Craft Beer Republic

Hi, craft beer people. Glad you made it. Greg lets a drunk Giants fan trash the Dodgers for over an hour before telling her he’s from LA. Flex finds maybe the best vacation beer of his life on a Florida grocery store shelf. Greg dares a hydrated listener to call the show from a brewery’s emo Halloween night, and he does. And a Canadian man steals a live flamingo getting hamme...

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 wron...

Got a craft beer handy? Good. Poop Beer Gate is back with a White Russian blonde ale full of brown floaters. Non-Murderer John hooks Greg up with another great beer, and Flex suspects a Hansel and Gretel setup. Greg once sent back a flat pilsner, and the server asked if he wanted the same beer. And a 76-year-old Florida man holds up a silver cup and tells a deputy, “This here...

Cheers to you, craft beer drinkers. A hurricane floods Greg's Hawaii hotel, so he ends up in Portugal, where every park has a bar. Flex goes craft beer shopping for a hazy IPA, pours a clear West Coast, and nearly finishes it before the review. Alaskan Brewing's 40th birthday reminds Greg of a pumpkin beer that left him one of the sickest he's ever been. And a White Sox playe...

Beer trading, bombers, bottle shares, black IPAs, growlers, beer festivals, Untappd, mug clubs, beer dinners, and a whole bunch of other stuff craft beer people used to care about a lot more. Greg rapid-fires old-school beer habits and trends at Flex to figure out what they actually miss, what they definitely don’t, and what deserves a comeback.

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