Ever cracked open a beer and wondered about its storied past or how it might just benefit your health? Strap in with your favorite pint as Sean Field and I, Andy Beckstrom, serve up a frothy blend of history, culture, and fun facts you never knew you needed. From the Bavarian roots of Abita Brewery's Andygator Doppelbock to the unexpected health perks of sipping a brew post-run, we're here to expand your horizons beyond that trusty bar stool.
Remember the first time music gave you chills or made you feel like you belonged to something bigger? We're turning back the clock to those first album purchases (yes, even that New Kids on the Block cassette) and exploring how these tunes shaped the rockstars we are today. Get ready to laugh and maybe cringe a bit as we reminisce about our musical rites of passage. And, in true "Two Guys and a Beer" fashion, we're weaving in tales of Abita Brewery's growth and how a Venus flytrap crime ring in North Carolina intrigued us as much as a freshly tapped keg.
If you think beer and gaming are unrelated, think again! We're taking a nostalgia-laden trip through the pixelated realms of Nintendo, debating whether Duck Hunt or Mario Bros 3 reigns supreme. Join us for an episode packed with laughs, revelations, and a reminder that whether you're a beer aficionado, a music geek, a gaming enthusiast, or just here for a good story, our podcast is pouring out good vibes and great company. Cheers to that!
Ever cracked open a beer and wondered about its storied past or how it might just benefit your health? Strap in with your favorite pint as Sean Field and I, Andy Beckstrom, serve up a frothy blend of history, culture, and fun facts you never knew you needed. From the Bavarian roots of Abita Brewery's Andygator Doppelbock to the unexpected health perks of sipping a brew post-run, we're here to expand your horizons beyond that trusty bar stool.
Remember the first time music gave you chills or made you feel like you belonged to something bigger? We're turning back the clock to those first album purchases (yes, even that New Kids on the Block cassette) and exploring how these tunes shaped the rockstars we are today. Get ready to laugh and maybe cringe a bit as we reminisce about our musical rites of passage. And, in true "Two Guys and a Beer" fashion, we're weaving in tales of Abita Brewery's growth and how a Venus flytrap crime ring in North Carolina intrigued us as much as a freshly tapped keg.
If you think beer and gaming are unrelated, think again! We're taking a nostalgia-laden trip through the pixelated realms of Nintendo, debating whether Duck Hunt or Mario Bros 3 reigns supreme. Join us for an episode packed with laughs, revelations, and a reminder that whether you're a beer aficionado, a music geek, a gaming enthusiast, or just here for a good story, our podcast is pouring out good vibes and great company. Cheers to that!
and welcome in everybody. Welcome back here to the two guys beer podcast and the two guys beer studio. I'm glad you could join us for the broadcast today, rocking anding and rolling. Andy Beckstrom, sean Field once again your host for the Two Guys and Beer podcast, where we talk about beer and talk about whatever else, Pretty much whatever else we feel like talking about for the day.
Speaker 1:Anything that's out there. So if you have a topic you'd like us to talk about, throw that out there too. Comment on our different pages and say what are your thoughts about this. And say what are your thoughts about this, sean. What are your thoughts about?
Speaker 2:that thoughts about everything I like it that is a little this little that exactly see.
Speaker 1:It's that deep type of connection that we can get for you just like that.
Speaker 2:Have you ever heard of a thought like? That you know how it is I I was thinking what you were thinking, you were picking up what I was putting down.
Speaker 1:You know I used to say that. I used to say that all the time he's like you picking up what I'm putting down, he's like grab it and put it down like just I remember so, uh, today, what are?
Speaker 1:on today's episode we're going to go a little. I mean, the name is going to kind of follow with us or whatever, but the beer itself, the flavor, is going to go a little bit off the rails for what we usually do. And we did this a couple of weeks ago or a couple of episodes ago, I should say I don't remember when we recorded it, but it was a couple of episodes ago with the Dragon's Milk, where we went kind of down the other path of a different type of. It wasn't an ale, it wasn't an IPA, it wasn't the same kind of stuff that we usually do. We've also been heckled by potential people within our own lives that all you do is just the one kind of beer. I'm like, no, we're talking about the breweries here, but now we're getting off the beaten path, so get off my back, we're trying some different stuff.
Speaker 2:We're getting a variety going on here. We're getting beer cultured with other styles of beer.
Speaker 1:Exactly so we're trying some different stuff. So what we have today is Abita Brewery A-B-I-T-A Abita Brewery. It is out of Covington, louisiana.
Speaker 2:Louisiana. I like Louisiana. I've been down there a couple of times. I haven't been to Covington, but I've been to New Orleans.
Speaker 1:It's a fun place Just north of New Orleans, as they say. I probably didn't say it right, so if you're from there, I apologize, I should not have even tried there, but it is. If you take the causeway across the giant lake there from New Orleans, going north there Initially, when you get back to land on the north side Lewisburg, chintuba, mandeville, and then just north of there, if you keep following that 190, you end up in Covington.
Speaker 1:Perfect, that seems like a great place to stop, so Covington is kind of right there on the west side of 190. If you were to go to the east side of 190, though, then you would actually end up in Abita Springs, and we'll come back to that here in just a little bit. Perfect, so that'll be more information about that coming up in a little bit. So Abita Brewery is what we're talking about today, again out of Covington, louisiana, and the beer that we have today was suggested to us. It is the Andy Gator. There we go, so that's where we end up getting in there. So that's what has brought us to this, or whatever. It is 8% alcohol by volume, 12 ounces in a bottle. It is a Helles Doppelbach. There we go, and we'll talk a little bit in a few minutes here about what kind of beers a Doppelbach, actually. Just go ahead and talk about that right now. So, just so that you know, fire it up. A Doppelbach is a part of the Bach tree, if you will, of German type of beers, sebastian.
Speaker 2:Bach, that's what I first think. It has nothing to do with beer, but that's true, whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's B-A-C-H.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:This one is spelled like the town Bach Bach.
Speaker 2:Which is right over there. Careful it is over there.
Speaker 1:I have been there to that city, careful. It is a German beer, usually a dark lager, spelled the same Okay, completely different deal. It was first brewed in the 14th century in a town of Einbeck in Lower Saxony, later adopted by Bavaria and Munich brewers in the 17th century and, due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced Einbeck as Einbach.
Speaker 1:All right, or a billy goat, which was less, less exciting, but that's how it was pronounced and thus it became a bock, and often not on this one, but often a goat appears on bottle labels because of the name a billy goat from the einbach okay it's a little bit of history, lestrin, that we're going down the road here.
Speaker 1:This one does not have a goat on it, this has a gator. Presumably his name is andy out there he's Such a great name. But it is typically associated with special events, religious festivals, christmas, easter, things like that. A long history of being brewed and consumed by Bavarian monks as a source of nutrition during times of fasting. Okay, we'll even go down the nutrition route a little bit later on. There that's called the teas and the biz. There, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about that a little bit later.
Speaker 2:I've read somewhere that monks when they fasted they drank beer for that and it helps with the digestive system and things like that and they actually lose a lot of weight and become fit and all sorts of stuff. I don't have the exact details in my head, but I've read briefly about how they would fast and what they would drink, of course would be beer. So it's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1:So you're saying that I'm not drinking enough of it?
Speaker 2:You probably should drink a little bit more.
Speaker 1:Okay, that sounds right. So the different sub-styles of a Bach is a Maibach, which is a paler, a hoppier one. The Eisbach, which is a stronger version that is made partially by freezing the beer and then removing the ice that forms, so you're actually taking water out of the beer. That was there. Weizenbach, which is a wheatbach, and then what we have today, the Doppelbach, which is a doublebach, a stronger and maltier version.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:So that's kind of what we're going with today. So a little bit I'm not going too terribly. I could go. There's a whole paragraph, and by paragraph I mean like nine paragraphs of the history and all sorts of different stuff or whatever with that. But we'll hold off on that for now. So that's kind of a rough history there of just the Bach and kind of what's going on with that. So from there we will just go into the beer. Now. What do you think? Perfect.
Speaker 2:As we get cracking open into this Andy Gator beer, I just want to give a shout out to our tech guy. Our tech guy is the reason we have Andy Gator. All our videos that you're watching on YouTube, all our reels it's the tech guy. He's making them all. We appreciate all his hard work. All our reels it's the tech guy, he's making them all. We appreciate all his hard work. So this is directly from tech guy. Here we go. We MVP chant, I'll let him.
Speaker 1:Add that in there, mvp. So now the best part of the podcast. Every single time let's go there, we are. Pop the top on another episode.
Speaker 2:Andy Gator, here we go.
Speaker 1:It looks clear, but it tastes heavy.
Speaker 2:It's kind of sweet. I think it kind of has a sweet taste to it, it is. I don't know if it tastes like you, though, andy, not that I've ever tried what you taste like Careful. It is definitely. It has a sweet flavor to it. What does the bottle say? Does the bottle say anything special? It doesn't.
Speaker 1:It says a little bit here on the back Andy Gator is a fearsome beast, so naturally, like me, you're so beastly. Andy, don't let his toothy grin. Slightly sweet flavor so you nailed it there. And subtle fruit aroma. I'll fool you. This cold-blooded creature is a hellish doppelbach that can sneak up on you. This unique, high-gravity brew is made with pilsner malt, german lager yeast and German pearl hops. Sip, don't gulp and taste the wild of Abita Andigator.
Speaker 1:All right so that's kind of the wild of Abita Andigator, all right, so that's kind of the background of that one. So that's kind of what we're doing here we're talking about. Abita Brewery is going to be the brewery that we're talking about today. It is in Covington but, as we will learn, abita Springs plays a strong role.
Speaker 2:Perfect. What's your initial impression of the beer? I think it's decent. I guess I can't describe it too well. It does taste a little sweet at the beginning. The aftertaste is a little different.
Speaker 1:It's a little, it almost seems a little heavy in a way, you know, but it does have that sweetness to it. So I do like the taste. I don't know. On the old lawnmower scale that we've talked about before I I think it'd probably be the one, I don't know that I would even necessarily do it, while maybe after mowing the lawn, you know, with a steak like having that.
Speaker 2:I can see that if you eat something good with this to bring out more of the flavors and stuff. Yeah, this is definitely a beer you want to drink for the, the flavor and the taste and get all of it in for sure.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, and as it says, I mean sip, don't gulp. So that's definitely not a pounding kind of beer which is good. You know what I mean. You got to have that type of variety within your life. So, yeah, it's pretty solid, it, I mean it's good, it tastes good. You know, I was a little unsure, I won't lie. I won't lie. I won't lie. Tech guy, I was the Andy Gator, I was totally in, 100% in. But you never really know what you're going to get. You just you pick a name based on the name and you don't know what the style is. So it could have been any number of things or whatever. But this is pretty good.
Speaker 2:So, since your name is on it, would you brew something that tastes like this? Would this be something that you would concoct, you think, with your name on it? Like yeah, it tastes like me?
Speaker 1:See, I feel like I don't know that I necessarily would, because I don't have a lot of German background and that's not the German Bock type of the Bavarian type of malty beers A little bit, but not a ton. There's a couple of breweries nearby that have a lot of those and there's, you know, maybe one or two that I kind of like, but it's not my favorite type of flavor. Sure, I guess to a certain extent I'm not saying it's bad. I don't want to ever say that it's bad because that's, I don't know. That's one of the things that always kind of drives me. You know, people are like they go to a brewery and they try one and they're like oh, this brewery is garbage, because whatever. And I'm like okay, maybe you just don't like a Maibach.
Speaker 2:How about you try a lager?
Speaker 1:So it's hard to say, I don't ever want to say that necessarily, but just that type of. A lot of those Bavarian German type of flavors aren't necessarily and maybe I just haven't developed into that, Maybe that's what it is. But you know what? I'm willing to throw myself on the altar of brewing and Two Guys and Beer podcastness and I will volunteer, if you would like to join me, to go to Germany later this year to try to really soak in the essence of German-style beers right from the source. What do you think? Well, I am totally on board with that in the essence of German style beers right from the source.
Speaker 2:What do you think? Well, I am totally on board with that.
Speaker 2:We talked about that during our Oktoberfest episodes and for all you viewers out there and listeners out there, that's actually reality. We're actually going to Germany at the end of September, beginning of October. We will be attending Oktoberfest. We'll have some live video there. We probably won't record a show there, but I've got some things Andy and I will set up. We'll maybe ask some Germans, or anybody that shows up, questions just like grump to hey, you want to do an interview? What do you think of this? What do you think of that? Some live videos, some live photos. It'll be a good time over there. So definitely, that is Bavaria area, isn't it Munich? Is that's the area.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it should be. It should be a blast, no matter what we do. But yeah, we're going to go to the actual Munich, the OG Oktoberfest that we talked about. We will be there on day one necessarily. But we've also been told and I think that we actually talked about it on that podcast that you don't want to go on that day.
Speaker 1:Right hold, and I think that we actually talked about it on that podcast that you don't want to go on that day because a you have to wait until the mayor decides he's good and ready to show up to open the first keg, because otherwise you get thousands and thousands and when I mean thousands, like 150,000 people standing there waiting for a beer. Well, even if they open it up, you're still going to be two hours before you get a beer. Hope they don't run out of co2 for the kegs there. But even with something like that, like that first day, first couple of days, just absolutely bananas. So let me get some other stuff going on or whatever, and so like, yeah, we're gonna go a couple days into it, that way we can still experience it, but we're not hitting like the first saturday of the state.
Speaker 2:fair type of no opening ceremony here for October 5th, so we'll get there later and check it out and try a whole bunch of beer there German beer and big Steins and Andy might wear a leader hosing. If we get enough people to chime in how many votes can we get out there from all the viewers and listeners that wants to see Andy and some leader hosing?
Speaker 1:I'm not going to do it until I get some people to comment on the podcast, on the social media YouTube, Facebook, whatever it is that you're checking it out on Give us some feedback. I'm willing to do it, but only if the people want me to the people, the people, because that's what we're here for. That's what we're here for, really so where are we at here for? Really so? Where were we at here? Germany Back to Andy Gator Doppelbach.
Speaker 2:Doppelbach. That's where we got to Germany is the Doppelbach beer.
Speaker 1:So in 1986, the Abita Brewing Company was nestled in the Piney Woods, 30 miles north of Nowlands or New Orleans. For those of us that don't think they're cool. First year they produced, uh, 1500 barrels of beer, that's a pretty good amount for a first year absolutely, they created that in their first year.
Speaker 1:When they first started. It was actually not even in covington that's where they're at now but it was in abita springs, so that's kind of where the name abita comes from is. Uh, that's where they were abita springs and it was in Abita Springs. So that's kind of where the name Abita comes from is. That's where they were Abita Springs and it's now called the Abita Brew Pub, so it was there. It is now moved across to Covington, louisiana, but it was founded by Jim Patton and Rush Cumming in 1986.
Speaker 2:So that's kind of where they started. It's been around for a little while, for Would you consider it a microbrewery Maybe at one time maybe it's a little bigger now but for, like a craft brewery, to show up in the 80s? It was kind of an unheard of type thing, you know. There were very few of them around at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's always remarkable to me to see like some of the especially breweries that have been around for a long time you know what I mean to see like how they've been able to withstand different levels of difference, even even recently, you know, with the advent of more like seltzers, like everything is a seltzer now because everybody's trying to drink light. You know things like that. That's all I have to say. So there's a lot of that going on, right? So you've seen a lot of breweries start to kind of like fade back and, frankly, some of them close and more metro saturated, right? I think that that's more.
Speaker 1:Personally, this is me going on my little soapbox of economics. I think that's more of a saturation thing rather than really poor business planning. I mean, I guess that is part of business planning is do I really want to put a brewery here where there's 14 of them within throwing distance of a rock? You know what I mean, right? So I think it's more of the saturation is just, especially when people are kind of gravitating away from it to a certain extent, not leaving it. I don't think that the craft beer industry is going down, but it's not expanding as much as what it was. I guess that's the way that I'll put it.
Speaker 2:Well, I think that's because it's kind of it's almost oversaturated, exactly, and there's so many breweries out there, so many craft brewers out there, which is great, lots of good stuff, but it's almost like there's too much of it everywhere. It's not kind of like a special thing or a special time where you're going oh, let's go to the brewery tonight, you know, because they're just kind of everywhere and kind of out there.
Speaker 1:You can't make it to all of them, right? You just can't. You know, as much as you try, that's terrible, you know absolutely.
Speaker 2:What is this world coming to where we can't make it to all breweries? It's just, it's a depressing and of itself. We need to figure that we need to band together and email these politicians about craft beer and breweries. What are they doing?
Speaker 1:about it. I would like to suggest a three-day work week, paid full-time, and then a stipend for the industry so we can go to the brewery. That's what I would like to Perfect. If you'd like to sign that, put that in the comments as well, right below the Lederhosen comment. Go ahead and sign that petition. We'll get that one going and see if we can't get some legislation built here. So 1986 is when it started and they said customers loved our beer. Everybody always says that. But 1986, they're still here now. So clearly people did like it. By 1994, they had outgrown their original site and moved up the road to a larger facility to be able to keep up with demand, which is now a 100-seat brew pub. They brew now currently more than 125,000 barrels of beer and and 13 500 barrels of soda in their facility. How many, how much soda? 13 500 barrels, wow. So that's a lot of soda, sody pop soda.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what strikes me? You've mentioned soda on our show a handful of times throughout the podcast and I don't get it. It's pop. You say soda, I say pop. We're in Minnesota, it's pop. I'm only reading it.
Speaker 1:I'm only reading what's on there. Whatever, I'm a pop guy too, trust me, that's me, but I'm just reading what's on there. Part of this is this is from Louisiana, so I feel like it's geographically to a certain extent. Like legitimately, I think certain places in the South also, where it's like it's not a soda or a pop, it's a Coke. What kind of Coke do you want? I don't know. I think it's like mostly just Alabama or something In.
Speaker 2:Mexico it's Coke. When I was in Mexico, everything's a Coke. If you want a Coke, they might bring you a Mountain Dew. So you never, you never know. So I know that, of like Mexico, everything is a Coke there.
Speaker 1:I love a Coke.
Speaker 2:Of course Minnesota. Here everything's pop. I think we have to be the only state in the country that specifically calls it pop. But if you say pop in other states, they know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:But every time you say soda or sody pop.
Speaker 2:You know what, the first thing that comes to my mind and I don't know how many people are going to know this.
Speaker 2:You want to throw a bottle at me? Because, no, I don't ever want to throw a bottle at you, andy. You've never brought me to that point. Well, that's good to know. This is why we have a podcast. This is great, and why we go on to germany together. Here we go, yeah. So you're all gonna think I'm crazy. I think I'm crazy, but every time I hear soda or sody pop, the first thing that comes in my mind is Britney Spears, and you're not going to have any idea why, but I actually own her first album, and on her first album there's a song called Soda Pop.
Speaker 1:Soda Pop.
Speaker 2:So every time you say Soda or Sody Pop, it's the first thing that pops into my mind is britney spears in that song well, there are worse things to have popping in mind, I guess I don't know, I don't know, like nothing against britney spears or her music or anything like. I'm a metal head that's what I prefer is hard rock and metal, but every time you say pop or sody pop, it's the first thing that pops into my head. Is that dang song Boop-de-dop-de-dop. Like it's just going on, all right, soda Pop.
Speaker 2:Anyway let's go back to Andy's Gator and what you got going on.
Speaker 1:I'll have to try to keep that in mind now. If nothing else I'll have to say it and then wait for the dancing.
Speaker 2:I wish we could play the clip of that song, but I'm sure there's copyright things and we would get sued and see right just letters and stuff. But look it up soda pop, britney spears maybe one more time album. Why do I know all that? That is the problem is, why do I know that much about britney spears? Well, you know you do have the album oh, I do, and I have a t-shirt.
Speaker 1:Was that your first album that you had bought? Was it a cd? I'm assuming a CD. It was a CD.
Speaker 2:Or was it a cassette tape? It was a CD. The very first album that I purchased was Space Jam soundtrack.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's a good one, though I've heard, I think it. I feel like it won some awards or something, but I've heard that it's really good. But it's a great movie the original one, none of this. None of this new LeBron James stuff.
Speaker 2:Nah, I haven't even.
Speaker 1:That's not worth the digital copy. That is happening there.
Speaker 2:So the first album that I owned, Poison it was a cassette tape, Poison look what the cat dragged in there you go. What do you got? What's your first? I know we're getting off track.
Speaker 1:Andy's Gator beer, great it happens, it's Tangent Tuesday on a Monday.
Speaker 2:That's what a podcast is all about. Just having a good time drinking beer, drinking Andy's Gator.
Speaker 1:It's possible that doesn't. Yeah. Yeah, it's possible that I even said at the beginning that we talk about whatever. So you know, it's just all over the place.
Speaker 2:Hey, this is two guys at a bar drinking a beer, talking about whatever comes to our mind.
Speaker 1:There we go. Let's see here. So I know that I had some like cassette tapes prior to this. I know that I had like a Sawyer Brown cassette tape, but I think that it was like my mom had already had that.
Speaker 1:My dad had a whole pile of records that he had and I didn't really recognize any of them. I know he had a Beach Boys 8-track, some of those kind of bits. That's Kurt for everybody. Kurt. Cheers to Kurt, Cheers to Kurt. He's one of the biggest supporters as well. He sure is Likes, shares, subscribes. I'm not sure if he ever listens to it?
Speaker 2:He probably doesn't.
Speaker 1:He shares it more than anybody else. It's probably too busy for listening.
Speaker 1:Let's hear what else did I have? I probably had a new kids on the block cassette tape when I was younger, cause I mean, that was I was. I was that age, you know, and I was probably eight, nine years old when that whole thing blew up at that time or whatever, and you know it was a big thing. But the first and that, but the first, that one I probably got as a gift, or you know something, you know like, parents gave me some money to. You know, like, stop talking and just buy the thing, the right stuff. Oh, absolutely, there we go. It's a very musical episode. Today is what's happening, but what was, let's see here. The first album that I actually purchased.
Speaker 1:I had my own money may have just been, it wasn't really an allowance. Like, I grew up, worked on a farm so I like cleaned the house, had to do chores, doing all the different stuff, whatever. I definitely overpaid 100%, but it was still worth it. This would have been in the early to mid 90s, so we're talking like 93, 94. I bought a fairly scratched up version of queen's greatest hits, the purple album. That had like two discs and like 30 songs and stuff like that. Thus started my love for fat bottom girls and bicycle bicycle oh, just such great ones, or whatever. But I paid, I think, 25 to a buddy that had it, like he had already bought it, and he's like I'll sell it to you. But I don't think he wanted to get rid of it, so he probably just took that money, went and bought it, another one and lunch because it was a mid-90s, exactly you got screwed so 100 absolutely.
Speaker 2:queen is an amazing band and that's actually the second album I ever purchased was Queen Greatest Hits. There you go, you got to have it. Why does anybody remember that? I probably couldn't tell you my third or fourth, but for whatever reason, I remember the first two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that first really set that stage and I think mine, I think I remember just because obviously, queen, I have life forever or whatever but I got screwed on the deal. I think that's why I remember it. Even at the moment I was like I am paying way too much for this or whatever. But I mean, of course, in the mid nineties this was before a lot of internet stuff I didn't you know, I think I bought a computer maybe two, three years after that, but you weren't downloading things on LimeWire or anything like that. You didn't really know what was happening and where I live, like we were probably, which now which is funny because like now I drive to work for my regular job 35 minutes one way, it's not a problem, that's just what I do.
Speaker 1:But at that time to go and get this album, to be able to buy it in a store, would have been a 30 ish, 25 to 30 minute drive to go to media play or best buy, likely media play, because that was the thing that was the ticket at the time. And so at that time we didn't do there wasn't a lot of like driving around. It wasn't a lot like people didn't do like massive road trips, they didn't work hours away. They wasn't. Maybe maybe they did, I guess. I grew up on a farm, so driving to town, which was two and a half miles away, was a big trip, and so we just never did that. So I think that was the other part of it, too, is I was like when am I going to get all the way to St Cloud? It's so far away and now.
Speaker 1:I drive to saint cloud like I don't know half of my days, you know, just because it's there, right, I'm gonna go get chipotle for lunch, like no big deal.
Speaker 2:So okay, now back to andy gay, try back, try to. You know like let's rein it in here. We need to have like somebody out here with, uh, you know, like sticks kind of like you know, absolutely whatever, give us a rain back in airport runway, like waving the sticks, like no, back over this way exactly so.
Speaker 1:The company brews its beer with water from artesian wells what the hell is that?
Speaker 2:because water is water to me, so I I think that you explain. I know that there's different.
Speaker 1:There is different kind of waters because, like we have like super hard, rusty water here, different places have like naturally soft water. Or if you've ever had like spring water out of like an like a full-on spring, there used to be one up by grand rapids some amazing water pretty tasty.
Speaker 2:I've had some over in wisconsin and so I think that likely.
Speaker 1:I'm guessing that if they outgrew their original tap room, they were probably making a decent amount of money and so it wasn't a matter of like what existing building should we buy or what you know, what infrastructure should we get to be able to just move into, whereas they probably went around and tried to find areas that had specific kind of waters. You see that, actually with the sweatshirt I'm wearing right now, certainly when they built their new tap room, which is kind of by the Dinkytown area, almost it's a little bit off like U of M campus, they actually went around a bunch of different. Why they ended up where they're at right now is it was the same water table.
Speaker 2:So that way their beer would taste the same.
Speaker 1:Because really, the water, it makes a massive difference. And you, I, I know some, some breweries they will uh, whatever water they take, they will strip it completely down to essentially like distilled water and then add flavoring back in or minerals or whatever back in to actually develop that flavor of the water, to be able to get the beer to taste away. True, so that's part of the thing too, how you figure out that it's artesian wells that are there. That I have no idea. I don't know if they just randomly go around town and like, can I use your bathroom and take a Dixie cup and try to sip the water?
Speaker 2:Sure, I don't know how that process goes, but we've got some artesian wells over there in New Orleans brewing some good beer.
Speaker 1:Now we are drinking the Andy Gator Doppelbach, as we may have mentioned a couple of times here, but in August of 2005, stuff Magazine. You know Stuff Magazine, highly acclaimed by somebody.
Speaker 2:Kind of a nice title Stuff.
Speaker 1:It's like his podcast Stuff I feel like I've seen it or read it at one point in time, but I don't really know where. So 2005, Stuff Magazine called Abita's Turbo Dog Ale. They got some fun names Turbo Dog, Turbo Dog Ale was the best beer made in America, according to Stuff Stuff, which I get it. I heard of Stuff but I'm always kind of like when they do national rankings and you've probably seen them pop up on the Facebook algorithm, how it creeps into your life or just on different things or whatever you know like the top beers in America. How do you quantify what is the best tasting beer? A, it's very subjective as far as like, what you personally like, but then on the other side, like are you traveling across the country and trying all of them?
Speaker 1:And if you are, how do you rate them? And if you are, how can I be your assistant?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Right, employ us, just ask you for a friend.
Speaker 1:So it's always weird when I see things like that, because it's like you're obviously taking different ratings from different people all over the place, right, and just trying to piece it together. Like, of course, in 2005, there probably wasn't a million breweries like there is now, like it's not quite the same deal, but at the same time probably a lot of them, and even if there's only a handful of them, there's one in this state and one in that state, and one in that state and one in some other states. You know what I mean. Like, not like you're just going to go to like the Minneapolis area and go to 47 of them.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But either way, turbo Dog Ale named the best one in 2005. Abita Bock was listed among the top 10 spring beers by Fox News in 2012. So Abita Helles Doppelbach I don't know it's the same one, but it could be Highly rated by Fox News. Perfect. So there we go. Fox.
Speaker 2:News, andy Gator News Perfect. So there we go. Fox News, andy Gator Mainstream media. Here we go. Yay Yeehaw, I'll take a drink to that, I guess.
Speaker 1:Let's see here. Abita, in 2011, brewed over 130,000 barrels of beer and 5,000 barrels of root beer. Root beer, I like me some root beer. I had some cream soda. The other day I went to what is the sub place Jersey Mike's oh, okay, Fantastic place. Sure, they have like their own, like agave cream soda. I don't know what makes it agave cream soda If they actually put like agave into it or that's the sweetener or whatever, but they make their own root beer.
Speaker 2:They make their own like a couple of different soda pops.
Speaker 1:That's all I think but I had the uh, the cream soda with that one and, oh, it's just fantastic might have to do karaoke on the episode of there wears Soda Pop sung by me.
Speaker 2:You really don't want to hear me sing, though my voice is low, monotone. Me singing Britney Spears just isn't good.
Speaker 1:That's what we're going to put in the comments right below the episode. Once this goes live, we're going to have the voting.
Speaker 2:Do you want to see Sean sing Britney Spears? What do you want to see the voting? Do you want to see Sean?
Speaker 1:sing Britney Spears. What do you want to see the most? Do you want to see Sean doing a cover of Britney Spears or me in a lederhosen, or maybe both? Yeah, exactly Both, or neither. Those are your four options. A, b, c, d. Perfect, that's what it's going to be. So, yeah, make sure to check that out in the comments. Yeah, make sure to check that out in the comments. Vote for whatever let's see here. August of 2013,. Because they are doing so much business, they expanded once again. They added another 200-barrel brewing system to their already existing 100-barrel system, increasing the capacity from 150 bottles per minute to 400 bottles per minute. Wow, that is quite the upgrade.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's insane.
Speaker 1:They have a 17-year-round flagship brews. The first one, Andy Gator.
Speaker 2:Oh really, andy Gator perfect.
Speaker 1:Andy Gator, straw Gator, abita, amber, alpha Gator, golden. Andy Gator, Straw Gator, abita, amber, alpha Gator, golden Light, turbo Dog, purple Haze, giacomo IPA and Restoration Pale Ale I feel like that wasn't 17, but that's what they had listed here and then five seasonal beers, three harvest beers, four big beers and then some other draft-only ones that they have just on premise. So yeah, that's kind of quite the expansion that they've been able to get over the course of the handful of years. And again, just you know, starting in Abita Springs and then moving over to Covington, they are privately owned and operated by local shareholders who, many, who have been there since day one. So cool Kind of a locally owned and a small group that's there.
Speaker 1:So kind of a lot of fun with that. They use British and North American malted barley, german and American yeast strains, pacific Northwest hops and pure artesian water of Abita Springs. So clearly they're getting the uh, the water still from abita springs. So I don't know if they still have, you know, their tap room or their facility there where they're just drawing the water to be able to brew this. But they are blessed with the purest of water drawn from the deep wells. The pristine water is not altered in any way. So we talked before about some places will bring that one down through like reverse osmosis, but they just don't. They just go ahead and put it in there no preservatives, additives, stabilizers, and it's cold filtered, so none of the other extra stuff, and it just ends up with a fresh tasting beer. Perfect, that's kind of what they have going on there. So, if you want to check it out, covington, Louisiana, they got a tap room there, but uh, otherwise, yeah, that's kind of what's uh the story.
Speaker 2:What might have to be a beat up might have to be another trip.
Speaker 1:Is that going to be part of the summer?
Speaker 2:tour, the summer tour? Yeah, Well, of course sure we will. Spring has just begun so we have a couple months here we can hit some breweries and take some clips and photos and get some breweries on. Our podcast is fully intent to get some brewery the owners of some of the breweries on our show.
Speaker 1:Absolutely, and if you own a brewery or are involved in one, definitely reach out to us and let us know. We'd be able to have you on the brewery. Have your brewery on the podcast is, I think, the way that the English phrase goes for that. But yeah, we'd love to be able to have you on and be able to kind of be a part of what we do here Sharing your story about beer and where you started and how it goes.
Speaker 2:It's very interesting stuff what we do here sharing your story about beer and where you started and how it goes and, yeah, very interesting stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I always love being able to kind of get that background, which is, I guess, kind of where we are right now, is why we kind of enjoy that. But I really always, just always remarkable to me, like kind of like learn that long history you know of where they started and where they've some of the battles that they've had to fight and why they decided for the location that they're at and you know what's went well for them and you know, just if nothing else, even what their expansions look like. I mean, we talked about this one, you know jumping to a massive amount of the 400 bottles per minute. You know 130,000,. You know bottles or barrels per year 130,000, you know bottles or barrels per year. It says that it's sold in 46 states and Puerto Rico and is the 15th largest craft brewery and 24th largest brewery of any category, ranked by volume sold in 2010.
Speaker 2:Wow. So, that's impressive, very impressive.
Speaker 1:It's it's. It's really fun to be able to see. They're also served, actually, at Disney's Port of New Orleans, located at Walt Disney World in Orlando. So they're also there too. So a lot of good places to be able to get that. So a lot of good information, a lot of fun. We learned a little bit about some Bach. Bach the flavor, not the city.
Speaker 2:Or the musician.
Speaker 1:Or the musician Yep, yep, johan Sebastian, sebastian, I don't know. I feel like you have some papers that are highlighted.
Speaker 2:It could be the 80s. Sebastian Bach, oh, yep, yep, yep. Why can't I think of the band?
Speaker 1:See, all I can remember is he was in the show Gilmore Girls for like a little word.
Speaker 2:She's only 17. Oh, let's hear it Sebastian Bach. What is the name of that band? Holy crap, I am terrible. Usually I'm spot on with my music knowledge.
Speaker 1:Skid Row.
Speaker 2:Skid Row. There you go, not to be confused with Skid Row and Sebastian Bach Right, or the Bach from the classical music.
Speaker 1:Exactly Yep. Or the Bach from the classical music Exactly Yep. Yeah, johann Sebastian.
Speaker 2:There you go, johann Johann Sebastian.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is just regular Bach, and this is actually Helles. Doppelbach, doppelbach, doppel, double Bach for those.
Speaker 2:So I wanted to share you a story about since this is named Andy Gator about gators, gators, and it may have been crocodiles. I don't know the difference between crocodiles and gators. I know they look a little different. I've seen them side by side. Were you going to see them after a while or later, before? Okay, this is pretense. This is pretense. So I went, we took our family, we went on a road trip a couple of years ago. Our second stop was New Orleans Great city, great food. Smells a little funny for like two hours, but you get used to it because the food's great, the beer's great, it's like hanging out with me.
Speaker 1:I don't even know what to say to that I don't know if your food's great, but we'll just, we'll just the paddles we're going to get back online here. Then we'll carry on with the New Orleans.
Speaker 2:Great place, great food, super friendly people, a lot of fun. Well, one of the days we were there we wanted to go on one of those airboat tours in the swamps and get in the nitty gritty and see some alligators in the wild, or crocodiles, and I'm sorry I don't recall exactly which one is there. But we were on an airboat tour cruising around through that stuff and come up up a bunch of a bunch of gators. Down there you're throwing the marshmallows because they can.
Speaker 2:They don't they don't process sugar like we do, so you just throw marshmallows. They think it's meat, because marshmallows have the same consistency as like a meat if you were to throw them a chicken or something, so they don't have a clue. But anyways, we were going through this stuff, looking at gators, having a good time with the family and the kids, and the guy in the airboat tour cut the engine and he's like, oh, we're gonna pet them now. And I'm like we're gonna pet them you know what now?
Speaker 2:okay, didn't bother too bad. But so he would throw a marshmallow in there and once the marshmallow would hit the water, that noise their eyes would pop up and they'd be coming on over and they would eat the marshmallow.
Speaker 2:Well, he would throw the marshmallow over here. It would make that popping sound. The gator would go by the boat and he said once your head passes you, then just put your hand in the water and put your hand down his back. But he's like you have to wait until the head passes. You do not do it before.
Speaker 2:Wait until the head is past you, which makes sense, but I'm not doing either and then I did our whole family actually did until it became the youngest daughter's turn. She put her hand in, everything was fine. Well, of course, the guy that did our airport tour, our airboat tour, was just awesome, hilarious, fun guy. Well, he's all like, ah, like just went nuts Right when our youngest daughter put her hand in the water to touch the alligator and of course she freaked, jumped up and was like, ah, like, like freaked out, went crazy. But that was a good time anyways, down there in new orleans airboat tour with the alligators and stuff. So that's my little story, one story I have about being in new orleans, since it goes with the andy gator beer. So that was, that was pretty fun.
Speaker 1:I like it with that I like it here's pretty good. Though it is pretty good, I think I still probably am thinking it'd be kind of a one. I mean maybe two, but again, like we said before, you know, like with something to bring some flavors out.
Speaker 2:Definitely for sure I do enjoy the beer. I would drink the beer again. I would recommend people try it. But I think definitely it would be better with some food. Bring some flavors out, do something. Definitely not on a hot day after you mow the lawn. You don't want to slam a few of these and if you did, you're going to feel it pretty quick, more than likely. Oh, absolutely Absolutely. So I came across this thing a couple weeks ago. I thought it was kind of funny. I kind of wanted to share with people. You know I read all the time. I read stupid shit all the time. My family makes fun of me and my wife makes fun of me Like oh, where'd you read that, sean? Where'd you read that? What article did you read today?
Speaker 1:Because that's what I always say at home, like guess what I read?
Speaker 2:I read this article, the other day so I'm always reading dumb shit Bunch of useless knowledge. So I thought this article would have been fun to share with everybody. So the Venus flytrap Interesting plant it really is Kind of fun to watch. You know, they catch flies and bugs and munch them down and close down.
Speaker 1:Remember, at one point in time, like 150 years ago, when we both worked at Walmart, did we actually get a couple of those in Lawn and Garden?
Speaker 2:So it's interesting to say that we couldn't get them to close though, because I was going to suggest that, see, see.
Speaker 2:Visionary, visionary again Telepathic information here. So yes, walmart does carry Venus fly traps and you can buy them there. I don't recall the cost, but we did try to eat them and we didn't eat the venus flytrap, but we tried to get them to clamp and close, and to no avail. Right, it didn't work too well. But north carolina this this is pretty interesting. Here there's venus flytrap poachers in north carolina. How do you poach? That's why I thought I had to bring this up. So apparently there's a Venus flytrap poacher. I didn't know. A Venus flytrap was a thing that you needed to poach, is?
Speaker 1:there a bunch of wild ones running around that we're not aware of.
Speaker 2:There is.
Speaker 1:I feel like I'm a potato poacher. Sure, pretty tough to find, it wasn. So didn't run away from you, did it?
Speaker 2:not too quickly. So there is a wild venus fly traps in north carolina which I learned because I had to dig.
Speaker 1:Naturally, oh, that's a rabbit hole, I'd fall down goofy article.
Speaker 2:I just had to dig into venus fly traps a little bit. So north carolina does have some wild venus flytraps, but what caught my attention was poaching. Like I, I don't correlate poaching with a plant in like venus flytraps, because that's the other side of it.
Speaker 1:What do you get out of it?
Speaker 2:you can literally buy a one at walmart, which 90 of the american population lives within 10 minutes of a walmart. So why are we poaching Venus flytraps? I don't know, but there was a couple poachers in North Carolina that faced warrants for taking hundreds of this plant. Apparently, this plant is pretty rare in the wild. In Bowling Springs, North Carolina, is where these plants are. So authorities in North Carolina. They obtained arrest warrants for two people in a poaching case involving hundreds of Venus flytraps which grow naturally in the eastern part of the state. And I've been to North Carolina four or five times and I had no clue that Venus flytraps were natural. You dodged a bullet.
Speaker 1:Your life was on the line.
Speaker 2:What if I got eaten?
Speaker 1:You don't even know what you were walking into.
Speaker 2:It's just like Mario Brothers. It would have got you Chompy plant.
Speaker 1:No clue.
Speaker 2:So officers over there. They obtained arrest warrants for two people accused of stealing 600 of the rare plants. Apparently they're rare, but what?
Speaker 1:do you get out of it, like, just because it's rare, like, do they like squeeze the?
Speaker 2:How can it be rare if you can buy it at your local Walmart?
Speaker 1:Right, and I'm sure there's probably maybe like different strains or something, maybe it's a tiger one or something, I don't yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is. I'm not about that real sure. So it's not in plants poaching venus fly trap plants. So it's not clear if these people been arrested. But uh, warrants were issued in north carolina for these people. Venus fly traps are native to southeastern North Carolina so apparently when they grow naturally and grow in the wild, there's only a 100-mile radius that they're growing or natural in the wild is in North Carolina. There's a 100-mile radius where they grow in Wilmington, north Carolina. I don't know if that's the entire world or if the United States, but it sounds like that's the only place they just grow.
Speaker 1:See, my mind is even going down like the, the weird and twisted path of, like the guy that figured out that, like Sean, do you know what's going on here? Sean, do you know what's going on here? This is the Horatio Cain moment where he takes the glasses off and makes some really dramatic comment of like guess they didn't get chomped or something Whatever. It is because they have now figured out that the old criminal mind is like we need to deliver the profile. These guys are poaching hundreds. That moment, like what was in the room when they figured out like we have stumbled across something big, but at the same time, they know like this is going to get out and we're going to be on every morning show in the country.
Speaker 2:Well, what's big about a Venus flytrap? Apparently, this time of year they're like flower. I know that Apparently they grow flowers and they start to bud and it's easier to find them.
Speaker 1:and apparently they increase patrols this time of year to go after the venus fly trap poachers I'm still just bewildered by the poaching thing, because when I think poaching, I'm thinking like, all right, you're getting like the pelt out of it, or you're getting a mount that you can get out of it, or you're selling an exotic bird or something like that, something that you've, you can't readily get, or it's hard to be able to get. This sounds like you just go to that region and walk along county road, you and County Road, you and I found one.
Speaker 2:Look up a Venus flytrap.
Speaker 1:Like it seems it's not running away, it's not taking off. Is it going to bite you maybe? Maybe that's what it is. It's a dangerous work. This guy's got like three fingers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know, I'm just. This is bewildering to me, this is crazy.
Speaker 1:I don't know. This is bewildering to me. This is crazy. I don't have much more information. No, I'm with you. My mind is like Apparently, I got all sorts of stuff going on.
Speaker 2:Maybe they're only native and wild in that 100 mile radius In North Carolina in the United States Of a wild native Venus flytrap Kind of like in Arizona. You know the Joshua Tree Forest. If you've heard of that, everybody's probably heard of the term Joshua Tree Forest. If you've heard of that, you know everybody's probably heard of the term Joshua Tree because of the band U2. Right, the album Joshua Tree.
Speaker 1:YouTube, youtube, youtube, youtube. Oh, okay, youtube.
Speaker 2:All those guys. Yeah, the band that's I don't think anybody really likes, but if it's on the radio you just kind of jam to it, you know.
Speaker 1:Well, apparently they have this massive residency in Vegas for, like, in the sphere or whatever. Yeah, but I'm with you, though I never really seek it out, but if it's on it's good stuff. It's kind of like we were talking about the sports, that like you're not necessarily seeking it out, but if you happen across it an hour later you're like why am I still like what's happening?
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:You're jamming and drinking andy gator listening to you too, uh-huh.
Speaker 2:Well, joshua tree forest is in arizona. That's the only place in the world where a joshua tree actually grows, so maybe this is similar. Maybe in north wilmington, north carolina that's the only place a venus fight fly trap grows, naturally, oh interesting.
Speaker 1:So Venus fly trap poaching.
Speaker 2:Yeah, apparently it's a felony.
Speaker 1:I mean, why wouldn't it be Apparently we're? Harvesting 590 plants or something like that.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I said that was funny to share that Venus fly trap poaching Great stuff. Yeah, Cheers to that Cheers.
Speaker 1:I mean good luck to you. I guess, Cheers to that. Cheers, I mean, I'll drink to that Good luck to you, I guess.
Speaker 2:Drink to that.
Speaker 1:I wonder what the market is for something like that. If you're selling the whole plant, or if you're selling like the like parts of it or I don't know. I'm going to have to spend some time on the dark web tomorrow. And what are you paying? That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2:Next time we get them at a Walmart, I'll remember the price.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I'll let everybody know the price of a Venus flight.
Speaker 1:That's true.
Speaker 2:They're super small, though at Walmart they're not very big.
Speaker 1:Maybe these ones are like the size of sunflowers.
Speaker 2:Maybe they eat owls.
Speaker 1:Maybe, yeah, I don't know, I just could be certainly. At least small vermin, squirrels, chipmunks Sure, could be any number of things. Small children, no, maybe not. Maybe a whole family of small children.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we better save the kids. Yep, yep, it's all for the kids.
Speaker 1:Exactly so. One more thing I wanted to kind of touch on just a little bit here. So we're drinking this Andy Gator and enjoying it, and we're also talking a little bit about the lawn mowing effect. You know what I mean. You know, like having, you know, kind of a refreshing beer, but it got me kind of thinking a little bit, because I've heard this a little bit. We talked a little bit about the monks before with the, the Bach beers and using it as nutrition. Is it good for you in certain ways? Just nutritional value? Oh, beer, yes. And uh, you know, like now that the weather's starting to get a little bit nicer and people are outside a little bit more, and I would think that maybe my softball team thinks that beer is really good for them, because there's beer that we have when we're playing softball A little bit. That goes up A little bit. Clearly must be good there. Eight or nine beers.
Speaker 1:I am also involved in the Brewery Running Series, which I give a little shout out to them. They're like run far, drink local Brewery Running Series. They're in like 14 states or 20 states or something. Now they started just here in Minnesota. Just a fantastic organization Anyway. So, like beer and running doesn't always sound like it would correlate at all. So is there a nutritional value to being able to do that?
Speaker 1:And looked up a couple of different things, and I had heard this once before maybe, but I wanted to verify it because now that the weather's being nice, I actually ran yesterday. I did one mile. Zero out of five stars. Do not recommend. You know it's terrible, terrible plan, but it is starting to get to be kind of that running season where there's going to be some of that shenanigans happening later on. I am not doing the full marathon in Berlin, that is just Amanda, she can do that foolishness. I'm only doing I'm a half-hasser, so I'm just doing a half in June.
Speaker 1:So that's a way different thing, anyway. So what they say is, although it's a bit of a stretch for it to be good for people, it does contain vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, polyphenols, electrolytes, carbs and a little bit of protein. So it is actually not bad. In some ways it's actually a decent recovery drink and it's better than water just because of the stuff that it has in it. Sure, I mean, then we, of course we go into the fact of moderation. You know, if you run five miles and you have 14 beers, the ratio might be off just a little bit. What's moderation? Well, it's the process of not running five miles because that's too much.
Speaker 2:I concur with that Right.
Speaker 1:So they talk about. You know that they have some carbs in it. They were important for distance runners and a post-workout drink. You have to replenish some of that that you've burned off because you know like when you do running, the running stuff or whatever, it takes quite a bit out of you. So it has some electrolytes which are also in sports drinks and you know it's you've been sweating for a long time. So this has got a lot of the stuff that you would have in it. You know lighter beers probably a little bit better but at the same time, like really any beer, has a lot of the things that you would need to try to replenish.
Speaker 1:You know, nutrient wise to be able to actually work as kind of a, a nice post run or post workout type of drink. You know it gets kind of that. You know like, okay, you know you're just going to the bar and getting whatever, but really it's, you know, has some health benefits with that. Some of those health benefits include again let me just review this there are some potential health benefits of beer when your alcohol consumption is at low to moderate levels. What is that? Less than five miles. So some of those things in the moderation or the low to moderate, reduces LDL cholesterol levels and increases HDL. So it reduces bad cholesterol and it improves good cholesterol. It reduces the risk of heart disease and improves heart health. As long as you drink it in moderation Potentially helps with blood sugar regulation. It actually suggests beer drinkers who have a light to moderate intake may have lower risk to insulin resistance and developing type 2 diabetes.
Speaker 2:Wow Again, drink more beer if and developing type 2 diabetes. Wow Again, drink more beer if you're afraid of diabetes. Right In moderation, whatever that means. Less than five miles.
Speaker 1:I'm going to save this one for last because that's going to be my favorite one, but I'll go to the next one here Reducing bacterial buildup in your mouth and teeth, because it's got a lot of the stuff in there Because beer up in your mouth and teeth, because it's got a lot of the stuff in there Because beer. The hops used to make beers have been found to confer anti-inflammatory properties in the body because of compounds and hops interfere with the production of inflammatory ketones.
Speaker 2:Maybe I should drink a beer after I play basketball, yeah that sounds like what it is Heck. Yeah, cytokines, there you go.
Speaker 1:That's what it is. Heck yeah, cytokines, there we go. That's the word, not ketones, cytokines.
Speaker 2:I agree with whatever you're saying C-Y-T-O-K-I-N-E-S. I'm terrible with the English language.
Speaker 1:It helps preserve bone mineral density and reduces the risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures. The risk of osteoporosis and bone fractures and my favorite, which we have talked numerous times on the old podcast increasing creativity and problem-solving ability. Cheers. You heard it here first, folks, cheers to that.
Speaker 2:I will drink another sip to that.
Speaker 1:This via the Marathon Handbook website marathonhandbookcom.
Speaker 2:Perfect. That's just amazing.
Speaker 1:So the bottom line is drink more beer it's good for you, it's good really, it's you know it's good for the mind, the body, the soul in, uh, apparently, moderation, whatever that means yep less than five miles.
Speaker 2:Yep less than five miles that's the key, perfect, so.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's what I got here. One more thing, do you have additional? I got one thing. One thing. What else you got?
Speaker 2:here. In fact I was scrolling on the Facebook. I'm on there. That's the only social media I really do. I don't do a lot of the other social media unless it's for the podcast, but for my personal thing I'm on the Facebook a little bit. I like to do the Facebook. And a fact came scrolling by about Nintendo. Of all things, I had a Nintendo. Did you have a Nintendo?
Speaker 1:I did not have the original Nintendo.
Speaker 2:I'm talking the 8-bit Nintendo no.
Speaker 1:I had these Super Nintendo, but I never had the original Nintendo. I was not that. I also had a Wii at one point. I actually still have that. I also had a Wii at one point. I actually still have that. I still have a Wii. I think both of them are actually still in my house. They're not hooked up to my TV right now.
Speaker 2:We should bring one in here and play some bowling one of these times.
Speaker 1:That might happen, that would be.
Speaker 2:And we could record that and we could put that on.
Speaker 1:That's what I should do Two guys and beer. Why am I not doing?
Speaker 2:that I got a treadmill, Two guys and beer Wii bowling.
Speaker 1:Yeah, treadmill out there that Amanda can go running on. I'll just do Wii bowling while I you know like what am I thinking? That sounds great. Mistakes were made, it's fine.
Speaker 2:Mistakes were made. Don't worry about it, we'll improve in the so the original Nintendo, the 8-bit Nintendo I was fortunate enough to have one. That company almost went out of business before it blew up into this big video game business and where it was renting, the original company couldn't pay its rent. Well, the owner of that facility where they couldn't pay rent, he's like ah, don't worry about it, just pay me when you can. This is a fact. His name is Mario Perfect. Where do you think they got their name from?
Speaker 1:Oh my God, Absolutely Because.
Speaker 2:Mario, who rented this facility to Nintendo, said don't worry, pay me next month, we'll figure it out, because they made it big and it worked out for them. They decided to name Mario in the Mario Brothers game after the guy they rented a facility from.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I mean really, why wouldn't you? How cool is that. So, mario, I wonder if that guy other than renting the facility. I wonder if that guy seen any benefits from that or if they gave him like a memorial plaque that had, like, his name on it. They should do all of the you know what I mean Like something out of the deal.
Speaker 2:They should do all of the. So did you ever play the 8-bit Nintendo, I'm assuming you did.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, 100%. I just didn't have it.
Speaker 2:Favorite game Can you think of a favorite game that you played on the Nintendo Entertainment System?
Speaker 1:I mean Duck Hunt was always a classic. I did original mario brothers but mario 3, I think, was probably my banger. Mario 3 that was. That was probably my thing between that and probably that. Yeah, because like I liked the hunt but I wasn't very good at it, sure. So I think I like the idea of that then the dog would laugh at you.
Speaker 2:Exactly, it was ridiculous he wanted to shoot the dog, the asshole, exactly.
Speaker 1:My dog laughs at me. Right now he doesn't. He's more, mocks me other ways, but that's fine. Animals, that's what they do Kids these days.
Speaker 2:So I don't have a favorite game. I have a really hard time picking one out on Nintendo, so I'm going to name three Contra.
Speaker 1:Okay, See I never played that.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I know, I know I just never did Up up down, down left right, left, right, B A start 30 lives, great. Nailed it the original, the OG Tecmo Bowl. Oh yeah, Hardcore game there, Lawrence Taylor. Bo Jackson blow that game up.
Speaker 1:I don't think I ever played that, but I did play the Super Tecmo Bowl. I know it's a different one, but I would always run the little shotgun to the corner and then nobody was ever covering anything and just throw it down the field.
Speaker 2:Super Tecmo Bowl was good and it probably has a bigger following but the original wasn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah that, yeah, that one was that was key, that that the original tech mobile is like where it's at.
Speaker 2:In the third game between the three that I I can't decide that I played a lot of was blades of steel, which of course was a hockey game, the funnest game ever. You get in fights and you'd fight and you'd take the other person out. I just those three games, I can't decide, but those would be the top of my list. Thank you, mario, for allowing nintendo to stay in business and use your facility absolutely. I appreciate you drink some andy gator to that cheers to mario.
Speaker 1:yeah, I, I was unaware of uh, of the. Yeah, I don't know that game, but I like it though.
Speaker 2:Blades of Steel.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm unaware of that one.
Speaker 2:I'm going to bring it and we're going to play it?
Speaker 1:Do you have the OG Nintendo? I've got three of them. Oh, that's amazing.
Speaker 2:You have three of them. Why would you have three? Of them Because I found some in a garage sale so I bought them. Why wouldn't you have?
Speaker 1:that the logic tracks, the math adds up on them. I'm, I'm, I'm with you. I like garage sales sometimes. I have, I'm totally with you. I need to. I have my super nintendo, I have, uh, I have a couple of different things, but you know what my favorite game was, though, so I was never much of a gamer. I'm not. I'm self-admittedly. I don't have a ps5. I don't have like when I say that I have a Super Nintendo and a Wii. Those are the two that I ever had.
Speaker 1:Like I never had it. My brother had a PlayStation the original one for like a little while. I never got into any of that. That was just never my thing. I was always doing a million other things. I just never had time to like sit and game. There was never.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I just couldn't wrap my head around it. Well, you're living on a farm, you're busy tending to a lot of things.
Speaker 1:And I thought I was going to be good at basketball. So I was always outside shooting hoops and I was still yeah, I did that much working out playing basketball and I'm still this bad. I know it's that bad, it's that bad. Anyway. So, like Super Nintendo like I played a lot of that, or whatever, like Super Mario Brothers of course that you know the classic one, for that one when it came out.
Speaker 1:I had a couple of different games over the course of the years, but Ken Griffey Baseball Okay, yeah, name a better baseball Like that game was so, but don't, though, because I like my story just as it was, but that game was so great. Like I create, because I like my story just as it was, but that game was so great Like I created you could create. It was one of the first ones you could create like your own teams. And, of course, it was like my high school baseball team, my JV baseball team, you know, like Mitch and Mike and Mike, and you know who else was on that team I don't even Zach was on that team and Joe, I mean like. I mean like we had, like all the guys that, like I played baseball with.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean Like all, like that was the team that we had and of course you know you're like I don't want to play the hundred. You could play the season thing. That was one of the first things you could do. That too, never played the full thing. Of course I don't want to play 162 games. I played the 23 games, yeah 22 and 1.
Speaker 2:Has anybody actually played the full season on any baseball? I'm sure there is somewhere I tried with the game that I think is better. It's called World Series Baseball for Sega Genesis, but I think I failed miserably at getting to 163 games.
Speaker 1:So and the thing about it like it was that was in that era that like you play like Madden now, like you can play an entire game in like 20 minutes, like you just go, it flies by. Now that game, when you would play a full baseball game, it would take you an hour right to be able to do it. It was so. It wasn't just like you because you had to do all the things. You'd steal and you'd round base runners around second turn to get them to move up a base like it. It was a small ball like all the things you know. So, trying to be able to get that all to work, and everybody I don't think a single team had their players at all, except for Ken Griffey, sure, but all of the teams were represented. That was pre-Tampa Bay and Arizona.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was way before all Bay, and oh, colorado, arizona.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was way before any of those. So, uh, so those didn't exist at all, but uh, yeah it. Uh, the old, good old days. You know, way, way back when, god, I was good at that game, so good, and maybe I was only, maybe I was actually subpar at that game, but I would just beat the crap out of my brother in that game.
Speaker 1:Hey, that's all worth it, and you know what that made me whole right here, peter? It really just Pete. Pete, are you listening? He's currently trying to figure out how to send viruses to the computer. Pete do you?
Speaker 2:listen to the full podcast. I guess we'll find out. He follows the TikTok. Hey, we're on TikTok. Peter follows the TikTok. There you go, perfect.
Speaker 1:Yep, there we are All right. Well, that's about all I got. I mean, end on a high note of harassing my brother. How do you get better than that?
Speaker 2:That's how I always get there, hey Pete.
Speaker 1:Somebody's going to tell him that he's going to be like what the hell is he saying? He's going to realize wait, he has a podcast Right. That'll be the conversation that's going to be happening right now, but that's fine, you know, it's fine. Like, share, subscribe, tell all your friends, do it all.
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Speaker 1:Andy Gator Helles Doppelbach. That was today.
Speaker 2:Good beer. Thanks a lot for them. I appreciate their beer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got a lot of stuff going on here with the two guys and beer. We're still kind of working our way through a bunch of different things, but we're looking to get out into the community, if you will and by community not necessarily nearby, but into the beer community, looking at a couple of like onsite recordings, possibly coming up here a little bit and trying to get some additional people maybe be able to be involved. Now I got a couple of people that want to be on the podcast and really want to be able to get some of their expertise. Brandon we've talked about numerous times that his beer knowledge he's going to. I almost don't want to have him on because we're going to get him on here.
Speaker 2:We'll just watch him talk and we're going to start. We'll watch him talk with you guys.
Speaker 1:We're going to. I'm going to start talking about stuff and he's going to immediately.
Speaker 2:Well, actually, you guys are dumb. I'm going to explain to you how all this goes.
Speaker 1:Exactly. He's going to tell us the real answers.
Speaker 2:We'll just drink his beer while he talks.
Speaker 1:You know, I I'm a hundred percent with that. That will be the episode of all of street brewing is what that would be yeah, let's do it. Yep, a hundred percent We'll. We'll have that one at one point in time. So, but yeah, we'll have a you everybody about it. You know we're on all the major platforms, really all the platforms. You know everywhere, we're everywhere. Now we got the video, as you can see, with our nice fancy studio, with whatever it is like yeah.
Speaker 1:So if you see through my beer, that's. You know, probably that's going on there, but at least I'm not wearing pajama pants this time, even though I was mocked a little bit. It's fine, that's fine.
Speaker 2:That's fine, bring it Yep.
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Speaker 2:I appreciate everybody for listening. All support. It's a good time. We're having a hell of a time doing this podcast. It's all for good fun. We just love drinking beer. We love talking. We love just having a good time. Nothing serious about this podcast. Have a good time. I appreciate everybody listening. Get yourself some mandigator if it's available in your area. It's a good place. I appreciate everybody for listening. Thanks a lot, man cheers. God bless everybody.
Speaker 1:Thank you appreciate it we'll talk to everybody soon here on another episode of Two Guys and a Beer Podcast. Until then, cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers.