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Speaker 1: Welcome to How to Money. I'm Joel and I'm Matt,

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Speaker 1: and today we're talking about getting a deal on craft beer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I am glad that we were talking about this one man.

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Speaker 1: Beer is a key part of what we do, so

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Speaker 1: I think it's about time that we dedicate an entire

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Speaker 1: episode to craft beer. I agree. So most episodes, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to be a craft beer officionado to enjoy

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Speaker 1: this podcast. And most episodes will be talking about money

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Speaker 1: in some way, form or fashion, and today is no different.

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Speaker 1: But today specifically, we're talking about how to save money

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Speaker 1: when buying craft beer. But first, Matt, we also love biking,

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Speaker 1: and I saw this article in our local newspaper and

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Speaker 1: I just had to bring it up. I figured we

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Speaker 1: had to discuss uh. As people learned in episode one.

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Speaker 1: I bike to work UH pretty frequently on my electric bike.

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Speaker 1: And this guy in Atlanta, Yeah, I read it. Yeah, actually,

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Speaker 1: check my email and I read the article. He's at me.

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Speaker 1: So he's given us a bad rat man that's electric

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Speaker 1: bike riders not cool? Take his side? Where do you

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Speaker 1: think his his bike passes as an e bike? No,

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Speaker 1: And we will post a link to the story on

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Speaker 1: the show notes. So you can see the picture of

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Speaker 1: this dude on this ride. I don't know what else

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Speaker 1: they call it a ride, but this is yeah. I

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Speaker 1: share the story then wrote with him. So basically, this

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Speaker 1: guy Carl gets pulled over and he doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: driver's license. He doesn't think he needs one because he's

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Speaker 1: on his quote unquote electric bike. But if you look

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Speaker 1: at a picture of it, it looks exactly like a

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Speaker 1: mopen it's a scooter. And essentially they sell this type

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Speaker 1: of moped with pedals, so it's a it's an electric

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Speaker 1: moped and they sell it with pedals and you can

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Speaker 1: take the pedals on or off. And he had the

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Speaker 1: pedals off and he was like, literally just makes a scooter,

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Speaker 1: which makes it a scooter. Um, and even with the

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Speaker 1: pedals on, let me do they work? Like can you

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Speaker 1: actually pedal it and it'll it'll push you forward. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I'd be surprised based on the look of it,

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Speaker 1: but it maybe so as a kid growing up, like

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Speaker 1: all the guys, you know, it was like the cool

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Speaker 1: thing to do. But before before you got your driver's license,

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Speaker 1: like that's what you kind of rode aroun the neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: like these little mopeds a little fift c C you

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Speaker 1: know engine mopeds totally. And that's exactly what it looks like.

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Speaker 1: I mean the dudes where he's wearing a bike helmet.

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Speaker 1: If you notice he is hemet, But I mean that's

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Speaker 1: it's just straight up a little scooter. Uh, And it

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Speaker 1: said I was again I read the article and it

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Speaker 1: said that they're taking into court because they're trying to

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Speaker 1: you know, it's like a huge case. They're like, oh,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna set the precedent a landmark electric bike case. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's going all the way to the SUPREA. He said

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Speaker 1: that their argument was that because it doesn't have a

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Speaker 1: combustion engine, meaning that like, oh, because it has an

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Speaker 1: electric motor, it's not a real real vehicle except they

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Speaker 1: make testa yeah exactly, or in like the leafs and

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Speaker 1: all these other electric cars electric motorcycles go like a

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Speaker 1: thousand miles per hour. Yes, yeah, So I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's gonna stand up. That's a terrible argument at all.

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Speaker 1: And I think they're just trying to make a big

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Speaker 1: stink of it. Yep. So this guy Carl will post

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Speaker 1: a link to the story. You be the judge. We'd

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Speaker 1: love to hear your comments on it. You used to

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Speaker 1: have a scooter. I used to have a scooter. I

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Speaker 1: used to have a forty nine cc scooter that I'm

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Speaker 1: just scouting it right under the just under the law

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Speaker 1: of well, yeah, that's so, that's the least you have

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Speaker 1: to have it registered and pay insurance, right, So that's

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Speaker 1: a legal limit in most states. In my moped would

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Speaker 1: That's I mean. And you get get gas mileage, I

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Speaker 1: the mopen. So I get that from eat on Electric Mike,

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Speaker 1: and you just kind of go, yeah, when we put

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Speaker 1: totally agree. So I used to have a motorcycle. It

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Speaker 1: as high my priority list right now. I'd rather have

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Speaker 1: a nicer beer, have a lot of nicer beersaking of

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Speaker 1: which we'll get to how to save money on craft

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Speaker 1: beer in just seconds. But as always, we drink a

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Speaker 1: beer on the show, and today's beer is Lindemann's Food

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Speaker 1: Creek lambic Ale couve renee a creek is a cherry

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Speaker 1: sour and Lindemann's this is our first beer mat that

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Speaker 1: been sticking local, yeah, as in the United States local.

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Speaker 1: So now we're jumping across the pond and cracking this

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Speaker 1: cherry sour lambic. These lambics um, they're spontaneously fermented and

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Speaker 1: so which means that literally the beer sits out in

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Speaker 1: so it translates literally as an old cherry. This is

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Speaker 1: an old cherry lambic beer. And the longer it's age,

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Speaker 1: the more rich and deep the flavors. Usually become so

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Speaker 1: let's crack it. Yeah, yeah, So how much did you

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Speaker 1: pick this? This this bottle up for there's eleven dollars

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Speaker 1: don't know if you caught that, folks, but it immediately

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Speaker 1: Belgian brewers make food creeks and make different kinds of

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Speaker 1: type of Belgian beer, but not all Belgian beers are lambing,

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Speaker 1: absolute perfection. That is an amazing beer. It's got that

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Speaker 1: natural cherry sweetness. So there's a Lineman's Food Creek, but

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Speaker 1: puckery than just your the standard food creek. Yeah. And right, well,

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Speaker 1: of these nicer beers, which is awesome and I'm all

426
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Speaker 1: about that. However, you might go into a fancier place

427
00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:19,600
Speaker 1: and they might you know, stick you with like an

428
00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,680
Speaker 1: eight ounce pour of of a beer, and there, even

429
00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,399
Speaker 1: though it might be a nicer beer, there's gonna be

430
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Speaker 1: a lot less value there than say, if you go

431
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:29,679
Speaker 1: with a local sixteen ounce pour of a local you know,

432
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Speaker 1: great I PA that you can get your hands on.

433
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,280
Speaker 1: It's definitely worth paying attention to that. Yeah. Well, so

434
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Speaker 1: that gets us into our next point number four, by

435
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Speaker 1: in bigger quantities. And so I when I wrote this point,

436
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Speaker 1: and I was thinking mostly for home consumption by six

437
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Speaker 1: packs and avoid bombers are the twenty two ounce beers

438
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,840
Speaker 1: that you find on a shelf, and and those are

439
00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 1: usually specialty package And again we're breaking our own rule here. Yeah,

440
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 1: that's a lot of what we drink on the show

441
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:57,160
Speaker 1: because there's two of us here and we're sharing yep.

442
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Speaker 1: And and so we're not an extra special night for

443
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Speaker 1: us to sit down Chord. We're not trying to be

444
00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 1: hypocrites here. But it is something I think about in

445
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Speaker 1: my normal day to day craft beer drink. YEA, you're

446
00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 1: not gonna pop one of these bottles when you're just

447
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,159
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday. It's easier to consume and it's way cheaper.

448
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Speaker 1: So thinking in terms of like what's a really good

449
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Speaker 1: six pack I can get because that's gonna save you

450
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Speaker 1: some money. Or a twelve pack yeah, or even a

451
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Speaker 1: twelve pack man, or if you're a Costco member sometimes

452
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Speaker 1: especially some of the costcos out in California sell amazing beers.

453
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Speaker 1: By the case, if I lived in California, I would

454
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Speaker 1: probably be exclusively drinking beer that I could buy a Costco.

455
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Speaker 1: Where we live, the costcos have like a couple of

456
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Speaker 1: decent craft beer selections, but but they're by no means excellent.

457
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Speaker 1: But if you're just kind of wanting a basic I

458
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Speaker 1: p a Costco is a great place to go for

459
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:50,080
Speaker 1: a case of like US or Sierra Nevada or something. Yeah.

460
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Speaker 1: So I don't have a Costco membership, so I don't

461
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Speaker 1: know what they have. I know, so I know Legnias

462
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Speaker 1: uh Man when they came out with that Born Again yesterday,

463
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Speaker 1: they rolled that out in twelve packs even in crowe

464
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,520
Speaker 1: you know, like your standard local grocery stores, and which

465
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Speaker 1: was a really affordable I mean, you know, because there's

466
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,760
Speaker 1: you get the volume of discount. When you get those

467
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Speaker 1: extra you double that quantity and and you've got a

468
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: great beer for a good price. Yeah. And fortunately I

469
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,280
Speaker 1: think we're starting to see the price war kind of

470
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Speaker 1: kick in and craft beer too. So for a while

471
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Speaker 1: there on the come up of craft beer, we were

472
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Speaker 1: seeing uh, just really really expensive beers, smaller packaging, lots

473
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Speaker 1: more bombers, and now craft beer. There's so many craft

474
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Speaker 1: craft breweries, which is awesome, but we're starting to see

475
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: the prices kind of come down and the packaging formats

476
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Speaker 1: change a little bit. So we're seeing a lot more

477
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Speaker 1: specialty beers in four packs instead of bombers, a lot

478
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Speaker 1: more four packs than six packs, and even some six

479
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Speaker 1: packs in cases. Yeah, so it's really changing the pricing,

480
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Speaker 1: and pricing is going down and people are fighting for

481
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Speaker 1: shelf space and so the pricing is starting to matter more,

482
00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 1: and that means that you're gonna be able to save

483
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Speaker 1: more in your craft beer as you're buying six packs

484
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Speaker 1: instead of bombers or whatever. And there's just so many

485
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,679
Speaker 1: good beers now out there that you can be a

486
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: little pickier. Before if you're really into graft beer, sometimes

487
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: you'd have to spend that extra money on a bigger

488
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: format that you might not have wanted to purchase. But

489
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,000
Speaker 1: there's so many good beers in six packs, in twelve

490
00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 1: packs in cases now that you can be a little

491
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: pickier and you can find really good beers that you

492
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:21,200
Speaker 1: can buy in bigger quantity. It's just gonna save you money.

493
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Speaker 1: Yeah man. So the next point is something that you

494
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Speaker 1: do a good bit, which is shopping the discount shelf

495
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Speaker 1: or the or the sail rack, the sail shelf, whatever

496
00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:34,119
Speaker 1: you wanna call it. Yeah. So, and not every craft

497
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: beer store or has this, but sometimes even Krogers have this, right. So,

498
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,919
Speaker 1: your your local grocery store might even have a discount

499
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: shelf may have been a six pack where like something

500
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,960
Speaker 1: like maybe say half of them broke or something like that.

501
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: And so they've got these three random beers and they'll

502
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,399
Speaker 1: have them on the shelf by themselves, and then you

503
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 1: can sell them for cheap. Yeah, so you can snag

504
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,359
Speaker 1: those up. You know, there might be seventy cs or

505
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: a dollar a beer. Uh. And even some of these

506
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,480
Speaker 1: nicer beers that we like to drink, they go on

507
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: half price at my local your store. And so every

508
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:03,960
Speaker 1: week he's tossing something new up on the shelf. I'll

509
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: take a look. If it interests me, you know, I'll

510
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: give it a go. Um, Like this one was not

511
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: on the discount shelf, but sometimes he puts things on

512
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,480
Speaker 1: there that really don't expire. Some of these beers last

513
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,440
Speaker 1: four years, a lot of a lot of these Belgians

514
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 1: last forever. A lot of the Belgians, and a lot

515
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: of the really good dark stouts. They just don't lose

516
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: any flavor profile. Some of them even you know, I

517
00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: mean they get even better. I mean you're missing the

518
00:25:27,480 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: stouts like some of them. So I p as you

519
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,640
Speaker 1: want to drink fresh, They're they're all about freshness. Let's

520
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 1: think of it like a vegetable. So if you see

521
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: an IPA on the discount shelf, avoid it avoided or

522
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,520
Speaker 1: a minimum. Check the date first, because if it's not,

523
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,160
Speaker 1: if it's not been bottled within the last like three months,

524
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Speaker 1: you probably don't want it. I will say I feel

525
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Speaker 1: victim to that. The last discount beer I purchased was

526
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Speaker 1: a six pack of a of a double I p

527
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Speaker 1: A and it was one I hadn't had before, and

528
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: it looked really good, and I was like, oh, man,

529
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:54,840
Speaker 1: price really well, I think that I'm just gonna go

530
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: for it because I felt like it hadn't it had

531
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Speaker 1: been released recently, so in my mind I was like, oh,

532
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 1: this is it's pretty fresh. But I took man that

533
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: brought that home and it was a drain pour. Yeah. Yeah,

534
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: you gotta watch out for some of those beers, especially

535
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: I P. A S. You want to avoid the I

536
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,440
Speaker 1: Pas in the discount shelf. But it just yeah, it

537
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,159
Speaker 1: just ta it was bad, man. You could tell so

538
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,199
Speaker 1: as you taste it. So in general, bad beers kind

539
00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: of have like a there's a variety of off putting

540
00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: flavors sometimes they have, but that I P A particular

541
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,000
Speaker 1: I remember had like a metallic like and it felt

542
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: like I had nickels and pennies in my mouth. It

543
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: was just like this metallic gros. Yeah. But basically anytime

544
00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:38,520
Speaker 1: there's just some odd flavors that you, you know, you

545
00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:41,360
Speaker 1: feel like shouldn't be there. And if you got your

546
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:45,240
Speaker 1: beer off the discount shelf, it's probably old. Yep, yep,

547
00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: And you know what, Like we said, old is okay

548
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,000
Speaker 1: in some cases, but old is not okay in the

549
00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: case of I P A S. It's just gross, So

550
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: avoid that. But if your local brewery or bottle shop

551
00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,680
Speaker 1: or grocery store has a discount off, make sure to

552
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: check that out and you can find some great beers

553
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,959
Speaker 1: at a good discount, oftentimes looking through their discount vin

554
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: and then you want to talk about some of the

555
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: big the big guys, the big names. So if you

556
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: want good beer, right, you're like, I really want a

557
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: good I p a. Uh. There are a lot of

558
00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 1: great beers being made by some of the national craft brewers,

559
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 1: and they're cheaper than you're gonna find usually going local. Um.

560
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 1: So you and I we tend to drink more local.

561
00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:32,479
Speaker 1: We just care more about that. Uh. And you know,

562
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,879
Speaker 1: years ago I would drink a lot of Sierra Avada.

563
00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 1: I love sieran about. I've got nothing against them, but

564
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, my I really want to support and drink

565
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,480
Speaker 1: kind of the more local stuff. But if you just

566
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: want a good I p a, Sierra Abauda has got

567
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,719
Speaker 1: a bunch of them right there. They're really good at

568
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: making good I pas. And so you're a big fan

569
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: is a torpedo? Uh? I like celebration every winner. They're

570
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,680
Speaker 1: fresh hoop, it's a great one. I got a case

571
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,600
Speaker 1: of that at costcover like twenty six bucks. It was

572
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,920
Speaker 1: fantas passing. Yeah. So look at some of these national

573
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 1: craft breweries like Sierra Nevanagunitas. Yeah, legnitis makes some awesome

574
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: like man, they're they're um hot stupid. Yeah, that's like

575
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: a great and a lot of times they're releasing that

576
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: in sort of the bigger format as well, some kind

577
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: of not the giant bottles but slightly bigger. But that

578
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: is an underrated, delicious I p A. Yeah, and Lognitis

579
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: is one of those that that rule against bombers that's

580
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: the only brewery doesn't apply to because Lagunitas has some

581
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: amazing bombers that are four dollars. Yeah, they're the only

582
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 1: ones that have four ala bombas out there, but they

583
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 1: do nobody nobody else is doing that. Now. They managed

584
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:36,440
Speaker 1: to put out some really good beers at some really

585
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: good prices, So Sierra Nevada, Logunitis, dog fish Head Founders,

586
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: some of these big, bigger, more national breweries have twelve,

587
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: fifteen packs, twenty four packs that are really reasonably priced.

588
00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: And those guys are making some really good beers. They've

589
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 1: been at a long time. So if you're really just

590
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: trying to stretch bang for your buck, but you want

591
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: good I p A s or good whatever, they brew

592
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: lots of other great kinds of beer too. Uh, definitely

593
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: check out some of those bigger players, and those are

594
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: also going to be what you find in Costco, right,

595
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: Like Costco are they selling any any local breweries uh

596
00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 1: that you've seen? Yeah, they will sell some local brewers

597
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: and it's impressive. It depends on the location too, And

598
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: just like it does with your grocery store, there's some

599
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,239
Speaker 1: grocery stores that really specialize in the craft beer thing,

600
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: and there's something don't care about it at all. Uh.

601
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: I guess I thought costcos with it being more of

602
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: a national thing they've got like their standard accounts or something. Yeah,

603
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: I know they're all they're all doing the local thing.

604
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: All of them are really getting into local. So it

605
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: just depends on how hard they are, and and it

606
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: can vary from you know, we've got three Costcos in

607
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: our in our vicinity, and it can vary between each one. Uh.

608
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: And so some are you know, more likely to whoever

609
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: the beer buyer is. They're they're more interested in shopping

610
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: local beers. Like I said, I've heard friends in California

611
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: that the selection of Costco is amazing. I think it's

612
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,520
Speaker 1: some really killer beers. And for us here, I think

613
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 1: there's a two or three local breweries that we can

614
00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: get like a case of right, but still nothing special

615
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,920
Speaker 1: in my mind, nothing that I care enough about to buy.

616
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: When Celebration comes out every year, I'll get a case

617
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: maybe at Costco because I really like that beer and

618
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: it's really cheap. So uh. But for the most part,

619
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: it completely depends on which Costco it is, which grocery

620
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: store it is, so check the one in your area. Yeah.

621
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,480
Speaker 1: Along those lines too, is to know your local options

622
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 1: when it comes to stores, to whether it be a

623
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Speaker 1: liquor store or a package store, a store that's only

624
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:32,000
Speaker 1: selling craft beer. There are a lot of them are

625
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: going to carry the same similar stuff, but they're going

626
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,800
Speaker 1: to have a variety of prices for whatever reason. And

627
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: if you're looking specifically for a deal, one of those

628
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: stores is gonna probably be selling for a little bit

629
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: more of a discount than some of the others. Well,

630
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: when I was visiting my folks over the holidays, I

631
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,880
Speaker 1: came across this like outlet beer store. I mean it

632
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: was it wasn't just beer, but it was had everything,

633
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,480
Speaker 1: but literally had Outlet in the name, And I snacked

634
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 1: some beers at a really as really good prices, and

635
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: I've it's a newer place and it's opened up and

636
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: it's locally owned. My mom actually knows who owns it,

637
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: which is super cool. And just because of their volume,

638
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Speaker 1: I mean, this place is massive. It's not like one

639
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Speaker 1: of these cute, you know, smaller mom and pop uh

640
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Speaker 1: package stores. But man, you better believe, next time I

641
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Speaker 1: go back to visit, I'm gonna check by their again

642
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Speaker 1: and see and see what they have in stock. Yeah. Well,

643
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: and sometimes if you get to know the person at

644
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Speaker 1: your local beer store, ask for a discount if you

645
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Speaker 1: buy a case. And I know, like some beer stores

646
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Speaker 1: in town will literally give you a discount like just

647
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Speaker 1: for asking five or ten for buying a case. So

648
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Speaker 1: if you buy four or six packs at the same time,

649
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Speaker 1: even of different beers, they really, yeah, they will give

650
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Speaker 1: you a like a mixed case discount. And so sometimes

651
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Speaker 1: you just gotta ask and say, if I bought by

652
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Speaker 1: kind of in a little bit of bulk here, will

653
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Speaker 1: you give me like a little bit of a discount? Yeah,

654
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: And doesn't hurt ask mankind we ought to do it.

655
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Speaker 1: Let's do an episode soon on on asking for a discount,

656
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Speaker 1: because I feel like you're really you're really good at this.

657
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: You're always asking for the nice guy discount whatever you

658
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: want to call it, just because you know, like you're

659
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: friendly and it never hurts the ask. We'll definitely do

660
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: an episode on that because that's something I'm super into

661
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:10,520
Speaker 1: and I think people don't take enough advantage of. So

662
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 1: we'll do that in the near future. All right, Matt,

663
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: ways to save money on beer that aren't worth it.

664
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Speaker 1: So drinking swill you're not. You're not for that, right, No, man?

665
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: So if you're just there was a time I used

666
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Speaker 1: to sometimes drink craft beer and sometimes drink Miller High

667
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: Life and those days are past, are they really? You're

668
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:35,680
Speaker 1: really not willing to ever drink? Uh? There's two domestic logger. No,

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00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: there's just a couple of times I'm actually willing to

670
00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: do it, and it's at like shows, if we're going

671
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: to see a band at our local venue highlights like

672
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Speaker 1: two dollars, and I'm willing to do it when I'm

673
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Speaker 1: watching a band play, or after mowing the lawn something

674
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 1: like that. But but it's pretty rare and I don't

675
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: keep it on hand. Yeah, it's not often that you're

676
00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: out there cutting the grass. Yeah, well, you know, or

677
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: I don't need a beer necessarily after I do it.

678
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 1: But if someone were to hand me one would drink it.

679
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,120
Speaker 1: It's just one of those things that I'm not willing

680
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Speaker 1: you to do for the most part anymore. And I'm

681
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Speaker 1: just not gonna waste my time in my life drinking

682
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: crap beer. Yeah, even the past few times that we've

683
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: gone to the beach, we're not. We're not pulling up

684
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: with our little little South Side of Cooler full of

685
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: Miller High Life or PBR. We've got some nicer, nicer

686
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: beers may finding those perfect beach beers, some of those sours,

687
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 1: some of those easier light, lighter drinking I P A

688
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: s yep, anything usually below five because we've got kids

689
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: that were watching so low A BV. We want to

690
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Speaker 1: actually stay hydrated and and a lot of those lower

691
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: A BV beers are going to be more refreshing when

692
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Speaker 1: it comes to, you know, hanging out on the beach. Yeah. Yeah,

693
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: so drinking crap beer, no way, drink craft beer. Yeah,

694
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: not craft crap. So another way to save money on

695
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Speaker 1: beer that isn't worth it to me, drinking like some

696
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: of that store brand beer. Yeah, you know how many

697
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: how many of those have you tried before? You're talking

698
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:06,880
Speaker 1: like the Trader joe stuff. Well, Trader Joe's. Yeah, I've

699
00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: tried some of their stuffs and stuff. It's pretty bad.

700
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: It's not there every Christmas, though, they come out with

701
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: one that is brewed by this Belgium borrow. Oh yeah, yeah,

702
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: it's like they do a collaboration or like a Cooper

703
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 1: or something. That beer is always excellent. But most of

704
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: their stuff that you find on their shelves throughout the

705
00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,319
Speaker 1: year their I P A whatever it's called um, one

706
00:34:25,360 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: of them simpler times, similar times, Similar times, logger or something.

707
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: They're like trying to tap into that nostalgia of being

708
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:36,400
Speaker 1: like back before beers were complicated, simpler times. Oh, everything

709
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: tastes like piss exactly exactly, and that beer definitely is that.

710
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: Sorry Trader Joe's. I love you, Yeah, I love love

711
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: Trader Joe's, and I love Aldi, But man, I am

712
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: not gonna drink all the beer I think we one

713
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: one time, I was just like, man, you never know,

714
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,879
Speaker 1: let me, let me, let me grab one of these

715
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: and see how it how it goes. Talking with a

716
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: buddy yesterday who like it, likes beer, but he's like,

717
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Speaker 1: oh man, if you try any think at all the

718
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, I'm kind of kind of I

719
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: think he's tried a couple and he and he was

720
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 1: kind of convincing himself that's it's okay. He was trying. Yeah,

721
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 1: he was trying to say, yeah, it's so okay, and uh,

722
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:14,759
Speaker 1: but I can tell me down. He wasn't satisfied, and

723
00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: he actually specifically requested He said, will you record a

724
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Speaker 1: show on how to find good beer? Release the more price?

725
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: And I said, yes, sir, we will because the Audi beer,

726
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: the Kirkland signature beer from Costco, the store branded beers

727
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: are usually they're really bad. Yeah, it's it's not something

728
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: I'm willing to sacrifice on, you know, like I'll buy

729
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,399
Speaker 1: the cheap toilet paper. Oh man, even Aldie. Lately they've

730
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: been rolling out this awesome coffee. You had something right

731
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:46,040
Speaker 1: like that Guatemalan or organic cons that's really good. That's

732
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 1: really really good. There's a there's a and you know,

733
00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,320
Speaker 1: maybe that's because we're not doing a podcast about fancy

734
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 1: coffee with and trying to save money. Uh pour over

735
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: not poor alter e goes. But but yeah, I mean

736
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: for me, it's enough, right, Like they're coffee and some

737
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: of their other other things that they sell, but beer

738
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: not one of them. Staying away from the beer. I'll

739
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 1: buy almost anything else at Ali, but I'm staying away

740
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 1: from the beer. So if you're in a craft beer

741
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: I think you know, you spend a dollar more a

742
00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: six pack and you get Sierra Nevada or one of

743
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: those baseline national players, well worth it. Yeah, you can

744
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: get some really good beers for a reasonable price. So

745
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: the caveat about drinking these store brand of beers, just

746
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: be wary. Most of them aren't that great. You might

747
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,400
Speaker 1: find a rare gem, and if you do, please tweet

748
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: at us. We'd love to know, but most of them

749
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: aren't that great. If you want to save money on beer,

750
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: we had all we came up with all these other

751
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: ways for you to do it. Check those things out.

752
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 1: Joel thoughts on the Lindemann's Food Creek. I'm a huge fan.

753
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 1: I love this beer. Essentially, if you want to get

754
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: into lambix, a really good one at a reasonable price,

755
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,840
Speaker 1: it's this one. Go for this one. And I particularly

756
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 1: love the ones with fruit, and this one has co

757
00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: be a surmounts of cherries. Yeah, the fruited the fruited

758
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 1: Lambics are kind of where it's at. I mean, if

759
00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: you're looking to kind of get into the lambics, I

760
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,919
Speaker 1: mean in general, the fruited ones, but specifically creek, which

761
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,479
Speaker 1: is the cherry, is by far the most popular style.

762
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna see way more of that in your local store,

763
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: and for good reason. They're I think they're probably the

764
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: tastiest ones out there, and a lot of people like

765
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,760
Speaker 1: them and definitely worth a try. Delicious tons of cherries

766
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: coming through. This is a beer I could drink often

767
00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: and frequently. Uh And if you want to get into

768
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 1: one that doesn't have like kind of the artificial sweetness taste,

769
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,720
Speaker 1: this is a perfect one to jump into at tender

770
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 1: eleven Bucks, probably at your local bottle shop. It's got

771
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,920
Speaker 1: that nice cherry fruit, but at the same time, it

772
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: drinks real dry. It almost feels somewhat tannic, you know,

773
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: like tea. Like it's kind of got that that nice, dry,

774
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: clean finish where it kind of just makes you want

775
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: to drink more, like, yeah, you know what, you know

776
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:52,279
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about, Gonna pick it right back up

777
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,440
Speaker 1: the glass and take another step exactly. It's not like

778
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: that super juicy kind of fruit. It kind of it

779
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: kind of dries out and leaves leaves your mouth feeling

780
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,479
Speaker 1: nice and clean and super tart. Gotta love it, all, right, Joel,

781
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and do a quick recap. Yeah.

782
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: So ways to get a deal on craft beer. Number one,

783
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: Brew your own beer, consider brewing at home and saving money.

784
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: If you are doing it just to cut costs, you

785
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: could probably get your beer costs down a fifty cents

786
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: of beer for good beers, do it on the cheep

787
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: and get to hang out with your friends as well. Um,

788
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: then after that you can drink at home. And obviously,

789
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean we're not just talking about your own homebrew,

790
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 1: but going out buying some beers at the store and

791
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:34,720
Speaker 1: bring them home. You don't have to necessarily be sitting

792
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: on a restaurant's patio. Sit on your own patio, crack

793
00:38:37,520 --> 00:38:40,400
Speaker 1: open a beer. You'll you'll be able to drink better

794
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: and even more if you if you're so inclined. Uh,

795
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,360
Speaker 1: then if you were to go out to a restaurant,

796
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: you're also gonna be you know, paying for service, paying

797
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,839
Speaker 1: for tax, paying for tip, and you can even invite

798
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: your friends and neighbors over for that. So yeah, and

799
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: I want to see more patio drinking, like on people's

800
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: actual patios, you know, Like that's the kind of neighborhood

801
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: I want to live. Once we get to this cold weather,

802
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna be doing that a lot. I can't wait

803
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 1: for to warm up. That's gonna be our probably number

804
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: one way. That's like, that's how we do it the most.

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00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: What's next Happy hours and local specials. So figure out

806
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: what breweries and local restaurants have deals on beers, maybe

807
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: between four to six or four to seven or whatever

808
00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: it is Tuesday nights, Thursday nights. To find out who's

809
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: offering really good beer at a decent price throughout the week.

810
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,000
Speaker 1: And consider to you going directly to the brewery. A

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00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: lot of breweries are gonna have their beers on draft,

812
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be really affordable, and it's gonna be

813
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: super fresh, straight from the source. Next way to save

814
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: money on craft beer is buying bigger quantities six packs,

815
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: twelve packs, cases of good beer. You can find them now,

816
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,439
Speaker 1: and you're gonna save a lot of money buying that way,

817
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:49,320
Speaker 1: as opposed to buying single bombers of beer. That's just

818
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: gonna be much cheaper way per ounce to get good

819
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 1: beer yeah, and don't be afraid to shop the discount shelf.

820
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: A lot of liquor stores are gonna have this look

821
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:00,840
Speaker 1: around for it. You might have to even might be

822
00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: kind of kind of tucked away or hidden in the corner.

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Speaker 1: But take a look on their avoid the I p a.

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Speaker 1: S and stick with maybe some of the darker beers

825
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 1: like stouts or some sours, or definitely if you see

826
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: a lampic on there, go ahead and grab it. And

827
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 1: then if you're not sure where to start, check out

828
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Speaker 1: some of the national craft breweries like Sierra Nevada, like

829
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:25,920
Speaker 1: Anita's New Belgium founders, and those bigger brewers are essentially

830
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:28,760
Speaker 1: making big enough quantities that they can lower their costs

831
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,720
Speaker 1: a little bit. And you're gonna be able to find

832
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: better prices on six packs and twelve packs from some

833
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 1: of those guys. You might be able to get your

834
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:40,000
Speaker 1: costs close to a dollar a beer for some of

835
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Speaker 1: their really good beers and twelve packs. You're gonna be

836
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Speaker 1: getting really close to that price point, and that's pretty

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Speaker 1: dangn good in my opinion. Thanks so much for listening everyone.

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