Hey folks, and welcome to Drinking Alone with Friends, a podcast where three friends drink
alone together.
My name's Chris.
What up?
It's Todd.
And I'm Obert.
9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Yay!
That's it.
That's it.
Yay.
Cheers, guys.
Happy New Year.
Yep.
Happy New Year, everybody.
Now, hopefully you guys are all deaf.
Ringing the New Year the way we always do, which is on a video call sitting in front
of our computers, ignoring all the rest of our loved ones.
Yep.
Yep.
I'm honestly happy to be here with you guys at the stroke of midnight on 1-1-2024.
We made it.
We made it.
We survived.
We did.
Yeah.
Big year coming up.
It is a big year.
Is it a leap year, I think?
Is it?
I think so.
When's the last time there was a leap year?
2024.
2020, probably.
Nothing bad happened that year.
All good things.
All good things.
Probably there's also an Olympics this year, I'm guessing.
And an election this year.
Yep.
All great things we got.
All the four things we got.
We're just so looking forward to.
Yeah.
But we decided to kick it off by recording a podcast with each other.
Yeah.
Most importantly, that.
Yeah.
It's crazy.
It's crazy to think about how, you know, listen, I don't even know if I want to mention this
yet, but like next year, this century is a quarter over, you know?
We're almost there.
So we got to...
Almost to 2100?
Almost.
Yeah.
We round up to the nearest hundred.
We're at 2100 already.
There's no more Y2K that's going to happen next year, right?
No.
Now, is there anything you guys are going to be cramming in to get it in?
You were like, you know what, by 2025, by 1-1-2025, I'm going to do this with my life.
So yeah, what are you guys going to try and cram in, like, before the new year?
You mean in these next 366 days?
Oh, wow.
See, like, you planned it out well because you left yourself one extra day.
I got the extra one.
Right.
I'm going to be, like, rushing around on December 30th and be like, wait a minute, I got an
extra one here.
Things I wanted to get done this year before we hit that big 2-0-2-5, I don't know, bungee
jumping maybe?
Ooh, that's a good one.
Okay.
Who knows?
I think I can leave that one behind.
Yeah.
No bungee jumping?
I think it's kind of a cutoff, where it's like, if I don't do it by 2025, I don't know
if we're going to get it done by 2100.
There's not enough time.
It's really, you're just running short on time.
Basically, that's it.
It's the last chance.
Last chance to get a bungee jumping.
How about you guys this year?
Anything?
No.
No.
I've done it all.
Everything I've planned to do has gone flawlessly.
Chris says that if he hasn't done it by this point in his life...
What's the point?
Yeah.
It's almost like, listen, if I didn't hit the home run, I'm not running the bases, you
know?
Why even bother?
Why even bother?
No, I don't know.
I'm just...
It's crazy.
Crazy.
We were so young.
We were so young so many years ago.
I kind of feel like I should just make a list that it never stops until one day it does.
That part?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
That is a bad part of getting older.
Life comes at you fast.
You don't get a break in there in your late 30s where you can go back to be 16 for a couple
months.
You don't get that.
No.
Wouldn't that be incredible?
I don't know.
I'm trying to think.
Me at 18 or 16 even, I was like, I don't know, not impressed with myself back then.
Or do you mean go back with the knowledge I have now?
You go back with the knowledge you have now.
Okay.
So, you're saying you go back to 2004 or are you saying that you...
Yeah.
You go back to 2004 with all...
You just learned how to drive.
You just got your driver's license.
And you have all the knowledge that you have as of today, 1-1-2024.
You get to...
At 12.07 a.m.
Correct.
You get to do...
From there on out, you get to live, let's say you get to live through one whole leap
year.
Yeah.
And then you have to...
So, you get the 366 days and then what happens at the end?
Then you have to come back.
Oh.
Where do you come back to?
Right now.
Like three minutes.
Oh, this podcast.
Like three minutes.
You actually lose three minutes because you go three minutes in the future, so you lose
three minutes of time.
Okay.
All right.
I'm not going to make a lot of sense in this podcast, but you know.
Oh man.
That would be cool.
Sure.
So, you're saying that nothing you could do in the past would change where you end up?
No.
No, it could.
It could change everything.
Oh.
Okay.
So, this is just the ideal perfect scenario.
Okay.
You could do...
What would you...
I mean, what's the biggest thing you could do back when you're 16?
You have 366 days to do it and that's it.
Buy Apple stock, I guess.
Yeah, right?
You guys seen this iPod thing?
Four gigabytes I got on here.
You know how many songs that is?
You can't buy stock.
You're 16.
I could...
You know, I wash some cars, make some money and then...
You can't legally buy...
You at 16 are not legally allowed to buy stock.
You can't buy stocks at 16?
Says who?
No, you have to be 18.
I don't know about that.
That's a dumb rule.
Hold on.
I have a website for this, fakeids.com.
You could.
It didn't exist in 04.
You could probably buy...
Register the domain.
That's how I'm going to make all my money.
There you go.
The domain name, fakeids.com.
You might be able to buy Bitcoin.
No, it didn't exist yet.
Are you sure?
Didn't we look this up a couple of weeks ago?
No, we didn't.
2012, but...
Now, if we could go back to 2012.
Okay, okay.
I won't buy Apple stock, but I will buy a bunch of iPods, leave them sealed, first edition
in the box, bury them behind under the dead oak tree in the backyard, and then when I
come back, 12, 10 a.m., 1, 1, 2, 4, get that shovel.
So it's collector's edition, first edition iPods.
There you go.
There you go.
Yeah, I don't think I want to go back to when I was 16.
I think I've thought about it.
I'm like, no, I don't think I want to.
I don't think I want to.
I don't think that's...
Now, the other thing is, are you 16-year-old me, or am I 36-year-old me hanging out with
high schoolers?
You're 36-year-old you in a 16-year-old's body.
All of Chris's friends are like, why does Chris make all these weird groaning sounds
all the time?
It just started, like a minute, a few minutes ago.
Oh, man.
I guess there's a lot you could and could not do in 366 days.
It's kind of the point of this.
Sure.
Yeah, it's not like you're coming back for 15 minutes to give a lecture to your former
teenage self.
Right.
I think that's the one that Chris wants to do.
Well, you can set yourself up for that system.
He's like, listen, kid, we've got to talk.
But you can set yourself up for that.
Get our shit together now.
You could set yourself up for that future.
You could set yourself on that path and be like, hey.
I wouldn't listen to me.
No, but you would be you, so you could leave little notes like, hey, remember, you wanted
to do this in 2005 and you wanted to do this in 2006.
I guess the point here is that let this year, 2024, be your 2004.
Again.
Do everything that you would want to do for future you 20 years from now, this year.
Buy a car, get a part-time job.
Let this be your year, Chris.
I had a part-time job.
Graduate, sophomore year.
I don't know.
See if Stop and Shop is hiring.
Yeah.
It's going to be so demeaning when I go back in time and I'm still not the smartest kid
in class.
You realize how much you forgot.
Yeah, I know.
You're like, oh, shit.
Yeah, the triangle, that's the pointy one, right?
Could you imagine having to go sit through high school for eight hours a day for 366
days?
Yes.
It's kind of what we do.
It's kind of what we do every day, except we get paid for it, at least.
Yeah, but think about you as a 36-year-old.
If you're sitting there talking to a teacher and you knew the teacher was flat out wrong,
you can't just sit there and argue back and be like, hey, I'm an adult.
I also think you're wrong.
You are a 16-year-old child.
I think I would get tossed out.
This does sound like Todd's worst nightmare.
Todd and authority figures, no.
They don't blend very well.
But I would leave myself a very detailed to-do list for the next 20 years.
This is what you're going to do next year.
This is what you're going to do the year after.
You were saying you would or you would not?
I would definitely leave myself like, hey, I looked it up.
Bitcoin started in 2009.
In 2009, you're going to hear about this thing called Bitcoin.
For the next three or four years, buy all the Bitcoin you can.
Sell all your Apple stocks that you could buy.
With every penny that you own, every penny that's in your bank account, any penny that
you might use to go drinking when you turn 20.
Nope.
Screw all that.
Buy Bitcoin.
And then by the time I come back three minutes from now, I would be like.
So mad that your younger self didn't listen to the instructions that you had.
Oh, that would be even worse.
I betrayed me.
Imagine if it's worse.
You come back and it's worse.
You're like, no.
What happened?
Imagine 17-year-old Todd who just like came out of a one-year coma.
Last thing he knew he was 15.
He lost a year of his life and he just has this weird note.
With notes all over the bedroom wall of his parents' bedroom that just says, buy Bitcoin.
Yeah.
You know, the worst part about being 16, you can't buy beer.
That is the worst part about being 16.
And we can as people in the, well, yeah, I think you can until 2 a.m.
I got two more hours that they're going to stop selling alcohol.
Gotta run.
In Montana.
Like from a store or like from like a bar?
A store.
I think 2 a.m.
Jesus.
But yeah.
I've got, I still have nine minutes here in Connecticut.
Well, fortunately, I bought my podcast beer a long time ago.
I'm just ready to drink it now.
I was confused.
Good.
Yeah.
Don't worry.
I don't have to run out, pause the podcast for three minutes while I spend a year finding
beer from 2004.
But to kick off the new year, who was ready to drink?
I have the perfect beer to kick off 2024.
Okay.
Like the absolute perfect beer.
Oh, I see.
That does look like the perfect beer.
Yeah.
Exactly.
It's beer 30 and I'm thirsty.
I've been working like a dog all week long.
So maybe something cold won't hurt me because it's beer 30 and it's time to party.
Yeah, baby.
So what do you got for us this week?
Yeah.
So what better?
This year?
There you go.
So what better way to say goodbye to 2023 than the beer that is basically saying fuck
you to 2023 and that is and hey, fuck you 2023 too by abomination.
This is their fourth year in a row doing this beer.
It was inspired by the wonderful year that was four years ago, 2020, when 2020 sucked
and they had a beer that said, that said fuck 2020.
And since then, they have added a new one to the line.
I don't know when they finally stop.
I guess that's when the year stopped sucking.
So based on everything we discussed earlier in this podcast, I can see nothing going wrong
with 2024.
I think this is going to be the last one.
I'm pretty sure and hey, fuck 2023 too is going to be the last beer for the fuck year
series.
So this beer is called, what is it called again?
And hey, fuck 2023 too.
Oh, T-O-O.
Yes, too.
Okay.
I thought this was a beer from like 19,000 years, 18,000 years in the future.
I was confused why there was the sequel to 2023 too.
I was confused, but gotcha.
So it was fuck 2020, fuck 2021, fuck 2022 and then this is the concluding one with and
hey, fuck 2023 too.
Yes.
And as you can see, the canner is some crazy skeleton holding the world in his hand.
There's an alien.
There's an alien with popcorn.
ET is there.
And the alien on the other side is holding a beer.
So very festive for abomination and to say goodbye to 2023.
And hello to the wonderful, wonderful year that is going to be 2024.
I could see nothing going wrong here.
I feel like maybe the curse will be broken when abomination finally releases a beer that's
like, yay, it's 2024.
They need to have the celebratory beginning of the year beer.
That would be wonderful, right?
If they released a hey, fuck 2023 and then welcome 2024 beer this week.
Right.
Maybe 2024 is going to be so bad, they're going to skip it altogether and just do that
2025.
If this year is worse than 2020, I think we're in some trouble.
Yeah, let's not even think about that.
So just to give a quick rundown of this beer.
This is a triple dry hops, India pale ale, 9.7 ABV.
As I said, brewed by abomination.
It was canned on December 1st, 2023.
So not that old, just under a month, perfectly aged.
So this should be delicious.
Got that last year's beer.
It'd be great if it was like your last remaining like 2023 beer.
You're drinking right now on 1.1 2024.
That's it.
That would be New Year's resolution.
No beer in the house.
One beer in the house, 12.31.
That's what I want to accomplish by 2025.
I think I would be dead.
Todd has year-long alcohol poisoning.
It poured like a wonderful New England style IPA.
Nicely yellow in color, nice slint of head.
You're not seeing a T-Rex through it.
You can barely see the light of the cell phone through it.
It is heavily dry hopped.
On the nose, it smells of hops and citrus and more hops.
It is abundantly hopped smell.
There's not a lot of other fruit smells.
This smells like I opened up a bag of citrus hops and mosaic hops and shoved my nose in it.
That's what this is smelling like.
Sounds like an IPA to me.
It is.
Let's dive in.
So it is delicious.
Surprisingly not as much hop bite as you would expect from a triple IPA.
Usually when I try a triple, I think a lot of times they're too boozy and they're too hoppy up front.
It's an overabundance of hops.
This is not.
This is very smooth.
It's not abundantly hopped.
Even though it smells like it, it tastes like wandering in the fog just souped up to 11.
It's weird that it doesn't overpower.
The hops don't overpower the rest of the beer.
So I got to ask, this being the fourth variant of basically the series, how does it compare to last year's?
From what I remember.
Or any of the other ones that you remember?
From what I remember correctly, and trust me, I don't have any of them in my house.
I do tend to drink my IPAs.
I think 2020 was really good.
2021 was kind of a letdown.
I remember 2022 being my least favorite of the three.
And I'm going to say that this one is definitely better than 2022, and it's definitely better than 2021.
I don't know if it's better than 2020, but I don't have anything to compare it to because I don't have one of those anymore.
So I wonder if it correlates the worse the year, the better the beer.
It might be that's kind of how it works out.
Maybe.
But I mean, if you remember 2021, I mean, 2021 sucked.
We were still in the throes of the pandemic.
Yeah.
It's just a really delicious beer.
Lots of citrus notes, a little bit of mango.
It is really good.
It's your quintessential New England IPA.
Take whatever you think is the best New England IPA, add a little bit more hot bite dryness to the end of it.
Bada bing, bada boom.
That's this beer.
Sounds good.
Yeah, sounds amazing.
If I brewed this, it'd be the best beer I've ever brewed.
It's definitely one of Abominations better beers that they've ever brewed.
Sometimes I go through spurts with their wandering in the fog series where sometimes it's really good.
Sometimes it's not, depending on the adjunct they've shoved in it.
This one is one of the better ones that I can recall at a recent memory.
I'm going to give this a four and a half delicious.
It's an incredible IPA.
Pretty high, pretty high praise.
Well, what do you think 787 other craft beer enthusiasts thought about it?
I'm going to say that they're also going to be like me, but no idea.
4.25, 4.27?
Nope, not even remotely close.
Is it higher?
No, it's not higher.
It's actually a 411.
Well, that's upsetting.
Yeah, 4.11.
That's wrong.
How many check-ins are there?
787.
Those 787 people are wrong.
Maybe it's the kind of thing where you've said you find the inconsistencies from batch to batch of wandering into the fog.
Maybe this is just like a different batch of fuck 2023 that those other people don't have.
I don't know.
See, I think they brew it all at the same time.
It's four years' worth.
Like they brewed this all together.
Huh, I'm really disappointed in that.
4.11, you said?
Yep, 4.11.
Now, for sake of curiosity, 4.2,000 people said fuck 2020 was a 4.27.
2021, 5,000, 421.
2022, 3.4,000, 408.
So they said 2022 was the worst of the three, of the four, actually.
I would agree with that.
It seems as though a couple thousand more people are going to check this in, so maybe it'll drag it up.
Well, shit.
I don't think I'm getting a point tonight.
Chris, it might be your year.
There it is.
That's it.
I'm ready.
I'm primed.
I'm making a run.
I guess I'm going to start running now?
Start running now?
Yeah, don't stop.
This is your New Year's resolution.
Oh, that's a terrible resolution.
16-year-old me does not like that.
Hey, you know, but if you went back and told Ryan every day of your 16-year-old life, think about how jacked you'd be in lifted weights every day, too.
Think about how jacked you'd be now.
That one year of work sets you up for a lifetime of success.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't think I'm going to listen to myself.
Yeah, I was going to say, I don't imagine that 30-something-year-old Chris is going to go back in time and work his ass off for a year, then go back to his dad body at the end of it.
I know, right?
He might have some newfound energy being 16.
All right, Chris, how was your first run of the New Year?
It was exactly how I thought it was going to be.
And honestly, 16-year-old me, I don't think we listen to ourselves because here I am stuck again.
So I know on this podcast, we like to really focus on the big breweries around town.
Mass-produced beers all the time.
Can't get enough, et cetera, et cetera.
But I like to throw it to the small guys every once in a while.
So I saw this and I was like, it was in a new variety pack.
And I was like, you know what?
I haven't had...
That's a funky little underdog brewery.
Yeah, just, yeah.
It's just like this one guy in a shed, basically.
Pretty much.
But I haven't seen this from Sierra Nevada before.
Sierra Nevada?
Yeah, I know.
Believe it or not, it's not even in Nevada.
Isn't that crazy?
That is weird.
You would think it was.
Nevada's best beer.
That could be their slogan.
Yeah.
Listen, I'll see if I can stop by his house or something and see if I can pitch it to him.
Who knows?
Maybe we can get sponsored by them.
That'd be pretty cool.
Or would we have to sponsor them?
I don't know.
Maybe.
I don't know.
Cross promotion, I guess.
I don't know.
So this is Sierra Nevada's Crisp Little Thing.
I don't know if you guys have seen this at all from...
I have not.
No, it's a new one.
It's an easy drinking lager.
And I was like, oh, okay.
I don't have lagers on the podcast very much.
I prefer my lagers to be hard to drink.
Yeah.
I like a challenging, complex lager.
So I'm here for it.
I like the Hazy Little Things series.
But before you even crack open this can, I got to say, if they're just taking beers
and just releasing the next Sierra Nevada beer as a little thing because that's what
sells, then I don't like that.
This should at least be a take on the Hazy Little Thing.
You know what I mean?
I could definitely see that.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, it doesn't give me anything other than an easy drinking lager, 4.7% ABV,
not from Nevada.
Not for sale in the state of Nevada.
Owned, operated, and argued over.
That's what it says right here.
So yeah, I'm curious.
I wonder if it is a branding thing.
I wouldn't be surprised.
But I like the look of the can.
It looks nice.
So let's see.
Is it actually going to be?
I mean, it looks exactly like the Hazy Little Thing can.
It does.
It does.
It's the nice pastel blue background.
In fact, it's the exact same can except for it doesn't say Hazy Little Thing.
So as anticipated, clear.
You're dead.
T-Rex is coming at you a mile away.
You are T-Rex food.
Yep.
You don't even like, I mean, I can see you guys without any issues through this beer.
It's very, very, um, head, head, head is, it's, uh, it's there, but it's not a lot.
I'm not going to lie.
It smells like a lager.
So they might just be trying to, trying to, trying to, trying to sell some beers.
It did come in a, in a little thing, like mixed pack with like the big, big little thing
or whatever they call it.
And then the Hazy Little Thing and then, I don't know, a third one, another little thing.
So, um.
I want to know what the other little thing is now.
Sunny Little Thing, something like that.
Um, but yeah, so here we go.
Let's check.
Let's see.
Let's see if this crisp little thing lives up to the little, little, the, the little
thing name.
Okay.
Cheers.
Titties, titties, titties beer.
Just the thing to get you grinning ear to ear.
Whether you're from the country or the big old city.
One thing for sure, everybody loves titties.
It's actually like pretty good.
Um, I'm not normally like a big lager fan.
I think we picked up on that over 200 and some odd episodes, but when they say crisp
little thing, this thing is crisp.
It has a nice bite.
It's like nice clean bite to it.
Um, the ending has a little bit of like some hoppiness to it.
Like, I don't know.
A lot of times for me, lagers just kind of like fall off a lot at the end and they leave
you with like a weird aftertaste, a weird like mouth taste.
And, um, but this, this gives you a little punch from like some hops on the back end.
Um, it is not a hobby beer.
I wouldn't call it a hobby beer at all.
But, you know, if you're someone that maybe you've tried, like the big, you know, the
big name brands that we love so much on the podcast, um, and you're like, you know what?
I don't really like these.
This is maybe an alternative for you.
Like, um, I can see this way more palatable than like someone who just dives in and grabs
a whores light or a Coors banquet or something like that, you know?
So it really does live up to its name of an easy drinking lager.
Yeah, it really is.
It really is just an easy drinking lager and it is, it's nice and crisp.
I can see, I can see the appeal and 4.7 ABV.
That's like right in line with some of your, some of your other lager beers that you get.
Lawn mowing beer.
For January 1st.
Hey, baby.
Yeah.
You know, I drink Stout's all summer.
Lawn mowing beers all winter.
Lawn mowing beers all winter.
Let's go.
It's really good.
I'm actually, I'm actually like pleasantly surprised.
I didn't think, uh, I didn't think I was going to enjoy it this much.
So.
So you mentioned the little hop aftertaste.
Yeah.
That you get on the tail end.
Just a, just a slight bit.
Yep.
How do you feel it lives up to the name, the little thing, branding, the mix pack itself?
Like you think it's, it's in a good spot?
I honestly, I, I, I didn't think of it as like a branding tech tactic until you mentioned it.
So I was like, Oh, Albert's got a good point there, you know?
Um, but honestly, I feel, I don't feel bad about it.
I don't feel, I feel like it's a good enough blogger to, to live up to the little thing.
Um, and I'm not like, and when I say, I'm not saying like this is a hot bomb, definitely not that,
but it does have enough on the back end that I feel like it leaves you with a more pleasant experience
and a more pleasant aftertaste than some of the other bloggers that you have.
So honestly, I'm cool with it.
So Sierra Nevada, small family owned one person in his garage.
I mean, I would like to say that, uh, Sierra Nevada was founded in 1979.
So even if you went back to 2004, they would still be a pretty big brewery.
Um, but I do, I approve, I approve of the naming.
So, um, yeah, I mean, it's for a logger.
It's, it's very good.
They did, they did a very good job.
So, um, not, not mad at it.
I'm, um, I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I was going to.
Um, yeah, I can tell.
And that's, I mean, it's good.
Yeah.
Um, I'm going to give it a very, you know what?
Five point now.
Start off, start off the new year strong.
All five.
If I do your resolution, I'm not going to check in if you're under five.
I'm going to give it a four.
I'm going to give it a four.
Um, I think it's, I think it's very good.
I'm, I don't think the average is going to be four, by the way.
I'm going to throw that out there right now.
But for me personally, like I think it, it stuck up on me, took me by surprise.
I was like, I'm enjoying, I mean, this isn't a crisp little thing right here.
I like it.
Okay.
I'm here for it.
So.
Okay.
So what do you think the 2,545 people who've already had this beer thought about?
That's it.
He's doing pretty good for himself.
Must be a new, new release.
You said, you said 2,000, right?
Two, five, four, five.
Jesus.
Like that's a, I think that might be the lowest Sierra Nevada beer we've ever had on this podcast.
Like that is, that's incredibly low.
Yeah.
Um, well, yeah.
Like it says new on the package, but again, who knows when these packages get.
Yeah.
Mountain Dew was doing that for about 15 years.
Yeah.
New code red.
I mean, Coca-Cola did it for three months and then went back and now they say Coca-Cola
classic.
So.
Yeah.
I think they're going to be lower than me.
I'd like to think they didn't go too low, but who knows how on tap to work some days.
Um, I'm going to say it's a three, five, six.
Very close.
Okay.
Still, it's lower than that though, which is surprising.
It's a 3.5 zero.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
But on the board, on the board, being Ted, that wasn't that hard this week.
I'm not, I'm not surprised.
I'm not surprised by it only because loggers don't get love.
You know, I think I disagree.
Ted, I think, oh, you mean not hard to beat you.
Yeah.
I think this is a hard one.
This is when you, again, the, I feel like the lower the average, the bigger, the further
you off you can get.
Yeah.
I agree.
I completely agree.
Yeah.
But, um, okay.
It's my turn here.
And, um, as we leave old, old decrepit man, 20, 23 behind us and welcome in a little,
little newborn baby, 40 minute old 20, 24 baby.
Um, it's time for a new year's resolution.
I'm trying to get rid of some beers that I've saved for too long.
You know, everybody has those beers.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Anything from 20, 23 now in 20, 24, it's too old.
It's too old.
Um, and I actually have a beer from 2019 that I'm going to be drinking, uh, today.
And it is the 2019 version of the velvet Merkin from firestone Walker, which is their, uh,
barrel age series.
So you can see here 2019.
And I also have in addition, not for tonight, but the 2017 and 2018 varieties.
Ooh.
So I think this is going to be part of a three, three episode series for me.
Yeah.
Why you decided to go with the newest than first?
Um, I thought it would be fun to build up to the oldest.
You know what I mean?
I don't disagree with you by the way.
I should point this out, but, um, I will say that.
So the 2019 says I got a little, a fun little gift box here that they all came in.
It says that the 2019, they transformed the beer from an oatmeal stout to a milk stout.
So 2019, which is the one I'll be drinking tonight, uh, they removed the oatmeal and
added lactose to offer a creamier mouthfeel.
So I do expect to see some differences between them.
Uh, and so I don't know if it's appropriate to talk about this now or not, but I've been
thinking a lot about it and I don't think it's fair for me to, to rate this beer tonight.
Have you tell me what the untapped average is and then rate the next one the week after
and the week after that.
I feel like that'd be too much information.
Interesting.
So what if?
So I have a proposed solution.
I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to, you're going to tell me the number of
check-ins you'll tell.
I'll tell you my guests and then you just tell me if I win or if I don't.
And then after I do all three, then we can reveal what my guess was.
You know what I mean?
What the actual number was.
Well, I think you, okay.
Okay.
I think I have a, I have a different proposal and it's only to keep the sanctity of, of
the game for the next two weeks.
Cause I think you are, I think you're pretty smart.
So I think that if you, if you do happen to win this week, Chris is only off by 0.06.
So you'll know that it's within 0.06 of what you get or 0.05 of what you guessed.
If you win.
Sure.
I mean, I won't know which direction, right?
Right.
It's kind of a big window.
I think you should jot these down on the board in three weeks from now or three episodes
from now, then we'll award the points.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
So, so we will, so no one's going to know who won at the end of the episode.
I, like Chris and I will know if you won or not, but you will have no idea.
The audience won't know.
The audience.
Two people in the universe will know unless they have untapped and looking up themselves.
Correct.
Yes.
Unless they have one of the most downloaded apps in the app store.
Yeah.
Otherwise, no idea.
Right.
OK.
You know, I think that's I think that's reasonable.
I think it's it kind of keeps the mystery alive a little bit, you know, but I don't
know.
I wasn't sure if we should even talk about that until I'm done with my beer review.
So I'm thirsty.
I'm third tonight.
I'm again like SpongeBob in Sandy's Dome here.
Just so thirsty.
Let's let's get it.
Let's get this started.
I mean, Chris, do you agree with this approach?
Yeah, no, I like it.
I have a I have a notepad on my desk that I'm going to jot down these as well for the
sanctity of the game.
Yeah, I didn't want it to be on the whiteboard.
I wanted you guys to control it.
But OK, right off the bat, cool bottle cap.
I I noticed that's one thing that I included my reviews more than you guys do, which is
the I like to give a little bottle cap review and cool lion.
Lion.
If you've seen the Leo versus Ursus lion, black and gold tells me a lot of fun things
about the OG and IBUs and how much they produced on the label, which I don't know.
I think they could have used a better better use that space, to be honest.
But right away on the nose, get that bourbony delicious.
I do get a little bit of the lactose, which is one of those things that I'm like, how
much of this is what I read influencing me and how much of this is just what I'm picking
up on organically?
Pours exactly as you would want it to.
Dark as night, very quickly evaporating head.
I'm curious.
Maybe I've aged these too long because I'm not getting a ton on my nose.
My nose tastes here.
Very subtle sweetness.
That molasses bourbon barrel.
But with that, I'm going to just dive in.
Cheers, guys.
Cheers.
I like beer.
It makes me a jolly good fellow.
I like beer.
It helps me unwind.
And sometimes it makes me feel mellow.
Makes me feel mellow.
I like beer.
A little disappointing, to be honest.
It's very thin.
It definitely needs more body.
If you're going to barrel-age a beer like this, I expect maybe a little more booze,
a little more body.
I don't know if I've had the Velvet Mirkin series before.
I might have, but definitely not the 2019 version.
Yeah, just fine.
Bourbon barrel-aged milk style.
I don't know.
Eight and a half percent ABV.
Again, I'm expecting something that weighs in double digits.
You know what I mean?
I will say, I'm glad I'm not saving this anymore.
It's not bad.
Don't get me wrong.
It's not bad.
But you guys have any of those beers in your house that you've saved maybe for a special
occasion, you've been hanging out for a really long time.
It kind of builds up the expectations in your mind, the hype a little bit.
If I just saw this at a liquor store on a random Tuesday night, brought it home, cracked
it open, yeah, it's pretty good.
It reminds me of the, not 10-fitty, who does the Kraken?
Is that Sierra Nevada?
Yes.
They're barrel-aged out?
No.
Well, isn't Sierra Nevada's narwhal?
Narwhal.
That's what it is.
The black, yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is, that's what it is.
Not a Kraken, a narwhal.
What is real?
Wait, which one's real?
I guess giant squids are.
Narwhals are real.
Get the, what?
Kraken's I guess are basically giant squids.
Narwhals are not real.
Yeah.
No.
Narwhals are real.
Fuck that.
No, they're not.
Let's find out.
Somebody Google our narwhal is real.
I don't know if Todd's being a joke, if this is a bit or not.
No, no, this is not a bit.
I don't know.
Wait, narwhals are really real?
I think we have a segment where it's real or fake and we put pictures.
Holy shit, narwhals are real.
Yes, yes they are.
They're so fucking weird looking.
Yep.
Holy shit.
They have those long ass horns.
Yeah, they're like a dolphin with a horn.
I think they're teeth.
Is that a thing?
Is that what they are?
A fat pudgy horned dolphin.
Hey, no horn shaming on this podcast.
Yeah, right?
Holy shit.
They have a beluga whale with a horn.
That's a better description.
Beluga whale with a horn.
Okay, yeah.
And they're not all white.
They're like white and gray.
Dolphin color, beluga whale body, unicorn horn.
They're like a dolphin color on the top until about halfway through and then the belly is
beluga whale colored.
There's sea damage.
And they've got a giant horn.
Without the spots.
Two big spots.
They actually kind of are spotted on the bottom.
Yeah.
I thought narwhals were fake.
I thought they were a mythical creature.
Learned something new every day.
Holy shit.
Now, my mind is blown.
you do don't go don't google mermaids mermaids are not real that's what they
want you to think that's what the mermaids say but yeah again glad I'm done
saving this one oh they are related to beluga whales okay good to know they're
they're one of two part of that family of beluga of whales it's them and the
belugas we got to save the whales save than our walls can I can I resume my
beer review I don't know you see life facts you've you've you've led me down a
path all right okay it doesn't even count for points tonight so what's the
point well I mean let's just find out how this beer is because I'm telling you
it's it's just okay I again the things I'm looking for in this beer this being
the milk stout variant and the others being the oatmeal stout variant I'm
trying to pick up on more that lactose that sweetness and maybe it's the five
years now that I've had this beer and you believe 2019 was five years ago by
the way yeah narwhal that's how I got there you threw me way off of my my
game listen trust me I'm with you you threw me well my game it's like a it's
a little less sweet and a little bit like imagine you took a narwhal and you
just threw it in your cabinet for five years it's fine yeah also a four I mean I
feel bad rating it below a four because it's perfectly delicious but I just had
higher hopes I thought it was a higher EVV beer just expecting more of a
delicious adjuncty heavy hitter than what I got so that's a little bit on me
how many people have had the 2019 velvet merkin so yeah so there's um one thousand
six hundred and ninety nine check-ins that's it Chris's brand new Sierra
Nevada beer has more check-ins than this beer this beer has been around for five
years surprises me because I was aware of this beer like I know it's out there
I know they sell it I assumed that it was much more popular than that just just
for my own information and the audience's how many does a generic velvet
merkin have like if you just look up the non-year variant are we in like the 10
of thousands I only see your variance yeah I only see your variance oh no way
down here it first of all it's an entirely different beer it's a five
point five percent ABV beer hmm but it has 80,000 check-ins that's weird that I
guess I'm drinking like the special release version that they I'd like to
know more I'd like to find out what the regular velvet merkin is versus what I'm
drinking but not to derail you even more but Todd I want you to I'm so I'm so off
rail right I can't get out any I mean that's the thing you're either on the
rails or you're derailing I know but Todd look at look at some of the other years for
velvet merkin there is I won't give you any numbers even though you're gonna go
with there significantly more check-ins like as you get older or newer just
yeah older I guess huh so maybe they stopped doing it maybe 2012 there's only
there's only 60 chickens yeah that was a weird one I don't know if that was the
first one that they did no to 2011 hand velvet at each Merkin yeah I don't know
I don't know what what happened but yeah you'll learn those figures coming up
but later yeah spoiler for a month and a half from now okay so to give to give
you my guess it's so it's so weird I hate having to say a number and you guys
be like yep moving on I just don't like it I don't like it this is your idea
it was and I think it's fun to try something different don't get me wrong
it's just a tough one it's not only like okay if it's tough and I am way off my
whatever but this is one that I'm setting myself up for here right like you
know what I think I got it right four point out four for me four for the
untapped man of the people so I'm thrown out there and we'll find out on episode
whatever to 240 or whatever what are we on 235 236 so we'll find out on episode
238 all right so um next on the agenda that we're doing is what champagne yeah
that's what I don't kiss you or kiss your wife we're doing our champagne
flute we missed the whole kissing somebody at midnight thing mm-hmm the
year doesn't end until you kiss somebody I think is how you got time
still stuck in 2023 who knows when I who knows reminds me of it and probably
never mine's never gonna end hey you'll you'll never get older cool there you
go life hack you found this secret of life never kiss anybody ever again check
so I don't know what are we doing next I I don't know I don't know there's okay
well I guess it's time for our new tradition where we and the podcast and
every show with a beer mad Libs I have to go get it oh boy I have to go get it I
really expected you to start the show yeah I was that's why I was I was kind of
hoping for specific I got something it would break out your mad Libs but he
didn't do this no we had to go we had we had to do New Year's stuff we had a new
year stuff I can go get it you want to be your mad Libs your new mad Lib let's
do yeah let's do a quick a quick mad Lib so it's a new year new beginnings
upon the podcast things we gotta get in before 2025 we got a leap year we got
mad Libs we got mad Libs yeah not secret bad Libs like we had last this is full
blown we know we're in bad Libs bad Libs I know is that how mad Libs are you
supposed to know how what mad Libs you're mad Libbing is that how it works I
think that I think the title makes it a little bit more fun if we if we know the
title of the math there okay so hang on I think you got to tell us a little bit
about this this mad Libs book yes so my my boss was like I got you a Christmas
present you know back in 2023 when we were still doing Christmas oh by the way
we didn't tell you this earlier but this is this is 80 84 year old Chris back
back to 2024 we don't do Christmas sometime in the next like 50 years we
stopped Christmas but she ended up getting me a craft beer mad Libs book so
this book is all about craft beer which I thought it was pretty funny
considering she's like you could use it on the podcast and I was like I actually
just did one like last week so this is actually perfectly timed I don't know
how she did it maybe she's a listener probably how many how many mad Libs are
in this book a year's worth I can tell you that much I was gonna say are there
at least 26 I don't know I mean there's a lot I don't know how many how many
there is no numbered pages but but yeah so this is a craft beer mad Libs adult
mad Libs if you if you if you will so 21 plus we are adults adults like our
adult podcast for adults no 16 year olds here no not this time anymore all right
so we'll start with the first one how about that this is the lager versus ale
smackdown okay fitting yeah we had a bit of a lager versus ale smackdown today we
did all right so I need a verb ending in ing stinking oh you want all we
didn't really clear this up Ted do you want to alternate yeah let's alternate
okay okay I need a verb run I need a number to adjective help me again what
is an adjective this script or word like a color or a flavor you have a whole
list of them I think somewhere slimy a place I dumpster behind a McDonald's the
lines that long right not add DBH MCD adjective clean verb ending in ing
fucking noun Grover Cleveland he is a noun yeah welcome to drinking alone
with friends the only podcast for three nouns celebrity shit Grover Cleveland
yeah can I can I do a noun we use Grover Cleveland for the celebrity sure
president of the United States hey a person place or a thing
Grover Cleveland is a person I know it's a proper but it did not say I could not
use a proper noun it didn't all right now shit oh shit I mean just look around
like I do what you say G we G adjective bitter adverb quick quickly quickly
quickly adjective sudsy adjective ice creamy plural noun I had a great now but
it doesn't really work as a plural I have one I have one I have one go for it
narwhals verb it's all you ever spring adjective springy all right and type of
event narwhal mating season I can't I can't pass it up I like narwhal mating
season all right guys ready to hear about the logger versus ale smackdown
yeah I'm not gonna lie guys you asked what the category is I don't think but
for one answer you guys utilized it hey I said sudsy and I said bitter okay two
answers I don't think Todd used it at all that's all right I said ice I said ice
creamy exactly all right calling all beer fans this is the fight you've been
stinking for this Sunday lager and ale will run to the death in a battle of
foam and fervor weighing in at two pounds his lager lean mean and slimy
lager fought its way up from the mean streets of the dumpster behind the
McDonald's to this very match today after a long and clean fermentation if
we get fucking into the crisp president of the United States we're ready to see
fight oh my god that didn't make any sense and let's not forget lagers triumph
last year when it public over Cleveland it took home the squeegee on the other
side of the ring is our bitter raining champ ale fermented at at the top it
quickly establish itself as a versatile fighter hey from fruity to sudsy better
than you think from fruity to sudsy to downright bitter you never know what it
will do next ask yourself which version of this ice creamy ale will we see
tonight who will be crowned king of the narwhals who will spring in disgrace get
your springy friends together grab your openers and let the narwhal mating
season begin there you go nice I love it that actually worked really well like
that was surprisingly not terrible it fell apart when they began fucking the
president of the United States hey you know what what if what if the president
of the United States got fucked up while drinking a lager which could could have
happened like IPAs didn't exist back then so I mean I don't know when he was
president to be perfectly honest they could have existed but I feel like fuck
is a word that you could really throw no matter what part of grammar Chris asks
for it's that's pretty true just like spring you could say whatever you want
it to be can be a season that could be a thing that you piece of metal I mean you
can be Tigger whatever you need it to be there you go craft beer mad lib okay
well with that it's time first frosty mug of the year fmo w Jordan kick it
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
yeah
mug of wisdom
yeah
yeah
yeah
drink
yeah
Mug of wisdom!
Finish up the motto.
Chris.
Tud.
Overt.
Popcorn and other animals.
Mug of wisdom!
Finish that club motto, indeed we will.
Thank you, Jordan.
He's Jordan, winner of this week.
Only found here.
Unknown.
But I think we'll let Chris take this one.
I think I'm going to take one of the three to be the giver-outer.
We don't know which one it's going to be though.
But I think Chris got it closest, so he should go that we know of.
He should take the mug and run around wild like a chicken with its head cut off.
Like narwhal mating season.
Like narwhal mating season, I'm here.
Exactly.
It's time to rub your horns together for...
That's how they make, that's how they do it, honestly.
You know, I have a short handle here tonight.
And it's something that I saw earlier today that just made me giggle, made me laugh.
And I wanted to share it with all of you.
And it makes me want to, now mind you, for those of you that don't know me,
I am not one that would be considered in tune with what the kids like for music nowadays, you know?
But I do...
That was a bad introduction to what I'm about to talk about.
But anyways...
He's going to go talk about...
Chris is saying that if he was teleported into his 16-year-old body,
he licensed the same music now that he did.
Pretty much.
Honestly, it's pretty deep.
It's pretty darn close.
Pretty darn close.
But okay, so there's a famous musician by the name of T-Pain.
I don't know if you guys have heard of him.
I have indeed heard of T-Pain.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Theodore Payne.
I believe that's what his actual name is.
He is a Twitch streamer.
I don't know if you guys knew this.
And I don't know how old this video is.
But it popped up on my TikTok feed.
And it is the intro rap that he does for his Twitch stream.
And let me just tell you, it is phenomenal.
It's so fun.
It's just like...
It's like a minute long.
It's literally a minute long.
But I've seen it.
And I'm just...
I'm obsessed with it.
It's so funny.
So I don't know if he still is like active.
Because now I'm noticing that this is like a clip that from like a couple years ago.
But yeah, I'm going to go...
I'm actually...
Let me see.
Let me check.
Twitch.tv slash T-Pain.
I mean, he's got 943,000 followers.
So, you know, he's still out there doing the thing.
But...
Does it tell you when the last time he was on?
Last month, he's got a few...
So it doesn't look like he does it very often.
But I'm going to follow him right now.
Just maybe I'll catch it next time.
But definitely intrigued me.
And I don't know.
It's just the rap is so funny.
And it's like, you know, very catchy, very boppy.
So even if you just check out the rap, I was like...
I sent it to a bunch of my Twitch friends.
And I was like, this is freaking awesome.
I was like, I've never seen T-Pain outside of I'm on a boat, pretty much.
So, you know, check it out.
Even if you watch it for a minute, I think it's a very good minute.
But yeah, it made me smile.
And I shared it with all my Twitch friends.
So check out T-Pain, I guess.
Shout out to T-Pain.
You know, I think we're bros now.
Him and Sierra Nevada need the shout outs.
Yeah, I mean, really, we're just helping the little guys.
So I got to ask, how's the rap coming for your own intro?
I've been trying to piece some stuff together.
You know, I feel like I used all of my best work on T-Pain's entrance.
So I'm like...
So I don't know if I'm able to come up with something quite for myself
that I'm going to think, you know, oh, man, he's trying to copy T-Pain.
They're like, well, actually, we're boys.
It's a shame that nothing rhymes with the word gamer.
I know, I know.
Because that would make it a lot easier.
Actually, I think he does rhyme with gamer in here, I think, in the video.
Let me see, I might have to...
He's a real Twitch streamer.
Yeah.
It's just so catchy.
Namer.
He did make, I think, make up a word.
But, you know, hey, it sounds good.
I like it.
But yeah, I'm going to be working on my intro rap.
Actually, I think it's going to be a love ballad, an intro to my song,
into my Twitch stream.
Okay.
You know, take...
You should hire Michael Bolton.
I kind of like that.
To really show T-Pain.
Like, you understand him better than he understands himself.
Michael Bolton isn't on a boat.
Oh, no.
That's Captain Jack Sparrow.
Jack Sparrow, yeah.
Ah, shit.
I don't know T-Pain.
You don't know T-Pain anymore?
No.
Michael Bolton, he...
Remember, he did Dick in a Box.
You could also hire that guy, yeah.
You know, I think that guy's really going places in life.
That Timberlake character?
Yeah.
He's got a weird first name, though.
Juustin?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, good luck with the love ballot.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Who's you handing this mug off to?
I'll give it to...
I'll give it to Todd.
Why not?
So, my handle this week is actually this notebook that I'm recording in.
I just recently got it.
It came actually in a package with the bag that I used a couple of weeks ago.
The Nomadic bag.
But this is...
It's the Nomadic notebook.
You can buy them on Amazon.
It's a really nice notebook.
It's kind of like a more industrial Moleskine type notebook.
A little bit thicker padding on the front and the back.
It has three bookmark tabs that have...
You know how a Moleskine notebook has a bookmark so you can go back up to where you started?
Well, this one has three of them.
Like the tassel.
Yeah.
Bookmark, tassel.
There you go.
It also...
It does have a nice elastic closing mechanism to keep the notebook closed.
It also fits a pen at the top.
And that's actually where the pen is supposed to go as a pen holder.
It is designed to be as thick as a pen.
Because the bottom does not have that much room.
So it was purposely built for that.
On the inside there's also another elastic to where you can elastic your pages that you've already used up front as well.
There is in addition on each side of the notebook a storage like portfolio that you can pull out and kind of like file things away inside of the notebook.
The one on the back actually it's a little bit hidden to kind of keep some documents from falling out.
So rather than the portfolio open to the outside of the notebook it opens to the inside.
So in case your papers come loose they fall into the binding of the notebook and not out of the notebook.
Because nobody likes when the contents of your notebook get spilled on the ground.
That's how you meet the love of your life though normally.
That's how it works.
It is mostly lined front and back.
But then the last like 20 or so pages are blank.
So in case you want to doodle or draw something you actually have room in this notebook to do both.
So overall a really high quality notebook.
As somebody who uses notebooks a lot in their life.
I like to record.
I like to physically write things down.
It just kind of helps me remember them.
I find that I learn better when I jot things down versus reading them or typing them out.
So I do end up going through a lot of notebooks.
But I think I have found the brand of notebook that I maybe want to use forever.
I know that it's a little pricey.
That's why I'm kind of happy I got it for free.
I don't know if I would have spent the $15 on this notebook if it wasn't free.
But now that I've used it I think it's worth that.
So go over to nomadic.com and you can buy a nomadic notebook as well.
And while you're there pick up the bag that I used as a handle a few weeks ago if you like bags.
And if you're willing to spend as much money as I spent on a bag.
So how big of a notebook are we talking?
It's I would say it's probably about three quarters of an inch thick.
I mean it's probably got a few eight and a half by eleven.
No no it's a it's a Moleskine.
So it's it's smaller.
Whatever that like five by five like a four by five.
Is that a four by six four by seven?
Like it's like an index card.
No no like like you hand notebook like hand sized notebook.
So it fits in the palm of your hand.
That's what you're saying.
No like you see it.
I do but I'm not the one listening to a podcast.
I know but help me describe it.
Like how big would you say this is?
Like probably like eight by five.
It's like your it's like your journaling notebook.
Okay thank you.
That's what I was trying to get you to say.
Something like that.
I'm glad it has all the features that you described.
Yeah it's a really nice.
How do you spell nomadic?
N-O-M-A-T-I-C.
So not the way I would have assumed.
Nomadic.
Okay nomadic.
Nomadic.
Not nomadic.
Yeah.
No I like I think that's something I got to do before 2025.
Start journaling you know.
Except I hate it.
My old notebook was this size.
I'm holding up one that's slightly smaller than the notebook I have now.
For the listeners it's about yay by this big.
I would say this one.
The one I was using was slightly bigger than a note card.
And then the nomadic one is slightly larger than this one.
So I would say yeah probably eight by five and this one's probably five by four.
Five by three.
That's my handle.
Go check it out if you like notebooks.
If you like to write things down or if you want to get into it.
It's a good New Year's resolution for you as well to start journaling.
It's a good way of remembering things.
Check that out.
There might be a future handle about another way that I journal as well.
Cool.
My handle this week will also be a quick one.
It's New Year.
Everybody's got their New Year's resolutions.
Fortunately those don't really kick in until the end of January 1st.
Because you know we're still partying right.
We just watched the ball drop or whatever it is that people do to celebrate the
New Year in 2024.
Temptations abound out there to break your new diet.
Whatever.
And it's not easy.
But I'm going to give you another one because you can handle it.
You can handle the temptation.
And this is followed to one of Chris handle from a while ago which is new candy.
Not maybe brand new but new to me.
This is the M&M's.
It's apparently the melt in your mouth but not in your hand.
Have you heard about this?
The Reese's big cups.
Right.
They first came out I'm like they got it wrong because Reese's cups are the perfect
ratio of chocolate to peanut butter.
I don't want minis.
I don't want them any bigger.
Just keep them the size they were.
Don't give me that Thins bullshit.
But the Reese's big cups now they're putting junk inside of them and they have a Reese's
big peanut butter cup with mashed up Reese's pieces inside.
It's the best candy that I've had this year.
The last hour of the year.
So good.
If you haven't tried one of these you got to go find them.
They also make a Reese's puffs variant and a peanut butter or I mean and a potato chip
in there which both sound intriguing.
Do they make a normal one?
They must.
They must make a big Reese's cup.
But I've only I jumped straight to the Reese's pieces one and I'm not going back.
This is the best one.
Ruin your New Year's resolution diet right now.
It's the fourth by now.
You've had four days.
Better luck in 2025.
Back it in.
Yeah.
Have one of these candies.
I mean it sounds it sounds it sounds intriguing.
I mean I've had a big cup.
Just a straight up big cup.
They're good.
Yeah.
Okay.
With the with the pieces.
I haven't had it with the pieces.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Have you guys.
I don't know.
Maybe I'm maybe I'm getting old.
Maybe in my old age.
I'm like I don't know Reese's just don't have the same.
I don't know.
They just don't.
I mean I still enjoy them and I eat them but they're not they're not as amazing as they
used to be.
I'm saying it now.
So.
And you have and you end up with like random kids playing on your lawn all the time.
Yeah.
You got to yell at.
We don't want that.
Old man yells at cloud.
I was I was just going to do a Simpsons reference and say it's not that the kids it's not the
Reese's.
I'm not wrong.
It's the Reese's that have to Simpsons references in 30 seconds.
So with that we thank you for listening.
I will thank Abomination for their and hey fuck twenty twenty three to New England IPA.
I would like to thank mom and pop shops here in Nevada for their crisp little thing easy
eating lager.
Yes.
Thank you Mr. Nevada for letting us try your beer.
Firestone Walker.
Thank you for your twenty nineteen.
The velvet Merkin.
I'll see you next episode.
Make sure you head over to social media and follow us everywhere at DAWF podcast.
Also head over to discord.
Join the conversation over there.
You know just generally other fans of the show ask questions.
We kind of take pictures of beer.
Share them with each other.
Just general have a lot of fun.
Head over to Patreon for as little as a dollar a month.
You can get extra episodes of the podcast and it really does help financially support
the podcast.
You could also hashtag follow the email DAWF podcast at Gmail dot com.
You can also if you don't feel like if you don't feel like financially supporting the
podcast open up the app you're on right now gives five star rating and a review.
The reviews do help the most.
You know even if it's a few words it is a really great way for people to know that you
really truly truly love this podcast or if you hate it then say you hate it.
But the reviews help and then we'll know how to get better too.
If you tell us you hate it you tell us how you want us to get better.
And then finally if you don't want to do any of that just tell your friends and family.
You know it's January 4th by the time you're hearing my voice.
What better way to help us out and be the change you want to see in the world than help
a little you know upstart podcast become successful.
So do that immediately.
And with that my name is Stud.
My name is Chris.
And I'm Obert.
And remember if you're drinking alone do it with friends.
Or maybe you want to drink with friends but alone.
Reversing.
How does that work.
Yeah.
You're all you're all in a house together but you're in separate rooms alone.
I'm thinking my take on it is like you get one of those beer towers.
You know what I mean.
But everybody's wearing noise canceling headphones.
Oh like a silent rave.
But you're just you're drinking beer instead.
Like you're all sitting on the table.
You can't hear each other but you have beer.
What if you're the only friend drinking.
Is that like.
That could work too.
Everybody.
You just show up at the AA party.
AA meeting with a case.
Ready to go.
Like listen I'm here to drink together but alone.
Exactly.
My friends are all sober and I'm not.
And they're the problem.
Not me.