The Hemporer’s New Beer

August 5
39 mins

Episode Description

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:

  1. Greg is drinking El Segundo Brewing Company’s Burn Off, a hazy IPA with classic West Coast hops.
  2. 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:

  1. Gen Z may not be the sober generation after all
  2. 21st Amendment settles a $1.2 million excise tax dispute
  3. A ranch dressing cream ale is headed to the Minnesota State Fair
  4. Drunk Cleveland man lies in the street and starts taking off his clothes

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