Latest / The Skol Hop / The Skol Hop Brew Hop 2025! Ten Breweries in 2 Days! | TSH Ep. 100

Transcript

The Skol Hop Brew Hop 2025! Ten Breweries in 2 Days! | TSH Ep. 100 · The Skol Hop

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: the School Hot I'm.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: Evan, I'm Austin.
• 0:05
  Speaker 3: We're just a couple of dudes from Iowa. We like
• 0:07
  Speaker 3: drinking beer talking about the Vikings. Yeah, we do, and
• 0:10
  Speaker 3: we got front of the show for us here, so
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: welcome in Forrest.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 0:13
  Speaker 3: On this episode, we did start off a little bit
• 0:15
  Speaker 3: talking about some of the NFL news, because that's what
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: we talk about, is.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: The Bikings in the NFL.
• 0:20
  Speaker 4: And we may had.
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: A few breweries my count I think ten, actually ten breweries.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: That's a lot in two days. We had a lot
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: of fun. We drank a lot of great beer.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: We had a lot of great conversations with people across
• 0:32
  Speaker 3: our great state of Iowa.
• 0:33
  Speaker 5: Wherever you are, grab a cold one and join us.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: School School.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: All right, hey guys, we just want to take just
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: a quick second to thank our sponsor for today's episode
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: and actually the uh, the primary donor we would say,
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: for uh this road trip that we're on, Big Top Ventures.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: If you're looking to take an all inclusive trip to
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: either Mexico or Jamaica, give them an email.
• 1:27
  Speaker 5: At Big Top Ventures LLC dot com or.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: No Big Top ventures llc at gmail dot That's what
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: it is, Big Top ventures Llc at Gmail. Send them
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: an email, let them know when you're looking to take
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: a trip and they'll hook you up with the best
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: possible rate to an all inclusive resort in Mexico or Jamaica.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: So thanks Big Top for sponsoring this episode. And Big
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: Top if you don't have a website yet, there's there's
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: your hint to get a website, Big pap ventures llc
• 1:58
  Speaker 1: dot com. Anyways, anyways, we are on the road right now.
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: We are not in the Schoolman Center. Actually we're in
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: my car, but Austin's driving, so that's a little weird.
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: I've never sat in the back seat of my car before,
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: but here we are and we're recording a podcast on
• 2:16
  Speaker 1: the road. We did this last year. We're on the
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Brew Hop. This is Brew Hop two point zero. Last
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: year we went kind of from the Quad Cities down
• 2:24
  Speaker 1: I eighty to the Des Moines area and back. This year,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: we're taking a little different route. We're gonna go up
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: north and we're gonna hit some spots up in northeast Iowa,
• 2:34
  Speaker 1: so we'll get to those in a little bit.
• 2:37
  Speaker 5: But we've got some road time now, so.
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: We're just gonna chat, hang out and talk about stuff.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: We got a friend of the show for ust here
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: hanging out with us, so an awesome addition to our
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: brew Hop trip here, and.
• 2:54
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you for us.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you for coming on the brew Hopay, it only
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: enhances our whole experience.
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: So yeah, thank you for giving me up beer. That's true.
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: We don't have to twist your arm too much to
• 3:05
  Speaker 3: join us here, Evan, I think we hit a record
• 3:07
  Speaker 3: that was probably the most uninterrupted you've ever talked on
• 3:12
  Speaker 3: the podcast ever before, and it was awesome.
• 3:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, sorry, that was a little lengthy.
• 3:16
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: I like hearing your voice.
• 3:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, thanks, appreciate it.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: But yes, I am driving. I don't think I've ever
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: driven your car before.
• 3:25
  Speaker 2: This is really nice.
• 3:26
  Speaker 6: I like it. Yeah, I like my car. It does
• 3:28
  Speaker 6: pretty well.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: It gets us where we need to go so far
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: it has. Yeah, so keep going.
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: So let's talk football for a little bit. We're gonna
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: be talking a lot about beer in the rest of
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: this episode, but we're not just about beer. We love beer,
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: we love Iowa beer, but we also like football, and
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: of course we know at this point, hopefully if you've
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: been watching our show that we're pretty avid Vikings fans.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: Forest over here is the Bears fan and Michigan Wolverines fan,
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: so we'll work that in as we can. But yeah,
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be mostly Vikings.
• 4:00
  Speaker 4: Sorry, I mean no, forgive me, grew up being a
• 4:03
  Speaker 4: Bears fan, but I think we can correlate some Michigan
• 4:06
  Speaker 4: Wolverines into your Vikings team specifically.
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so there is one piece of news that came
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: out today.
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure when the episode's gonna come out, but
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: today it was announced former Michigan Wolverine current Vikings sign
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: an extension. Josh Mantelis got what was it, three years,
• 4:24
  Speaker 3: thirty something million dollar extension.
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: Didn't you say it was like up to forty two
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: million dollars or yeah, like.
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: A max of like forty two and something like twenty
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: five million guaranteed. Either way, another good extension for a
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: really nice piece of the Florettes defense. Mattelis has been
• 4:42
  Speaker 3: a very important player on the team for the last
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: few years and it's really been fun to watch him
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: flourish and I couldn't be more excited that he that
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: he's signed an extension. He's with the team again.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's a super valuable asset on the defensive
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: side of the ball, and not just because he's got
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: good dance moves, but he is. And we've talked about this,
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: I feel like a lot since we started our podcast.
• 5:05
  Speaker 1: He is kind of the Swiss Army Knife of the defense,
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: right like he he I think at one point a
• 5:11
  Speaker 1: couple of seasons ago, the Fox broadcast crew put together
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: a list of all the different positions he's lined up
• 5:17
  Speaker 1: at in a game, and it was lengthy. He's played
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: pretty much every position on the defensive side of the ball,
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: and he's a safety by trade, but he's just so
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: versatile and he brings the energy on that defense. And
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: I think the dance moves are a part of that too,
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Like I think it's a good thing that he does that,
• 5:36
  Speaker 1: and I think the other guys feed off of that,
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: and when they get the momentum going, he forces a
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: turnover or makes a big tackle or makes a big
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: sack or whatever that just gets everybody else going. So,
• 5:49
  Speaker 1: but you were talking for us, he hasn't always been
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: as good as he is now.
• 5:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: First of all, I mean kudos.
• 5:57
  Speaker 4: I mean he's made a name for himself, specifically with
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: the Vikings well known around the league, though I'd say
• 6:06
  Speaker 4: being Michigan, obviously he had some great talents coming to
• 6:09
  Speaker 4: high school. I would say he was always good at Michigan,
• 6:13
  Speaker 4: and he actually just played linebacker at Michigan, so I
• 6:16
  Speaker 4: don't I don't recall him ever playing in the safety
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: position in college. Maybe he did, but uh, he was
• 6:22
  Speaker 4: mainly a linebacker there. He was always good, but never
• 6:26
  Speaker 4: someone I would have thought to be as good as
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: he ended up with the Vikings at this stage in
• 6:32
  Speaker 4: his career.
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm I'm thankful he's on the team and
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: he's a captain and a pivotal part of the defense
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: and sometimes everywhere on the defense. He kind of reminds
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: me of like a modern day Troy Paulamalu and that
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: he's just lining up everywhere. And that's that's nice to
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: have right now when you know Harrison Smith he's on
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: the team still, but this might be the last year
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: that we have Harrison Smith.
• 6:59
  Speaker 6: Yeah, his days are numbered for sure.
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but to know that Mattelis is going to be
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: on the team for the next at least three years,
• 7:06
  Speaker 3: that's nice to know because he's he's a good football player,
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: and it's good to have those good football players on
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: your football team.
• 7:13
  Speaker 6: It's fun to watch, Yeah, for sure.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: He also kind of creates some content like we're doing.
• 7:19
  Speaker 6: He's got his own.
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: Little tell us with mattelis a little bit that he
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: puts out on social media for the vikings. So he
• 7:26
  Speaker 1: goes around kind of like man on the Street style
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: and just asks his teammates in the locker room different
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: goofy questions. And didn't they start that like probably ten
• 7:36
  Speaker 1: years ago with Brian Robinson.
• 7:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like ninety six questions with Brian Robinson.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: So same kind of same concept, but doing.
• 7:44
  Speaker 3: The quick interview spots with his teammates in the locker room.
• 7:48
  Speaker 3: And yeah, they're always fun and lighthearted and really entertaining
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: to watch.
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 7:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 7:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just he's an overall just quality guy, quality player,
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: and I think he's the type of guy that once
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: he gets paid, he's not the one that's just gonna
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: sit back and rest on his laurels. He's gonna come
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: out and show out. He's gonna prove that he's worth
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: the you know, ten eleven million dollars a year that
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: they're now paying him.
• 8:14
  Speaker 3: I do think it's kind of funny that training camp
• 8:17
  Speaker 3: just started in the last few days and he's he's
• 8:21
  Speaker 3: been with the team. He you know, he's doing things
• 8:24
  Speaker 3: very you know, above the board, like he's he's being
• 8:28
  Speaker 3: a very good teammate about this while still probably advocating
• 8:31
  Speaker 3: for a contract that he rightfully got today. But he
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: he's kind of been out of practice a little bit
• 8:39
  Speaker 3: due to what the team was calling like an ankle
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: soreness or something.
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: And I think it's funny that.
• 8:47
  Speaker 3: I think it'll be interesting to see how his ankle
• 8:50
  Speaker 3: is doing now that that contract is because if you remember,
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: what was it a year or two ago, TJ. Hockinson
• 8:57
  Speaker 3: was heading into the last year of his deal, and
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: you know, darn it, he was at camp but he
• 9:02
  Speaker 3: had some like back soreness and they're kind of hold
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: him out of practice a little bit. And then he
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: signed that in that contract extension, and you know what,
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: that back soreness went away real quick. So I think
• 9:14
  Speaker 3: Mittellis's foot issue is going to go away real quick.
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: Every player has their way to deal with soreness. Yeah yeah,
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: and hey, if it gets.
• 9:25
  Speaker 1: Them where he needed to be, you know, and maybe
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: not just physical soreness, but you know, soreness towards the
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: organization about not paying them what they feel like they're Well,
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: You said it right.
• 9:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, how often do you see him just do
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: all the different positions on your team on that defense?
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: He's usually you know, healthy. I mean he I don't
• 9:47
  Speaker 4: recall a time where he's been injured for long periods
• 9:51
  Speaker 4: of time. So he's dependable in that aspect. And uh yeah,
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: I think he's uh just goes about his business. I
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: don't think he tried to with this, you know, out
• 10:01
  Speaker 4: in the forefront like some players do of hey, I
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: you better give me more money or I'm looking for
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: a trade. I think he handled it professionally.
• 10:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: Well, And I think that's a testament obviously to him,
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: but also I think that's a testament to the Vikings
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: because I'm sitting here trying to think, when's the last
• 10:19
  Speaker 3: time the Vikings had like a public contract dispute or
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: long standing situation where a player wants a new contract
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: and it came out into the public and into the
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: media that the Vikings had an issue with a player
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: or a player had an issue with the Vikings.
• 10:37
  Speaker 2: I feel like.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: Since Quasi has been there, and I mean Rick Bielman
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: did a good job for the most part too, but
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: definitely since Quasy has been with a team, they've been
• 10:48
  Speaker 3: really good about keeping business behind closed doors and every
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: player saying the right thing. I think about all the
• 10:54
  Speaker 3: players that have signed, I mean Mattelli's most recently, Christian
• 10:58
  Speaker 3: darrisaw got a massive de TJ. Hockinson got a massive deal,
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: justin Jefferson got a massive deal. A lot of these big,
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: difficult contracts to sign, Yeah Darris, Yeah, I think I
• 11:13
  Speaker 3: think I did. Yeah, A lot of these things have
• 11:16
  Speaker 3: gotten done behind closed doors. Not to say every conversation
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: with all of those contracts were nice and easy and
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: pleasant and fun. But if they weren't fun and pleasant,
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: none of that got out in the public. So kudos
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: to the Vikings and the players and the kinds of
• 11:31
  Speaker 3: players that they put on their team for all of
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: that business to get done nice and clean. And we
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: don't have to sit here and be like, oh, I
• 11:38
  Speaker 3: hate Mattelis because he's a jerk because all he cares
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: about is money. That's not the case, and that hasn't
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: been the case for any player.
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: And I think that too.
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: Just bodes really well for the team going into the
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: season because then they know, like the group of guys,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: those fifty three guys that they're going to have in
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: the locker room, they're committed, they're bought in. They're not
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: these you know, prima donnas who are just there for
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: the money. They're gonna go out and play. They're gonna
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: go play ball really hard, and they're gonna hit people.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: They're gonna, you know, try to do everything that they
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: possibly can to win games for this team. And that's
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: what you want. And I feel like I feel like
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. I've said this probably the past couple of
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: weeks now on our podcast, the Vikings have good reason
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: to be optimistic right now heading into the season. Most
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: teams are optimistic at this point, but I think the
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Vikings have really good reason to be optimistic. There's no
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: there's no shallowness there, there's a lot of depth and
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how that plays out.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: So I think the whole being good in business idea
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: just bodes well for the organization as well. When it
• 12:46
  Speaker 3: comes to free agents and current players that are looking
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: to re sign with the team, I feel like they're
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: agents if they know, Hey, the Vikings are good to
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: work with, they take care of players fair compensation. It's
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: got to be getting around the league that hey, if
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: you go to Minnesota like it's they're good on business,
• 13:06
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get paid fairly and that take care of you.
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: Whereas you get teams right now like the Bengals, who
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: I feel like currently have a bad rap where it
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: seems like they don't want to pay their players. Not
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: that you have to give everybody the most MAX deal
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: ever just because they're an NFL player, but I feel like,
• 13:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know, if you were a free agent and
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: the Bengals and their current reputation gave you a call,
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: you might be like, ah, no, you're tough to deal
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: with and it's hard to you don't pay the people
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: that you should pay, you know. Whereas if you get
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: a call from the Vikings, you might think.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: Hey, that seems like a good organization to be at.
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: They're gonna take care of me. So I feel like
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: that's probably a good thing. Yeah, I think it's probably
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: both ways. I mean, depending on what players your team
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: your organization has. I think some players are just gonna
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: make a big stink of things and.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: Draw it out into the public eye.
• 14:00
  Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: But like you said, I agree with you. Kudos to
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: both the players and the Vikings front office for handle
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: it professionally and it speaks values to that.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: So I think we should transition to another talking point
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: that we actually talked about a little earlier while we
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: were driving, because I think we can we can kind
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: of tie that into what we're already talking about. But
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: like so we were talking a little bit ago, just
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: kind of off the record, off air about college and
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: the NIL and how that's really having a pretty profound
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: impact on college sports. Yeah, do you guys think that
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: we're headed towards days where like these big name college
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: football or college basketball schools will have to have like
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: a GM that comes in and helps to manage contracts
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: for these kids that are coming to their schools to
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: play well.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: I think a general manager position is something that already
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: exists with a lot of colleges really, and it's not
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: even the same as like the athletic director. Like I
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: think these huge, you know, multi billion dollar corporations that
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: these some of these college programs are, they do have
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: a general manager. I feel like I've just recently heard
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: about USC hiring a new general manager, so that that
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: is something that's already happening.
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: And are they like responsible for negotiating all of the money.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: I don't, I don't.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's come to that yet, but
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: they're they're dealing with it from a personnel perspective, making
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: sure you know, the university, the fund that they're setting
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: up is well funded. You know, they they are out
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: there basically trying to get more people, more companies.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Whether it's it's an alumni or.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Anything else, endorsements, getting to fund into their their university.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Now obviously within double a there and the these these
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: these lawsuits that have come there's still a lot of
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: gray area. But I know there's been some verdict slately
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: with how teams how much they can use UH per
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: year to help compensate these players, and it's up to
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: the university's discretion of how they diverse diversify those funds.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And I think that's what some of that general manager
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: does as well. And it's important.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Kind of it's funny that you're talking about essentially a
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: salary cap for college teams, but it's also important to remember.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure even with n I L the colleges
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: themselves are not paying these players.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: No, No, it's they set up and it's it's literally, uh,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: it's a it's a collective of so basically it's its
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: own endowment funders.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: However, what terminology you want to use, and they basically
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: it's one bucket and some universities actually at the they
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: have multiple different buckets. But either way, that's where it
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: comes from. I think it's illegal for the university to
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: actually day there there they're student athletes.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Now legal for these quote unquote amateur athletes to get
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: paid for their name, image and likeness. But that payment
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: still does not come directly from the university.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: It's like boosters and whatnot.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Boosters and then they're able to sign like endorsement deals
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: and and things like that. I think Caitlyn Clark makes
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: way more from endorsement deals than she ever mainly from
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: the University of Iowa.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Some of these kids coming out of high school, I mean,
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: you hope they'll they'll make it, but this might be
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: the most amount of money they'll ever see if they
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: they don't crack that. Say, the NFL or NBA or
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: whatever major sport league that they're trying to get into.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: So it's a you can't blame a kid from my perspective,
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: there there needs to be a lot tweaking and guidelines
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: around the Nile. But at the same time, you can't
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: blame a kid for coming, you know, from a probably
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: a low income situation where now they're finally getting millions
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: of dollars. Of course they're going to be excited about that,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: but also they know that they may make more money
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: in college than in the pros if they can't hack it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: So it encourages these kids actually stay around for college
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: more than that two three years. I think in basketball
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: it's only you want to stay one year. So that's
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: kind of exciting to see as well.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Evan, you said something earlier before we were recording,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: and I think it was a bold statement. You said
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: that you think NIL is killing college football.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Is that? Is that right? Is that what you said? Yeah?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: And I stand by it, and I think you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: when people talk about college sports the general public anyways,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: you know, they're thinking about the big money makers, like football, basketball,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: maybe some of the other ones. I know the College
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: World Series is a big money maker both baseball, softball,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: and then You've got volleyball that I think has definitely
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: made its way onto the scene a little bit, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: they've televised some national games, but people don't think about
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: sports like track and field, which is my sport. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: ran track in high school. I coach track now, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I can see how a system like this will tank,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: especially the Division one programs like that, because all of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the money will go to these football players, basketball players,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: baseball players, volleyball players, whatever, and no one will want
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to go to the University of Iowa or the University
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of Minnesota or the University of Michigan or you know
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: name your you know d one powerful conference school of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: choice to run track, or to play tennis, or to
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: do gymnastics or you know, fill in the blank with
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: your obscure sports.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I can foresee in probably
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the next five to ten years, all this nil stuff
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: can have a pretty negative impact on sports.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I think it can, but I think ultimately it's going
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: to be college sports has not been amateur athletics for
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: decades now. I think it's more about the business and
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: where the money is. And while it might be sad
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: that track and field might not be as big as
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: it has been in previous years. I mean, if you're
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: getting seventy thousand people to go watch a football game,
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: that's where the money is. If you're getting I don't know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: can you what's the biggest collegiate track and field event
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: and how many people are at that event? Is it
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: even as big as a regular season no meaningful football
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: game for a random football team in college.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Like I just the money will dictate what is available.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: And if track and field or you know, some of
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: those lesser revenue generating sports kind of dwindle. They'll never
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: completely go away, but kind of dwindle. I mean that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: just going to be the nature of I thin sports.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I fear some of them could completely go away, at
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: least at the D one level. And I mentioned this
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: when we were talking a little bit ago too before
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we were recording, that you know, I could see a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: surge in D two, D three NAIA schools seeing you know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: those programs get more numbers and get more kids out
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and get some higher talent because those kids won't go
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to a D one school because they know they won't
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: make it, because you know, there won't be walk ons
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and there won't be this and that anymore because it's
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: so money driven. But you go to those other schools,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: those smaller schools, and you won't get an athletic scholarship
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: because they can't offer athletic scholarships. But you could get
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: an academic scholarship and then play the sport that you
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: love for the enjoyment of the sport.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, I definitely understand where you
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: come from, Evan, I think, but I mean these these
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: I wan't these sports that just don't draws obviously, crowds attendance.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: They've always been kind of that way. Because now we're
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: talking about money and paying athletes. Yes, it brings another tier,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: another i'd say complication to that. So yes, I think
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: it may help those smaller schools, but let's be honest,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: these bigger schools, there's still some prestige in saying that
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: you went to the University of Iowa, University of Michigan,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. So you're gonna still get those top
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: tier athletes running track for those universities as well, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: you know if if they make it. Obviously they're big agendas.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: I would say the Olympics and the World Games and
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: stuff like that is their super Bowl type thing, and
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: when you're running those types of sports, are doing those
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: types of sports. So yes, I think it does change
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: its dynamic a little bit, but they've always been just
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: a little more in the shadows of say the footballs
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: and basketballs.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: This kind of makes me think of like college hockey.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Not many program not many colleges have a hockey program,
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: but the colleges that do hockey is huge. Like there
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: are whole schools that are built on their hockey program,
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you know. But I mean even schools like Iowa and
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: you know, USC, like they don't have a hockey program,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: whereas you have Michigan, who has a pretty beefy hockey program.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know how here's a crazy fact.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Iowa does not have a hockey program, but Arizona State
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: has a hockey program.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: They actually are.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: Part of I think the Big Ten because obviously out there,
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: I don't think they have too many hockey programs out less.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: So that's funny, just just a fun fact.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: But I think maybe you'll start seeing that a little
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: bit more where it may not be feasible for a
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: school to continue on with, you know, track and field.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: I hate that I keep throwing out track and field
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: as like a lower revenue generating But that's just the
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: first one.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: That comes to mind, and it is.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: But yeah, maybe you won't see every school continue with
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: a track and field program, but like you said, Evan,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: and maybe I'm just reiterating what you said a few
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: minutes ago, there will always be some schools that have it,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: and then you'll get to know, like, okay, well that
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: is I will also say, was a title nine you
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: have to have, you know, the same amount.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: Of boys sports and girls sports type thing. And I
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: know it's a little convoluted right now with all our
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: political scene, but right now that still stands. So I
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: think you're gonna still see those sports like track and
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: field stick around because they need to balance out from
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: an equal, fair perspective. Well, and I think the days
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: may be coming where athletics are not specifically tied to
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the academic institution of a college. You may still see
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: a University of Michigan sponsor a Wolverines football team, but
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: it may not be.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: It might be some point in our lifetime where you
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: could be the star quarterback for the Michigan Wolverines and
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: never take a class there. You just are contracted by
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: the University of Michigan to play for the team that
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: they sponsored.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I mean what I'm saying, you're going back to the
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: old days of how the NFL started exactly where basically
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: they were big companies that they basically had their their
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: their employees come on board just because they were good
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: at football, and that was their whole objective. Yes, they
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: still were employed in work, but that was their whole
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: objective was to get the best football players I mean
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: out of college because pro football didn't exist back then,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: and that's how it originated.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm not saying that's good or right or
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: even that it will happen, but I think it's something
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: that could happen sometime in our lifetime. And I mean,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: let's just call college sports what they are. For the
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: most part, they are multi billion dollar businesses. Now, then
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: you look at the lower revenue generating sports for these
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: schools that they do just offer you know, full ride
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: scholarships for these athletes, but it's not a multi billion
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: dollar business. That's where I think college sports will find itself.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: But then you get these football programs that do generate
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: millions and millions of dollars, well, those might separate themselves
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: from the academics of US.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Well, I'll Evan, I'll actually pose the question, because I
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: think all three of us came from I'd say smaller schools,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: not small small they're all in D one but me
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Missouri State, you guys from northern Iowa, and so obviously
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: they're never going to compete with the big boys and
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: money grab and everything. So how do you see that,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Evan playing out?
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: And I'm I'm a huge You and I basketball fan.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I've said that on our show multiple times. I had
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: season tickets to You and I basketball before I moved
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: back to the Quad Cities.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: And I've even already seen.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: The negative impacts of NIL on my favorite college basketball team.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: There have been several players, really really good players, players
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: who I thought were kind of like what we were
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: talking about with Josh Mattelis a little bit ago, just
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: like bought in, committed, loved the team, loved the culture,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: loved the school. They were Iowa kids who you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: wanted to play their basketball here.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: You know, in Iowa.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: They didn't want to go to Texas, they didn't want
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: to go to Florida, they didn't want to go to
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: wherever else they got offers, they wanted to play here,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: and they walked away because they got more money elsewhere.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: There was a kid just this last season, granted he
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: stayed in the state of Iowa, but he left You
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and I to go play for Iowa State. More money,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: better opportunity, and he got some playing time, but he
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: would have been a starter at You and I and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: he came off the bench I think pretty much exclusively.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: And he came off the bench a lot. He was
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: one of the first guys off the bench. But it's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: just stuff like that that like, especially for small schools
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: like ours, it's going to impact them more than it's
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: going to impact Iowa Michigan.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: See it before you even added nil with just the
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: transfer portal, you saw it. Now you're adding come to
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: my place because you're going to make more money. It
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: just adds another layer to that. So I know for sure,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: was it Iowa starring quarterback? Well, supposedly starting quarterback this
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: fall is from what South Dakota State and big football
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: school for sure, in that old SCS type division. But
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: still you start to see how it starts to play out.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I find it interesting. The whole nil thing I've
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: been saying for many, many, many years, and I think
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: these college players should be fairly compensated, whether that's you know,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: a multi million dollar contract, or it's just getting the
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: kickback from the jerseys that they sell. So I'm one
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: of the few that think nil is awesome and I'm
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: here for it. But it also helps that while yes,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: I am an Iowa Hawkeyes fan and them losing a
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: football game doesn't hurt my feelings at all, I'm not
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: that bought in as a fan.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: I just that's the college team I.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Would root for, So it'd be different if it was
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: something this big affecting the Vikings or NFL, then maybe
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: I'd be a little bit more upset about it. But
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: I think the idea of players being fairly compensated for
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: their name, image, and likeness is awesome.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: I think you.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: Guys, I totally agree with you and Evan kind of
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: close it out, but I personally think it's a great thing.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Kids have put their bodies on the line and people
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: actually pay to watch these kids play, so why are
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: they not getting compensated for it? So I totally agree
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: with that idea. It should have happened a long time ago.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: It finally is starting to develop. The problem is the
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: NCAA dragged their feet for so long that there's no
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: guardrails or guidelines around it. So it's just it's complete
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: chaos still and that's why you're having all these lawsuits
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: and people trying to figure out what's legal, what's illegal.
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: And if you want to talk about playing level playing field,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: it will never happen because of how the NCAA decided
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: to handle this situation.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think to kind of close it out.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: That's another big thing that I'm concerned about is just
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: people will go where the money is. The kids, the families,
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: the parents that are sending their kids to these schools,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: They're gonna go where the money is. And again, I
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: think that's gonna leave some of these schools high and dry.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: People aren't gonna want to go to I don't know, uh,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Purdue to play football because they're not good ever right
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: they moments. I think they're like in the preseason poll,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: they're ranked last in the Big Ten right now, which
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I mean the Big Ten is a pretty big league,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: so there's a lot of competition there. Big Ten plus
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: coast to coast Anyways, Yeah, and I don't disagree with
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you guys at all about if you're gonna sell jerseys
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: with these kids' names on it, they should get a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: cut of that. If you're gonna put their image and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: likeness in a video game, they should get royalties from that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: If you're going to advertise with them, if you're gonna
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you know, have them, you know, be a a sponsor
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: for Gatorade and they're gonna be in a Gatorade commercial
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: or on a Gatorade poster or whatever, they should get
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: royalties from that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: For sure.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Ticket prices, I think the second they step on your
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: field or court or in your school, they are advertising
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: for you as the And I just want to interrupt
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: with that. With that idea they was just recently it
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: was the X previous trail prior from Ohio State QUB
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: went try to balance court to get some of those
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: those funds some some money and the court said no,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: it's passed the time. So basically they're using that kind
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: of statue of limitations type idea. So it really stinks
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: for those players that have been and did not get
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: any compensation. But where do you draw draw the line at?
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: So well, but I guess to maybe counter the points
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: that you guys are making, Like, okay, if they're not
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: being paid by the school, then how is the school
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: paying them through ticket sales?
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: Like it doesn't work.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: That way, Like there has to be and I I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: guess maybe to your point for us, that's where this
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: like big chaotic mess that the NCAA now has on
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: its hands is going to only get messier.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: From now on.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Who can write the checks to the kids and who can't?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And how much do you give to the star quarterback
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of the football team versus the starting point guard of
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the women's basketball team?
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: And you know there's going to be all of these things,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and then the Terrell Prior stuff too, like do we
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you know, reverse course and give money to these guys
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: that did a lot for us ten years ago, fifteen
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: years ago? Statute of limitations would probably say, no, that's
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: not doable. Another thing I would mention too, is if
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the universities are somehow, maybe not directly, but indirectly giving
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: ticket sale revenue and gift shop revenue and concessions revenue
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to these athletes, well, what's going to happen to these facilities?
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: That's where a lot of the money, I mean, the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: boosters kicking.
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: That happens to NFL and NBA facilities, which is the
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: owners paid for the money is there. I'm not saying
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: all five dollars from a hot dog should go to
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: the football player, but a percentage should.
• 34:15
  Speaker 6: But I don't know.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Now that you're paying some of these kids millions of
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: dollars each, I don't know if all of that money
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: is still going to be there. That's my concern too.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And like a school like ours, like you and i
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: or Iowa State, we were talking about them a little
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: bit ago. They're kind of their athletics department is in
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: financial trouble and I don't know how that happened or
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: what's behind all of that. I don't know if there's
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: just mismanagement in the athletic department or if that if
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: it isn't nil issue and they're having to pay players,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: but now they're running out of money. I know they've
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: also got some pretty big, like capital campaign projects that
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: they're trying to do to kind of build out some
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: of their basketball football area. They're trying to make it
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: more of an entertainment district.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: But I don't know.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: I think we're in for some really interesting years in
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: college sports moving forward.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: The next next probably three to five years, i'd say,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: are going to be pivotal.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: So I'm hopeful that it doesn't erode the foundation that
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the NCAA has, even with some of the other sports,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: because I love watching sports. The National Championships for track
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: and Field are one of my favorite events to watch
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: on TV because it's like three or four nights early
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: on in the summer and you can just you can
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: watch any event if you want to watch sprints, you
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: want to watch the throwing events, the jumping events, the
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: long distance events, you can catch whatever you want, and
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: there's always something new on kind of every ten to
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes, there's a new event. So I hope that
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't go away because of NIL. And I hope that
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: like even those college track stars and volleyball players and
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: water polo players, rugby players like you know, you know,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: all those other sports, I hope they get paid too
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: because they are generating some sort of revenue, right, Yeah, I.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Mean, as long as there's fair compensation for everyone involved,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: that that's the goal, right, That's how it should be.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Did you work you should get compensated for it?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing work right now, we're eating up some
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: miles on the road or getting closer to a brewery here.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: And you, guys, as you.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Watch the rest of this episode, we're going to take
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: you into a lot of different Iowa breweries and we're
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: really excited for you guys to to see them all,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: see the beer that we try, and you're just kind
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: of along for the ride. So if you're not watching
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: us at this point, if you've just been listening, you
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: might want to switch to YouTube or Spotify video podcasts, uh,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: so you can kind of get the full experience again,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: bringing you into these different breweries, pouring up beers, trying them,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: get in our reviews right there, and just.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: Having a good time.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: So I'm excited for it.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Do you guys have any final thoughts?
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: It's all I got. You can't wait to try some
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: great yeah brewed beers. And I was gonna say a
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: good day so far, but but more to come.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Well we'll see you in the breweries
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: school school.
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: All right, guys.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: We are at our first stop on brew Hop number two,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: our second time. We've got a friend of the show
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Forest with us coming along this year. Uh, and we're
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: at I think probably are like what I would consider
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: our hometown brewery. This is like we've had countless school
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Hot meetings right here.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: Maybe at this.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Very table you can say this is the birthplace of
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: the School Hot.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I think you might be right. I think you might
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: be right. So this is Five Cities Brewing. We're in
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: bendor F, Iowa, just a stone's throw from our houses.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: Great spot.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: We've got some good beer to try, so Forrest, why
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: don't you tell us what you're drink and we'll go
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: around this way.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, so I am trying the Brown Brown, which
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: obviously is a brown ale, so I never had it before,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: so it's pretty excited. It looks pretty good, nice dark.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I want to know if it's similar to the Brown
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Ale that we brewed for this one. Yeah, yeah, I
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: got what I always get. This is, uh, the crushing
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: on Amber. So that's just kind of my wheelhouse beer,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: and I've had dozens of these in my time.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: So the Crushing on Amber, that's the one that we
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: tried at the Iowa Podcast Awards.
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: I think you're right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Actually Five Cities provided that for us last year.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: So it's one of the ships.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: That's a really good beer.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: And I got another one of their flagships. The shwifty
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: hippie Is that what it is? Insteady hippie? Uh, it's
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: an I p A nice hazy I p A again
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: like you on the amber. I've had dozens of these,
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: so I know it's a good one.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to dive in.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: All right, Well, now you know what we're drinking. Let's
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: scold it up. Hell oh man, just like it always is.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: But I want to know how yours is, because.
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: That's everyone's got is a good brown. All right, we'll
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: try to brown. We can. We can do this too.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: We're all friends here. For me, alcohol is self sterilized.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's really good shippy hippie for me. But
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: it's got a nice nutty flavor to all done five cities.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: I like that. I'm gonna have to get get one
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: of those. M Oh yeah, it's rich too.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's even nice small back background. And that am
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I getting a little coffee too?
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: Maybe? Yeah?
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: I think here are So that's good.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: All right, Well we're going to finish these and then
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: we're gonna hit the road and we're going to be
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: checking out quite a few breweries on kind of this
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: northeastern side of Iowa. Yeah, all right until the next one.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: H All right.
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: Here we are at Great Revivalists brewing in Clinton, Iowa.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: It's our second step on the skull Hop brew Hop
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: two point zero, and we haven't dived into these beers yet.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: But these are all beers we've had before, right, I
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: have not had mine.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: I haven't had mine.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, so well I'll go first since I've already had it,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: and then we can go on to the new ones.
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I'm trying the cloud tripping. We've had that definitely on
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: the show. I've had it any time off the show.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: It's really good. Great Revivalists. Everything they put out I've
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: really enjoyed. So Forrest, what do you? What do you got?
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: So?
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was told to try their new release of
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: the Berry Garcia. So it's an American weed ale with BlackBerry, blueberry, raspberry,
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: and strawberry.
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: All the berries, all the berries.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: So I ended up going with the Parish I PA,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: which I think is kind of like their I think
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: it's their Session I PA because it's a it's a
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: lower ABV.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: But also a play on the churchy vibes because this
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: is a.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: And you don't get you a beautiful like scene.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're watching us, you'll see maybe like the
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: same glass in the background, but it's legitimately an old
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: church and it's it's super cool.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and this place super cool, super awesome. The food
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: is delicious, the beers are awesome, and it is Saturday
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: afternoon and it is hot in here. I hope we're
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: not bothering anybody. We might get some weird looks here
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: for the camera and the mics, but it is super busy.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: Here and that's awesome.
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: I can't wait to try these beers.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: Let's uh, let's scull these up and try them out.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Skull Tale, mine's really good. I like it.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the cloud tripping hazy IPA. I think it's like
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: seven point three percent. I've had it a thousand times before.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: It's delicious. I'll have it a thousand times again. Yeah,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: how's that, Barry, I do?
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: I like it. It's I mean, if you like a
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: fruit beer, it's nast hour, so it's a weed ale,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: but it's it's good. Uh, definitely quenches the thirst for
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: a hot summer day.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and mine's just like what you would
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: expect out of a session.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: I pa it's easy drinking.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: You could probably have quite a few and not really
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: feel the effects of it. Did you say the content
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: for the berry? I think it's like five and a half, okay,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: and then the session four point eight okay, Yeah, that
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: four point eight you're throwing a feedback if you want to.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: So it's good stuff, all great beers.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: I really like it. We might sneak in another beer here,
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: just so you know. Like, I think they started in Genesco, Illinois,
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: and I think they saw the opportunity here in Clinton, Iowa,
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: and so transform this beautiful church and into something even well,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: so it's already amazing being a church, but making redo
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: with something so cool is this?
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Well, we're gonna enjoy some beers.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: We're going to enjoy some food, and then we'll catch
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: you at the next one.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: Do we know what's next yet?
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: I think we're gonna go to River Ridge Brewing, Bellevue, Iowa.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Austin and I have been there before. I have not
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: been there, but yeah, I'm excited for that one too.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Shall wait? All right? School school, Yeah, all right, school,
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: hot fans, We are now here at river Ridge Brewing
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: in Bellevue, Iowa.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: I love our yeah, and we've been here before. Yeah,
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: back in January Anuary.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: So we we're outside right now, so obviously we weren't
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: sitting outside in January. It's pretty busy inside, otherwise we
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: would have brought you inside.
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: But it's nice out here.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And the view right on the river.
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: Mississippi River right here, it's pretty great.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: What else is pretty great is these wonderful beers that
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: we have in front of us. I got the hop Secret.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: It's a hazy ipa if you can't tell from there,
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: nice light color. I've had many of these before. That
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: was my drink of choice at the podcast event that
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: we had in January.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: What did you get at I got the Friend's Cream
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Ail and I'm pretty sure I had at least one
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: of these when we were here for the podcast event too.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: It's really good.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: So I have not been to this brewery or tried
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: any other beers, so I'm really excited. I got the Alchemy.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: It's a Belgian Sea song. It's a special release, So.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, these two beers look really very similar. You is
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: hazier by just the touch.
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: But definitely total different flavor profile.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, also interesting, this is one of the rare times.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: We're at a brewery that I've been to before that
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: you have never been to.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: That is so true, so true.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited to get these tried up. Anything else
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: before we scrolled up?
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: No, let's do right? Cool? Hell?
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Super good?
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, I always love a good hazy ipa. I
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: think I'm three for three on hazy IPAs on the
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: brew hops so far.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: Is that your goal to just try Hazy?
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: Probably try other stuff because there's a lot of other
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: great beers out there.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: I know that's your jam, though.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like we both kind of did that last
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: year on our beer hop as we like kind of
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: stuck with what we like first and then we got
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: more adventurous.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, as we got into it a little bit.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: So yeah, that's really super good, which again, it's just
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: the Belgian state Son. It has a little more lemon flavor,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: but still very refreshing, especially on a summer day. So nice. Yeah.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: And the cream al uh, it's creamy.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like a like a cream soda
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: in a beer, So it's kind of got that vanilla
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: e vibe to it, but it's not like overpowering.
• 45:42
  Speaker 5: It's not super sweet or anything like that.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: It's just it's a good beer's beer with just a
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: little hint of that creaminess in the back ground.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: Do you remember what was the one beer? Was it
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: the Porter that we had here? And oh yeah, they
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: gave us some prior to the podcast event and you
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: tried it first and you're like, oh, Austin's gonna like.
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: There's vanilla Porter. I remember it. Yeah, super good.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: We may need this might be a two beer stop here.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I saw the Porter on.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: But oh we'll find it. Yeah, I'm excited to keep
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: drinking this. Looking at the views here, I don't know
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: if we set up the video to have the river
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: in there, but maybe we can get a good shot
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: of there too. It's it's a really cool spot here.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: You go downstairs and uh it kind of just man,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: you're feels like in a cave almost inside. So hm,
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: very cool.
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: The flies are the only bad thing that Yeah, they
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: like the beer too. I guess that's all right.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: We'll put up with them for the views for the
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: good beer. And yeah we might have to do more
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: than one here.
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: Well maybe we'll see. All right, Well, let's finish these
• 46:43
  Speaker 5: up and keep on moving.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: All right, we are here at Dimensional Brewing Company in Dubuque, Iowa.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: If you don't know what their logo looks like. They
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: gave us some stickers. That's pretty cool. I've never been
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: here before.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: You have?
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: Sure?
• 47:13
  Speaker 5: Have you been here yet? I don't believe I've been here? Okay,
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: So a couple of first timers over here.
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good one. I mean, there's some good
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: brewers in Dubuque. This is probably right up there on
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: the top.
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: And we are here directly from your recommendation.
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: I think Evan had when we.
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Tried, because we tried. What did we try of?
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: There's cash and chash and check, cash and check a
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: check dark lagger, I don't know. A couple of weeks ago, yeah,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: not too long on the podcast and I said, hey,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: we're going to be driving up that way, we should
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: try to get there.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: So here we are.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: We're at Dimensional, Dubuque, Iowa. And what beers are we drinking?
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: You want to start?
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: So I'm doing the cutting grasses. It is a pale
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: ale uh five, so not too bad for a poppy pale.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: All.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: I have taken a sip and I can't say it
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: is really good.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Jeez, how could I know?
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: I'm so sorry.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: As soon as I did it, I was like, no.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I've got mcgver's unicycle and it says mosaic in parentheses
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: next to it, so I'm assuming that's the main hop.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Oh it does say here, I can see on the
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: menu only uses one hop, the mosaic Hopska, which is
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: probably where the unicycle comes in. It's a six point
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: six New England I PA.
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: So I'm excited to try that.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm doing the boot stomping ted, which is
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: New England style IPA has mosaic, some HBC and then
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: fixed secret hops so nice.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: All right, I'm really excited to drink more of the
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: beer that I've had. I think you guys are excited
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: to try years up. So let's scull it up. Let's
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: go school, heal, one of these times you're gonna say school.
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: All right, Forrest, how's your beer?
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: Delicious? Dimensional? I've been here once before and had a
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: lot of different beers. They're they're legit.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's a seven point one percent. So yeah, do
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: you do you taste that?
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: Like?
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: Can you taste the booziness?
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: I mean you could probably tell. I mean, I've been
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: drinking a few lighter ones throughout the course of the day,
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: and you definitely can tell. But it's not overly boozy,
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: so it's well balanced. Nice.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: This one's really good.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: I like the.
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: Just the simple nature of it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Mine definitely has the more brown golden ee color compared
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: to you guys. It's a little darker, not not super hazy,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: but you can kind.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Of I'm guessing with your beer that they take that
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: base and then they try different hops because this one
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: is it says mosaic. I bet they've tried other hot profile.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does say this rendition is hopped with Mosaic,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: so they must cycle.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Through some different hops. That's interesting.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: Well, I like this a lot.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: It's it's a clean I p A. You would really
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: like it, and you can try it if you want.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I'd have to, but yeah, yeah, and it looks like
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: an amber almost like it doesn't look like a hazy IPA.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and mine just a nice, light, refreshing, hoppy,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: pale ale.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: It's it's really good. I think I've had it before
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: now that I really think about it. But man, this
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: is definitely an easy drinker and if you like happiness. Yeah,
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: this is crisp and refreshing and hoppy.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: It's nice.
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: There you go love it.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: Also shout out Dimensional because every brew we've been to
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: last year this year so far has been you know, yeah, absolutely,
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: you can definitely record. And we asked for a certain
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: space here in Dimensional. They're like yeah, and then turns
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: out it was reserved, so they kind of set us
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: up in their cool back area right here too.
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: So behind us are some beers in the barrels that
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: I think the one sign I saw has been in
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: the barrel since November twenty twenty three.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: Nice, so that's gonna be a good beer. Yeah, yeah, all.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Right, Well we're going to finish these up and kind
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: of chart the map for the next leg of our journey,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: so you'll have to keep uh following us along. And yeah,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: if you see a beer that you're interested in, drop
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: a comment below let us know and we can tell
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: you more about it.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, all right. Well, so the next one school school.
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: H m hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: Welcome in everybody.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: We are at our second last stop for today, I believe,
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: Toppling Goliath. This is my first time at Toppling Goliath.
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: Brewery.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: I'm super excited because one of my favorite beers of
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: all time is the Pseudo Sue and I've never had it.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I've had it on draft, I've had it in a can,
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: but i've never had it on draft from the brewery.
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: I couldn't be more excited.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: What do you guys get? It's like the freshest of
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: the fresh yes, yes, yes, all right, So I went
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: with a Cyber Sue, so a little less haze, but
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: it's one of the newer lines I'm saying. So I've
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: had it in the can, but super excited for it
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: on draft and also first time at Toppling Glath myself.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've had both of those beers and cans.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I would be interested in trying probably the Pseudos who
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: for sure, maybe the Cyber Sue on draft as well.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're all friends here.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: So this is my second time being here, though I
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: was here back in December with some friends and I
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: don't remember if I had this or not, but this
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: is their Octoberfest and if you know me, you know
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: I like my Octoberfest.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: So I figured we tried.
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: To delicious well and I like the nice touch that
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: they put it in a Stein in a stein.
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: Class's nice. All right, well let's uh, let's scold these up.
• 53:09
  Speaker 4: Scope school, hail.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: I feel like this is how beer is supposed to be.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: This is so delicious and it's a it's a regular,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: you know, hazy, I p a. But my freaking goodness
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: out of the out of the draft being here getting
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: it from top and galaiatht the Pseudo Sue and correct me,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: That is probably your favorite beer of all time.
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: I mean there's a lot of great beers out there.
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: We've tried a lot of great beers today.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: But if I had, you know, if I had to
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: give one answer, Pseudo Sue, that's that's probably my favorite.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: Going wrong with that one, the Cyber Sue. Very delicious,
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: little more crisp, a little less haze, but super super flavorful.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: Octoberfest is just like right where you'd want it to be.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: It's a little hot, and I'm like staring into the
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: sun right now as it sets literally right in front
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: of me.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: But come October, I want this beer.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: I man, we're approaching that time where you start seeing
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: those octoberfests, I think.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: And I'm enjoying it a lot how does that compare
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: to the Polka band that we tried on a recent
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: episode from Reclaimed Rails.
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: This one isn't maybe as Malti a little more.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know, smooth. It's just it's easy drinking. Not
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: that the Polka band wasn't it was that was a
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: really good beer too.
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: So I had a discussion with Austin I think the
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: other day and with the Octoberfest. So you have basically
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: two styles of Octoberfest. You have the mars in, which
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: I think is more of the Poka band. This is
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: more of the fest beer. It's a lighter style. That's
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: actually what they do in Germany now because lighter alcohol content.
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: So in those beer tens when you go over to Germany,
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: that's the style they're they're serving up.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Okay, interesting when you guys ordered, did you keep track
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: of what the content was for your beers. I'm pretty
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: sure a pseudo suit is like a five point three
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: or something.
• 55:03
  Speaker 5: The menu is right over there. You can got to
• 55:04
  Speaker 5: take a peek at that.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: But one thing I do want to add while you're
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: looking that up is this is kind of like the
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: mecca of Iowa beer.
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: Like coming to toppling.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Toppling Goliath is probably the most successful brewery in Iowa
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: and or at least the most widely distributed Iowa brewery.
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it would either be there or big growth. But
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: either way you're you're not wrong there. They've made a
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: name for themselves and they've stuck true. They just have
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: this one.
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: Location and it's massive. You don't how big fail, but
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: it's huge.
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: A couple editors notes already Forrest, I hate to be
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: this guy, but per the menu that october Fest is
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: a Martzan.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: I thought I saw Martin on the menu.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: I would also caveat that American made octo perfests. They
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: just use the word of mars And for a marketing scheme.
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: So you look at that. I guarantee that's more of
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: a fest beer style.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: All right, I'm gonna trust your expertise about abb.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: That also says five point two for the october Fest Martsan.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: The cyber suit is packing a punch at seven point two,
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: and I was a little low in my guest here.
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: The pseudo suit is five point eight, so all pretty respectable.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to try both of those. I can't
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: wait to continue to enjoy. Probably we've said it everywhere
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: we go that we need to try multiple beers. I
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: will have more than one pseudo shue here today.
• 56:34
  Speaker 5: So this is our final destination. I mean, at least.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: You'll get the same suits, or you're gonna go a
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: little like double dry Hoop or anything like that.
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: Will I might try mix it up a little bit.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: But it's also like I'm here, you know you give it.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: You think back to that How I Met Your Mother
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: episode where they spend the whole time looking for the
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: perfect beer joint or and they finally find it, And
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: do you really think they're going to get to that
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: burger joint and order a chicken sandwich. This is the
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: mecca of beers for me, and I've got my favorite
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: beer here. It's gonna be hard for me to order
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: something other than the Sun.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: I don't blame you, I guess I look from from
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: a perspective. I'm looking for something that you can't find
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: where they don't distribute out the stick. You have to
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: come to the actual brewery itself to get that beer.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: That is true, And that's a really good point, especially
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: for a great brewery like Toppling Goliath. So yeah, maybe
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: you just convinced me to after I just put my
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: foot down and said, I'm not ordering anything else.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: All right, well let's scold these up one more time.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: We're gonna finish these and maybe head inside because it's hot.
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: Us.
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but great beer, awesome location.
• 57:44
  Speaker 4: And thanks Toppling Goalith you can get.
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: Up to Takora. You would highly recommend it.
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: Before we're done again, I've said it about every brewery.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: I'll say it about every brewery so far. Toppling Goliath
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: was awesome. When we walked in asked if we could record,
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: they kind of just went, you know, bent over backwards
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: for us to make sure that we could do what
• 58:01
  Speaker 3: we need to do. So thank you Toppling Goliath. Uh yeah,
• 58:04
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to try more beers.
• 58:06
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, school school.
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: Yea, all right, here we are, last stop of the night.
• 58:26
  Speaker 7: Help it rock.
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah place. I don't think any of us have been to.
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: No, No, I've never been here. I know you were
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: saying you're really excited about this one. Yeah, I'm really
• 58:36
  Speaker 3: excited about this one, and I can't wait to try
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: this beer.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah. It's also in de Chorus, so just down the
• 58:40
  Speaker 4: road from Toppling Goliath. So super excited. I think Decora
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: has got too good brewers to offer to us.
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: At least.
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, should go down the line and talk about the
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: beer we got van what'd you get?
• 58:52
  Speaker 5: So?
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: I got the Lequer It's a German pilsner, So I'm
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: excited to try that.
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: What about you?
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: I got the saft Eig that was the Hazy Eye.
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah right, I believe, and I believe it's that was
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: their flagship.
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I'm super excited for this one.
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: And I went with the Dunnings Dunkle Duncle. You know,
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: get in that fall season you see a lot of
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: terrorfests starting to pop up. Duncle is another one of
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: those you see around this time of year.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: So yeah, all right, well let's scroll it up and
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: give it a try.
• 59:22
  Speaker 6: School.
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: Hell, mine's just a solid beer's beer, Like it's just
• 59:33
  Speaker 5: it's beer. That's what it is.
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: A German pilsner. Probably the four the four ingredients. Then
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: that's it.
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: So it's great.
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: So mine it's up there with the Pseudo Sue that
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: I just had. That is that's delicious. Saftig Pulpit Rock
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: you you did it, you did it.
• 59:54
  Speaker 4: It's right there with Pseudo Sue.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: That's all I can say, and if you know my
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: opinions of pseudo sue, you know how great but brave right?
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: That is delicious? Hazy I p a, It's just fantastic.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: It's so good, duncle man, Everything in a dunkle is
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: MALTI has that dark fruit flavor to it. Definitely, I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: would drink this again.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: Awesome, I might, I might want to try that. It
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 5: looks super abs.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: They don't close for a little bit, so we can
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: get a couple of here.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 4: We got some time rock awesome job.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: We might be like shutting this place down for the night,
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: but we're gonna enjoy it at least these maybe some
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: more maybe, and then we're gonna hit the hit the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: hay for the night and be back at it for
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: day two tomorrow.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Love it best spear of the day.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: What do you think that spear of the day. Gosh,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: that's a tough one, PSEUDOSU, I had one of those. Yep,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: really good. I haven't even had time to process. I
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: don't even know if I have a Maybe it's a.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: Question for tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 4: great question tomorrow. This dunkle probably is my favorite that
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: i've looks super good. The day. Great solid. Yeah, mine
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: might be.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: A tie between this and the pseudo suit, which is crazy.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: I would not have thought that that would happen, but
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: I hope it. Rocky did it. It was delicious.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 9: Thank you so much. All Right, Well here we go
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 9: school school, all.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 5: Right, guys, Day two of the brew hob.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: We are here at Single Speed Brewing in Waterloo, Iowa.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try some good beers and I don't know,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: I had a ton of fun yesterday.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I'm looking forward to another great day to day.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: And this one's a special spot for both of us
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: for sure. I've actually never been here for this is
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 3: your first time this one. I've spent a lot of
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: time at this brewer actually, but this is college town
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: for both of us. All these beers are great and
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: they bring back really good memories. One I got specifically
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: is really good.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: I remember having that one with you at their other location,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: so it's super good.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: I guess I can dive into it.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: I got the tip the Cow, which is like a
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: porter coffee porter.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: I didn't say that was a milk stout.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: Is that what it is?
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: Okay? Either way, it's coffee flavored beer, and it's delicious
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: to have it on the menu.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: That one is probably not.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, but I didn't see the mint
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: tip the Cow on the menu, so I went with
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: the classic tip the cow.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: Forst what you get, I went with what they called
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 4: beer Mile. So this is a coolsh style.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, and they actually do a beer mile around here,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: so they they block off some streets around this building
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: and every year they run a beer mile.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: So this is specific, so it's for that event.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I forget when it happens in the calendar year, but
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: they do it every year. But yeah, so I think
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and I think they brew a special beer for that
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: every year.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: That one on the menu say specific did yep?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 5: And then I ended up with the Lavender Haze.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: And we were talking on the car ride here about
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: kind of getting out of our comfort zone a little bit,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: and this beer when I saw it on the menu
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: kind of scared me a little bit, honestly, like just
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: like I don't like lavender. My wife loves lavender, like
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: she'll get like lavender lattes and stuff, and I'm just like, no,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: I don't like that. And so I was like, well,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it, and we'll see how it goes.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: All right, well, without further Ado school school heal.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: So mine is definitely not scary at all.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 6: It's actually really good.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 5: That's good.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: You can taste the lavender, but it's not overpowering. It's
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: it just it gives the the hops a little bit
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: more of a florally ok flavor.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 5: So it's really good.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, mine's just coffee flavored beer. It's really good. I've
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: had it a thousand times. If you've never had the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: tip to cow and you do like coffee beer, go
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: for it.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: It's solid. That is yeah, that I've had that beer.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 4: It is a solid.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 3: If you're needing something will heavier, and I tend to
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 3: go for the mint tip the cow more often. But
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: again I didn't see it on there. But yeah, they're
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: they're all good.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah. This culsh is so good, very crisp, very light,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 4: but flavorful, packs the punch.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: And it's in the control alt control beer. Yeah, glass,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: which is kind of cool. But yeah, something about the
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: tip of the cow. I think they still do this.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: We could ask the bartender, probably, but they brew it
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: with Sidecar coffee. Oh so Sidecars a local coffee shop
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: here and they partner with Single Speed to brew the
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: tip the cow.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 4: Very cool.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 5: So we have to ask and see if they still
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: do that.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure they do, but I could be wrong.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: But anyways, good beer, great. Uh like atmosphere here. We're
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: in that kind of the outside area, but the inside
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: is pretty cool too. We'll have to go check that out.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, before we leave, we will have to. It's a
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 5: big it's a big building.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: M hm.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the old Wonder Bread factory. Yeah. So it's
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 5: a cool spot.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: Pretty cool.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll enjoy these beers and we'll catch
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: you guys at the next one.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 3: Yep, school score, Yeah, all right, welcome in school hoppers.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: We were at our I don't even know what number
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: brewery it is yet, at eight.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: That's pretty impressive. That's pretty impressive.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: But second one of the day, Yeah, second one of
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: the day. Second one in Cedar Falls, Waterloo. We're at
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: Second State Brewing Company in Cedar Falls, right, that's where
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: where it is, downtown Cedar Falls. Yeah, we just left
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: Single Speed in Waterloo. Then we kind of took a
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: little trip down memory lane literally at our alma mater,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: Northern Iowa. That was a lot of fun and now
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: here we are trying some different beers here at Second State.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Evan, what did you get?
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: I got the Irish Red, which we talked about like
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: branching out a little bit earlier today and.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 5: Now I totally didn't do that. Just right back to
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: where I'm at. But you know what, it's okay.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: I've had this beer before and it's really good, so
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to have it again.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: What you get?
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: I got the Schwartz Spear. May the shorts be with you,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 4: just called the Schwartz Spear, but obviously a black beer, roasty, malty,
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 4: So super excited. Yep.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: And I got the dapple Bach, which I'm gonna be honest,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know if I've ever had a dapple Bach
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: unless you can remember a specific time when we've had
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: one together.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I had one last night, remember, so
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 4: oh true?
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I had one yesterday. I don't know, but
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think I have. But I am really excited.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: This brewery is pretty awesome. Yeah, it doesn't look very
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: big from the outside, but then there's more to it
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 3: than you think there is when you walk in. Couldn't
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: have been nicer. It is Sunday, but there's.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 4: Like nobody here.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: It's pretty quiet right now. But there were some people
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 5: in here a little bit ago.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 4: Then we walked in. They were like those guys. But
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 4: I believe me and you Austin have never been to
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: this point. I've never been.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, I've been here a handful of times. It's a
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: really good place. So I think we should try these beers.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 4: Skull Hell.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 5: The Irish Red is exactly what I want it to be.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: It's got a little bit of the maltiness, but it's
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: got a smooth, clean finish, really good.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: I'm curious about both of yours.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: So the Dapple Bock, it's dark, you know, full flavored.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: There's almost like a taniness to it, which is kind
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 3: of nice to justing it tastes. There's more flavor than
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: you think would be in this darker beer. But yeah,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know how many Dapple box I've ever had,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: if any, This one's right up there with the.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: Best you can say you have had at least one. Yeah, yeah, cool.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 4: Mine's super delicious for for a darker beer. But it's
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 4: it's thin, it's and and that's exactly what's supposed to
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 4: be more uh An ale, but a dark ale.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: So yeah, there you go. Quiz question for the both
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: of you. Do you know why this brewery is called
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: Second State?
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: It's definitely not because Iowa was the second state. Did
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 4: they start in a different state.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 5: No, it's on the corner of Second and States.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 6: Act.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: We'll have to take a picture of that. That's pretty
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 4: like miracle on thirty four.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: So literally, as we look out the window here, we
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: can see the street signs Second Street and State Street.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: So did you know that or did you just make
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: that up? Yeah?
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: Actually, it took me a while when I lived here
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 3: to figure that out. I'm like, I wonder why they named.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: It Second State.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: And then I saw the street sign one day when
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: I was coming here, and I'm like, oh, that's pretty awesome.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 4: So the light bulb moment.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and fun fact too, we were just at single
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: speed in Waterloo, literally a block that way. We could
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: throw a rock and hit the original single Speed building
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: from there.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 4: Falls that's cool.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's cool.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: I love that. You know these breweries are are here,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 4: you know, they each have their own identity, but obviously
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: delicious beer here at Second State.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: Fun fact too, walked in, I saw these hats fifteen
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: dollars for this hat. It's pretty asked how much it was.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: I thought he'd say way more than that, So immediately
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, let me get that yellow,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: gold one, purple and gold one.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: So it's a good looking hat.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're going to finish up these beers,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: and we've got more stops today. Yeah, so you'll have
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: to make sure you're following along with us and keep
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: going to each of these breweries.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 5: School school.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: All right, here we are guys at Allerton Brewing Company
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: in Independence, Iowa. I don't know if you can tell.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 3: There's a really cool patio area and a really cool
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: isn't a damn?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a dam on the river.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 6: You can probably hear.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: I know. So sorry, sorry for the children listening to this. Yeah,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 3: this place looks really really cool. The area it's like
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: a nice bunch of old buildings and the brewery is
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: pretty small, but Homie and the beers looked pretty delicious. Yeah,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: any thoughts on the location so far? Have you been
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: here before? I have not been here.
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 4: It's really cool. Come in. It's smaller operation, but this
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: patio is amazing.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a nice, big patio, and yeah, the downtown
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 3: area here and Independence is very like old historic.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: They've preserved a lot of it.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: So, and the river view over here with the dam
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: and everything is that's pretty cool too.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's like an old mill, like a yeah
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: mill or something over there.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: It looks awesome.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 3: But I'm really try to tried it. Excited to try
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: some of this beer. Evan and I we both chose
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: the same one. The name just looked interesting. I couldn't
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: not try it. But you got something else forrest? What
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: did you get?
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: I went with what they call the dark Horse, which
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 4: is a black I pa. It's a style that you
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: don't see all the time around, so definitely caught my eye.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks dark.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: And then which one did we.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: Get with the smoked pecan ale and pecan. I like
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: pecans a lot, so I'm excited to try these.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, uh, you know, let's just scull it
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: up and give them a try skull.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah you're spilling. Oh that's unique. That is really interesting.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: It is very unique.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: It definitely you get the smoked pecan flavor out of it.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 8: For us.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 6: You should try you should try that.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: It's interesting. It's it's a nice light.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: Beer.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: I think it's like what five point two or something
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: like that percent. I don't remember too.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: You definitely get that pecan like on the back end.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like it's almost like it kind of reminds
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: me of the holidays, like.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: Com Pi type. Yeah, pecan, but you get that pecan flavor,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 4: but you get.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 6: The nutty pecan flavor to it.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: But it's also got like I also think of like
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: the roasted pecans that you get at.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 3: Like fair Shield or the fair or whatever. They kind
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: of have like the sugary coating on them. It kind
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: of has some of that's good.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: It's not overally sweet like those, but it's I don't know,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: it's got some of those vibes.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 6: Really good, very unique. I don't think I've had a
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: beer like this.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I'm glad I got it. What do you
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: think of the Black Eyed pa.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: It's good, It's it's dark, it's smallty, it's got a
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: lot of bite to it. So if you're not a
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: big fan of bitter, don't get this spear. But if
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: you like the bite, definitely up up your alley.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I might have to take a sip of that.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I really like this. I liked a lot
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: and the brewery is really cool. There looks like there
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: might be like an upstairs to the patio too. I
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 3: don't know, this place seems awesome.
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely some a place that I would want to
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: come back to someday.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 5: All right, Well we're going to finish these up and
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 5: onto the next one.
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: All right, school school, All right. Here we are the
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 4: last stop of the skull Hot Crew Tour. Two point oh.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: I was on the first one, so well that is true.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 4: So we are at Textile Brewing in Dyersville, Iowa. So Dyersville,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: if you haven't heard, they had a pretty famous film
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 4: there years ago. Yeah, Field of Dreams Field. I think
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: I've heard of that one. Yeah.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 5: So this build it, this is this is the town,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 5: this is it.
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: We are I think minutes away from the movie site
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: right now, so pretty close. They even have a beer
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: I think it's called if You Build It.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I think they also have like corn cream
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: alee too. So okay, not that we got either one
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 4: of those.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 6: But what did we get?
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, let's let's talk about that. So I got
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: an Irish red ale called Snuggie interesting. There's a fly
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: flying around your snuggie too.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: These flies are bad here.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 4: They are bad.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 3: After we record, we'll probably have to go inside and
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: finish these bruises. How about you, Austin, So I got
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: it's a pub ale. I think it's called the king
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: Maker king Maker five point seven. Yeah, one of their
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: textile brewing beers. There might have been a fly that
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: just went over our camera there for a second, but yeah,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know that. If that, I've really ever had
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 3: a pub ale.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 4: But I'm excited.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: And I went with the Dark Matter, which is a
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: dark lagger, and you can see it's pretty dark. So
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: these beers are sweating right now. We need to scull
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: it up and give them a try and then have
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: the rest of them inside.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: Hell, it's a good beer, tell us about it, The
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: Dark Matter, dark Ma.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: It's smooth. It's almost like, Actually, I don't really know
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: what to compare it to. I've had so many beers.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: I'm just like running out of adjectives to describe them. Smooth,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: I think is the like, that's the first word that
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: comes to mind. It has a little bit of a
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: maltiness to it, but it's not super intense.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's good. I like awesome.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the pub ale I don't really know what they're
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: supposed to taste like. This one's really good. It's light, refreshing,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: nice amount of flavor, but not too much. I think
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: that five point seven is kind of perfect right there too,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 3: so well, yeah, it's really good.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: I like it a lot, love it. And mine is
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 4: super delicious, a little malty but light. So I would
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 4: say you could still drink multiple of these even on
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 4: a hot day like today.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: Nice. It's got some good color too.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, looks like you said, the flies are are
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 4: Loveno as well.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: Well, we should probably wrap it up so we don't
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: get eaten alive by the flies and so our beers
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: stay cold. But a lot of fun. Yeah, I think
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: we're gonna close things out. Maybe uh, maybe you'll see
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: us once more, kind of before the end of the episode.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: Maybe, but either way, I think, yeah, this is our
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: last brewery stop. I've had so much fun, very very
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: successful through Hop two point zero, absolutely successful for us.
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: Thank you for coming and joining us, Thanks for having me.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: It's been really fun. A lot of great beers love
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: great breweries.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, school school.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, we are back.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 6: On the road. We're headed home. This thing is pretty
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 6: much done.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: I think we should go around really quick and just
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: share a highlight from the trip.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 6: Who wants to go first?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: I think that's a great idea. I also think Forrest,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: you should go first.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 6: Thank you nice?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: So I could be awesome to middle and just say
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: spending time with you guys, But that's just a weird answer.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 4: So I will go with there have been sny breweries
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 4: on this trip that I had never seen before that
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: I really enjoyed.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: That's kind of one of my things. I like to
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: go to a lot of different breweries around this great nation.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: But what shocked me really is the just the atmospheres
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: in each place had its own unique vibe in each place.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: A lot of the time, really cool patios views, you know,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: we hit a lot of them that were on the
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: river base, so very cool. Yeah, that's a good one.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: I like that.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 6: What about you, Austin?
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say the right answer.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: And the time that we all spent just no, I
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: really enjoyed and I thought it was cool. First of all,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 3: every brewery that we went to and we asked, Hey,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 3: this is what we're doing. You mind if we record
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. All of them were super cool about it, like, yeah, absolutely,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 3: you can do that.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: But some of them, and.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: I'm laying on exactly which ones it was, but some
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: of them were like really excited about it, like, oh, yeah,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: what's the name of your podcast? And oh what do
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: you like about you know, all these different breweries. It
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: was cool to see those people at the brewery kind
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 3: of light up a little bit and get excited to
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 3: talk about not only their brewery and what they do,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 3: but also what we're doing and other breweries. Some people
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: even said like, oh, you should check out this other
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 3: brewery and this other place like it.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: It's such a cool world.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 3: These beer brewers and breweries that like, you know, people
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: just like to drink good beer. And I always got
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: a lot of great breweries. So yeah, just that excitement
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 3: that people would feel when we got to talk about
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 3: that brewery and other ones too.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure.
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be really specific here for a second.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: I think the best part for me was Revaluh Great
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: Revival that's it.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: Gone to so many breweries, try to keep them all straight.
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: Great Revivalist in Clinton was definitely a highlight for me.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: The church was cool, and the service was great, the
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: food was great, the beer was really good, and it's
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: close enough to home for us. You guys have both
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: done it where you've made the trip up there just
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: to go there. Yeah, that was my first time there.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: So now that I know it's there, and now that
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 1: I know it's worth the trip to go up there,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: you better believe that I'm going back to Clinton, Iowa
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: just for great revivalists.
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 6: So really good stuff.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 3: I don't know, man, so many good things though, from
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 3: from all of the breweries, Like you said Forrest.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: Each location was just unique in its own special way,
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 1: and some of them were like on the river, and
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: others of them were like downtown areas.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 6: Which were really cool.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: Some of them were more modern, like Toppling Goliath was
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: like big and modern and really nice inside, and then
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: others were like old, Like we just finished up at
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: Textile Brewing in Dyersville and that was like an old
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: textile factory I think. So, Yeah, to to experience all
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: that was really cool. The service was great at all
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: of these places, and that we made some great connections.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: So if you're watching this and we met you on
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: the trip, drop a comment below say hello, we'd love
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: it if you just let us know that you're you're
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: out there watching, that'd be awesome.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 4: And I'll add just one more to your your comment seven.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 4: All the brewers rehit. I mean, we'll try them all.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: But the cool thing was all these brewers have been
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 4: around for a little bit of time, and that makes
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: me happy that, you know, you see a time where
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 4: so many people try to open up a brewer and
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 4: then just the economics of things, depending on if that's
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 4: really they're they're what they want to do or just
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 4: try to make a quick fuck. All the breweries we
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 4: hit are in it for the long run. Their brew
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 4: was amazing and and you just see the passion in
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 4: each one of those breweries.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, so all in all, a great trip.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: It's definitely going to become an annual tradition now because
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: we've done it two years in a row, so we're
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: gonna have to do it next year. We'll start playing
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 1: in that eventually. But I don't I think it's pretty
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: fair to say this might be the best episode.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, best episode, Yeah, school School.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 8: And the home cap in Their in their Home