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Chadpilbeean. Wait wait hey, turn him, turn him, turn turn out
quickly. You may get in trouble. Okay, Oh he's cracked a beer
right there as we're getting on the air. Chat was like, hey,
let's not wait around, let's crack a beer. Let's not waste any time
to crack a beer. And damn it, I just did it. The
box were hot, Chad, the box were hot, so I cracked the
beer. I did too. But here's the thing, James, I'm gonna
do what's on tap radio first, and I'm gonna tell you what that is
here in just a moment. But welcome to What's on Tap Radio where we're
not screwing around this time. Actually, I think what happened James is uh,
James wanted to turn the uh uh bump music down because in case we've
you know, got in trouble with somebody for playing us. We've already we've
already been in trouble, but we are hands slack. Do all bore you
with those details, but welcome this show. I'm James, that's Chad.
We got Bill back from assignments hanging out with us as well, and got
a lot on tap this week and before we uh, well, we probably
cracked a beer. So but let's do it. Let's do our housekeeping so
we can get to these beers because there are probably should thank our sponsors,
even though we open the beer. By the way, I don't know if
you noticed that I opened two beers. No, I only noticed one,
which was What's on Tap Radio exclusive first time ever in the history of the
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dot com. And uh yeah, we are in. Beers are cracked.
Let's do a thing, chand and I'm gonna go first through. I brought
the table you really like, I respect your wishes. I respect your wishes.
You told me like, Hey, I don't want to wait around.
Let's crack beers. Let's not waste time. So I cracked the beer like
the second the intro hit. And so I am bringing something that's never been
brought to what's on tap radio is brought to the table. It's a brand
new beer, I'm thinking, at least as far as I know. And
this is from Spintle Tap Brewing Company located in Houston, Texas. In Houston,
Texas, and this is the Spintle Tap Houston Hustle. Oh can I
guess? Can I guess? Can I guess? I don't know anything about
it, but yes, I just want to guess. Is it a hazy?
I p a? It is a juicy IPA? Aren't all hazy's juicy?
No? Aren't all juicy? Juicy? Is hazy? No? Aren't
no all New England's hazy? No? Aren't all Hazyland's hazy? By Samuel
Autam Boston Logger Glass. I'm gonna pour it into because that makes dreams come
true. According to Chad, it does, it really does. Yeah.
I mean, how do you think how do you think Sean Penn got his
big break I Fast times at Ridgemont High Because sitting around drinking a beer in
a Boston Logger glass and next thing you know, he ended up marrying Madonna.
All stuff you're gonna learn on today's episode of What's on Top Radio,
Jad's dropping fun facts before the official What's on Top Fun Fact segment. All
Right, I don't know. I don't know if those are fun facts,
but sure was fun to make that up. Yeah. I didn't say yeah,
made up facts. I guess I should have said, all right,
maybe the things not made up. Here goes the best palette in the business.
Folks. He just had cookie dough and he's got a candle burning in
his office. But I do not have a can, although I did had
some cookie dough right before we went on the air. So tell us about
this delicious beer, you beer judge, you well, you know I'm getting.
That is juicy. It is juicy. It's you're taking to paradise in
a glass, That's what I'm getting. The juicy explosion of citrus flavors makes
for a harmonious symphony of tropical delights, complete with a bold, hoppy finish.
Chad and this has come to you at six point five percent. I'll
call by volume. Oh okay, nice, And this is the Houston Hustle.
Oh this beer has been out for a while I'm looking at the I'm
checking in on the untapped ap. It's been around for a little bit.
It's been around for Attle. That's been around for a minute. Yeah,
but first time I'm on What's on Tap Radio? But yeah, that's what
I'm bringing from spinl Tap Brewery, Houston, Texas. The Hustle. All
right, Juicydie, We're gonna do another What's on Tap Radio exclusive, a
What's on Tap Radio first right here. Never before in the history of this
show have we opened a Dragon's Milk Triple Mash from twenty twenty two and compared
it to Dragon's Milk Triple Mash of twenty twenty four. And the reason for
that is is because we never had twenty twenty four before, so we were
never able to do that before. So that's why it's an exclusive. And
literally, James, we did just open a twenty twelve and at twenty fourteen
side by side, one of which is poured into the Sam Adams Boston locker
glass. The twenty twenty two release of Dragon's Milk Triple Mash, a bourbon
barrel aged Imperial Big Beer from New Hollanburn Company coming in at seventeen point three
percent ABV, and not to be outdone, the brand new release, the
twenty twenty four Dragon's Milk Triple Mash, coming in at eighteen point seven percent
ABV. So Bill and I Bill Stutt, he's gonna run stunt beer liver.
We're gonna take a sip of the twenty twenty two first, and we're
gonna compare them side by side very quickly. Here, O, Chazz,
what we're doing. That's good? What's called a vertical he's doing any vertical
tasting right now? So right, and I don't have any cookie dough to
rinse my palate between taste here the way James does like a real pro.
But let me have one more saperial. What we're getting out of that,
I'm not gonna lie. The brand new Dragon's Milk eighteen point four version,
I'm liking it. It's a little bit sweeter the age on the twenty twenty
two. But we're gonna let that breathe for a little bit and we will
come back and visit those. But this is brought to the table brought to
you by our friends on the northwest side of Houston, the Backyard Grill,
home of over one hundred different items and entrees for over two decades and best
damn beer bar out there on the northwest side of Houston and James kick things
off from Spindle Tap Bury, the Houston Hustle, Juicy Ipa and Bill and
I. We opened up Dragon's Milk Triple mash a juicy hazy. No it's
not. It's just a bourbon parrel age Imperial stout. But that's what we
kicked the show off with. We'll talk more about these in the next segment,
but James, tell everybody what's on tap? Not only do we have
fun facts hold my beer and watched this, but I predicted this a few
weeks ago. Pizza Flavord beer coming soon. I call this a few weeks
ago. Is it the brewery that I predicted? We'll talk about that,
and beer made from we'll tell you what kind of water and Vietnam that controversial
zero alcohol driving law is under review. All this is so much more,
including an interview coming up next hour. So hang with us. We got
an axback show. We'll be right back for the Fisher. What's on tap
Redo fun fact the week right back. A real partner will make you feel
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What's on Tap Radio Continuous with James Simpson and Chadpillbeam. All right, everybody's
got a beer. You got a beer, I got a beer. We
got a beer. You know who else has beer? The Backyard Grill on
the northwest side of Houston. But when you're drinking, you want to have
something to eat too, So go get yourself some grub at the byg.
The menu is amazing. They've got all your Texas favorites like steaks, the
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got soups, homemade dishes, and specialties like smoky the beer chicken. Oh
yeah, smoked chicken injected with local beer. Sounds delicious, right yeah,
and don't forget the green beans. I know you're thinking, wait a minute,
is this guy just talking about all the grilled stuff and you're gonna tell
me to eat your veggies? Hey, mom said eat your veggies. Over
one hundred different menu items, get the green beans, trust me, you
won't regret it, and over one hundred different beers. Head out to the
backyard grill in the corner of Weston Jones Road on the northwest side of Houston.
Cheers, alright, looking back, what's on tap radio? In the
first segment, which is about the table, we wasted no time to get
a hustle on. Chad was like in our production meeting, He's like,
you know, I don't want to waste time. Let's crack some beers.
I need a beer. It's been a long week. And I really was,
I you know, I I told the intro, I told the producer,
pulled that music. Now, let's cruck beers. And so what I
cracked was the spinle tat Brewery, Houston, Hustle Juicy India Palal. And
then Chad and Bill are doing a vertical. Yes, the dragon's smelt,
and this is not this is not any lightweight vertical. We we kind of
stepped in the weight room. Normally we warm up with some fifteen's and maybe
some twenty pounders, you know, and then and then we work our way
up to like the forties. And I said, now grab the seventy five's.
Let's just go right now. We're gonna grab the old, grab the
big, grab the big ones, and uh, we grabbed a couple of
Triple Mash, one from twenty twenty two and another one from twenty twenty four.
Triple Mash is an Imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels from New Holland Brewing
Company, Holland, Michigan, and the twenty twenty two version is seventeen point
three percent. The twenty twenty four, excuse me, twenty twenty two version
is yeah, twenty two is seventeen point three, and the twenty four is
eighteen point seven. So not lacking in the strength department. But I wanted
to try these side by side and see if there was one I liked over
the other. And I keep trying the older one first and then going to
the newer one. I'm gonna change it up here. So I got some
cookie dough to cleanse my palate. That's what James does now before he goes
on air, his wife brings him cookie dough into the studio. It's like,
have a good show, honey, I didn't have time to bake these,
so here's some raw cookie dough. Hope you don't get salmonella. And
then he eats that and he gets his mouth all coated with sugar and candy,
and somehow whenever he drinks an ipa, it doesn't taste like you know,
drinking orange juice after brushing your teeth. And the guy can has an
amazing palate to pick up some of the nuances and tasting notes of that.
But let me try this newer version first. Hang on here. To me,
the new version is a little more oaki, more bourbon, and the
older one is mellowed out, but it sweetened up a lot. I remember,
folks of vertical, it should be expected. Let me remind a vertical
that they're taking an older version and a newer version and newer side by side
and tasting the differences between the two. And that's what a vertical is,
and that's what Chadd and Bill are doing. Meanwhile, I'm just sipping on
this and I'm gonna tell you, Houston, I like both of them,
but for different reasons. They're a little bit different, and both of them
in their own way, are fantastic. James, how's that hustle treating you?
I'm telling you it's paradise and a glass. It's a juicy explosion of
just citrus flavors making the symphony of tropical delights. It's a complete with a
bold, hoppy finish six. And again this is a Houston hustle spindle tat
brewery. And you know what's interesting. I like to peruse the untapped app
while i'm you know, drinking, just to see, you know, why,
what people are saying about it. And I got a check in from
the backyard grill. Somebody checked his beer in from the backyard grill. So
shout out to them checking this beer in? Nice? Nice? What did
you say? It tastes like? What did you say? Tell me what
that beer tastes like? One more time? It's it's a ticket to paradise.
You're Houston, Yeah, ticket to paradise. Paradise as like that,
not any kind of good. That's the Samuel Adams Boston Logger glass and it's
a juicy explosion of And now you know what Bill just did not he'll actually
just cross contaminated. He actually poured half and half in the same way.
I know you did that. Ye okay, all right, but yeah,
but why'd you do it in both glasses? You did only added to it
and wanted to test out. He poured the old made a half and half,
so he did his version of that for Saint Patriot Saint Patrick's Day.
I like that, all right, all right, So hey real quick before
we get into the fun fact, I want you to just think about this.
I want to I want to talk about this before I wrote down a
note, was listening to the intro and some of those voices they're not in
the beer business anymore. And I was thinking about this as I was pondering
opening up an eighteen percent beer and thinking about some of the individuals in that
intro. Where are they now? We should do an update. I kind
of want to do it. I just maybe if we have time, we'll
talk about it, but just that Mike Bobian, our imaging director, should
make us an updated intro with people that are still We probably need one,
but I just like, I just want to just ask the question and just
dialogue. James, where do you think Jeremy Cohen is right now? Don't
answer that now because we got to do the official What's on Tap Radio Fun
Fact of the Week now, the official What's on Tap Radio Fun Fact of
the week, brought to you by Who's ever checked clear? This week?
Jeremy Cowen, He's in the intro, he has that real deep voice.
He's like, I like people's beer. No, I love graft beer.
I love different people's beer. That's that's not his deep voice. No,
that's not his voice. He's the other deep voice. So all right,
yeah, well there's another isn't there another voice in there? It's like,
this is gonna be good radio. Some people have been black vesters. B
Hey did Bill's never met that guy and he said he sounds drunk. All
right, let's do some fun facts. He was. James is like,
hold on a second, does our insurance call ring all the ten Hachen.
They don't sponsor this segment, but we needed we need insurance for liability.
All right, we're gonna stop right there. Okay, James mentioned earlier with
the beer that was checked in at the Backyard Grill find on the Untapped app
and uh just a bonus fun fact just for mention here. Recently there was
the USAD Today's Top Lists that came out, and I hope to be able
to tap into some of that this episode as well, if we have time.
But Great American Beer Festival. Yeah, James and I we got out
to the JABF and we actually met the owner of Untapped. We hung out
over the found when we met him people, we got to hang out and
drink beer with him. Yeah, they're good people. That was a lot
of fun. But untapped, they are the new guy to the game.
There were other rated beers out there that came out before them. And those
other beer sites were beer Advocate, which a good site, good site for
rating beer, and also rate beer, which took a beating whenever they were
purchased by Anheuser Busch because they said, well, you know what's gonna happen.
None of the ab beers are gonna ge. They're gonna drop ratings and
lift up ab beers and make it all happen. Well, it turns out
I checked the list and this is pretty interesting. It's like nine of the
of the twenty worst beers on the rate beer app are owned by Anteiser,
like Wow, and some of the worst beers that coming in on that rate
Beer depending on which version you get or which year you checked, like Natty
Ice and Natural just one of the worst ranked beers on the rate beer app.
But I was thinking about this because we did talk about Pizza Beer and
ye week, the one beer at one point in time that had a perfect
zero point zero score on rate beer was Mama MIA's Pizza beer. And I
had that beer. In fact, the bottle is right outside this studio,
hanging up on the wall. I've got it, an empty bottle of it.
It was absolutely terrible. They used mint, they used sage, they
used oregano and basil and put it in and then they added tomatoes to it.
And I discovered that the guy who came up with that recipe partnered with
Aurora Brewing Companies Walter Payton's Steakhouse or chophouse, and that had a brewery and
I remember when that was open. I've got a growler from there. But
that was the first place to make all that. But I say all of
that because of all the beer sites out there and all the places and the
different places that you can get look for the worst beer. Don't ask me
why you would ever go look for the worst beer you could ever taste.
The absolute worst beer that you've never tasted is still FuMB Ducker beer. Thumb
Ducker Beer was the idea of a real estate agent in Florida, and he
opened up and promised that this beer was going to change the world, generating
over one hundred million dollars in revenue, and he believed it too, and
he was trying to get people to buy into it. Well, I've got
an update for you. For ten percent of the gross revenues from the sale
of the brand, you can buy the trademark, which has never sold a
single thing. So your ficial On's on Tap Radio fun fact of the week
is, no matter how bad the beer is out there on all the different
rate beer sites, which you may have tried, the worst beer that you've
never tried because it's an even worse company is thumb Ducker Beer, which you
can now buy the rights to in trademark off of the Internet. And that's
your official What's on Tap Radio fun fact of the week. You know,
damn will there's people gonna try to get their hands on it now, all
right, No, speaking of terrible beers, pizza flavored beer, there's a
new one coming outs and I predicted this is it the brewery that I predicted
and also coming up next hour, I got a great interview. All this
is so much more. Hang with us, We'll be right back. Yeah,
we drink water, but it has to be filtered through a brewery first.
You've got What's on Tap Radio when love is Chat. I'm going to
miss these days. These are the good days. Yeah. Hey, it's
over seventy years old. The trademark good Pizza PI. I predicted this months
ago when I was talking about this new Oh my god, what was it,
this new pizza coming out? It was like a pizza roll. I
can't remember. Man, We've done so many stories. But anyways, I
predicted that there's gonna be this brewery that's gonna make this this pizza. I
gotta dig it up. It is not that brewery. It is not that
I found one here Evil Twin. Evil Twin through frozen some frozen pizzas in
the match because I dug up an old story on this. Mama me a
pizza beer that was rated a perfect zero point zero. It was awful,
and I discovered this. Evil Twin threw some frozen pizzas into the mash their
beer, and I discovered this. I had no idea, but Stone Brewing
Company in twenty sixteen made a Hawaiian pizza beer for the release of a teenage
newtant Ninja Turtles movie called Ninja Ninja Turtles, and Pizza Hut offered a pepperoni
Pilsner as an April Fools gag. So this is they've been playing around with
this like we can. Yeah, well, the people who started Mama Me
As Pizza, they made it to be a real beer, and so when
people started making fun of it and then trying to make disgusting versions of it,
or as Jay Leno said on The Jay Leno Show, when Mama Me
a Pizza beer hit, he's like, hmm, the great taste of beer
and pizza all in one glass or all at once. Normally you don't get
to experience that unless you're throwing them both up. That's funny. So I
have, Chad, and I'm not. I'm debating on this one. I
have in my crisper drawer, you know the crisper drawers, the drawer where
beers go to die. And in this drawer I have that's where good beer
goes to die from Martin housebrew Company, the pizza beer. No, you
do not. And it is the same six shot. It's the same six
pack that when you were in studio with me. How many years the studio,
Yeah, my old we were we were at we were ALDRC. No,
No, this wasn't KPRC. This was in my old studio. Remember
when I was on the other side of town. Oh my gosh, okay,
you sure that wasn't. No, that was quitting beer at No,
that wasn't. Remember we had a neighbor Christmas in studio with us. This
is god, this was twenty Well they would have been. You can't say
the year. You can't say the year it was. That year was it?
I thought I was twenty twenty one? But I have that. I
have that beer in my I have that beer in my Christoper drawer. Should
I crack that beer on this whole episode? You think so? No,
you absolutely opened you know, you absolutely opened that. I don't have it.
I don't have it's my It's in the garage. It's not in the
studio us here. So there was ever a time to open that beer.
I mean, it's not getting any better, speaking of which it can't.
I mean, I don't think it's Also, I don't think it can get
worse. That beer was pure crap. Do you think that the basil and
Regano do you think it'll mellow it out? Because man, that beer tasted
just like like Marinera. So I don't think we finished it. I don't
think I think it was a drain pour. And this is again we jumped
it out. This is the same six pack from that that time. Now
I think that was twenty twenty one. But anyways, I'm gonna bring it.
Yeah, don't say the other year because that ar damn that year.
Okay, so I think you you should do it now real quick before you
get into the pizza beer. I just want to say, because people have
been asking, They're like, Chad, you open two beers, which one
do you like? I'm going with the fresh one. I'm sticking with it.
When a brewer releases the beer, that's when it's best. I'm sorry
you age it two years. Sorry, I don't care for it as much.
There we go. There, I'm sticking with my my creed beer is
made to be consumed, not sit on the shelf. All right, all
right, so here we go. Done. Pizza flavored beer coming soon the
domb But pizza's a classic sober me up, I mean, got carbs,
but now you can get drunk with it. Pizza Flavor beer is arriving very
soon, my friends. Dr Pizza New Belgium has partnered up with the frozen
pizza brand Tombstone Tombstone. They make pretty decent frozen pizza. I mean it's
not my favorite. I'm more of a giorno or what's a Sicilian one?
I like, oh, look at you being all fancy with a yeah yeah.
James over there is like, well, let's see Tatino's pizza. I
think I'd rather eat the box that came in. Okay, I'm gonna talk
about Tatito' pizza here in a second. Okay, So this pizza beer,
it's an ip A Tombstone Tombstone Tombstone. Yeah. This this is an i
PA seven percent and they're selling it under their ip A brand, Voodoo Ranger,
and it's described as having hints of Crispy krust, tanky tomatoes, US
savory herbs and spices with a pepperoni finish. Chat's explode about to explode?
Get chrisp Crispy Crispy is a texture? What does what does Crispy taste?
Like? What the If you want to find out what it tastes, tell
me it? You can? You can find out by signing up at their
website at dot com and you can win some. It's tomato. It's tomato
forward with a with a pepperoni backbone. Shut up, Bill, shut off.
So they'll start selling at seleg markets. You're gonna start selling at sleg
markets on National Beer Day, which is April seventh, and each four pack
will cost fifty dollars each four fifty five zero dollars. So, while we're
on the subjects of pizza no No and other pizza news, Chick fl A
is doing a is dipping its toe in. They open a spinoff restaurant in
Maryland and it's called the Little Blue Menu where they'll test new menu items and
this is a nod to the original Blue menus at their first location. And
they just added five pizzas, including the Chick fil A Pizza Pie top with
their Chicken Nuggets, pickles, and Chick fil A sauce. Chick Fla getting
in the game. Is Chick fil ag going a brew of beer? No?
AND's not it only on That would be something it's only sold on Sunday.
Yeah, there you go. That would be the best April Fools prank
ever. Okay, Chick fil A, listen, you can use this idea.
Just name a sandwich after me. Listen, this is what you're gonna
do, all right for April. First Chick fil A now bruised beer and
we're releasing it this Sunday. Come and that would be just gold. I'm
telling you that might be the best. And speaking of the pranks, I
tell you that's pretty good. You know, Pizza Hut did that pepperoni pilsner.
I was like, yeah, come on out, try it. Tombstone
Pizza. Tombstone Tow Pizza is pretty pretty cheap pizza. I mean, it's
not the higher end of the frozen pizza category. So why is a four
pack of the Voodoo Ranger pizza beer costing fifty damn dollars? I mean,
I don't know. I'm there's a lot of bad decisions being made out there.
In fact, I'm gonna just speaking of bad decisions here. I'm gonna
flip the script here. Okay, I just want to flip this around.
We've been talking about this. We've talked about beer made from a lot of
different things. But in Charlotte there's a wastewater treatment. Oh no, you're
getting made this beer from recycled water. I wasn't ready for this, chab
but okay, get into it. Well might as well. We're talking about
drinking sewage. So you know it's pizza beer. What the hell, let's
go down this road. But a wastewater treatment plant in Charlotte, North Carolina
is recreating beer in an ultra sustainable way and the beer is called renew Brew.
It's the first beer in the Carolina is made with recycled wastewater. Now,
they're not the first to do the recycled waste water, but they're getting
into the game because they are wanting to be ultra sustainable. To Charlotte Brewery,
what is it town Brewing there it is has partnered with Charlotte Water and
the water technology group Xylum to make this and so here's what they're doing.
They're basically taking eighty five million gallons of water that are being processed through the
Charlotte Water treatment plant and instead of returning it into the river, yeah,
it goes through extra purification and then it's tested for one hundred and fifty contaminants
and then this process, they're saying, is going to pioneer the future and
could be the solution for communities where water is scarce. Renew Brew won a
Best of Show at the Queen City Brewers Festival Blind test tasting taste testing,
test tasting, whatever, you know what I mean. And the beer is
not yet for sale, but you can go to their four twenty festival next
month. And I'm gonna suggest that you definitely want to try it at the
four twenty festival, because maybe that's the only way you're gonna work up enough.
Gus. I'd say, dude, far Out, you want to go
try that wastewater beer. No way, I'll do it if you do it,
though, Yeah, let's go, man far Out. They're not the
first to do this. Yeah, there you go. They're not the first
to do this, taking wastewater and brewing beer away it. Do you remember
a few about a year ago, there was someone who vented a beer made
with air conditioners to condensing. It was at California. It was the condenser.
Is the conversation coming off the air condesssers at airport runways? Yeah,
And as a matter of fact, I'm collecting it. I was reading this
waste spot and I was like, I was reminded of that air conditioned beer.
Just when you thought you'd tried just about every micro brew there is,
get your taste buds ready for a new adventure. Air conditioner beer Yep.
We figured out a way to mix green hawks and yeast and run it through
an evaporator coil with the condensation gripping from the krusty hose hanging by your furnace.
Taste the subtle multi flavors of free on, notes of dust in,
the metallic aroma of a clogged drain line, air conditioner, beer and coming
soon radiator leak, white claw, and then waste water, get hints of
toilet paper and it don't matter. So heylaw, we gotta do what we
Care's a shortage of water, all right? Uh, continue on our conversation
with pizza. Let's continue that and coming up next hour, I met up
with a new brewery. We're gonna bring that to the show. All this
is so much more. Hang with us. We'll be right back. After
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It's about that time. Yeah, what you know about going out right
next TV? I did it. I did it. During the break.
I ran to the garage fridge studio s we're on broadcasting on the west side
of town, and I found in my crisper drawer. Remember that's the drawer
where beers go to die. So if you have a shell full of beers
and you're like, you know what, I have more beers coming in and
I don't drink all these old beers, those beers get moved to the crisper
drawer, including the Space Pizza beer from Martin House Brewing Company and Chad the
Brew of the Cannon. Date January fourth, Yeah, twenty twenty one.
January fourth, twenty twenty one. So I was right, Trust me,
it did not get It didn't get worse. There's no fricking way it got
worse. I forget better. When you hit rock bottom, it can only
go up. I mean really, So what I did mean if you're dumpster
diving, which is what you're doing, this is the equivalent of dumpster dive,
and I want to stress something. I've got to stress this. You
don't always just shuffle beer into the crisper drawer. So I'll give you an
example. We held a huge party for the celebration of my in laws for
their I don't know fiftieth wedding anniversary. I think it was, Yeah,
it was their fiftieth wedding anniversary. And we had a bunch of leftover beer
because people had one and they stopped drinking. I'm like, well, I
know what I'm gonna do with the extras, and we brought it back.
I didn't have space in a fridge, so I just didn't have space,
so I said, oh, put it in the crisper drawer. I forgot
about it for two years, and I was like, well, there goes
that. Bell's too hearted, and there goes that and so fun fact,
I've got photos I'll post to our social media. I took the cans out
and I got a new pellet gun and I shot them just to watch the
cans explode, because I did. I was right down by the lake.
We had a nice summer day, or it was a summer like day.
We had a break in the winter, and I blew them up. I
got I'll post those to our social media to see those. My story.
But anyway, James, my story is different because my story goes I get
more beer and I'm like, oh, I have all these old beer.
I'm not gonna drink these, and I don't have the heart to throw them
in the trash or pour them out, so I just throw them in the
drawer. So that's how my Chrisper drawer came to be. But yeah,
this is the Space Pizza beer from Martin Dude. As from the story I
was talking about was KFC was rolling out the Chiesa. It's a pizza made
from fried chicken. And then I thought to myself, I was like,
well, pretty soon Martin House will come out with a Chiza beer. Not
yet, not yet at least, but they do have the pizza Space Pizza,
and I'm gonna go and crack this. And now what I did is
I went and grabbed more cookie dough and water to cleanse my palate. Good,
clench your palate. Bill and I Bill Harvard, by the way hanging
out in the studio with me, Harbor Light, Bill Stunt beer Liver,
and he brought some beer. We're gonna crack one open here too. We
really do not have any cookie though, but James, go ahead, right
here we go, right, and I went and got another glass. I
am not pouring in this in the Samuel Lobbins Boston Logger glass. I refuse
to do that to that glass. Yeah, because you know what, that's
the one beer that will actually ruin Samuel Adams Boston Logger glass. So let
me go ahead and pour that in there. Oh man, I can't wait
to see this, folks. I'm gonna run color commentary here because this is
what it's like whenever you're listening to a hockey game on radio. Smell all
right, Jans got remember when you go into like showbiz? But he says,
a kid, that's exactly what it smells like to me. All right,
here we go. Oh so basically, all right, he says,
it smells like showbiz pizza, which basically kids who peed their pants really bad
pizza and dads who just got back from the parking lot after smoking a Marlborough
light. The animatronic over there. All right, here we go ahead,
James, where a kid can be a kid. Oh wait, that's no,
that's a showbiz Well let me loss for words. Let me give it
one more taste. Remember what did I say? Why? Two tastes?
Three? Three? Yeah, you can't judge a beer until the third sip.
But that one there, I can judge from the can. I can
look at it and tell you what it's gonna be. Bill is right,
Bill is right. It did mellow out, the basil, the oregano,
It did mellow out. It's not as intense, but still as bad.
Right, So it's a what did you What did you say it was?
It was a tomato forward beer with a pepperoni backbone. Shut up, dude,
I hate you all right now, there's no reason to drink no Martin
Martin House. Listen, if we're ever in the room together, if we're
ever in the room together, remember these two things. Remember these two things.
Everything I say about these ridiculous beers you make I love from a business
standpoint, because you guys are making a mint and I love that. Yeah,
I could respect it as if I could invest in that, I would
be like, dude, take my money. I think it's the dumbest idea
ever. Take my money because I know it's gonna pay Listen, stupid ideas
pay off, and I love it. I love this, and second of
all, they make their regular like their non ridiculous beers are absolutely delicious.
And it's actually at a pretty cool location even though we uh fort Worth.
I'll be there in July. Yeah, fort Worth, I'll be there in
July. They're having it's it's not a bad location. They're on the uh
there's a bike route that goes through there. And yeah, yeah, the
annual place, the annual Texas craft Brewers Guild Safety Summit is going to be
held in Fort Worth and they're going to have their They're gonna have a gathering
at Martin House. So I'm looking for you to that. So I tried
to hold on a second. I gotta I gotta hold on a second,
totally off the one. See this is not planning. Did you just say
there's a Texas craft Brewers Guild Safety Summit, Yeah, every every July where
they talk about having them. So the safest brewery. You know, I'm
gonna ask do the drink during the safety I mean, we're not on four
we're not operating forklifts, you know, we're no the safety summits held at
the hotel. You do see the irony. I do what saying, But
to defend the text Craft Brewers Guild. No, they're not doing that.
At the same time, we're not driving forklifts, pounding the shotgunning beers.
No, it's held at the hotel and then we'll carry on onto the to
the brewery and try different samples and so forth. It's very safe, it's
it's very professional. Anyways, I tried it. Okay, it's gonna be
Oh did you hear that noise? Ah, that's a drainport. I don't
know if you heard that noise. So James gonna drain port and Bill just
opened this beer. So we're on the opposite end of the spectrum according to
Bill. So I want to tell you what Bill said during the break when
he brought this beer into studio. He brought it in, he says,
have you had this beer before? And I said nope, And he said,
well you're welcome, just like that, like very matter of fact.
And just to prove a point, Bill could have poured this into the Boston
Loger glass to make it the ultimate experience. He's so confident that this beer
is that good, we don't need it. Bill, tell everybody what we're
drinking. Please from Waypost Brewing the Imperial Golden Ale coming in at nine percent.
Now there's more than that, dude, Now, hold on a second.
Well, no, no, no, there's something going on here.
Yes, British Golden Ale. Keep going remnants of a dessert beer with a
cheeky twist. It's a maul forward center, sweetened with a touch of milk
sugar, keep going back toose. We then condition the beer on row and
green cardamom for a floral sweetness, very floral, and a herbal sensibility.
Herbal contains laxtose. Yeah, it's yeah, So if you're lactose intolerant,
don't drink this beer. It's absolutely delicious, but it is very pizza beer
forward. It is very herbatious. I like it a ton, but it
is very floral, little little intense for me. So I don't know.
Hey, real quick, I want to get to this. I'm just gonna
I'm gonna want to give a shout out to d G. David Graham from
Carbok Brewing Company. He's a friend of the show from Carbok Brewing Company here
from Houston. Yeah. Formerly he's now at Trogues in Pennsylvania. Named the
best beer tour in all of the country. According to USA Today, also
winning again. Yes, another reason to come visit us in West Michigan.
Come hang out with Harbor Light Bill, and also come hang out with our
friends over at Tantrick Brewering Company right around the corner from Beer City USA.
Grand Rapids, Michigan wins it again. Yes, up in the Great White
North there in the pinky outside of Traverse City, Michigan. Hop Lot wins
the second best beer garden according to USA Today and Mott. I've been ranting
and raving about this. Oh by the way, sorry, Bell's number six
on the beer tours. I forgot to mention that. But I've been ranting
and raving about this brewery, Seeds Brewery in Union Pier, Michigan, down
on the southeast corner, just down from Harbor Light Bill about thirty minutes best
new brewery in the country. Seeds Brewery is amazing. I will talk more
about who. I just want to get that out there. According to who,
Who's this? According to Corny in the USA is nice? USA Today?
Nice? Congratulations? Yes, all right, we gotta take it by
coming up next to our Holday Today top ten list, Hold my Beer and
watched this and we got to talk about Vietnam's controversial zero alcohol driving law.
It's under review. An update on that. All this is so much more.
Hang with us. We got another AX backed hour coming right up.
We'll ride back. Beer has hops hops or plants. Plants make salad,
so beer is salad. Yeah, what's on tap radio? James and Chad
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Alright, hour, What's on Top Radio starts right now. We got a
lot to get to this hour going coming up. Caught up with a new
brewery in my neck of the woods, Voodoo Brewing, which is a franchise,
have a couple of locations across the country and they upened a location in
my neck of the wood. So I'll catch up with thelm and what else
we got going on? Oh home, my being and watching this. Oh
Vietnam. I'm talking about Vietnam. They had this controversial zero alcohol driving law.
Yeah and uh yeah, it's under review. So we got an update
on that. All this is so much more. But I know Chad has
finished his vertical that he's hanging. Yeah. We So we had the way
Post Imperial Golden lel that Bill brought and it was delicious, It really was,
but it was so floral and I don't know if just maybe because of
the packaging or whatever. Delicious beer. Bill. I loved it. I
loved it, My wife loves it. Just it was so intense and it
was completely out of balance for me. I would not knock. I mean
again, James and I we bent out the way Post when he came and
visited. Shout out to Hannah Lee out there, there's a name drop and
uh we we love the place. That just thatarticular beer was just a little
too intense for me. So we're gonna tame it down now, Bill,
tell everybody what you're cracking open, Uh cracking home Bok pursuing Hollow. One
of the beers I got when I was on assignment to Florida. It's their
dirty Blonde Blondale coming in at four point one percent. I love it.
He got this in Florida. And we're doing the hold my beer and watch
this segment. That's how Bill's a professional. Bill Bill knows. Bill knows
how the transitions work. It's called a toss. We call that a toss
in the industry. Mm hmm. Yeah, all right, well that because
more than likely the hold my beer watch this is probably some guy from Florida.
See Bill even knows to provide the explanation for the new listeners. Yeah,
look at that. I mean seriously, because everybody who's like, like
right now, Fire Marshal Matt is sitting there is like, we know Bill,
but yeah, you know, we have new listeners every week. You
they're like, hold my beer and watch this. This sounds interesting. Hey,
James, do you want to go ahead and maybe hit that button and
tell us where we're going? Hold my beer and watch this? Brought to
you by the ring Meldup ten Hacen Insurance Group, where they'll cover you for
just about everything except this. Not Florida this week, Bill, Not Florida.
Oh wow, Rochley kidding. We're actually gonna hop the pond this week,
Hop of the Pond, going to England, Going to England this week.
Yeah, Florida. You know, every now and then they deserve a
day off, and now we're gonna give it. We're gonna give them the
week off this time. But uh, there's a video of this, and
I'm gonna work on and try and get it posted to our social media.
But it's a great video. It's great because you can really feel the cop
getting more and more frustrated with this person and our subject for a hold my
beer and watched this this week is a fifty two year old woman who got
pulled over and she had alcohol on her breath. So they did what most
cops would do, give her the old breathalyzer, and then she made it
more complicated than necessary. The cop explained all she needed to do was blow
steady for a few seconds, but instead she tried to suck it like it's
a straw. She asked him do I blow in or out? And when
she said, how do you blow in? That's sucking And her next question
was I am sucking in or out? Am I sucking it or out?
Very frustrated the cop was getting in this video. He told her to pretend
she was blowing up a balloon, and she understood that, but then she
stopped early, so they had to do it again. She eventually blew four
times, not one, not two, not three, but four times.
The legal limits. And it happened in January, but it's now in the
news. She got sentenced to eighteen months probation, one hundred and twenty hours
of community service. And this is not her first, second, third,
but her fourth dui. Hold on a second, hold on a second,
her fourth dui. She was not one, not two, not three,
but four times over the legal limbit. You heard that right, that's like
the Don matting Lee story, her fourth DUI. I'm going four times over
the limit, baby, whoa. And you'll be happy to know that she
has lost her driver's license until twenty twenty seven. Good things. She's in
the UK. There's a lot of public transportation. I'd like to see the
police reports to see if for third time was three times over, second time
was twice you know that would be gold. Yeah, it would it would.
Don matting Lee's kid is sitting there. It's like, damn, I
didn't think about that because you don't remember James did to hold my beer and
watch this where Don matting Lee's kid the Hall of Famer baseball play. Yeah,
New York Yankee. Yeah, Don Mattingly a Hall of Famer baseball player.
Yeah, he had a batting average of like like three something or two
eighty seven or something like that whatever, and his kid got pulled over for
DUI and blew a bac that was his dad's batting average. And it's like
that is gold, Like you can't make that up. It really just happened.
And now this lady on her fourth DUI blows four times over the limit.
By the way, we are going to be talking later in the program
about why you never want to drink and drive or being TOXICID and drive,
buzz driving. Can I can I tell you hats off to how professional this
police officer was. Amen. The following feature has been rated PG by the
Motion Picture Association of America. Parental guidance has suggested when he said, pretend
is blowing up a balloon and not oh, I thought the same thing.
When she's like, so do I blow or suck? Do I blow or
suck? And I'm like, and like, pretend you're blowing up a balloon,
blue, blue, blued. Let's go with balloon. Hats off to
the police officer is very professional because I can imagine what was going through his
mind was, look, lady, just pretend it's a balloon blued balloon.
Bloo, yeah bloon, and so your hold my beer and watch this.
This week is a drunk driver didn't know the difference between blowing and sucking test.
And this has been brought to you by our good friends over at Renoledge
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see John Klunder over there at Ringing All the ten Haagen right now is like,
hey, listen, if you need an explanation on the different you know
what. Nope, not even gonna touch that one. Just get me out
of here right now. We sponsored the segment. That's the best we can
do. If you don't understand the difference. Look, lady, all you
have to do is blow steady, just for a few seconds. It's all
you need to do. Don't suck it like a straw. Just blow steady.
Simple instructions, simple instruction. But when she finally did, she blew
four times illegal limit and this was her fourth. DUI, So all right,
that is your hole my beer and watch this one of my favorites.
This has been a good one. I told you that's the real That may
be one of the best of the year. Okay, all right, still
to come. I'm gonna catch up with a new brewery on my neck of
the woods. And we got to talk about this story out of Vietnam where
they had this controversial drunk driving and it's under review. We'll talk about that
all so much more. Hang with us, will be right back. If
you encounter wine snobs, just take a full class of wine and put it
to your ear. Mindes will be blown. This is what's on tap radio.
You saying you got something for me to bookoo, to bookoo something that's
a welcome back to what's on tap radio. So a lot to get to
coming up next segments. Caught up in a new brewery. It's a franchise
brewer, VOOO Brewing out of Pennsylvania and they opened a location in my neck
of the woods, Katie, and catch up with them, find out who
they're all about. By the way, real quick, uh. If you
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wow, okay, so yeah, we're on every platform you can find us
and Spotify. Oh, hold on a second, Hold on, Hold on
this second, Hold James. James. Bill has a theory on why we're
getting picked up on all these other platforms. The new platforms are coming on.
I think because I started joining the show. That must be it.
You know what, Hey, Bill, tell everybody where you're from Harbor.
Yeah, that's enough of you. Okay, there we go, all right,
moving on? Uh yeah, no, Bill. Bill's Bill's been a
nice addition to the show and I appreciate it. It's fun to hang out
with and he brings beer. Speaking of bringing beer, Bill, crack something
open there beer. We got a hippie I p a from Persimmon Hollow in
Florida. I'm sick and tired of you guys always dealing the spotlight. I
want to crack a beer every now and then. Well then crack one.
Well, I mean you're sitting there like crooker beer. Well there's two of
us. That's the thing. Sorry, Sorry, Bill, go ahead and
finish. I'm gonna tell you what I'm bringing, all right, James to
India paal Al from cruising the beach. Birdie went down the East Coast style.
I p a from Presumming Hollow out of the land, Florida as opposed
to the water. That's pretty tasty. But I'll tell you it comes in
at seven point one. I'm not I'm not picking up the seven point one.
That's fine. This is a yeah. Bill gives me the extra because
he knows he's got dry. Speaking of which we are gonna be talking about
why you do not want to overindulge and why we always drink responsibly here and
we share always right. But James, James, uh, you said you
wanted to crack open a beer. Finally, Yes, I missed this opportunity
last week when we were broadcasting on Saint Patrick's Day. Now, we didn't
do a big Saint Patrick's Day show. We although we used to do one
hell of a great Saint Patrick's Day broadcast before the old plandemic happened. But
I missed the opportunity to bring this and I'm gonna make good on this this
week. From Tantric Brewing Company, which sponsors our last segment of the show,
I am bringing the pint of Gold. Oh yeah, heint of gold
and this would have been appropriate for Saint Patrick's Day because on the cover,
I'm on the cover, on the label, you got a nice pot of
beer, not gold, but you got a nice little rainbow. And then
four leaf clo or three leaf clover, pint of gold coming outs and it's
a logger. I'm gonna go and crack this. It's a lagger. By
the way, we want to thank listener Larry who sent us a message,
who also went over to Tantric Brewing Company in Alegan, Michigan, just down
the road for me, that's my hometown brewery. They he went and got
the barrel age Hammer Spank, which is an Imperial Irish red ale for the
release of Saint Patrick's Day. But he told me that the worst rated beer
talking about the first segment here sorry. The official What's on Tap radio from
in Fact of the week worst rated beer on Untapped is Chibuca Super Sorghum beer
from Delta Breweries in Africa. According to the Untapped app, interesting, this
very is very good, very crisp, very It's kind of sweet, a
little sweetness to it. This is the pin oh yeah, at five percent,
but very easy I'm not gonna say crushable, but very crisp, sweet
and drinking. I'm a fan. A little straw notes to it. It's
it's it's just it's not a heavy beer. It's not a crushable beer.
It's it's like a beer beer. It is a beer beer. It's a
beer, you know. It was not a beer beer. The pizza beer
that I couldn't finish it, guys, I couldn't finish. Yeah, I
had to pour it down the drain. Sorry, I tried, but it
was two years old, so yeah, I don't. By the way,
I don't know if you heard. But this past week, Grand Rapids,
Michigan beer City, USA, according to USA Today again wins the title is
best Beer City. And if you don't believe me, come check it out,
come visit and I'll I'll meet up with you. Give you what's on
tap radio High five. But Grand Rapids Breweries were on a boil band because
there was a water main pipe that burst and there was contamination issues. So
everybody was on a boil band this past week and they investigated it found out
exactly what caused it problem was somebody bought the uh pizza beer from Voodoo Ranger,
and they tasted it and then poured it down the drain and that boom
blew the main right and grand. Those are facts, by the way.
Now, I have not tasted that Voodoo Ranger pizza beer, but I can
tell you I'm probably gonna guess it's gonna taste better than the other pizza beer
I just drank. But that's just all again. When you're listen, listen,
dude, listen, I'm just gonna say this right now, if you're
at rock bottom, six inches off the floor, is still above rock bottom?
I mean, ask me how I really feel. James. By the
way, speaking of how I really feel, can I talk about what's going
on over in Vietnam? Tell me what's going on in Vietnam? Okay.
We talked about this story not too terribly long ago about how Vietnam is now
enforcing this zero point zero Oh it's dry January. No no, no,
no, no, no no no. This is a zero point zero,
zero tolerance policy for drinking and driving, which basically means if you use mouthwash
and leave your house and get in the car and get pulled over busted.
Why because they have a zero tolerance on this So just to kind of recap
here, Uh, this is a law that was put into place a couple
of years ago, and they did they were going to roll it out basically
say, you know, if you're going to drive, you have to have
a blood alcohol content or BAC of zero point zero. Well in December of
last year, in January, they started cracking down and they started setting up
checkpoints right outside of bars and restaurants in Vietnam. And the second you walk
in, you walk in, you grab a beer, you walk out,
you get in the car. Boooo, they're the lights. Boom, poll
over, blow into this, blowers, suck. No, don't suck.
Oh wait right boy, maybe buy yourself in the time. I don't know,
I don't know. Over do I suck? I'm so confused. Well,
the Vietnamese government and the Health Council are now looking into this because it
is literally destroying the economic nightlife, restaurant businesses, drinking establishments. It is
killing it, and they suspected it. Now this is a great social economic
experiment that's going on because they have seen since they have been enforcing this year
over year, a twenty five percent decrease in alcohol related traffic accidents. And
a fifty percent decrease in alcohol related fatalities. I mean, this is huge.
And now this is a country Vietnam, they like their beer and their
beer in two thousand and in the year two thousand, they had eleven thousand
traffic deaths that were related to alcohol, and nineteen years later it jumped to
fifty three thousand. And they're seeing huge declines now in all these fatalities.
However, the businesses are suffering and it is literally destroying the industry. So
nightlife and Vietnam Gone restaurants suffering. So we're gonna keep up tabs on this
and see what happens. But right now, Vietnam has agreed to revisit their
policy on this zero point zero because it is killing the industry. Again,
do they not have uber and lyft and taxi cabs in Vietnam? I don't
understand that point. Okay, well we'll figure that one out. But hey,
coming up next segment, I caught up with Voodoo Brewing Company just opened
up down the street from me and find out what they're all about. Is
what's on Tap Radio? Hang with does very fascinating story coming right up.
We'll be right back here. Ed What's on Tap Radio. We know two
types of people, those you drink with and those that make you drink.
Oh, your parents are coming for the weekend. Either way we're drinking.
I don't get enough sticks on Welcome back What's on Tab Radio? Special guests
joining us right now at the studio as you can hear by all the noise
in the background, which is great. I like to get out of the
studio every now and then. But we made our way Katie, Texas,
which where our broadcast studio s to Voodoo Brewing and Villaggio here off of the
coordinates Peak Road and West Summer Parkway. Joining us Peter Gooms and Chef Jonathan.
Welcome to What's on Tab Radio. I appreciate you guys having Man Reducer
karaoke. And there's a reason why I'm bringing this a he sticks onto the
show with you guys because Peter asked me what I wanted to drink, and
for some reason I thought logger and I thought sticks, And now I have
the what am I drinking here? The old Mama American Golden Lagger rock star
of Lagger. That's right, and it says sticks right there. It's the
collaboration with the sticks. Yes, their logos on there. We did some
work with them. You can grab a can, is that right? Yep?
And he'll play the song. No. I was just like thinking,
it was like, oh, yes, through the logo on there, and
uh, here we go. But Tommy Shaw everything right, yep, exactly,
Okay, So we work with them to create the can art and we
got a collaboration going for that particular beer. So John fantastic. I was
just cracking a joke and he's actually for real. No, there's a QR
code on the cans and if you scanning, it'll play one of the songs.
What sir? Okay? Voodoo Brewing Company, brand new location, Velagio
here in Katie, Texas. How long you guys open? Hello? You
just brand new? Right? Just open February fifth, so some weeks six
weeks ago. Yep. Sound it's been pretty hectic. I can imagine I'm
opening a business, which is pretty interesting because I was talking to Peter off
the air. Both you and your wife have other jobs that you guys decided
to You've always wanted to open a group hub, so you finally open it?
Why? I mean, there's so many different franchises you can go with
why. What was about Voodoo brewingt be very simple. Was the beer and
the food. I mean, it was fantastic, and we really wanted to
do something that was community based, give us a chance to work with families
in the community, other businesses and just have a really good time. And
that's what Voodoo brings to the table for us. And it's the location here
in Belajio Town Center. If you've never been before, it's beautiful. We
have a great fountain in the middle here for the kids to run around and
play with, and it's just an awesome atmosphere. Well, it's gonna reading
my question because I mean, Houston's fourth largest city in the country. I
mean, you could have gone Heights, you could have gone sugar Land,
you could have gone Seabrook, Leak City. Why Katie. So we actually
started out looking in sugar Land for a bit. They're looking at locations,
and then we expanded the search out to Katie. And when we came to
this location, I mean the welcoming that we got from the community, the
other businesses around here, like the running club Good Time Running right across from
us. We had a really good welcoming of everyone around the YMCA, the
Rotary Club. So we said, hey, this is the place for us.
We really like this community vibe that we're getting, and that's what Voody's
all about. So we said, this is where we're gonna go and we're
going to open it up here. It's perfect now because it's a franchise.
W's the original location, right, Yeah, it's a Meadville, Pennsylvania.
That's where the all the magic happens up there. All the beer gets brewed
and then brought down to us to serve to you locally. So you actually
doing brew on site. You got the beer brewed in Pennsylvania and its shipped
here, yes, sir, and it's it's good, good stuff. I'm
let me try the logger here. Actually I've tried to say. I tested
the West Coast I PA, which was amazing. Yes, that's one.
Yeah, it's one of our favorites, our best sellers. And then oh
mom, I was right up there as well. And we're working local distributor
Dynamo. Guys. Great guys, help us out, get this, get
this flowing and keep it rolling. Katie, Texas, you guys decided,
But I want to talk a little bit about because you are actually working it.
Your wife works in jet aviation. Why. I mean, I'm sure
you're super busy. Why the adventure of opening up a root. It was
definitely not for lack of being busy, that's for sure. So it's a
passion for us. Like we actually I said earlier, you know, we
were up in Charlotte, North Carolina. We used to go to this pub
and we loved it. With our kids, we have twins. We used
to hang out there in the patio. It was just really good times.
We used to sit there and drink a few beers. We said, I
want to do that. I want to own something like that. And flash
forward to today in Texas and Katie and here we are and we're we're doing
it the way we want to do it. So bringing the community and family
together. So you brought that vibe from North Carolina. It was in North
Carolina, you said, that's right in Charlotte, Charltte. And then to
Katy, Texas. Yeah, we love it. We have the arcade machines
here for the kids, the board games. You have the whole square so
they can all hang out and parents could just have a good time. And
it's not just beer. You have a full bar, cocktails, wine,
everything. You have a full coffee bar, which is actually interesting. I
don't think a lot of people know that. But we do mix espresso into
our drinks and there's some of our top sellers for our mixed drinks. And
we do have lattes and cappuccinos which are done with Kat's Coffee. Oh yeah,
Cat's Coffee. All about community. We do slow Oh, we do
Cat's Coffee. We have Dublin Sodas. These are all local Texas businesses we're
supporting. So if you're standing on talking to Peter Gomes chef Jonathan Voodoo Brewing
here in Katie, Texas, but not just to beverages, the food,
and I want to bring you on, chef, because one thing we love
is food. Talk a little bit about the menu, some of the things
you guys are working on here at the VOOO Brewing. Yeah, so the
menu works with our corporate office as well, and most of it is like
a fast, upscale pub food and we try to make it quality as possible.
My background being American fine dying and so there's always that standard of food
and not just visually but also the quality stays the same and it's mostly scratch
kitchen. Actually ninety percent of our stuff is scratch kitchen, and you know,
we just try to push that that consistency in the quality. You know,
you can't be perfect every time, but if you can be consistent with
the same system, you know, just pretty pretty dang you perfect. And
I asked you before we got on the air, what is like that one
dish that you're just when you make you just sit back and go, Man,
that's a that's a dish that I'm proud of. Yeah, so it's
hard to choose a specific one, but there we go through seasons as chefs
where you just kind of get stuck to one thing that we really perfectioned.
And then lately it's been that bacon jam and the chocolates wore cheesecakes that we
just added to the to the menu and took me a couple of tries to
get some of those done, but it's turned out great. They're sing like
crazy, and so you know, those are the two things I'm lately proud
of, you know, along the line, once we changed the menu here
every season or so six months, or at least within every four months,
it's four to six months. I'll try to come up with something new a
whole entire idea. It's kind of keeping it the same, like the same
idea on the menu for pub food, but just doing like you know,
Asian mix, Mexican mix, stuff like that. So you said future things,
What are something that you're working on now that you want to pull out
in the future. Yeah that you you haven't got there yet, but you're
you're still working on review. Yeah, peaks. A lot of sneak peaks
that we've been doing lately is kind of doing like that, Asian and Berg
refusion, stuff like that, Mexican burger fusions. Keep keeping it interesting.
What does that mean Asian fusion? Right? What does somebody expect if so,
we've never heard of that before. So we're starting an experiment with a
lot of their sesame oil and their teriokeys and then homemade sauces that they have
a lot of. It is very just citrusy, and it has three to
four different profiles flavorite profiles, and then you try to mix them in with
the vegetables keep the burger and you throw in some some mixed veggies along with
those sauces and sesame seeds and stuff like that. The next one Mexican.
I want to do like a cheriso burger instead of a baking unity cheriso and
avocados, So like a Cherisa avocado burger stuff. So just ideas to keep
it interesting for people and always trying to change it. Yeat talking to Peter
Gomes chef Jonathan Voodoo Brewing here in Katie, Texas. Is there vegan options?
Are there options for people that are vegetarian? Yeah? Absolutely, We
do have a wild variety so far on our menu. You can do any
of our stuff without meat, and the most popular, I would say would
be our salads and wraps. You get any of the salads into your rap.
We're working on experimental with Tofu Peo want to add to food to the
mini so they have like that texture feeling they don't always want to do just
vegie, so that they want to have like some sort of texture towards meat
but actually not beat meat. And we're looking to adding that to the mini
as well. And we got some gluten free options as well, calliflower crossed
pizzas right gluten free buns. So yeah, yeah, imagine because I like
to interview chefs all the time and that's one of the things I get from
listeners is like, hey, what about their vegan options? What about their
vegetary option or gluten free options, because there are people you know, have
allergies and so forth that they want to come out and try their food,
but you know they don't know if there's options before they come out. Yeah,
no, absolutely, we do try to cater to everybody with their whatever
dietary needs that they may need. And you know, it's no issue.
We're happy to do it, and it it keeps us on us toe.
You know, you got to experiment with different kinds of foods and make it
interesting. Even for myself that even though I do eat meat and stuff,
but I should definitely expand into that area. Now, being at you guys
kind of a group hub, are you doing beer dishes or anything like that?
So most of our sauces, actually all of our sauces, the blue
cheese, the barbecue, the cheese, sauce, everything, but the ranch
has one of our core beers on there that we make. So our blue
cheese is our ipa that you tried, Yeah, some of that ipa in
there. The barbecue has some of that chocolate stout. Our omama is in
our beer cheese and in our muscles, so we definitely used Yeah, our
beer muscles are awesome, so we we always we use everything we have in
house into our recipes and mostly, like I said, everything his scratch kitchen.
It's it's pretty cool. So you're pretty excit. I think he's got
the biggest smile. I know this is radio, but he has the biggest
mile on his face. Peter Golm's chef Jonathan Here Vood Brewing. We got
about a minute less. What if somebody need to know about coming out to
Voodoo Brewing? Do they need to get a reservation? Is it? I
mean, what's the vibe? Like, what's try to cater to the community
casual? Yeah, so if you want to have a reservation, we have
many great parties here already we actually had a party come in with your own
band and we had a great time here. You stayed open a little bit
later, so we do what we need to do for the community. But
you can stop on buy without a res If you have one great then you
need a big party, you can get a table reserve. This staff will
do whatever they need to make you happy. We have a great atmosphere here.
We're gonna have bands on Thursdays Trivia Nights. We're looking at stuff for
upcoming events, so we're always planning something new. So just stop on buy
and enjoy the vibe with the team. I mean there's a great time here.
Yeah. We're also very dog friendly in our patio. You can bring
your dogs. We have little water out there for them, and then we
all our kids. Minion is pretty solid too, you know, bringing in
your kids, have them enjoy the vilagio, the water fountain out here,
and then you guys can sit back, have a few drinks and try our
badass many you know. Well, I know we're heard nationwide, but on
behalf of What's on Tap Radio Peter Chef Jonathan, Welcome to Katie Voodoo Brewing.
If you're an area, perfect place to come out, hang out with
the kids, or making a date night, right, that's right, yeah,
absolutely come check us out. All right, I appreciate you guys on
by the show. Thanks very much. It's What's on Taprido hang with us.
We got one more second. We'll be right back because it's five o'clock
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of What's on Tap Radio. I'm gonna drop a fun facts added value,
Chad. This is the Irish sobriety test when you get pulled over by the
police. If you can see this correctly on your first try, you're free
to go. Last segment, What's on Tap Radio for this week brought to
you by our friends over at Tantrick Brewing Company, Hendrick Brewing Company and Aligan,
Michigan, where they encourage you to drink and enjoy responsibly, well not
not listen. They have music bingo, they have karaoke, They've got all
kinds of fun events, great food. But they are not going to encourage
you to learn how to sing this Irish song to get out. And by
the way, that probably won't work in Alegan but you know, I do
want to change the subject here because you brought it up. And that's this.
I don't know if this is urban legend, but until somebody proves me
wrong, I'm saying it's facts. Somebody told me one time that they got
pulled over, and I heard I heard the story a long time ago they
got pulled over, or they heard somebody who got pulled it's always I didn't
do it as a friend of a friend, you know, right, And
they got pulled over. And the cop says, okay, I want you
to recite the alphabet, but I want you to do it backwards. And
so he's facing the cop looks him right in the eye and he turns his
back to him. He abc and like and the cop went, if you're
smart enough to think of that, get out of here. And he let
him go. It's like, like, all right, I'm just wondered,
do I blow or do I suck? Drink responsibly? Drink responsibly? All
right, Well, again, thank Tantrick Brewing Company for bringing us this last
segment of the show for the week, for the week, for the week,
And I'm drinking the pot of gold much much better from the pizza beer
I was drinking earlier from again, not saying much from you can do.
I mean, you can say it's a good beer, and then you can
say it's better than the pizza beer, and well, you know what,
my shoe is better than the pizza beer. So let'm give a shout out
to Peter Gomes and Chef Jonathan over AVOOO Brewing for joining me if you missed
announcement that that interview. Our podcasts will be available everywhere on so many different
platforms. We don't even know what platforms are out there that are broadcasting it,
but chances are you'll find it. It ain't hard to find, thanks
to our friends over at Cast Branding. But I want to thank our friends
over as Superior Pest Control for sending the story our way. Now, this
is something I've never really thought about, but I've seen it one hundred times.
Have you ever gotten a receipt from the bar? I mean, you
your tab and it's got a little smiley face on it makes you feel good?
Right, You're like, oh, well, look that's a nice little
smiley face on there. Well, there's a reason they're putting a little smiley
face on there. You didn't know this, but now you do. And
I'm sorry Bartender's if I'm giving your secrets away. But there's a reason why,
and the reason is that a study out of the Journal of Hospitality Management
found that people do tip more if they see a smiley face on their receipt.
But the kind of your server draws, it's what you have to look
at. So they printed different types of tips and for different receipts, so
there's like a fifteen to twenty twenty five percent, and each one of them
had a different emoji no, So they basically wanted to see if the mojis
were shoeing people in the tipping more, and the lowest percentage had a neutral
face emoji, the rest had a smiley faced emoji, and the smile got
bigger and bigger, their percentages went up, and so the average out emojis
was twenty two point nine percent and rose twenty five point four percent, with
them an eleven percent increase all by putting a nice smiley face on the receipt
well, and they also tried it with delivery orders and saw a ten percent
bump, and takeout orders saw the biggest increase, with a thirty three percent
bump. So if you're out there, if you're out there, bartenders,
keep doing those smiley faces, keep getting those tips in because a smiley face
on your receipt makes you tip more. Now you know what else makes you
tip more when you actually show up and check on the table I was in.
I'm not going to say what brewery I was in just recently. I'm
not going to throw them under the bus, but let's just say I was
in Lancing for my daughter's concert and we went out for dinner afterward, and
uh, we had a party of ten and great beer, and uh,
place wasn't busy. But when you when you have a party of ten in
a restaurant that's not busy on a Sunday night, maybe you want to check
in on them. But when it takes fifteen minutes to get water brought to
the table and nobody come like and you never once checked on anybody's food,
and then the food that did show up showed up cold, It's like,
wait a minute, there's no reason for you not to bring hot food because
the place wasn't busy. Yeah, if you pay attention, you get bigger
tips. Was your smiley face on your receipt didn't look because all I did
is signed my name. No, I did tip a little. I tipped
a little, I tipped No, I'm I started twenty percent and round up
this time I started at ten and rounded up Chad tip check on tables.
No, they just he was non existent. And I mean the only reason
he got ten is because when he was there he was very pleasant. He
really was pleasant. But I was like, we kept trying to flag him
down, and he was talking to other servers and he wasn't paying attention.
And the beer was great, you know, great brewery and food, well
everything except for the corn beef. And if you ever want to know how
to make corn beef, I'll show you sometime. Any of that. He
had thirty pieces of flair on. Anyway, anyway, we happened to be
nice one. We were there though, on Saint Patrick's Day, and I
was a little I was kind of bummed out for two reasons. They didn't
have a dry Irish stout and they had a Saint Patrick's Day party which had
ended, but it wasn't like there was no dry IRI's stout and there was
no Irish music playing. But what time is out? Wait? Wait,
time to the party end like four o'clock, I think, And you gotta
end up thing at like two in the morning. Four. Come on,
It's all right, it's ourr anyway. I do like the establishment. I
just I was really disappointed in our server. And and you know I didn't
stiff him on a tip, but I just I just rounded down, that's
all so. But check on check on tabe and I don't. I didn't
even look for a smiley face. But it turns out though if I had,
maybe I would have tipped more because the beer would have tasted better,
maybe if I heard Irish music on Saint Patrick's Day. But apparently Irish music
makes guinness taste better. The genre of music that you choose can change the
flavor of your beer. Eureka, who knew? All right, this is
awesome. By the way, harbor lighte Bilt, pay attention. You are
on a beat. You're in a beach town just down the road. You
need to start playing some yacht rock music. Okay, just pay attention and
the beer will taste so much better. We had the Irish music on Saint
Patrick's Day. You should come down yacht rock music in the summer. My
friend didst better? Yeah right, I don't know if they tipped better.
No, the beer taste better with the Irish, is it playing? Oh
absolutely, our beer tastes way better. Researchers have confirmed though, that Guinness
the favorite beer of Aquaman. Oh yeah, Jason Momo. Yeah yeah,
he's like my wife says, that's her hall pass. Yeah nice, yea,
so she said, apparently according to him and everyone else and researchers at
the University of Lincoln, home of the Swanees. Oh yeah, I looked
it up. The mascot. Oh yeah, it's a Swan. That's what
a professional journalist does. That's right, because you know what in Lincoln,
Nebraska, the first thing I think of swans. Yep, yeah, sure.
Anyway, that found that Guinness the flavor profile changes depending on the genre
of music that you're listening to. Study was published in the Journal of Frontiers
in Psychology and reviewed by The Daily Mail. Oh yeah, that's reputable,
all right. And a senior lecturer whose name I am not even going to
even try to pronounce. Thanks for throwing that in there. Those who put
the one sheet together, you jerk. Okay, this he's a election sure
of the psychology at London University in Lincoln This is in the UK explained the
difference in taste boils down to two psychological phenomenon and basically, your brain kicks
in and thinks it's authentic and taste better because another sense tells you it does,
which is probably why beach towns and resorts sell way more Corona than everyone
else. Why because you're here in the Caribbean music. You're there on the
beach and you're like, wait a minute, this Corona is amazing, but
Corona doesn't really sell well in thunder Bay, Canada. All right, So
right there, ladies, and just it's why cheap light beer tastes really good
when you're listening to country music, like I feel like a loser, and
then you find out you're listening to a song about a guy who lost his
truck, his dog and his wife. All right, that's been this episode
once on Tap Radio. Thank you for tuning in Harbor Light. Bill's hanging
out with us here, James in Studio s Lady Texas. Thank all of
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