About this episode

The hosts discuss drinking habits during Lent, share bar stories from Daytona Bike Week, and cover brewery news.

Welcome back to your favorite craft beer podcast. Flex gives up drinking for Lent, but Greg is making up for it. That leads to dirty soda experiments, Daytona Bike Week bar stories involving baby bird shots and hurricane slaps, and the phrase mack and scrote has entered the chat. We also get into bloated tap lists and wrap with Booze News packed with brewery buyouts and a DUI story that is medically impossible. Beers We’re Drinking: Greg is drinking Million Dollar Hazy from Shelter Beer Company , a hazy IPA brewed with Mosaic, Citra, and Sabro hops. Flex is drinking a dirty soda made with Diet Coke and French vanilla coffee creamer. A listener writes in about breweries running huge tap lists and we get into whether more options actually make things better or just harder to pick a beer. Flex shares stories from Daytona Bike Week including a baby bird shot and a hurricane shot that ends with water in the face and a full slap, which begs the question: which one would you take? A bar conversation introduces the term “mack and scrote” and it immediately becomes part of the show. Flex explains his Lent break from alcohol and the accidental discovery of dirty soda, which somehow leads…

People in this episode

Hosts: Flex, Greg

Topics covered

• craft beer
• Lent
• Daytona Bike Week
• dirty soda
• brewery buyouts
• Booze News

Keywords

• craft beer
• dirty soda
• Daytona Bike Week
• brewery buyouts
• Booze News
• hazy IPA
• tap lists

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Shelter Beer Company, Tilray, BrewDog, Drake’s Brewing, Figueroa Mountain, Left Hand Collective, Bootstrap Brewing, Latitude Beverage

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