crooked always And do
you go back? That's step four out of nineteen. Do I really go
back and undo everything? Or could I just work around it? Yeah?
You're lazy. Yeah. I got a new lawnmar Chad and it works really
nice. And speaking of mowing the grass every couple of days, now,
I got a new lawnmar It's self repelled and it goes like four miles an
hour. It will rip your shoulders off if you're not careful. I take
advantage of the old mowen and celebratory beer or a nice cold beer afterwards.
Very nice. But speaking of reaching out to us, what's on tap radio
at gmail dot com. I got a listener who went out to a brewery.
Didn't say what brewery it was, nor where they are from, but
rather frustrated with the QR codes. Now, a lot of restaurants started embracing
QR coast during the pandemic because basically people were thinking more about the Germany laminated
or just paper menus they got, and a lot of places just stuck with
QR codes. Apparently this place that this guy went to, and this person
was very frustrated to the fact that no menus is all just QR codes.
So chad thoughts on the QR codes today, I have no problem with it
because most of the QR codes work and your phone can recognize them. Um,
it's it's because of COVID and how everybody had it. I'm just gonna
say it, how everybody had it wrong during the plandemic because they did remember
when we had to wipe down our groceries before we brought them inside, because
well, there might be covidar outside for like ten minutes before you can bring
them in, right, spraying with lysol and all that other stuff. And
it's like, okay, wait, is COVID on the menu? Wait?
Wait? If COVID on the menu, don't print menus anymore, use COVID
QR codes. I'm like, oh my gosh, anti COVID codes is what
they were, and it created a habit that most of us. You know,
it's like, you didn't have a choice. No, we don't have
menus. So if you want to order a beer or order anything, you
have to use the QR code. And even if you didn't like it,
you went damn, it didn't matter. You did it because that's the only
choice there was. Now it doesn't matter what your preference was. Now I'm
okay with it. I don't like it, but I'm okay with it.
Well, hey, I used to hate it. A new poll asked where
they prefer seventy one percent would rather just stick with a paper menu seventy one
percent. I'm in that seventy one percent. I'd rather ten percent prefer the
QR codes and fifteen percent just didn't carry either way. I fall in that
ten percent because I like QR codes because they're up to date, and I
don't like touching menus because the menus are dirty. I know they wipe them
down, but how often are they really wipe them. I mean, I
know they do that at the end of shifts and maybe the beginning, but
when they're turning and burning tables, they're not sitting there trying to, you
know, disinfect menu. So I'm a fan of the QR codes, but
apparently seventy one percent would rather look at a paper menu, ten percent QR
codes, and fifteen percent just didn't care out of the way anyway. But
broken down my demo, QR codes are more popular out West among younger people.
For example, people in their twenties about one in five preferred QR codes,
and people sixty five year older it's one in one hundred, obviously,
So if that makes sense because young people are used to working off their phones
for everything, right, But the one perk for the boomers is that your
phone you can make a screen brighter and zoom in on the font on a
menu. So that's fascinated that only ten percent preferred QR codes, and yet
more and more people are going that way. So I'm telling you, in
ten years, we're not even having menus anymore. Just mark my words.
All right, that's our number one of What's on Tapredo. Coming up next
hour, we're gonna talk about drink flation, cancer warnings on beer labels,
and we got a not all heroes work cape stories. What's on Taparedo,
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you to drink inflation. We gotta not all heroes where a cape story,
Miller Light's got a new gimmick. All this is so much more. We're
gonna see, we'll see if it's a gimmick or not. You know,
you know, I'm gonna try and buy it. I'm gonna try to buy
it, and we'll see whether or not it's available. But yeah, that's
you know, it's not. That's just a little teacher of what we have
on tap this hour. But uh, Chad, Chad, He's I know
it's weird because I wanted to look at the again. I'm looking at this
Trivi Brewing Company tunnel of trees I PA and the label is off the beer
can because it came off so easy. Now I can easily recycle that can.
But um, the next beer that I have, well, I'm gonna
go ahead and crack this one open to start the second hour, ladies and
gentlemen, I'm gonna open up the best selling beer in the United States of
America. Oh, yeah, you know what time it is? Yeah?
Oh? Is it all right? It's a time yeah, fool, let's
go. No, Modelo was not a sponsor of the show. We're just
giving a little love because it's the number one beer in America now. And
we definitely did not bring the same beer to the table to start the show.
We definitely did not do that because if that happens, we're in big
trouble. But this is Modelo Especiel. It's brewed in Mexico. It's the
number one selling beer in the United States. Yeah. And until I got
my hands on this, you got yours from a funeral. Yeah, I
got mine from a wedding. True story. No, because I was in
Colorado, which, by the way, Trivy Brewing Company, that's where I
started out. I got that my son got married in Aspen, Colorado.
So I went out there and picked up some beer along the way, and
we put together a beer cooler for the groomsman and he says, hey,
Dad, can I throw in some beer in the cooler. I'm like yeah,
So he throws a bunch of beer in there, and we never cleaned
it out. So I ended up bringing it home and I was like,
oh, look, Madelo. So millennials are drinking Madelo because that's all they
were drinking. They had that going in some shiner bach and okay, yeah
knocked down, So there you go. Yeah, I had a That's how
I got Madello in my beer fridge. It's not like I went out and
said, oh, I gotta buy the number one best selling beer in America.
My kid already did and he threw it my beer cooler and I just
I picked it up. Yeah. This was purchased at a comedian store in
Aspen, Colorado. Yeah, traveled Uh oh wow, that's a long trip.
I gotta remember how far it was, as like fifteen hundred miles.
So I didn't notice this until I don't. I remember I broke down the
tasting profile before. But honey, you get honey, taste hints of honey
on it. It says that in the tasting notes on the It says in
the tasting notes, and it must be. But I when I tasted it,
I was like, you know what, Yeah, that is I taste
honey. I should have checked some chests GPT and see what it says.
What am I tasting chat GPT, honey, hold my beer and watched this
Brought to you by the Ring Alda ten Haken Insurance grew where they'll cover you
for just about everything except this. Oh this week, Chad, we are
hopping across the pond. Speaking of far away, we are hopping across the
pond. Oh man, this store is fun. A robber in England was
sentenced to three years in jail for attempted robbery, but only thanks to a
quick thinking victim that he ended up in police custody in the first place.
So his name's Martin Tremble. He was thirty years old and he walked into
a convenience store last month in Durham City with a knife. With a knife
that was his weapon of choice, he picked up a four pack of beer
and used his knife to threaten the store owner. Rather than let Tremble would
just walk away, the store owner ran outside and closed the door, holding
it tight, trapping the thief and side. The shop owner, who wanted
to remain unnamed, then lowered the storefront shutter and effort to make sure Tremble
didn't escape. Tromble tried to avoid capture again by breaking the door free of
the shop's owner's grip and trying to slip before the shutter had fully descended,
but the shutter was too low, and Tremble found himself pinned to the ground.
His torso was outside and open to the street. Oh my gosh,
he watched one too many movies from the eighties, like Indiana Jones or Goonies
when they slipped through the door, quick, give me your hand, just
slipped through at the last minute, or mission impossible where you lay down him
roll underneath the door as it's closing. It stuck. He was pinned down
to the ground. Realizing he was realizing that he was eaten, Trumble cracked
open one of the beers. He tried to steal and drink it while he
waited for the police to take him away. Okay, that is okay,
that is the silver lining in the entire story. Oh my gosh, that
is how you do it. It's like going to jail anyway. I'm not
gonna have any beer there. Might as well get my last one in right
now before they rest. Officers actually made it there in three minutes after receiving
the call, and they rested Tremble. So I'm not sure whether or not
who's able to finish that first beer or maybe he you know, had two
beers, but three minutes did it say, did it say what kind of
beer he had? Unfortunately it did not. But if I'm gonna take a
guess, old speckle n, I'm going with Fosters. Okay, I'm going
old speckle Hun. But that's a lot of people are like, wait a
minute, Fosters Australian for beer. But here's the thing, here's the thing.
Number one country. But it's fun fact. Number one country that drinks
the most Fosters the United Kingdom. Yeah, but it won't be old speckle
Hn comes in six packs. This was a four pack. Oh, definitely
not Fosters. Yeah. So I don't know. But he did plead guilty
to the charge of attempted robbery in a possession of a knife and was sentenced
to prison. And that quote from one of the police officers, it wasn't
the most difficult arrest we've ever made, to be honest. It was an
open and shut case. Oh play awords, that's a pun I see open
and shut. Oh my goodness, so your whole my beer. And watched
this knife welding thief busted after store owner traps him in the shutters. So
this has been brought to you by a re al it's a Nakan insurance group.
Well, yeah, they'll insure you for lots of things. Ain't gonna
shure you for this one. Not ensuring this guy, that's for sure.
They'll cover the store. Yeah, they'll cover the store. They got to
replace that door, you know, maybe the shutter. I'm sure there was
some damage to the shutter. That that's right, Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, your business here and Smish can reach out to our buddy John clunder
RTI Grand Rapids dot Com. All right, we're gonna take a break.
Coming up catcher warnings on beer labels, and we'll introduce you to drink inflation.
This is what's on tap radio. We'll be right back. Craft beer.
It's not alcoholism. It's a hobby. This is what's on tap radio.
I never like to be so bad to you. One thing I said,
I got good news and I got bad news. Bad news is I'm
not a beer. But the good news is I got another one ready to
go on the on deck circle. So let's give it a little round of
applause. You know it's that slow clap I just did. That's my round
of applause with the beer I have on deck oh, wait a minute,
I know what you're drinking. Hold on a second, Can I start off?
Hold on, I want to do another round of applause. Hold one
more time. Here we go. Let me give a round of applause for
the beer I have on deck. All right, now that we got that
out of the way, You're too kind, You're too kind, You're too
kind. Okay, Holli Brewing Company. Can I guess what it is?
You can guess what it is? Chad? Is it slow Clap? It
is slow Clap, hollebur and Company out of Houston, Texas. This is
their India pail, all at six point six percent alcohol by volume. It's
an a Oh my gosh, such hacky radio. It's such hacky radio.
But you know whatever, I'm gonna care. Yeah, people listen. People
listen for the content, not for the hackiness. But the hackiness is just
what added value. All right. So I am going to take a sip
out of my What's on tap radio cast breading glass. The water glass w
t R one has a wide, wide mouth on that glass. Let all
those are aromatics out some big berth on that one. That's right. Yeah,
here we go. Case those of you are wondering, Yes, I'm
still drinking out of the Boston Logger glass from Sam Adams Bright mangoes, citrus
aromas, grapefruit and pineapple with a hent of grain Pala's light. It finishes
crisp o. Obviously, the check from Huggy Bear cleared because he's reading that
perfect Huggy Bear. Oh there's a name drop right there, all right,
drop a name right there. He's the brewer over Holler Brewing Company. Slow
clap, Yeah, six point six percent alcohol by volume, Holler Brewing Company,
India, palel. Interesting about this IPA twenty five IBus. That's international
bitterness units. Remember usually the higher the number of the more beer the beer
twenty five IBus, which is rather low. Yeah, but it's it's perceived
bitterness units. Because so, yeah, it's a chemical or yeah, it's
a mathematical formula that gives you the composition of it. But let's just be
honest. If you had a Russian Imperial stout, you may have a Russian
Imperial stout that has something like sixty or seventy IBus, and you're like,
wait a minute, it's gonna be really bitter. No, it's not,
because it's overpowered by everything else, right, so it's really comes into context.
But yeah, it's nice, but you'll like it all right. Well,
one of the other things I want to mention right now, not on
the one sheet, and we did not discuss, but I want to mention
this. We've had some really good friends of the show, and even people
who don't know us that well, they just fans the show listeners, and
they've sent us beer. If you want us to drink your beer. This
goes out to you brewers. There's something you want us to bring to the
table, something you want us to crack open on the show and try and
uh give you our thoughts on it. All you gotta do. Send us
some beer if you well, not to promise you that we're gonna bring it
to the show. It all depends. There's lots of lots of red tape.
Okay, I'll go ahead and tell you this right now here in Michigan.
Here in Michigan, I cut through the red tape. I bust through
it. Okay. Now, you may not like what I have to say
about your beer, but I will be I will be fair, I'll be
honest, and I will not be brutal um for the sake of that.
But if you want, you know, burs you want, you want to
get your beer on the show. I mean like our buddy Bill, you
know, you know our buddy Bill, he's brought his beer. Um,
we got of course Tantric Brewing Company. You know Patrick, he's brought his
beer. We've got some other beers that have been dropped off by listeners.
Um. So if you want to have us crack open a beer, you
can do that. And if you want to know how to do that,
send us an email. What's on tap radio at email dot com. Speaking
of that, what's on taptot gmail dot com. We put out the question
earlier, how do you feel about QR codes? And you can sound off
going to our social media what's on tapreto Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram or
TikTok or send us an email what's on tapreo at gmail dot com. That's
what's on tapreto at gmail dot com. How do you feel about QR codes?
Meaning when you go to a restaurant, you go to a brewery,
you ask for a menu and they say, oh, well, I'm sorry,
we don't have menus, but we do have the QR codes on the
tables. So if you want to scan that. I had a listener reach
out to us rather frustrated because I don't know whether their phone died or maybe
they didn't have a smartphone, maybe they don't have a phone at all.
I don't know what it was, but they were rather aggravated the fact that
this place they went to did not have at paper menu. It was all
on QR codes, And so they reach out to us and ask us our
thoughts on it. Chad says that he prefers a paper menu. I however,
I'm a QR code. Let's go. I can scan it. It
brings up the menu and in most of the time it's up to date.
A lot of times where these laminated menus or the paper menus, they're not
up to date, especially when they have beer rotating. The cure codes that
are updated a lot quicker than the paper menus. But that's just my opinion.
What's yours. Reach out to us, let us know your thoughts on
the cure codes. All right, Well, speaking of letting you know,
letting us know your thoughts, this is a story that comes to us from
the United Kingdom, and uh, I just I'm just gonna go ahead and
put this one out here. How does everybody feel about inflation? Love it
right, everybody loves fan. I got a poster on inflation, poster on
my wall. Love it. Let's big fans go, declining value of the
dollar. I'm loving it. Well, there's this thing that's going on in
the marketplace right now, particularly with food, and it's called shrink inflation.
And if you're not familiar with it, what's happening is is packages rather than
or producers of food. Rather than raising the cost to be able to produce
food and passing those costs onto the consumer, they're keeping the prices exactly the
same. However, they are making the packages smaller. So basically what's happening
is is you're getting less food for your dollar. And it's called shrinkflation because
they're shrinking the packages but keeping the price of the food item the exact same.
Now, this is happening with cereal, pastas, sauces, all kinds
of anything that's packaged. Jimmy sausage, Oh, all that, yes,
all that stuff. So that's happening. Well with brewers. They are faced
with a similar crisis because in the United Kingdom, brewers are taxed based on
the strength of their beer based on the alcohol level, and with the rising
cost of production and inflation worldwide, they are having to pay more in tax
and they don't want to charge more for their beer because then people will start
consuming lesser shop for more discount brands. However, you would think, all
right, they're just gonna follow the same shrink flame model. Well, with
shrink flation, that would require them to change the package size. Well,
cans and bottles are consistent for beer and beverages throughout the United Kingdom and also
they pretty much throughout the world. It's a really big undertaking to do that.
So what are they doing, ladies and gentlemen breweries in the United Kingdom
in order to avoid passing on higher cost to you and be able to pay
for the cost increases and the taxes are now lowering the ABV. Yeah,
so if you think about this, in the United Kingdom, for the most
part, all their beers are pretty sessionable. They're already pretty low in ABV.
Well, they are lowering it even more, and it's a phenomenon being
described as drink flation, where the alcohol by volume is being dropped. So
for example, Foster's Lager being dropped from four percent to three point seven and
other breweries that are lowering it Spitfire, Old Speckled Hen, Oh Yeah,
and Bishop's Finger and the move has not been ruled out by big brewers like
Heineken, Amstell, John Smith's and Newcastle Brown. This savings could save them
a considerable amount of money in taxes without having to pass on the increased cost
to the consumer. So what they're saying is is that this is a lower
ABV. They're lowering the ABV to a point that the basic consumer would not
be able to recognize the difference. But it's their version of shrink inflation.
So as costs go up as the value of the pound, the British pound,
or the euro or the dollar go down with inflation, rather than making
it more expensive to buy their product, they are lowering the ABV to save
on taxes. So what do you think about that? Session beers being lowered
even more to save on taxes. What ifthing's gonna happen worldwide? I think
it's going to happen worldwide. High Well, if you're paying based on an
alcohol, you're paying based on the ABV, I think it's gonna happen.
That's crazy, man. Drink flation keep that in your vernacular in there,
all right. Speaking of news around the world, coming up, we're gonna
talk about cancer warnings on beer labels. We touched on it a few months
back, but now we got an updates what's on tap rat It will be
right back. I don't know where you people come from. I don't know
if you test your products. Your products very delicious, love your sausage for
thirty something years, but I can't take and feed a family of five on
a little twelve ounce roll of sausage. I don't mind paying any more money
for your sixteen ounce roll of sausage, but you don't have it anymore.
You've got a twelve ounce roll, and you've got three men that weigh over
two hundred pounds a piece, a woman that's a little plump, and a
daughter who's thirteen. And you're gonna try to take a twelve bounce roll of
sausage and a couple of dozen eggs and feed that. It ain't gonna work.
And I'm not gonna purchase your product anymore or ever again. And as
far as you're sixteen ounces and maple and sage, I don't eat that.
I'm not in the North I'm a Texas man. Jimmy Dean sausage is for
Southern people to eat with the breakfast, with the fried eggs and the tea
bone steaks. And I'm not going to buy two of those twelve ounce packages
just because you want to downsize and charge the same price. Goodbye. When
someone says hold my beard, you know a trip to the er is in
your future. So hold your own beer, buddy, and just listen to
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you're good, got thumbs up? All right. The question of the
day is how do you feel about QR codes? You go to a restaurant
and you ask for a menu and they go, no, we don't have
menus anymore. If you scan the QR codes, we'll pull up the menu.
How do you feel about that? We had a listener to reach out
to us at What's on Tap Radio at gmail dot com. Rather frustrated that
establishment, they went to did not have paper menus or laminated menus. They
had QR codes. And I feel as we go more and more into the
future that thing like menus, things like menus and laminating all that's just gonna
be a thing in the past. My kids will be like, I remember
when we had paper menus. Okay, gen xers, Oh, this is
what's gonna happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, gen x all
right, yeah, I remember when AI didn't scan your eyebrow and know exactly
what you wanted to drink. He was thinking of you. Yeah, you
know what's going to happen too, It already does. I feel like there's
many times I've been scrolling on social media and things I've thought of, Like
I thought of, you know what, I probably need to get a new
barbecue pit. Never said it out loud. The next thing, you know,
I see barbecue pits on sale at home depot lows Amazon, Like,
whoa, I never said that, How does it know? Here's the crazy
thing. There are not enough warnings out there about social media. I mean,
people talk about it like be careful and oh, by the way,
AI is listening, and Google's listening, and Facebook is listening and there are
all these warnings that we kind of haphazardly, just kind of nonchalantly throw around,
and they're like, oh yeah, you know. And we even tell
our kids like, don't spend too much time on social media. It'll we're
at your brain and all these other you know, ruin your attention span and
all this other stuff. There's really not a lot of sign let me say
this differently, there's not a lot of backed enforcement of these of these.
Remember whenever Nancy Reagan or this I'm gonna date myself, Nancy Reagan used to
say, um, you know, don't do drugs, just say no.
And then they had the little egg in the frying pan. Yeah, and
that was the most shocking drug This is your brain. This is your brain
on drugs, any questions. I mean, it was the most simple thing,
and we all just knew it was like, all right, don't do
drugs. It fries your brain. Okay, cool, And everybody got behind
that. The social media phenomenon. Not everybody has gotten behind And now I'm
intrigued by this other thing. And this is a story brought to us by
superior past control. And I know you've got it in your hand right there.
Simpson, there's a warning out there that beer causes cancer. So does
putting health warning really help? That's the question also, because that's what you
just asked, Like does putting health warning or warnings on anything? Once upon
a time we pay real attention to warnings. Case in point, Chad,
what would happen if you ripped the warning tag off your mattress in the eighties?
What would happen? Oh, dude, No you First of all,
the police would be on your door, dude. Or yeah, if you
ripped the tag off your mattresses, do not remove this tag and nobody would
do it. But as soon as you ripped it warning. But we used
to, we used to pay attention to warnings. But now do we really
pay attention to warnings? But I have all countries, all countries, I
would have never never imagined this country being the first to put a label warning
on their alcoholic beverages, warning about cancer Ireland. Ireland is going to be
the first nation. Ireland is going to be the first nation in the world
to label alcoholic beverages with help warnings. What are you saying about the Irish
jeans, I'm just saying, I like it's the last nation that you would
have expected to be first. Stephen Dilly, he's the Health Minister for Dublin,
has approved new rules that would educate consumers about the dangers of alcohol consumption
for their health, as well as calorie counts. Ireland's toughest health warnings on
beer wine spears have alarmed countries that produce alcohol because they claim that labels will
obstruct business in advance and well maybe an advancers thing if people follow the warning
labels. If we pay attention to warning labels, then yeah, it'll obstruct
business. I mean there's Surgeon General labels on every single beer we drink.
How many of us really go? Mm? Should I not drink this because
of this warning label? You know it's funny you say that because I'm holding
in my hand a MODELO can right here and tasting notes. According to the
Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverage. Oh wait, that's not
a tasting note. Never mind, But it didn't stop me from buying it.
So. In advance of this week's committee meetings of the World Trade Organization,
the USA, Mexico have expressed worry over the law. New Zealand,
Argentina Australia and Chile have expressed concerns about the law that Ireland approved about putting
these new warnings on alcoholic beverages. According to the reports, at least nine
members of the countries that produce wine beards oppose the decision, but European Commission
gave Ireland the go ahead. The Irish government said that the legislation would align
the packaging specifications for alcoholic beverages for those of for foods, and the labels
will include information on the risk of liver disease, possibly deadly cancers, drinking
while pregnant. The law, which will take place an effect in twenty twenty
six, would prominently display the risk of liver damage, cancer and drinking while
pregnant on the alcoholic beverage containers in big red letters. Oh whoa good,
oh, big red letters. Yeah, so it's gonna have the warnings on
risk of liver damage, cancer, drinking while pregnant on every alcoholic beverage container
in big red letters. Oh well, that'll scare us. Yeah so.
Ireland is known for blazing new paths in healthcare. In two thousand and four,
of the nation was the first two bands smoking in pubs restaurants and workplaces.
I guess I didn't realize that. I didn't either. But does putting
a health warning really help Ireland's bold move to put cancer warnings on beer,
sparks, fear and amongst other countries. But I feel like you can put
warning cancer warnings on every single product. Whatever it is, fried foods,
anything causes cancerer. I know there's a hair dryer, do not use in
the bathtub. Listen. That warning is not for the person who would use
it in the bathtub. They're gonna do it anyway. That's that warning is
there so that we can make fun of the people who are going to use
it in the bathtub. By the way, this public service announcement brought to
you by What's on tap Radio. Don't use a hair dryer in the bathtub.
No, it's in a bad move, but it is. It's interesting.
I mean if I feel like you could put a cancer warning on every
single product, because it based on Internet, everything caused its cancer. Oh
that's right, your cell phone probably does too. Yeah. I remember back
in the nineties they're like, oh, this is gonna give you brain cancer.
Yeah, and then women carrying it around in their brass strap and it's
like, yeah, you're gonna And then all of a sudden they got diagnosed
with breast cancer and they're like, see told you, Like oh, maybe
you know I have a family history or something like that. I don't know.
All right, Well, Ireland, way to lead the way and scaring
us all into not drinking. Let's see how that works out. I wonder
how Connor McGregor feels about this. Yeah, I don't know. All right,
Well, let's talk about a little happier thing. Because listen, James
and I we have talked over and over about how miller Lite has all of
these wonderful, wonderful new products available on their website, and this one,
ladies and gentlemen, this one you're gonna want to get your hands on a
specially with the heat wave that we're having out there. Well, miller Lite
wants you to stay cool. They want you to chill literally while drinking their
beer. They have created for you the beer cubes tray. Oh yeah,
and if you're thinking, is that like ice cube beers or you know,
beer cubes for your beer, like ice cubes shaped and everything else, well
sort of yeah, pretty much basically designed for freezing Miller Lite, so you
can cool down your beer without watering it down. Oh yeah, these ice
cube trays you freeze beer and you know, you drop it in there.
Now, we've seen people put ice and beer before. The problem with that
is it waters it down. Now, one really popular concoction is frozen coffee
ice cubes where you freeze, you freeze coffee cubes and then you drop them
in there. Really cool thing, and it doesn't water down your ice coffee.
So it's really kind of cool. You're like, why didn't we think
of this before? Hit your head, all right, go what are we?
What are we thinking? Why didn't we try this with beer? This
is brilliant. Well, Miller Light, they've got the answer because they're gonna
have the same non water ice cube trick to cool down your beer. And
this summer, the Beer brand has released a new product. It's the Beer
Cubes tray, which is basically your standard silicone ice cube tray, except you
fill it with pilsner. And I've seen these things. It's they're little baby
ice cubes. There's twenty four little baby ice cubes. They look like little
twenty two shells and little bullets. Yeah, a little bullets that's all.
Yeah, and yeah, they say they're shaped adorably like tiny cans of Miller
light. Well they're tiny frozen cubes of Miller light. And all you do
is you open up your can of Miller Light, you take a swig,
and then you drop one in or drop two in or whatever, and you're
not gonna water it down because it's frozen Miller light. So I thought this
was pretty awesome. You can keep your beer cold all summer long. So
I went to the website. Oh what a bummer. Sold out, sold
out. It does say come back tomorrow, and so I'm gonna go back
tomorrow and I'm gonna try and buy them again. But yeah, they're sold
out because because they don't exist, they don't just gimmick. Name me one
person who has these products. Please reach out to me at What's on tap
rido gmail dot com. Gimmicks All right, coming up in the last segment,
not all heroes were capes. So What's on tap Radio? We'll be
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support that business. And I'm gonna crack open this ten percent beer to h
from Tantrick Bring Company. To wrap up the show, We're gonna sip this
off into the sunset as James and I we talk about not all heroes wear
capes and well show things high note yeah yeah, yeah yeah, high note
like a ten percent bearil aged stout exact what it meant. Earlier on the
show, I discuss some of the best parts of summers now that summer's officially
arrived. You know that by walking outside and just how hot it is out
there wherever you're listening to this show. And coming up on the list was
the first sip of beer on a hot day, you know, like a
nice cold beer. That first sip just refreshing. So I decided, you
know what, let me just name some other things that are on the list
of things that we look forward to our favorite parts of summer. For example,
backyard barbecue, going to barbecues, the smell of grilling in the neighborhood,
nothing like, you know, taking a lap around the neighborhood and smelling
that meat cook on the grill. I know you vegans are like, wait
a minute, I know it's a nice smell, all right. Maybe we're
grilling vegetable. Maybe it is, that's what we're doing. We're doing shiskabobs
all veggies. All right, how about eating outdoors when it gets cooler outside
in the evenings. I was just well, hold on, see, that's
the thing here in Michigan. Even when it's hot. We're like, we
are eating outdoors. Why because we know what's coming. But you've been cooped
up for about nine to ten months, so you're right, let's be out
sid let's get as much vitamin D as possible. Kind of the flip.
Yeah, it's the flip of that because we spend eight months cooped up inside,
and that those are called that's called fall, winter, and spring.
You spend eight months cooped up inside. That's called spring, summer, and
fall. Right, because how about hot? How about next on the list
of things that we just look forward to in the summertime is um the smell
of should conet grass. I like that. Yeah, yeah, we're talking
about law moars earlier. Got a new lawn more. I'm very excited about
that. And one more on the list where we move on to our not
all heroes were cape story, Longer days, more light in the evenings,
longer days. I have this. We are very blessed where we live.
Christine and I super fan number one by the way, name drop. Um.
We face east. We live on a lake and we face east,
so we get to see the sunrise. The thing I never appreciated until you
watch the sunrise. You you can quite literally track the sun day by day
and watch it move across the lake. And then it's crazy because it'll be
the middle of winter and it's like, you go, you look straight across
the lake, It's like that's east, where the heck is the sun and
it's south. It's like way downside. Wait a minute, and you watch
it. And so those longer days really do matter because you get to see
the sun early and late at night. I mean we were out on the
out on the boat after nine o'clock pm. You don't nine o'clock pm in
the winter. It's bitch black here, can't see anything. Yeah, things
look forward to. And I guess Chad also on the list not having to
wear a coat. Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, we gotta
get into it. Let's sten to this show on a high notes. Let's
talk about a man who needs not a slow clap, but a nice clap
as a beer truck driver him already, Yeah, he spotted a man on
the loose after allegedly stabbing two people last month, and now is being praised
for his quick thinking and actions to help apprehend the suspect. His name's Justin
bench Champ. He's a driver for Petit Prin in Clinton Township and he was
driving around in May when his dog sitter called him to inform him that she
was on lockdown at a local school due to a suspect who stabbed two people
in Roseville and Saint Clair's Shores and one of them was fatally She gave the
vehicle description and told him just keep an eye out for a dark colored Chevrolet
HHR. What is the cheval HHR? I'm not sure, but HHR is
a It's like a mini Mini Cooper looking suv. Okay, So she told
hey, be on the lookout for that car. Okay. Minutes later,
Bette Champ pulled into an alley behind a hot shots bar in a music cafe
and spotted the suspect's vehicle. And for a second, he's like he considered
it cannot be the right vehicle, but something said to him saying, hey,
I gotta I gotta act on this. So he ran inside the bar
and told a bartender to lock the doors and call nine to one one.
The suspect, Shane Burns, was arrested by police. Just minutes later.
Before his arrest, Burns attacked and fatally stabbed a woman while she was putting
error in her vehicle tire a parking lots, and also stabbed another man twelve
miles down the road. But yeah, this guy has charged first degree premeditated
murder, assault with a tent, murder, being a felon, a possession
of a firearm, and five other felonies, and he's being held in lieu
of a ten million dollar bond while waiting a July court case. But yeah,
this guy's quick actions. At first, you know, he sees his
vehicle, He's like that can't be it. But his instincts kicked in.
He's like, no it, I have to act on this ran in there,
told the bartender to lock the door, and sure enough it was the
suspects vehicle. Please arrive minutes later, thank goodness, and they were able
to take this guy off the streets. So a beer truck driver applauded for
a helping police nab an accused killer. Now do we know what kind of
beer truck. It was that he was, Come on, man, good
journalism. What kind of beard does not announce? What kind of beer truck?
He was? Now, that happened in Michigan, right, you said
Saint Clair Shores and yeah, that's in Michigan. Is that a Michigan Michigan?
Yeah, yeah, definite out there, Chad. I know I'm sitting
there. I'm just thinking about that. When you said the cities, I
said, wait a minute, yeah, Roseville and Saint Clair Shores. That's
east side of state. But yeah, that's that happened in Michigan. I
you know how many times this is not the first time. Now, I
think this is probably the fourth or fifth story in the ten years at least
in the what is it the seven eight years I've been doing the show with
you, that we've highlighted a beer truck driver for being a hero. And
yeah, I remember a story where somebody was about to jump off a bridge.
Yeah, and this beer truck driver just pulls up and talk this person
from jumping off the bridge. He said, yeah, he said, I'll
give you a case of beer if you don't jump, and guys like all
right, like cool. And then there's another one where somebody was trapped in
a car that was on fire, and they opened up the beer truck and
they shook up all the cans and started opening them up and spray and all
over and put the fire out with the beer cancer. I mean this is
Yeah, there's a reason they don't wear capes. It's because they're incognito.
They're they're delivering beer, but they're willing to spring into action at a moment's
notice. Somebody from the beer distribution said, being a beer distributor and being
in restaurants and bars throughout the county, they have boots on the ground.
It can be the eyes and eaters for the rest of us to try to
assist police. I like that quote. It's a good quote, so applaud
good job. And maybe they're out there listening to what's on tap radio while
driving around. Speaking of which we gotta go. We do gotta go,
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