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Craft beer in hand, headphones on head. A listener meets Flex in person with Heady Topper, and Flex lives to test the hype. Greg’s hunt for one decent beer at a Weezer concert ends with a hazy that isn’t. Poop Beer Gate is back with a strawberry cheesecake sour and a bartender who already knew. And an Ohio man gets a courtesy ride home from police and blows it. Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Heady Topper from The Alchemist, an 8% double IPA hype beer that leaves him a little underwhelmed.Greg is drinking Wild Grove Hazy IPA from Malibu Brewing Company, a 6% hazy with coconut, citrus, and a sunscreen vibe that drinks real easy. Episode Highlights Listener Davis is in Flex’s neck of the woods for a Chicago beer trip and a Packers game, so he drops off some Heady Topper, one of the OG craft beer hype beers. Flex survives the meetup and throws on the lab coat to see if the can’s “drink from the can” rule really matters. Out in Los Angeles, Greg and Intern Brian walk half of Staples Center looking for anything but Michelob Ultra, Bud Light, and Stella, and find a $24 canned cocktail at 7%. Meanwhile, Poop Beer Gate brings listener Brian’s cheesecake sour that tasted like someone got sick on a roller coaster, and Vanessa calls in about dumping entire flights in brewery bathrooms. Shout-out to Austin, Texas, last week’s top listening city, and Flex explains what happens when customers wear cowboy hats in Wisconsin. Booze News: Grand Theft Auto VI beers hop off the screen and into real cans.Stone’s old Escondido home gets a new name: Quarry Escondido.Goose Island’s Bourbon County Triple Barrel Stout clocks in at 18.7%.Ohio man passes out three or four times, then turns a ride home into a ride to jail. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Hi, craft beer people. Glad you made it. Greg lets a drunk Giants fan trash the Dodgers for over an hour before telling her he’s from LA. Flex finds maybe the best vacation beer of his life on a Florida grocery store shelf. Greg dares a hydrated listener to call the show from a brewery’s emo Halloween night, and he does. And a Canadian man steals a live flamingo getting hammered. Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Hazy IPA from Palm City Brewing, a 6.5% New England-style flagship he ordered at every restaurant on vacation and calls maybe the best vacation beer he’s ever had.Greg is drinking Gnarly Budz from Altamont Beer Works and Shred Beer Co., a piney 7% West Coast IPA that drinks more like a hoppy pilsner. Episode Highlights Flex’s Palm City hazy came off the tiny craft beer wall at a Fort Myers Beach Publix, the nicest grocery store this 15-year grocery veteran has ever seen. Meanwhile, Greg is at a bar in Emeryville for Game 3 of Dodgers vs. Brewers, where a Giants fan spends over an hour roasting the Dodgers. When she finally asks where he’s from, Greg answers with “You ready?” Back home at Naughty Pine’s emo Halloween night, listener Michael keeps telling Greg he married up, so Greg tells him to quit talking and call the show. Shout-out to Vineland, New Jersey, last week’s top listening craft beer city. Booze News: Stone’s founders take back the Escondido bistro, men’s room death metal and all.Hardywood Park buys Starr Hill in a Virginia craft beer merger.The Brews to Barns Act wants tax credits for breweries donating spent grain.Ohio man celebrates the end of probation by twirling drunk outside a GetGo.Canadian man convicted of stealing a flamingo from a Vegas hotel after 30 to 40 beers. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Pour a craft beer and pull up a chair. Erica name-drops her advanced cicerone friend and scores a brewery tour with free tastings. Flex opens a Bourbon County Stout after all the trash talk, and the joke’s on Flex. His favorite brewery swaps out its French fries, and the regulars revolt. And Greg quizzes Flex and Erica on GABF winners like Zombie Shark Fight, with mostly wrong answers. Beers We’re Drinking: Erica is drinking West Ghost from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., a 7.2% West Coast IPA she calls bright and true, in a can so cute Flex rates it ten out of ten without a sip.Flex is drinking Rectifier from Eagle Park Brewing, a 7.8% West Coast IPA he calls a banger (not rectum fire).Greg is drinking Sole Purpose from Obercreek Brewing Company, a 5% single-hop Nelson hazy pale ale and a craft beer gift from Non-Murderer John that Greg calls world class. Episode Highlights Greg and Erica are both fresh out of the tattoo chair, which reminds Flex of his script tattoo. Flex wrote “dying” on the paper, and the artist inked “DIEING” anyway. Erica’s craft beer friend Rachel turns out to be one of about 211 advanced cicerones in the world, and she still drinks Miller Lite. Greg’s GABF quiz, built with some help from Claude, also features Satan’s Pony and Feral Garden Gnome. As for Flex’s Bourbon County, it was a Costco bottle he let sit in his fridge for months. The Eagle Park fry swap lasted two to three weeks. Later, a drunk woman’s scooter crash gets Greg gushing about Lime scooters, until his boss offers to pay him to quit. Shout-out to Boise, Idaho, last week’s top listening city, and Greg has questions about their internet. Booze News: GABF goes outdoors and Denver actually behaves.Admiral Maltings shuts down the kiln for good.Constellation Brands pays $75 million for a vodka sports drink.Drunk woman falls off her scooter, gets help up, and scoots away anyway. Guest: Erica, the Hot Mess Express and salty pretzel slinger behind Neck Nosh (@necknosh, necknosh.com), is back hanging with Greg and Flex. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Got a craft beer handy? Good. Poop Beer Gate is back with a White Russian blonde ale full of brown floaters. Non-Murderer John hooks Greg up with another great beer, and Flex suspects a Hansel and Gretel setup. Greg once sent back a flat pilsner, and the server asked if he wanted the same beer. And a 76-year-old Florida man holds up a silver cup and tells a deputy, “This here is my rum.” Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Spring Road from Phase Three Brewing, a 7.7% double dry hopped hazy double IPA he bought mostly for the trippy can, and calls it light, well rounded, and very tasty.Greg is drinking Impulse from Fidens Brewing, a 7.5% IPA with Galaxy, Citra, and Motueka that looks like a cup of juice and is as good as it looks. Listener Mike writes in about his White Russian blonde ale, and when he asks if the floaters are normal, the bartender says, “Yeah, I think so.” That starts a round of craft beer horror stories, including Flex’s $15 movie theater Cream City Crusher that tasted like coconut from the first sip. Greg can count on one hand the beers he’s sent back, and the 14 Cannons pilsner is one of them. Non-Murderer John comes through with a Fidens IPA, and if John ever does turn murderer, Flex wants Greg’s username changed to “Greg is dead.” Shout-out to Sacramento, last week’s top listening city, and Greg owes Erica an apology. Booze News: Shock Top and Spirit Halloween team up on a candy corn beer and wedge head costumes.North Coast Brewing gives Old Rasputin a 4.5% little brother.Sam Adams front-of-house staff vote to unionize.Sapporo lays off 272 workers at the former Stone Brewing in Escondido.Pop-Tarts pulls the plug on its BuzzBalls collab.A 76-year-old Florida man tells cops it’s rum, then brings up the cocaine. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Cheers to you, craft beer drinkers. A hurricane floods Greg's Hawaii hotel, so he ends up in Portugal, where every park has a bar. Flex goes craft beer shopping for a hazy IPA, pours a clear West Coast, and nearly finishes it before the review. Alaskan Brewing's 40th birthday reminds Greg of a pumpkin beer that left him one of the sickest he's ever been. And a White Sox player skips the translator for his locker room interview, where his English is mostly "I'm drunk." Beers We're Drinking: Flex is drinking Dese, Dem & Dose from Hop Butcher for the World, a 6.7% IPA that pours clear.Greg is drinking Super Bock, a 5.2% lager from Portugal that's extremely crushable on a hot day. Listeners wrote in about the things they miss in craft beer: beer trades, black IPAs, and growlers. Greg calls growlers the worst vessel for your beer, yet Russian River growlers still sit on a shelf in his kitchen. He’s also just back from Portugal, the backup trip he planned in about a week after the hurricane took out Kauai. The little kiosks in Lisbon's parks look like information booths and turn out to be bars, so Flex names Portugal the Wisconsin of Europe. Later, news of Alaskan Brewing's 40th brings up the pumpkin beer that wrecked Greg. Shout-out to Vineland, New Jersey, our top listening city. Booze News: Bottle Logic and The Bruery form The Bruery Group.Alaskan Brewing turns 40 with a 40-pack.A fitness company wins the Rogue Ales auction for $2.82 million.Lost Coast Brewery is officially for sale.White Sox player Munetaka Murakami gives a very honest locker room interview. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Beer trading, bombers, bottle shares, black IPAs, growlers, beer festivals, Untappd, mug clubs, beer dinners, and a whole bunch of other stuff craft beer people used to care about a lot more. Greg rapid-fires old-school beer habits and trends at Flex to figure out what they actually miss, what they definitely don’t, and what deserves a comeback. Highlights Beer trading, whales, and 22 oz bombersStanding in line for beer releasesGrowlers and the IBU warsSession IPAs and black IPAsBottle shares and beer festivalsChecking in every beer on UntappdMug clubs and barrel-aged everythingCollecting brewery glassware, stickers, and coastersBeer dinners and arguing over whether something is “to style”The one thing Greg and Flex miss the most What Greg and Flex actually miss Black IPAsBottle sharesBeer dinnersTraditional sour stylesGose Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Greg and Flex jump back to 2016 to look at the beers that ruled craft beer, the ones everyone was chasing, and which “whales” do not feel quite as impossible anymore. Along the way, Flex gets exactly what he loves most: lists. Highlights The #1 beer from every year since 2016Bell’s Two Hearted and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale absolutely dominating the listPliny, Electric Jellyfish, and whether hype matches realityThe top 10 beers people were chasing in 2016Dark Lord, Heady Topper, Julius, Utopias, Pliny the Younger, and moreWhich beers actually felt like whalesWhat once-impossible beers are much easier to get nowThe beers Greg and Flex wish they could always get Mentioned in the episode Bell’s Two Hearted IPASierra Nevada Pale AleRussian River Pliny the ElderRussian River Pliny the YoungerPinthouse Electric JellyfishTree House JuliusThe Alchemist Heady Topper3 Floyds Dark Lord3 Floyds Zombie DustSamuel Adams UtopiasMaine Beer Company DinnerCigar City Hunahpu’s Imperial Stout Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Welcome in, craft beer besties. Poop Beer Gate lives on thanks to a beer that four grown men agree tastes like hot dog water. Greg thinks breweries need to loosen up, hand out a few splashes, and make craft beer fun again. PBR is working on a beer soap so you can smell like a Milwaukee lake day, which Flex wants absolutely nothing to do with. And Greg meets a guy who brags about drinking for free at a brewery he can't pronounce. Beers We're Drinking: Greg is drinking Watt Strike What from Smog City Brewing, a 6.3% hazy IPA with plenty of citrus and tropical fruit that gets a rare Smog City thumbs-up from Greg.Flex is drinking Ford F***ing Ranger from Young Blood Beer Company, a 6.5% West Coast IPA that's juicy, dry, and tastes a lot better than its sewer-water appearance suggests. Greg has been trying to find decent beer near his hotel, and ChatGPT has twice sent him on some b******t, including one bottle shop where he questioned whether he and his car were safe. Maybe AI isn't ready to be your beer sherpa. On the brighter side, Deb and Brian's trip to Captain Fatty's gives Greg an idea for making craft beer fun again: talk to customers, hand out a splash, blend a couple beers together, and stop assuming everyone walking into a brewery already knows what they want. Then there's the Trader Joe's cashier who tells Greg he's part German and drinks for free at Enegren, despite being unable to pronounce Enegren. Poop Beer Gate also gets Matt's nomination for the Mount Rushmore of terrible beer: a wheat beer that tasted like hot dog water. Four guys tried it. No one finished it. Booze News: PBR and Dr. Squatch made beer soap for anyone looking to smell like a Milwaukee lake day.Mice, roaches, and sanitation problems temporarily shut down Victory Brewing's Philly taproom.1,602 cases of beer disappear in California, and PBR puts up a $20,000 reward.A Wyoming DUI suspect tells police he hasn't had “enough” to drink. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Welcome in, craft beer friends. Greg is ready to replace Halloween with a giant inflatable beer hall, Flex assigns him beer-and-champagne homework, and Madison Brian discovers a five-dollar German pilsner at Aldi that might actually be worth drinking. Malibu Brewing’s new location is already threatening Greg’s bank account, Flex can’t wait for Halloween, and an alcohol safety class reminds Greg that 21-year-old Greg mainly used responsible-drinking education to figure out how to get drunk faster. Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Ghost Vision from Modist Brewing Company, a double dry-hopped hazy IPA with candied mango and a surprisingly light finish.Greg is drinking Oktoberfest from Enegren Brewing Company, a clean, light Bavarian-style lager built for Oktoberfest season. Malibu Brewing finally opened its second location close enough to Greg that he’s already been twice in under two weeks, which feels not-so financially sustainable. The new brunch menu gets Greg thinking about replacing orange juice in a mimosa with a juicy hazy, so Flex assigns him and Intern Brian some beer-champagne science for next week. Madison Bryan calls in from Brookfield with a surprisingly respectable Aldi pilsner, launching another round of lime-beer trauma and memories of Bud Light Lime. Greg then discovers Sam Adams sold a $200 inflatable Oktoberfest beer hall and immediately decides pumpkins, ghosts, witches, and possibly marital harmony can all take a back seat to lederhosen and front-yard beer service. He closes things out by remembering the alcohol safety class that taught his younger self carbonation could speed up alcohol absorption, information he naturally used only for the highest standards of scientific research. Booze News: Prohibition Brewery in Vista Closing After Nearly 15 YearsGarage Beer Leads $500,000 Bid for Rogue Ales IP and Pac-Man YeastSam Adams Sells Out of Inflatable Oktoberfest Beer HallsWoman Allegedly Drives Drunk to Alcohol Safety Class Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Welcome in, craft beer friends. Greg finds out that a gummy, a couple beers, and a few hours staring at the water can apparently fix a bad week. Flex says he could do the same thing with deer. Listener Steve sends in an oyster stout story that finally finds Flex’s limit, because bull-testicle beer is fine but seafood is where we draw the line. And a Florida man gets pulled over with 34 open White Claws in the passenger seat, which sends us straight into old drinking stories and some truly terrible decisions. Beers We're Drinking: Flex is drinking Citra on the Dock of the Bay from Eagle Park Brewing, an 8% all-Citra New England IPA that gets five daddies.Greg is drinking Thou$ands of Money from Pure Project, a 7.1% murky IPA packed with tropical fruit that lands just under the usual Pure Project greatness for him. Greg spends a few hours sitting on a tiny dock with some beer and a gummy and decides staring at water is pretty great. Apparently Flex’s version of this is watching deer run around, so welcome to Hippie Corner. Listener Steve sends in an oyster stout that tasted like the water from a pet-store goldfish bag, and we finally find a gross beer Flex won’t drink. Elephant poop? Fine. Bull testicles? Sure. Oysters? Absolutely not. Greg threatens to send him one anyway. Then we get into old road soda techniques, including Greg hiding beer in a McDonald’s cup and keeping the straw because you have to sell the disguise. That rolls into Bud Platinum, flavored Smirnoff, raspberry vodka, and Flex learning the hard way that matching someone else’s three-second pull from a vodka bottle is a terrible way to figure out your tolerance. Booze News: Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy Is Going NALawson’s Launches a Non-Alcoholic IPAGarage Beer Gets an Apple VersionFrance Has a Marathon With 20 Wine StopsFlorida Man Gets a DUI With 34 Open White Claws Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Welcome in, craft beer friends. Greg is back at his mid-grade hotel because apparently reliable Wi-Fi requires personal sacrifice, while 14 Cannons trades brewing equipment for pool tables and inspires a questionable business plan involving billiards and strippers. The final gross beer origin story brings vaginal bacteria into the brewery, which immediately gives "from the tap" a whole new meaning. Then Greg and Flex remember the pungent glory of BOD body spray before imagining Belgian cops going full Scrooge McDuck with $10 million in brewery gold. Beers We're Drinking: Flex is drinking Bitrate Fluctuation from Equilibrium Brewery and WeldWerks, an 8.5% double IPA that's six months old, dangerously drinkable, and good enough to earn a four-pack commitment.Greg is drinking 7th Inning Stretch from Trademark Brewing, a 7% West Coast IPA that's light, dry, easy-drinking, and hiding peel-off baseball card stickers on the can. Greg continues the world's worst camping trip, choosing the same mid-grade hotel every recording night strictly because the Wi-Fi doesn't suck. Then comes the apparent transformation of 14 Cannons, where brewing equipment made way for pool tables and Flex learns his instinct to keep beer at a brewery is apparently why he'll never be a businessman. Scott's gross origin story series reaches its grand finale with a Polish beer made using cultured vaginal bacteria, prompting immediate questions about sourcing, board meetings, and drinking it "from the tap." That jogs loose memories of BOD body spray. The $10 million brewery gold discovery also has Greg and Flex picturing cops swimming through the evidence like Scrooge McDuck, while a Delaware driver's revenge on a pub earns the simple strategy of, "You kick me out, I kick you in." Booze News: Stone's Escondido Era Is Coming to an EndDead Guy Might Not Be Dead YetSam Adams Boston Brewery Workers Move to UnionizeSummer Job Unearths $10 Million in Brewery GoldMan Gets Kicked Out of Pub, Drives Back Through It Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

You love craft beer? Welcome. This week, Greg gets blacklisted for not liking fruited IPAs, listener Dan has a skunky beer story that ends hot, and Flex reminisces about the days of Beechwood aging. Greg talks about his upcoming tattoo appointment, and Flex gives him an assignment and beer hunt. A guy has a mid-life crisis and fights with a bouncer at a strip club, his buddy steals his wallet, and Boston Beer is looking to saturate the market with apple spice. Beers We’re Drinking: Greg is drinking Cosmic Little Thing IPA from Sierra Nevada, an 8% hazy double IPA with citrus, cotton candy vibes, and suspiciously easy drinkability.Flex is drinking Orange Cream Double Marbles from More Brewing Company, an orange-and-vanilla milkshake double IPA that lands squarely in dessert-beer territory. Greg is living the worst camping trip of his life in a hotel, while Portland comes in hot with the download numbers. They also have quite the food scene. We see you, Portland! Greg talks about his trip to a brewery where he made the beertender mad by passing on the fruity IPA. Listener Dan writes in to tell us about his #poopbeer, a skunky, warm beer that was being stored outdoors in 95-degree heat. Flex confesses his love for Beechwood aging and wants a romantic trip with Greg to the land of Clydesdales. Greg talks about his upcoming tattoo appointment, and Flex gives him some homework he probably won’t complete. Booze News: JuneShine is closing its Santa Monica and Scripps Ranch tasting rooms.Samuel Adams joins fall beer season with a new Apple Spice Ale.Tilray is ending brewing operations at Terrapin’s Athens brewery.A drunk Crazy Horse customer fights a bouncer, then his “friend” takes his wallet. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Welcome in, craft beer friends. Greg is forced to conduct some impromptu beer science after his first can comes up full Band-Aid. Flex is ready to start a Super Troopers podcast after watching the second movie. There’s a trip to an over-the-top tiki bar, new Bourbon County desserts, and a 160-year-old booze cruise found stocked full of Guinness. Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Shredneck DDH Double IPA from Drekker Brewing, a juicy double IPA loaded with citrus.Greg is drinking Dictionary Roulette, a Hazy IPA from Brewery X that turns into an unexpected can-by-can experiment. Flex finally watched *Super Troopers 2* and is ready to give up craft beer and turn this into a *Super Troopers* podcast, right meow! A new podcast review from a listener gets a little attention, and Greg and Flex get into gross beer origin stories with a smoky mushroom offering from Jester King. Greg visits an over-the-top tiki bar, complete with rainstorms and meh cocktails. And thanks to an awful can of beer, the guys throw on the lab coats and launch into some impromptu Beer Science! Booze News: NA Pumpkinhead is coming for pumpkin spice season.Goose Island turns Bourbon County 2026 into dessert.A 160-year-old stash of Guinness is pulled from a shipwreck.Drunk British soldiers take a 15-ton armored vehicle for a joyride. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Hey, craft beer friends! Flex willingly returns to the scene of a beer-related trauma and finds out that watermelon can apparently succeed where strawberry tasted like vomit. Greg gets stuck with a four-pack of ten-month-old hazy IPA, we discover Flex believes pizza should be dipped in more pizza sauce, and a drunk guy removing his clothes in an Ohio street brings back the story of Greg face-planting onto a bed fully dressed after his bachelor party. Beers We’re Drinking: Greg is drinking El Segundo Brewing Company’s Burn Off, a hazy IPA with classic West Coast hops.Flex is drinking WeldWerks Brewing Company’s Watermelon Cotton Candy Sour Ale, a fruit-forward sour that completely redeems a previous cotton candy beer disaster. North Charleston becomes our newest top listening city, which is good news for South Carolina’s reputation as a state where people probably do not get eaten. Poop-Beer Gate continues with a New Belgium hemp pale ale so aggressively skunky that the draft line had to be replaced, while Flex remembers drinking a Heineken and searching his backyard for the smell. His watermelon cotton candy sour initially triggers the same gag reflex as its strawberry predecessor, then earns a perfect score and plans for four meals a day. Greg and Flex also discover they are fundamentally incompatible on pizza sauce, ranch, pants, and whether sleeping in shoes is ever acceptable. Greg has done it, although he briefly misunderstood why his future wife was removing them. Booze News: Gen Z may not be the sober generation after all21st Amendment settles a $1.2 million excise tax disputeA ranch dressing cream ale is headed to the Minnesota State FairDrunk Cleveland man lies in the street and starts taking off his clothes Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links

Welcome back, craft beer people. Greg runs a boat straight into the dock after some boat beers, Flex introduces his kids to the glory of fourth meal, and bug beers sound worse than poop beers. Pilot Tom drops off some precious cargo, Ballast Point is falling apart at the seams, and Tony Romo DUIs his way into Wisconsin folk lore. Beers We're Drinking: Flex is drinking Lawson's Finest Liquids Sip of Sunshine, a classic Vermont IPA delivered under the strict supervision of Pilot Tom.Greg is drinking North Coast Brewing Scrimshaw Pilsner, a crisp craft pilsner making its first appearance on the show in years. Greg's relaxing morning on the lake ends with a boat parked in the dock a little harder than intended after the battery gives up at exactly the wrong time. Flex discovers his daughters are officially old enough to appreciate the magic of fourth meal after a concert, and the guys spend far too much time deciding whether bug beer or poop beer is the less offensive beverage. Pilot Tom's cross-country beer delivery also gets the VIP treatment it deserves. Booze News: Ballast Point’s ownership battle puts the brewery’s future at risk.The Lost Abbey opens taproom number five.James Watt makes an offer to buy-back BrewDog.Tony Romo scores a DUI in Milwaukee. Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublicFacebook: CraftBeerRepublicPodThreads: CraftBeerRepublicVoicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore links