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Mad Llama Brewing Pub Llama Ale Craft Beer Review · Strikeout Beer

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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody? Welcome to strikeout Beer, your least favorite podcast or
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  Speaker 2: your pals on or r D.
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  Speaker 1: I'm rdy, I'm Allen. How's it going good?
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  Speaker 2: Got a new beer here? Mad Lama Brewing.
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  Speaker 3: This is a pub Lama Ale five percent alcohol ABVRE.
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  Speaker 1: They out of Uh, they're out there in like Spring
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  Speaker 1: Houston area.
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  Speaker 2: The Houston suburb.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like Spring Houston. Just depending on what who
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  Speaker 1: you talk to.
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  Speaker 2: What's the math it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean it could tell you both, you know, depending
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  Speaker 1: on what you're looking at.
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  Speaker 2: You sound like an idiot, like that guy what is
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  Speaker 2: it from? Tommy Boy?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because you say it's about twenty miles away, but
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  Speaker 3: it's not here on the map.
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  Speaker 2: Be goes you're in the wrong state.
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  Speaker 1: No, because like there's certain areas, like especially like here
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  Speaker 1: in the Fort Worth area. A certain place you look
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  Speaker 1: at will say fort Worth and certain areas will say
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  Speaker 1: like Waltam City or Wataga. Right, so it's right there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I was in Spring. It's right there by Spring,
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  Speaker 1: but it also says like Houston. So spends on who
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  Speaker 1: you talk to. A nice little uh, nice little Poe.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little brewery. It's like in like an industrial area,
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  Speaker 1: like like a like a warehouse. Arealls delicious, cheers, mazzle,
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  Speaker 1: mazzel of good things. It's an English style pub ale
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  Speaker 1: five percent alcohol by volume twenty five IBus.
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  Speaker 2: You definitely stole the malt. It's right in your nose.
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  Speaker 2: Immediately get ahead on it. Look at that thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is so they say. It's a classic,
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  Speaker 1: easy drinking pub ale brew to be approachable and balanced
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  Speaker 1: with gentle malt character and restrained bitterness. Designed to be
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  Speaker 1: the kind of beer you can enjoy pint after pint.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of those like a lot of there, like
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  Speaker 3: those types of beers, those pubstyle beers or whatever, they'll
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  Speaker 3: have the bitterness kind of cramped up on them.
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  Speaker 2: But like this, Like that's what I was worried about. It.
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  Speaker 2: Is it gonna be like an ESB beer or something
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's it's They classified as just a straight
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  Speaker 1: as an ale as an ale for too dark. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of those where I went and dropped my
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  Speaker 1: kid off at summer camp and we were on our
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  Speaker 1: way back and I was like, let me find a
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  Speaker 1: brewert me see there's a brewery nearby. This was a
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  Speaker 1: couple of miles away from where we were, so swung
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  Speaker 1: in just grabbed a couple of beers to go. They
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  Speaker 1: can all their beers to go on demand right there,
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  Speaker 1: right there. Cool and they they've even got like a
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  Speaker 1: thermal printer so they print an actual label for that beer.
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  Speaker 3: So like, were these are different? Yeah, because this is
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  Speaker 3: a publum and get over there.
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  Speaker 1: Well this one is the Nectar Lama Hazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I mean, that's pretty smart.
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  Speaker 3: You think about you can just knock out the label
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  Speaker 3: real quick, and I have to be handwritten and it's
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  Speaker 3: a little one of those what do you call the
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  Speaker 3: thermal printer.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to do ink or anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's just it was real quick. It's simple. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The guys there were pretty cool. Uh. He was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this. He was like here, try this, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave me one of their what was it? It
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  Speaker 1: was like a like a brown ale. I did not
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  Speaker 1: what's their thing? They were kind of they were kind
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  Speaker 1: of a little bit busy, but the I was like, hey, Weill,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 3: He poured me a half of beer. He's can drink this.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, so it is in. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: in spring text spring. It looks like you said, a
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  Speaker 3: business parker, looks like it's round about houses.
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  Speaker 1: Now, like all that stuff right there next to it,
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  Speaker 1: that's all they're It's all warehouses.
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  Speaker 3: Okay next to fat Fatima's papooses and talks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah there's houses outside of that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, way north okay, but uh south of the
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  Speaker 3: woodlands tho. Yeah, I don't know, I know where the woodlands.
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  Speaker 1: Are, but yeah, cool place. I love the logo, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the mad Lama is pretty cool. I got myself a
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  Speaker 1: pint glass and I was like, hey, you guys got
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  Speaker 1: any stickers. He was like, yeah, we got stickers. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, can I see what you got? And he
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  Speaker 1: brings out like a little plastic little drawer and he's
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  Speaker 1: I was like how much are He's like they're a
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  Speaker 1: bucket piece. I was like, I'll take one of each,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like really.
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  Speaker 2: I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not fine, right a bucketiece?
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, like, oh look, I know how much
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  Speaker 2: this ship costs. He was pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Excited about me buying like one of He was like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, cool, right, he's pulling on. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this one's a magnet. I was like, is it a dollar.
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  Speaker 1: He's like yeah. I was like, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: He's like awesome, you know, because that's all I care about.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me it's about. I mean, hell, you tell me
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  Speaker 1: the magnets two bucks, I'll take right, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: for a buck, yeah, I'll take one of each. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you got pine classes used. I was
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  Speaker 1: like yeah. I was like, I'll take one of those
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  Speaker 1: pine classes too, and he was like, dude, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: He was like, typically, you know when you buy pine glass,
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  Speaker 1: you get they'll give you a little chip to get
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  Speaker 1: you like two dollars off of beer. Oh yeah inside,
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, since you're getting a couple to go,
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  Speaker 1: I'll apply it to her to go order.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, thanks, buddy, appreciate it. But yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a cool little spot. Yeah, cool little place.
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  Speaker 1: World Cup was going on.
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  Speaker 2: How big is like the inside? Is it a big place?
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  Speaker 1: Not huge? They had they had an upstairs as well.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't go upstairs. I just kind of stayed downstairs.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm trying to think of what I would like
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  Speaker 1: compare the inside of it too, Like looks.
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  Speaker 3: A lot like that other place that's in Northwich.
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  Speaker 1: And hills a false idle.
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  Speaker 3: The other one, uh looks a lot like hey Worth
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  Speaker 3: a little bit smaller, so a little bit smaller, a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit smaller. But again it had an upstairs too,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know how big the upstairs area was.
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  Speaker 3: Actually the big stairs upstairs area was almost identical to
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  Speaker 3: the downstairs area minus the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, it wasn't like where I was standing directly
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  Speaker 1: above me was there was nothing. There was nothing hanging over,
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  Speaker 1: so it had to be like kind of over to
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  Speaker 1: the side. But yeah, cool little spot.
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  Speaker 3: It looks pretty neat. It looks like they have food
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  Speaker 3: trucks and stuff out there.
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  Speaker 1: They had a guy set up with like a grill
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  Speaker 1: when I when I went there, like you just out
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  Speaker 1: there grilling burgers and dogs and stuff. So I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had some more time and knock back
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  Speaker 1: a couple of grand myself, a burger and a dog,
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  Speaker 1: and I like, I like.
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  Speaker 3: Burgers from from breweries.
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  Speaker 2: They're damn good too.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And we were going back on Thursday, and
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna try and go back Thursday, but we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get into town late and I'd asked him. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, hey, what time do you guys close on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday and come back into town. I might swing by. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: those two guys I met nice Your owners right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's Arian Brantley and Stephen DeLonge. Yeah, nice guys, he says.
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  Speaker 2: Started as a.
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  Speaker 3: Hobby in the garage and taking a in the garage
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  Speaker 3: has taken a world of its own.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: The brother in laws were brewing for years for their
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  Speaker 3: enjoyment friends. They came up with some incredible recipes and
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  Speaker 3: perfected them, and they now are the envy of brew
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  Speaker 3: masters in the area that have a large following by
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  Speaker 3: the taste of their savory beer.
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  Speaker 2: And there you go, their brother in law. So they
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  Speaker 2: got some married.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I've been open for like two years,
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  Speaker 1: and like on the tap like above them, like they
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  Speaker 1: had some that had like won medals and stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: so they had it kind of above it because I
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  Speaker 1: was like what. I was like, what's your best selling beer?
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  Speaker 1: And he was like, oh man, and it was this
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  Speaker 1: this ale And I was like, I'll take that, and
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  Speaker 1: I go, what's your favorite beer? He was my favorite?
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  Speaker 1: I go with your favorite? He goes, well, do you
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  Speaker 1: like hazies? Go? Look, I asked what your favorite Beers goes,
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  Speaker 1: it's hazy. I was like, I'll take it.
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  Speaker 2: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: I have to deal with a lot of people that
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  Speaker 3: are probably like, yeah, I need to know what that
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  Speaker 3: but I won't like that beer.
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  Speaker 2: I'm I be like, this sucks.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, dude, just tell me what your favorite
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  Speaker 3: beer is. There's not a lot of beers I don't like,
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  Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: It's just I want to try what your best selling
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  Speaker 1: beer is, and what's your favorite beer is. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I want, you know. Uh but yeah, cool little spot.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I asked him. I was like, what time
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  Speaker 1: you guys close on Thursday? He goes, He's like, we
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  Speaker 1: close at nine. I was like, all right, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: try and make it. And the other brother looks at me.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, it's a loose nine. I go, okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: like if we got people here hanging out, we'll stay
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  Speaker 1: open later.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they do with the the well.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of these brewers too, but like the one
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  Speaker 3: downtown Frisco we were at, it was like the playoff
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  Speaker 3: game football.
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  Speaker 1: Game Roller Town.
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  Speaker 3: No no, no, it's it's eems about three three Nations,
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  Speaker 3: three Empire.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but yeah. I was like, we gotta get out.
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  Speaker 3: He goes wait leaving, you know, not until everybody, when
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  Speaker 3: everybody starts like we're all done, that's when we'll leave.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's fine. I'll think that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, he was like, yeah, it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: loose nine. So but like we weren't ready to head
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  Speaker 1: that direction till like nine thirty, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to if I got there before nine,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit before nine. Cool showing up after nine
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  Speaker 1: thirty minutes after nine.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, eh fu, Yeah, but it looks good,
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  Speaker 3: smells good, checks the boxes. You know, it's got good
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  Speaker 3: carbonation obviously you can see right through.
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  Speaker 2: The clarity is amazing. Yeah, color really dark brown color.
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  Speaker 2: It's great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, chairs, mas and malls are good things. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I started doing it like I do the movie reviews.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you know whatever, Like I don't know about.
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  Speaker 1: Boom sumbs up for me for sure, definitely like it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think chat GPT predicted our scores are
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  Speaker 1: going to be.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is that out of ten? It's out of.
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  Speaker 1: Ten starting with drinkability eight point five nine point five
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, okay, flavor nine eight and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Oh got complexity eight seven and a half.
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  Speaker 1: An overall score gotta be a nine, eight point eighth okay,
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  Speaker 1: so which I don't know where it gets these scores
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  Speaker 1: from because we don't really score beers on that level,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like, here's the scores i'd expect from you.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, okay, it's kind of funny it it
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  Speaker 3: gives them some extra points. They're always a couple points
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  Speaker 3: because for me, yeah, this is like a beer. It's
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  Speaker 3: probably like a three, seven, five to four, which would
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  Speaker 3: equate to, you know, almost an eight. It would be
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  Speaker 3: in the sevens or eight out of a ten. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's a solid I like it delicious, definitely definitely
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  Speaker 3: tell why it's one of their favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. But have you guys been to a mad
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: Lama brewing before? What do you guys think about it?
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  Speaker 1: And how cool is that mad Lama's I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at when I looked at was like mad Lamas like,
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  Speaker 1: we're going there.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see what the or how they came
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  Speaker 2: up with.
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  Speaker 1: So, but hey, guys, as always, I'm allen you later