Batch 308: Geriatric Millennial Grifters
Malt Couture
Alex Kidd
4.9 • 812 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2026
⏱️ 123 minutes
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Summary
Alex tracks down another White Whale as Surly Darkness Batch 1 lands on the show and finds itself in the mix with Holy Mountain Brewing Company's Summoning Spell, Bissell Brothers' Brewing Super Swish, and Fiddlehead Brewing's Second Fiddle. In the Beer News, a beloved SoCal brewery closes shop, BrewDog announces they're being sold but not without tons of drama, and Budweiser takes the top spot in this year's Super Bowl commercial rankings according to USA Today.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, all right, and welcome to |
| 0:07.2 | Andrew here, presents Baltimore the world's Jake's beer podcast. |
| 0:10.2 | This is bash number three zero eight. |
| 0:13.7 | Air freight, which is how you should have sent the beers, Alex. |
| 0:17.5 | You spent all this money chasing down this, this, this, another one of your whales. |
| 0:24.0 | My whales, this, this is a codified in the community. |
| 0:27.2 | And what was wrong with the shipping? |
| 0:28.4 | What happened? |
| 0:30.4 | Well, we'll get there once, uh, once we get to the beer. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm just saying, air freight the next time. |
| 0:35.3 | You got, see, here's the thing. |
| 0:37.1 | You've, you, I've experienced some pretty sloppy packaging jobs from you. You know, you're like, it's guerrilla tape. I'm like, it's not airtight. It's leaking everywhere still. It's the strongest tape. I'm like, that's not how it works. You need an airtight seal. This one, I think theoretically is airtight. But, man, it, uh, soy sauce disaster. Like, yeah, it looked like, it looked like something where like if it was a Halloween, like, um, like haunted house maze, you're like, like reach into this. Isn't that scary? Like, ew, what am I touching? Gross. You'd be like, oh, okay. You know, you turn the lights on, it's like, oh, |
| 1:11.6 | it's actually just, just this normal household product. That's fine. But I was like, what the |
| 1:15.8 | fuck is happening in here? And the liquid is 20 years old. I think that is kind of spooky. |
| 1:23.7 | We'll get to that. Well, enough. That's, that's a teaser for about 10 minutes from now. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. But, uh, but yes, as Stephen alluded to, we have yet another white whale that, uh, we plunked down some serious cash for. |
| 1:36.4 | So strap in and figure out how I screwed it up. Uh, this episode is sponsored by our Patreon. |
| 1:42.7 | Patreon. Patreon.com slash don't drink beer. |
| 1:44.4 | Tell them about it, Stephen. |
| 1:46.2 | Yeah, apparently, yeah, we got a bunch of new subscribers recently. |
| 1:50.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:51.0 | And, you know, I think, Alex, they're interested in like, uh, my well-being. |
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