Flex Is the Captain Now

Flex Is the Captain Now

Author: Craft Beer Republic October 8, 2025 Duration: 44:10
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Welcome to the Craft Beer Republic Remix! Greg’s under the weather this week, so Flex takes the wheel with Erica riding shotgun. Erica shares her Beer Babes weekend that turned into a Smirnoff Ice ambush, and Flex breaks down how much baseball fans are drinking during the playoffs. We also share some some wild beer stories; Godzilla teaming up with PBR, a cyberattack that shut down Asahi in Japan, and a guy who thought wearing a Walmart vest would score him free beer.

Beers We’re Drinking:


Greg’s half-medicated and sipping Coke Zero while Flex steers the ship, and Erica settles right in with talk about her Dollar Tree obsession and their questionable bathrooms. The crew gives a shoutout to London for suddenly becoming the show’s top listening city and tries to figure out what they did to earn that kind of spike. Erica shares her Beer Babes weekend—six women, one pool, and a sneaky Smirnoff Ice prank that left everyone chugging and cursing her name—while Flex calls it “very yin and yang.” Things roll into postseason drinking habits, with Greg admitting he drinks more during football playoffs out of nerves and Flex confessing he celebrates quietly like a mime in a house full of women. And Flex decides to scar us with LeBron’s feet; don’t Google it. 

Booze News:

  • Michelob Ultra tops Bud Light as America’s best-selling beer by volume.
  • Godzilla invades PBR with monster can art hitting 60 million packages.
  • Funkwerks calls it quits on their Fort Collins taproom after 15 years.
  • Asahi gets hacked, leaving Japan’s biggest brewer unable to ship beer.
  • “Regular Greg” arrested after trying to steal beer in a Walmart vest.

Erica: NeckNosh.com

Instagram: @NeckNosh

Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer

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