Speaker 1: Guys, you might recognize our next guest from the gram.
Speaker 1: He travels the world well, checking out pubs and trying.
Speaker 2: This gun score six second set it scoring a Scoona
Speaker 2: where Hotel Sarento. Heir on the Colton draft out the
Speaker 2: tang four point six percent. Let's do it, Joe, want
Speaker 2: to see what's cannery? I do enjoy the Colon drafts
Speaker 2: hang there far better than the dry. This is much
Speaker 2: live there, much fresher they did us seven days.
Speaker 3: But I'll tell you what it is beautiful.
Speaker 4: Then than you is a nine point five.
Speaker 2: The bet seven point four will be having many.
Speaker 1: More nine point five. Well done Sorrento Hotel.
Speaker 5: I mean what a spot at.
Speaker 1: Spot Gerner scorer on the socials is got a real name.
Speaker 1: It is Alex and he joins us this morning, schooner.
Speaker 4: Welcome to the country, Ago. What would you like to
Speaker 4: like us to call you? Let's go to schooner.
Speaker 6: Let's see now you got down to Melbourne and hot
Speaker 6: footed it down to the Sorrento Hotel, which is a
Speaker 6: magnificent spot over summer much.
Speaker 5: Trouble did you get into down there? Have the one
Speaker 5: be up?
Speaker 4: Did we? I think you know the answer to that one.
Speaker 4: It was very, very fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we touched down what was it Friday evening? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I went straight there and Miles and Markets the owners
Speaker 3: were They rolled out the red carpet. We had a
Speaker 3: very good time. We livened up on those little ponies.
Speaker 3: First time I've ever had one of those ponies shots
Speaker 3: even smaller than a part. They're absolutely tiny, and they
Speaker 3: just hold downhole home sick. They just kept doing that
Speaker 3: and then enjoyed the rooftop. Absolutely unbelievable sun set up there,
Speaker 3: and then we hit a score downstairs.
Speaker 4: It's so nice.
Speaker 6: For those people who aren't familiar with you're I'm going
Speaker 6: to call it.
Speaker 4: Art, your art bullshit what most people call it.
Speaker 5: How did it start?
Speaker 6: How did you become famous for turning up to pubs
Speaker 6: smashing a beer and raiding it.
Speaker 5: How do you get that credibility?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure i'd say famous, But so I basically
Speaker 3: started doing sort of one take very views as a
Speaker 3: bit of a joke, as a dinner party trick, and
Speaker 3: then friends started filming and we put it online, but
Speaker 3: it was still very much a closed Instagram account. But
Speaker 3: I always just loved performing acting and the idea of
Speaker 3: running my own business.
Speaker 4: And then throughout that.
Speaker 3: Period I saw a chapter called Dave Portnoy reviewing One
Speaker 3: Bit Pizza Reviews, and I just saw the business that
Speaker 3: he created from it, and I thought, I'm going to
Speaker 3: do this but with the beer. And as I started
Speaker 3: to do it, or started very much as a private
Speaker 3: joke and very much a beer related channel, became more
Speaker 3: about the community and bringing people along and showcasing venues,
Speaker 3: and now you know, a couple of years on, it's
Speaker 3: really about finding the best venues in the world and
Speaker 3: drinking the best beers around the world to really like
Speaker 3: showcase almost where to go as well as great to drink.
Speaker 5: Feeling like I have to get up at four o'clock
Speaker 5: in the morning.
Speaker 7: Is a true that in that moment, it was like
Speaker 7: a penny drop moment you said to your mates, I'm
Speaker 7: going to quit my job.
Speaker 4: I reckon, I can make a livelihood out of this.
Speaker 3: So technically I'm still in a one year career break
Speaker 3: from what what was your commodity trading so.
Speaker 4: Commodity space, so it's very very different.
Speaker 3: I mean that was always quite sociable and everything else,
Speaker 3: but this has been kind of something that when I
Speaker 3: applied to go on Sabbatico that was very much in
Speaker 3: its infancy of student score around here is so like,
Speaker 3: really I was having a lot of fun with it,
Speaker 3: and I was able to travel from it, and I
Speaker 3: did hit a point where it's like, I'm going to
Speaker 3: just give this a go. I'm going to take a
Speaker 3: year off doing what I did and just give it
Speaker 3: a go. And I'm pertentially going back in March.
Speaker 1: April we talk numbers. How many followers you've got.
Speaker 3: Now over four hundred thousand I think across both platforms
Speaker 3: over and would.
Speaker 1: You be making more income out of this than what
Speaker 1: you were?
Speaker 6: This is a lot more fun, right, because are you
Speaker 6: getting flown around the world? Are you getting flown and
Speaker 6: taken to places or are you just going you know what,
Speaker 6: I'm going to go to Australia and do some reviews
Speaker 6: down there.
Speaker 3: Mostly I'm just going out. I want to go here,
Speaker 3: I want to try and grow the channel. Any little
Speaker 3: bit of cash I get I invest it back in.
Speaker 3: So yeah, mainly it's just paying myself for to go
Speaker 3: travel the world and showcase the very best. And I've
Speaker 3: always said like whenever you're growing something that the commercials
Speaker 3: will come.
Speaker 6: So I worry about the most important. Are you handing
Speaker 6: over you ten bucks for your beer? Are you getting
Speaker 6: free beer every.
Speaker 4: Weeks the time I paid for pretty much? All? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Keeps it, keeps it non biased.
Speaker 3: I mean, after I've done a review, sometimes they'll invite
Speaker 3: me back. You know what, we just saw that online,
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. A lot of times I'll rocket
Speaker 3: to this venue without even letting them know, and I'll
Speaker 3: just rip a score. Like yesterday we did the.
Speaker 4: Marquie of Lawn, didn't. I don't know those guys.
Speaker 3: I just put it on my schooner Social let a
Speaker 3: few people know that i'd be there, and an awesome
Speaker 3: crowd from Melbourne came and we did a review. But
Speaker 3: I didn't meet anyone there or no, they didn't know it.
Speaker 3: And you know, I learned about the beer I was scoring.
Speaker 3: I was actually scoring one from near Sorrento, which it
Speaker 3: was called Foam Thanks Brewery.
Speaker 4: It's a premium pills. It's a lovely drop.
Speaker 3: But again, I'm not reaching out to that beer brand
Speaker 3: and telling them I'm doing it, or reaching out to
Speaker 3: that venue.
Speaker 5: Because then how do you give them a shitty review?
Speaker 4: Question?
Speaker 7: Is is it a fearless review? If it tastes like piss.
Speaker 7: Are you going to say it tastes like piss? That's
Speaker 7: a one out of tick?
Speaker 3: I would, But what I'm you know, people generally are
Speaker 3: there's so much negativity online. I try and just score
Speaker 3: the best beers and the best venues. So when I
Speaker 3: don't like a beer, I just don't review it. And similarly,
Speaker 3: if I don't like the look of a venue or
Speaker 3: the feel of a venue, I don't.
Speaker 5: Like everyone's turned up.
Speaker 6: You have a swig and you're like, okay, i'st save
Speaker 6: myself up.
Speaker 5: It's really bad.
Speaker 3: And you know, especially I guess with Guinness because sometimes
Speaker 3: there's a lot of undue or you know, hype about
Speaker 3: a venue and it's sort of I will sort of
Speaker 3: give an honest review, which might be lower than they
Speaker 3: would expect, and I think that is important to remain unbiased.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it's just because we've got
Speaker 1: an Irish lad on the tea, but I feel like
Speaker 1: Guinness is just had a resurgence. Now where do you see?
Speaker 4: That's probably because you've only tried it in Australia.
Speaker 6: That's true. I've had it in Dublin and I thought
Speaker 6: it was equally as foul Australians love there be like
Speaker 6: proud beer drinkers are everywhere in this country, so you
Speaker 6: could rat rattlesome fitters here.
Speaker 5: What is the best Aussie bee you've.
Speaker 3: Had so for me, I've been here two and a
Speaker 3: half weeks. My favorite ones I've tried so far are
Speaker 3: four pines, pearlser bolts of brewers do some fantastic stone
Speaker 3: and wood, crisp schooner of cart and draft. Well, I
Speaker 3: mean that's what I scored at Sorrento. Out the tank,
Speaker 3: So out the tank it is a lot better because
Speaker 3: it's on pest. It's it's pushed with compressed air and
Speaker 3: not CO two, so you get much livelier fresh as
Speaker 3: it's as the brewers would have it. So that is
Speaker 3: I know that that is the bear of Victoria of
Speaker 3: Melbourne and it is. Yeah, I scored it at seven four.
Speaker 3: I think that's the best of that be I can get.
Speaker 3: But it is something that you would just drink all day.
Speaker 5: What about a four x gold jas x queens Man.
Speaker 3: I got booted out of Brisbane when I scored it
Speaker 3: at three point four. I posted that and got on
Speaker 3: the flight out of it.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, it's pretty high for a four X.
Speaker 4: Okay, it just best big you've had anywhere in the world.
Speaker 4: What is it? Where is it?
Speaker 7: What?
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 4: For me, I drink a lot of Guinness.
Speaker 3: I don't, but I choose not to drink it in
Speaker 3: Australia because I don't really rate it here.
Speaker 1: Is it that different?
Speaker 4: It is? Yeah, it is, it is.
Speaker 3: I mean, but even in Ireland and UK, you know,
Speaker 3: it differs massively by the location of all systems and
Speaker 3: sets that they have and all the rest of it,
Speaker 3: how they pull it, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Hey, we are on the air with the Schooner Score
Speaker 1: this morning. It's got a massive following online. He travels
Speaker 1: the world trying pubs and drinking beers, and coming up
Speaker 1: next we're going to have very own taste tests for
Speaker 1: your Schooner.
Speaker 7: Man we've got in studio this morning is the Schooner Scorer.
Speaker 7: He travels the world judging beers and pubs.
Speaker 1: Just quickly, you come to my attention when I saw
Speaker 1: the video of you trying beers at Old Mates, the
Speaker 1: Aussie pub in New York. He had Steve Smith on
Speaker 1: the back of an electric bike.
Speaker 4: When you pulled up or a legend.
Speaker 1: How how are these little co labs coming about?
Speaker 4: Often it's everything that we do really is last minute.
Speaker 3: I'd love to say that, you know, everything's well organized
Speaker 3: and planned. So yeah, Steve reached out on the day,
Speaker 3: so old Mates put a poster and I posted on
Speaker 3: my schooner social like last minute location, drop come meet here.
Speaker 3: Steve had seen either post and just messed me saying,
Speaker 3: I see her at old Mates, good mates mine own that.
Speaker 4: Let me let me drop you off on the bike.
Speaker 3: Because yeah, right, So we met for a bear before
Speaker 3: and then yeah, it just ripped up on the bike
Speaker 3: and it was all one take and he was you know,
Speaker 3: he was away again and.
Speaker 7: It was a lot of fun. I love how do
Speaker 7: you look like that and have a beard? Billy, Like,
Speaker 7: how are you like?
Speaker 3: Well, I'd run every day and it's really instant to
Speaker 3: do the balance, especially noise and whatever else. And but
Speaker 3: also saying we're we're talking about this the other day
Speaker 3: with Pat and it's like we're never sat on our
Speaker 3: asses drinking. We're out all the time, just partying, running around,
Speaker 3: going from A to B. So it's not like I'm
Speaker 3: just sat on the sofa drinking.
Speaker 5: Become the master of a hangover. Do you not get them?
Speaker 4: God, I'm just good at covering it up.
Speaker 3: But I mean, look, you drink a lot of water,
Speaker 3: you run it off, you look after yourself, and you
Speaker 3: know it's about the balance.
Speaker 4: Really.
Speaker 3: I'm always saying, like drink reviews, not drunk reviews. So
Speaker 3: I try and you.
Speaker 5: Know the Melbourne Cup one champagne, one water, yes.
Speaker 4: Very wide clean.
Speaker 1: In between she drinks a lot of water, bottles of water.
Speaker 6: Finally, before we let you go, where is the best
Speaker 6: pub in the world?
Speaker 3: The best pub in the world, I tell you what,
Speaker 3: Sorrenzo is probably up there with one of the best. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I love sort of those at Prey bar venues that
Speaker 3: you get in Switzers and old Mates in New York
Speaker 3: as well, we'll give we'll give that on a shout
Speaker 3: out one of my favorite ones. And there's some absolute
Speaker 3: unbelievable establishments in London. But yeah, i'd say for for
Speaker 3: Australia my two favorites.
Speaker 4: I quite like the Miter Tavern in Melbourne. That's when
Speaker 4: we went on there. You go there?
Speaker 5: Did they ever draw that ruffle? We bought one hundred.
Speaker 5: They sell them all the time.
Speaker 4: The raffle winners. They're keeping hold of that prize.
Speaker 5: Maybe we're trying to win a keg of fire ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the security guards into us. Mate, they never
Speaker 1: actually draw the raffle.
Speaker 4: Is that what it's called? That place.
Speaker 3: Rose Bay in Sydney. That that's the stat that I
Speaker 3: love that club Rose Bay. It's very Hotel Serrento vibes.
Speaker 3: That's awesome, that's one of the best venues. Should we
Speaker 3: get him to try something.
Speaker 1: Now, we'll point out we can't do the beers breakfasts.
Speaker 1: Come up with a variation.
Speaker 4: You ever had Milo? What the hell is that you
Speaker 4: never had Milo?
Speaker 1: This is a you know, like lactoast in tolerant or anything.
Speaker 4: Well, no, but all the clumps at the top. Okay,
Speaker 4: that's part. That's all. That's all part of the beauty of.
Speaker 7: Miloslo is a bit of a breakfast drink, would you
Speaker 7: a Greek guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, and it's it's it's a fast milk that
Speaker 4: you sort of used from a mother's milk. Is mother's milk.
Speaker 1: It's like a crunchy chocolate milkshop. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we want to.
Speaker 5: Don't scarll it, don't scull it.
Speaker 4: You can scull it.
Speaker 1: You can scull it.
Speaker 4: You sound like my mother when I was starting the channel.
Speaker 7: I am the mother, but it might need a bit
Speaker 7: of drinking. And this is how we have it. Really,
Speaker 7: it's clumpy on the top.
Speaker 1: I'll play the music. You do the official lead in
Speaker 1: what she said called Milo. Are you ready?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, all right? Soon to score a hair
Speaker 4: six second sippets scoring and Milo.
Speaker 3: We're here over one hundred having an unbelievable morning with
Speaker 3: the legends around the table. What I have got in
Speaker 3: front of me is a Milo chocolate milk, apparently as
Speaker 3: a kid's breakfast. But we're going to give it a go. Anyway,
Speaker 3: let's see on it one schooner. Let's see the score my.
Speaker 1: Milk.
Speaker 4: I can't do the clumps.
Speaker 3: What are the calendar clumps on batn chew it?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 3: I was meant to chew eat the schooner thoughts anyway? Okay,
Speaker 3: Well six seconds of review, they're well, a little bit clumpy,
Speaker 3: but not as smooth as a midnight groove. I'd say
Speaker 3: that did not go down the hole like home sign.
Speaker 3: That was rather a bit heavy for my liking. I'm
Speaker 3: going to score it a four point one.
Speaker 4: That's better than four. I'm actually dagging. I was preferring
Speaker 4: the flat white. I have my other hand, but yeh.
Speaker 1: Scoon a scorer on socials go and checking me out, Fleks.
Speaker 1: Thanks for comingy mate, You're a good lad.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Jason Lauren Lauren wake
Speaker 4: up feeling good following them on the socials