Episode Details

Pour a craft beer and pull up a chair. Erica name-drops her advanced cicerone friend and scores a brewery tour with free tastings. Flex opens a Bourbon County Stout after all the trash talk, and the joke’s on Flex. His favorite brewery swaps out its French fries, and the regulars revolt. And Greg quizzes Flex and Erica on GABF winners like Zombie Shark Fight, with mostly wrong answers.

Beers We’re Drinking:

• Erica is drinking West Ghost from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., a 7.2% West Coast IPA she calls bright and true, in a can so cute Flex rates it ten out of ten without a sip.
• Flex is drinking Rectifier from Eagle Park Brewing, a 7.8% West Coast IPA he calls a banger (not rectum fire).
• Greg is drinking Sole Purpose from Obercreek Brewing Company, a 5% single-hop Nelson hazy pale ale and a craft beer gift from Non-Murderer John that Greg calls world class.

Episode Highlights

Greg and Erica are both fresh out of the tattoo chair, which reminds Flex of his script tattoo. Flex wrote “dying” on the paper, and the artist inked “DIEING” anyway. Erica’s craft beer friend Rachel turns out to be one of about 211 advanced cicerones in the world, and she still drinks Miller Lite. Greg’s GABF quiz, built with some help from Claude, also features Satan’s Pony and Feral Garden Gnome. As for Flex’s Bourbon County, it was a Costco bottle he let sit in his fridge for months. The Eagle Park fry swap lasted two to three weeks. Later, a drunk woman’s scooter crash gets Greg gushing about Lime scooters, until his boss offers to pay him to quit. Shout-out to Boise, Idaho, last week’s top listening city, and Greg has questions about their internet.

Booze News:

• GABF goes outdoors and Denver actually behaves.
• Admiral Maltings shuts down the kiln for good.
• Constellation Brands pays $75 million for a vodka sports drink.
• Drunk woman falls off her scooter, gets help up, and scoots away anyway.

Guest:

Erica, the Hot Mess Express and salty pretzel slinger behind Neck Nosh (@necknosh, necknosh.com), is back hanging with Greg and Flex.

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