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Brad & Tom of The Hilltappers | Craft Beer, Brewery Travel & Beer Adventures | Episode 80 Part 2 · The Brewery Underground Podcast | Craft Beer Interviews, Reviews and Beer Travel

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Sheer we're doing truth voices like thunders, humble breath.
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The hill tempers sound like no other in the on the ground,
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we're fighting the fight, worrying our passion into this
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light challenge. In the north, we break off the
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rule. Please suck your glass.
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Let's shut up the fools rocking the fight with the angry
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refrain. Time to reclaim for sauce.
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Raise a boy. Hey, when you guys started Hill
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Tappers did with, did the social media start at the same time
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like when you guys started drinking craft beer or I don't
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remember, They're kind of two separate.
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Things, you know, it wasn't, I don't know what it was, you
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know, because we weren't like we're going to be the hill
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tappers and we're going to, we just started, you know, taking
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it on. But I just, I had some pictures
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of us and, and not long after we went on, on our first couple
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adventures, I made a logo of the two of us, you know, and, and
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this thing and it held the hill tappers and which I just, I
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pulled up the name. I was like, you, you like this
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name? And he's like, Oh yeah, awesome.
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So, you know, so I read this logo of us.
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I'm looking at the magnet of it on the fridge right now.
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And, and the logo was like, all of a sudden it was like, yeah,
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this is, we're the hill tappers. You know, we're going to go hit
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breweries and, you know, we're going to be a, you know, we're
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not going to try to be a thing, but we're, we're a thing just,
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you know, just us. But then I was just like, you
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know what, you know, it doesn't cost anything to open a second
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Instagram account, you know, so I made Hill Tappers so I didn't
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have to post all of our stuff on my personal account that way we
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kind of, you know, share it. So I just made a Hill Tappers
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Instagram account, which is the way to go because that's where,
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you know, pretty much all the real brewery people are.
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I found out. Yeah.
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And and what I didn't know we found you.
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Yeah. It's what I didn't know was the
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community I instantly kind of got us into by starting that
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account. So it wasn't something that we
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sought to do. We were just looking for a place
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to kind of put some of our pictures of the breweries we
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went to and we ended up, you know, being part of this larger
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thing and, and it's been great. Yeah, exactly.
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And and the same thing. And, and other people you've met
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and we've met. It's, we thought our thing was
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let's go to breweries and we'll create a website and we'll just,
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you know, put some stuff on our website and didn't realize what
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this social media thing was because I, I didn't even have a
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social media account before we started this.
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I was like, I'm not, I'm not doing it.
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Right. I know.
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Jeez. Yeah, I'm not doing it.
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And now it's like a it's a way of life.
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If you're doing in this, you know, this, this beer thing
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that. You guys you and pedal band and
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brew dude. And like I mean I love every
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post as this is just. Yeah.
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Yeah, and I love that. Everybody's got a different
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thing. Like people are like some people
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post what they're drinking at home right now and, you know,
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and take a picture and do the whole thing and that's cool.
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We don't do a lot of that. We do some of that.
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The more ours are more the adventure part, you know, when
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you tie in the podcast to some ours more when we visit
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somewhere. But when we can do anything we
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want, that's kind of our angle for it.
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And which is kind of probably kind of a lot what you guys do
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too, right? You kind of document the
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adventures. Right, exactly.
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You know, we like to first thing I got to get, you know, let's
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get a picture outside the two of us with a sign.
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And then you get a get a picture of the bar and then you get a
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picture of your flight. And then, you know, you'll get
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in there and, you know, talk about what your favorites were.
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You tag them. And that's probably how you guys
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found us was probably when we started tagging Cincinnati
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breweries because you follow them and that's probably you
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found us on social media. And what happens is for a lot of
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them is you start seeing the same people when we first got
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the same faces start showing up or the same account starts
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showing up. OK, well, they might be somebody
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let's hit let's hit lights like their stuff, you know, and then
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you know, and it's nothing to get it like Adm from someone and
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be like, hey, like you guys, what do you recommend there or
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what you know, if we're going somewhere.
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So it's just it's a it's a it's a cool community.
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It is Instagram. And what happens is when you,
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you know, when you start, you or any of the other people start
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like liking our stuff, that opens it up to another audience
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that, you know, they see you liked and they see it.
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And all of a sudden, you know, so we get all these, we'll get
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new followers, you know, from just, you know, doing things
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with other people and tagging them in it.
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All of a sudden we get new followers going there, which I
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don't keep track. I have no idea how many
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followers that. That's a great thing because
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we're all like, we all just want to have a, a good experience and
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and find a new beer and a new place and a new location.
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But I still I still want to have pictures as good as Armando's
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because. I like man.
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Doesn't everybody? Yeah, he's a.
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Pro and I'm I'm trying I'm. Hey Armando, thank you for the
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beers. Yeah.
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I absolutely love his work man, It's like.
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It's going to get he just bought himself a nice like a camera
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camera, like everything he's done on his phone.
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That thing looked great his. Phone.
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His phone, everything was his phone.
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Yeah, he's got him a nice. I saw him at Marvel Fox that
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he's got him a like a really nice camera.
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So I think his stuff will be even better now.
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OK. And it's to be, you know, the,
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the 28 years later, that new movie, they shot that entire
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thing on iPhones, on iPhones. Didn't even know that.
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Yeah, so. You know, it was funny.
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I don't know if he needed that camera.
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No, he was really good with the pictures then, you know, we're
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like like editing and filtering and doing stuff.
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Man, he was really, he's really good.
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But now he's, I think he's taking it to another level now
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with this. New camera.
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He's got a great eye, that's for sure.
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Yeah, well, Scott and I laugh sometimes because we'll be out
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taking pictures and then we realize we've been taking
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pictures together. Like we'll be like, shit, We
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haven't taken a picture of like, us in front of like the logo of
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the brewery. We're going in and we're taking
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all these pictures and wait a minute, we don't have pictures
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of ourselves. Neither one of us.
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We're not in any of the damn pictures.
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Hey, look, nobody wants to see. They want to see the beers in
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the place. OK, That's.
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True. That's it.
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That's it. They.
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Want to see the beers? Well, early on when we did it,
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nobody knew who's, Nobody knew the difference between Steve and
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I, because they're like, neither one of you guys are on the
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pictures. But we don't.
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We don't know who the hell either one of you are.
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Which one is which? Scott, Steve, you know.
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Have you guys, have you guys ever been mixed up or got just
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got the names wrong just for that?
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Elizabeth the pedal bound that when we were hanging out she got
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our names wrong. Tailspin.
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The whole time. Whole weekend, Tim and Brian.
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That wasn't even. It was.
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Whatever. You were you guys were a
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different name every time she called you by a name.
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That's right. But it, you know, it was
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freezing outside, so it was. Who remembers?
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Listen tailspin, anybody listen tailspin.
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You know beer fest is and you guys have been to more than we
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have. But I think Scott, you know, he
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he was saying it was huge and amazing, even though it was
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frigid cold, because they do it in March, March 1st and usually
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it works out. You know, it's like this is
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about the prettiest day you're going to get in March.
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This year. It was not.
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It was the frozen tundra of beer and they.
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Had a It was so cold. Set up the middle of the place
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and an airfield and they had a wrestling ring.
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These people up out there and like wrestling, like tights,
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just wrestling. I'm like you go, you crazy.
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Yeah, they were. They were right out there in it,
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man. Oh, it was so cold that you
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just. I couldn't think about anything
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else. Like there's no.
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I never there was. Nowhere to get warm.
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I never thought we'd leave a huge beer festival and go to
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three breweries, but yes, we hit that limit and we were still
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sober enough. We all piled into a Uber.
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We apparently it held. And he's like, I don't know if
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any we're like, you can do it. And we're, he's like piled in
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there. And yeah.
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And then we went to three Louisville breweries, which I'm
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always, you know, happy to host people at some Louisville
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breweries because they're, yeah, listen, Louisville, they've got
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per capita, they've got a fair amount of breweries, but they
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are so concentrated that once you get to 1, most of them, you
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can just like, you can practically just walk to all of
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them. We did, didn't we walk to one
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from the other? 1 was literally 3 blocks, but it
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was so cold. Even three blocks.
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People were complaining, but we also took an Uber from from the
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first one to the second one and that thing was like less than a
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mile. It was like just over a half
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mile, but I was like, I'm walking that.
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It was pretty rough, the cold weather, but you know, those
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were great bird visits. Have you guys kept up with the
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number of breweries you guys keep, stats or anything, or a
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list of like how many breweries you guys have been to?
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No. No, I haven't done that.
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I. Could start trying to, you know,
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keep track of that, but. And and to, you know, because
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we're fairly new to untapped too.
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Like we knew it was there and but then it was like, Oh my God,
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it's effort. But then finally we realized
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this does allow us a it helps me a tracking purpose, right?
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Because all time I'll come, you know, if it's been a while, I'll
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come back. I was like, I know I've had
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that, but I can't remember if I liked it.
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Yeah. So that's that's the real
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advantage to untapped which you guys since our Cincinnati trip,
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I've kept really good form on keeping up.
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On and that's the thing, just consistency.
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If you know, if you get away from it, it's hard to come back,
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but if you just do it regularly. But it is effort, it's and.
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Once you work through the quirks of it, because you know, it's
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not super intuitive for everything, but once you work
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through the process of it, yeah, it becomes a lot easier.
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Yeah, the hardest part, not the hardest part.
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The worst part is like when you when you go get a beer, like
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maybe it's brand new that day and it's not in Untapped yet.
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You can you talked about yeah, rye and you can add it.
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And I'm like, but and you can. And I'm like, wow, sometimes I
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get lazy. I'm like, you know, I'm just
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gonna skip that beer all together.
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I don't want to. I'll get another one.
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Yeah, there's, there have been some beers where it's like, you
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know what, I, I, you know, I don't want to necessarily go
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trash this beer so. Well, no, it's funny when you
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were talking about the untapped app.
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Yeah, you you really have to find what works for you,
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especially the rating system. I mean, yeah, you know, you
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don't want to trash breweries, but you also have to figure out
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what is your rating system on there and what aren't you going
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to go back to? So when you're rating a certain
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beer, you're going. All right, Is this a rating that
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I'm rating it that if I look on my tap, tap, am I going to have
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it again or not? And I know I have that home down
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to if I look at something, it's like, no, I'm not.
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I'm not going back to that beer. A lot of times there's beers I
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don't even raid. This guy, but yeah, hey, super
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generous, but I I'm on a tap. He's like, I didn't like that at
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all. And I look it up.
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I was like, you gave it like a three.
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Guy, if I was a teacher, nobody would fail.
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Yeah, I'm like, I'm giving beers like 2-2.
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And listen, it takes a lot for a beer to reach A4.
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You know I've never given a. 4. I think, I think a four, I've
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given like a four and a quarter or 4 1/2 is the top I've ever
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ranked a beer. I thought I only went to four.
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That's that's upper echelon like to four, yeah, 4 for me is upper
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echelon. That's a whole nother.
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Level, So listen, if it's above a three, that's great.
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Like 3 1/2. That to me is a great beer.
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A 3 1/2, I'm like awesome, but you got to like really hit it to
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hit a four. Yeah, yeah.
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And like Steve said, it's it's however you determine it in your
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head what your scale is within if you think 3 and a.
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Since I've started rating beers on Untapped, I've only rated one
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beer of five. Oh, I.
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Have some 4.5 OS. I have point 4.75 but I've only
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rated one beer of five. What was it that was the Great
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Lakes? You just sucking up to get them
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in Tennessee. With you.
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Hey Steve, my richest IVA. Yeah, Steve, say it loud.
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What was the what was the beer that you gave A5 to the only?
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Beer of one that I gave A5 to. Who's the one?
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In a minute we're going to look it up and make sure for accuracy
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purposes you know which one it is, though.
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I know, but we're going to use this as a selling.
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We have a drum roll. Yeah.
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Look, these guys brought their own intro music.
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Sure, they got a drum roll in there somewhere.
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Yeah, it's the Great Lakes. Juicy.
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Vivacious IP Juicy. Vivacious.
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Well, First off, great name. Yeah, better be good.
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Yeah, it was really, really, really, really good so.
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Well, I guess we'll have to go to the store and get that one.
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Yeah, yeah. Hey, guys.
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What's? That like.
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What's that like? So you guys have your own
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stickers. Obviously we've seen them around
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and they're really cool. Do you are you guys when you go
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to breweries, are you advocates for getting stickers from those
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places too? Like is that a point for you
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guys to make sure you get whatever where you go I.
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Still don't know what to do with them?
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Here's what you got from my brink, sitting right here on the
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counter. Here's here's Melaton.
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I didn't even know they had a sticker.
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Here's some idiot called a yeast infection Brewer.
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That's crazy. Trust me though, down it sounds.
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Worse than it is. Yeah, it sounds.
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Yeah. Yeah, I met those guys.
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They suck. What are they thinking?
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Look, you never. Know one day.
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How many breweries and Brewers started that way?
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So you never know. I mean, you may, yeah.
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I have a huge stack of brewery stickers and I have a fridge
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downstairs, but I don't have a bar downstairs.
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I'm gonna, I'm gonna work on building the bar and moving the
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fridge from the storage room to the finished room.
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And when I do that, I'm gonna start just plastering the fridge
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with them. Now.
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Yes. What happens when your fridge
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dies? Well, it's an excuse to go
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collect all those stickers again.
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Well, they're. Look behind me.
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Yeah, all my stickers. I have a sticker board.
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There you go. So yeah, it's like boot scout
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badges. Yeah, it's.
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Well, that's. A great idea.
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And yeah, I've got the issue where I plaster them directly on
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the on the fridge and I'm just going to that fridge is going to
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live forever. We're just going to go with me.
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Where I also heard this other thing people do is they'll buy
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magnets and put the sticker on the magnet and put them on the
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fridge so that you, if something does happen, you can pull them
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off. So maybe a little bit of work
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cutting and that kind of thing, but you can always take them
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with you. Well, here's the good news.
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I work at a company that actually has rolls of magnet, so
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I can just go down there and like snip off a huge thing and
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then just so I might do that, it ain't as pretty because it's
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only going to stick, you know, right where the magnet's stuck.
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But it is more efficient. Hey, Spence Lamont, I just
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noticed that. First off, amazing.
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Yes, Well, I mean, only looking for an excuse, right?
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And at breweries I love too, I get extra ones.
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And when I go out of town, I have to travel for work.
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So the first thing when I get to any new city or any city I've
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been to before is where's breweries I can go to because
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yes, I'm going by myself, but I've yet to not make a friend at
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a brewery. When you sit at the bar, you're
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going to eat, make friends with the beer tender, or you're going
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to make friends with three people sitting up there too.
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Happens all the time. I go to my place in Chicago
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called Crushed by Giants. It's in downtown, just one block
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off of Michigan Ave. on the 2nd floor.
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And you know, it's OK, but their logo and artwork's amazing and I
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always make a friend there. I have to go to Vegas a lot
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because I'm in the trade show industry and if you go to the
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Arts District, there's 6 now. I think hopefully I'm going to
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be going back next month. I think 1/7 was in the process
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of opening 7 breweries within 1/2 mile radius.
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Yeah, so you get one Uber and you could have access to 7
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breweries, which is very dangerous.
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He loves it when I text him because the first brew I'm like,
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this has notes of honey and it's blah blah blah.
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Get to the last brewery and it's like, this is ass.
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These people should be closed. This is the worst shit I've ever
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drank. It's true.
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And it stinks in here. Although I did it's funny the
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second on the. What's that smell?
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The bathroom? No, it's the beer.
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It's the beer. The last time to him there was
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only 5 breweries. Since then one more had opened
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which is the best tap room out there, and then now another one
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may have opened but when there was 5 I hit all five in one day
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by myself. Yeah.
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Nice. A person I met at the second
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brewery had a dog who was sitting at with him at the bar.
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And by the time I got to the fifth brewery, I was walking in
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and I turn over and I see the dog and I'm like, I know you,
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not the guy. I pointed to the dog and said, I
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know you. So he appreciated that.
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By the way, that dog, that last brewery was the only place I've
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been that's been on Bar Rescue. He must have fixed the pizza
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there. Jon Taffer must have fixed the
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pizza, but he did not do much for the beer.
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Oh boy. Yeah, he probably, yeah.
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I don't think it's got much to do with that part.
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It's clean lines, right? Clean.
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Make sure your glasses are clean and what you put in them is your
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problem. All right, our last of the six
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pack we bought for today, Brad will be enjoying a local beer.
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Goodwood is the brewery. This is the Bob.
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It's a blood orange blonde ale. We've had this multiple times
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pre gaming for Louisville Cardinal basketball games and
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I'm going to have the mile wide Linchpin hazy IPA a mile wide.
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We took Scott there. That's the second brewery we
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went to after Tailspin. We loved it.
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They're big on Ipas and they do a lot of hazies and stuff and so
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for us, we know when we go in there we're going to get an
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Ipas, but they're all pretty. Great.
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Yeah, and their menu's pretty big too, so if you don't want
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that, then you have options. That's true and plus they make a
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lot of Arrested Development references in their beer names
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and their can art and I'm a huge arrested for that fan.
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Oh they do. They literally didn't realize
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that if you watch Arrested Development, they literally on
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one other cans they have, it's called Missus Featherbottom and
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it's got it's got David Cross dressed up as Missus
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Featherbottom with his umbrella jumping off the staircase.
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That's a great show. Yeah, I I love that brew.
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And I had had some mild wide before because when I was going
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to Bowling Green, I would get it at, it's not Party Source, but
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Liquor, Liquor World or Liquor Barn and Bowling Green, and they
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would always have a bunch of mild wide.
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But to go there was really cool. I actually really like that
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place. By the way, I too am opening up
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a new beer. Here we go.
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This is New Holland the poet. It is American oatmeal Stout.
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Oh, nice. Oh.
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He's got a stout. It's very hot out.
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He's drinking a stout, but he is indoors well.
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It's I got the air air conditioning on in my house so.
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You know what to drink a stout. You might want to turn it up a
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little. More Yes, I know.
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Well, you know what? This has been sitting in my
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refrigerator for a little bit and I'm like, it's time to drink
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it, even though I know it's 95° out.
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May not necessarily make sense, but I'm inside.
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Where is New Holland? They are in Grand Rapids, MI.
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No, they're in Holland, in Michigan.
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OK. Yeah, Holland.
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Michigan is that Is that one you brought back from your trip
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last? Year it is not, Scott.
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I think this is one that I got from a beer train.
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But last year when I was in Holland, MI, I had some New
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Holland beer and it is very, very good.
18:04
If you guys have not been up that way, have not, you should
18:06
go up that way. There's a lot of great breweries
18:08
out there. Nope, that's what I.
18:10
Hear I would like. I think because we have always
18:13
been a Florida Water vacation family, but I've, you know, now
18:19
that the kids are gone and out of the way.
18:22
I'd like to. I'd like to go up there.
18:23
Along the lake and into Michigan and spend a few days there.
18:27
But we'll see. Yeah, our our next bucket list
18:31
brewery, like it's like on par with like Great Lakes is
18:34
founders. Yeah, Yeah, that's one of those.
18:38
All right. Must get to places, so you know,
18:40
yeah. Do they sell that in Tennessee?
18:42
They do. They do.
18:44
You can find plenty of ponders in Tennessee.
18:46
Good. And a lot of KBS, like all the
18:48
variants. I don't know if it's all but a
18:50
shit ton of variants, which I love.
18:52
Yeah, they're awesome. I just opened up and I got this
18:55
like Flynn's Burger Pilsner, some kind of import it.
18:59
Looks like 1 you would have brought back from Germany.
19:00
With you, I know when I go to the German section like in the
19:03
in the liquor store anymore, I'll do the untapped and I've
19:06
had 98% of everything they've got in there.
19:09
So to find one I hadn't had is pretty remarkable.
19:11
Oh wow. What do you think about
19:13
Oktoberfest? Season guy who's been to Germany
19:16
should know Oktoberfest is actually in September, correct?
19:19
So I mean. It is, absolutely, yeah.
19:21
Which makes sense, so. We're only we're about 6 weeks,
19:24
5 weeks away from September, believe it or not.
19:27
No, no, I'm no about 8. Weeks I'm on, man, Yeah. 8
19:29
weeks. I forgot about July buddy.
19:31
I was right. I was going right into August.
19:33
Actually, actually, yeah, we're about 8 1/2 weeks.
19:37
Yeah, well, my our schedule is booked through July, so I've
19:40
already skipped over July. By the time this airs or if it
19:43
errors, because, you know, I might honestly, I'm thinking
19:46
bury this in the backyard. You're going to send us a cease
19:49
and desist? We have so much to contribute.
19:53
This is, this is, this is all we do.
19:55
We're such amateurs. When Oktoberfest season rolls
19:58
around, what's the go to for the hill tappers when it comes to
20:01
Oktoberfest? You got some.
20:03
Favorites, yes. Look, and 1st off, I'll say
20:05
this, no matter where you are, I must stand by this.
20:08
All right? Standing by this, no matter
20:10
where you live, if you want to get a good Oktoberfest beer, no
20:14
matter what you think of the beer company Sam Adams,
20:17
Oktoberfest is delicious. Buddy, you, you and I are
20:21
lockstep on it man I agree. I was hoping to say I.
20:23
Stand in line. I am one of the first people to
20:26
stand in line at the grocery store each year to get a six
20:30
pack when they come out on the first day that is out.
20:33
Last year here I was at Publix the very first day that they had
20:37
Oktoberfest and that was like August 28th or something.
20:40
And I'm like, I don't care. I don't care how early it is.
20:43
I'm going there and I mean it's. Available pretty much anywhere,
20:47
but let me tell you, as just a mass produced Oktoberfest beer,
20:51
you can't go wrong with it. It's pretty good.
20:53
It's the OG. It is.
20:55
It is. Solid.
20:55
We got a buddy, Calvin, who goes.
20:57
He'll buy a case of it at the end of the season or a couple of
21:00
cases so it gets him through like the spring and the summer
21:03
until it comes back out again. Nice, well played.
21:06
Locally here in Louisville, we have, you know, obviously
21:09
because this is how we started. So we have a ranking we may
21:12
disagree on #1 we kind of go back and forth on #1I tend to
21:18
think that the number one local Oktoberfest beer is by a place
21:21
called Monica Brewing. Panic makes great beers, but
21:25
their Oktoberfest is called Kaiser von Schnitzelberg, great
21:29
name. And I think that is probably one
21:33
of the best. And they they can it so you can
21:35
buy it locally in Cannes. And we also think that the
21:40
Gallant Fox, which is a place we were hoping that we can take you
21:42
guys soon. Gallant Fox has one called Fox
21:45
Tober Fest. It's number one.
21:47
That's number. One that's his favorite, it's #1
21:51
so those are great up in the Cincinnati area.
21:54
I think Braxton's October Fuel is delicious, really good.
21:59
Fall city. You're familiar with fall city
22:01
beer? Back back when we were growing
22:03
up, fall city meant cheap, terrible beer.
22:05
But then what happened was they became a brewery when the, you
22:10
know, the fad came along. And now Fall City makes some
22:13
really great beers. They have one called Autofest
22:16
Otto Fest and that was definitely a top beer for us.
22:20
And then both Against the Grain and Goodwood, both Louisville
22:24
breweries have amazing Oktoberfest and Donka Shane by W
22:27
6th out of Lexington. It's a little bit mild for an
22:30
Oktoberfest, but super drinkable.
22:33
So if you want like a lighter, more drinkable Oktoberfest,
22:36
excellent. Well, last year I I found and
22:40
Oktoberfest that I did not think was possible, that I liked a
22:43
little bit better than Sam Adams founders had a barrel aged
22:48
Oktoberfest that was about 10% and it was off the charts.
22:54
And I found it really through happenstance.
22:57
Scott and I were going to be doing, we were going to do a
23:00
Oktoberfest episode where we're going to go out and find
23:03
different variations of Oktoberfest beer.
23:05
Yep. And I'm at the beer wine store
23:07
down the street from my house and I look over and I'm like
23:09
founders Oktoberfest. And all of a sudden I look and
23:11
I'm like barrel aged and, and when we have founders on, we
23:16
talked him about it and I think they came out with it in like
23:19
2021. And Scott, didn't they say they
23:21
were going to do like a new variation this year?
23:24
I don't think they're going to come out with that particular
23:26
one. But man, if you guys see it, I
23:28
know you were talking earlier about barrel age being sort of
23:31
hit and miss that thing, that thing.
23:33
My God man, that was one of my favorite beers of the year.
23:36
It really was all hit. Wow, Yeah.
23:39
Like that beer was that beer for you.
23:41
Steve was only surpassed by that vibacious juicy, right?
23:44
If I remember. Yeah, at least, at least for it.
23:46
Was like my second favorite beer of the year, it was that good.
23:50
Okay, yeah, we'll definitely be on the look of it coming August,
23:54
September. Yeah, yeah, I know.
23:56
It's so weird. You know what I hate about
23:58
Oktoberfest coming out early and I like Sam's Oktoberfest.
24:01
I really like their summer ale too.
24:03
Those are the two I like from them.
24:04
The summer ale's really crushable.
24:06
It's got that lemon zest too. I love that.
24:08
And and the Oktoberfest follows. I'm just like, can we just get a
24:11
little later in the season? Yeah, cuz listen, it may come
24:14
out in August, but I'm still, it's still 100° in August.
24:19
I'm not ready to shift to the fall until October.
24:23
Itself, Yeah, I'll buy it, but then I'm not going to drink it
24:26
for a few weeks, you know, at least.
24:27
Yeah, there's going to be. In September.
24:29
Yeah, you got to save some because basically it's kind of
24:31
like Christmas, you know, the Thanksgiving, Christmas and all
24:34
of a sudden, boom, it's over. You get, you get October maybe
24:38
20th and you're not seeing hardly any Oktoberfest left out
24:42
there. You know, you may still see it
24:43
in in some restaurants, but you're definitely not going to
24:46
see hardly any of it in the stores anymore.
24:48
Do you guys train transition And it's they run parallel a little
24:51
bit, but there's a crossover between Oktoberfest beers and
24:54
the pumpkins. The pumpkins come out a little
24:56
bit later, as they should. They should come out much later
24:59
too. Thank you, guys.
25:00
Pump more October. Yeah, drink a lot of pumpkins,
25:04
but I think we'll all agree. And if anyone listening doesn't
25:07
know, Party Source in Northern Kentucky, right across the river
25:11
from Cincinnati and in Newport, KY is the greatest liquor store
25:17
on the plant that I've ever been to anyway.
25:19
But they have a build your own 6 pack aisle that is unparalleled
25:23
that I've ever seen. And I went in there around
25:26
September and like half of that aisle was just Oktoberfest
25:31
beers. And I was so excited.
25:33
I ended up building a 12 pack because I just wanted to try
25:36
everyone's beer. And we're huge fans of Wooden
25:39
Cask. And I've never seen them have an
25:42
Oktoberfest beer. But they and I don't usually go
25:45
for the pumpkin ale's too much. It's just a little too much
25:47
spice for me versus an Oktoberfest beer.
25:50
But they had one. And since we love Wooden Cask
25:52
because what's going to happen? I bring all those back and then
25:54
he comes over and then we just get like I have like a flight
25:57
and we just kind of pour half glass and we split beers to try
26:00
them and we ended up trying their pumpkin beer and it was,
26:04
it ranked high for us. It was really good.
26:06
So I'm a little bit more open to it now.
26:08
Since then, my daughter, because she knows I love Wooden Cask and
26:12
knows I love Oktoberfest, she found a Wooden Cask Oktoberfest
26:16
beer. She bought me a six pack and
26:17
brought it to me and I'll say this, Wooden Cask Oktoberfest
26:21
ranks high. Once again.
26:22
They do not let us down. If anyone goes to the Cincinnati
26:25
area, please give Wooden Cask a try.
26:28
I, I think they're, in fact, I was in about two years ago.
26:33
They also have the tap room on Newport on Levee in in addition
26:37
to their other location. And I was in there and I was
26:39
talking to the guy and I said, I think you guys are one of the
26:43
least talked about great breweries in this area.
26:46
And he looked at me and he said our owner knows that.
26:49
He said he just stands on what we do.
26:51
He said he doesn't worry about it.
26:52
He feels like the brand is good enough where people are going to
26:55
come in and they're going to get the beer and we're going to
26:58
continue on. And I'm like, yeah, I mean, they
27:00
don't get talked about that much up there.
27:02
I don't. But what happened?
27:03
We didn't go there. We, we made a choice look,
27:08
because they're not far from darkness.
27:10
And we, we all love darkness. We've, you know, we kind of
27:13
taken them on. So we go there as much as we
27:15
can. We go to Braxton and Darkness.
27:17
But right between Braxton and Darkness is wooden cast.
27:20
So, you know, next year, if we're going back up there, we,
27:23
we need to not miss wooden cast. Yeah.
27:26
Well, we went into the new West next location because we wanted
27:30
to knock that off our list because we hadn't been there.
27:32
Sure. Yeah, Wooden Cask was on on that
27:35
whole thing. And next year we will.
27:37
And I want to I want to also say one other thing about darkness.
27:40
I'm starting to be convinced after being there twice that
27:43
darkness is going to become on that Listerman level for me of,
27:48
yeah, I don't know where else in this area I'm for pound.
27:52
Then I'm going to find the most consistent good beer.
27:56
And I feel like darkness is going to be on that level for
27:59
me. About one or two more times I go
28:01
there, I'm gonna be like, Yep, Yep.
28:02
Yeah, look, I love when I go to a place to find the big
28:06
breweries. Awesome.
28:07
But find the little hole in the wall and I can still, look,
28:10
they've, you know, they haven't really expanded that much, so I
28:12
can still consider them a bit of a hole in the wall.
28:14
They're small, but man, they produce great stuff, you know,
28:18
and they have improved the facility since I've started
28:20
going there. But yeah, they're just on point.
28:22
Yeah, that was my first time it. That will be one of those ones
28:25
that's going to be on the list every time we go if.
28:27
We can their their prize is like charming.
28:30
It's it's got some charm to it being a little place.
28:32
Yeah, and we, you know, we, we center everything.
28:35
Not everything, but when we go there, there's always a ball
28:37
game or two involved. So they're near the ballpark,
28:40
which is convenient as well. So we do that and do the
28:42
ballpark, which is what we did this past trip too.
28:45
So can't wait to get back. And she's been a couple Times
28:47
Now. And by the way, I know I thought
28:50
I'd had, I was going back to look on my untapped app on the
28:54
Sully scale, the Spitz Lamont scale, whichever one I am, I've
28:58
had their pumpkin ale. Yeah, yeah, I've had their
29:00
pumpkin ale. I've rated it about two years
29:02
ago and it looks like I liked it.
29:06
So I've had their pumpkin ale, but doesn't look like I've had
29:10
their. I have not had their
29:12
Oktoberfest. But you were drinking the new
29:14
Porter earlier. Right.
29:15
Yeah, he's got it right now. Yep, I had that about three
29:19
years ago and liked it. Yeah, yeah, the listen, First
29:22
off, wooden cast a beautiful can art, you know, it looks prestige
29:26
it yeah, you know, it's really nice.
29:27
And when I saw their their Oktoberfest one, it had the the
29:31
white and blue checks and still had their emblem on there.
29:34
I mean, just it just it's a beautiful stuff.
29:37
So but yes, so yes, you enjoyed their the wooden cast
29:41
Oktoberfest, yes. Yes.
29:42
No, I haven't had it. I have not had.
29:44
I have not had their October. I have the pumpkin though, yeah.
29:46
I've had the pumpkin out. Yeah, yeah.
29:47
Which was? And I'm and I'm.
29:49
Yeah. And I'm hit and miss on pumpkin
29:51
ales. When we were talking about
29:52
earlier, you know, last year when I stood in line to get the
29:57
Sam Adams, their pumpkin beer was sitting that next to it.
30:01
I did not get it because I've had it before and I'm not the
30:04
biggest fan of it. I probably would get it again.
30:07
I'll tell you who does a really good pumpkin beer there now and
30:11
they serve it throughout the year.
30:13
Scott knows which one I'm talking about here in Nashville.
30:15
Blackstone does the best pumpkin beer that it's a pumpkin ale.
30:21
They do the best one that I've. I think I've probably one of the
30:24
best ones I've ever had. Interesting.
30:25
I'll tell you when it comes out, we'll send you send you a couple
30:28
and it's just simple. It's not anything crazy or it's
30:32
got a little spice to it. And dude, it's it's again, not
30:35
again. But I've given a few fives on on
30:38
tap. That's a five.
30:39
I've given that. Really.
30:40
Five? Wow.
30:41
Yes, and I love it's. A bit of a spicy kick, but it's
30:43
not, it's not that. It's not that pumpkin spicy kick
30:46
that you get. There you go.
30:48
This is way, way, way over here where it's really annoying and
30:52
you don't want to drink of any of it or more of it.
30:55
It's just right in my opinion, where you really enjoy it and
31:00
it's just a good brew. Yeah, I don't want to be
31:02
drinking a carrot cake. Hang on.
31:04
No. I would drink a carrot cake.
31:07
I take that back. I love carrot cake.
31:08
I would drink. That I would drink a carrot
31:11
cake, Sir. So my, so my question, so my
31:13
question for the Hill tappers is simply this because we were at
31:16
Fayette La Forest and I was leaving and you said you have an
31:19
open invitation to come join us the next time you're coming up
31:23
through town. Yes, Sir, which there's going to
31:25
be a time between now and the end of the year that I plan to
31:29
come to your city and hang out for a day or two.
31:33
Listen, I can't I can't say that you're going to love the.
31:35
Listen, the breweries here, they're not as grand as they
31:39
might be, and they. Don't have to be.
31:40
Tennessee. But you know what, there's some
31:42
people doing some good work here.
31:43
And if you if you don't mind sleeping on the couch, I got
31:46
couches. You are welcome to come stay
31:49
here for free and we will take you around and show you the
31:52
sights. We'd love to get your opinion on
31:54
some local breweries. Yeah.
31:55
The question is, where are we going to go?
31:57
Like if it's me or anybody else that's coming there, what are
32:00
like 5 brewery recommendations that you have, Sir?
32:03
This is insane that you said that because I literally made
32:06
this list called the top five breweries in Louisville.
32:10
Right, here we go. And I made, I made an initial
32:13
list and I sent it to Brad and Brad said, well, what about
32:16
this? I was like, you're right.
32:18
And so I changed it because he was correct.
32:20
So right now, and, and this is a mix between listen, I like
32:24
there's vibes and there's beer. Sometimes vibes like Rhine
32:29
Geist, you get amazing vibes. So if the beers are just OK, it
32:34
still might be #1 because the vibes and the OK beers equal
32:38
greatness. And then sometimes the vibes may
32:40
be OK, but the beers are so good, boom, they hit the
32:43
ranking. So #5 for us would be Mile Wide,
32:47
which Scott joined us at when he was up here for Tailspin.
32:50
They're kind of the basement of this old industrial plant that's
32:53
a bar upstairs. And it used to be a Jillian's,
32:56
which it was sort of like a Dave and Buster's back in the day.
32:59
Yeah. Yeah, you had Jillian's.
33:00
Yeah. We had a.
33:01
Jillian's upstairs, it was like a performance area, like a stage
33:04
and live bands would play. And what happened was Jillian's
33:07
left. And now since it's become like a
33:08
pool hall upstairs, but the entire downstairs that you from
33:13
the back, it's mile wide and it's a beautiful place.
33:15
They don't have a good outdoor space.
33:17
But it's like the bottom level of a silo, yes.
33:21
But they got good food. They do some great pizzas and a
33:24
lot of Ipas, but it's really good.
33:26
It's a mile wide. #4 on the list would be Monica and honestly
33:32
Monica could move up higher. Monica does great beers.
33:35
They're definitely when you walk in it definitely more of a
33:37
restaurant vibe. You have to be seated unless you
33:39
just sit at the bar. But they got still the
33:41
chalkboard of beers they're doing.
33:43
They rotate regularly, they brew hard and they got like there's
33:48
look whether it's good or bad, fully committed flavorful beers.
33:52
OK, so highly recommend and their their food is amazing, but
33:56
it's like high end, it's kind of expensive gastropub German beer,
34:00
a German food, excuse me, that's really good #3 is gravely,
34:04
gravely brewing. Honestly, we love it's a cool
34:07
place. And also Scott went there and
34:09
that was the last place we went. The bar, the entire back bar is
34:12
made of old stereo components like from the 70s and 80s
34:17
speakers and stereo faces and everything up and everything
34:20
they do is music themed. They rotate a lot.
34:23
They've got great beers, cool space.
34:25
They're going to move, which everyone's really upset about.
34:28
They're keeping that location for brewing only, but they're
34:30
like, no, this is a great space. So we'll see.
34:32
But they're beers great #2 Gallant Fox.
34:36
Gallant Fox is the first brewery we went to together.
34:39
They're they've opened a second location out in Bullock County,
34:42
which is about 10-12 miles down the road.
34:46
But their first location, they're currently expanding.
34:49
So it's going to have a full kitchen.
34:51
It doesn't now, but their beers are on point.
34:54
It's a cool space. Their beers are amazing and they
34:57
rotate regularly. And even if it's returning
34:59
beers, you know, they're good. So hats off the Gallant Fox.
35:03
Always, always going to be closed.
35:04
Gallant. Fox was a the first Triple Crown
35:07
winner of the Kentucky of the Derby Preakness in Belmont.
35:10
Literally the. Nice fox, that's what the name
35:13
comes from. Yeah, enough shit they.
35:14
Playoff of that theme quite a bit.
35:16
But then number one and look, I, I know you guys stopped in and
35:19
it may not have been, you know, it may have been just OK for you
35:22
guys, but we, we just love hanging at a rye and part of
35:25
that one, a rye. That's where you guys stopped in
35:28
here. Oh yeah, I like a rye.
35:31
Look, the guy there, he used to work it against the grain and
35:33
anyone out there who's you can buy against the grain in cans
35:36
and a lot of states around the area against the grain is
35:40
decent. But they kind of got locked in
35:42
on their beers. And this guy used to be like the
35:44
main brewery there and he got tired of being locked in.
35:46
He wanted to cook. So he and another guy left and
35:49
they found another financier and the three of them became owners
35:52
in a place called Arai. And this guy, his name's Tyler
35:56
Martin, he goes by T Mart. He cooks and when he makes an
36:00
amazing here and it runs out, I'll say, hey T Mart, when are
36:03
you going to bring back this beer?
36:04
He says I don't know, I may never bring it back.
36:07
I was like oh, but it's so good. He's like, I'm just going to
36:09
make something better. And that's his mindset.
36:12
He's like I'm always going to. And every time he puts something
36:15
new on the board, if it's not on the board yet and we're there
36:18
and we're there definitely every Friday after work, that's where
36:21
we go. He'll come out, we'll be sitting
36:22
there enjoying a beer and he'll come over with like 3 small
36:25
glasses. I was like, this isn't on the
36:27
board yet, but try this and we'll try it.
36:29
And son of a bitch, it's always good.
36:32
I mean, it may not be the a five star beer you've ever had, but
36:36
like he just did a Mexican logger and I'm like, I'm really
36:39
picky about my Mexican loggers and it was so different from
36:43
anybody else's. It's true, you know, so.
36:45
Great time here for him though. Yeah.
36:47
And everybody that works at the, I think 3 out of the four people
36:51
that work the bar are owners. We're invested, OK, yeah, are
36:57
proud of their product and they will tell you about the product
36:59
and or you know, try this, try that.
37:02
They're just, they're really invested in it.
37:04
So yeah, it's a good mix of vibes and just I just love their
37:09
effort and their beers are super tasty.
37:11
So right now, Rye is our number one place to go for beers.
37:14
And you took me there. You took us all there after
37:17
Tailspin as well. And was it the head Brewer or
37:21
the guy that was at Tailspin you introduced this to and then he
37:23
came and showed up at a rye later on?
37:26
That's your head Brewer. Two of the three owners were at
37:30
tailspin. It was one of those birthdays.
37:32
So he's. Right.
37:33
He was like, I'm just getting really drunk.
37:35
He got a tattoo on site. They were doing drunken tattoos
37:38
on site and he just got one and then they showed up and then
37:42
like the the main, the older guy who's like more the finance
37:46
here. He was working the bar that
37:47
night. Poor guy.
37:48
Wow, those two drunk asses showed up doing that.
37:52
So yeah, it's but yes, he was one of the guys that you met
37:55
that day it. Was great.
37:56
That was. I'll always remember because it
37:57
was the night I touched Nick's hair.
37:59
If you remember that, there's a picture of me touching Nick's
38:02
hair and my face is like. This is awesome.
38:05
The fact that you got his hat off was.
38:07
And then when we went back, when Steve and I stopped through a
38:10
few weeks ago, whatever, 2nd May, and we sat at that same
38:13
table and I was like, it's not the same.
38:17
Long table there. Yeah, that stuff.
38:19
I was like, oh, there was a there's a spot.
38:21
Main spot, like I said, we leave.
38:23
I leave work early on Fridays. Just it's like what time do they
38:26
open? That's when I'm leaving work
38:27
because I work 2 minutes from there.
38:29
He works 5 minutes from there. Oh yeah, and great spot.
38:33
And yeah, you know, our home brewery, listen, we love they've
38:36
been going through some issues and they're working it out, so I
38:39
won't mention them. They're out here closer to where
38:41
we live, but where we work, that's that's where we go on
38:44
Fridays now. It's just OK.
38:46
Hey, when we were at a Rye when we met you guys recently,
38:50
somebody had hit the outdoor staircase or something.
38:53
Is that back in back in service now or no?
38:56
Shit no, and I'll tell you why because they caught the guy who
39:00
drunkenly 3 in the morning, hit a guy on the intersection,
39:03
jumped the curve, barely missed 2 trees and their their outdoor
39:07
section is their roof. You take steps up and it's
39:10
literally a rooftop space and they just nailed the stairs
39:14
directly. Wow.
39:16
And knocked them back like 3 feet.
39:17
So took it all. So structurally it's unsafe.
39:19
And of course they, they ended up catching the guy, but they
39:22
had no insurance. Now it's like, yes, we have to
39:26
work. You know, our insurance are
39:27
going to cover it, but we don't, we have to pay like 20% and
39:30
it's, it's a lot of damage. So they're working on fixing it
39:33
still. But I was like, oh, but during
39:36
the summer he said, are you kidding me?
39:37
Nobody goes and sits on the roof when it's 100°.
39:40
Yeah, that's true. It's like if we get it fixed by
39:42
September, we'll be good because that's when people want to
39:44
settle. It's fair.
39:47
It's 100% fair. You don't want to be up there
39:49
now. Hell no.
39:50
You don't want to be on a patio now little on a rooftop.
39:52
And a shout out to a ride. They're going to celebrate their
39:55
2nd anniversary on July 12th, and we will be there.
39:59
All right, all right. All right, cheers to our my.
40:01
Cheers to a ride. Drinking out of their glass
40:03
right here. Two years, You guys have told a
40:05
lot of funny stories along the way, but have you got anything
40:08
any, any funny stories in any of your beer travels or brewery
40:11
travels that you would like to share?
40:14
It could be one, it could be 100.
40:16
I mean, I know of a couple that we were at, but you might have
40:17
some others. What do you got?
40:20
Well, I mean, I remember us walking up the stairs to
40:24
Reingeist in the most recent visit.
40:26
I don't remember just not talking about that.
40:30
You mean the guy that was making fun of everybody for not getting
40:33
a flight and then he couldn't make it up the flight of stairs
40:36
with his flight? First of all, when I ordered a
40:39
flight, I was chastising everyone because you should all
40:41
order a flight, OK? But then I didn't know that we
40:44
were going to go upstairs, so I did not intend to carry the
40:47
flight up the flight of stairs. Can I just, can I just tell you?
40:50
It's a lot of stairs. On your story about this.
40:53
Yes. I years ago because I decided
40:57
I'm not even going to try to go up them stairs on a flight
41:00
because I will do what you did. And I and I followed everybody
41:04
up there that day. I did not even know you were
41:07
talking crap until Liz on our podcast.
41:10
Oh, he was. Started mentioning it and I'm
41:12
like, did he really? I didn't even hear that.
41:14
Yeah. So I didn't even know that
41:16
happened. I didn't even hear you.
41:17
All I heard was the crash. I didn't hear you were saying
41:21
other things about you guys aren't blah blah blah.
41:24
First off, I was returning crap. Okay, I wasn't just talking
41:29
crap. People were chastising me,
41:31
taking stuff up. And I was that way but.
41:34
I was trying to give back as good as I was taking it and I
41:37
was so close I was approximately 6 steps from the top.
41:42
You're almost there. And then one shoe caught a step
41:45
and then. Yeah, I just remember hearing.
41:48
I just remember hearing a crash and thinking to myself, Yep,
41:52
that's why I don't do that. You never, Tom, you never went
41:54
down. A glass was never broken.
41:56
We just had some some liquid going down the stairs.
42:00
Yeah, it was. I mean, it was like a $12.00
42:02
loss to me. I did.
42:04
No glasses broke and I did not my myself did not face plant so
42:09
I'll take that as no no. You tried to save it.
42:12
I was, I was literally the guy behind you and I saw it and you
42:14
were you were, you were trying to save them and you did
42:16
everything you could and it just.
42:18
You could have been. You could.
42:20
Hold. You could have been charged with
42:22
alcohol abuse at night, that's true.
42:25
Nobody was going to turn you in. That's true.
42:27
So then I just go to the rooftop bar and I'm like, I'll just take
42:30
a pint of that. Look, it's, I mean, I just asked
42:35
about you brought it up. You told the story.
42:39
That was good. Bring it up Well, yeah, all
42:42
right. I I planted the seed and then we
42:44
anyway we have any. Funny stories, Yeah.
42:49
Here's the thing. Surely Funniest stuff we barely
42:51
remember. Well, that's.
42:51
Fair. That's fair from the times you
42:55
got lost by the time Steve got lost from Great American
42:59
Ballpark to March 1st. That was that.
43:01
Listen, when we joined you guys in Cincinnati, it was after the
43:05
Reds game at March 1st and you all told the story.
43:08
But I still can't get over the fact that he took an Uber for
43:11
less than like less than 1/2 mile and he's from there.
43:16
You could almost beat the. The building from where he was
43:19
standing, right? No excuse.
43:21
Yeah, cool. Cool.
43:23
Hey, she's she's like we've already.
43:24
Hey, I'm just, I'm owning it. I have no excuse that night
43:27
except that like I, like I said on the Cincinnati Takeover
43:31
podcast, sometimes every once in a while in life, you lack common
43:36
sense. And I lacked common sense that
43:39
night. And I just finally said, you
43:42
know what, I don't give a crap at this point, just giving it to
43:45
where I need to go. And that's what I'm doing and I
43:47
don't care. Well, look, if your friend
43:48
wouldn't have taken off like this, would have never happened.
43:54
He knows the city better than me and I'm like, I'll just meet him
43:58
there. That's me.
43:59
I was like, dude, it's, it's Fountain Square.
44:02
I mean I I'm not from Cincinnati, but I could find
44:04
Fountain Square from the. I know.
44:07
I was like, I was waiting. I got no response.
44:09
I was like, well, he's probably there already.
44:11
I'll just go ahead and go on. He's probably waiting for me.
44:13
But in my defense, any other time that we needed to find
44:17
places or do things or we've been in and out of traffic, I've
44:20
always been there. It was.
44:22
On it was no problem. It's just a funny little tale.
44:25
So that is my one. OK, I'll.
44:27
I'll give you I'll give you a partial story.
44:30
All right, so kind of last summer we went to our first ever
44:34
beer fest, OK. And it wasn't tailspin.
44:37
It was the live in about 10 miles outside of downtown
44:42
Louisville in a place called Jeffersontown.
44:43
They call it J Town. So J Town has a beer fest and we
44:47
hadn't been because the year before we would have been into
44:50
it, but I was out of town for work.
44:51
But this year we were there. So we're like, yeah, let's do
44:53
it. And once again, this is a place
44:55
where you pay 1 price, they give you a cup this big and you just
44:59
sample, sample, sample. Well, we'd never been to a beer
45:01
fest. We we didn't know how to pace
45:04
ourselves. And honestly, we even our home
45:08
brewery, it was happening in the backyard of our home brewery out
45:10
here in J town. So we even Dumber than usual, we
45:15
pregamed a beer fest, which is the dumbest thing.
45:18
So anyway, so let's. Go.
45:21
I posted like a video of background.
45:23
If you go back on the hill tappers on Instagram, go back
45:26
about a year and you'll you'll see you can see the progression
45:29
in the video. But anyway, so it didn't end
45:32
well. We don't remember our wives
45:34
picking us up. I especially don't remember it
45:37
went poorly. But what happened was we, we
45:39
wouldn't go back in our brewery for like for like over a week
45:43
because we were afraid of what we did because we know when it
45:46
ended. We went into the brewery, but we
45:48
don't have much memory on it. There was.
45:50
There was a point early on in the night after we had gone,
45:54
it's like we're racing to these tents, like what are we doing?
45:57
Let's get another. Let's get another.
45:58
And he says we are not doing this right.
46:03
I was already drunk when I said. That and it was yeah, we we, we
46:07
didn't and it that. Was So when we finally went back
46:10
to the brewery over a week later, we just felt like we
46:13
couldn't show our faces because I didn't know what happened,
46:15
right, Right. I went in there and one of the
46:18
regular beer tenders was there and I went up.
46:20
I was, I was like, listen, I got to apologize.
46:23
I don't know. I don't remember much.
46:25
You know, I did, I even close my tab.
46:27
You know what, blah, blah, blah. He's like, no, he's like, he's
46:30
like, no, you, you know, I wouldn't.
46:31
I mean, I knew you were, you know, pretty drunk, but I, you
46:34
know, but you didn't do anything embarrassing, blah, blah.
46:36
I was like, oh thank God. It was all good after the second
46:39
time you closed your tab. That's right.
46:41
I did try to close it twice apparently, because I talked to
46:43
another beer tender and they're like, yeah, But he said no, he's
46:46
like, but I'll tell you, there were two like, like there were
46:49
two guys that tried to come up the back steps and one of them
46:53
was arguing with the security that I, you know, that, you
46:57
know, I'm a mud club member, blah, blah, blah.
46:59
And the other guy fell in the bushes.
47:02
We still. Don't know who that was.
47:03
And I'm sitting there like OK, and I go back to the table.
47:07
I was like it was. Us.
47:08
No, it wasn't. It was us.
47:10
No, it was. I don't remember, it really was.
47:14
Arguing with the guy about I'm a mud club member I should be able
47:18
to come up the back steps. But when he mentioned looking at
47:21
falling in the bushes I looked in my phone and sure enough I
47:25
was drunk. But I was saying enough that
47:28
when Brad fell in the bushes I instantly took a picture of him
47:32
being helped out by somebody. So Oh no you were fine.
47:37
Not like these drunk assholes who did this at the back door.
47:40
And to this Danny, I haven't told him it was.
47:43
Us, it was shit. It was you guys.
47:47
He was funny about that, this drunk.
47:49
As he never goes to look at the video footage because it was us
47:52
it. Happens.
47:53
It does happen, it's fine. I'm sitting there like.
47:55
Ha ha, yeah. What are those jackasses doing?
48:00
I'm glad we we were. We were well behaved.
48:04
Well, look about that. Like no matter how drunk you
48:06
are, like you have that reaction to go for your phone, like, oh,
48:10
that's that's funny video. I can make that work.
48:13
I didn't know he'd fallen into the bushes till he met like you
48:16
did and I started looking at my pictures.
48:19
I had no picture of taking that photo but there it was.
48:22
I knew I had to take a picture and it's some he looks all
48:26
disappointed in the bushes and this guy we've never met is
48:28
helping him out. There's you not helping taking
48:31
the picture. Well, yeah, once again, Gen.
48:33
X. It's also you would have no
48:36
proof if you hadn't, so there you go.
48:39
Brad, was there any evidence the next day when you got up that
48:42
your clothes looked like they had fallen in the bushes?
48:44
Nope. No, actually I think he
48:45
remembered falling the. Bushes, I do.
48:47
It was fast and it happened and there was a guy right there and
48:50
he said hey buddy, come on back. Come on back.
48:54
You're probably wondering, well, what made you fall in the
48:56
bushes? Nothing.
48:57
He just fell. Nothing.
48:58
Just tripped. It happens.
49:00
Well, no. Because I was trying to talk
49:01
this asshole out of. Remote club let us just I don't
49:06
want to walk around front. Just let us back up and back
49:09
into bushes. Club members, come on now.
49:12
So that that's our, that's our worst story.
49:14
And now it's out there. I think, I think it's good if if
49:17
you need us to cut that later, we're not gonna.
49:19
So I wouldn't. Expect you to.
49:23
Before we go, before we close this out and see you may have
49:26
something else, but Brad, can we get a George W?
49:30
On the spot. You can give it a minute, we
49:32
could edit the pause. You're pretty good at it though.
49:34
Well, I don't think there's any need to edit because we're going
49:38
right into talking about some of these transformerations and
49:42
these these brewerations at these local beer
49:45
establishmentations and it's good stuff.
49:48
Hey, hey, George. I fooled you once.
49:50
You fool us once, shame on, same on.
49:53
You fool us twice, shame on. You're not going to fool us
49:56
again. I.
49:58
Love it. There's going to be a short.
50:00
Thanks. That's going to be a YouTube
50:02
short, man. I appreciate the time.
50:04
He's got it. You can have any time you want.
50:08
For my next act. I love it.
50:09
You're so good at it. Anyway, Steve, you got anything
50:12
else before we wrap up here, buddy?
50:13
You know what, I can wrap it up. OK.
50:16
Anything you guys want to talk about before we got out of here,
50:18
we didn't we didn't touch on or you want to get out there or
50:20
promote or. I don't think necessarily.
50:24
Listen, we got to get you guys the Louisville, you know for
50:27
coming. It's going to be like game day.
50:30
And any excuse to go to Cincinnati, we're there and
50:34
looking forward to coming back to Nashville.
50:36
Any opportunity to hang out with you guys because, man, we do it
50:39
well. Boom.
50:40
Yeah, we do. We talk about these stories
50:42
forever and ever and ever. I mean, when we come to
50:44
Louisville and when we come together, I know Steve might be
50:46
at there before I do, but when we come together, can we mix in
50:48
some whiskey? Because you guys have some good
50:50
distilleries here in town too. Are you serious?
50:53
Listen, we're, you know, our whole travel.
50:55
Industry. The Bourbon Trail what as we
50:59
mentioned. So if you guys don't mind.
51:02
Bob Dylan's Bourbon has an amazing place called The Last
51:05
Rep. Yes, that's an old church and
51:07
gym and it's it's the ultimate place to hang out.
51:10
So yeah, we definitely go make that part of our visit.
51:12
OK, put that on the list. So yeah, I'm a big, big, huge
51:15
fan of all that. So yes, please.
51:17
Steve is too. Guys, let's raise our beers.
51:20
Boom. Here's to the hill tappers.
51:22
To the Hill Tappers, thanks for joining us on our Little Dumb
51:25
podcast. We appreciate it for having us.
51:30
I'm going to say this and I'm going to say this.
51:32
A year ago we met, we became friends and I would say you guys
51:37
are like brothers from another mother.
51:39
Amen here and here. Absolutely, absolutely.
51:43
Cheers. All.
51:46
Right. And get to Tennessee.
51:48
Get to Tennessee and then Louisville.
51:52
Bye. Thanks guys.