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Now enjoy the show. 10 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:31.359 This is about to be good radio. 11 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:35.439 To me, a craft brewer is much more of a 12 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:40.280 mindset spread the gospel of good beer. 13 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:42.520 Tons and tons of stuff going on in the beer world. 14 00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:45.200 I love craft beer. I love different people's beers. 15 00:00:45.240 --> 00:00:46.280 It's the first favorite. 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:51.359 Cheers two old US beer geeks and those new to 17 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:51.920 the craft. 18 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:53.119 What's on Tap High five? 19 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:59.439 This is What's on Tap Radio beer and the culture 20 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.600 that flows with it. Pear's Beer Guru James Simpson and 21 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:05.640 Beer Logics Chad Pilbean. 22 00:01:13.959 --> 00:01:16.599 Happy New Year. 23 00:01:19.200 --> 00:01:20.840 I thought you were getting a tonsle actony. 24 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:27.920 Ah woo, guess who's rested this guy? 25 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:33.200 Oh? You know, everybody wants to know though it's January. 26 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:35.719 It is January. I noticed it on the glendar. 27 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.519 You know what everybody wants to know. We're gonna find 28 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:42.760 out soon enough. Inquiring minds want to know, actually, inquiring 29 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:45.239 livers want to know. Is James going to do what 30 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:47.400 he did last year? We're gonna ask him that here 31 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:49.359 in just a little bit. But it is a new year. 32 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:51.079 Time to drink some new beer. 33 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:51.840 Year, is it? 34 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:55.319 Is it twenty twenty four, twenty three, twenty two, twenty 35 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:56.000 one the year? 36 00:01:56.079 --> 00:01:58.159 We don't mention before that or after that? 37 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.120 I don't know, but I know some celebrities that said 38 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:03.640 that threatened them to leave the country again. I'm not 39 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:06.400 sure why, but they said, yeah, we're gonna we're leaving. 40 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:11.599 Did they leave, No, they haven't. There's some weird stuff 41 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:13.439 going on in the world. Did you hear they're talking 42 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:15.319 about changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico. 43 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.039 I heard that Gulf of America. 44 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:22.120 Wild For a guy who doesn't drink, he's got some 45 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:23.039 crazy ideas. 46 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:25.879 I'll take thanks for that. Made me laugh for three hundred. 47 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.199 But that's a that's a final jeopardy one. 48 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:33.560 All right, Welcome to Happy New Year, Bill, Happy New Year. 49 00:02:33.639 --> 00:02:33.919 Chad. 50 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:38.639 Happy New Year, everyone Happy James man, I'm fired up. 51 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:38.840 Man. 52 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:40.759 We had the last couple of weeks off. You know, 53 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:43.759 we always take the last two or three weeks off 54 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:45.919 of the year, and you know, just to get some 55 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:48.400 R and R. We charge our batteries and uh boy, 56 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:50.879 I needed it, although I was sick a lot of it. 57 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:54.560 But I'm back, I'm I'm ready, I'm fired up. How 58 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:55.199 about you guys? 59 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:59.000 Here? It is this this segment right here, brought the table, 60 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.360 brought to you by Robot. Here we go. James is 61 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:01.919 sick again. 62 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:04.520 No, actually, I'm not sick. I was sick during the break. 63 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:06.759 I came down with I don't know. There was some 64 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:11.919 sinus infections going on around. But I'm back, I'm ready 65 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:13.800 and uh it's We're kicking. 66 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:14.520 Off twenty twenty five. 67 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:18.080 I'm excited, man. We've got some good stories, good beer, 68 00:03:18.120 --> 00:03:21.560 the crack open. But before we do, James, please thank 69 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:24.199 all those wonderful people who make it possible for us 70 00:03:24.199 --> 00:03:26.120 to produce this fine radio program. 71 00:03:26.280 --> 00:03:30.919 All right, kicking off with our our is it our 72 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:31.840 research departments? 73 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:32.879 Is that what we call it? 74 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.280 Superior pest control. 75 00:03:34.719 --> 00:03:36.719 Superior pest control right here in West Michigan. 76 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:40.280 Yes, flutter inboxes, flutter inboxes with so many stories. 77 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:42.479 They vet the stories for us and it makes it 78 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.240 easier on the production team. Because we lost our intern. 79 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:46.800 Yeah a long time ago too. 80 00:03:47.159 --> 00:03:47.280 Uh. 81 00:03:47.439 --> 00:03:49.520 We got Bier Logic Conference, the events reading all taking 82 00:03:49.560 --> 00:03:51.840 Insurance group, the Backyard Girl keeping the lights nice and 83 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:54.560 bright and nice and cozy here in my studio, here 84 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.840 a studio s thanks to Harbor Light Brewing and of 85 00:03:56.879 --> 00:03:59.960 course sponsoring our podcast cast branding which is a bit 86 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:02.919 well everywhere, were everywhere and I mean everywhere. 87 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:03.400 And welcome to show. 88 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:06.199 We got a lot of good stuff on tap this week. 89 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:09.680 Gotta catch up have things been? We gotta talk about how. 90 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:10.039 The break was. 91 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:12.719 But in the meantime, we got to drink some beer 92 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:14.879 in the first segment thanks to our friends over at 93 00:04:14.919 --> 00:04:16.800 the Backyard Grill, which is they've been with us a 94 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:20.519 long time, a long time, and I'm very grateful for 95 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:22.879 them for their supports. But they bring us, brought the 96 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:24.959 table where I'm gonna bring a beer, chats bringing a 97 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:26.040 beer bill, bringing beer. 98 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:27.240 I mean, everyone's just bringing beer. 99 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.879 We got beer, and also we have a stunt beer 100 00:04:29.920 --> 00:04:34.560 livery hanging out in the corner Mike degrees of Hummingbird Hops. 101 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.040 We're gonna talk to him in a minute, because he 102 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:37.639 was sitting around. He's like, yeah, I can't really grow 103 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.480 hops in this whether it's twenty degrees. So I got 104 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.000 something to do, you know, Hey, can I come over 105 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:45.079 and have a beer? Sure, and we're gonna kick things off. James. 106 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:48.519 I was on the hunt at every single beer store, 107 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:49.519 could not find it. 108 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.439 Finally I saw, I saw your social media congratulations. 109 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:55.000 I was very excited for you. 110 00:04:55.480 --> 00:04:59.120 Only seventy days after the package date. Here it is 111 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:03.560 the Celebration Fresh Hop ip a from Sierra Nevada. I 112 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:06.759 have looked all over. In fact, there was a restaurant 113 00:05:06.920 --> 00:05:10.199 that said we now have Sierra Nevada Celebration nail on 114 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.000 tap and I'm like, where has this ben? 115 00:05:13.279 --> 00:05:16.040 What's the major retail chain up there? Is that Meyer 116 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:17.480 Meyer Meyer? 117 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.600 Yeah? They would every Meyer, I know what, up and 118 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:22.639 down the aisles could not find it. And I thought, 119 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:26.439 seeing as this is a fresh hop beer and it 120 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.480 is arguably the greatest West Coast ipa ever made, and 121 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:34.040 we have a hop farmer in studio with us Hummingberg 122 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:36.959 Hops might here, thought why not kick things off with 123 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:39.240 a fresh Hop celebration. I pa, I am not going 124 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.519 to describe the beer. Why because if you know what 125 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:44.439 it is, it needs no description. And if you don't 126 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:47.319 know what it is, where the hell have you been? 127 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:51.720 Yeah? I bought that beer to the table like four times before. 128 00:05:52.439 --> 00:05:55.120 All right, James, let's get on to you, because everybody 129 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.000 wants to know. It's so called dry January. 130 00:05:58.399 --> 00:05:59.639 Dry January, that's what I heard. 131 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:03.079 You know, over a half of all people survey say 132 00:06:03.160 --> 00:06:07.399 that you plan to rarely never drinking in twenty twenty five, 133 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:11.959 but of people say they do not plan on partaking 134 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:13.079 in dry January. 135 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:18.399 What says these guys? All right, obviously chat's not partaking 136 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:20.439 in dry January. But I'm bringing to the table. 137 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:26.160 I'm also bringing a fresh hopped ipa from the Shoots. 138 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:31.879 Hey fresh hopped? Now, this is the freshly squeezed ipa 139 00:06:32.639 --> 00:06:37.279 loaded with juicy hops at zero percent alcohol. 140 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:44.160 Oh no, but about again? Here he goes. Now you 141 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:45.800 know why nobody wants to come and drink with you? 142 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:49.759 And am I very popular? What's on tap radio? It's 143 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:51.680 like a podcast glass thanks to our friends over at 144 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:54.439 Harbor Light Brewing. I'm gonna pour this freshly squeezed to 145 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.120 Shoots ipa into my what's on tap radio glass that 146 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.519 smells like hops freshly squeeze hops. 147 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:04.560 That is it almost tastes like beer. 148 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:12.920 That's very hoppy. 149 00:07:13.959 --> 00:07:19.639 Again, this is he freshly squeezed ipa packed with juicy 150 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.519 hops from the Shoots brewing out of Bend, Oregon at 151 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:24.720 a zero percent alcohol by volume. 152 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:29.800 Our special stunt liver, Mike Deveries again of Hummingbird Hops 153 00:07:29.800 --> 00:07:33.120 in Sagatuck, Michigan, joining us as a stunt beer liver. 154 00:07:33.199 --> 00:07:36.120 He's conflicted on this because it's such a hoppy beer 155 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.199 and it uses hops. He's like, oh, well, that's good 156 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:40.879 for business, but there's no alcohol in. And he's like, well, 157 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:45.000 I guess I'll allow it because it's good for them, 158 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:49.279 good for the economy. But he's not gonna partake neither 159 00:07:49.399 --> 00:07:50.680 am I In Bill's like. 160 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:53.800 I saw I saw Bill shaking his hat at me. 161 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:56.680 Don't do that, Bill, all right? 162 00:07:56.680 --> 00:07:58.279 Anyway, this has been brought to the table, brought to 163 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:00.439 you by our friends at the Backyard Grill. We brought 164 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.240 the Seerien about a celebration fresh hop ipa, and James 165 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.399 brought something that's almost like beer, the non alcoholic. 166 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:10.040 Hopwater suits freshly squeeze ipa and that has brought the 167 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:12.160 table thanks to our friends over the backyard Grill. But hey, 168 00:08:12.439 --> 00:08:14.720 we gotta take our first break. But coming up, we're 169 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:16.639 gonna catch up with each other. See how things have. 170 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.240 Been, how how's how's the beer? We'll looking and uh 171 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:22.800 got fun facts, hold my beer and watch this all. 172 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:24.240 This is so much more. Hang with us for an 173 00:08:24.279 --> 00:08:26.480 action back two hours. We'll be right back. 174 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:29.439 Here in What's on Tap Radio. 175 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:32.320 We know two types of people, those you drink with 176 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:34.919 and those that make you drink. 177 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.720 Oh, your parents are coming for the weekend. 178 00:08:38.440 --> 00:08:40.639 Either way, we're drinking. 179 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:46.679 All right. Everybody's got a beer. You got a beer, 180 00:08:46.919 --> 00:08:49.000 I got a beer. We got a beer. You know 181 00:08:49.039 --> 00:08:51.840 who else has beer? The Backyard Grill on the northwest 182 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.559 side of Houston. But when you're drinking, you want to 183 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:57.440 have something to eat too, So go get yourself some 184 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:00.879 grub at the byg. The menu is a amazing They've 185 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:04.759 got all your Texas favorites like steaks, bahitas, chops, and 186 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.559 it's all grilled on a wood fired grill. Got burgers, 187 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:11.919 you got wraps. Hey, if you're vegetarian, they got salads, 188 00:09:11.960 --> 00:09:16.480 they got soups, homemade dishes, and specialties like smoky the 189 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.559 beer chicken. Oh yeah, smoked chicken injected with local beer 190 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:23.600 sounds delicious, right yeah, And don't forget the green beans. 191 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.559 I know you're thinking, Wait a minute, is this guy 192 00:09:25.639 --> 00:09:27.799 just talking about all the grilled stuff and you're gonna 193 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:29.919 tell me to eat your veggies? Hey, mom said eat 194 00:09:29.960 --> 00:09:33.240 your veggies. Over one hundred different menu items, get the 195 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:36.039 green beans. Trust me, you won't regret it, and over 196 00:09:36.039 --> 00:09:38.519 one hundred different beers head out to the backyard Grill 197 00:09:38.559 --> 00:09:40.279 in the corner of Weston Jones Road on the northwest 198 00:09:40.279 --> 00:09:41.919 side of Houston. Cheers. 199 00:09:53.840 --> 00:09:58.600 All right, welcome the new year, first episode of twenty 200 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:04.639 twenty five. You can join us. Look at the one 201 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:08.919 sheet here, I mean you a little teaser. US Surgeon 202 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.639 General calls for new warnings on beer labels. That's gonna 203 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:15.720 be our big story. I got flooded with emails about that. 204 00:10:17.879 --> 00:10:21.399 Now this story will save us. This is a story 205 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:25.919 that is very interesting to me. Past blue ribbon. 206 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.879 It's gonna be contra contract brewed with another big conglomerate brewery. 207 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:31.320 This is a very interesting story to me. 208 00:10:33.559 --> 00:10:36.799 Least at least it's you remember when paps we covered 209 00:10:36.799 --> 00:10:40.600 this story way back and PBR got bought out and 210 00:10:40.679 --> 00:10:43.919 was owned by a Russian company. It's like, wait a minute, 211 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:46.480 hold on send PBR. It's like, that's as American as 212 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:49.879 it gets and it's owned by a Russian company. And 213 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.960 then we bought it back somehow, I don't know. 214 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:55.120 But now that they're switching contract brewers. And an interview 215 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:58.639 I did with Jim Cook back in like twenty sixteen, 216 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:02.240 twenty seventeen, I asked this very question and he did 217 00:11:02.279 --> 00:11:05.039 not have an answer for me. Find out what question 218 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.720 that is, because now there's an answer just ten years later. 219 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:11.440 I know what the question was. I remember, is glitter 220 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:13.360 beer going to take the world by storm? Damn it? 221 00:11:13.480 --> 00:11:16.720 Chad, yes, kill. 222 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:19.840 If he's gonna do a dry January? 223 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:22.600 And then what else we got going on? Oh, Heineken's 224 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:23.480 upset some fans. 225 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:24.240 We'll explain. 226 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:26.679 And then we got the marketing idea of the week. 227 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:28.879 All this is so much more on this edition of 228 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:32.320 What's on Tap Radio, So hang with us. Got a 229 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:33.840 lot of good stuff on tap, but I want to 230 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:35.519 reset the beers that we brought to the table thanks 231 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.039 to our friends over at the backyard grill. We're Chad excited, 232 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.720 excited because he finally, finally was able to track down 233 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:43.879 the celebration. 234 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.840 I pa, it was in a party store and it 235 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:49.080 was in spring Lake. It was the same party store 236 00:11:49.399 --> 00:11:52.399 that Harbor Light Bill and I went to, and yeah, 237 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.240 I went back in there and I said, I know. 238 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:58.879 I said, do you have any celebration ale from Sierra Nevada? 239 00:11:59.159 --> 00:12:01.360 And he said, yep, right here. And I looked and 240 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:03.559 I said, and they were just six packs and I 241 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:05.799 said okay, and he hands me one. I was like 242 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:08.399 that it. He was like, how many do you want? 243 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:09.799 I said, all of. 244 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:10.080 All of it. 245 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:14.320 I want all the celebration now. And so he pulled 246 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.559 out and he's like, oh, I've got his three and 247 00:12:16.679 --> 00:12:18.399 forty two dollars later. 248 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:20.480 Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna pay for it. 249 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:23.080 That one would have been funny if he was like, yeah, 250 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:24.039 I can't get rid of this stuff. 251 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:25.960 It's on the clearance shelf. 252 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.039 Yeah, here's a palette. How much do you want pull 253 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.440 your quick car around. We'll load it the trunk. 254 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:35.279 It's been on the clearage rack next to the old Oreos. 255 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:41.679 Yeah, the Orange Halloween Oreos celebration Hill by the way, 256 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.080 I do have a story coming up that did not 257 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:46.320 make it into the production room. I got it right 258 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:48.039 before we came out in the air, things to Superior 259 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:50.679 Pest Control, West Michigan. I am gonna be telling you 260 00:12:50.759 --> 00:12:53.840 about that. But you say that cookies and beer? Way 261 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.159 do you hear this story? 262 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:55.679 All right? 263 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:56.080 All right? 264 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.480 And then I want to reset the beer that I brought, 265 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:03.080 the freshly squeeze non alcoholic IPA from the shoot's brewing 266 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:05.840 at and I said zero percent, but I know I'm 267 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:08.200 gonna get fact checked by people out there at James 268 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:11.519 and the radio. It's zero point five. Abv Okay, it's 269 00:13:11.519 --> 00:13:15.360 not zero percent. It's zero point five. And I know 270 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:17.360 there's gonna be you know, four people let me start. 271 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.720 That's incorrect, by the way. One of them is sitting 272 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:27.600 in my studio. He's like, well, you know, technically a word, 273 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:30.399 and then all of a sudden, you know, harbor Light 274 00:13:30.519 --> 00:13:32.559 Bill He's like, well, you know, Chad, he is right, 275 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:35.039 and I'm like, shut up. Then I remember that Bill 276 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.320 pays the bill. So let me take a swig. 277 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:39.120 Of this now that I let her breathe through this segment, 278 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:41.360 hang on, yeah, go ahead. 279 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.840 Have a sip of that why you're just breathing. Our 280 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.039 is gone. Yeah, we're gonna to open another one here 281 00:13:46.039 --> 00:13:46.559 in a second. 282 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:48.360 So this is a good alternative to the original main 283 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:53.080 squeeze professionally similar balance IPA notes of bright citrus and 284 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:55.879 tropical fruits. It's so close to the original you'll have 285 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.799 to double check on the can. That's how that's how 286 00:13:58.799 --> 00:13:59.399 close it is. 287 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.840 See this is okay? How much beard does James drink? 288 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.399 Because he was able to go back in the rolodex 289 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:08.200 of his brain and recall what the original taste like 290 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:12.399 to be right, yeah, and he's like, you know what, 291 00:14:12.440 --> 00:14:14.279 this tastes refreshingly like the original? 292 00:14:14.399 --> 00:14:17.600 I mean, and well it helps her. I do like 293 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:19.759 that beer, you know, just shoots. It's a great brewery. 294 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:24.159 They have bright, juicy aromas, flavors of orange and passion fruit. 295 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:27.559 It's a it's a very good and I'm I'm saying 296 00:14:27.919 --> 00:14:31.600 zero point five percent. And did you know this beer 297 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:34.080 won a gold at the twenty twenty four US Open 298 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:35.559 Beer Championship. 299 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.720 For the non alcoholic IPA. Thank you very much. 300 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.840 Wait a minute, you're drinking a gold medal winning hot water. 301 00:14:45.200 --> 00:14:48.600 James almost spit his hot water first show of twenty 302 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:50.399 twenty five, and I almost got him to spit is 303 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:51.000 hot water. 304 00:14:51.120 --> 00:14:51.279 Now. 305 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.039 I know the question is going to be like, why 306 00:14:53.240 --> 00:14:57.200 why James? Why? Because I like a good challenge. I right, 307 00:14:57.279 --> 00:14:57.919 like a good challenge. 308 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.440 Let me see if I can do it, and I 309 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:02.159 didn't last year. And here we are, what twelve days 310 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:05.240 into the new year. I'm doing fine and uh. 311 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.080 And meanwhile we are over here and we just cracked 312 00:15:08.120 --> 00:15:09.919 up another one, which we were gonna talk about in 313 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:12.480 the next break because we still have to do this. 314 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.399 And then we sign a new contract for twenty twenty five, 315 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:18.080 which means they said, hey, you're gonna keep You're gonna 316 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.840 keep educating people, right like, well, it's part of the deal. 317 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:22.559 Now. 318 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:25.519 The official What's on Tap Radio fun Fact of the 319 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.000 Week brought to you by Who's ever checked Clear? 320 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:28.639 This week? 321 00:15:28.840 --> 00:15:30.240 I mean to be fair, people have been off for 322 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:32.159 the last two weeks, so they haven't learned anything. They've 323 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.720 been on vacation, so it's time to get them back 324 00:15:34.720 --> 00:15:35.159 in school. 325 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:39.120 It's like beer drinkers everywhere, we're getting dumber. Get back 326 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:39.720 out of the air. 327 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:43.600 My brain needs stimulation, all right. 328 00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:47.799 When you think about popular beer destinations, James, where do 329 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.759 you like to go, like really, like if you're getting 330 00:15:49.799 --> 00:15:51.600 on an airplane going somewhere where you're going. 331 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:53.679 I'm probably going somewhere like in the Middle East. 332 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.080 Yeah, yep, exactly. Yeah I heard. I thinking's opening a 333 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:58.639 brewer in Saudi Arabia. 334 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:01.480 One of my favorite stories of twenty two before. Hey, 335 00:16:01.480 --> 00:16:02.960 there's closed. 336 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:04.639 Muslim country and there's major brewery. 337 00:16:04.720 --> 00:16:07.159 There's breweries closing all over the country. But hey, let's 338 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:09.519 go open to one and where people can't drink. 339 00:16:09.320 --> 00:16:12.840 It, well, not alcoholic beers. So big, we're gonna open 340 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:17.480 a brewery and a Muslim nation. Oh, we're gonna talk 341 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:21.919 more about that later on. But beer destinations maybe Portland, Oregon, 342 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:26.440 maybe Portland, Maine, maybe Grand Rapids, Michigan, Beer City, USA, 343 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:30.000 right there, anywhere in Colorado. I mean, there's places all 344 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.279 over that you can go. Houston, Texas. I mean Texas 345 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:36.440 beer scene is hot. I don't care. Yeah, it's that's 346 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.159 just a temperature. They're not just the temperature. It's also 347 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.279 the beer scene there. But you may have heard that 348 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:48.240 Virginia is for lovers, that's the official tourism slogan for Virginia. 349 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:54.200 But maybe Virginia is for beer. Lovers, because there's quite 350 00:16:54.200 --> 00:16:58.000 a bit of history of beer in the Commonwealth state 351 00:16:58.399 --> 00:17:01.559 and starts with six the year sixteen oh seven. You 352 00:17:01.559 --> 00:17:03.360 remember that year, James. It's a good year. 353 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:05.400 I mean, like like it was yesterday. 354 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:08.160 Yeah, oh two, it was a good year. Yeah, I'm 355 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:12.400 telling you. Oh. And beer came into the colonies and 356 00:17:12.759 --> 00:17:16.160 arrived in the colony of Virginia, and then all of 357 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:17.680 a sudden it started to spread. Now it's a little 358 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:21.640 known fact that the beer in street really was not 359 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.839 in beer as a product, was not done by the 360 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.240 men of that time. It was done by women. And 361 00:17:28.319 --> 00:17:30.079 it was a southern state, so it was also being 362 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:33.240 produced by slaves. And we did a fun fact about 363 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:38.839 one Peter Lemming who was the first super brewer, and 364 00:17:38.920 --> 00:17:42.440 he was a black slaved and he was owned by 365 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.279 Thomas Jefferson and he brewed on that plantation and he 366 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:49.319 made amazing beer and taught other people on other plantations 367 00:17:49.319 --> 00:17:53.920 how to brew beer. And that all started in Virginia. 368 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:59.640 Another little known fact is that the very first canned beer, 369 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.680 Ruger Beer, debuted in nineteen thirty five. I want to 370 00:18:03.680 --> 00:18:07.960 take a guess which state it was, Virginia, No, Florida, Yeah, No, 371 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:12.359 it was Virginia. Yes, it was Virginia. Nineteen thirty five, 372 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:17.839 the first canned beer debuted and the great Charlie Papaisian, 373 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:23.359 founder of the Brewers Association American home Brewers Association Beer Festival. 374 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.680 You darn right, he's been on the show, knows us. 375 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:29.240 We've got high fives from him and everybody. He attended 376 00:18:29.279 --> 00:18:32.920 the University of Virginia, where he perfected homebrewing and wrote 377 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:35.799 many of his books. But I thought this was an 378 00:18:35.799 --> 00:18:38.839 appropriate fun fact. You're official What's on Tap Radio Fun 379 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:42.240 Fact of the week, seeing as we have Hummingbird hops 380 00:18:42.279 --> 00:18:44.559 in studio with us right now. Mike's going to be 381 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:49.079 impressed by this. But Virginia was the single largest producer 382 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.000 of hops in all of the colonies all the way 383 00:18:52.079 --> 00:18:55.200 up to the start of the Civil War. And that 384 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:58.119 is your official What's on Tap Radio Fun Fact of 385 00:18:58.160 --> 00:18:58.519 the Week. 386 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:01.759 That was a good fun fact, Chad, see learning things here. 387 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:05.519 Yeah, Now, if we just get the Commonwealth of Virginia 388 00:19:05.599 --> 00:19:09.279 to sponsor the icial time Tap Ready Fun Fact the Week, 389 00:19:09.319 --> 00:19:12.240 we'll tell more people to go drinking in Virginia, because 390 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.960 Virginia is more than just for lovers. It's for beer. 391 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:18.079 Lovers or have said us a T shirt. 392 00:19:19.119 --> 00:19:22.200 Yeah, reach out to the tourist department. See see me again? 393 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:22.839 Something going on? 394 00:19:24.119 --> 00:19:26.160 All right, well, I wanna take a note of swig 395 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.160 of my a to shoots freshly squeezed hops of mosaic 396 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:33.200 and citra. All right, let's take a break. Coming up, 397 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.720 let's catch up, and let's. 398 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:37.880 Tell you what's going on in the world. It's What's 399 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:39.880 on Tap Radio. Hang with us. We'll beat right back. 400 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:46.200 Because it's five o'clock somewhere, Live life, every old and menanom. 401 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:50.079