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Cabin Fever Beer Fest: Murfreesboro Craft Beer with The Foamy Heads | Episode 120 · The Brewery Underground Podcast | Craft Beer Interviews, Reviews and Beer Travel

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  Stand by for the Brewery Underground podcast.
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  In Nashville, Swipe will rise. Crafts and Brews will Meet the
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  skies. Steven Scott Daily The Way
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  Brewery Underground, night and day.
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  Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.
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  We are here at Cabin Fever in Murfreesboro, TN not.
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  Cabinet fest, but cabinet? Fever.
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  Not what? Not Cabinet Fest.
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  Not Cabinet Fest. Where's that term come from,
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  Steve? I somebody else had texted us
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  and like, are you going to Cabinet Fest?
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  And like, no. It's not.
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  Cabinet Fest. It's cabin fever, and it's
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  appropriately named because it's 70 freaking degrees out here.
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  I don't. It's so beautiful.
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  Yeah, the weather's great. The.
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  Weather's great in Tennessee. Oh my God.
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  You don't know when you're playing something like this.
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  I never planned it Months. And I mean, you don't know what
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  you're going to get. Yeah, everywhere.
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  You know it's Tennessee. You never you don't know it
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  could be 7. No, it's 70.
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  Never know. And the and the beautiful thing
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  about this is like 3 what, 3 weekends ago?
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  3 weeks ago, people's power was out.
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  That's not the beautiful piece. People's power was out, but like
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  people were stuck in their homes.
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  There was an inch of ice like on my HVACI could see the fan
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  spinning underneath like this, this block of ice.
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  I was going out with my shovel. It's just like and then then
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  Fast forward to today. We've got beautiful sunny
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  weather. Everybody's outside, fear is
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  flowing. There's a hot tub.
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  There's a. Hot Tub Mitch.
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  There's a hot tub. I don't.
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  We wouldn't want to be in that right now.
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  No, you can. Probably go ahead and turn the
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  heat off on that. Yeah, it's making a swimming
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  space. It's hot making.
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  A chart in. Tennessee.
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  Is that what we're saying? It's awesome.
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  OK. We got a little DJ behind us.
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  If you hear that, it's OK. We got a little background.
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  Yeah, Yeah. By the way, Mitch and Rich,
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  Steven Scott, we're all here. Call me underground, all right?
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  And. Hey, we're.
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  All here, we're probably interested this at this point,
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  the fortress point probably. I mean, we were at the we were
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  at the Common. John.
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  If there's a beer fest, we're here.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  Last time we were all together live outside was the last
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  family, last beer fest on earth, Coma John, family reunion and
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  funny, not even the last thing recorded.
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  That's the last thing that was out.
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  We've actually seen something on the in the can that I know, I
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  know. Are you going to are you going
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  to prelude to it? Are you going to make it a
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  surprise? We'll make that a surprise.
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  OK. Yeah, honestly, that probably
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  comes out before this one drops anyway, so I guess that's next
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  week, right? Yeah.
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  I got a question. So we're at a beer festival.
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  Are we drinking? No Mitch's.
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  Mitch's response where? Shout out to LeBron.
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  Here comes Goody the the the guy that the guy that looks like
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  Common John is in the house. He he's wearing his Common John
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  shirt. I don't know.
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  Space is the guy on the shirt Look.
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  Oh, there it is. Hello crap beer people.
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  There we go. Hello.
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  Hello. Goody Goody's World of Beer.
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  This guy, this guy probably gets around in the beer industry more
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  than any of us people do in terms of like the influencer fan
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  game. He's he's everywhere.
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  Goody, what time did you get here today bro?
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  Oh, we left the brewery at. Talking a little bit more. 830
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  got here probably after nine. Yeah.
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  Had breakfast about 9:30 and started drinking then 930.
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  Yes, Mama said you got to start early if you're going to go all
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  day. Cootie, what have you had so
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  far? What's that?
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  What have you drank so far, do you know?
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  Had some soul and spirits brewery.
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  Has some. Several different home brews
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  that were really good too, yeah. Absolutely.
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  Very good home brews. The homebrewers have showed out
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  today, by the way. The ones I've had have been
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  really good. Yeah, Rubidium.
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  Rubidium was the first one I started at.
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  I know they took home the winner at the first Common John Beer
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  Fest that I had been to, Yes. And they actually got the Brewer
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  beer common John too, The one that they won with, yes.
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  Oh, that's right. Because that's what they were
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  doing, right. That is great.
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  They got to brew their beer at Common John as the winner of
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  that of that home brew festival. They brought with them some, a
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  couple of bangers today. Rubidian was the one I started
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  out. I think we all started there.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Yeah, and and Cavacado, they won last year.
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  Cavacado. Past year, yeah, they were the
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  winner this past year, yes. That was a very unique beer.
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  Now a very banana forward to me and it had a very unique flavor
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  on the back end. Yeah, I had a couple things from
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  there. From there I had that.
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  I also had their English mild. It's called the mild hatred with
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  nutty chocolate hazelnut. I mean, yes.
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  That sounds good too. I had the lime, the lime very
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  vindicative of like the Limewire logo from like if you know, you
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  know, back in that lime ale, I think is what they called it.
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  That one was they are kind of. Representative.
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  Of something else. Yeah, yeah.
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  Like the Nutella. Yeah, yeah, I saw.
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  I saw the Nutella 1. In that particular brewery that
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  we're talking about, they are in Cleveland, TN.
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  Cleveland, which is near Chattanooga.
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  Yeah. Kavakao, yes.
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  Yeah, sure. Maybe they'll open a brewery
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  someday. I think that's their dream is to
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  open a brewery. That's right, home brew home.
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  Brew Yeah, they're home Brewers, so be nice to.
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  Yes, shout out. Shane Gibbs, I had a beer from
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  them earlier. It was really good.
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  Yeah, they have what they've today they've got with them.
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  The yeah, the I had the Dunkle too, and it was solid.
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  And a four percenter, I believe that that makes it even better.
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  Yeah, yeah, it's really good Chocolate cherry stout.
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  I think we all got a chance to to pour that one a little bit
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  and then the Dunkle trying to remember what else they had on
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  tap. Everything.
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  He I think he had three of them on top.
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  They were all really good. I got just sample all of them.
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  Brandon from middle ground a minute ago, Fat finger was
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  talking about there's one there. Get the base.
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  Let's say. Brandon, I didn't realize the
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  same, right. Middle ground, some, maybe all
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  several of the gears that some of the whole earth had.
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  The base came from middle ground.
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  Yeah. Well.
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  That's cool. I was talking to a guy the other
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  day that I met at some brewery somewheres and he, a brewery had
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  a base beer that he bought the base to go home and brew a beer
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  with. So I guess that's kind of maybe
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  an up and coming thing, I'm not sure.
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  Yeah. Yeah, Yep, there was a couple of
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  them. It was, it was not just not just
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  the one you mentioned, but there was there was another one right
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  next to it. Was it Mose Ailesley?
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  I can't remember if that was, was that the other one?
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  And they had a few that they brought with them too.
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  They had a Mitch you and I tried their rum, barely their rum
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  cider. Oh, yeah, Yeah.
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  From Mose Ailesley. Dude, that's dangerous. 9 1/2%,
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  It's like rum runner slider. Yeah.
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  Holy shit. I'll have to go try that one.
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  It was so good. I didn't have it, but you were
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  talking about. It's a week 9% ABV or 9.5.
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  It didn't drink. It didn't drink like it.
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  For a cider. Oh, wait.
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  Yeah, it's wild, man. You.
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  Describe it because you put Sailor Jerry in it.
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  It's Sailor Jerry and I do not get home.
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  Oh no, I'm not a I'm not a Sailor Jerry fan either.
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  No, don't. Don't call them out.
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  Nope, that's OK. Hey, can we ask, since you're
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  obviously here from Calm and John, can we ask like what is
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  Calm and John brought today? So today is a a different beer
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  festival for Calm and John. We are serving three different
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  sours. First time ever to have three
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  sours on, 2 on tap, one in a can, no IPA whatsoever.
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  We've got some negative feedback with that, but you know, people
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  like the Ipas from Calm John and stuff.
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  But we got a cotton candy sour beer, we got a Creamsicle beer,
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  and we got our jam box with the PB and J Sour.
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  All three are great and excellent.
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  Jam box is so good. Jam box jam.
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  Box is good. It's so good.
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  Very. Lebron's done a really good job
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  on getting that one to where it's at today.
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  There's, well, there's AE. And Jays and jam boxes at the
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  top of my opinion. Yeah, the jam box is in cans, so
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  all cans is there. That's all we have.
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  So, so I wouldn't wait till closing time, you know.
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  We have to stop. Yeah.
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  No, this is things straight even.
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  OK. You said we just came just for
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  the whole river section. Yeah.
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  What is it, 6 or 8 over there? Yep, and it was it.
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  Was ever since we're seeing people that so I was through
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  it's awesome so and we have the meet up.
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  Yeah, I haven't hit the commercial breweries.
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  I know. That's why I'm headed to Cedar,
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  Cedar City to get their Oak Rye IPA, I believe it is.
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  Heard about that and so I want to try it.
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  That's awesome. They do.
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  They got a cool venue, yes, and I was told this morning that
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  they've opened the third level up.
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  They have live music up on the third level, yes.
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  Right on the square. And if you're there lucky, like
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  on a day-to-day, they'll open up the front garage door windows
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  out on the sidewalks. You can set it out on sidewalk
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  and have a beer. Stories about that place I
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  wouldn't either that's on deep Calvin on any side say take the
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  flights and I got a flight I just.
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  Were like. How many were on it?
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  Whoa. Man.
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  I love places that do that. There's some breweries.
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  I'll just let you try them all. I was at a place coming back
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  from, I think I gave you guys a can of it.
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  I was coming back from Chicago and there's a place called
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  Metazoa Brewing Companies in Indiana and I was like, I want a
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  flight. And she's like, we don't do
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  flights here. I go, OK, well I want small
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  pours. Like how many can I get at a
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  time? Because there's rules, right?
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  There's certain states. She's like, how many do you
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  want? And I was like, and like, I'm
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  looking at the list. I'm like there's like 12 on
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  there that I haven't had. She's like, OK, she brings me
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  like 12 or 14 different 4 oz pours.
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  I ordered once and I was done. It's amazing.
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  Sounds good. All of them.
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  All of them. All right fellas, I'm going to
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  get over here and grab me a beer and get back to pouring some
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  good common John. Cheers Goody.
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  Beers. Good to see y'all, thanks.
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  For stopping by the tan. We appreciate it.
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  Good to see ya. I want to say that from the home
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  Brewers section, like everything was amazing today.
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  What I like about home Brewers, Common John was probably one of
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  the first ones with like their, their family reunion festivals.
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  East Nashville Beer Festival does it too.
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  Yeah. And I've been to a few of those.
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  I common John and it seems like the the cabin fever bit like
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  they put the home Brewers front and center.
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  Like there's not front and center.
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  It's equal playing field. Like there's no difference
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  between the look over there at the home Brewers, then what's at
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  the the the micro brews over there.
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  And I love the level playing field.
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  Yeah, it was rad, man. Yeah.
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  Yes, they did an IPA that was that that almost resembled the
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  black IPA that was really good. Yeah.
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  They had like 3 or 4 beers there today.
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  Like these guys didn't show up empty handed.
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  No, they didn't. No, see, I recognize you like a
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  provide some context, right? Man.
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  You know, it's actually great shot.
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  It's been great chatting with some of the home Brewers here, a
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  lot of local, some Murfreesboro, not just Murfreesboro, but I
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  didn't realize Murfreesboro had this many local home Brewers and
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  it is really cool and the passion that they bring and you
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  know, the amount of years that some of them have been doing
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  this, you know? Yeah.
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  Fully rectory sets what home girl he is in this area.
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  Like really a good crowd. I know.
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  National. Yeah, yeah.
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  Any Yeah. Yeah.
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  Any time you include the home Brewers, you're going to be
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  extra surprised every time they bring it, man, I would guess
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  some of these and that we've seen some cars Brewers over
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  there. Yeah.
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  People that we know, Yeah, yes, yeah.
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  I wonder if there's like, because and and this is one of
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  those events where it's like you see the same home Brewers at
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  this festival that you saw at calm and John when they were
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  doing the family reunion. It's like Rubidium was there
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  both they took home the winter at, you know, at at calm and
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  John their first year that they were there and now they're here
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  today, quite a few of them. And, and not just home Brewers,
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  but some of your smaller microbreweries that are moving
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  up, Ebony and Ivory that, you know, we were there first.
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  But like a lot of these names you wouldn't otherwise know that
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  are at one beer festival, they show up at another.
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  It's the only place you can get their beer.
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  You can't get rubidium in stores, right.
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  You can't get Mose Ailesley in stores.
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  You can't get, you know, it's a House of dogs.
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  Shout out to to Shane. It's like you can't get them
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  anywhere else. The exclusivity for anyone who's
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  looking for those, like extra credit check insurance and
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  everything. It's a beer fest with home
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  Brewers, man. Yeah, 1000%.
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  Such a great time, it gives them a chance to showcase their
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  stuff. Yeah.
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  I think for those of us, yeah. And I think for those of us who
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  love, you know, we're nerds. We love to check in beer on
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  Untapped, the whole Brewers. You come here and you can find
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  their beer probably on Untapped, you can check it in.
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  You're not going. To be can you really?
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  Maybe, I don't know. Can you do that?
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  And well, it's not all or you. Just.
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  Yeah, just write it in, you know, or even if you can't check
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  it in on ZAP, you can still boast.
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  Yeah, crap beer guys that we had their beer.
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  That's a good point. And they're bringing it.
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  The brewery has to be available. You have to be able to select
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  the brewery when you're creating a a drink.
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  It's not a beer anymore, It's a drink.
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  Yeah, most of the time they are. Nope.
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  Somebody checked out at Zani Water the other day.
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  I think the new thing with Untapped is like you got to get
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  like Pepsi Ice or 2000s era to get any kind of St. cred on the
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  Untapped. Now that's true.
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  So what are the clear Pepsi? Yeah, Clear Pepsi.
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  Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pepsi Blue Insider should be the
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  only ones that should be able to check in.
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  I think it should be the I think it should be the general
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  population that Canada on the insider should not be able to
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  check in anything like that. That's just my opinion.
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  By the way, this is an unpopular opinion, but I pay for my
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  untapped subscription six months at a time.
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  It's like 4 bucks a month, right?
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  So you just you do it, you forget about it and then six
• 16:40
  months later you get a charge for like 30 bucks on your credit
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  card and you go, oh, I forgot about that.
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  And then you just let it ride. Congratulations to untapped for
• 16:49
  making it big. They got bought by some big like
• 16:51
  soda company or big drink company or whatever.
• 16:54
  They don't need my money anymore.
• 16:55
  At some point in the next couple of months, you guys are going to
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  see my My Insider badge just drop off of untapped and I'm
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  going to be rating beers in 20 and and quarters again.
• 17:08
  They don't need my $4.00 a month anymore.
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  Like I don't know. I just it's it kind of lost his
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  appeal when I could start checking in soda like Mitch
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  said. I just feel like it's like you
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  don't need me anymore. Maybe, yeah, they got rid of the
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  temps. If you're if you're moving, if
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  you're moving from an insider, it makes here's my argument,
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  Scott. Maybe you'll agree with me.
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  Maybe you won't round up if you're doing it to help the if
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  you're doing it to help the brewery.
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  Like the difference between a 3.8 and a four, what is
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  eventually is a big difference. Yeah.
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  Text it, text it, but message. So tell me, why didn't you
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  select the Testament policies forever?
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  Hey. Right.
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  That's what I'm saying exactly. So I'll do it.
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  Yeah, so I'll do it. Who's this ugly motherfucker
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  standing next to me, by the way? Mike in his face.
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  I'm sorry, guys. I get to stand next to the
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  shell, so it's all good. I'm OK with it.
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  But we've got Ben here too. Yeah, you know, May, may, may
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  real quick. Yeah, we got one in the house.
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  I'm Ben with the Ales and Tales podcast coming at you teaming
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  up. We're we're what we're we're
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  what these guys. We we want to be what these guys
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  are. How about that?
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  It's cross collaboration, brawls collaboration.
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  So what were we talking about? Where we coming in at?
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  We had just finished. So we just finished talking
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  about the home Brewer section. Oh, man.
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  It's what we did first. Yeah, exactly.
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  I think everybody started there because they wanted to.
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  I slid in. I hadn't seen Shane Gibbs in
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  forever today. And I slid in there and he had
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  like 1/2 a bottle of his chocolate cherry stout.
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  And like, this is what came to you first, man.
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  Yeah, maybe you gotta sit at the last all of them.
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  I hit a good bit of them, like the avocado brewery, whatever,
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  had a great pina colada. Were they there?
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  Yeah. Oh, they were they were there
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  big signs to like good artwork. Like, OK, they've invested a lot
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  of money as home Brewers into branding already.
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  Yeah. And it was a dude that had me
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  and I'm not a big fan of Mead. Oh, it was the best thing there.
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  I think it was phenomenal. Oh, they he's like, try this
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  one. He they bust out some one of the
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  tables. They try this one yo I don't
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  know, I don't remember the name but they were great.
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  I know you're talking about Mead right now.
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  Michelle's over here dancing to the beast of the music in the
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  background. Michelle, Michelle and Ben got
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  here about 45 minutes ago and they're already feeling good.
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  Absolutely they feel good. Good progress already.
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  That's that's very judgmental. Did you guys, that's not
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  judgmental. I don't know what you put
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  through the 1st 10. Check the time.
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  Maybe I know. Did you start?
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  Did you start at the home section?
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  Yes. Did you start all the way down?
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  I started at the very end. Yeah.
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  Great, great samples. Classic Chris yeah, I mean some
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  I I feel like they were rushing some of their tanks and their
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  heads the. Story of the Edmonds.
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  Be ready for today. Yeah, there's some stuff that's
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  seen. I'm not going to say who.
• 20:37
  Gotcha. Overall, I really like it, yeah.
• 20:41
  Yeah, I think there was a good show out today, a lot of them
• 20:43
  that we saw at the Common John, last bit.
• 20:46
  There's a lot a. Lot of them.
• 20:47
  Rubidium was there. Ailes Mosley was there.
• 20:52
  At the last beer fest on earth. That's right, maybe.
• 20:56
  I was. I was.
• 20:57
  There. I know you were there.
• 20:58
  Yeah. Michelle may or may not have sat
• 21:00
  down at the table with us for a little while.
• 21:03
  So we got a we had a good time. What's been you guys is from the
• 21:06
  home brew section. Do you guys have a favorite that
• 21:08
  you had? I'll be honest, again, I really
• 21:10
  like the avocado. I think they're putting out,
• 21:13
  here's this brewery name like this avocado.
• 21:14
  They have the lime ale, the Nutella ones, the banana, the
• 21:18
  banana one. I think they're putting out
• 21:20
  excellent quality. That is good, I like that.
• 21:23
  Got them really good but there's that's really the standout to me
• 21:27
  that's the one that I could see like on Brewer brick and mortar
• 21:30
  level OK right yeah well that's that's going a bit too far
• 21:33
  because there's some other good breweries over there not the
• 21:35
  only one but gotcha they are the standout.
• 21:38
  OK, that's awesome. Oh, I that's not a skunk.
• 21:43
  That's not a skunk. I also just realized the
• 21:47
  importance of. Headphones while while doing.
• 21:50
  Podcast 100% I had the mic out of my mouth having a
• 21:53
  conversation over here while you and Michelle were talking and
• 21:56
  ruined about 5 minutes of your tape.
• 21:57
  No, it was about you only ruined about 30 seconds, so it's all
• 22:00
  good. It is what it is all.
• 22:03
  Right, so what's in everybody's cup?
• 22:05
  Right now, what are we drinking? Just pour that.
• 22:10
  Green bottle. Just green bottle what?
• 22:13
  A great name. Dude.
• 22:15
  Just pour that for me, yes. Thank you.
• 22:18
  Sorry, Michelle, what were you saying?
• 22:21
  No, no, no. We were making sure I had a
• 22:24
  Really. Fools down here.
• 22:26
  See that they make sure they stay out.
• 22:27
  Of the way of the camera. Might need a little more of
• 22:29
  this. Go for.
• 22:31
  It. Come on.
• 22:33
  There you go. It's done.
• 22:34
  Same Sign a stupid green bottle for color commentary.
• 22:43
  Color commentary. You can't give us two more
• 22:45
  hours, Sir Michael Stokes. What's up?
• 22:53
  Oh, so loud. So let's do this then.
• 22:55
  Let's go around. I think Steve, since we're
• 22:57
  talking about like the home Brewer section for you guys, I
• 22:59
  just jumped in. What was No, I'm I'm interested.
• 23:03
  I I need to know what was your favorite from the homebrewers
• 23:06
  section that was here? Rubidium was there.
• 23:09
  AO Isley, 3 dogs, three House of dogs.
• 23:14
  Fat finger was there. Avocado was there.
• 23:19
  For strictly selfish purposes, yeah, I'm looking for lighter.
• 23:24
  OK, I'm pacing myself. I feel like I feel like a lot of
• 23:29
  breweries need to kind of bring something light like that
• 23:34
  because those of us are staying five hours.
• 23:37
  Sure. Might need to pace ourselves.
• 23:40
  That might be that might be everybody.
• 23:41
  I need to pace. So what was your favorite
• 23:43
  Michelle? So I was really trying to lean
• 23:48
  on some ciders. Yeah, for my stomach.
• 23:50
  Sure. What?
• 23:53
  Was the Humber? Was there a Humber cidery over
• 23:55
  there? Rose Aylesley had a.
• 23:57
  Rum rum. Brother cider was Berry
• 24:00
  cinnamon, boy. It was a heavier apple cider
• 24:06
  base. I don't like sweet.
• 24:09
  So the French dry from cyanide. Yeah, hit all the right notes.
• 24:13
  It's kind of described as a Prosecco champagne.
• 24:19
  Yeah. Chefs.
• 24:19
  Perfect, perfect. OK, yeah, they do those dries
• 24:22
  over there and they were right. Now though, like are is cyanide
• 24:25
  like on the tent next to the homebrewers section.
• 24:28
  They're in the. Yeah, the other one it says
• 24:30
  right next there was Ebony and Ivory was right there.
• 24:33
  Yes, tenfold Yahoo, right. Yep.
• 24:35
  And they were in that same Gabby.
• 24:37
  Black Abby was Yes, they're in. I'm sorry, Marblefox.
• 24:39
  No, but. Marblefox is in that tent too.
• 24:42
  Oh, OK, See, we haven't made it down that far.
• 24:45
  We haven't we? Were.
• 24:47
  We were here before you guys. I knew what you were about to
• 24:50
  say. You're.
• 24:51
  Standing there that. Doesn't mean I'm not going to
• 24:54
  hell going. Don't worry.
• 24:57
  You're from there. I can't.
• 24:58
  Stand that I was. I was at Marble Fox last
• 25:01
  weekend, by the way, and there, and I'm so jealous about that.
• 25:04
  Their triple IPA that they just dropped was amazing.
• 25:09
  It was really good. And then they had a no go ahead
• 25:13
  finish something. They had a they had a triple IPA
• 25:16
  that they dropped and then they had a Maisie with Nectar on that
• 25:20
  was really good. Amazing.
• 25:21
  Nectar on SO. That was.
• 25:22
  Super. The Nelson Sivan, Maisie and the
• 25:24
  nectar on is better. That whole series is really
• 25:28
  solid. The moment I knew I was sold on
• 25:30
  Marvel Fox is like when after they first opened and they had a
• 25:34
  lactose free milkshake IPA. Yeah.
• 25:38
  And I go, what was that on the F?
• 25:40
  Do you make a lactose free milkshake IPA?
• 25:43
  And so I got talking to I think it was John Junior, John Junior
• 25:46
  and I might have been senior, but he was like, we just what I
• 25:50
  did is I took an F ton of vanilla beans and you know, real
• 25:54
  vanilla beans, like split them up and the vanilla bean will
• 25:57
  body out the beer and I'm going my mind was blown.
• 26:02
  Oh, that is incredibly ingenuitive.
• 26:05
  It's expensive, but incredibly engine Note is great because
• 26:08
  sometimes the lactose and beer gets to be overplayed.
• 26:10
  It gets that mouthfeel, it can build up and it was fantastic.
• 26:14
  And it makes somebody like me more hyper aware if there's
• 26:19
  dairy in these creamy milkshake Ipas.
• 26:23
  But with Marble Fox it, it's just the brewing process with
• 26:27
  the oatmeal. I don't know the science behind
• 26:31
  it, but that's how they can do that without.
• 26:34
  So it's there we go. Without dairy.
• 26:38
  Thank you, Snow. Dairy.
• 26:39
  So I've made this. Mobilon too, it gives a little
• 26:40
  bit of that cloudiness. OK, Yeah.
• 26:43
  It's only like mostly vanilla. That's awesome.
• 26:45
  No, vanilla gives that mouthfeel that kind of coat your tongue
• 26:50
  makes you happy. And then the thickness from the
• 26:52
  OK. What kind of podcast are we
• 26:55
  doing come. On down here.
• 26:56
  Hello. Hello.
• 26:57
  Everybody dogs. What's going on?
• 27:00
  Yeah. Shane, this is also quite
• 27:01
  familiar to you. By the way, you've got.
• 27:03
  You've. Done some things with beer.
• 27:05
  At the home. Oh yeah.
• 27:06
  Yeah. Favorite beer at the home
• 27:07
  Brewers? Here we go, Mom.
• 27:09
  Yours. What?
• 27:10
  Which one? The Dunkle?
• 27:12
  Dunkle. Yes, Sir, that was the Dunkle.
• 27:14
  That was the other one I was thinking of.
• 27:16
  The Dunkle was solid. Thank you.
• 27:19
  Really love the type of chocolate cherry stout, black
• 27:21
  IPA Dunkle. Were those the three?
• 27:24
  Was there a fourth Dunkle? Black IPA and the.
• 27:26
  Chocolate Chocolate Cherry Stout.
• 27:27
  Which is now gone. There's no more chocolate.
• 27:29
  Cherry. No more chocolate cherry stout.
• 27:30
  That was a good call, Steve. I forgot.
• 27:32
  Yeah, because we were trying to remember the third we went
• 27:34
  through, like the chocolate cherry stout.
• 27:36
  Yeah. And then I was like.
• 27:37
  And then there was the black IPA and I was like, there was
• 27:39
  another one. And I was like.
• 27:41
  And it was the one I I had and I really enjoyed it.
• 27:44
  I can't. Apparently I got a ball.
• 27:45
  Look at that turtle. Whop right now. 123 cheers.
• 27:50
  So happens when you do a live, right?
• 27:51
  Right. So that Dunkle was actually the
• 27:54
  collaboration beer that all the home Brewers used.
• 27:57
  We used warts, all the wart and everything was provided by
• 27:59
  Middle Ground. Oh yes.
• 28:01
  Yes, OK, same. So middle ground provided the
• 28:04
  war and then each home Brewer changed it up however they
• 28:06
  wanted. I had AI know you guys kept
• 28:09
  really good and I can't remember their name now that you
• 28:11
  mentioned that. You mentioned that they had
• 28:13
  that. Hot life.
• 28:15
  OK, good story, right? Yeah, Fat Finger was the first
• 28:18
  one I heard it from. Fat Finger, That's how it was.
• 28:20
  Had it. House of Dogs and then Mose
• 28:23
  Ailesley. Yeah, they had, but they're the
• 28:25
  ones that had a middle ground wart as well that started out
• 28:28
  that way. And you use yours for the
• 28:30
  Dunkle, correct. OK.
• 28:31
  I don't, I don't believe any other.
• 28:33
  Speaking of Fat Finger, that's what you told me.
• 28:34
  That's who it was that I was thinking of.
• 28:36
  He brewed a really great strong ale not that long ago that's
• 28:39
  essentially A barley wine. Fantastic.
• 28:43
  I don't believe I've seen y'all there.
• 28:44
  So next time we do it, you got to do the 12 beers of Christmas
• 28:47
  or 12 beers of July, Miss All right, like it's so much fun.
• 28:52
  He had that. I picked that randomly and that
• 28:55
  was cruise I've ever had. OK, that's awesome.
• 28:57
  OK, which spriri? Fat finger.
• 29:00
  Fat finger, which one? Which one is pouring Shane from
• 29:03
  a House of dogs perspective, which one is pouring fat?
• 29:07
  The chocolate cherry stout. Let's take that off the table
• 29:09
  because you had bottles, you brought a very like small supply
• 29:11
  of it, right? But you have the dunkle, you've
• 29:13
  got the black IPA. Which one are people navigating
• 29:15
  towards the most? Are they doing both?
• 29:18
  They're doing both, but definitely.
• 29:19
  The jungle, I'm going through more of the jungle than I am the
• 29:22
  black IPA and I think with that being it's a lot of people just
• 29:25
  aren't doing black Ipas. Yeah, yeah.
• 29:27
  But I. Did.
• 29:28
  Just convert somebody who says I don't like Ipas, I never drink
• 29:32
  them and he's like but let me try it.
• 29:35
  He loved it. He then went and got a dunkle,
• 29:38
  then came back for another black IPAIII liked them both.
• 29:41
  I like the black IPA better. The black.
• 29:43
  IPA is. A.
• 29:44
  It's a different style. I like the hoppiness of an IPA,
• 29:49
  but whatever. You do to.
• 29:53
  Create. A roasty.
• 29:56
  Dark notes So, so many people get.
• 29:58
  Hung up on the. Color of the beer, right?
• 30:00
  Like, Oh my God. Guinness is.
• 30:02
  Super heavy because it's so dark.
• 30:04
  Guinness is a light beer. The same calories as like
• 30:08
  Michelob Light, all right, it's 125 calories a pint, right?
• 30:12
  The black IPA, I think it's. The.
• 30:13
  Same thing. That's the black, the darkness.
• 30:15
  They're like, oh, it's going to be a heavy beer.
• 30:17
  And like, it's an IPA 5%. You roast a little bit of the
• 30:20
  malt, like guess and, you know, use, you know, 5% of a darker
• 30:24
  malt and it goes in there and changes the color.
• 30:25
  And it's really not that different.
• 30:27
  It's not as different. Yeah, but also a Guinness.
• 30:31
  It's not black. It's actually an amber, right
• 30:36
  Guinness? Is an.
• 30:36
  Amber. Guinness is an amber Irish
• 30:39
  drive. Explain this to me.
• 30:41
  It's the color is amber. Maybe it's the color is amber.
• 30:44
  If you hold up the light, I did it at Guinness.
• 30:46
  They tell you hold up the light. It's there's an amber color that
• 30:48
  comes here. It's actually considered an
• 30:49
  amber. Fake news, fake.
• 30:52
  No, no, no, not fake news. Alternate facts.
• 30:55
  Alternate facts that's. Great.
• 30:56
  I'll bring you. That.
• 30:57
  Style. Guys, I'm just.
• 31:00
  So so I have AI. Have a question for Shane, since
• 31:02
  since he's standing on the mics, I want to talk about, let's talk
• 31:05
  about the names of your beers because you're very like the
• 31:09
  name of your brewery with House of Dogs.
• 31:11
  There's a mission behind it. And then the names of the beers
• 31:14
  themselves. So walk us through the Dunkle
• 31:16
  name and then walk us through the black IPA name that you
• 31:20
  have. And then how that like how that
• 31:22
  coordinates into the whole House of Dogs, like the adoption
• 31:25
  process. So yeah, House of.
• 31:26
  Dogs. It was a really easy name to
• 31:28
  come by because we own five dogs.
• 31:30
  We have 5 dogs currently. When my wife and I met, she had
• 31:34
  a bunch of dogs and we just keep rescuing them.
• 31:36
  We've rescued dogs from Alabama, Memphis, here in Nashville.
• 31:41
  I mean, we there's a need. And we try to fulfill.
• 31:44
  That need and then with the home brewery aspect, I try to give
• 31:47
  each beer something to do with dogs as far as the name goes so
• 31:51
  the doggone IPA, that was the collaboration beer that we did
• 31:55
  and everything and we it got delayed by a week with the snow
• 31:58
  storm that came through and it's just like doggone it.
• 32:01
  So doggone you know, that makes sense, you know doggone dunkle
• 32:05
  rather and then Cash is black Ipaw a cash is one of our dogs.
• 32:11
  We used to think he was a lab. We found out he's actually a
• 32:13
  Great Pyrenees. What?
• 32:16
  He's a black dog. Pyrenees are generally white.
• 32:19
  Ipas are generally lighter in color that golden ale, and so
• 32:23
  we're black IPA, we'll do the black.
• 32:26
  Dog that most. People think are white, the
• 32:28
  Great Pyrenees and his name is Cash.
• 32:30
  So cash is black ipaul a ipaul. We've done more in the past
• 32:40
  like. Sticky Paws Pale Ale?
• 32:42
  Yep. So it's just so we always.
• 32:44
  Try and bring it back to the dogs.
• 32:45
  The chocolate lab cherry stout. I was going to ask about the
• 32:48
  Cherry Stout I. Couldn't remember if there was a
• 32:50
  name for that one. Yeah, the Chocolate Lab Cherry
• 32:52
  Stout. Cherry stout, Yeah.
• 32:53
  So you know I will. Try and bring it back to the
• 32:55
  dog. Can I tell a really bad joke?
• 32:58
  It's dog related. OK.
• 33:00
  Hi, what do you call a dog with four inch legs and 6 inch
• 33:04
  metallic balls Really cold the winter?
• 33:07
  Sparky, Sparky. I don't get it.
• 33:11
  I've had enough beer to where I don't get the joke.
• 33:14
  It's really I didn't. Like the Sparks?
• 33:18
  Told you was. Dumb.
• 33:19
  Yeah. That's like I asked permission.
• 33:22
  I like dad jokes, so I'm OK with it.
• 33:24
  So like, is that a dad joke? No, but I'm used to like dumb
• 33:27
  jokes. I'm using dad jokes are dumb
• 33:29
  jokes. They're in the same category.
• 33:31
  So you have a favorite dad joke? No, I'm actually one of those
• 33:34
  dads that haven't like I I typically have never get Mitch.
• 33:37
  If anything, the guy that doesn't have kids is amazing
• 33:40
  with puns and dad jokes. That is right here is like this
• 33:44
  time we have no kids, but we love dad jokes.
• 33:48
  I guess that makes us faux pas. That was actually Mitch who was
• 33:53
  opening. Up.
• 33:53
  That was a good one. All right, I got one for you
• 33:58
  before I roll. Out, yeah.
• 34:00
  So. Where do you go when you have?
• 34:04
  A peekaboo accident when you have a what?
• 34:06
  A peekaboo. Accident.
• 34:07
  A peekaboo accident. You're playing peekaboo.
• 34:09
  Where do you go? If you get hurt.
• 34:10
  Are you going there? What kind of peek the ICU?
• 34:17
  Let's go and pass out on That's a rap, folks.
• 34:20
  Thank you so much. You know what?
• 34:22
  I like that so much. I see you later.
• 34:24
  Yeah. I I.
• 34:26
  Think. You peeked.
• 34:27
  At that moment, you peeked. Speaking of.
• 34:31
  Hold the hold the name of this beer up to the camera.
• 34:33
  Bitch, This is awesome. This is this is fantastic.
• 34:36
  Nice. You know, it's a classic here.
• 34:42
  Yeah. I'll see who always brings the
• 34:43
  goods. I think it's great.
• 34:45
  Are you out? I am out, Jane man.
• 34:47
  Appreciate you brother. Thank.
• 34:48
  You so much guys. Thanks for jumping.
• 34:49
  Man, I'm going to do the. Same and leave you all back.
• 34:51
  To it. Good to see you there.
• 34:52
  Thank you for having me on, guys.
• 34:54
  Love it. Let's let's get together again
• 34:56
  doing the crossover. We, we generally do it like once
• 34:59
  a month. I want y'all to come over and
• 35:00
  we'll do it. We'll do it, share beer and
• 35:02
  shoot the shit. We're up for anything that
• 35:04
  sounds good. Shout out to Ben.
• 35:05
  Shout out to Michelle for stopping by with us today.
• 35:09
  Enjoy the beer festival guys. One of the only things.
• 35:14
  That goes even better than another beer with a beer is a
• 35:18
  cigar itself. Yeah, we've got probably the
• 35:21
  only guy taller than me at the entire beer festival.
• 35:24
  His hat is literally hitting the top of the that dude.
• 35:27
  This dude's got class CL trees from whiskey and sticks.
• 35:30
  Shout out to Murfreesboro. What's going on?
• 35:32
  Everybody. Everybody.
• 35:34
  Everybody out there in TV Land, Amen.
• 35:36
  We've not met, but it's. Good to meet you.
• 35:37
  Hey my brother. It's always.
• 35:39
  Good, Scott, I, I see, I see you on the, the podcast with the
• 35:42
  guys. So it's a pleasure to meet you.
• 35:43
  Yep, thank you. Thank you.
• 35:44
  Thank you. CL runs Whiskey and Sticks Cigar
• 35:47
  Lounge out of Murfreesboro 10. He's been on with you guys,
• 35:49
  right? Yeah, I've heard that.
• 35:51
  I've heard it. Long history with him.
• 35:54
  He was actually a guest with us when we were at Bearded Iris
• 35:57
  doing our very first live show. That was awesome.
• 35:59
  That was the first one. We did.
• 36:00
  CL did a lot like a. Pairing cigar with what style
• 36:03
  beer and blew our minds in terms of what style cigars go with
• 36:07
  what beers. It was completely different than
• 36:10
  what we had initially thought. Our style was more like dark
• 36:14
  heavy cigars go with dark beers with that makes sense.
• 36:17
  And CL said he prefers more of a medium body cigar to go with the
• 36:21
  dark beer because the the flavors complement each other.
• 36:23
  They don't cancel each other out.
• 36:25
  That blew my mind that day. So you guys learned a lot from
• 36:27
  that, huh? Oh yeah, percent.
• 36:29
  You know they, they, they. Bring a lot of.
• 36:34
  Different aspects to. The game as far as beers, I
• 36:39
  think beer needs to be on the level of your scotches and your
• 36:42
  whiskeys and bourbons because you find a lot of people now,
• 36:46
  especially from a lounge perspective, they'll come in and
• 36:49
  they're drinking beer, you know, to be honest.
• 36:55
  Scotch. Bourbons.
• 36:57
  Whiskeys they. Burn out your palate, especially
• 37:00
  if you go to the higher prune. Well, they're hot.
• 37:02
  Yeah, they're very, very hot. So it destroys that flavor of
• 37:06
  the cigar. So this is, it becomes bland by
• 37:08
  the end. But a beer, just like coffee and
• 37:13
  tea, it's not science, but it cleans your palate, right?
• 37:16
  So, you know, it's more cleansing and, you know, I think
• 37:19
  it's just a better. I'm a my foundation's beer, but
• 37:23
  I've matriculated into other things.
• 37:25
  But I'm telling you, beer is my first love, OK?
• 37:28
  And I love it. Style wise, what do you go for?
• 37:31
  See, I know the answer, but I want I want you.
• 37:32
  Style wise, I am Porter. Stouts.
• 37:35
  Yeah, Dark. I.
• 37:37
  Love dark. I love drinking the beer As a
• 37:39
  meal replacement. Yeah, a meal replacement.
• 37:41
  And I know I get. That 100.
• 37:45
  Percent. You know, I could do a.
• 37:47
  A a a stout or a Porter and drink that thing and it is a
• 37:52
  meal replacement. I'm full for the rest of the day
• 37:54
  and then. But some of those can be.
• 37:56
  Smoky too. So that, does that lend itself
• 37:58
  to the cigar thing? Yeah, it does.
• 38:00
  It does. Especially when you have like
• 38:03
  the the KBB, those type of ones that have that barrel kind of
• 38:09
  sustenance taste to it. You're more your roasted toasted
• 38:12
  type things. It it, it makes the cigar pop.
• 38:18
  You taste the naturalness of that cigar, no matter if it's
• 38:21
  flight to dark. It's just a beautiful thing.
• 38:24
  And like I said, I wish more people would least try.
• 38:29
  Beer and cigar pairings I. Mean you're trying everything
• 38:32
  else. Yeah.
• 38:34
  Find you a good beer, one that you like and then let's compare
• 38:39
  those type things. Natural is natural, you know,
• 38:43
  natural tobacco, natural wheat part and flair, all that stuff.
• 38:47
  It's it's beautiful. Especially when a beer is 6/7.
• 38:50
  8-9 percent and that whiskey's you know, 80 proof or 90 proof
• 38:55
  or hunter proof or whatever. They can overpower the cigar,
• 38:58
  right? The the only beer.
• 39:01
  That blew our head off. Was we was in the lounge one
• 39:05
  day, I know exactly where, Mitch.
• 39:08
  We were in. The Lounge 1.
• 39:09
  Day these guys bought the Imperial style, I can't remember
• 39:14
  the name. There's a Living Water Stout.
• 39:15
  Living Water Stout there's a living.
• 39:17
  Water stout. I know exactly.
• 39:18
  Where this is going all the way so.
• 39:20
  We were all sitting there smoking cigars, drinking, and I
• 39:24
  was like, man, I'll be right back.
• 39:28
  I went and got a bottle of rum and we bought that SMA.
• 39:32
  You know what? Let's do a beer old fashioned.
• 39:37
  And we did we, we did the beer and the rum.
• 39:42
  Mix them together. We.
• 39:43
  Mix them. Together and surprisingly best
• 39:46
  tasting. It was great.
• 39:48
  It was awesome. Oh, it was, it was beautiful.
• 39:50
  It was the. Ratio of beer in a.
• 39:51
  Row. So, so definitely more beer.
• 39:55
  So it was probably if I had to put a ratio, it was probably 5
• 39:59
  to 2, five to three. OK, all right, so it.
• 40:01
  Was pretty pretty. Sizable, but one thing about it
• 40:05
  was guys, we just created something.
• 40:08
  Yeah, that. Worked.
• 40:11
  And. We're old fashioned.
• 40:13
  I mean, that's one of the things that did.
• 40:14
  But it it was good, but it was trust.
• 40:18
  Have you have you tried that? Since yes, I infected it.
• 40:21
  Yes, yes, he said. I, of course we had to.
• 40:26
  That was in the VIP. Section it wasn't the VIP
• 40:28
  because. I remember we were sitting.
• 40:30
  Around and all of a sudden, it was like these two guys, Mitch
• 40:34
  and CL, had the same exact thought.
• 40:36
  I could see CL's brain like the hamster was like it was.
• 40:39
  It was running on the wheel right on my ears.
• 40:42
  Yeah. Gets up and.
• 40:44
  Walks over. Because the you know and and
• 40:46
  right at the same time CL goes we should mix beer with rum
• 40:50
  together and see what happens. This is a good idea.
• 40:52
  Mitch was already on his way to do it.
• 40:55
  The guys have like this connections.
• 40:57
  Thought it was the best drink that went with a cigar.
• 41:02
  It is. I was.
• 41:04
  I I remember. Vividly, I was smoking.
• 41:07
  I think it was a corojo, yes. So it wasn't over the top.
• 41:10
  Like it wasn't a heavy dark black cigar.
• 41:13
  It was like a like a medium to dark brown cigar, little bit
• 41:16
  peppery, but it was like it was very smooth and easy to smoke.
• 41:20
  And we were drinking the beer and I was like, oh, this is a
• 41:22
  good combination. I was taking like C LS opinion
• 41:25
  of like getting a medium bodied cigar with a very heavy stout
• 41:30
  putting it together. But when when CL decided to mix
• 41:34
  the two together, it was just it was rum, right?
• 41:38
  That is rum. Put it over the top.
• 41:40
  Yeah, man. Have you tried?
• 41:42
  Something other than Rome? Have you tried a bourbon or
• 41:44
  anything like that? So what what what I've?
• 41:46
  Done is I. Do I?
• 41:49
  Did a Guinness. I did Guinness and I.
• 41:53
  Did a. It was a.
• 41:59
  Guinness and. An Irish.
• 42:02
  It was an Irish stout, something that we did with it.
• 42:06
  I can't remember the name of it, but it had a little bit of cream
• 42:09
  to it. Yeah.
• 42:10
  So. But if?
• 42:11
  You put if you put. Whiskey into.
• 42:15
  I learned this the hard way. Put whiskey into a Guinness.
• 42:18
  It foams up. So my first.
• 42:21
  Iteration number I. Was doing I was like booney.
• 42:23
  I was like, well, some math scientists I know if I need to
• 42:27
  clean something up, it's the way to do it, but we did that.
• 42:30
  But my favorite one was the I did a milk stout.
• 42:36
  With bullet. Rye, OH.
• 42:40
  OK, sell you love rye, Bullet Rye and I.
• 42:43
  Did that and it was just enough, yeah, just.
• 42:47
  Enough. That when you drank it, it
• 42:50
  almost tastes like a slush. OK, when it had that dark tone
• 42:55
  and it was coated by the beard going down and it and it was, it
• 43:00
  was, it was. So I've done some more
• 43:02
  iterations of that, but I need my guys come because they
• 43:05
  they're the ones I trust with the power to do that.
• 43:07
  Man, it's always a good time More.
• 43:08
  Fun for you like trial? By error you have to you.
• 43:12
  Have to. Because, I mean, you learn
• 43:14
  through the process and you learn what works and don't work.
• 43:17
  Yeah. That's one thing, you know,
• 43:18
  pertains to cigars. I have a lot of people that come
• 43:21
  to the lounge that just don't know about cigars, and that's
• 43:24
  great. Yeah.
• 43:25
  Because I'm not going to let somebody come in and hit him
• 43:29
  with a block on 9 for the first time.
• 43:31
  Let block on 9 is it's the killer cigar and it will put you
• 43:35
  on your ass, but it's not a beginner, it's not a.
• 43:37
  Beginner but SO. Many people, they start at the
• 43:40
  dark and it blows their. Palate out.
• 43:43
  And they will never touch another cigar.
• 43:45
  So you have to, you have to take baby steps.
• 43:49
  And what I'm saying now is because it's so available, a lot
• 43:53
  of beginner smokers that go into the sweet stuff.
• 43:55
  But one thing I learned about the sweet stuff is it it's not a
• 44:01
  true taste of the tobacco. So when you go to taste it for
• 44:05
  real, you don't like it because it's being covered up.
• 44:09
  See how when you say sweet, are you talking?
• 44:11
  About like like a natural sweet? Are you talking about like an
• 44:13
  infused sugar infused infused cigars?
• 44:15
  Yes, infused cigars. So I try to.
• 44:18
  Let people. Try a natural cigar like the one
• 44:24
  that sells very great in the lounge now is Fuente Curdy Head
• 44:28
  Natural. It's a natural cigar.
• 44:32
  It doesn't have a lot of taste to me because I'm I've been in
• 44:34
  it for so long. But for somebody starting out,
• 44:37
  there's a perfect cigar because it doesn't give you the after
• 44:40
  effect, it doesn't give you the bitterness.
• 44:43
  What? I see more people do.
• 44:45
  Now is they want to try but they smoke too fast.
• 44:50
  I've been guilty of that. I.
• 44:51
  Promise you smoke too fast. And what it?
• 44:53
  Does see this cigar? Naturally the ash on it, it's
• 44:58
  like a breathing, it pulls smoke in it and it slows it down.
• 45:03
  But if you constantly puppet, puppet, puppet, you burn it out
• 45:07
  and all you doing is smoking ass and it's caught up in there
• 45:10
  'cause very, very it's been. That's how I tell people if the
• 45:14
  first sign that we're becoming bitter smoking it too fast.
• 45:18
  Another thing about cigars, it is to be enjoyed at your
• 45:22
  leisure. So many.
• 45:25
  People say. Coming to the lounge and say hey
• 45:28
  you got 30 minutes smoke. No, I don't I don't have 30
• 45:31
  minutes smokes. I have 45 to an hour smoke
• 45:36
  because if you come in there and say for 30 minutes you're going
• 45:39
  to waste my cigar. So I want to let you know that
• 45:41
  if you waste my cigar, it's going to be some issues even
• 45:45
  though you. Paid for it.
• 45:46
  But I hate. To see an unfinished cigar,
• 45:49
  there's a science to it. There's.
• 45:50
  A because you got to look at it. By the time the cigar hits your
• 45:54
  hand, over 300 pairs of hands have touched it.
• 45:58
  I mean, it's somebody. And they're only getting paid
• 46:02
  penis to a dollar to make this thing.
• 46:04
  And you rush it. Come on.
• 46:06
  At least at least respect. Yeah.
• 46:08
  Respect the art of it. You know, it says you're
• 46:11
  established. In 2022.
• 46:13
  Yes Sir. Yes, Sir.
• 46:14
  How many years was it before? That leading up to where you got
• 46:17
  established. So I've been smoking.
• 46:20
  Cigars since my grandfather. So it's been a long time.
• 46:25
  It's been, it's probably 15 to 20 years before I really.
• 46:29
  Started but. I actually started doing mobile
• 46:31
  first. I did mobile events.
• 46:33
  Actually, I started doing COVID when everybody was locked down
• 46:38
  and people just want something to do.
• 46:40
  So I just said, hey, just do cigars if you're not afraid to
• 46:44
  be around. And some people, you know, we
• 46:46
  can social distance. Yeah, yeah.
• 46:48
  And that's how it kind of started.
• 46:50
  Yep. So another quick thing is
• 46:51
  whiskey and sticks. Everybody thinks it's about
• 46:53
  whiskey. Actually, if you look at my
• 46:55
  logo, I know you can't see it all there.
• 46:56
  There's no E in the whiskey. There's no E in the.
• 46:58
  Whiskey with there is. No spelling whiskey.
• 47:00
  It's Scottish, right? So my logo is a.
• 47:02
  Dog with antlers. Whiskey is my hunting dog.
• 47:06
  And what do dogs do? They fetch sticks, whiskey and
• 47:09
  sticks. So I love telling the story.
• 47:12
  So when people come into my lounge, everybody loves a story,
• 47:15
  right? I leave with that because they
• 47:17
  say where the whiskey at? I said, well, he's hunting right
• 47:19
  now. And it always throws them off
• 47:22
  right? So, but yeah, that's a beautiful
• 47:24
  thing about it. It's just having people come in
• 47:27
  and building the community going back to that 30.
• 47:29
  Minute cigar, a 30 minute cigar. It's like chugging a good
• 47:33
  whiskey like a chugging a good bourbon.
• 47:35
  If you if someone puts a nice bourbon in front of you, you
• 47:38
  don't you sip it right. It takes your time on absolutely
• 47:40
  people shooting good whiskey. You did it.
• 47:43
  You. Did it wrong.
• 47:44
  What's the problem? Is sometimes there's people like
• 47:46
  me, I just kind of jumped in here, but.
• 47:53
  There's those I I can't. Commit to a one hour smoke man.
• 47:56
  I can't sit still that long. That's OK.
• 48:00
  Today you can't. Well, maybe not today.
• 48:01
  You're kind of definitely not today, but.
• 48:05
  I want to. I want to highlight real quick.
• 48:06
  We've taken up a lot of your time, but like real quick in the
• 48:09
  back you've got the mobile cigar lounge with you today.
• 48:12
  Kind of give us before you head out.
• 48:13
  OK, so so we have a mobile. Cigar.
• 48:15
  It's an inflatable cigar that we started about two years ago.
• 48:18
  So it's a sustainable. We have tables and chairs in
• 48:22
  there. My God, shout out to Tim with
• 48:24
  Kima cigars. He's my hand roller.
• 48:27
  He does all my hand roll cigars there and we do events across
• 48:31
  Middle Tennessee, Alabama, places that we can get to.
• 48:34
  So it's bare minimum because we want to make sure that you
• 48:38
  purchase a good cigars and and an experience.
• 48:40
  So that's what we do. That's awesome.
• 48:42
  And I and I got to tell this guy, this guy right here, man,
• 48:44
  he's, he reached out to me. He said, hey, I'm going through
• 48:48
  this thing. He said, would you be
• 48:49
  interested? I was like.
• 48:52
  No, I wouldn't be interested. Well, yeah, I want to be
• 48:54
  interested because guess what beer cigars go as that's my jam.
• 48:59
  So absolutely, this man had the vision and I appreciate it.
• 49:03
  Including us in that vision. They really thought to us, well,
• 49:06
  we, we love local. And these guys are local.
• 49:08
  I I've never heard the story about your logo.
• 49:10
  That's awesome. By the way, did y'all check out
• 49:13
  his hat? Yeah, it's got the extra.
• 49:15
  Saga that is bad ass dude. That's great, that's fantastic.
• 49:19
  CL always shows up with class. I mean, he brings.
• 49:22
  It into and God knows Cedar Glade needs some class sometimes
• 49:25
  so I wasn't going to say. It though he's.
• 49:27
  Bringing it, but that's OK. Usually when.
• 49:29
  We're all in there. You can probably.
• 49:30
  Class it up. I'll bring it down a little bit.
• 49:32
  I'm not going to lie. Well, guys, I'll tell you I
• 49:33
  appreciate. The time I'm going to get back.
• 49:35
  Down here and get some sticks sold.
• 49:36
  I'll trace in the house later. Good to meet you my.
• 49:37
  Friend. Thank you, Sir.
• 49:38
  All right. All.
• 49:40
  Right, cameraman, Cameraman, get it together.
• 49:45
  Hi, gosh, I'm a gold. Thanks.
• 49:46
  El appreciate it. All right.
• 49:48
  It's a pleasure meeting you. Sir.
• 49:49
  All right. Cheers, man.
• 49:51
  Speaking of important people, that couldn't have happened this
• 49:54
  beer festival without. We've got John Harmon in the
• 49:56
  house today. The man himself is here.
• 49:58
  Oh, wait. A.
• 49:58
  Minute. Wait, wait, who are you again?
• 50:00
  I think he owns a brewery in. Murfreesboro You were not too
• 50:04
  busy to. Talk to the money behind some of
• 50:06
  the brewery in. Murfreesboro, amongst other
• 50:09
  things, and. I'll tell you what I so I've
• 50:13
  learned so freaking much about festivals.
• 50:16
  This is your first one. This is it.
• 50:17
  This is the first one, yeah. Yeah.
• 50:19
  And, and, and so you know John Pritt, if you don't know John
• 50:23
  Pritt from Tom and John down that direction.
• 50:25
  Yeah, Incredible human being. And John, there's the guy.
• 50:28
  Yeah. There's LeBron right there,
• 50:30
  yeah. There he is.
• 50:32
  There he is, LeBron and. So.
• 50:34
  You know he helped. US.
• 50:35
  And then come on in here, buddy. And here we go.
• 50:39
  Don't. Turn it back to the.
• 50:40
  Camera. It's right there.
• 50:41
  Oh hey, look at that. Sorry.
• 50:42
  Right here. Apologize.
• 50:43
  Hello. So, you know, John Credit, Devin
• 50:48
  Russell and Ted Swastik, those those three right there, they
• 50:52
  made this happen. So how long was this beer?
• 50:55
  Festival in the world because you've been promoting this for a
• 50:57
  while between you and John, you guys have been promoting this
• 51:00
  for a while I know you tapped John to kind of help out with
• 51:03
  some of the promotions and things like that yeah, for sure
• 51:06
  so here's. Here's the crazy part.
• 51:08
  We did not spend enough time promoting this at the beginning.
• 51:11
  So we actually started this about August, September and and
• 51:15
  we should have spent a lot more time on it.
• 51:16
  It would be way better, but it's not too bad where it is.
• 51:20
  It's hard to be. It's not hard being.
• 51:22
  Better than where it's at right now.
• 51:23
  We were talking to you earlier. And you basically said last
• 51:27
  night, what you weren't getting much.
• 51:29
  I I did not sleep. For nothing last night, y'all, I
• 51:33
  ended up I moved down to the recliner and I'm like I can't
• 51:36
  sleep and my wife's like please go to sleep.
• 51:39
  So yeah, it was bad. I didn't, I mentioned.
• 51:42
  This to LeBron too, and I'll I'll say it again to you too,
• 51:45
  John, like I appreciate and Tom and John does the same thing
• 51:47
  when they had their their festivals.
• 51:49
  Like the home Brewers are kind of on the same level in terms of
• 51:53
  like with the commercial breweries right now.
• 51:55
  It's like there's the home breweries at one end and it just
• 51:58
  naturally flows into commercial micro breweries and then it goes
• 52:02
  into food. It's really cool to see home
• 52:05
  Brewers being elevated to the same level that some of these
• 52:08
  craft Brewers are because there is no other place for them to do
• 52:12
  that. Like they don't have a spot
• 52:13
  where people can show up and buy their beer.
• 52:16
  They don't have a spot where they can other than like social
• 52:18
  media. The only thing better than
• 52:20
  social media right now is physically getting out somewhere
• 52:23
  and festivals like, you know, the the family reunion festival
• 52:27
  that they had and then, you know, and then cabin fever.
• 52:30
  Those festivals are where these homebrewers get elevated.
• 52:33
  Yeah. Do you want to talk to that?
• 52:34
  Yeah. I mean.
• 52:35
  You know, I, I think. I think Cedar Glades in the same
• 52:37
  boat as us is like that's where we came from.
• 52:39
  So it's always just paying respect to the people that I
• 52:42
  mean, that's where we were at. And you know, the the
• 52:44
  homebrewers for the most part make amazing beer too.
• 52:48
  And they do a lot of crazy shit. That's it.
• 52:50
  It's right there. Sorry, I can clear a shot.
• 52:52
  Yeah, you're good. Oh.
• 52:54
  No. That's 100%.
• 52:55
  I'm a fun though, you know, so a.
• 52:56
  Lot of this stuff that we end up doing is commercial breweries
• 52:59
  came comes from stuff that start out home brewing.
• 53:01
  And you know we. We.
• 53:02
  Do it because we need to make some money at it right?
• 53:04
  And we do a little bit of crazy shit.
• 53:05
  Y'all do too, but at the end of the day, if you really want to
• 53:09
  see the experiments, you really want to see the the creativity,
• 53:12
  it's the homebird. Absolutely.
• 53:14
  Hey, so we got the guy. Obviously he does the common
• 53:17
  John Beer Festival, last beer fest on earth.
• 53:19
  And you're doing this. It's your first year.
• 53:22
  What advice? I mean, the collaboration
• 53:24
  between you 2. There's been a lot of fun
• 53:26
  conversations, right? Oh yeah, I mean, and John.
• 53:29
  You know, John loves doing this and I, I, I have to, I have to.
• 53:32
  I have to give him. All the credit, that's where
• 53:34
  ours started, was when we were talking about elevating our
• 53:36
  anniversary. He was like, why don't you do a
• 53:38
  beer fest? I was like, that'd be cool, but
• 53:41
  like. It's a lot of work.
• 53:42
  And he's like, I will coordinate everything so it natural fit,
• 53:45
  you know, I mean, we love these guys and he's a.
• 53:47
  Mad genius, yeah. It's just.
• 53:49
  His, it's his, his lane. That's what he loves doing.
• 53:53
  So yeah, he's pretty Darn. Good at it.
• 53:55
  There's no way we could have done it without him.
• 53:57
  So what's what's Cedar Glade? Pouring today, by the way,
• 54:00
  they've got I think 3 or 4 of them on top or more than that.
• 54:03
  So we've got. Our pecan Porter, our amber and
• 54:06
  our ESB over there and then for the for the VIP hour, we did our
• 54:12
  it's a imperial stout that had a it sat in a leaper's fork barrel
• 54:18
  for 340 some days. And then a our two uncommon,
• 54:22
  which is a Kentucky common. It sat in a Jack Daniels rye
• 54:25
  barrel I had. The I had the.
• 54:27
  Uncommon. Did you do the two uncommon when
• 54:29
  it wasn't barrel aged? Yes.
• 54:31
  Did you have those in? Bottles.
• 54:33
  No, just only the barrel aging. Can OK, gotcha.
• 54:36
  OK. That was a solid beer.
• 54:38
  I loved that series. It's weird and I love it.
• 54:41
  Yeah, yeah, it just works. Yeah, Yeah, you guys and you
• 54:44
  guys mentioned this. Earlier about the home Brewers,
• 54:46
  but of all the Brewers breweries that are here, the local ones,
• 54:50
  even other places, how excited do you guys really get to be
• 54:55
  able to try new things that you haven't had before?
• 54:58
  I'd love to hear both of your professors.
• 54:59
  I mean, it's it's. Not only the home Brewers, of
• 55:01
  course, you know, they, they have the flexibility, you know,
• 55:04
  doing smaller batches to do some crazy stuff, but even just going
• 55:07
  around and trying the different beers from, you know, our fellow
• 55:09
  commercial breweries too. Yep, I mean it, it, you know,
• 55:13
  and everybody talks about it right now.
• 55:15
  We're kind of getting beat up and in, in the beer world.
• 55:18
  And part of it is it hurts me as a beer purist to do it.
• 55:22
  But like you, you got to have things that attract new
• 55:24
  customers, you know, and the, the fruited sours and things
• 55:28
  like that. Now, you know, are big.
• 55:29
  And I, I love it and hate it. I love it because it, it's,
• 55:33
  it's, it's, it's something that gets people in.
• 55:35
  They wouldn't normally even come try beer.
• 55:37
  And that's what today we we brought just off crazy festival
• 55:40
  beers, we call them if you haven't had it.
• 55:43
  That orange dreamsicle that they brought, I've been over there,
• 55:46
  they've got 3. Sours onto that Orange 1 is good
• 55:50
  and there's one beer that we do it's a it's a malt based sour,
• 55:54
  but it's our. Cotton.
• 55:57
  Candy, Mystical Unicorn. And we pretty much only do it
• 56:00
  for festivals. Yeah, we do.
• 56:02
  You know, either A5 or 15. Gallon batch of it.
• 56:05
  And just take it to the. Festivals, we every once in a
• 56:08
  while will do some for the tap room, but it's kind of like our
• 56:10
  festival special we do and Robert.
• 56:12
  Robert will do the. Same thing too, it's like
• 56:14
  Robert's very good with like brewing clean beers.
• 56:17
  Like Robert does really good like pails.
• 56:19
  He does good loggers, good wits and things like that.
• 56:23
  And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he'll come out with
• 56:25
  like the chocolate milk stout or he'll come out with like a hazy
• 56:29
  IP, like very smoothie salad that pours.
• 56:30
  Like yeah, yeah, I think, I think the.
• 56:33
  Last one, you guys. Had a Baltic.
• 56:34
  Porter that I had a couple of weeks ago that was there.
• 56:37
  So like it's it's cool to see breweries that are sticking to
• 56:41
  like the original style beers, like the true to style beers.
• 56:45
  But like LeBron said, you have to do something.
• 56:47
  Us brewery lovers, like, we love that style of beer more than
• 56:51
  anything, but we're always looking for something that we
• 56:53
  haven't had before. Yeah, for sure.
• 56:54
  And so you kind of have to pander to.
• 56:56
  Well, we did a, we did a Co. Duolo Have you ever had a Co
• 56:59
  duolo? No, it is an Estonian specific
• 57:02
  style beer. We did it for our for Folk fest.
• 57:05
  Did we do that when we were? There.
• 57:07
  Yeah, I asked him. I was.
• 57:08
  Wondering about WAS. That the one where we kept
• 57:10
  trying to guess what the flavors were.
• 57:11
  It's super weird, right? Banana.
• 57:13
  And yeah, yeah, yeah, it was super weird.
• 57:16
  But you know, and what I love about this festival and and
• 57:20
  y'all's festival as well, y'all brought some some different
• 57:23
  stuff. You got folks like Ebony and
• 57:25
  Ivory out of Knoxville. You know, Chico brought some
• 57:29
  seltzer's that are seltzer out of this world.
• 57:32
  And I do not like seltzer. That's good.
• 57:34
  That's the strawberry Margarita. Ones that's one of the three
• 57:36
  five seltzer. Like they were all so.
• 57:38
  Good. And then you've got.
• 57:39
  All the way to soul and spirits out of Memphis he brought this
• 57:43
  barrel aged stout. That was, it was.
• 57:46
  It was perfect. I mean, it was truly perfect.
• 57:48
  It was not syrupy, it was not super thick, but it was just
• 57:51
  right and it was perfect. Was that the one in the
• 57:53
  growlers? Yeah.
• 57:55
  I think I missed it. I did too.
• 57:57
  I'm sorry that you missed it. Because it was awesome.
• 57:59
  I know we've talked about this many times.
• 58:00
  But it's not just you guys are supporting each other locally.
• 58:04
  It's really cool to see. It's a Tennessee initiative
• 58:07
  where you have a lot of breweries and others who Alpha
• 58:11
  State of Tennessee. Yeah, That are coming to your
• 58:13
  beer festival. Coming to your beer.
• 58:15
  Yeah. Well, I don't know if you saw
• 58:19
  this, but John. Pritt was trolling a little bit
• 58:21
  on some social media last night. So there's another festival, and
• 58:25
  I'm not going to name names, but he said you could go there or
• 58:28
  you could come drink beer with friends.
• 58:30
  And anyway, we're just going to leave it at that.
• 58:34
  I already. Knew that guy was.
• 58:35
  Coming today anyway. So I was just kind of like, I'm
• 58:38
  going to stay out of that. Yeah, I wasn't going to say
• 58:40
  anything. He's like.
• 58:41
  Or you could. Come here.
• 58:42
  And drink beer with friends today, if you.
• 58:43
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love it.
• 58:45
  And it really is. I mean, that's the.
• 58:46
  Thing too is like you know and we.
• 58:49
  Appreciate the. Same thing with him is like I
• 58:50
  think the Brewers love the Brewers festivals way more than
• 58:54
  no offense to I mean there's some amazing festivals that we
• 58:57
  do, but it's. We know how much.
• 59:00
  Trouble. Goes into coming to a festival.
• 59:02
  So that was the thing and Jonathan them's done it too.
• 59:05
  It's like we wanted to we wanted to take care of the Brewers and
• 59:08
  stuff so that they appreciate being here, they have fun.
• 59:11
  Then everybody just coming to visit to buy tickets are going
• 59:13
  to have, that's it, 100%. That's it.
• 59:15
  And not to get into the minutiae.
• 59:17
  At all. But this isn't just an event
• 59:19
  that was established, that came together yesterday.
• 59:22
  I mean, this has been how many months in the planet for you
• 59:25
  guys? Well, so I'm embarrassed.
• 59:27
  To say we only started like end of August, so it should have
• 59:30
  taken longer, but it's kind of come together.
• 59:32
  It's jailed. We've had a really great team.
• 59:35
  John Pritt, we talked about that.
• 59:36
  He's, I mean, he, he knew what he was doing.
• 59:38
  So when he was like, we can do this, but you're going to have
• 59:41
  to work, you know, and he, but he had a game plan.
• 59:43
  We attacked it and we did it. We had a good team, But I, I
• 59:46
  would be remiss to say if we haven't talked about it yet,
• 59:49
  the, the, the coolest part about this.
• 59:51
  So, so our brewery's right there, right?
• 59:55
  And the city bought this building and the city, the City
• 59:59
  Schools specifically, has done some really cool things with
• 1:00:02
  this building over here. And including they carved out a
• 1:00:05
  section for Read to Succeed. And if you're not familiar with,
• 1:00:08
  Read to Succeed. So they've got a tent set up
• 1:00:11
  right next to us right now, Jolene.
• 1:00:12
  They're super nice people. They're amazing, yeah.
• 1:00:15
  And let me tell you some stuff about reach and succeed.
• 1:00:18
  So right now they've got over 606 hundred people enrolled in
• 1:00:23
  their ESL classes, and that is kids and adults, 600 people in
• 1:00:29
  ESL right now. Yeah.
• 1:00:30
  So I mean, that's incredible, right?
• 1:00:32
  And that's just right here in Rutherford County.
• 1:00:34
  And then as far as like what they provide, they've got a book
• 1:00:37
  bus, all kinds of cool stuff. So I mean, at the end of the
• 1:00:41
  day, whether it's brewing beer or building walls or whatever,
• 1:00:46
  it all comes down to literacy. And if you, you know, if you
• 1:00:49
  can't read, that's a barrier. And so there's there's nothing
• 1:00:52
  more important to us than supporting the community through
• 1:00:56
  an organization that builds the community.
• 1:00:59
  You know what I mean? That's awesome.
• 1:01:01
  Good on. You guys to give?
• 1:01:02
  Back, though, you could throw the beer fast and just have a
• 1:01:04
  good time. We all here but you actually
• 1:01:05
  giving back. Yeah.
• 1:01:07
  I appreciate that about you. It's important.
• 1:01:09
  And I mean, that's how you honestly, I think that's a big
• 1:01:13
  part of why it feels so good today, You know what I mean, to
• 1:01:17
  look around so and Cedar Glade and Common.
• 1:01:19
  John, are this like they have the same mindset of community
• 1:01:22
  first 100% right. It's it's, it's if your
• 1:01:24
  community around you doesn't succeed, you guys don't have a
• 1:01:27
  business. That's it.
• 1:01:29
  So like where's? My.
• 1:01:29
  Dollar going to go if if I'm struggling, if I'm not doing
• 1:01:33
  well, I'm going to stay home. But if I, if I, if the community
• 1:01:37
  is being brought up, you know, and I'm like, OK, well, I have
• 1:01:39
  the opportunity to get out. I'm going to roll down.
• 1:01:41
  I'm going to see Robert, you know, at Cedar Glade.
• 1:01:43
  I'm going to go see what he's up to or, or, or Noah or I'm going
• 1:01:47
  to drive down. I'm going to meet Mitch when
• 1:01:48
  we're halfway at Tom and John, like, because like it's a good
• 1:01:51
  halfway point between where he's at in Chattanooga and where I am
• 1:01:54
  in Nashville. So it's like we can roll down to
• 1:01:57
  Tom and John and we can have a beer at 8:00 in the morning with
• 1:01:59
  a breakfast sandwich. It's all about the community.
• 1:02:03
  The other thing LeBron does? Aiden just talked.
• 1:02:07
  About he actually he's. Out at places.
• 1:02:08
  He's out at other breweries all the time.
• 1:02:10
  I run into him, I see you checking in beers all over the
• 1:02:13
  place. These guys are feet on on a tap,
• 1:02:15
  by the way. But you actually, I've seen you
• 1:02:17
  in other breweries around. Sound like you make the effort
• 1:02:20
  to drive. Yeah.
• 1:02:21
  I mean, we, we we joke about it all the time.
• 1:02:23
  It's like I'm fortunate. That my wife.
• 1:02:26
  Loves it too. So it's like she'll be like,
• 1:02:28
  hey, why don't we haven't been to a brewery in a while, Let's
• 1:02:30
  go brewery hopping, OK? That is a.
• 1:02:34
  Dream right there that's amazing and her and her sister and.
• 1:02:38
  Her sister and brother-in-law have been helping out today and
• 1:02:40
  they, they love it too. So like a lot of our vacations
• 1:02:43
  we go on, it's like we'll pick a place that's got, we haven't
• 1:02:46
  been to, it's got a bunch of breweries and then we'll, we'll
• 1:02:48
  go visit breweries and do it. And I and then John and I, he's
• 1:02:51
  always running and he visits every brewery in Nashville, I
• 1:02:54
  swear, twice a month. So he, I don't think John works
• 1:02:57
  where he says he works. I don't think John works at all
• 1:03:01
  other than that beer festival. My boss is actually floating
• 1:03:03
  around here too, so you better we better be careful.
• 1:03:06
  John works hard, well, and we know we know the.
• 1:03:09
  Untapped app could be controversial, but it is kind of
• 1:03:12
  cool. You know, I follow you on
• 1:03:13
  Untapped and then, you know, like sometimes, say to Scott or
• 1:03:16
  we'll be, we'll all be in a text and I'm like, hey, man, that's
• 1:03:20
  pretty cool. LeBron, he's up in Nashville.
• 1:03:22
  Yeah, you know, or he might be in like, Minnesota.
• 1:03:24
  He's everywhere. He's shooking the beers and I'm
• 1:03:26
  like, where the hell he's at? Tree house he's at.
• 1:03:28
  Yeah, Tree house, that's. Right.
• 1:03:31
  Well, I The funny thing thing about untapped and as a as a
• 1:03:34
  brewery owner, you have a love hate relationship 100% I.
• 1:03:37
  Don't like this? Too.
• 1:03:38
  It tastes like peanut butter and grape.
• 1:03:40
  Deal. Well, that's what it's called,
• 1:03:41
  you know, but well, success. Yeah, but.
• 1:03:44
  You know what? I.
• 1:03:45
  Started, you know, I was home brewing and stuff and one of my
• 1:03:48
  coworkers, he was a big craft beer guy and he was, we were out
• 1:03:52
  having beer and he's like, have you seen this app?
• 1:03:54
  And I'm like this, I think 2014 or something.
• 1:03:56
  I'm like, I've not heard of it. The good days of Untapped and he
• 1:03:59
  and he's like, yeah, I just use it to check in my beer and I'm
• 1:04:01
  like, that's pretty cool. Cool, and I just started.
• 1:04:03
  Using it as like a research tool.
• 1:04:04
  I like, I'll go somewhere and I'll be like, what beer do I
• 1:04:07
  want to pick? And then I'll look through the
• 1:04:08
  reviews and I'll be like, oh, this one's got good reviews.
• 1:04:10
  And I used it as like cataloging the beers that I like.
• 1:04:14
  And now I'm like, it's like, I'm not done the best job.
• 1:04:17
  I, I have a goal to get to 10,000 and that's, and then I'm
• 1:04:20
  done with it after that. You're going to at 10. 1000
• 1:04:22
  you're going to be. Done.
• 1:04:23
  I've been a little derelict in. The last month, I'm not going to
• 1:04:25
  lie, you've been a little what? Derelict I I have not.
• 1:04:28
  Checked in everything that I've had.
• 1:04:30
  Should we also talk about? Because when we had you on not
• 1:04:33
  long ago and we were talking about the brewery scene in
• 1:04:38
  Murfreesboro and we're going to get a picture first here, this
• 1:04:44
  is Jolene. From Regent 16, by the way.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah, we do plan to have her on later on.
• 1:04:47
  Get. The picture.
• 1:04:50
  Thank you. Thank you.
• 1:04:51
  Can you? Talk about.
• 1:04:52
  What the importance you think of this is for your business and
• 1:04:56
  the other breweries and any other breweries that may want to
• 1:04:59
  come into the Murfreesboro area because for sure this is a
• 1:05:01
  really successful event today. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:05:03
  So. You know, here, here is here is
• 1:05:07
  community at the end of the day, right, And so if people show up
• 1:05:10
  to this and they have a great time, they remember two or three
• 1:05:13
  of these breweries, maybe 4 or whatever they check them in on
• 1:05:16
  untapped whatever, right, but they have a great time.
• 1:05:20
  They're going to remember our brewery.
• 1:05:21
  They're going to remember the places that they, man, I really
• 1:05:24
  love that. Whatever from whomever, right?
• 1:05:27
  The, the Orange Dreamsicle from Common John, we got to make our
• 1:05:32
  way down to Manchester, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:34
  And, and so it's, it's, it's about community.
• 1:05:37
  And if, you know, if they show up and it's boring and it's, you
• 1:05:40
  know, it's kind of lame or ton of rules or whatever, right?
• 1:05:42
  They're not going to have as good a time.
• 1:05:44
  So I think that's number one, right?
• 1:05:46
  And then #2 it comes down to to hold on.
• 1:05:54
  Felt the sneeze coming. Sorry about that, I thought he
• 1:05:56
  heard the new TI. Came come on the radio.
• 1:05:58
  I was like no but. It comes down to brand
• 1:06:02
  recognition and name recognition and you know, as as much as we
• 1:06:07
  don't want to admit it, we've been open for four years.
• 1:06:09
  Y'all been open how long? A little over 5.
• 1:06:11
  Yeah. We don't want to be like, we got
• 1:06:12
  to get our name out there. Well, guess what?
• 1:06:14
  You still got to get your name out there, you know, and people
• 1:06:18
  got to associate. They had a great time because of
• 1:06:22
  Tom and John, because of Cedar Glade, because of whatever crazy
• 1:06:26
  gnome whatever, right. So, and and this is a place
• 1:06:29
  where that can happen. Yeah, it's totally been our
• 1:06:31
  beer. Experience too, like learning
• 1:06:33
  the breweries. We started with a few and I
• 1:06:35
  mean, and we and we, you know, got out to you guys and and
• 1:06:38
  like, holy shit, this thing is a lot bigger than we thought.
• 1:06:41
  Aside from the brewery around the corner that, you know, when
• 1:06:43
  we first started, now it's like, holy shit, this is like a huge
• 1:06:45
  yeah community. And we keep seeing the same
• 1:06:47
  faces and not just hurries, but like friends.
• 1:06:50
  We've seen some friends here today that we see other
• 1:06:52
  breweries too, and other beer fest, and it's like Beer's
• 1:06:55
  community it is. It's absolutely what you just
• 1:06:57
  said. Yeah, and it, you know.
• 1:06:59
  Is it about getting a little bit of a buzz?
• 1:07:01
  Yeah, absolutely. There is more about hanging out
• 1:07:04
  with your friends, having a good time, feeling good, reminiscing,
• 1:07:08
  whatever it is that you happen to be want to do at that time.
• 1:07:11
  You know when I'm here and I'm seeing you guys.
• 1:07:13
  Walk by and I see you walk by and I see you walk by and I'm
• 1:07:15
  like, this is like, you guys are celebrities to us.
• 1:07:18
  I saw Ozzy, the celebrities of the town.
• 1:07:20
  Seriously, though, I was like, God, that guy, you know that
• 1:07:22
  guy. Like, I it's a big deal.
• 1:07:23
  I appreciate that. I'm sure he's like me.
• 1:07:25
  I don't feel that way. Yeah.
• 1:07:27
  I feel like a a janitor. That's what I I'm like the chief
• 1:07:30
  janitor. That's how we don't see stuff
• 1:07:31
  all. We don't see the.
• 1:07:32
  He drove lots of toilets recently.
• 1:07:34
  Yeah. No, we don't see the database
• 1:07:36
  she was. Grayson, earlier you're talking.
• 1:07:38
  About crazy. No.
• 1:07:38
  Yeah, yeah. And I was.
• 1:07:39
  Just talking to her. Probably about an hour ago and I
• 1:07:41
  said, man, I said every, every interview we do, we've
• 1:07:45
  interviewed you guys and him and others.
• 1:07:48
  I said every interview that we do, I walk away and I go, there
• 1:07:52
  are a lot and I'm, I'm being very sincere.
• 1:07:54
  There are a lot of owners out there that have so much passion
• 1:07:59
  and so much intelligence of what they're doing and listen to the
• 1:08:04
  podcast, but also go to the breweries because they're
• 1:08:07
  putting their heart and soul into this 100%.
• 1:08:10
  Yeah, I, I mean, I sorry, they're talking to me right now
• 1:08:13
  on this headset, I mean, ignoring them and.
• 1:08:16
  The thing about it? Is it's such a, it's not only
• 1:08:18
  the community outside of the beer world, but the community
• 1:08:21
  inside of the beer world. And it is, I would say 99 out of
• 1:08:24
  100 people in the brewing industry are totally open.
• 1:08:27
  We talk, you know, I'll go to places and I'll be like, that's
• 1:08:30
  a killer. That's.
• 1:08:31
  A killer beer. I want to know how you make it,
• 1:08:34
  and I'll credit I can't tell you, Zul.
• 1:08:40
  Bentley is one of their head. Brewers, I think he's still
• 1:08:42
  there. The guys like Southern Gris,
• 1:08:44
  bearded Iris, everybody like I have asked questions and I'm
• 1:08:48
  like, you don't have to tell me, but I'm very interested in how
• 1:08:50
  you do this style. And never once if somebody said,
• 1:08:52
  Nope, I'm not going to tell you how.
• 1:08:54
  Absolutely. We're like here.
• 1:08:55
  Here's. Here's our mix of you know,
• 1:08:58
  there's always tweaks, you know we got different waters.
• 1:09:00
  The way our system works, it's, it's hard to mimic something,
• 1:09:03
  but you know, we've, we've had great success from other people
• 1:09:07
  helping us get to the point. So.
• 1:09:08
  So for me it's Ebony. And Audrey, they've helped us
• 1:09:11
  with some stuff. Hunt and Smith has helped us
• 1:09:13
  tremendously. One of those guys down there
• 1:09:16
  and, and and then Black Abbey, they've helped us a bunch as
• 1:09:19
  well. And I'd still owe you some cans.
• 1:09:21
  I think so. That's the way it is.
• 1:09:24
  I mean, you know, we, I've had to call Ozzy to get lids.
• 1:09:27
  Ozzy got lids for me. Yeah.
• 1:09:29
  Cans. It's it's always we, we did our
• 1:09:31
  a little special beer and I went up and bought some black cans
• 1:09:34
  from Marble. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:37
  It's just a. I mean it's.
• 1:09:38
  A brotherhood kind of. It is.
• 1:09:39
  It really is. I love that.
• 1:09:41
  Well, shout out to. You guys, gentlemen, I
• 1:09:43
  appreciate it. Thanks for stopping by the Yeah,
• 1:09:45
  I know you. Guys got a lot to do.
• 1:09:47
  We're just grateful that you guys stopped by for a few
• 1:09:49
  minutes. I mean, absolutely.
• 1:09:50
  You guys are legends. I mean, so glad to see you all.
• 1:09:53
  Cheers to Jonathan, his team for.
• 1:09:55
  Putting on one hell of a beer. Yes, this is absolutely
• 1:09:57
  fantastic. Love it.
• 1:09:58
  The setups great, perfect weather.
• 1:10:01
  I mean, I don't I don't think you could ask for anything any
• 1:10:02
  better. I don't know that we could have
• 1:10:03
  called in. Better weather.
• 1:10:04
  I Yeah, you know, I'm not really clear because I'll just tell you
• 1:10:09
  there have been some other events that we've tried to do
• 1:10:11
  and the weather is absolutely shit on us so.
• 1:10:14
  This is retribution and. I'm good with it.
• 1:10:16
  I doesn't want you to be great, John.
• 1:10:18
  That's what it is. The whole thing about our beer
• 1:10:20
  fest and us stopping it last year was a lot to do with
• 1:10:23
  weather because every year it was like, I've literally sit in
• 1:10:26
  my brewery looking at the tents ready to take off.
• 1:10:29
  Because we had, yeah, like 2 out of the first three years we had
• 1:10:33
  these crazy hurricane systems that came through.
• 1:10:35
  And I'm like, there's a lot of liability on the lines right
• 1:10:37
  here, you know, like, I got to have this beer fest.
• 1:10:39
  And you can't just reschedule it for why, exactly.
• 1:10:42
  Yeah. It's like, man, we, we, we.
• 1:10:43
  Carry a lot of, it's a lot of stress and things like that.
• 1:10:46
  And then last year we had the perfect weather than we've ever
• 1:10:49
  had for the brewery. You know, the beer fest is
• 1:10:51
  perfect. Well, cheers to you.
• 1:10:52
  Guys too I. Appreciate y'all.
• 1:10:54
  Thank you for having us here. Thank you guys.
• 1:10:55
  For sharing, for stopping by and saying hello.
• 1:11:02
  That's all I put that little thing.
• 1:11:03
  Right there. There we go, glad to be great.
• 1:11:06
  Great to see you. Thank you.
• 1:11:07
  Thank you. You, man.
• 1:11:10
  See you, LeBron. Good to see you.
• 1:11:11
  Brother. So is John getting on now?
• 1:11:17
  I get. Yeah, I guess.
• 1:11:18
  So let's keep it going. I've also got a DJ coming too,
• 1:11:22
  huh? I've got a DJ coming too.
• 1:11:25
  Yeah, yeah, he DJs at a brewery he's going to I'm.
• 1:11:27
  Going to have him introduce himself.
• 1:11:29
  Oh, that's awesome. I love it.
• 1:11:30
  He likes this chair. I do this.
• 1:11:32
  Yeah. I can eat what you like.
• 1:11:33
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 1:11:34
  I'll. I'll get right to I'll.
• 1:11:37
  Yeah. Let me open that real quick.
• 1:11:40
  Oh, yeah? Well.
• 1:11:40
  They got Great Lakes. Here too.
• 1:11:42
  So let's let's let's enjoy this. Yeah, we won't.
• 1:11:49
  Be able to taste any of these. Great Great Lakes beers, if
• 1:11:52
  we're drinking 17% stouts, right and Great Lakes, one of them,
• 1:11:57
  Mitch is that the brewery, it's the one and done I think is what
• 1:12:01
  it's. Called it's like 17.
• 1:12:02
  And 1/2 or 18% nice. It's a rye barrel I was going to
• 1:12:05
  give CL Theresa for because he's a big rye guy, so I was going to
• 1:12:09
  make sure he got a little bit. Hell yeah.
• 1:12:13
  Who's this guy, by the way? I think he's responsible for the
• 1:12:16
  beer fest. Oh, Turn.
• 1:12:19
  His mic. Oh.
• 1:12:20
  His mic's already on hi hi. John.
• 1:12:24
  My name is. John, my name's John.
• 1:12:28
  This is awesome, John you. Have a little.
• 1:12:30
  Something to do with this beer fest that we're at today, don't
• 1:12:32
  you? Yeah.
• 1:12:34
  Helped put it on, I think, nine months.
• 1:12:35
  Just like the Common John's beer Fest.
• 1:12:37
  Yeah. One of those things where it's
• 1:12:40
  when you've done it a couple of times, Elise.
• 1:12:43
  This is why you're going to hate.
• 1:12:44
  The common John 1 to to yeah. Would that be the last one Yeah,
• 1:12:47
  yeah, yeah, no, but no, I mean the weather.
• 1:12:50
  I just I know not beat this. You couldn't have asked for
• 1:12:52
  better weather for a beer festival and the whole learn
• 1:12:55
  flannel's never saying it was just one of those things it's a
• 1:12:58
  little hot man for flannel. It's pretty hot for.
• 1:13:00
  Flannel, I'm committed to the. Bit so I love it.
• 1:13:02
  I wouldn't go. Say we've got there's.
• 1:13:07
  There's a there's a couple of you, there's there's John
• 1:13:09
  responsible for the festival today.
• 1:13:11
  We got a DJ in the house today too, I think.
• 1:13:13
  How you doing? Brother, I'm a record flipper.
• 1:13:17
  Record flipper. Record flipper.
• 1:13:19
  It's good to meet you. Shout out your name, man.
• 1:13:20
  DJ It's kind of like a doctor, OK?
• 1:13:23
  You're right. Do you have?
• 1:13:24
  Those initials, you're on your way there then.
• 1:13:26
  That's Year 3. OK, but I've been blessed by the
• 1:13:30
  give me a little bit more into the mic I've.
• 1:13:31
  Been blessed by the beer. Community embraced.
• 1:13:34
  Yeah. So I've done a lot of beer
• 1:13:35
  festivals, different breweries. It's my record collection, so I
• 1:13:39
  can't be mad about playing my own records for people.
• 1:13:42
  You can't eat the music from Frank Sinatra to the Wu Tang
• 1:13:44
  Clan. I mean, that's a very diverse.
• 1:13:47
  My dad was eclectic before it was.
• 1:13:49
  Ever a word? OK, 2 crazy hippies.
• 1:13:51
  Is what I grew. Up, Yeah, House of.
• 1:13:53
  So you know. Music.
• 1:13:55
  Family, beer. Why not?
• 1:13:57
  You know I didn't drink beer as a kid.
• 1:13:59
  Let me say that first. You did or did not I?
• 1:14:01
  Did no, that's you were 21. Right, good ones.
• 1:14:03
  Yeah, over 21. There we go, same here.
• 1:14:06
  There we go, responsible and so. You've done you've done beer
• 1:14:09
  festivals before. Yes, Cedar City Brewing out of.
• 1:14:11
  Lebanon, Lebanon, TN, that's who that's me.
• 1:14:15
  Yeah. And now it's a thing.
• 1:14:16
  As soon as I did my first beer festival for them call with
• 1:14:19
  Black, Abby walked up and said hey, when you play in my spot
• 1:14:22
  and I was like, I just. Like, no, you're doing it.
• 1:14:26
  You introduced. Me to the street, yeah.
• 1:14:29
  Then, I mean, like I said, I'll take half the money I make, buy
• 1:14:33
  new records and you put the other half I'm responsible yeah.
• 1:14:36
  You're reinvesting in the business, the.
• 1:14:37
  Other half and bought more beer but.
• 1:14:38
  I mean, we're not going to talk about.
• 1:14:39
  I ain't mad at you for it, no. No, not please.
• 1:14:41
  I'm. With all my money is beer.
• 1:14:44
  I don't like it. Yes.
• 1:14:45
  What do you? What do you prefer to spend?
• 1:14:47
  In terms of style of music, like, what's your preference?
• 1:14:49
  That's the thing, man. Everybody.
• 1:14:51
  Says what they like about me is when you go places you normally
• 1:14:54
  hear 1 channel honky tonk. When you're downtown squirmal
• 1:14:57
  whore you hear the Symphony. There's not a lot of times that
• 1:14:59
  you hear Frank Sinatra and the Wu Tang Clan.
• 1:15:04
  I mean, Jimmy Buffett, Hank Williams, That's all spectrums,
• 1:15:07
  dude. Yeah, people.
• 1:15:07
  Don't mixture well. I do 1.
• 1:15:09
  Thing I teach my kids we don't say fat, ugly, rich, poor music,
• 1:15:15
  country music, rock music the last word you say is music those
• 1:15:19
  words we put in front it's just for us to communicate when.
• 1:15:23
  You're doing those different. Genres.
• 1:15:25
  After song after song is there? Is there a a pattern?
• 1:15:29
  A. Pattern like this one lends
• 1:15:30
  itself to this one. Right afterwards they flow
• 1:15:32
  together. You don't.
• 1:15:33
  Think Charley Pride can go right after raging his machine?
• 1:15:37
  Yeah, you got to find those songs and.
• 1:15:41
  People don't realize that they're like.
• 1:15:42
  The best compliments you get is when somebody walks up and goes,
• 1:15:44
  son, I don't know half the stuff you played tonight, but I love
• 1:15:48
  it. Yeah.
• 1:15:49
  Because it's just, you know, everybody's like it.
• 1:15:51
  I don't know AI stuff. They took this song and now it's
• 1:15:55
  a soul song. I can't believe it worked.
• 1:15:57
  It's just music. Yeah, and that's why it worked.
• 1:16:00
  A guitar. You've never seen a white guitar
• 1:16:02
  or a black guitar. It's just a guitar.
• 1:16:04
  It's hard. And we have to identify with so
• 1:16:06
  much stuff. Just because I listen to Hank
• 1:16:09
  Williams Junior doesn't mean I have to wear Cowboy Goose.
• 1:16:11
  Just because I listen to Rage don't mean I got to rock out.
• 1:16:14
  Because I listen to rap don't mean I got to thug it out.
• 1:16:16
  It's just music. You don't have to identify with
• 1:16:19
  it. Just listen.
• 1:16:20
  And music doesn't get old. Yeah, 50s.
• 1:16:23
  No, I can take a song from the 50s and play it right now.
• 1:16:25
  It will be a top ten hit. But guess what?
• 1:16:27
  Oh, that's oh, no, it's not old, man.
• 1:16:29
  It's just you remember it from that time like the.
• 1:16:33
  Glory year is high school most. People don't grow musically
• 1:16:36
  after high school and college, but that was their peak time.
• 1:16:39
  But there's young artist Leon Bridges.
• 1:16:42
  He sounds like he was from back in the day.
• 1:16:43
  But guess what? It's 2026, so music doesn't get
• 1:16:47
  old, we get old. That's the way we have to
• 1:16:50
  identify. Music doesn't get old, we.
• 1:16:52
  Get old. Yeah, man.
• 1:16:53
  Great statement, Mike. That's a.
• 1:16:56
  Car right there you got to. Go it out right now man.
• 1:16:59
  One of the things I wanted to. Say when I grabbed this.
• 1:17:01
  Microphone is being from a small town of Lebanon when they first
• 1:17:05
  started to bring up beer festival.
• 1:17:07
  Oh. Uncharted.
• 1:17:08
  Waters We don't even know how to do this.
• 1:17:11
  It's just going to be a bunch of drunk people.
• 1:17:14
  There's guy selling art. I just bought a Janis Joplin
• 1:17:17
  picture for my daughter. Yeah.
• 1:17:20
  There's book right here, right? There's somebody, right, selling
• 1:17:23
  candles with charity community. So, like, yes, don't be scared.
• 1:17:29
  And how many other people around town are bringing these people
• 1:17:32
  together, right? The brewery, Cedar Glade is
• 1:17:35
  bringing people together in a community.
• 1:17:37
  White, black, green, purple, old, young.
• 1:17:39
  Yeah. I mean, so don't be afraid of
• 1:17:41
  it. Yes, craft beer bring crafty
• 1:17:44
  people. You know how much networking
• 1:17:46
  I've done? I do exterior work, but as a
• 1:17:50
  construction, you know how many jobs I've gotten from these beer
• 1:17:53
  festivals? Hey, what do you do?
• 1:17:54
  I was like, I'm not just a DJI own an exterior company.
• 1:17:57
  Well, man, you know what I need some new gutters.
• 1:17:59
  Well, and then dude, that's my info, right, right.
• 1:18:02
  So like, yes, Oh, it's a bunch of young people drinking beers
• 1:18:05
  all day. No, it's a bunch of crafty
• 1:18:07
  people doing crafty things and you could be a welder, you know,
• 1:18:12
  you can be a mechanic, you can be a DJ.
• 1:18:14
  It's crafty people being crafty together while sipping on some
• 1:18:18
  good sun and doing a podcast. Well, new homies bitching mint
• 1:18:24
  sounds. Like a beer.
• 1:18:25
  Country band. Baby.
• 1:18:29
  To your point. The guy right here knows all
• 1:18:31
  about it because he put all this together with the different and
• 1:18:34
  we think with the different vendors.
• 1:18:35
  No doubt there's a guy down there cutting.
• 1:18:39
  Don't forget the hot tub. I'm still trying to figure it
• 1:18:42
  out, but we're keeping it. Clean.
• 1:18:44
  It's pulled by Tesla, so we know we care about the environment.
• 1:18:47
  They turn the heat off on. That thing, let's make it a
• 1:18:49
  little swimming pool. Is the hot tub open right now?
• 1:18:51
  Yeah, it's open right now. I'm not going to.
• 1:18:56
  Be the first one right now. We'll go talk to pay.
• 1:19:00
  That was her name. Okay, I think.
• 1:19:02
  I don't know how I found that out.
• 1:19:03
  Yeah. You didn't know?
• 1:19:04
  Yeah. Well, we're saying something.
• 1:19:06
  Early he goes the. Porter potties get the line
• 1:19:08
  start forming might. Get a.
• 1:19:15
  Lot I look like a mosh. Pit or something?
• 1:19:20
  I'm down, I'm down. I'll go if you go no.
• 1:19:24
  Doubt you? Raised a good point though,
• 1:19:25
  like. The, the diversity of styles of
• 1:19:28
  like art that's out here, right? You know, it's like I there's,
• 1:19:31
  there's few best beer festivals that I've been to that are just
• 1:19:34
  beer, right? And then there's, there's other
• 1:19:37
  just festivals that happen to have beer, right?
• 1:19:40
  And it happens to have books and it happens to have art.
• 1:19:43
  I mean, Ozzy from, you know, formerly Mayday, I mean like
• 1:19:46
  he's doing caricature drawings over there.
• 1:19:48
  It's like you don't get that at A at a regular beer fest.
• 1:19:51
  And then we've got books. Right next.
• 1:19:52
  Door with read to succeed, which is like, you know financially
• 1:19:56
  putting on a lot of this beer festival so it's cool to see all
• 1:19:59
  the different like styles of art that are out here today and DJ.
• 1:20:04
  Record spinning. I'm sorry, Clipper and my record
• 1:20:07
  slipper am I Liberace. I can't do any of that.
• 1:20:11
  So shout out to you, but it's awesome man, and and I
• 1:20:14
  appreciate you. One of the coolest experiences.
• 1:20:16
  I. Had we did a beer, mini beer
• 1:20:18
  festival, BMW, okay. And so BMW is one of the most
• 1:20:21
  established old companies I would think.
• 1:20:25
  When we did that. They could not believe like a
• 1:20:29
  bunch of beer guys put on such and they said that it was one of
• 1:20:33
  the best ones they had ever had. I mean, I'm like, I'm just
• 1:20:36
  honored to be thin and next to BMW and they're like, no, this
• 1:20:40
  is one of the best events that we've ever had.
• 1:20:42
  Like, oh. Yeah, a couple beer drinkers.
• 1:20:44
  From Old Hick town, Lebanon, hey.
• 1:20:47
  And I mean, Lebanon's on the map now, hey?
• 1:20:49
  Don't tell nobody. Man, I won't tell a little quiet
• 1:20:51
  city. I like the Cedar City hat too.
• 1:20:53
  I. Like Cedar?
• 1:20:54
  Glade too though bro. Hey, hey, got to represent.
• 1:20:56
  It you know, that's another thing like beer.
• 1:20:58
  Oh, I can't. I don't know why you drink
• 1:21:00
  IPA's. I'm like, dude, don't drink
• 1:21:03
  them. You don't have to.
• 1:21:04
  You don't have to drink. You know what?
• 1:21:09
  I'm saying, I mean, if you don't like it, you don't have to be.
• 1:21:11
  Entire IPA. That's just not for you,
• 1:21:13
  brother. Go get you a lager.
• 1:21:15
  Go get you a wee. Squeeze the lemons, squeeze the
• 1:21:17
  orange, squeeze the lime. I drink them all.
• 1:21:20
  But hey, a lot of other beer styles out there.
• 1:21:23
  We can pick and choose. That's right, drink beer.
• 1:21:26
  That's a good scrap beer. Grain, no doubt.
• 1:21:28
  That's right. We.
• 1:21:29
  If we could pull, we got about probably 15 bottles of shit in
• 1:21:33
  our coolers that would cover the.
• 1:21:35
  Cover this table. Sounds like a problem.
• 1:21:39
  To have right there. And this and it's not a bad
• 1:21:41
  problem. That's for sure.
• 1:21:42
  Happy to share. That's awesome brother.
• 1:21:45
  I appreciate you stopping by brother.
• 1:21:46
  This is the first podcast. I've ever done your podcast
• 1:21:49
  version. Do you come back anytime?
• 1:21:51
  Go. Back anytime Hey love piece of
• 1:21:53
  hair grease. We appreciate it though.
• 1:21:56
  Cheers. Dude, keep flipping right goods
• 1:21:57
  man. Keep flipping them.
• 1:21:58
  Take care. Flip the headphones, those are
• 1:22:02
  bad. There we go.
• 1:22:05
  John. Grit.
• 1:22:07
  Who kind? Of put the beer festival.
• 1:22:08
  On a little bit, just kind of just kind of yeah.
• 1:22:12
  How many months have you been working on this?
• 1:22:14
  Nine, nine months, nine months? Does it cost you any stress?
• 1:22:19
  July. July, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:21
  And we? Were playing this during the.
• 1:22:23
  Common John planning also so that was also a lot of mixture,
• 1:22:27
  a lot of beer fest top a lot of collaboration Oh oh the.
• 1:22:31
  Last beer. Fest on Earth was going on
• 1:22:33
  around that time. Yeah.
• 1:22:34
  I thought you were hinting at another common John beer
• 1:22:36
  festival. I was like, wait, what?
• 1:22:38
  When you and I know it's. Still up in the air.
• 1:22:40
  I think it is the the last when you got the call from this one,
• 1:22:43
  we like he thought he was. Over it, Scott.
• 1:22:47
  He did not even have to do it anymore.
• 1:22:49
  God damn it. Yeah.
• 1:22:50
  They asked me. I was like, oh, OK, no, no.
• 1:22:52
  Was out. But, I mean, I've always
• 1:22:55
  believed that Murfreesboro has a market for craft beer, and it's
• 1:22:58
  just not there yet. Doing stuff like this.
• 1:23:00
  Yeah. I mean, it just gets people
• 1:23:02
  aware of what craft beer can be and having a gear on premise
• 1:23:07
  helps everyone in the city. So hey, so we pulled a random, a
• 1:23:10
  random guy off the street here looks like.
• 1:23:13
  What do you what do you think about the beer fest so far, Sir
• 1:23:16
  Guy, I like beer. What's your name?
• 1:23:19
  Where are you from, Random? Guy, random guy, I don't know.
• 1:23:22
  It's it's. It's been good.
• 1:23:23
  I mean. You can ask for better weather
• 1:23:24
  today. It's it's phenomenal.
• 1:23:26
  So what what are the ones you hit?
• 1:23:28
  You hit? I know you hit the home Brewers.
• 1:23:29
  Yes, here's a here's a guy that's, you know, sometimes.
• 1:23:34
  You just give the microphone. To the wrong guy.
• 1:23:35
  Here's the guy that's. Wearing a shirt.
• 1:23:37
  That's Stoke House and his last name is Stokes.
• 1:23:39
  It's my house, yeah. Let me go get Chad real quick.
• 1:23:43
  You can say that to his face, but it.
• 1:23:46
  It's been great, huh? It's been fucking great.
• 1:23:48
  It's been phenomenal. It's a great spot.
• 1:23:50
  Great. It's Dead End Road.
• 1:23:51
  You can't, can't beat it. It's a nice thing.
• 1:23:54
  Michael, what's been the top? It's top 2 that's tough.
• 1:23:57
  I mean comma. John's always good.
• 1:23:59
  They've had some, I was surprised they brought a bunch
• 1:24:01
  of sours today. 3 sours on top. They're all good, they're all
• 1:24:05
  amazing. Yeah, the homebrew.
• 1:24:09
  Festival. Beer.
• 1:24:10
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:24:10
  Festival beer. LeBron spoke to that a few
• 1:24:12
  minutes ago. Yeah, He's like their festival
• 1:24:13
  beer. Did you get all three of them?
• 1:24:15
  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got the Unicorn.
• 1:24:16
  I keep calling it Unicorn farts. Another, I think the home Brewer
• 1:24:21
  section's been. Phenomenal, right?
• 1:24:23
  I mean, that's just not something you get everywhere.
• 1:24:25
  And it's I'm trying stuff you're not you're not going to get
• 1:24:27
  anywhere else. Yeah.
• 1:24:28
  And they could be a little more creative sometimes too.
• 1:24:30
  And they some were more. They were badass and and
• 1:24:33
  Jonathan when you. Were.
• 1:24:34
  Coordinating this and you're reaching out to like home
• 1:24:37
  Brewers. How important has that been?
• 1:24:39
  Oh yeah, I mean, it's great and. The fact that they're, they're
• 1:24:42
  used to doing the beer fest and they're, they're used to the
• 1:24:45
  the, the swing of things. It definitely helps to have some
• 1:24:48
  knowledge of just what it takes to be at a beer fest, and
• 1:24:52
  they're bring they're. Bringing their best stuff.
• 1:24:54
  Every year, so that's also really cool to see because I get
• 1:24:57
  a. Chance to, you know to.
• 1:24:58
  To to share and express it, you know, not just share it with
• 1:25:01
  friends. We all and then we all get to
• 1:25:03
  realize how good it is because we get to try it.
• 1:25:07
  Yeah. The, the avocado one.
• 1:25:08
  I call them the avocado one. I cannot get used to saying it
• 1:25:12
  by the quiet. Yeah, I'm telling everyone
• 1:25:14
  they're going to be the next brewery in Tennessee.
• 1:25:16
  Like their marketing's on point. Their beer is amazing, but they
• 1:25:20
  have a market avocado beer, Cleveland, TN, right above
• 1:25:24
  Chattanooga. And I asked them because I go,
• 1:25:27
  you know, the avocado is in the name.
• 1:25:28
  I go, have you made beer with avocados?
• 1:25:30
  Absolutely. Because they made beer with
• 1:25:33
  avocado in it. And it when they said it gives
• 1:25:35
  it a you don't get the avocado flavor.
• 1:25:36
  You get the kind of the creaminess of an avocado, which
• 1:25:39
  would be do a cream ale avocado. Yeah, avocado cream ale.
• 1:25:43
  Bad ass. What are the food vendors?
• 1:25:46
  You got because I've not been down there yet, so we have.
• 1:25:49
  A perogy truck. Tennessee Meats.
• 1:25:52
  So yeah, TM Miko is here and they have a food truck.
• 1:25:57
  Just a bunch of different meats that you can order.
• 1:26:00
  We have a hot truck or a hot dog food stands, and we have a
• 1:26:04
  Vietnamese food truck as well. No SO.
• 1:26:09
  And then we also have a. Spaghetti Monster at the
• 1:26:11
  breweries. And apparently clothing is
• 1:26:13
  optional. What?
• 1:26:15
  Yeti, look behind you. Interesting.
• 1:26:18
  I didn't bring her. We know.
• 1:26:22
  Just saying. Anyway, that's part of The Time
• 1:26:25
  Machine. Yeah, that's the hot tub.
• 1:26:27
  That's. Oh, OK, We actually did.
• 1:26:31
  We actually did it like we haven't made our way all the way
• 1:26:33
  down that way. That's right.
• 1:26:34
  We got to get down. That way we.
• 1:26:36
  Started out at the home burger section.
• 1:26:37
  I think I made it to tenfold. Ebony and Ivory.
• 1:26:43
  You got further nights. You got further nights, yeah.
• 1:26:45
  Like the second? Tent and then.
• 1:26:47
  There's like, I mean, I think Tom and John's here today
• 1:26:50
  somewhere. They're around here.
• 1:26:52
  So Spirits is here. Marble Fox is here.
• 1:26:55
  What was the total number of breweries?
• 1:26:56
  That actually we have 30. Exactly.
• 1:26:59
  Yeah, 30 there's like the commercial breweries, there's 8
• 1:27:03
  home Brewers that are whole brew sections.
• 1:27:06
  Was it when you were? I know you're just part of the
• 1:27:10
  process, but you're a lot of it, and you're reaching out to a lot
• 1:27:13
  of these folks. I mean, were you surprised how
• 1:27:15
  many people signed up for this? You want my humble answer?
• 1:27:22
  No, no, I mean these are all we're all friends.
• 1:27:25
  We all know each other. We're we see each other on
• 1:27:27
  weekends and it's just another weekend.
• 1:27:28
  We we get to hang out together and pour beers.
• 1:27:31
  Do you find people coming to you and saying, hey, do you have a
• 1:27:33
  spot open or a couple, couple of times?
• 1:27:35
  But love it's just I mean people have this beer festival.
• 1:27:38
  We. Want to be a part of it?
• 1:27:38
  Yeah. Absolutely.
• 1:27:39
  And they're like, hell yeah, yeah.
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  So that's the people you want to be?
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  Yeah. Beer Fest is people that are
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  excited for their beer and for their products and have the
• 1:27:46
  opportunity to get in front of people because like Smack Dab,
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  they don't have their tap room open, but they're new to the.
• 1:27:52
  Murfreesboro. Market.
• 1:27:53
  So they're in the featured tent because, I mean, this is their
• 1:27:56
  audition basically for Murfreesboro, Yeah.
• 1:27:58
  Well, that kind of. That kind of coincides with what
• 1:28:00
  you're saying, the humble answer, because it's the beer
• 1:28:03
  community. I mean, we've talked about it so
• 1:28:06
  many times. It's strong here in in the
• 1:28:08
  national Murfreesboro area. So many good people and.
• 1:28:12
  Just you make those friendships over time and it's just cool to
• 1:28:15
  see how it just blossoms to we're in Murfreesboro, TN at a
• 1:28:18
  beer festival. Like it's cool.
• 1:28:20
  To be at a beer. Festival in Murfreesboro.
• 1:28:23
  It really is. Yeah, like.
• 1:28:24
  I think the last one I. Went to in Murfreesboro was
• 1:28:26
  Borough Bourbon and Bruce shout out Panther Creek back when, you
• 1:28:30
  know, back when those guys were open.
• 1:28:33
  And then, you know, I know Mayday has a couple had a couple
• 1:28:36
  of like events where they're hosting things and stuff like
• 1:28:38
  that. But in Murfreesboro, I don't
• 1:28:40
  recall, keep me honest, but I don't recall a beer festival in
• 1:28:45
  Murfreesboro with like multiple commercial breweries here and
• 1:28:48
  homebrewers like I don't know if it's happened before.
• 1:28:50
  Yeah. And one thing to add on that,
• 1:28:52
  and that's the one thing that I told the team at Cedar Glade
• 1:28:54
  that my big thing, I don't want people that say that they're
• 1:28:58
  from a distributor on for serving beer.
• 1:29:03
  People that are here, the 30 breweries, they're from the
• 1:29:06
  brewery, dude, that's a good point.
• 1:29:08
  Everybody here works with the. So when you go up to get a beer,
• 1:29:12
  there's someone knowledgeable of the brewery there instead of
• 1:29:15
  saying, oh, I don't know, I'm not from the brewery.
• 1:29:17
  Those are my favorite. Absolutely.
• 1:29:19
  My favorite? Cuz again, it's still familiar
• 1:29:21
  faces, but if you want to talk, ask a question about the beer.
• 1:29:24
  I know. Right.
• 1:29:24
  Absolutely. I've been to beer.
• 1:29:26
  Festivals where they're just like, I don't know, it's what's
• 1:29:28
  in Cannes. Yeah.
• 1:29:29
  And like, they have volunteers that are pouring for the event.
• 1:29:32
  Yeah. And it's OK to have some, but
• 1:29:35
  I've been to festivals where like, it's just people ship
• 1:29:38
  their beers and that's it. Yeah, that's a good point.
• 1:29:40
  I mean. That really is a good point that
• 1:29:42
  a lot of the breweries that have come here, they brought their A
• 1:29:45
  game, yeah. 100% and it's cool and.
• 1:29:49
  It's. Called cabin fever for a reason.
• 1:29:51
  Yeah, kind. Of thawing out a.
• 1:29:53
  Little bit, you know, it's get the hell out of that house.
• 1:29:56
  We talked about that earlier, isn't?
• 1:29:57
  This like a perfect event that here we have.
• 1:30:00
  Stokes is finding a reason to leave home.
• 1:30:02
  Sorry, I interrupt. Yeah.
• 1:30:03
  Yeah, I'm from Gallatin. I came all way from.
• 1:30:04
  Gallatin I may or may not have won free tickets, but it's okay
• 1:30:08
  you to be here. It's got to be tough.
• 1:30:11
  In in. February, March in Tennessee,
• 1:30:14
  Like, you don't know what the weather's going to be.
• 1:30:16
  Yeah, this weather sucks, though.
• 1:30:17
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:30:18
  This weather's so awful. But it's like me and Scott talk,
• 1:30:20
  you know, GABF is going outdoors this year, like, And that is
• 1:30:23
  Denver in October. Like what?
• 1:30:25
  There's no talent. That's where you're going to
• 1:30:27
  notice. They asked me.
• 1:30:28
  They're like, what's your thoughts about doing the beer
• 1:30:30
  fest in February? I'm like outside, I mean, you
• 1:30:36
  want my honest opinions? I have no idea.
• 1:30:38
  Like it could be really bad. It could be, but but the thought
• 1:30:42
  of like winter warmer and and yes, I mean that the whole
• 1:30:46
  thought behind this is like everyone's been in their houses
• 1:30:48
  all winter long. We just went through the ice
• 1:30:50
  storm. This was going to be the one
• 1:30:52
  event that got everyone out and ready for the Springs house.
• 1:30:56
  Absolutely. And there and, and, and East
• 1:30:58
  Nashville beer festives are really good.
• 1:30:59
  When it's April, that's usually like, kind of, you know, the
• 1:31:01
  weather's really kind of turning at that point.
• 1:31:03
  Really fucking absolutely. Get all you want.
• 1:31:05
  Get all you I got. Isn't it so good?
• 1:31:10
  Actually. Responsible.
• 1:31:11
  For absolutely. I mean, you can just in case
• 1:31:15
  there's AI mean Grant page dedicated.
• 1:31:16
  He's talking about, I mean you like Edmund Fitzgerald's we
• 1:31:21
  bought, we bought Great Lakes at a big fest.
• 1:31:24
  Is this Great Lakes? We have Great Lakes in
• 1:31:26
  Tennessee. At a beer fest.
• 1:31:27
  I didn't know they were in. I wish. 10 is Great Lakes.
• 1:31:29
  Yeah. Wait, is this the first time
• 1:31:30
  Great Lakes has been opened in Murfreesboro?
• 1:31:32
  Yeah. Yeah, probably so.
• 1:31:36
  Yeah, right. Without some contraband.
• 1:31:38
  But yes, this is legally. This is the first legally I
• 1:31:41
  don't know. Somehow.
• 1:31:42
  Great Lakes got. Tennessee, I don't know.
• 1:31:44
  I don't know how that happened. Nobody here advocated.
• 1:31:48
  I've never even heard of them before.
• 1:31:49
  Scott and Steve they brought. So they've got the the Dormunder
• 1:31:53
  Gold Logger? Is that what it's called?
• 1:31:55
  Yep, Dormunder Gold Logger. They've got the Amber Elliot
• 1:31:58
  Ness Elliot Nest. They've got the Fitzgerald, the
• 1:32:02
  Edmund Fitzgerald Porter. And then after what's the name
• 1:32:05
  of the what? The Midwest Hazy.
• 1:32:08
  Hazy. They got the hazy because all
• 1:32:09
  have been have been bangers. Yeah.
• 1:32:11
  Every single one of them. You can get it in a store near
• 1:32:14
  you. Jonathan, we appreciate you,
• 1:32:17
  man. Thanks for being here.
• 1:32:18
  Appreciate it. Watch.
• 1:32:19
  Your head. Thanks.
• 1:32:21
  Man good to. See you.
• 1:32:24
  My boys, you want to go drink some?
• 1:32:25
  More I think. So I think we should put.
• 1:32:27
  Put the pause on and go drink a little while.
• 1:32:29
  Yep. All right.
• 1:32:30
  Oh. My God.
• 1:32:32
  Oh yeah. Whatever do on the camera?
• 1:32:34
  The camera. Bring.
• 1:32:35
  This guy over. I just want to give a quick
• 1:32:37
  shout out to the. Editors of the Foamy Heads and
• 1:32:40
  the Brewery Underground podcast because they got their work cut
• 1:32:44
  out for them. There's a lot of wasted ones
• 1:32:47
  and. Zeros on this recording.
• 1:32:50
  Just kidding. No.
• 1:32:52
  That's the first thing. We're everything.
• 1:32:55
  We got the power, we got the power.
• 1:32:57
  Cheers. Cheers.
• 1:33:00
  Yeah. Let me drink.
• 1:33:03
  Drink a little bit. Drink a beer.