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The Skol Hop Brew Hop 2024! Eleven Breweries in 2 days! | TSH Ep. 50 · The Skol Hop

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All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into a very special episode of
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the School Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. A couple of dudes like
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drinking beer talking about the Viking be Not drinking beer right now because I'm currently
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driving and there's an open container lot in the state of Iowa, and even
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if there wasn't a lot, it's just not safe. Don't drink and drive,
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Folks, don't do it. But why are we driving? What do
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we do? We are on our way to hit up some fantastic Iowa breweries
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on our little brew hop trip here. Yeah, so, yeah, we've
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been looking forward to this for a long time. We've been planning it probably
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since what like februarr oh, if not longer, you maybe maybe even a
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little bit longer than that. Yeah, you brought it up. We identified
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episode fifty and you're like, let's do something cool. And what's cooler than
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a podcast that features Iowa brewed beers going on a trip to feature Iowa breweries
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and drink their beers. I can't think of anything cooler. Yeah, so
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we are. We're making our way down Interstate eighty, making our way downtown.
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Sorry, we are gonna go downtown Iowa City here a little bit,
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yep, But we're gonna head up some breweries in the Iowa City area.
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Then we're gonna keep making our way down I eighty end up in Des Moines,
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and yeah, we'll just kind of see where the wind takes us.
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And we're hoping to try some good beer. And I'm gonna hopefully not get
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pulled over. I've been I've seen like four state troopers and we haven't any
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been on the road to have now. Yeah, if we can't, we
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can't afford you getting pulled over right now. So yeah, I'm gonna try
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to avoid that. I might actually slow the cruise control down just a little
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bit here, but anyways, Yeah, well, I've been excited about this
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for a long time. I know you've been excited about this for a long
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time. Yeah, I just the only thing we can say is we're gonna
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try some beers. And I was just up in Iowa City at Big Grove
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Brewery a couple of days ago doing some field research, and yeah, I
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tried one of their beers that I'd never tried before. I can't think of
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the name of it right now, but it was really good. Well,
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we'll figure out the name. We'll put it at the bottom here. But
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yeah, we're gonna try some new beers that we can't get outside of the
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breweries and give quick beer reviews and all that fun stuff. Yeah, and
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if you're listening to us, we're gonna try to make this episode as listener
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friendly as possible. But as always, probably the best way to consume our
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humble little podcast is on YouTube or Spotify video podcasts, because then you get
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the full experience. You get to see the beers we're drinking, and we
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just, I mean, we looked really good. Yeah, Evan, you
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look fantastic. I'm wearing our skull Hop shirt, so at least one of
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us is dedicated enough to wrap our brand. But I brought mine with I
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knew you were gonna wear yours today, and so I've just got my good
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old school Minnesota shirt on. But I'll wear mine tomorrow. I figured we'd
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look kind of dorky if we showed up in matching cheat matching T shirts.
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Never never feel like we'd be dorky. If we should plan it. Let's
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matching T shirts, sunglasses, let's do the whole thing. Well, this
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way, both of us can rep the school hop and we can do it
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both days, absolutely, today and tomorrow, and you won't have to wear
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a stinky shirt tomorrow. Every shirt. I have a stinky me too.
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It's kind of like the Packers, So we should not speak of that team
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ever again, for sure. So Evan, what breweries are you most excited
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to visit on our trip here? I'm excited to visit all of them because
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I haven't been to any of them. Really. Yeah, I don't think
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I've been to any of the breweries that we plan to go to interesting,
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but I will say I'm excited to go to Reunion. That's kind of the
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that's where we're headed right now, is we're on our way to Reunion Brewery
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in Iowa City, and I just I remember several of their beers and they've
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all just been really, really good. So I'm excited to go there.
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I'm excited to maybe try something else that we haven't tried yet. And I
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don't know, we've even talked about like bringing some home with us to have
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four future episodes. Yeah, if you've listened the last couple of weeks,
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we've kind of been mentioning that as far as beers, that we're able to
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access in our local area, there's quite a bit, and we love our
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local Devil's Glenn hi Vy. They've had a great selection, and there's a
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few other spots in our area that have some good selections of beers. But
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I mean, when you've been doing this for fifty episodes strong now, it's
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hard to not double up on beers. And I think the best place to
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get all of these awesome beers is to just actually get them from the breweries,
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and most of them will be able to walk out with some cans to
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stock up for future episodes. So yeah, that's a good point of what
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about you, which one are you most excited to go to? I mean,
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so first off, the right answer is all of them. I'm super
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excited about all of them. Iowa has some fantastic breweries, some really good
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beers all throughout the state. Just the idea of craft beer has really taken
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off the last ten to fifteen years and it's just an awesome world and I
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love that our great state has followed suit with all of that. But I
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was just up at Big Grove Brewery in Iowa City the other day, and
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that's just always great. They have good food, good beer. It's fantastic.
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Excited to see our good friend Birch, Birch the Brown Bears, the
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brown Bear. Nobody knows he's called Birch the brown Berry. To everybody else,
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he's just Birched the Bear, but to us, he's Birch the brown
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blue Bear. So I'm excited to go to Big Grove Millstream. I'm really
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excited to go to Millstream. Haven't been there, like physically. I had
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their Octoberfest at the Amana Colonies Octoberfest Celebration in twenty twenty three. That was
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fantastic. I'm really looking forward to having that again. I think they just
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posted on Facebook that either they're going to soon come out with the Octoberfest again
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or it's available now. So I'm really excited to see if that's ready now.
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And if it is, oh, you better believe I'm gonna have one
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of those today. So am I one of my favorite. And then you
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know, just of course all the Iowa City or the Des Moin area breweries
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too. That's that's an area that is a little too far away from us
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to just go. And now we're gonna have the full excuse of hey,
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we're here to drink awesome beer. So that's that's gonna be a lot of
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fun too. Yeah, looking forward to it. So, like I said,
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we're gonna try to bring you guys along for as much of it as
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we can. We're not really sure how it's all gonna work out in terms
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of like bringing our equipment and stuff into these places, but we'll do our
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best to bring you along, and we'll do our best to feature, like
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you said, the some of the best of the best, aside Iowa craft
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beer for sure. There you go. All right, Well, well we
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are. We're just minutes away from our first brewery. Yeah, we're gonna
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have to wrap things up here so we can kind of head into the first
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one. But yeah, thanks for joining us, and we hope you enjoy
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going on a little beer too or of Iowa with us. School school nice.
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All right, we're at reunion in Iowa City, first stop of the
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brew hop. We're here, we're doing it. How do you feel?
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I feel great. It is a little weird filming content in the restaurant,
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but yeah, yeah, that's all right, that's all right. We're not
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bothering anybody. They set us up in a nice little corner booth so we
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got some nice b roll of the place around here. It's pretty sweetened here.
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Yeah, pointed out their big can wall. That was really cool,
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huge wall of just like super old school, like sixties seventies era beer cans
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and stuff. I thought that was neat. We got a pat and MacAfee
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behind us, talking about Kitlyn Clark, good old Kittling Clark, Iowa,
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a basketball player. She got teed up yesterday and she really good for her,
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good for her. Yeah, So anyways, what are you drinking?
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So? All right, I grabbed the menu right here. I have something
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I've never had before, the Cosmic Creamsickle Juice Factory. It's a creamsickle pale
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Ale. I'm trying it out. I'm trying it out a little bit.
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It's hazy, for sure. It's hazy and six percent, which is like
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my sweet spot. So I'm excited. I haven't tried it yet. What'd
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you get? Well, you wouldn't expect anything different from me, But I
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got the Amber. Oh of course. So I didn't know you liked Amber.
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Yeah, you didn't know that about it, huh. So I was
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looking for their logo. They don't have a logo on their glass, not
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if they do much. Maybe you're here it's just too too dark. All
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right, let's let's try these out. Give us our thoughts, school,
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I already know that I like this beer, so oh yeah, it's as
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advertised, it's great. What about yours? It's really really hazy, nice
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hots, but not a crazy overpowering hot flavor. The cream sickle. I
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don't know how else to describe it other than that sounds about right, like
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creamy. It's not like a milkshakepa, milkshake, IPA, but it's in
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that world. I like it. It's it's yeah, it's good, it's
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refreshing, but it's kind of thick, like the flavor is kind of heavy
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in a good way. I don't know if you're drinking ten of these by
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the pool. Do they have the ABV on the menu here, which is
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look, yeah, six point zero yeah, six percent. Yeah. But
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the flavor wise, like it's a it's a full flavored I see orange and
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vanilla vanilla. Yeah, that's probably the best way to say it. It's
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a creamy orange and vanilla. Do you like it? I would order it
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again, absolutely, I will go a little bit off the beaten path.
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Yeah. In terms of my beer, preferences later, but I wanted to
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start out with something that I knew that I liked it. This one was
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the first one listed on their beer menu they gave us and it said new
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and I'd never tried it before, so I said I'd go for it.
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There you go, all right? Yeah, so far, and I kind
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of said, we liked it. It's pretty sweet. Would you come here
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again? I definitely would come here. And it's pretty easy to get to.
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I mean, we drove bas to an accident that held us up a
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little bit. Yeah, yeah, that was hope everybody's okay on that one.
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Yeah, it's pretty crazy, not great, but other than that,
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getting here was very easy. It's easy to find. It's right off the
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main one of the main roads here in Iowa City. So yeah, I
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would ten out of ten recommend this place. Yep. So we might have
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to grab some some ruse to take home for future episodes. Yeah, yeah,
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so far, I'm really liking it here. Yeah, it's good stuff.
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All right, Well, we'll keep bringing you guys along with us.
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Yeah, aboard to hit up today. So yeah, the goal is to
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get to as many as we can absolutely all right, all right, Well
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till the next one. All right, what up guys? Here we are
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stop number two of the first annual School Hot Brew Hot We were at Big
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Grove in Iowa City and we got some b roll will show up here too.
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But what do you think? This is your first time here? This
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is my first time here. You've been here several times. This isn't even
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my first time this week, so it is impressive. Let me just say
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it's. First of all, we're outside right now, and the outside area
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is massive, and I walked around the inside just a little bit ago.
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It's also massive inside Like this place is just huge. So if you're looking
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to host something and you want to have some good beer while you do it,
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check out Big Grove. Yeah. Yeah, they got fire pits over
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there. It looks like a little mini playground for it's either kids or dogs,
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I can't really tell. Maybe both. Some outdoor ping pong and definitely
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picnic tables and everything. It's pretty awesome. It's a sweet spot and we've
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got some beers here. Yeah, we're gonna check out What did you get
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again? So I got the seven oh one. It's a New England IPA.
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What's this? A six percent? Right in that sweet spot? I
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haven't tried it yet. I was gonna do that when when you when you
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were ready and I got the raptor aid, which is a white I pa.
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It says also at six percent. Also, I have to admit something.
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Uh, we ordered got the beers. I came to the table,
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and you went and looked around. I didn't pay attention. So there's a
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very real chance that I swapped these out. Your set a white, I
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pa. So I put the lighter color one in front of you. This
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looks more white, This looks more just kind of regular New England style,
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I pa. So we'll see. So either way, big Grove, if
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you know that we have these swapped, and if we're wrong, let us
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know. Otherwise I'm just gonna go through all of my life thinking this is
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the seven oh one. So try it up, all right, All right,
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cool, we're outside. It's fine if we spoil a little bit.
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That is true. The ants gets the ants drunk a little bit. Yeah,
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that's a good one. I like mine a lot. Yeah. I
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almost want you to try this to see what if you're if you're tasting what
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I'm tasting. All right to seven oh one? Okay, yeah, you'rs
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definitely has that that lighter. That's good too, almost on the sour end
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of flavors. They're both still I pas mine has. Maybe I need to
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try it a little bit more. It's got some some interesting flavors I don't
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normally get. Yeah, that's really good. I don't know if I can
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pin down, like specifically what's in it that I like, But I like
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both of these. I would order these again. I'd be I'd be interested
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to know what kind of hops there are, because the different hops can change
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the different flavors of the IPAs too, So we will not be trying solely
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ambers and solely I p as the whole trip. That's just how it worked
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out these first two places. So I didn't order an Amber. I wanted
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to order Birch to Bear really because that's a really good. Yeah, And
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she mentioned the bartender mentioned that they don't sell it in stores anymore. You
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know, I don't know how much I believe. Maybe maybe they would know
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more than I would, but I feel like I've seen it recently. Maybe
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there's some stock out there still that they haven't sold. Maybe maybe, Yeah,
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I do like how they have Birch the brown blue bear just painted up
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like a twenty foot I took a picture of it, and that might make
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its way under the thumb. Nailer's next a previous picture of it. Maybe
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I can send that to you and we can we can compare. Yeah,
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yeah, good stuff. Well so far, really impressed with Big Grove,
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great beer. The weather couldn't be better. Yeah, and again we said
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it about reunion. The service was fantastic, Yeah, same here, couldn't
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couldn't ask for better service so far. They went out of their ways to
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find us a good spot. So we're not bothering anybody else doing this cool
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hoop stuff. And the food. You're gonna love the food. I know,
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I just had it the other day. I loved it. I got
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the same thing I got the other day, so I'm pretty excited. But
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yeah, all right, well, we'll keep bringing you along wherever we go,
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and I hope you're enjoying it. So yeah, yeah, let us
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know what do you think? What's your faceavorite Big Grove beer? Or have
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you had it before? Here? All right? School, All right,
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hey, welcome back. We are here at Millstream at Brewery in Amana,
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Iowa. This place is awesome. It's a cool little spot. It's like
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everything you would expect Amana to be and even just like driving through town.
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It's pretty fun. And I've never been here before and I want to come
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back. Yeah, I was here for october Fest last or was it September?
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Last September and twenty three. Fantastic time. They set up behind the
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brewery a nice little beer garden and nice bands playing out with all the nice
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German beer drinking songs. It's a great time. You need to do it
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if you ever get the chance. Yeah, this is my first time at
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the brewery. Like going inside, its pretty sweet in there. Yeah,
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it's it's small, but they've got a nice obviously we're outside and a nice
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outdoor seating area here. So yeah, it's pretty great. And we got
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to try or we are trying the Nordic Pilsner Lagger. Yeah, and this
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one I'm excited because it's it's themed, very very appropriately themed for for the
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skull hop. It even has the nice uh little Viking ship on the can
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there and if you notice on the side they have some words. It's got
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skull written right there. Yes, well let's do that. Let's give it
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a try. School. That's a good beer. Oh man, nice crisp
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light. I think it's like a four point eight percent. Oh yeah,
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that's that's like an every man's lagger right there. That's that's good stuff.
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It's very clean on the finish, it's easy drinking. I like it.
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Yeah, Oh this is a billion percent crushable. This is like the definition
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of crushable right here is a really nice on a perfect summer day, Like
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just sit back and enjoy, that's what we're gonna do. Oh yeah,
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well, I really like this place. They got a good little set up
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here. Patio is not huge, but it doesn't have to be. No,
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definitely, definitely like poll Our opposite from where we just were at Big
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Grove. Big Groves masses as far size in terms of just like, yeah,
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the footprint of the place. But what this place lacks in size,
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I think it makes up for and charmed and obviously really good beer. Say
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in the service. We're saying it for the third straight place so far.
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But my goodness, they we walked in, didn't even get the sentence out
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that hey, do you care if we film or anything? And they went
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head over heels like yeah, absolutely, let us know if you need anything.
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They hooked us up with some cans of the beer that we both got,
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and I mean they even came out to ask if they wanted us or
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we wanted them to turn the music. I don't like there. They went
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above and beyond for the service. So this place, this is pretty sweet,
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very hospitable for sure. Absolutely, I'm not upset that we came here,
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not at all. I am not either. Yeah, I mean,
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I guess let's finish these ones up. School school, all right, welcome
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back. We're back on the road. We've gone to three different breweries now.
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We've been to I can't even keep track of them all. We've been
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to Reunion, Big Grove, and we just left Mill Stream in Amana,
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Iowa, and we're on our way currently to Gazelleg. Yeah. I'm really
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excited about that Newton, Iowa, as am. I very excited for that.
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But we've got a little bit of time to kill. We got about
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fifty minutes in the car. So one of the things that I talked about
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doing with you before we left on this trip was having a segment maybe where
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we talk about our just five favorite moments of the skull Hop so far.
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This is episode fifty. We've gone fifty episodes. Pretty much since football season
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started last year, we've gone weekly. Yeah, and we don't really intend
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to slow down, but this episode fifty seemed like a good milestone moment for
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us, and that's why we're doing the brew hop. But it's also a
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fun chance to just look back and reflect on all the fun that we've had
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so far. Absolutely so. Yeah. Also a little side note, this
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sure. All right, favorite skull Hot memories you start. So I didn't
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prepare well enough to have them in order, So everything I say is going
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to be tied as like they're just one of my favorites. They're you know,
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they're all in the top five. Yeah, they're they're They're not They're
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not the greatest. Maybe as I go, I'll be like, you know
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what, yeah that is the best memory. But for me, one of
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one of my favorite memories is when we had the TikTok video of Michael Keaton
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not Michael Keaton, what the Ravens running back his name when he got injured
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and we had that video go viral. That was pretty crazy. Was super
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cool, sitting at seven plus million views, kind of kept watching it as
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it went along. We'd had a video or two on TikTok kind of get
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a few views before then, and we'd sit and be like, oh,
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we just got one hundred views, or oh it just hit two thousand views,
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but that one was nuts. I think we'd like a day after we
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had like twenty thousand views. It was insane to keep track of that one.
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So that's one of my favorite memories of the school. Yeah, that's
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definitely a good one for sure. And you definitely found a little niche there
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on TikTok with kind of capturing those pretty gruesome injury moments. People out there
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are kind of freaks. They like to sit and watch slow mo replays of
22:45
people getting hurt and run over. Again, count me as one of those
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freaky people. For whatever reason, I just can't look away. So yeah,
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if you if you haven't found us on TikTok yet, we're there.
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We do some some previews of episodes and stuff. But occasionally, if there's
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a pretty gruesome sports injury, you might see a video of us talking through
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that injury a little bit too. So yeah, check that out there,
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you go. That's a good one. Yeah, great about you. What's
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what's one of your favorites. I'll go kind of in the opposite direction.
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So we have done a lot on like TikTok and some of the other socials.
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You've done a great job doing that, but we've also done some live
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streams. Oh yeah, and one specific moment that just still gives me chills
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when I go back and watch it was. We were live streaming the Raiders
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game and I've in pace had that game sealing interception and I immediately sprung up
23:36
out of my chair. We gave each other the biggest and best high five
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I think I've ever given everybody, And still I'm still kind of feeling that
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high five a little bit. You said you blacked out and you were just
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saying school over and over and over again. I said skull at least six
23:49
or seven times. I blew out the couple of people's ear drums that were
23:55
listening to us. Yeah, that was That was so much fun. Maybe
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the last highlight of the Viking season his past probably, But if I'm having
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a bad day, I'll go find that clip of us. Nice. That's
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a good one. It always makes me smile. Nice. All right,
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I'm trying to think. So, I've been a fan of Dustin Baker for
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a while, just follow him on Twitter and listening to his cool, cool
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stats he's been posting out. So one thing that was really cool. One
24:22
of my favorite memories is when he replied to us on Twitter one time and
24:26
then offered to come on our show. And now that's turned into like a
24:30
monthly spot for him on our show. Actually he should be coming on in
24:33
the next handful of episodes to kind of preview training camp or maybe talk about
24:38
the first little bit of training camp. But just being able to talk with
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Dustin Baker, somebody I've been a fan of and now, I mean it's
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weird to say colleague because he's so much, you know, currently more successful
24:49
in this field than the schoolhop is. But that's just he's just on another
24:53
level too. So uh yeah, just when he when he came on the
24:56
show first, that was one of my favorite memories. He has definitely been
25:00
a lot of fun to get to know and obviously we look up to him
25:04
and says that he's had covering the Vikings for as long as he has,
25:08
so yeah, it's cool to have a connection like that and have that regular
25:12
kind of touch point as well. So another moment of mine would be just
25:23
some of the good It's kind of a vague one. It's not like a
25:26
specific moment, but some of the just the funny, like goofy moments that
25:30
we've had, like pre roll like we're recording, but we're not actually recording,
25:37
you know, Like I was looking through I was looking through our TikTok
25:41
and you've you've pulled out a few of those, and like the one where
25:45
we were talking about the sports Center this is Sports Center commercials the other day.
25:53
Oh man, those those are great. Those are fun moments. There
25:56
have been plenty of times where we've been sitting in the Schoolman Center and we
26:02
just crack up laughing for like three or four minutes. Yeah. I don't
26:06
think it was it was on camera or on mike, but we just we
26:10
talked about put it. Put it in first, har I was crying and
26:18
what is it? Lee Rod Drinkins. Yeah, that Moment's moments like that.
26:26
There there's no like one particular one, but it's just the accumulation of
26:32
all of those moments. Yeah, have been a lot of fun. Absolutely
26:36
all right. I might be stealing this one from you, but one of
26:38
my favorites is, uh trying the school Hot beer and just that whole process
26:44
of getting the friend of the show forest and brewing our own beer and going
26:49
through the whole process. Viewers may not know, but the whole time that
26:55
our beer was fermenting, it was in my home office, just right behind
26:59
my desk, fermenting the whole time for a few weeks and then you know,
27:03
trying it on the podcast and then trying it through the keg at my
27:07
house and that that was just the whole school hop, hoppy American amber ale.
27:11
That was That's one of my favorites. That was awesome. And you
27:15
may have stolen that moment from me, but that's okay because the good news
27:18
is we have a lot of moments across the fifty episodes. Yeah, so
27:23
that was a good one though, And I agree it's definitely up there for
27:29
me too in terms of great moments. Trying beer that we made. I've
27:33
never brewed beer before, so I think I had the least to do with
27:37
that beer in terms of helping brew it. You and Forrest did most of
27:41
it. But it was fun to taste the fruits of our labor. Oh
27:47
yeah, and it's so good. It was so good. We need to
27:48
brew it again because I need to try that again. That was such a
27:52
delicious beer. Agreed. All right, this is three? Right? Yeah,
28:00
I think I've done. I've done three. Now is my third yep.
28:04
I think another fun memory of mine would be when we upgraded to the
28:10
current school man. Oh yeah, we just mentioned that, but for listeners
28:15
and viewers out there that may not know. We actually started just on the
28:19
couch in my basement, and our first ten episodes are actually there's no video
28:25
footage. We didn't set up a camera. We were just an audio podcast
28:29
for ten episodes. But even kind of including all of that, like the
28:33
progression that we've taken to get from where we started to where we are now,
28:40
has been fun. And getting that new school man center of the bar
28:45
with the chairs and getting that all set up, that was a lot of
28:48
fun. Absolutely, Yeah, and it's been a great place to saddle up
28:52
every week and record our episodes. Yeah. This past this past episode,
28:56
episode forty nine, the hour or so before I came to your house,
29:00
we had a pretty good storm come through our area and then it passed through,
29:04
and I still came over to your house even though it had been storming.
29:07
But it's just because I like, I like recording with you so much.
29:11
It's it's such a fun time. So yeah, I agree upgrading to
29:15
and even when you you changed out that whole our current you know, your
29:19
office area or whole small man center, like, yeah, that was yeah,
29:23
moving from the couch into that little bedroom that I turned into my office
29:27
and anything. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. Yeah, so
29:30
good stuff, all right. My next one for me is getting our partnership
29:36
with Big Top. That that kind of told me like, yeah, people
29:40
out there are listening a little bit enough that they want to kind of put
29:42
their their company's name behind us, even if it's in a small way,
29:48
just to have somebody show us that support. And Big Top couldn't have been
29:52
that. They can't be better for us. They've been amazing the whole time
29:55
we've been working with them, and truthfully, work with them if you if
29:57
you want to get it a shot at that. So yeah, I just
30:02
I love everything they've done for us and the whole partnership we've had so far.
30:06
It's definitely opened up some opportunities for us to even do stuff like this.
30:10
Yeah. Oh yeah, we're able to take you guys on this trip
30:15
and we were able to get some equipment and stuff because of that sponsorship.
30:18
So yeah, huge thanks to Big Top for helping us out with that.
30:21
Absolutely. Another moment that I will always remember is the moment we got raided
30:30
by the Grassy Passe, which he's a Packers fan. Yeah, admittedly that's
30:37
a little taboo on this podcast about the vikings. But if it wasn't for
30:42
that Grassy Posse raid that we did during our very first live stream that was
30:48
supposed to just be a test. Yeah, we were just trying to figure
30:51
out how to live stream on YouTube, and we weren't expecting anything. We
30:53
didn't post anything on socials or anything. We just feel like, well,
30:57
it's just you and I do it, and let's have maybe our family and
31:00
friends tune in and make sure it works, and then we'll we'll work on
31:04
this later. And then all of a sudden, we have six hundred people
31:08
watching a while and they're commenting like crazy, and we ended up getting I
31:12
don't know what, like eighty or ninety subscribers. Yeah, we walked away
31:15
with like something like eighty or ninety that after that day, because before that
31:21
raid, we had two subscribers yep, and I'm pretty sure I was one
31:25
of them. Yeah, you might have been the the other. So,
31:29
yeah, we exponentially increased our subscriber ship on YouTube. Yeah, and since
31:34
then we've kind of grown, We've almost doubled since what we got from the
31:38
raid. Yeah, we really started to see some fun traction on YouTube especially
31:42
Yeah, it's been good. So if you guys are still kind of following
31:45
us and you heard about us through that Grassy posse, raid let us know.
31:51
That'd be really cool to know that at least a few of you,
31:53
if you are still here from that awesome moment that we couldn't have planned.
31:57
And if we ever get the chance to meet Tom Grossey, like absolutely,
32:01
I'm gonna immediately thank him. And he'll never know. There's no reason for
32:05
him to remember that. But yeah, that was that was a lot of
32:07
fun. That was a really cool moment. Yeah, I think I've told
32:10
you before. Right before I noticed the spike in viewers, I was like
32:15
opening my mouth to tell you, like, all right, I'm gonna hop
32:17
off, like we know this works now, Like I'm just gonna sit here
32:22
and watch the rest of the Vikings Raiders game. And and then as I
32:25
was about to say that, I noticed our viewer spike out of nowhere and
32:29
you could probably see it in the video we put out there. It was
32:32
hilarious. We edited some of that together. It's a pretty cool footage and
32:37
I did the little side by side with Grassy. Yeah, that was so
32:40
cool. Sending the link out to his people, and he's like, all
32:44
right, they're Vikings fans. Oh they look excited, and we're like,
32:46
what we have six hundred people here's and I've said his last name wrong and
32:51
he kind of mocked me for it on his stream and that's funny. But
32:54
yeah, that was That was one of the most like instantly exciting moments we've
32:59
had on the school. Well, I was hoping you would mention it because
33:04
you're more of a fan. I am a fan of GROSSI, but you're
33:07
more of the grassy fan of the two of us. So if you weren't
33:10
gonna mention it, I was gonna mention it as my last one. But
33:13
now I need to sit here and think about stole it. But I don't
33:19
know. I mean, we've done some really cool and really fun stuff.
33:22
I mean, just anytime we get interaction at all from breweries or Vikings fans,
33:28
or even when Pete Burstich retweeted us a couple of weeks ago, just
33:32
the whole like interaction and just seeing our community is small right now, but
33:40
just to know that this, if it never gets any bigger, we're still
33:44
getting these few things of interaction. Dennis our stat guy, he's out there
33:49
there's a few of you that listen and watch at least for a few minutes
33:52
every time we post something, and I don't know, that makes me feel
33:53
good. So that's probably my last favorite memory, is just interacting with people
33:59
and kind of thinking about how far we could go with that too. I
34:01
thought you had mentioned interviewing Tyler from You Betcha. That was really cool that,
34:07
you know what, there's there's so many things that that was super awesome
34:10
because I do listen to well Tyler, he's on the You Betcha radio podcast,
34:15
but also he's on the Double Bogie Show or their golf podcast, and
34:17
I listened to both of those every week, and it was really cool to
34:22
get to talk to Tyler and Jared from from You Betcha and breakfast Ball.
34:25
And yeah, that was probably my if that's probably in my top five and
34:30
then i'd have to boot something else out for an autorable mention. But yeah,
34:35
that's true. What about you? What's he got one more top five
34:38
memory? Is it cheating to just say everything we've done so far today?
34:43
No, that's not cheating at all. We've been having a blast. Yeah,
34:45
this has been so much fun. It's four o'clock right now, and
34:51
I've had a ton of fun every single stop. There hasn't really been a
34:55
dull moment. Yeah, yeah, I mean a dull moment and or a
35:00
negative experience. I mean each brewery so far has been great, and Millstream
35:05
just put the cherry on top by going out of their way to kind of
35:08
accommodate us. They give us the cans of beer to having our video,
35:14
and yeah they were great too. So yeah, nope, not cheating at
35:16
all. And I couldn't agree more with you. Well, I'm gonna take
35:19
it then, because I think this is definitely in one of the It's got
35:24
to be in the top five for me in terms of school hop experiences.
35:30
Can you think of some hypothetical something that could happen in the future that would
35:35
top anything else? Oh man, this is this is a good question,
35:39
and I think we should do You should answer the same question. Yeah,
35:44
I wouldn't ask you a question. I wasn't willing to answer myself. I
35:49
think you would say the same thing. But if we could quit our day
35:52
jobs, this full time amazing, that would be tops so much money.
35:58
Yeah, that'd be great. Some people do it, and in this you
36:00
know area, Dustin baker. I mean he is supporting himself full time through
36:05
Viking's content, which is pretty cool. So it's not impossible. It's we're
36:07
not quite there yet and still bills to pay defeat at home. Yeah,
36:14
those day jobs for now, but absolutely, but maybe someday, if there's
36:16
enough few school hoppers out there, maybe someday we'll be able to to quit
36:22
our day jobs and really focus everything on the school hop. That'd be amazing.
36:27
I think one thing that would be really cool for me in the future
36:29
is to have a really cool partnership with a brewery to where maybe they we
36:36
give them, you know, friend of the show forest recipe and they brew
36:39
the skull Hop and have our logo and like brewed by this awesome Iowa brewery,
36:45
or if we collabed on a different recipe for a different kind of skull
36:50
hoppier that that would be super super cool. Even if they didn't sell it
36:54
in stores, we could just get it on tap for a limited time at
36:57
their brewery. That'd be so awesome. Yeah, I think that'd be a
37:02
really really cool thing to be able to experience. I agree, that'd be
37:06
awesome. Yeah, all right, so we're going to Gazelleig and we've had
37:12
a few of their beers before, I think at least at least one without
37:15
pulling up our lists, but I know they've they've got some really cool ones.
37:21
They've got. I think even one that they use some version of a
37:24
tulip flower to brew in their beer, which I don't know. It sounds
37:30
interesting. I'm really excited to try their beers. Yeah, we're about a
37:34
half hour away, so we'll probably wrap us up for now, and next
37:37
time you see us, we'll be hopefully at Gazelleg enjoying a cold one.
37:43
Absolutely, all right, untill we get there. All right, Hey,
38:00
welcome back. We are here at Gazelleig Brewing Company again, sitting outside because
38:06
the weather is super nice as beautiful. We couldn't ask for better weather.
38:08
It's amazing. It's been awesome. Yeah, and uh yeah, we had
38:12
a great conversation with a couple of the guys that were hanging out inside the
38:15
brewery. Got to tell him a little bit about our little brew hop excursion
38:21
here. Yeah, it's fun to just talk Iowa beer with some people that
38:23
know about Iowa beer and how awesome it is. Yeah, yeah, what'd
38:28
you get? So I got the I'm gonna need to look up the name
38:30
of it again. It's a fun name. It's called the Hug Deal Gone
38:36
Side. It's a hef of Eysen wheat beer five point eight percent, so
38:42
pretty pretty respectable. I haven't tried it yet, but I'm excited. I
38:45
did notice my glasses a little bit bigger than yours. Yeah, I think
38:47
I know why. And you might have to drive after this because I went
38:51
with the don't do it, frank. Oh man, it's a hazy double
38:54
ipa. It's an eight percenter Okay, that's why it comes in a smaller
38:59
glass obviously. Yeah, but yeah, let's try these all right here we
39:02
go to school school. Hmmm, that's good. Yeah, this half of
39:10
ason. They're just crisp and refreshing as a as a general type of beer,
39:15
and this one is just right there with it. I almost feel like
39:19
we're backwards right now. I know I should be drinking that and you should
39:22
be drinking this. Absolutely well, this is right in your wheelhouse. Yeah,
39:25
we might have to stay here for this might be a two beer stop
39:29
here. It's really good. But the bartender you kind of asked like,
39:32
all right, hey, guys, what can I get you and what kind
39:35
of beers do you like? And I was telling them, you know,
39:37
I like the hazy I p as, but I want to stick away from
39:39
this. So I'm glad I got this half of Ason. It's really good
39:43
and I don't think i've had it before. I think I've only had one
39:45
Gazella beer, maybe just on the podcast. I think we just had the
39:49
one on the podcast. So and I can't think of the name of that
39:52
one off the top of my head right now. We're so bad i'd have
39:54
to go back and look. But also the setup here is kind interesting.
40:00
So when we first pulled up, the GPS was like you're here, and
40:02
we're like, what, where's the brewery? We don't see it. There's
40:07
so we're kind of sitting outside in this plaza area right now, and we've
40:10
got like almost these like business officey type buildings, And we ended up driving
40:16
past it and we found a parking lot, and the parking lot was right
40:21
in front of the old Maytag factory, I think the original Maytag factory here
40:24
in Newton, Iowa. So it was kind of cool to walk into the
40:28
plaza that way and just kind of look at the old brick factory building that
40:32
was built who knows when, a long time ago. It's been here for
40:36
a while. It's a really nice patio area, like they've definitely done it
40:38
up pretty good. Yeah, so we're in this plaza. There's another bar
40:43
kind of a stone's throwaway from where we're sitting right in a little pub over
40:45
there. Yeah. So, yeah, it's a nice spot though. I
40:50
like it a lot. This is if we lived around here. This is
40:52
somewhere I would enjoy coming quite a bit. So I hang out here a
40:54
lot, for sure. But yeah, all right, so finish these,
41:00
maybe maybe not stay for another one, and then on to heading to the
41:06
Des Moines area after this, So trekking along, hitting up some great Iowa
41:09
breweries and Gazelle gazellig If you are, by any chance watching this, let
41:15
us know. Are we saying this right? We could just walk inside and
41:17
ask maybe we'll have to, but yeah, I want to make sure I'm
41:21
saying that right. So all right, Well, we'll catch you somewhere soon,
41:28
maybe in the car, maybe in another brewery. We'll see until the
41:30
next one. School. All right, welcome back everybody. Here. We
41:47
are in bonder It, bonder It, Iowa. We're at Reclaimed Rails,
41:52
and this place is freaking awesome. I've never been to this brewery before,
41:58
but the vibes in here are amazing. I got a little patio out back,
42:01
but it's not huge, but even that's really cool. It's a brick
42:06
building that looks like it's been here since the beginning of time. Basically,
42:09
it's just and you walk in and you smell the old, but it's like
42:14
it's like gross and old. It's like it's rustic in the best way possible.
42:19
It's awesome. It's super viby. Yeah, superviby. I've heard I
42:23
think this is the place right that one of the owners is a Vikings fan,
42:27
So school if you ever see this, you got a great place here.
42:30
And I haven't tried any of the beers yet. We both got flights.
42:35
We decided it would be maximize the opportunity to try to all the great
42:37
beers here. So yeah, I got we'll just go down the line.
42:43
There's four beers on each of these flights, and we've got different ones to
42:45
eight total different beers here. So I got a mosaic hipster I pa.
42:51
I just liked the name of that down with ope Pp. I think that
42:55
was a Hefflevis, And I think the eighth orbit is a stout. And
43:00
then the Boss Hoss, I think that's a sour. Maybe the down with
43:05
OAP was this sour. I don't remember, but we'll be able to figure
43:07
it out. And I've got the vanilla cream Ale. There's another cream ale
43:12
that I've had before that I really liked, so I'm hoping that this one's
43:15
good. I've got Rooks, which I'm pretty sure is like a darker.
43:19
I don't think it's a stout necessarily, but I can't remember off the top
43:22
of my head. It might be. I don't know. Oh Leary's I
43:28
know that one that was an Irish red, so that one's gonna be good,
43:31
I hope. And then the Guerrero and then got a little line in
43:35
here because I think it's kind of their Mexican lagger, yeah type thing.
43:37
So I'm gonna just go left to right. Yeah, well probably we might
43:40
even like speed this up as we kind of try these out and kind of
43:45
give our box. I don't know, but yeah, this might be more
43:47
than five minutes, but maybe maybe. But yeah, I'm I'm really looking
43:51
forward to all of these. So school School Oh that's good. This has
44:00
you can taste the vanilla in this one. That's not what I would have
44:02
pictured that one to look like. Yeah, just tell me there's a beer
44:06
called vanilla cream. I would picture it to be a little bit easier,
44:08
a little heaviy. This reminds me of like like like a vanilla pop,
44:15
like a vanilla soda. Oh, like a cream Sota type cream soda.
44:17
Yeah, that's what it's like. The beer version of that. You could
44:22
you get the hoppy kind of like grain aspect of the beer, but then
44:25
it finishes with a nice vanilla What about the first one you tried, the
44:30
mosaic picture. That's definitely an I p A. That's like an I PA's
44:32
I p A a lot of hops in a great way. I liked it
44:36
a lot. This Down with Oap this is definitely the sour and I'm not
44:39
usually a sour guy, but I think I'm getting there. I think I
44:43
officially like sours now because this Down with Oap is pretty good. Also,
44:46
the name is pretty funny. Yeah, this is like I think this is
44:51
a coffee stout. That's what this was, Rooks. Okay, you can
44:54
smell it, probably smell the coffee. Oh yeah, for sure, for
44:58
sure, it's good. I like it. It's not super strong on the
45:00
coffee, but it's I don't know, it's not like a tip the cow.
45:06
Yeah, where the coffee smacks in the face. It's subtle, but
45:08
it's there and I like it. Next step, I got the eighth orbit
45:13
just said it was a stout. Also said it was twelve point something percent.
45:16
So notice I have a small portion of this one, so that packs
45:25
a punch. That's that's a heavy, heavy stout. Is that your dinner
45:30
for tonight? That is not it's dinner time. That is not unashamed of
45:34
its flavored. I like it, but man, this is a meal.
45:37
This is paint me a word picture. I mean, picture a nice flavored
45:44
stout and then like turn the dial a little bit higher on the flavor.
45:50
You just gotta try it. I think you just have to try it.
45:52
It's it's very dark. It's probably the darkest beer I've had in a long
45:55
time. You can taste that. It's pretty boozy too. Oh wow,
46:00
Yeah, that hits you in the teeth. Yeah. As far as being
46:02
able to operate the rest of the day, I'm glad that I only have
46:05
what three four ounces of this. But man, it's really good. I
46:07
mean it is really good. So if you like these that is, these
46:10
boozy, powerful stouts, this is definitely one of them. That is one
46:14
that I would have like one of and be done after that. If I
46:20
was gonna have one beer today and that was it, that's the one I
46:22
would go and go. Yeah, it's good, all right. I've got
46:25
O'Leary's Irish red here. Yeah, And I love red beers, anything in
46:29
that category, red octoberfest amber. Yeah, they're all wonderful. I can
46:34
see the light in the light, like outside of the light, it's really
46:37
dark, but in the light you can see it's a red ambery type beer.
46:39
Oh that's good too. It's got some foam to it too. Yeah,
46:43
I'm still I got to take another step because I'm dealing with the residual
46:46
from beer to wash your talent out a little bit from that one. But
46:51
yeah, that's good. I would drink plenty of those, ye all right.
46:55
And then I got the boss has and I honestly don't remember the kind.
47:00
This is the one I thought was the sour, but I don't think
47:01
it is. But you said number two for you is the sour, right,
47:07
man, this tastes like a sour too. Maybe I got two sours.
47:09
I don't know that's either. It's pretty good, a little bit more
47:13
citrusy in the sour area, but yeah, I like it a lot.
47:16
And I got the Mexican Mexican lager I think is what they call. There
47:22
you go, Sultan lime on that guy? Yeah, there we go.
47:30
Yeah, that's that's nice. It's light, light refreshing. The lime garnishes
47:35
it's nice too, So nice good stuff. So far. The four I
47:38
had pretty freaking fantastic. I've only had a couple of other Reclaim Rails beers,
47:44
but I think even just the one on the podcast. Yeah, I
47:47
forget which episode, but that was really good. The blood Orangeweet, Yeah
47:51
that's what. Yeah, that was a good one. And they have that
47:53
on tap here too, But I didn't get it because we've already had it.
47:55
All four of these I like a lot. I would try it.
47:59
I would have them all again. What about you? Yeah, I would.
48:02
I would take any of them. I would try that stout that you
48:06
had too. Yeah, maybe if I wasn't driving anywhere after, but he
48:08
knew that was the end of your day. That it's a good day ender.
48:12
So yeah, I think right now, if I had to pick,
48:15
the Vanilla Cream and the Old Leeries were my two favorite so far. Nice,
48:20
Yeah, I mean I think, yeah, this Mosaic Hipster is my
48:22
favorite. That seems like right up your with the ita guys. Ye all
48:27
right, Well we're going to finish these off, and I don't know,
48:30
we might jump back on here and add a little more content. Otherwise,
48:32
this brewery sweet. We may we might need to spend a few more minutes
48:36
here than we maybe because this place is awesome, but we are heading to
48:38
Des Moines and we've got a got a little bit of a schedule to keep
48:42
here. That's true. That's true, So we'll keep on it. But
48:45
Reclaimed Rails great place. Love it. If you haven't checked it out yet,
48:50
come to bondering, check it out till the next one. Well,
49:08
all right, welcome back skull Hoppers. So we are day two of the
49:13
first annual skull Hop brew Hop. We're at our campsite. We probably should
49:17
have filmed some like like set up and tear down at the campsite because this
49:22
was a good spot. It was a good spot. Yeah. We we
49:24
had some friends last night. We absolutely did. It was pretty dark last
49:29
night. We got all a small fire going, and at one point we
49:31
noticed some raccoons right on the edge of our campsite, and then so we
49:36
kind of shoot him away, shoot him away. And then at one point
49:38
Evan looked over and he's like, oh, there's some right there, and
49:42
I turned my flashlight on and there was some not five feet away from Evan.
49:45
So but we clapped at him and they ran away and and that was
49:50
that was about the end of it. Yeah, they left Amalon after that.
49:52
So yeah, so we camped out and we got some coffee this morning,
49:55
and we're gonna hit up some breweries in Des Moines this morning this afternoon
50:00
and then maybe head over to Cedar Rapids for a couple more, yeah,
50:05
and then probably call it call it quits from there. It's been a good
50:07
trip so far. Yeah, we kinda we kind of ran out of time
50:10
yesterday. That was kind of like the only limiting factor. We hit up
50:15
five different breweries on day one, which is awesome. Yeah, some really
50:17
good one. I was pleasantly surprised by all of them. I don't think
50:22
we had a dud in any brewery there. Iwoa just does pretty good in
50:24
their breweries, so that is that is true. But yeah, we were
50:29
hoping to maybe squeeze them in here in the Des Moines area last night and
50:32
we didn't really get around to that. So yeah, we're gonna do that
50:36
today and yeah, we'll see where the wind takes us from there. Yeah,
50:39
what are you most excited about? Which one are you most excited to
50:43
do it today? Man? I've heard a lot of good things about Exile,
50:46
Okay, so I think that's maybe one of them that I'm most excited
50:52
for nice and for me, if we're able to make it work, I
50:54
think Fire Trucker would be really cool to go into. We've interacted with them
50:59
a little bit so up in Anchory and their their beers have always been fantastic.
51:02
So I'm looking forward to it. Can't wait. We're gonna hit the
51:07
road here in just a few minutes really and keep on keeping on. So
51:12
I hope you're liking it. Let us know what your favorite Iowa brewery is,
51:15
especially Des Moines area brewery. That's where we are right now. And
51:17
if we don't hit it up today, maybe the second annual School Hot brew
51:21
Hop we can hit up next time. So we're gonna have to like on
51:24
the road today, We're gonna have to plan out like next year. Yeah.
51:28
Yeah, it'll be easier to plan out as we're already on this trip.
51:30
So hitting in the face and we need some bugs break somewhere always school
51:37
school all right. Hey we're here at Exile Brewery downtown Des Moines. Yeah,
51:55
talk about a good vibe, good spot. Yeah, and again and
52:00
perfect weather, like you couldn't ask for better weather today. But we decided
52:04
to go some flights again. Yeah, the flights were a good idea.
52:07
Reclaimed rails really turned us onto the flights, so that might be that might
52:10
be a new thing. They have their Octoberfest. I think we should scroll
52:15
with that all right, because this is one of our favorites. Is this
52:16
the only one that we got the same of? I think it is so
52:21
Exile Octoberfest. They just brewed these in Cannes. Yeah, these are just
52:24
out recently. This is fresh and ready to go for the fall. Nothing
52:28
like a July October Fest. So Skull Skull that's really good. Oh yeah,
52:37
it makes me think of fall, like I kind of feel like there
52:38
should be a crisp freeze coming through and a nice bonfire in front of us.
52:44
But it's a good feeling. It's good feeling. What else did you
52:45
get? F So, I got that Dankelope, This is a I think
52:49
an I p A. Okay, it's not hazy. It's definitely see through,
52:52
but try that quick. I got the Citrus Sky, which is another
52:58
I PA. It's pretty hazy. I've had it before, but I like
53:00
it a lot. What do you think of that Dankelope? The Dankelope is
53:02
pretty good. It's definitely ip A. It's hoppy, but clean, refreshing.
53:08
I liked it, yeap. That citrus Sky was it's hazy, it's
53:12
nice citrusy for the citra hops, it's a solid one. You can pretty
53:15
much find that anywhere. They sell exiled canes anywhere, so so they nicely
53:20
recommend it. The next one I've got here is the gg and this is
53:22
what a dark ale or something like. Yeah. I did say something like
53:25
it's kind of it's more like ambery looks like a red Yeah, so let's
53:29
try that. Nice. So I got the Hannah, which is just part
53:31
of the name, and I don't remember the whole name, but I think
53:35
this said it was a sour is that right, I don't remember. I
53:38
guess you're gonna find out right now. No, that kind of tastes like
53:43
an IPA. What was the the gg? How was that? Gg's good?
53:46
This is definitely like an amber. I'm pretty sure it was like a
53:50
dark ale or something is what it was listed as. But it's good.
53:52
I like it a lot. Nice. I went with last one. It
53:57
says cherry on here. I can't remember the full name, but this is
54:00
a sour. That's a sour and yeah, you can tell it's got that
54:04
like fruity pink color. I got the forage here. That's a that's a
54:07
dark, stout looking one. Yeah, this is good. This is a
54:10
good sour. Nice. Yeah, they're a forage m it's a stout,
54:19
but it's like a lighter, lighter flavor than you would expect from this,
54:22
this dark, dark beer you've have seen through that? Yeah, I like
54:25
it a lot. What's your favorite of the ones you've had, Man,
54:29
it's got to be between the Octoberfest and the Gig. They're both really good.
54:31
If I had to pick one, I'd probably go with the Gig just
54:35
because I haven't had it before. Yeah, but you can't go wrong with
54:37
any of these, they're all great. Mine, also the Octoberfest and the
54:42
Citra. I've had the Citra a lot. I think just for the like
54:46
nostalgic time of year. I'm gonna go with the Octoberfest is my favorite of
54:51
the group. But nice, should we scoll that one more time? Absolutely?
54:57
School cool, real quick. On the brewery here in Des Moines exile.
55:04
They do pretty good distributing at least throughout the state of Iowa. But
55:07
their brewery, they have a huge patio spot seemingly plenty of parking. Might
55:12
be a little hard on like a Friday or Saturday night, but plenty of
55:15
parking, and then tons of indoor space too, whether it's like bar seating
55:19
area or even like restaurants. It's pretty cool. I like this place a
55:22
lot. Yeah, definitely a place that I will be coming back to whenever
55:24
I'm in downtown Des Moin. All right, well until the next one.
55:30
Let's go all right, hey, welcome back, school Opers. We are
55:49
here at LUA in Des Moines, and truth be told, this is our
55:54
second time here in about twelve hours or maybe fifteen hours, I don't know,
55:59
but we liked it so much that we had to come back and let
56:01
you guys know what we got here. So, Evan, what kind of
56:05
beer did you get? So? I got the king Maker. It's a
56:07
cold Speer and it's actually a collaboration beer with a brewery in the Twin Cities,
56:14
perfect Fair State Brewing. Nice up in the Twin Cities. So I
56:16
mean school, hot Iowa beer, Minnesota beard. Can't get any better.
56:21
Absolutely, And I got the Ship, which I don't know. I've never
56:24
heard of this before, but apparently it's it's a Franconian Keller beer and that's
56:29
b I E R. We haven't tried them yet. The beers that we
56:32
tried last night were super good. And we also got some food too.
56:37
Yeah, and we had these burgers last night and they were life changing,
56:39
so we're gonna have them again today. If you've seen how I met your
56:42
mother, you know about the perfect burger. This may be the perfect burger.
56:46
So thank you, Louis. We've already had the burger. It's just
56:50
amazing smash burger. Come try it. These beers we need to give a
56:52
shot too, So we're going to school quick scull school. That's really good.
57:02
Oh yeah, So mine's kind of like a pilsner. With a little
57:06
bit more of a flavor. It's in that world. It's still kind of
57:08
light, maybe a little bit towards an amber color, kind of a more
57:14
flavorful pilsner. Yeah, I like, I'm excited about this. This is
57:17
really good too. It's described as I love this description. It's a soft
57:23
and fluffy malt noble and squeaky clean, and I think that's perfect. It's
57:30
great. It's definitely got that Maulti flavor, but it's on more of like
57:32
that coalshy kind of wheat beer kind of thing. Because it's super clear,
57:37
and they put it in its own, like specifically branded cups. That's pretty
57:42
awesome. So there you go. So I'm super excited to dive into this
57:45
burger. It's amazing, greasy, cheesy oniony. It's awesome. The beers
57:49
are great. Come to Lua if you ever get the chance, we're gonna
57:53
skull the skull skull taken bite I did, all right, Welcome back,
58:17
skull hoppers. We are here at Confluence Brewing Company. We're still in des
58:22
Moin right, yeah, yeah, here in Des Moines. It's a really
58:24
good vibe. It's just the tap room. I don't know if they have
58:27
food here, but it's nice and big, lots of tables and chairs.
58:30
And found a nice little booth here back in the corner here. Yeah,
58:35
it was super cool walking in because you kind of like it's kind of like
58:37
a little maze to get back here a little bit. Yeah, and you
58:40
walk by all of the brewing equipment, which I thought was super cool.
58:44
And they're definitely brewing today. You can you can smell it, you can
58:45
feel it too, So yeah, for sure. So we're doing a little
58:50
bit of a skull hop tradition right now. We got we got a mystery
58:52
beer, so Evan ordered me a beer without me knowing what this is,
58:58
and I did the same for Evans. So we're gonna try them out here
59:00
and we're gonna try to guess which beer from the Confluence menu we're drinking.
59:07
All right, let's do one at a time. I think, well,
59:08
we'll skull try it up and then maybe you try to figure it out first
59:13
and then all right, all right, so mine has definitely got that ambery
59:24
color. Yep. First off, can you get the brewery, do you
59:30
know? I'm pretty sure it's Conflict that's right here on the class Yea,
59:36
yeah, there you go. Anyways, it's definitely like an Amber red.
59:40
It's in my wheelhouse, my category of beer that I really like. And
59:44
I think we did that to each other. Yeah I can. I think
59:46
you can tell already too that we try to cater to each other's preferences that
59:51
way. It's got the multi flavor to it. It's it's good, it's
59:55
clean, it's refreshing. I have not had that one before, and I
1:00:00
don't think I have either. All Right, I have to go. I
1:00:04
can't see the beer menu from yeah far away. We cheated a little bit.
1:00:08
We We're probably what twenty yards away from the bar. It's kind of
1:00:13
hard to read. So I'm going to just consult their list of beers on
1:00:17
the website. Okay, all right, did you say it was like a
1:00:21
heavy flavor light flavor or you said light? It's pretty light, refreshing,
1:00:24
it's not heavy at all. I'm going to start with the east Side Attitude
1:00:29
Red Lagger. You nailed it. You nailed it right on the head,
1:00:32
So good job, man. I think do you think I like it a
1:00:36
lot? It's the only multi beer in the category, so that was I
1:00:40
mean pretty easy. But I mean, you know, my preference and beer.
1:00:45
Yeah, and I mean this is it. I feel like you would
1:00:46
have ordered that beer, so yeah, for sure, Yeah, for sure,
1:00:50
and at what six point two percent holds its own? But five point
1:00:53
nine is what it says. Yeah, Okay, maybe the menu is different
1:00:55
that I might be reading it wrong up there, but yeah, all sweet,
1:00:59
thanks for that. That's good. Absolutely, So mine is definitely an
1:01:01
I p A. It is, and I too, am going to pull
1:01:05
at the menu. I feel like it's a citrusy I p A. Yes,
1:01:09
they have a lot of different I p as in this category, so
1:01:14
I think yours is gonna be a little trickier to get. All right,
1:01:16
is it the south side Citra blonde is? Oh? Man? Alright,
1:01:20
Well that's just looking at the menu and then seeing it here on the uh
1:01:24
the other menu here. That's what I describe it first. All right,
1:01:28
Well, it's like it's a light refreshing, not like a heavy crazy hops
1:01:31
flavor. Yeah, I don't know, it's like a quenching. It's not
1:01:39
super hazy, but it's kind a little hat a little bit hazes. You
1:01:42
can still see through it a little bit, So yeah, I don't know.
1:01:45
It's definitely one of their I p as. All right, I swung
1:01:47
and totally whiffed. Is it the flipp and roll? Okay, alright,
1:01:53
that's not bad. As many as many I p as as they have on
1:01:57
their menus. Yeah, yeah, this place is all awesome. I don't
1:02:00
know, I think we both like it a lot. I've been here once
1:02:02
before, and they've kind of added to it since I've been here a few
1:02:07
years ago, and I would definitely come here again. It's definitely a really
1:02:09
chill vibe too, Like it's just pretty low key. There's not a lot
1:02:14
of people here right now, but I'm sure they fill this room out quite
1:02:16
a bit. Oh, I'm sure it's not too hard. They also have
1:02:20
what looks like a patio out there, a small little outdoor patio before we
1:02:22
leave too, for sure. And yeah, I want to take another peek
1:02:25
at those the brewery equipment that's over there too. Sure, all right,
1:02:30
man, until the next one. All right, We're here at fire Trucker
1:02:49
Brewery in Ankeny, Iowa. Yeah, pretty cool place. It to me,
1:02:52
kind of looks like an old fire station. Yeah, I don't know,
1:02:54
I don't know if it is. We could probably look that up and
1:02:57
figure that out, but it does kind of look like like a refurbished like
1:03:00
local fire station. Yeah, and we are literally the only people inside right
1:03:05
now. There are other people here, but they're outside because the weather is
1:03:07
so beautiful. Yeah, most of their patti is pretty full right now,
1:03:09
which I totally understand it. If we weren't filming and trying not to bother
1:03:13
people, we would be outside right now for sure. Even the bartender looks
1:03:17
super bored being inside right now, Like I think everybody would love to be
1:03:21
outside. So, yeah, it's a great day. But it's also a
1:03:24
great day to try a bunch of beers and try Iowa beers. Yeah.
1:03:30
Oh yeah, that's what we're doing. And we've had fire Trucker on the
1:03:31
show. On the show, yeah, so I think we had their amber
1:03:35
once and I think we may have had one other one. I think the
1:03:37
Iowa pale Ale or something like that, something like that. It could be.
1:03:40
But anyways, we're here and we're trying some new ones. What do
1:03:44
you got I you might have to remind me. It's at the Brewberry.
1:03:50
They're very seasonal. Yeah, so it's like a blueberry maple kind of kind
1:03:54
of beer soap. I'm really excited. Not one that I would normally go
1:03:59
for. But we're here on a trip trying to try new beers. So
1:04:01
what you get, I've got the arson, which is kind of an odd
1:04:05
name for a fire trucker they try to. Yeah, I get rid of
1:04:09
ours. I get it, but it's a oatmeal stout. So all right,
1:04:15
let's try them up. We'll give our opinions. And I did not
1:04:18
spill. That's not why I have a napkin here at all, so we
1:04:20
never waste a skull. That's a good one right there, all right,
1:04:30
your arsen tell us about it. It is definitely toasty, chocolatey. You
1:04:35
get a little bit of that oatmeal vibe as well, so yeah, I'm
1:04:40
loving it. Yeah, but you yeah, this one. I mean,
1:04:42
you have to like blueberries and you have to like kind of the maple syrup.
1:04:45
But I like both of them. I typically wouldn't have gone for it
1:04:48
in a beer, but man, this one's really good. You should try
1:04:50
it if you if you get a chance. But I like it a lot.
1:04:54
I would I would have at least one or two more, and then
1:04:57
i'd probably switch to more of like a especially on a nice, beautiful,
1:05:00
a little warm day outside, probably switch to like a refreshing like Logger or
1:05:03
something like that after But there's nothing wrong with this. This is delicious.
1:05:08
It's good stuff and it's fun to be a fire trucker. Oh yeah,
1:05:10
Ankony iowa cool vibes. I mean even in the winter. I bet this
1:05:14
place is sweet well, and there's plenty of seating inside even though most of
1:05:18
their patrons right now are outside. This is Yeah, it's a cool spot.
1:05:21
I like a lot good stuff. All right, Well, we're gonna
1:05:25
enjoy these, and we've got a few more stops before we finished this couple
1:05:29
more, but we're starting to wind down the first Annual brew Hop, so
1:05:32
stay tuned. School School all right, school hoppers, welcome back. We
1:05:51
are still on the skull Hot brew Hop. We were heading to probably our
1:05:57
last two breweries the trip. Of course, it's only the first annual,
1:06:02
so next year we'll be back at it again. But we're heading to Cedar
1:06:05
Rapids from Des Moines and we got a little bit of time, so we
1:06:10
thought we'd do some podcast segment here and yeah, what do you think of
1:06:15
Are you ready to talk some vikings and some training camp? Yeah, I
1:06:17
think that'd be great. All right, Well, before we dive into some
1:06:20
final training camp talkers before I guess when this comes out, we will be
1:06:26
a day or two into training camp already. But before we dive into those
1:06:30
talkers, I figured we play a little bit of a game. Okay,
1:06:32
sounds good, So Pro Football Reference we just went through the whole best vikings
1:06:36
to ever wear, all the jersey numbers in the history of the vikings.
1:06:42
And how we determined was we looked at Pro Football Reference and their stat called
1:06:46
the Approximate value the AAV, and that kind of gives a number rating to
1:06:50
each player. So if you have a high number, if you have a
1:06:54
number of like one hundred and fifty, you were probably a pretty good career
1:06:56
player. So I thought it'd be cool to see if you can go through
1:07:00
and name the top five vikings per Pro Football References AV value in the entire
1:07:10
team history. Do you think you can come up with some of those names?
1:07:14
I think I can. Well, let me just clarify a few things
1:07:17
and make sure that I'm on the same page and make sure our audience knows
1:07:20
what we're trying to do. Absolutely. So you have the list your phone,
1:07:26
and it's sorted by Pro Football References AV score, which is again is
1:07:31
like a composite number that just boils everything down to one number yep, basically
1:07:36
telling us how valuable each player was to the team. And I have to
1:07:42
guess the top five in Vikings history yep. And to be clear, this
1:07:46
is like for their Vikings career. So while Brett Farv is one of the
1:07:51
best quarterbacks of all time and he might have a respectable Vikings career, AV
1:07:58
he only played like a season and a half, so he probably wouldn't be
1:08:00
in the top five of all time Viking highly doubt he's in the to five.
1:08:04
So yeah, it is the top five Vikings according to AV. So
1:08:09
you think he got it? I think so. All right, let's uh,
1:08:12
let's just shoot, there's no time limit. Let's just see how many
1:08:15
you can get before you think you give up, and in no particular order.
1:08:18
Yeah, when you say a name, I'll tell you like, okay,
1:08:20
yeah he was number two, or oh no, he was number twenty
1:08:24
seven or whatever. So I'll let somebody that has to be up there,
1:08:28
and I'll be shocked if he's not. I know who you're gonna say,
1:08:30
Fran Targetent, Oh okay, I was wrong. Fran Targetent is absolutely on
1:08:35
that list, and let me let me blow your mind a little bit.
1:08:39
He is number five. Really, yeah, that was unexpected. He's number
1:08:45
five with a Vikings career av of one fifty eight according to Pocalball Reference.
1:08:49
Okay, wow, that makes my job a little harder because I thought he
1:08:53
was like top three. Yeah, and I'm I'm not lying here. There's
1:08:56
no bs going on. Sure, I'm this is blind. I mean,
1:09:00
we do have a little bit of reference because we did go through that whole
1:09:03
list of best Vikings to wear each number. But I mean, I'm driving
1:09:09
that was a week ago, slash like a month ago we started the whole
1:09:14
thing. So yeah, I'm kind of working off of not a whole lot
1:09:17
here, But you're still one for one. You got fran Targanton, he's
1:09:19
number five. We'll roll with it. What are the other four? Fran
1:09:23
Is five? Yep, Randy Moss has to be on that list as well.
1:09:28
All right, you're ready for me to blow your mind again. Yeah,
1:09:30
Randy Moss is high up on the Vikings Avy careers. Not in the
1:09:33
top five, He's not even in the top ten. What he's not even
1:09:38
in the top fifteen. Oh my gosh, Brandy Moss is number sixteen on
1:09:43
the Vikings Career av Okay, with a score of one oh one. Wow.
1:09:47
All right, well I am one for two. How about you only
1:09:53
get five guesses? We can we can keep going till you get you can
1:09:56
count how many guesses. I might be kind of bad. I'm bad at
1:09:59
games. You'll get these guys. These guys are all names. You know.
1:10:02
There's no weird, like unheard of name. You know all these names.
1:10:06
My next guess is Chris Carter. Oh man, all right, jem
1:10:13
let me blow your mind for the third time. All right, Chris Carter.
1:10:15
He's high up as well. He's higher than Randy Moss. I knew
1:10:17
that. But with a score of one to twenty for a Vikings AV score
1:10:23
of one twenty, he is number nine on the list. Wow, so
1:10:26
he's top ten. Yeah, yeah, he's top ten. All right,
1:10:29
So so far of your three guesses, you got one of the top five.
1:10:31
I'm still batting three thirty three. Yeah. I like that. You're
1:10:35
a Baseball Hall of Famer, which tells you everything you need you need to
1:10:39
know about baseball. All right, next guess, arguably maybe the best Viking
1:10:45
of all time. And it's a shame that he's not in the Pro Football
1:10:48
Hall of Fame. Retired number number seventy. Jim Marshall. Jim Marshall,
1:10:54
ding Ding Ding alright, with an av score of one sixty three a vikings.
1:11:00
Jim Marshall is number three. Okay, all We've got Fran and Jim
1:11:05
Marshall. Fran was what one? What was his friend? Targentton? His
1:11:10
vikings ab was one fifty eight. Okay, So I've got fifth and third.
1:11:18
I'm gonna go my next guest. I'm gonna stick with the Purple people
1:11:23
eaters because they were amazing. Okay, I'm gonna go with Carl Eller.
1:11:29
Carl Eller. Evan is number one? Is he really? Yeah? He's
1:11:32
the best Viking of all time by Pro Football references, a v with a
1:11:38
score of one seventy seven. He was good. Yeah, he played from
1:11:43
sixty four to seventy eight. So what what was that fifteen years? Yeah,
1:11:46
he's two hundred and nine games played. That's crazy score of one hundred
1:11:50
and seventy seven. So I've got the odd numbers. I've got one three
1:11:54
five, one three five one Eller three, Marshall five, Tarkenton All right,
1:12:00
all right? Who else? Who else? Do you think is in
1:12:01
the top five. So this is interesting because all three of the guys that
1:12:05
I've guessed correctly are from before our era, like we did not we were
1:12:12
born in the early nineties. So are there any players left two or four
1:12:20
that played during our era of Vikings football. I don't think I can answer
1:12:27
that question. Okay, wow, I'm not going to answer that playing hardball.
1:12:31
Okay, all right, I'll take another guest because I'm what now,
1:12:35
I'm three for five? Oh yeah, I think so, yeah, I
1:12:39
think I'm three for five. Okay. My next guest will be arguably the
1:12:45
greatest running back in Vikings history, Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson is fairly high
1:12:51
up on the list, but he's not top five. He's not top five,
1:12:56
he's not top ten. Really, he is right ahead of Randy Moss.
1:13:00
He is fifteenth on Viking's history with a score of one oh six.
1:13:03
Wow, I would not have guessed that. Yeah, okay, I would
1:13:08
have guess higher on him as well, three of six. So I'm still
1:13:11
batting fifty. Yeah, yeah, you're still having it. All right,
1:13:16
let's see we will go with dude, dude do yeah blank space here.
1:13:27
Sorry, Taylor Swift song. Trying to fill airtime here, not trying to
1:13:31
be awkward, but I'm thinking you are driving too. I am driving.
1:13:38
There's your excuse it is we just went through kind of a busier area.
1:13:41
Yeah, see traffic that I was having to navigate. But it's all good,
1:13:45
yep, this is this is a fun way to kill the time too.
1:13:48
Yeah, definitely, you still need two and four? Two and four?
1:13:51
All right? Is there? Like is one of them like glaringly obvious?
1:13:58
Like, let's say they both are, they're both on list. You
1:14:00
would you would cover your face in shame if you couldn't come up with these
1:14:05
two names after a while. And again, you're not getting gigged for incorrect
1:14:10
guesses. You know all the best Vikings in TV history, all right,
1:14:15
So the next one I'll go with. I think he was one of the
1:14:18
original Vikings. I think he was if he wasn't drafted in sixty one.
1:14:24
He played for the team like very early on in their history, was very
1:14:28
consistent. I think his numbers retired fifty three. Mctinglehoff. Mctinglehoff is an
1:14:33
amazing Viking and he is highly revered, and rightfully so. His number of
1:14:40
fifty three is retired However, his av of is good enough for six gas,
1:14:47
so he's right behind Strand yep, man, Well I got close.
1:14:51
I mean I was on the dart board. Yeah, oh yeah, you're
1:14:55
right there. You're right there. I wasn't in the in the bulls eyes.
1:14:58
And now I want to think about what my logic is. I'm gonna
1:15:00
think about retired numbers. Can you answer that question? I'm not going to.
1:15:05
Okay, well, I'll just maybe waste more guesses on. So Fran
1:15:12
Tarkentin his numbers retired, and I think he's number five. The next number
1:15:16
after number ten, right, Fran was ten is fifty three. Yeah,
1:15:24
and that's Mick he was six, And then after that it was Jim Marshall
1:15:28
at seventy. And you've got seventy seven, which was Corey Stringer. And
1:15:32
I don't think his a v would be high enough to put himself in.
1:15:35
His career was very short. Yeah, he's not up there unfortunately. So
1:15:41
yeah, and then after that you have Chris Carter, who I've already guessed
1:15:46
at number eighty, and then you have Okay, so I'm gonna go with
1:15:50
eighty eight. Alan Page. Is that your that's an official guest official guest,
1:15:56
all right, I think he's four. All right, you nailed number
1:15:58
two, Evan alan Page, number two Viking all time according to Pro Football
1:16:02
references a V with a score of one sixty five A. Right, So
1:16:05
you have Carl Eller at number one, Alan Page at number two, Jim
1:16:11
Marshall at number three, and then Fran Targetson at number five. You're just
1:16:15
missing number four, number four. Do THISV I have absolute faith in you.
1:16:20
All right? So I know you know this name. We've exhausted the
1:16:25
retired numbers. Yep, because I'm pretty sure Alan Page is eighty eight is
1:16:29
the highest retired number. Correct. This might not be the best guess in
1:16:36
the world, but if he's not up there in terms of av I'll be
1:16:40
shocked. Okay, I'm gonna guess Paul Krass number two, Paul Cross.
1:16:46
Let's see, so he is not number two? Where's he at? Let's
1:16:53
look. Oh, I am kind of upset about how low I'm going.
1:17:00
I'm also upset with I'm pretty sure I'm less than I haven't been keeping track
1:17:08
of that. I'll go back and watch it. In the editing, we'll
1:17:11
update that. I absolutely must have missed his name, because I went all
1:17:14
the way down to like one hundred, and I didn't see his name.
1:17:16
Well, he still holds the league record for career interceptions. How is he
1:17:20
not a top twenty player in franchise history? This is embarrassing. You get
1:17:27
your eyes checked over there. I absolutely need to. You're also wearing a
1:17:30
green shirt. I forgot to make fun of you. Yeah, we don't
1:17:32
need to do that. We don't need to make fun of me. You
1:17:34
made fun of me yesterday for not wearing my school half shirt, which,
1:17:38
by the way, I'm doing today. But again, I told you.
1:17:42
I knew you were gonna do it. I'm playing chess, sure sure checkers,
1:17:45
Chest nine tankers. I'm always thinking one step ahead. I can't believe.
1:17:50
Oh, Paul Krause, cheese, I just totally skipped over it.
1:17:55
Paul Krause, get this guy some bifocals. With a Vikings career a score
1:18:00
of one. He is number eight. Oh okay, well he's top ten.
1:18:04
That would make sense. He's right ahead of Chris Carter. And I
1:18:06
don't think that was a bad guess. No, no, yeah, have
1:18:12
I guessed all of the are nearly all of the top ten. Guest other
1:18:15
page Marshall Tarkington, Mick, you did not guess the seventh overall. You
1:18:20
guessed Paul Krause and Chris Carter, and those are eight and nine. You
1:18:25
did not guess the tenth overall players. I'm missing two, seven, and
1:18:29
ten. No, you're missing three, seven and ten of the top ten.
1:18:32
But really, this whole game was the top five. So you're really
1:18:35
a missing two three? Two was allan page? Oh you said that r
1:18:41
I thought I had the I'm sorry four. You're missing number four? Yep,
1:18:45
yeah, we were both ye all right? Oh man, fourth best
1:18:49
Viking of all time? You know this name? I'm trying to do.
1:18:56
Can you give me any sort of hint? He's an offensive player, offensive
1:19:00
player. Okay, let's see played for the team for I think twelve seasons
1:19:11
if I'm counting right. Okay, I believe the Vikings were not the only
1:19:16
team he played for. I'm still blanking. This is not helpful at all.
1:19:27
You could argue is the best Viking of all time depending on the conversation.
1:19:34
However, he is ranked number four by this measure. Okay, we
1:19:41
have said his name not last week, but maybe the week before. Okay,
1:19:48
So in the sixty to seventy nine Jersey under eighty. Okay, and
1:19:56
I feel like I've given you a lot there. We said his name when
1:20:00
talking to Dustin Baker, but that would have been in the same episode.
1:20:02
All Right, I'm gonna go with this. Could be the worst guest in
1:20:10
the world. I don't know. Let me ask you this question. You
1:20:14
have to answer yes or no. I can't commit to anything. You have
1:20:18
to commit to this, all right, It's a simple yes or no.
1:20:21
Were we present when this person was inducted to the Ring of Honor? No,
1:20:29
we were not we Jared, it's not Jared Allen. I guess you
1:20:34
said offensive player too. What am I even thinking as a defensive line?
1:20:38
I mean, Jared Allen did try to make it initially as a long snapper.
1:20:42
So okay, But no, you gotta feed me a few more clues
1:20:46
here, because I'm like you and him have shared occupations. Oh, okay,
1:20:57
I believe he's a Hall of Famer. If not, he should feel
1:21:00
like I believe he is. I'm gonna feel so dumb. He is he
1:21:03
a Ring of Honor? Oh? I have to imagine he is. I
1:21:06
don't know for sure without looking at it. But if he's not, we
1:21:11
need to riot. Gosh, he's not Why am I player? Why am
1:21:16
I drawing such a blank? He's an offensive, non non small carrier.
1:21:23
So alignment center. Yep, he's an interior aligneman. Probably the center.
1:21:31
He is not the center, not a center. Tackle, he is not
1:21:38
the tackle. He was a left guard. Left guard played for the Vikings
1:21:44
from eighty eight to ninety nine. Oh, he wore number sixty four.
1:21:54
I have the Randall McDaniel, the all right random McDaniel. You knew his
1:22:01
name. We've talked about him recently. We did talk about him recently.
1:22:05
We need to jab you a little bit for not getting you. Yeah,
1:22:10
that's deserved. I would like to say I got four or five in what
1:22:15
ten guesses? Yeah, so one that you didn't get, well, you
1:22:17
didn't get number seven, which would be kind of hard. He was an
1:22:20
original early Viking in the sixties and seventies, even the eighties, nineteen eighty
1:22:27
one he was his last Viking season ron Yary ron Yary number seven and number
1:22:33
ten you could get. He's a defensive player. He was a part of
1:22:39
a famous wall Kevin Willia there it is, yeah, okay. So he
1:22:44
eventually named most of the top ten. I'm surprised Randy Moss isn't higher on
1:22:50
that list, but well, I think part of that has to do with
1:22:54
the fact that he left and he played for how many other teams? Yeah,
1:22:59
it feels like if a dozen, the Patriots, the Raiders, the
1:23:01
Niners, the Titans, and I think that's it. Yeah, other than
1:23:06
the Vikings. But yeah, anyways, that was fun. Yeah, I
1:23:11
feel really dumb. It's a random McDaniel and sometimes we all have blocks.
1:23:15
I seriously, it was just like, I I got nothing for that one.
1:23:20
But it's all right, all right, man, Well that was fun.
1:23:26
Another fun thing is football season's right around the corner. We got trading
1:23:29
camp. Depending on when you're listening or watching this, training camp may have
1:23:32
already started, but yeah, it's coming right around the corner. Today,
1:23:39
JJ McCarthy agreed to a contract with the Vikings, fully guaranteed four years,
1:23:45
like twenty one point something million dollars, with a fifth year option because he's
1:23:49
a first round pick. What do you think about that? Yeah, I
1:23:55
mean we talked about this a little bit. We've obviously spent pretty much every
1:24:00
waking moment in the last twenty four thirty six hours together, but We were
1:24:06
talking earlier today just about how that was kind of the big Vikings news of
1:24:12
the day, and I just made the comment to you, I said,
1:24:15
I'm not surprised. Yeah, I figured that would happen. They drafted him
1:24:17
so high. Also kind of interesting, and you pointed this out, so
1:24:20
I'm not trying to steal your thunder. But Dallas Turner has not signed a
1:24:27
contract yet with the Vikings. Again, I'm confident that that will happen.
1:24:30
I don't think Quacy is going to use two draft picks like he did so
1:24:38
high in the first round and not work to get a deal done with those
1:24:43
guys. Might it happened during training camp, Might it be later than that,
1:24:48
who knows, But a deal will get done with Dallas Turner. And
1:24:53
it's good news for the Vikings and for JJ McCarthy that that deal is done.
1:24:58
They don't have to worry about that anymore, and hopefully they can really
1:25:00
focus on developing him as building him up to be that franchise QB of the
1:25:06
future. So, and I even put money on it that Dallas Turner's contract
1:25:13
will be signed, probably even before this episode of our podcast is released to
1:25:17
people. So this may be an outdated talker already. But yeah, it'll
1:25:21
happen. I'm not concerned about it at all. They'll figure it out.
1:25:25
They wouldn't have drafted him that I if and weren't ready to sign the contract.
1:25:29
It's just all the details and everything. So yeah, one of my
1:25:31
favorite videos from the draft was Quacy telling KOs that they got Dallas, and
1:25:40
Dallas kind of him. Yeah that was kind of the like face on Kos's
1:25:45
face was awesome. Yeah, it was fun to watch. Yeah, that
1:25:48
was awesome. We got a good TikTok kind of talking about that too,
1:25:51
so go check out our TikTok. But yeah, I'm excited for training camp
1:25:57
to come up. Got JJ under contract, Jets under contract. It really
1:26:02
is just Dallas Turner now. So now we can focus on the different position
1:26:05
battles. Who knows what's gonna happen with Brandell and Reisner. Another one to
1:26:12
look at is the kind of the safety room. Let's see what happens with
1:26:16
Lewis scene a little bit one if he makes the team, to how that
1:26:20
room shakes out, because there's a lot of really good players in that room
1:26:24
too. And I guess the tight end room is the other crowded field right
1:26:29
now, even with TJ. Hockinson starting the starting the season probably on the
1:26:33
pup list. But even so, it's still a crowded room. Who do
1:26:38
you think is the odd man out in the tight end room? Oh gosh,
1:26:42
in the tight end room, I think you're probably looking at Johnny Munt
1:26:46
or Nick Muse. Okay, I think Josh Oliver's solid. I don't think
1:26:55
they would have made a move to go out and get Robert Tunyan if they
1:26:59
didn't think he could be a contributor. And obviously there's still hope that TJ's
1:27:03
back, maybe even like after the bye week or something like that, pretty
1:27:08
early on in the season. So yeah, I think it's gotta be Mont
1:27:14
or Muse. I think both guys deserve to be on the team. I
1:27:16
think it'll be a tough decision for Quacy and Kosi to make when it comes
1:27:20
down a cutdown day. But I don't know, and I honestly I don't
1:27:26
even know, Like how many tight ends do you carry on the fifty three
1:27:30
man roster? Do you carry four? Do you carry five? Five?
1:27:32
Seems a lot that does seem like quite a bit, maybe four or three,
1:27:36
But and the tight end is such an interesting position too, because you
1:27:43
can be a really good blocking tight end, you can be a really good
1:27:45
receiving tight end. You can be really good at both. And I don't
1:27:48
know with TJ. Hurt if we have anybody that's good at both. Obviously,
1:27:54
Josh Oliver is really really good at blocking, and he can catch them
1:27:57
and he can't catch yeah, but he's not known for that. He's known
1:28:00
for his blocking ability. So that's why I think he makes the fifty three
1:28:05
man roster. Oh yeah, I think Oliver is a pretty much a lock.
1:28:09
Yeah, and then it's just kind of a toss up for those other
1:28:13
three. And again I don't I don't know that they make that splashy acquisition
1:28:17
of Tunyan if they don't expect to keep him. Maybe, you know,
1:28:23
I really think in kil Harry, he's probably just fighting for his life.
1:28:27
Yeah, try to make the team. Honestly, like, I kind of
1:28:30
forgot about him. Unless he comes out and has like a totally transformative training
1:28:34
camp, I think he's already on an uphill battle. I don't think you're
1:28:40
wrong on muser Mont. Those are you know, bubble guys for sure,
1:28:45
but I think I tend to disagree with you. A little bit on Tunyan.
1:28:47
I don't think he's a lock to do anything. I think he's really
1:28:50
everybody's got to prove their word. But I think Tunyan has bounced around quite
1:28:57
a bit, and it's not like they went out of their way to sign
1:29:00
him, like he was still available pretty late in free agency. I think
1:29:02
he's got a pretty good uphill battle. It's a fun storyline to follow,
1:29:06
and he's had some flashy plays throughout his career every once in a while.
1:29:12
But yeah, I think Harry and Tunyan might for me, might be the
1:29:15
first ones out. Yeah, that could be. And honestly, like I
1:29:18
could see Harry getting cut, I could see I could see Tanyan Munt or
1:29:26
Muse on the practice squad, and then the other two guys are starters.
1:29:30
Yeah, I don't know for sure, it'll be interesting. That's a that's
1:29:33
a really interesting position battle for sure. What about guard? What do you
1:29:38
think about Brandell Reisner? I mean it took the Vikings forever to bring Dalton
1:29:45
Reisner back. Yeah, and even when they brought him back, like,
1:29:47
it's not like he's signed to a high level contract. It might even be
1:29:51
less than Brandell's. Yeah, I think if I don't know. I think
1:29:56
if Reisner wins the Jet, Brandell maybe some kind of trade bait or he's
1:30:02
just the automatic sixth offensive lineman. I think if Reisener doesn't win the job,
1:30:11
he could be a surprise cut, just on the lateness of his signing
1:30:17
the low value of his contract. I don't know how much they'd have to
1:30:20
eat and guarantees, if anything, if they cut him. Yeah, if
1:30:25
he doesn't win the job, he could be at risk of not even being
1:30:29
on the roster. So I like him. I think he's a fun player
1:30:31
to follow, and he definitely seems like a good dude. I don't want
1:30:34
him to be cut, but I wouldn't be utterly shocked if that happened.
1:30:40
Yeah, I definitely agree with what you've said. I like him a lot
1:30:43
too, but it doesn't seem like the coaching staff has a ton of faith
1:30:47
in him. And he's a known entity, right It's pretty well known that
1:30:55
he's great at pass blocking but not so much in the run game. Yeah,
1:31:00
and that's his weakness, and Brandell, I think is pretty balanced that
1:31:04
way. I think he's pretty good in both, So you know, the
1:31:09
coaching staff might be looking for a little more consistency there, maybe especially after
1:31:14
a season like last year where we had to rely on the passing game so
1:31:16
much because the running game just wasn't there. You hope to balance that out.
1:31:23
And you say it all the time, you know, the running game
1:31:26
helps everything. You know, you get the run game established, it just
1:31:30
makes everything offensively better. Absolutely. It's funny because, like, I definitely
1:31:35
value the run game, but I also devalue the running back position as a
1:31:41
singular player. I don't pay running backs because they get injured. But running
1:31:45
backs are people too. Yeah, well they are, and they're they're well
1:31:48
compensated. But you can't just rely on one. It really ends up screwing
1:31:53
you if you rely fully on one, as opposed to having a few different
1:31:58
options. You gotta have two or three. You got to you gotta have
1:32:01
your your shifty guy, you gotta have your downhill guy, you gotta have
1:32:05
your third down guy. You gotta have your end zone guy, right goal
1:32:10
line situation. So and sometimes that guy can do multiple things. But yeah,
1:32:15
you definitely you need different backs in different situations. And I just got
1:32:21
a huge rock on but I don't think it. Yeah, we should be
1:32:26
okay shattered, We're good. I have already replaced the windshield on this car
1:32:30
once, so all right, hopefully we don't have to do it again.
1:32:33
That would be a memorable moment. Go hop if we had to do that,
1:32:36
though, that also maybe a sign. I think we're at a good
1:32:39
point where we can kind of transition back over to the brew hop. Yes,
1:32:44
we've got who do we have coming up in Cedar Rapids. We're about
1:32:47
a half hour out of Cedar Rapids right now. We're headed the lion Bridge
1:32:51
Brewery first, and then hopefully if time allows and we can squeeze it in,
1:32:57
we're gonna hit up House Divided, Yeah ee, Iowa, which is
1:33:00
just south of Cedar Abits. Yeah, so all right, sweet, Well
1:33:04
before we get hit with another few rocks, I think we should sign off
1:33:08
and check back in when we get there. School school. All right,
1:33:26
Hey, we are here at lion Bridge Brewery, here at Cedar Rapids,
1:33:30
Iowa. Yeah, making our way back to the quad Cities, but making
1:33:33
our way downtown walking fast near downtown Cedar happens too, but also kind of
1:33:39
making our way home. It's kind of the tail end of the trip.
1:33:41
Yeah, it's starting to get a little bittersweet, but Yeah, it's been
1:33:44
a blast. Yeah, so far. And we've had this beer on the
1:33:47
podcast before. Do you remember the Majestic case this brewery brewery? Yeah?
1:33:51
Do you remember when? And a friend of the show, Forrest brought us
1:33:57
some yards al. I don't know exactly how to pronounce it. If it's
1:34:00
yards ale or yard sale, either way, it's a it's a funny yeah,
1:34:04
yeah, but I remember liking it a lot. I think we've had
1:34:08
at least one other lion Bridge. We may I don't know. I don't
1:34:11
remember exactly, but yeah, we've had him before. Yeah, it's purple
1:34:15
a little bit. I don't know. He's just so excited. Had some
1:34:16
beer today? What all right? Well, what did you end up getting?
1:34:21
So? I got the Majestic Haze Hazy Ipa and that's all I know
1:34:27
about it. I don't think i've had this one before, but I'm excited.
1:34:30
What'd you get? I went with and you got me the the great
1:34:33
little coaster there, the Crushberry Sour. And I've seen this one on the
1:34:38
shelves at our local high vey several times, and I've thought about, you
1:34:42
know, someday, if we really want to go like off the wall,
1:34:45
crazy get a beer that neither of us would ever try. Yeah, this
1:34:48
would be one to grab. And I saw it and I'm like, you
1:34:50
know what, we're trying it. And I smelled it. Yeah, you
1:34:54
had to smell it too. Yeah, it smells like Captain Crunch. That's
1:34:57
awesome. Like, it's very sweet. I'm not sure how sour it's gonna
1:35:01
be, but maybe the sweetness and the sour, yeah, maybe balance.
1:35:04
Maybe it'll be bittersweet. Like I said earlier, I don't. All right,
1:35:09
let's let's try these out and then we'll give a quick review. It's
1:35:17
actually pretty good. Yeah, how sweet is it? It's like crazy.
1:35:21
It is not overboard on sweetness, which I did not expect. I like
1:35:26
this actually. Yeah. It's also not overboard on the sour. If you've
1:35:30
tuned in before, we've had some sours, and my critique with sours typically
1:35:35
is the over vinegary yeah flavor, and I just don't like that either.
1:35:41
My wife loves that. I don't. This doesn't check either of those boxes.
1:35:45
It's not overly sweet and it's not overly sour. It's just it's kind
1:35:49
of right in the middle, and it's got a good like Catt and Crunch.
1:35:53
Type flavor. That's pretty cool. So yeah, Sweetet, what about
1:35:56
yours? So yeah, I mean it's just like it's name, Majestic Haze.
1:36:00
I feel like a majestic might be a type of hop. But yeah,
1:36:04
it's kind of like a mellow, very hazy, not too sweet,
1:36:10
not too bitter. It's kind of the middle of the pack as far as
1:36:12
flavor goes. It looks pretty hazy. It's very refreshing. It's a light
1:36:17
flavor. It's definitely one you can end the day with, kind of sit
1:36:20
and watch the sunset and drink a nice I p A. I enjoyed it
1:36:24
a lot, and I can't wait to finish the rest of them. Here
1:36:26
you go. Yeah, we're gonna finish these and on to the next pretty
1:36:30
soon. Probably one more though before we get there. All right, school,
1:36:50
all right, welcome back everybody. Here we are in a house divided
1:36:55
brewery in Ei, Iowa. We definitely made sure that we double check to
1:37:00
see how to pronounce that. We live an hour or so away and we
1:37:03
still didn't know how to pronounce that. But housed to Boyd a brewery in
1:37:06
Eli, Iowa, and it's our last stop. It's kind of bittersweet yeah,
1:37:10
it's coming to an end. Yeah, we're gonna finish off strong with
1:37:13
a flight here and try some what looked like really really good beers. I'm
1:37:18
so excited to try all of them. Yeah, so what was your number
1:37:21
one? What'd you get? Yeah? I might just read off what I
1:37:24
have and then we can try them kind of in a little bit here.
1:37:28
But number one here, this is the Whole Lot of Love. It's a
1:37:30
coffee something, it's got coffee in it. Yeah, I got that one
1:37:35
as well. That's my number three. There you go. Number two for
1:37:39
me is the Black Dog. It's a darker, darker beer there for sure.
1:37:45
And then we've got the Jagged Little Pilsner. Actually I think we were
1:37:49
backwards. I think, oh no, maybe we're not. No, it's
1:37:55
got one, two, three, No, yeah, yeah, this is
1:37:57
the Jagged Little Pilsner. And then the Head over Heels. Okay, that
1:38:02
one looks really interesting. That looks good, all right. So my number
1:38:06
one is the Cherry Bomb, which I feel like we both need to try
1:38:10
this one at least sure. My number two is the back in Black,
1:38:15
which, if I remember right, that was the definitely a stout. I
1:38:18
think it was more of a smorest type deal. No, actually, I'm
1:38:23
wrong because my number four is just the s'mores, and then my number three
1:38:27
is that whole latte whole lot of love, which they've described was the coffee
1:38:30
one. So I feel like we just need to we just need to go
1:38:33
through and try our numbers one and all the way on through. Let's do
1:38:36
it, all right, So cherry bomb for me, A whole lot of
1:38:40
love for me, all right, school, you're gonna like this one when
1:38:47
you get to it. I'm excited for the coffee one. That's a really
1:38:50
good one for sure. Yeah, this cherry bomb, it's a light,
1:38:55
you know, light beer with the hint of cherriots. It's really good.
1:38:58
That's that's actually super good, actually strong coffee vibes. But it's not a
1:39:02
dark coffee beer, which is kind of interesting too. So alright, number
1:39:06
two, alright, mine is the back in black and I have the black
1:39:10
Dog. All right, dark ones. Oh that's a nice dark, dark
1:39:18
dark scout stout. That's really good. This is pretty good too. It's
1:39:23
not probably not as dark as that, but still very good. Yeah.
1:39:28
Alright, alright, my number three is the whole lot of Love. You're
1:39:30
gonna like that all right, strong coffee vibes. I've got the jagged little
1:39:33
pillsner here, okay, alright, school Oh yeah. I wouldn't have looked
1:39:42
at this and said that's a coffee coffee beer, but yeah, that's really
1:39:45
good. It is super good. It's not often you see a coffee beer
1:39:47
that's not a stout. This is a pilsner, right, I think,
1:39:50
so? Yeah? So that man, that's it's different, but in a
1:39:54
very good way. This is good too, very crisp, refreshing light.
1:39:59
I like it a lot. And my last one, my number four,
1:40:00
is the s'mores, and honestly, other than the coffee one, this is
1:40:04
the one I'm most excited about after looking at their menus. So now I've
1:40:06
got the head over heels, which the color on this thing is just yeah,
1:40:11
that looks kind of dark haze, out of this world. Almost pretty
1:40:14
cool. Almost almost doesn't look appetizing, but I'm sure that's gonna be delicious,
1:40:18
smells good. All right, let's try it schoolmores all the way.
1:40:27
You're gonna need to try this more. Yeah, and you need to try
1:40:29
this all right. We're just gonna do that right now. All right.
1:40:31
That's like this is like kind of like our beer. Oh, the school
1:40:35
a school hot beer and like an arms race, kind of like a hoppy
1:40:39
amber. Alright, let's let's go. Mmmm. That'smores is pretty good too.
1:40:46
This might be my favorite. Honestly, a good one, isn't it.
1:40:50
All Right, Well, all these are fantastic. We did confirm they're
1:40:54
all you know, house divided bruised. So I'm excited to finish the rest
1:41:00
of these and then head on home to finish off the brew Hop. Yeah,
1:41:03
it's kind of bittersweet, so I don't want to go with the whole
1:41:06
latte to scold this off. I'm going with the head over heels. All
1:41:10
right, Well, come check this place out. It's awesome and you will
1:41:14
not be disappointed by the beers School School. What's up, skull hoppers.
1:41:33
We are finishing off the Brew Hop Tour, episode fifty. We're done,
1:41:41
and it's it's bittersweet. You said it a little bit ago. Yeah,
1:41:45
sweet, because I'm tired. I want to go home and I want to
1:41:47
go to bed. I want to give my kids a hug. Yeah,
1:41:51
family, I missed the kiddos. But it's bitter because we love beer and
1:41:59
we we try a lot of really good beer. We should I wish we
1:42:02
could list out. We probably could if we went back through all of it,
1:42:05
because we named everything. We would probably list out each individual beer we
1:42:10
tried, because what do we have three different flights and I think we had
1:42:15
flights at several different places. The other places we went to we just got
1:42:19
one beer. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, we went to eleven breweries
1:42:25
in two days all the way. What we started at Big Grove or no,
1:42:29
we started at Reunion and Reunion Brewery and we kind of went around Des
1:42:33
Moines and then kind of came back to we ended up in Cedar Rapids.
1:42:38
So we finished up at House Divided, which talk about like that was like
1:42:43
a mixture of a small town bar and a brewery. It was a small
1:42:45
town brewery and just being being an ely kind of made me want to move
1:42:49
there, Like it was a cool little town. If you lived there,
1:42:53
you could have your daily driver be a golf cart and that's where you drive
1:42:58
to Case's and you drive to House Divided and you live your life. And
1:43:01
I'd love to live there. That'd be freaking awesome. But that brewery was
1:43:05
great. All really, all these breweries have been amazing. Yeah, we
1:43:10
have not had a negative experience anywhere we've gone. Every place we've gone,
1:43:15
we've brought not a ton of equipment but just a small camera and just a
1:43:18
little bit of audio equipment to capture all of the awesome stuff that we're doing,
1:43:24
and every single place has been like, well, yeah, sure,
1:43:27
you want to go sit over there, Yeah, that works for us.
1:43:30
Yeah, And we've gotten a few cool conversations with some people, and we
1:43:35
passed out some school Hops stickers to a handful of people while we were out
1:43:40
too, So it was cool. It was a lot of fun, and
1:43:45
I'm already looking forward to next Oh next year. Let's go right now.
1:43:48
Actually, let's like go home, go to bed, and then wake up
1:43:51
and then we can go again. Yeah. But yeah, this has been
1:43:56
head over heels. It's been the way better than I thought it would be.
1:44:00
I honestly figured we would get through this whole trip and we'd have at
1:44:04
least one brewery that we'd walk out of and be like, yeah, we
1:44:08
can't really, we can't really use anything from there because they were terrible.
1:44:11
But no, everything has been so awesome. Every brewery, at least at
1:44:15
the very minimum, didn't care that we were filming or doing anything, and
1:44:19
most of them have been like, oh, yeah, that's super cool,
1:44:21
Like yeah, let's give you a booth or we'll figure out whatever you need.
1:44:26
And service has been great, Beers have been awesome. Food's been great.
1:44:30
Iowa has some amazing breweries and I feel like we've barely scratched the surface.
1:44:35
Yeah, oh, you have hit the nail on the head there we
1:44:39
have. We have barely scratched the surface. And that's why I think we
1:44:44
gotta go back for another one that next year. Every year we gotta do
1:44:46
it. We gotta we gotta hit every brewery at this point. That's the
1:44:50
other cool thing that kind of came of this trip was we got some beer
1:44:57
in the cooler, Yeah, the back of the car here that we're gonna
1:44:59
be able to t on the school hop that we wouldn't normally be able to
1:45:02
get in our typical locale. So taking this trip has kind of opened up
1:45:09
those opportunities for us to try some new beers, hopefully promote some other great
1:45:15
breweries here in the great state of Iowa, and I mean just continue to
1:45:20
celebrate the great beer culture that we have in Iowa. Yeah, and now
1:45:25
in the future, now we can focus on the upcoming Viking season. We
1:45:30
talked a little bit about training camp coming up. JJ just signed his contract
1:45:32
and Dallas Turner should be hopefully by the time you're listening, he should be
1:45:36
under contract as well. Training camps just right around the corner slash maybe even
1:45:42
going on right now, depending on when you're watching and listening to this.
1:45:45
And here we go, ready to watch the Vikings win ten eleven games this
1:45:48
twenty twenty four season. Let's go. It's a little optimistic, but we'll
1:45:54
see what happens. Yeah, and we're always rooting for the Purple and gold
1:45:57
yep. And next week, I believe we are much anticipated Pick Them episode
1:46:02
where we're gonna go through and we'll we'll try to reveal our win loss game
1:46:09
by game through the Viking season. Who I think is gonna win each game,
1:46:14
Who even't thinks he's gonna win each game. We're gonna ask both of
1:46:16
our wives and then get an opinion from both of our sets of kids on
1:46:23
who we think the Vikings are gonna win, just to do a coin flip
1:46:26
and then yeah, during the episode, we'll do the coin flip, which
1:46:29
was I had a blast with that last season and that seemed to be a
1:46:32
decent episode, so we're gonna do that again. So and in full transparency,
1:46:38
we have not disclosed any of that with each other. Oh yeah,
1:46:42
I don't know, so I've kind of been forefront on how many games I
1:46:45
think the Vikings might win, but and I have game. Yeah, nobody
1:46:49
really knows, so it'll be a surprise for both of us. It'll be
1:46:53
a good episode. So make sure you tune into episode fifty one yep next
1:46:57
week and we'll have that for you. Yeah. Yeah. To close out
1:47:00
the Broo Hop and until the Pick Him episode. School Hey, Vikings fans,
1:47:23
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