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Speaker 1: s Y s K Selects edition, How Beer Works. Uh

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Speaker 1: not a long intro for this one. It's how Beer Works.

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Speaker 1: So that was my pick. Why not rerun this one? Right? Enjoy?

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Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know from house stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast Bottoms Up, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: Take off your shirt? Is that what beer equates to

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Speaker 1: in your book? Take off your shirt? Uh? Well, I

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Speaker 1: take off my shirt when I drink too much beer. You,

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Speaker 1: Lucy neal Belt, take off the shirt. Close the blinds.

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Speaker 1: Neighbors don't want to see that, I want to point out, No,

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Speaker 1: they don't, uh that? Um. Guest producer Maddy today just

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Speaker 1: a little seren dip. He is brewing his fur batch

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Speaker 1: of beer right now. And he was like, man, it's

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Speaker 1: not like just preparing food, he said, is this? You know?

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Speaker 1: It's like serious chemistry going on, because I think he's

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Speaker 1: he's shooting for the stars here. He's not starting out

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Speaker 1: with an easy brew. I think. No. You know, as

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Speaker 1: you know Maddie, he's not one to just dive into

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Speaker 1: something lightly. He goes full bore. Yeah, so you should

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Speaker 1: see how how he got into the zeitgeist something I

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Speaker 1: think he's thinks bring a porter? Is that right, Matt Stout?

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Speaker 1: But stouts and porters, as we I learned, have been

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Speaker 1: very much mixed throughout the years. I believe porters and

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Speaker 1: they were named after river porters because that's what they

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Speaker 1: like to drink in London, the River Porters, Allen River Reporters,

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Speaker 1: dark darker beers. Yeah, yeah, although the kind of take

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Speaker 1: what they can get. Yeah, that is one fact about

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Speaker 1: a thousand that you're about to hear. So also, I

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Speaker 1: want to mention aumis in my friends. Stewart is in

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Speaker 1: a band called Superhuman Happiness and one of his bandmates

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Speaker 1: is making his first beer right now. It's his first

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Speaker 1: and they're calling it Superhuman Happiness. Nice where they out

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Speaker 1: in New York, out of Brooklyn support, of course they are. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so Stewart has promised to save a six pack. Great,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty psyched about it. Is there music good? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're really good. He's he's very good. He's in UM.

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Speaker 1: He's one of the founding members of Anti Ballis. Have

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Speaker 1: you heard of them? No? Do you know that UM

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Speaker 1: show faila No, the Failer that was on Broadway. It's

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Speaker 1: a musical about Fayla Coutie, the Nigerian afro beat, the

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Speaker 1: one that you went to. Yes, yeah, a new about it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that guy he arranged that he's good man. Okay, he

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Speaker 1: when we saw him with um uh not buying princip

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Speaker 1: Billy the other guy. Yeah, you hate Bonnie principally, I

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Speaker 1: don't hate him. What's the other guy? The other guy?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Sam Beam, Yeah, he played with him. Cool

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Speaker 1: when they came through last those guys too. So do

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Speaker 1: you want to talk about beer ever? Yeah? Seriously, we

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Speaker 1: got a lot to cover. We shouldn't have wasted that

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Speaker 1: minute of your lives. Sorry everyone. So, um, what Stewart

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Speaker 1: and Matt are engaged in isn't millennia long tradition of

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Speaker 1: brewing beer? Yeah, c o a first, really quickly, you

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Speaker 1: must be twenty one to drink alcohol. Oh yeah, and

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Speaker 1: don't don't really take off your shirt and drink responsibly.

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Speaker 1: So we're certainly not encouraging anyone to go out and

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Speaker 1: uh that's underage to get the delicious, delicious beer and

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Speaker 1: drink it all right, So as old ass. Since people

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Speaker 1: But since they discovered that moldy bread did funny things. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: That's how you got the beer. You domesticated grain and

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Speaker 1: Wine was for the gods, beer was for mortals, and

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Speaker 1: times because they don't make a ton of it. Um.

422
00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 1: But interestingly, pale ale. You know where Indian palel comes from,

423
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: the I p a India, Well it does. Uh. British

424
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: soldiers were stationed over there, and when they started setting

425
00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: up trade with India back in the day, were colonizing it.

426
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,800
Speaker 1: It's just one, that's one way to put it. And

427
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: they were like, boy, were really thirsty and we kind

428
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,679
Speaker 1: of miss our old beer back in England. So they

429
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: would send over their pale ales and they wouldn't um

430
00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: really make the voyage very well, the sea voyage. It

431
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,320
Speaker 1: would show up flat and kind of gnarly. So they

432
00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,520
Speaker 1: added a lot more hops because hot sex is a preservative.

433
00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,840
Speaker 1: Thus India pale ale. Nice. Yeah, nice, that's the story

434
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: I got. I'm gonna be really embarrassed, No, I think

435
00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:41,280
Speaker 1: if it's not by that one, that's what's the kind

436
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:44,320
Speaker 1: of story here in a bar? Yeah you know yeah,

437
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: um yeah, that's the story you see in a bar

438
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,399
Speaker 1: gets you free beer. We should try that. Um. So

439
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,680
Speaker 1: you've got you've got the worked that's boiled. Um, it's

440
00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:00,080
Speaker 1: all sugary and um, you add east to it and

441
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 1: put in a tank and now it's fermenting and like

442
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,119
Speaker 1: like we said, the yeast just eats all the sugars

443
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: and produces carbon dioxide and alcohol as waste products. And

444
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 1: depending on the kind of beer you make, um, well

445
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: it really depends on the kind of yeast you use.

446
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: Um you're either going to be waiting around for a

447
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: few weeks to a couple of months. So um, if

448
00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 1: you were making um something called a an ale, you're

449
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: going to be doing all this. You're gonna ferment um

450
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:37,680
Speaker 1: using tough fermenting yeast at room temperature, and then after

451
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: a few weeks your beer is gonna be ready to drink.

452
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,960
Speaker 1: If you are making a logger which in Germany, which

453
00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: in German is a verb meaning to store, Um, you're

454
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,119
Speaker 1: going to it's gonna take a few months, um, and

455
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: you're going to store this stuff. You're gonna let it

456
00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,479
Speaker 1: ferment um at near freezing temperatures and it's gonna ferment

457
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:00,880
Speaker 1: at the bottom the yeast is Yeah, they would put

458
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 1: it in caves. It's called lager ing. Yeah. It was

459
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 1: the stort and cave cold caves because for those hundreds

460
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 1: and hundreds and hundreds of years that they were making beer.

461
00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: They kept they kept being like, this beer is messed up,

462
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 1: and it happens to be summertime. What's wrong with this beer? Oh,

463
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: it's it's all the summertime. And then finally somebody figured out,

464
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: wait a minute, we're making the best beer in the

465
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: winter time. And they didn't quite know why, but they

466
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: figured out a process to replicate it. But of course

467
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: now we understand that UM, the wild yeast and bacteria

468
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 1: in the area that was prevalent in the summers of Germany,

469
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: UM was messing up the fermentation process, souring the beer.

470
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: It's the stuff using yeasts that survived in winter months

471
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 1: in the cold. UM produces really clean, crisp, very awesome beer.

472
00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 1: Taste of the Rockies. Yeah, exactly. That's now called the Lagger.

473
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,199
Speaker 1: That's right. We actually forgot something too. And I know

474
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: there's homebrewers right now going you can't forget carbonation. Uh,

475
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: skipping back a bit after you. After you do have

476
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,000
Speaker 1: the bottle beer, it's not carbonated yet, very flat, so

477
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 1: you need to carbonate it. And I imagine the big

478
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: breweries UM forced carbonate like sodas do and uh, if

479
00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: you're a traditionalist though, and I wonder about craft breweries

480
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:22,239
Speaker 1: that I need to know more about this if they

481
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: do that or not. Well, I think it usually I'll say,

482
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: like bottle conditioned. So bottle condition means it just waits

483
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: and you wait it out for the yeast to do

484
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: its thing naturally. And that's where you're gonna get your

485
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: your phone and your good bubbly goodness because it produces

486
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: carbon dioxide. Is a waste product, takes a while. Waste product.

487
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:42,880
Speaker 1: You say, waste product, I say bubbly goodness. Okay, Um,

488
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: So you want to talk about gravity? Uh? Yeah, gravity

489
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,960
Speaker 1: is um. Gravity is how much alcohol is in your beer.

490
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: And the brewers measure the gravity before and after the

491
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: fermentation process, and they calculate the difference uh in the

492
00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,880
Speaker 1: out of alcohol by volume and represented by a percentage.

493
00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: So like the higher the percentage, the higher the gravity

494
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 1: of the beer. Yeah. And you know nowadays with the

495
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: craft beers, you're gonna get all kinds of percentages, like

496
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: you know, six to nine to right, that's a pretty

497
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: heavy duty beer. Oh definitely. What is like get your

498
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: average Budweiser? What is that? Five? Five? Is it? There's

499
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: a law in Georgia for a while that was you

500
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: couldn't sell beer over five point five. Do you remember

501
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: when they repealed that law that beautiful time in the nineties.

502
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: Do you remember that? Actually? That was Wow. They had

503
00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 1: a lot to do with crapper reis in Georgia too, Definitely.

504
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: UM say the stuff about the lambic so, I thought

505
00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: that was really interesting, okay, um. So lambics are um

506
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: a type of spontaneously fermented brew. I've had it. I

507
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: didn't know this though, the same problem that the um

508
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 1: old Germans had um with you know, local stuff getting

509
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 1: in there the UM. I guess the French when they're

510
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: producing this, these Lambics or the Belgians um French, and

511
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: they're they're basically just leaving their stuff out to be

512
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 1: exposed to wild yeast that grows in the area. It's

513
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:10,120
Speaker 1: crazy spontaneous fermentation. And I've had, Like I said, I'd

514
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,080
Speaker 1: tried lambic in the past, and I didn't know what

515
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: made it so special that that was it. I don't

516
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 1: care for it a whole lot. It's kind of has

517
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 1: a sour aftertaste, its fruity sort of cider almost. Yeah,

518
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: not enough hops. Oh, no, I like, what's your favorite beer? Actually?

519
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: I mean to asking that. So I'm a pretty big

520
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: fan of um anything New Amsterdam puts out. Yeah, they're great,

521
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:36,680
Speaker 1: um fat tires point of the all time best. Yeah,

522
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: our friends that we have friends fans at Brooklyn Brewery.

523
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 1: Yeah and New AMSTU. Remember they sent us like a

524
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: bunch of beer. They were the first ones they did.

525
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: Thanks again, guys. Um, Yeah, we have fans at Brooklyn Brewery.

526
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: They sent beach towels and other swag they did. Uh.

527
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,440
Speaker 1: We had a fan who sent us some Shiner Bach once,

528
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 1: but I don't think he was related to them in

529
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: any way. He was just from Texas. Yeah, that's a

530
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: Texas beer, right, Um, my all time favorite. It's just

531
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: it's never been toppled. Like I've had plenty of beer.

532
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,320
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is really good, like innocent gun. Have

533
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 1: you ever had that? Oh my god, it's like ambrosia.

534
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: It's the most amazing thing ever. But you you can't

535
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: just drink like one after the other if you're in

536
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: such a mood. It's just it's just a lot. It's

537
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: very rich. But my so my favorite beer, that's just

538
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: no one's ever topped all day is Sierra Nevada pale Ale.

539
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. It's just the best beer.

540
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,360
Speaker 1: I think that's anyone anyone's ever made. It's delicious and nutritious,

541
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: it's refreshing. Yeah, I want to go to their brewery. Um.

542
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: I like the dog Fish had stuff. Um, but I'm

543
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,760
Speaker 1: I'm in to try. And you know, we have these

544
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: stores here in Atlanta now and Indicator where I live with,

545
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: you know, all the myriad craft beers, and I'll try

546
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: any kind of any kind of pale ale or I

547
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: p a. Have you been to Ale? Yeah? I have,

548
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 1: that's yeah. And they have the growlers there, which is

549
00:31:55,280 --> 00:31:57,640
Speaker 1: always kind of fun. Yeah. You just get something on tappen,

550
00:31:58,200 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: drink it out of a jug like an old pirate.

551
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: And I also have to say our local boys at

552
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:06,800
Speaker 1: Sweetwater are killing it too. Like there's like as far

553
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: as pale ales go, Sierra Nevadas and the four twenty

554
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,560
Speaker 1: very very close four twenties good. I will always go

555
00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: for that if it's um, if they don't have the

556
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: seer on them. And I remember my first beer very distinctly,

557
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 1: do you Yeah, Because I, as everyone listens to the

558
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: show NOWS, I was a very good, good Baptist boy

559
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: growing up, So I didn't um, I didn't drink or

560
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: anything like that until I was older. And I remember

561
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: the first time I tasted beer. I had only had

562
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: soda as far as a carbonated beverage, and that's the

563
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: only thing I could like expect, And I just remember thinking,

564
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: this is so weird tasting. It's like it's fizzy like

565
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: a soda, but it wouldn't taste anything like a soda.

566
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, how do people drink this stuff?

567
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: And then like thirty seconds later, you're trying it again, like, oh,

568
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: why can't I stop? I want to stop? Yeah? Um,

569
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: first beer, huh, I don't remember mine? Remember there was

570
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: a long gone. I think you're probably younger than I was.

571
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: I don't remember. I mean my dad drank like old

572
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: Milwaukee tall boys, and I'm sure like I tried like

573
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: a sip of his when I was a kid. Or see,

574
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: we didn't have beer in the house, so that it

575
00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: was just winn't around. Um alright, so where are we chuckers?

576
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: We could talk about some of the older beers in existence. Yeah,

577
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 1: so there's like actual old beer. It's like over a

578
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,520
Speaker 1: hundred years old. Like that that particular bottle of beer

579
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: was manufactured like a hundred seventy eight years ago. And

580
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: there's two shipwrecks that had beer on them that ironically

581
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: are competing for the oldest beer in the world. Um,

582
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,560
Speaker 1: and they both went down in. I know, it's maddening. Um.

583
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: There's one in the Baltic Sea. There was a shipment

584
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: of beer and champagne from Copenhagen to St. Petersburg that

585
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: went down in. And then there's a shipwreck in the

586
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,400
Speaker 1: English Channel UM in eighteen and a guy in named

587
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,560
Speaker 1: Um Keith Thomas. He was a microbiologist, I believe. Um.

588
00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: He got his hands on some of the bottles of

589
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,680
Speaker 1: this beer that is still around and Um tried it

590
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: and was like he vomited, and he's like, maybe I

591
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: can figure out some other way to do this. So

592
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: he got the yeast from this beer, and UM got

593
00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: a colony going of the living yeast, same same yeast.

594
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:24,319
Speaker 1: It's not like a descendant of it, like this is

595
00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,400
Speaker 1: the yeast. And Um he got it going again and

596
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:30,399
Speaker 1: found like an old porter recipe and now he makes

597
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,360
Speaker 1: flag Porter, which in and of itself is one of

598
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:36,280
Speaker 1: the better beers around. Oh I also want to say,

599
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: I like just about anything Sam Smith does too. I

600
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: don't know that Sam Smith like oatmeal, stout and winter welcome. Yeah,

601
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,360
Speaker 1: Sammy Smith. Sorry, sure they're Uh they had the Shakespeare

602
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 1: stout yea when that Sammy Smith, that's rogue. Yeah, that's rogue.

603
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: But I've had that. Guy Ale is awesome. Man, I'm

604
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: getting thirsty. Uh. Dogfish Head has revived a recipe that

605
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,720
Speaker 1: they claim is the and that's what we're talking about earlier.

606
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: Is he the guy from dog fish had claims it's

607
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: the oldest known ferminted recipe in the history of man.

608
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,280
Speaker 1: And uh it was from a Neolithic burial site in China,

609
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,000
Speaker 1: and it is called they brew it now. It's called

610
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: Chateau uh jiaho uh j i h h j i

611
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: a h u from seven thousand b C. And they

612
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 1: decoded it, uh molecularly from Clay Potts founded a Neolithic

613
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 1: burial site and have brewed this stuff. And um, they're

614
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: also the ones they get a little crazy. You know,

615
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: they did the Midas touch brew that was supposedly King

616
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: Midas's um recipe or from his tomb. And we have

617
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: people right in But I love what they're doing over

618
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: there at dog Fish Head. They also did the one

619
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,960
Speaker 1: based on the hymn to Nick Cancy the what the hymn?

620
00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: Didn't cantye that to marry in one right? Um? So

621
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: there's also some brewers that have been around for a while,

622
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: like Stella Artois. If you look on the label, you'll

623
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: see that, um, it has some mention of thirteen sixty six. Man,

624
00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: that's when it was. That's when they started brewing that supposedly.

625
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I like a nice summertime beer for me, agreed. Um.

626
00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:24,480
Speaker 1: August Steiner was um began in probably the oldest beer

627
00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: in the world as far as like brewing. The recipe

628
00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: um is uh winehan Staffen. Did I get it? Yeah?

629
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: Vahan v han Stefan. Oh nice. So those are brewed

630
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: by Ben Benedictine monks. That beer has been brewed since

631
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:51,840
Speaker 1: the seven hundreds. But the weinhan Staffen Uh the guys

632
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: brewing that also operate the oldest um continuously functioning brewery

633
00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 1: in the world, which opened its doors in ten party

634
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: and it's been going ever since. That's awesome. It's about

635
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: to celebrate its thousandth anniversary. That's so cool. Um, what

636
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: else a man named Arthur Guinness and seventeen fifty six

637
00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: did a very smart thing by signing a nine thousand

638
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: year lease on a building in Dublin and they have

639
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: been making the old delicious Guinness beer there since then.

640
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,359
Speaker 1: And I enjoyed at our south By Southwest event at

641
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: Fedoe Irish Pub. I enjoyed myself some Guinness at that

642
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:35,239
Speaker 1: a bit love me some Guinness. It's Gonnas sponsoring you, now, No,

643
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: none of these people are. But why are you wearing

644
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: that leather eight bulb jack with Guinness patches all over it?

645
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: The Schlitz story I thought was kind of interesting. Yeah.

646
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:46,439
Speaker 1: I searched the story up because I had remembered hearing

647
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,759
Speaker 1: it you back, and I was like, we gotta mention now.

648
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: So what was the deal? They were making good beer

649
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: for a long time, We're one of the top three,

650
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:57,280
Speaker 1: and then they changed their recipe in the late seventies

651
00:37:57,320 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: and just screwed it all up. They wanted to be

652
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:01,399
Speaker 1: number one and they were, they were number two. Wanted

653
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: to be number one, so they decided that they were

654
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: going to um just change it, and they changed it

655
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: in a really lazy, cost efficient way. Instead of malt,

656
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 1: they used corn, syrup, high fruit toast corn syrup. Such

657
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: a bad idea. And then they didn't filter it as

658
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 1: much either, So you had this really weird tasting chunky

659
00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:28,560
Speaker 1: style beer. And this is in the seventies. What by

660
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: Schlitz's market share was one It went from the number

661
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: two selling beer in America to within just a couple

662
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,680
Speaker 1: of years, one percent of the market. I think more

663
00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: than one person lost their job on that that move.

664
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they may have like killed those people. Um.

665
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:47,799
Speaker 1: So they discontinued the brand altogether at one point, didn't they. Yeah,

666
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: it went under and then Strows, which I also remember

667
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: from my childhood, Um was, uh, what said, well, you

668
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: know what we're gonna buy you guys. So they bought

669
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: Schlitz and then, um, they just bought the label. They're like,

670
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: we don't want that. Keep your keep all this leftover

671
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 1: chunky beer. Um, but they bought the label and apparently

672
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,160
Speaker 1: rolled out the classic sixties formula, which I have not tried.

673
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: I have not either. We do want to shout out

674
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: to Yengling as well. Um. In nine David Yengling opened

675
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: a brewery in Pennsylvania in Potts Bell and it is

676
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:21,960
Speaker 1: still open today. The oldest operating brewery in the United States,

677
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: still in the Yngling family, And uh, they're black and

678
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: tan is very delicious to me, and it's a very

679
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: popular beer. People seek it out. I think one of

680
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: the reasons why is because it's tradition and it's delicious,

681
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: and it has cute puppies in their labels and marketing materials. Yeah.

682
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: And I want to ask Budweiser, if you are the

683
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: makers of Budweiser and you're listening, bring back the bullet

684
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: bottles and you'll thank me later. Do you know who

685
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: makes um Budweiser? Anheuser Bush? Right? Uh? You know who

686
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 1: owns Anheuser Busch um in BEV. They're a European company, really,

687
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: as something as American as Budweiser is owned by the Europeans. Now, well,

688
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: and Heisa isn't exactly American, you know what I'm saying.

689
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I hadn't thought about that, neither as Bush.

690
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 1: But yeah, the bullet bottles, do you remember those? They

691
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 1: were short, little stubby No, those are the barrels that

692
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: these were bullets. They were short and kind of went

693
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: up and then just graduated up and they were guarantee

694
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: you people would buy those the classic Budweiser Fallus bottle,

695
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: Well Miller High Life came back with their old school bottle.

696
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: I haven't said, oh, yes, yes, I know exactly what

697
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:40,800
Speaker 1: you're talking. Remember the old bullets. Yeah, they were cute

698
00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: and uh, I think if Budweiser brought those back, people

699
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 1: would really jump on that because if you know, everyone

700
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: likes that old school stuff, you can look like you're

701
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: in the seventies again or eighties seventies. Yeah, you can

702
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: send your thanks by check to Chuck Annheuser Busch money

703
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,240
Speaker 1: starts rolling, or just a case of the bullets. So, um,

704
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: this is kind of unusual. We don't usually throw out

705
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: cool random facts at the end, but there's some cool ones.

706
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: You go ahead, Okay, I'm going to start with the

707
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: London Brewery of eighteen fourteen. Yeah, so there was a

708
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: hundred thousand gallon tank fermenting tank of ale uh in

709
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: London at a brewery and it exploded and when it

710
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: did it killed eight people and destroyed a pub nearby.

711
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: It actually killed nine people. The ninth guy died the

712
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,160
Speaker 1: next day. Because when these hundred thousand gallons of ale

713
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,399
Speaker 1: flooded the streets, people started drinking it. One guy drank

714
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 1: so much that he died of alcohol poisoning. Wow, isn't

715
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:45,040
Speaker 1: that crazy, Josh. According to statistics, the Czech Republic leads

716
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 1: the world and beer consumption per capita. I have been there,

717
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,799
Speaker 1: and I can tell you they love their beer. It's

718
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: cheaper than their water. I have been there too, and

719
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 1: it is delicious. Over a hundred and fifty six liters

720
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 1: per year per person. That's for everyone that they don't

721
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: just say like twenty one year old, uh, you know citizens.

722
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:06,000
Speaker 1: So that is four and thirty nine beers a year.

723
00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: Twelve ounces, right, they're probably sixteen ounces over there, or

724
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: are they twelve? I don't know. I don't know how

725
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,400
Speaker 1: they broke that downs. So that is eighteen cases of

726
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: beer per person, about a case and a half five

727
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:24,799
Speaker 1: s a leader a half leader. I think it's like

728
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: a tall boy can a big can. Well. I think

729
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 1: most of Europe it's like that, because I remember being

730
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: in London for the first time in thinking, man, you

731
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: guys have his tall boys and they're like, what's a

732
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: tall boy? Oh wait that was Australian that was neither

733
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 1: actually pretty close Matt's and they're laughing at my hackneed

734
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: attempts uh best symbol. Yeah, the red triangle famous. It

735
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: was registered as a trademark in eighteen seventy six. It's

736
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,840
Speaker 1: the world's oldest trademark. Pretty cool. And the beer Stein.

737
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: You have been to Germany, Yeah, the beer gardens there,

738
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: it's exactly what you think you're gonna get. You're to

739
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,680
Speaker 1: get a four and a half foot tall German woman

740
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: with four arms as big as your waist, carrying like

741
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: five of those big, huge mugs of beer in each hand.

742
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: And it was exactly what you want if you're going

743
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: over to your beer grou And I was like, Wow,

744
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: I'm so glad it's like this. And my buddy Brett

745
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: and I actually had a very fun night in Germany

746
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 1: drinking with this ah old fat German dude that didn't

747
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: speak any English and I spoke a little bit of German,

748
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: but we all love the Beatles, and we drank with

749
00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: this dude for like three hours, singing Beatles songs in

750
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,960
Speaker 1: both English and German. And Carl and I have a

751
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 1: picture with this guy still. It was one of my

752
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: great great memories of traveling abroad. Well tell him where

753
00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: the beer stein came from? Oh, the beer stein comes

754
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,719
Speaker 1: from the bubonic plague. They're like, we need to put

755
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 1: lids on these things so we don't get any disease

756
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: in there. Until they came up with the beer stein. Yeah,

757
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: and what was it to the pottery? Was they were

758
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: there were advancements in ceramics, right. I think the money

759
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: fact is the bubonic plague created beer steins, so that's it.

760
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 1: But I didn't get steins in Germany. You know, it

761
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: was just a big mug. It's like is you know,

762
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: it looks like a half gallon of beer. I'm not

763
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:22,520
Speaker 1: sure how much it is, but it was good doomkalee stuff.

764
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,799
Speaker 1: Nice man, Matt, do we get anything wrong? He said,

765
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,479
Speaker 1: We're pretty good. That's good enough. I'm sure that there's

766
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: some homebrewers that will take us to task. But we

767
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,240
Speaker 1: did our best. Man. We want to hear about it. Um,

768
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,240
Speaker 1: do you have anything else right now? I'm done? Okay,

769
00:44:36,280 --> 00:44:38,800
Speaker 1: So that's it for beer. You can type beer into

770
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: the search bar at how stuff works dot com. Remember,

771
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: as Chuck said at the beginning, don't go out and

772
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: drink beer if you're not twenty one. UM in the

773
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,759
Speaker 1: United States and drink responsibly. Yes, don't be a goin.

774
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,320
Speaker 1: Don't ever drink and dry it. It's just dumb, agreed

775
00:44:52,400 --> 00:44:55,400
Speaker 1: chuck a little older and you realize that the commercials

776
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: are all right, that's just a stupid thing to do.

777
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: Um and uh so that's it for beer right now? Um,

778
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: I said, search for how stuff works dot com. I

779
00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: think so it's time for listening. That's right, Josh. And

780
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: you know the other reason why you get a little

781
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: older and you say drink responsibly is because you do

782
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,839
Speaker 1: a lot of stupid stuff. If you don't, oh man,

783
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: and you will be the butt of many many jokes.

784
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 1: Even if no one gets hurt, you will. You will

785
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: act a fool and end up with like toothpaste up

786
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: your nose because you've passed out at a party. If

787
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 1: that's what happens in your world when you drink too much,

788
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,960
Speaker 1: you know, you've seen a pass out at a party,

789
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: and people like draw stuff on your face and take

790
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: pictures of you and put it all over the internet.

791
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 1: Plus you feel crutty the next morning. Yeah, exactly, see

792
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: our hangovers podcast for that. All right, um, I'm gonna

793
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:49,480
Speaker 1: call this a pretty cool interesting email from an attorney

794
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: about doing guys. I just got done listening to your

795
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: podcast on duels. I thought you might like to know

796
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,280
Speaker 1: that I and I am sure many of your fans

797
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: enjoyed the podcast with a twinge of sad This because

798
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 1: alas I cannot duel. Why you ask, I am an attorney,

799
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 1: and one of the states in which I am licensed

800
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: is Kentucky. And when an attorney in Kentucky is sworn in,

801
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: he or she swears an oath. And when I was

802
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 1: sworn in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, it contained this additional tidbit.

803
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: In order to practice in the Commonwealth, I had to

804
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: swear that I would not participate in any duels. She

805
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: still has to say. This isn't that crazy, It's pretty cool.

806
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: What's more, as I listened to the podcast, I realized

807
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: that I had been preparing to duel my whole life.

808
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: During college, I worked as a serving wench at Medieval Times,

809
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 1: watching jousts each night and twice on Saturday's. My senior

810
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 1: year of college, in order to fulfill my pe requirement,

811
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,359
Speaker 1: I took fencing, which was actually really interesting and more

812
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,279
Speaker 1: athletic than I expected. So sadly, no matter how much

813
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: experience we may have, neither I nor my fellow members

814
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: of the Kentucky bar come stuff. You should know. Fans

815
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: can use the information we clean you from your podcast. Uh.

816
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: There was talk in the last few years of uh years,

817
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: of removing that particular clause from the oath, but as

818
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: far as I know, newly minted Kentucky attorneys are still

819
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: required to abstain from dueling nuts. It just seems logical.

820
00:47:13,239 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: I think we should add that to just about anything,

821
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: like when you go get your driver's license you have

822
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: to check a box that says I won't do or

823
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: in your marriage vowels. Yeah, there's there's just a lot

824
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 1: of places where we could insert that. And that is

825
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: from Rebecca right in Sincentucky, Ohio. Really that's what she signed.

826
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: It is No, she signed it Cincinnati, but I like

827
00:47:32,760 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: to say Sanantucky. Uh. Well, let's see. Oh, if you're

828
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: a homebrewer, we want to hear from you. Um. And

829
00:47:41,239 --> 00:47:43,840
Speaker 1: by hear from you, we mean it's into some of

830
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:49,440
Speaker 1: your weares. Chuck said that, not me, um, but he's right. So, uh,

831
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: we want to hear from you via Twitter at s

832
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: y ESK podcast. We wanted to hear from you on

833
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,160
Speaker 1: Facebook at facebook dot com, slash of you Should Know,

834
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: and We want to get emails from you, and you

835
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: can send those Two Stuff podcast at Discovery dot com.

836
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Speaker 1: For more on this and thousands of other topics, visit

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Speaker 1: how Stuff Works dot com.