Jason: 

The Buffalo Brews Podcast. This episode of the Buffalo Brews Podcast is, what we're going to be talking about, I sound like Jeff Goldblum. What we're going to talk about today is, well, it's Western New York Craft Beer Week.

Bri: 

Happy Beer Week.

Jason: 

Right. Now. Today was National Drink Beer Day.

National Drink Beer Day. Correct. Right.

Now, technically we should have had some Western New York beers here on the table. But it is pumpkin season. Right.

So. Pumpkin beer. Reached in the fridge and got a couple of things here.

So we have the DuClaw Brewing Company Sweet Baby Pumpkin. Pumpkin Spice Latte Porter coming in at 6.2%. There I am still doing my Jeff Goldblum, 2%, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Ewing New Jersey they're out of.

And then we had a fun experience last year with Elysian with their pumpkin ale. And then this one's called the Night Owl Pumpkin Ale, which is another 6.2%. The nocturnal creature that started it all, our signature pumpkin ale is brewed with real pumpkin and a chorus of nutmeg, clove, ginger, cinnamon, and allspice. So that's what we're talking about here.

But it is craft beer, Western New York Craft Beer Week from the 25th of September until October the 3rd. There's all kinds of things going on. One of the places that I would like to push is Buffalo Brewing Company.

And they got some great things that are going on over there. As the news, as we all know, they had a vandalism that in recent times there that caused them to have to buy another condenser for their brewing operation. And their insurance is being a pain in the behind about it.

So they've had to pay everything out of pocket from their business expense directly instead of going through the insurance because it's a theft. And that's the way it should be, right? Who knows what the rules are there?

But I encourage you, if you're in the Western New York area, head over to Myrtle Street there in Larkinville and go over to Buffalo Brewing Company. They just did a little remodeling here recently, before the theft actually, for the vandalism. And they have some great things going on.

They always have some great original recipes going on. And if you're familiar with Schreiber Brewing back in the day, they make Manroo lager from Schreiber. They've also been working with Simon Pure, which was a brand from the 1970s.

And the Old Abbey and the traditional lager they make there as well. So get a chance to get over there. They got food on site and some great beers.

And then they're always playing around with things. What do we have that we've enjoyed there? They've had their Polish beers.

Was that the Punczki? We had their version of the Punczki beer, which was a lot of fun. So I encourage you to get over there.

But we're going to be sitting down and drinking Duclos Sweet Baby Pumpkin and Elysian Night Owl. Got a couple of glasses here with a sugar rim, because that's the only way you should drink pumpkin beer.

Bri: 

Right.

Jason: 

Agreed? Yes. Okay.

Which one would you like? What do you want to pour from? Do you want to pour a can or bottle?

Bri: 

Bottle.

Jason: 

Okay. Okay. And you got our credit card opener from War Horse Brewing there.

Oh, I like that sound. I got that shot across the table with that one. It's all right.

We'll clean that right up. Wow. A double pour in the mic.

Right. That's nice. Where did we pick these beers up from?

It was, was it called Elgato? Angotti? Whatever the beer store is that's in Batavia.

Angotti Beverage Inn. Yeah, it's in Batavia. Located right on the main street.

Bri: 

Angotti.

Jason: 

Angotti. Yep. And then that's right behind Eli Fish Brewing.

That's always a story for another day there, but cheers. Cheers. Oh, the sugar rim kept the glasses from tinking.

Bri: 

Mmm. Delicious. Oh yeah.

Wow. Okay. That's light and refreshing, but yet pumpkin-y.

Jason: 

Oh, I like that one too.

Bri: 

Yours tastes like pumpkin spice latte.

Jason: 

Right? Right? Oh, these are really good.

All right. Good choices. Excellent.

All right. So last episode that we recorded together, we were talking about pretty much everything that went on in the month of August, and it's so funny that we're almost to the end of September. Crazy.

So we're literally covering the entire month of September. I don't know where my life goes. I don't know.

It's just, it's, things are flying so fast where, you know, leaves started falling before they started changing because it's been so dry. Oh, extremely dry. Yep.

And then before the temperatures really cooled down, actually it was beginning of September, we did have quite the cool down from the nineties we were experiencing. End of August, early September, we had the cool down. Tunnel to Towers, 5K.

Bri: 

Yeah. Which was so funny because I was like, oh, I'm going to wear shorts. And then I was like, it's so cold.

Jason: 

It was frigid that morning.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

Yeah.

Bri: 

I couldn't believe it. I said, how in the world is it so warm? And then we have to do two runs.

Jason: 

It was cold. Right. Yeah.

It was quite, it was, it was a fun run as usual. You know, we push ourselves to, you know, however it works, it works for us. I had one goal was to get under 42 minutes and then came in at 41.50. So that was quite the push at the end.

Bri: 

I only need to beat Jason every time.

Jason: 

Which you do every time. The thing about 5Ks with me is like when I push myself at the end, I usually the last two tenths of a mile is when I really, you know, like bear down on a run and I crossed the finish line and I'm probably, probably not the only person, but I'm a 5K runner who's crossing the finish line. Like you just finished the Boston marathon.

Oh, for sure.

Bri: 

I just suck and win. But you know what? I see so many people doing the same thing.

You know what it is? It's the people who are not the runners that do this and then they push themselves. Right.

Because they have a goal and they're like, I'm going to do this. And some of them, this could be like their only 5K they ever do. I mean, I see people out there that don't look like they've run a lap in their lives, but they're killing it for this thing because it's a good cause and they want to, and they do.

But yeah. So it's not just you. When we were waiting for you to take your picture for you coming in, like we saw the people that were just like you, like dying.

And then, you know, the other people who glided in, who look like they didn't even do anything, but take like maybe a small lap, those people finished way ahead of us.

Jason: 

Yeah.

Bri: 

So we never see what they look like crossing the finish line. We only see people like us that are like, oh my God, that was so hard.

Jason: 

You're like, great job, fist bump.

Bri: 

Right. Right.

Jason: 

Um, yeah. And then Tunnel of the Towers, great cause obviously for the, uh, the, um, Stephen, uh, the Stephen Siller Foundation, people who know that, uh, the story, uh, Stephen Siller was a firefighter in New York city. He had just gotten off of an overnight shift.

So he was going to change, go play golf with his brothers. Uh, got the call about the, uh, the first plane into the North tower of the world trade center. Uh, so he told his brothers, Hey, I'll, I'll catch up with you guys.

I just got to go back and do this. So he got caught in one of the tunnels, um, ended up abandoning his, his car, ran to his firehouse, suited up and then fully suited up, ran all the way to the twin towers and was last seen heading into the North tower.

Bri: 

Which is crazy. I can't even imagine. And I see all those people running that run in full gear.

Jason: 

And that's where the commemoration comes in. I mean, and people finishing well ahead of us in full 60, 70 pounds of gear, just, just getting it done.

Bri: 

I mean, I think when you can, when you train for something like that, but it takes somebody who's way better than me. I couldn't do it. That is a job.

I will say I could never sign up to try to even attempt to do. Right. Yeah.

Jason: 

But you'll, you'll catch me going back every year until I decide I can't run it.

Bri: 

Oh yeah. You know what though? You can always do it because they do walkers.

Yep.

Jason: 

And I'll probably.

Bri: 

And when we're running, like I noticed when I'm running and I'm whatever that this part is, maybe like the two miles in, I'm passing the whole group of walkers that are doing it. So yeah, I think you could just do it until they don't do it anymore.

Jason: 

It's a competitive run for sure. Cause it's the same guy every year. We're just about crossing the one mile marker and that guy's coming at us to do the finish.

And I mean, he's just. He's young. Yeah.

Yeah.

Bri: 

Yeah. He can't be any older than his mid twenties. He was probably like the track star in high school.

You know what I mean?

Jason: 

He's super lean.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

He's super lightweight. He's a member of the group's called the Lancaster Striders. It's a run club, but they're like all like, I've seen so many of them and they're former track stars from local high schools.

So I could just, I get it. I totally get it. But you know, a great cause.

And then, you know, 2026 is coming around. We'll do it all over again when, when the registration.

Bri: 

And then it's so funny because I say, I'm not doing this next year. This is so hard.

Jason: 

And then guess what I do?

Bri: 

Oh yeah. I'm totally signing up. Yeah.

Yeah.

Jason: 

I'm doing it. Yeah. Train, train, train, train, train, train.

Then for the first time ever in my life and I'm sure in your life as well, out of our damn minds, we ran the Glen Iris five, a 5k trail run because I wanted the metal the next day.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

So I've never in my life of ran two five K's in a weekend.

Bri: 

Me neither.

Jason: 

So we drove down, but crack or what do you say? The butt cracker of the Don? Butt crack of Don.

Yeah. Yeah. Drove down to Letchworth with our friend Tony and, and hit the trail run.

Yeah. And what was funny about that race is we were only done with that race about less than 10 minutes. And Tony was crossing the finish line and he did a 10 K.

Bri: 

Right.

Jason: 

So, so when we're finishing, he's five, he's five minutes behind us doing twice the distance.

Bri: 

But again, he's a runner. We're not runners. No.

I mean, I, I will lift weights for hours in the gym. I just, I don't, I don't like to run.

Jason: 

No.

Bri: 

Even though I keep doing it. Like I wanted this metal so bad.

Jason: 

It's beautiful.

Bri: 

So then I was like, we're doing this because I want the finisher metal.

Jason: 

I'll have to make sure I post that, that picture.

Bri: 

And I really thought we were doing good. Like, I was like, okay, this isn't going to be so bad, so bad. Yeah.

And I was like almost skipping down the rocks when I was going downhill, gathering momentum. And then you slam into this, like almost straight up.

Jason: 

Yeah.

Bri: 

It was like, it was over 400 feet of, that you're just supposed to run up. And I was like, oh no, I don't know if I have it in me for this.

Jason: 

Right.

Bri: 

But yeah. I don't know. We did it though.

So I was just super proud of us.

Jason: 

But you know, it's, and then even got done with it and were, you know, kind of lick your wounds afterwards and going, I would consider it next year.

Bri: 

Yeah. I would. I mean, it's just, it's so pretty.

Jason: 

It's different.

Bri: 

And it's pretty. Yeah. And that's the whole thing.

It's like, it's my happy place. Yeah. Right.

Like I love going to Letchworth. So it being so gorgeous, something we've never done before, now you know what you're in for. Right.

So that's the other thing. Right. Like you had no idea what you were in for and now I know.

So now it's like you can put it in your head a little better of like, okay, we're, we know that you're going to get to a certain point of this and you're going to get to a certain point of that. And you're going to, you know, and so now in your brain, it's kind of like how we've done the tunnels so many times or the Buffalo marathon so many times. Now you get it in your head and you know, right.

So when you're kind of doing that, like upward, you know, there's a downward, you know, there's like the curve, you know, you can gain momentum here. If you slow up here, you know what I mean? So I feel like once you start doing it, you can have more of a plan, but I like it.

I would do it again. I mean, I, our friend wants to do it with us next year.

Jason: 

So yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. They get us, they get a look at it and seem to seem to want to join in. So, hey, who am I to argue?

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

We, we took in, we finally got in a little golf for the season.

Bri: 

Oh my gosh. Right. I was thinking, am I going to go through the entire season this year of no golf?

Right.

Jason: 

I did have a chance to go to Niagara frontier to golf with PGA hope. So that was a fun day up in Youngstown, but we got the opportunity to go to Arrowhead up in Spencer port. So it's an interesting course because it doesn't, that course doesn't have any par fives on it.

So there's a lot of par fours, there's a grouping of like, what was there like four consecutive par three, three holes. And then there's a four, three hybrid hole.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

So, I mean, even on a course like that, I shot a 94 that's, I guess that's the only way I'm ever going to break a hundred is if I, if I'm on a course that has no part five, right. But when one of the really cool things that happened that day was you drove a green on a par on a par four, right? Yeah.

That was crazy. And ended up putting for Eagle, which was really cool.

Bri: 

Yeah. It was so crazy that when I got up there, the guys that were behind us waited, literally waited to tell me that he had, he had turned around and I was getting ready to hit. So he just took a moment to see like how I was going to do.

And he was like, I could not believe when I saw that ball coming right at me. And he was like, I, he, they literally waited to go hit the next, their next hole because they played in front of us all day. And there was another shot that I had done that remember when he pointed out my ball and I said, oh my gosh, I'm all the way up here.

I thought I lost my ball.

Jason: 

Oh, that's the one where we thought it hit the tree and then we heard this thud. So we thought that ball just dropped right under this tree.

Bri: 

Yeah. But apparently, and I must've hit a tree that was further because they said it hit the tree right next to them.

Jason: 

Okay.

Bri: 

Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, so he had watched that shot and he waited to tell me, he was like, that was an amazing shot.

So I felt pretty proud of myself. Of course, I didn't get an Eagle, but you know. It's a fun course.

Jason: 

It's an older course.

Bri: 

But very inexpensive because of that.

Jason: 

Yeah, it wasn't expensive. And I would actually do that again because I feel like I want to do something like a bobble links or something that's like, gives me like some consistent work on my irons. Yes.

Cause I feel like I had a good irons day out there. Probably why I shot under a hundred.

Bri: 

Yeah. Like I know that's my problem. So I feel like I've really been doing better on my short, like super short, short game, right?

My chipping, my putting, and then my Ben doing good on my driving. It's the in between. That's where, that's where I'm like.

Jason: 

It's not the beginning or the end, it's all the stuff in the middle.

Bri: 

Like maybe I hit like a seven iron shot and then, you know, it's, it's okay, but it just doesn't get the trajectory that I want. And then I'll hit another one that'll be perfect. And then I'll tow another one.

You know what I mean? Like I just, I don't play enough. And I think that's my biggest problem.

Jason: 

Well then that improved cause skip ahead to Terry Hills and we got to play on.

Bri: 

Right, my second time out this year.

Jason: 

And you got to play your favorite, your favorite nine hole there. One, and I'll touch on one more thing at Arrowhead because when we were in Spencerport, what used to be called a Brindle House Brewing Company, the owners who I believe, if I'm remembering the story right, moved to North Carolina. And then they had people who were, who were running it, but they didn't want to run it from North Carolina.

So they sold it. And then people from their mug club bought the place, then changed, you know, switched over the theme to what became Bones and Barley Brewing, named after the dogs. And then we were able to stop in there and, and have a quick beer on our way back to Buffalo.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

To Chico. So that was a, that was a lot of fun. And you know, it's a place I would go to again.

Bri: 

We stopped at another place too. What was that little brewery that we had like that black IPA at? Oh, that was Tracy B's.

It was like this little hole in the wall place on, on the, just. It's like in LeRoy. Yeah.

It's the tiniest little place. Everybody was super nice. And we had an incredible beer.

Jason: 

I couldn't believe how small that place was. And they had six different football games on, on six different screens. Yeah.

And it was, and then they had that, that great rye black IPA.

Bri: 

Oh my gosh. It was so good. It was so different.

Jason: 

Nobody makes rye IPAs anymore, let alone a black rye IPA. Right. And it was really good.

It was so good. They did a good job.

Bri: 

Yeah. He let us taste it, which was nice because, you know, you don't know. It sounds cool.

Is it going to be? And I was like, I remember I tasted it and I handed it to you and I said, you're going to also want this.

Jason: 

So Tracy B's, I can't remember if it's Tracy B's Brewing Company or something like that, but Tracy B's is what I remember.

Bri: 

I think I took a picture, but yeah, it was that, that was a surprisingly delicious beer. And like, I love when you find these just little hole in the wall places and people were like, where are you from? And we're like, Buffalo, why are you here?

We just play golf. They're like up the road. And we were like, no, in Rochester.

Jason: 

We just thought they were just a roadside pub. And then I looked it up actually on the New York state, the beer app, and it showed up on the map as a place that they brewed their own beer.

Bri: 

So it's called Tracy B's Market and Farm Brewing.

Jason: 

Ah, Farm Brewing. Because they're a 100% New York state farm brewery.

Bri: 

That's why.

Jason: 

There you go. That was why.

Bri: 

Yeah. And they don't have a huge selection. No.

Maybe there were six beers.

Jason: 

Oh, there were more than that.

Bri: 

Was there?

Jason: 

Yeah. They were probably eight or 10, but I know they had a couple of guest taps too.

Bri: 

Oh, okay. So that was why. So, but I want to say like, maybe that was all they were making then.

Yeah.

Jason: 

But fun little place to go to.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

Yeah.

Bri: 

I liked it.

Jason: 

They were having a bills party with pizza and all kinds of stuff there.

Bri: 

Because everybody seems very local who shows up there. Everyone knew everyone and we were the outsiders coming in and they're like, hey, hi.

Jason: 

Very welcoming atmosphere.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

Yeah, for sure. But yeah, but yeah, then to, you know, so to go back to Terry Hills, because we got to play your favorite nine at Terry Hills. I enjoy Terry Hills because it's becoming a familiar course for me to be able to play.

And I just know Terry Hills, I think it's the first time that I've ever realized that the work we're doing in the gym is starting to pay off on the golf course, because I feel more steady, more consistent, more confident on the course. Yeah, that's good. And I feel like I don't have to wreck a ball in order to get it out there.

I can just rely on my skill to swing it, to make it work. I feel like a good day of golf all around, you know, hey, we all had our mistake shots. Josh with the almost 96 yard hole out.

Bri: 

So I thought for sure, because I was to the side to chip up, and I thought for sure that went in. So we went up there to look. And literally, when the greenskeeper was cutting the new holes for the flag, there was a little tiny piece that wasn't cut that was still hanging from the grass, and it was just balancing on there.

A stiff breeze would have like pushed that thing.

Jason: 

If that tuft wasn't there, it would have rolled right in the cup.

Bri: 

Yeah, it would have been right in.

Jason: 

Robbed by a tuft of grass.

Bri: 

Oh my gosh. That was insane.

Jason: 

Insane.

Bri: 

I thought for sure it went in.

Jason: 

Yeah. Poor kid. Right?

But yeah, I always love Terry Hills. I think it's fun to be able to- It's probably my favorite golf course.

Bri: 

Even though I hate when you start off at hole one right by the shack or whatever you want to call it. Yeah, the clubhouse. Where everyone is like staring at you, especially being a woman.

Because they're like, oh, yep, let's watch the girl go up and mess it up. And you know, always your first swing in the morning is your worst, right? You're not walking up to hole one looking like a pro.

Jason: 

What? No.

Bri: 

You know what I'm saying? Because the pros have even hit a few balls before they're going up to tee off for the first hole, right? So we're not.

We're just getting out of the truck after I drank some coffee on the way. You know what I mean? We're just whatever.

But yeah.

Jason: 

So that's the only thing. How many times have I walked up to a first hole and went, oh, so that's how it's going to be today? Okay.

Yeah.

Bri: 

So yeah, that's the only thing that I'm not a huge fan of. But otherwise, I really love that course. It's probably one of my favorites in Western New York to play.

Jason: 

And because we get played on a Saturday, we get to come back through. Because we're in Batavia already.

Bri: 

Well, we purposely did it on a Saturday. So we could go to Eli Fish. Yeah.

Yeah.

Jason: 

Eli Fish is another destination if you're looking for breweries in the Western New York area to be able to go enjoy. You're all about this Mac Daddy pizza. Big Mac.

Bri: 

Big Mac pizza.

Jason: 

Big Mac pizza.

Bri: 

So it tastes like a Big Mac from McDonald's.

Jason: 

Okay.

Bri: 

Oh my God.

Jason: 

It's so good. And then what... So some of the beers that you got, I know that you guys went after another round of the Spritzy Bear.

Bri: 

So, well, we did a sour first, which was like a prickly pear one or something. And then we did whatever. Anyways, then I noticed up on the board, they had that drawing of the cake.

Jason: 

Yes.

Bri: 

And then what was that that I had?

Jason: 

I left a space here because I was going to put the name of the beer in and I never pulled it back up.

Bri: 

But it was... It was incredible. Did you take a picture of that menu?

Jason: 

Yeah. But... Oh, you're taping.

It does that part.

Bri: 

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Well, anyways, now I feel sad because now I can't mention this beer.

Jason: 

Pull it up on their menu.

Bri: 

I don't know that it's listed on there.

Jason: 

If it's not, then it's not.

Bri: 

Oh my gosh. But anyways. Yeah.

So Josh was curious about the Spritzy Bear or whatever that I had had.

Jason: 

Spritzy Bear Aperol Spritz Beer. That was a collab with Eli Fish and Magic Bear.

Bri: 

And I had just had it at Magic Bear and I was like, you are going to love that beer, so totally have it. Yeah. And so he did.

And he was a huge fan. And I knew he would be a big fan of it because he generally likes beers that I like.

Jason: 

Aperol is a... it's an acquired taste because it's rather bitter. Well, hopefully there's...

Bri: 

Is it Stair Cake to Heaven?

Jason: 

Stair Cake to Heaven. There it was.

Bri: 

Stair Cake to Heaven.

Jason: 

That was the one.

Bri: 

So, yeah.

Jason: 

But it was like a 10 point...

Bri: 

10.5. Holy cow. So it's a new... It's a triple New England IPA.

Yeah. Brewed to mark our 500th batch of beer. This is a 10.5% triple IPA saturated with pineapple, coconut cream, key lime, and vanilla bursting with juicy tropical nectar on hops and rich dessert-like softness. It drinks like a pina colada layered into an IPA flavored cake.

Jason: 

And it is. That's accurate. That was good.

Bri: 

Holy cow. And you know what? That may be one of the best beers that I've ever had.

We were just talking about how like there's this bucket that you have kind of in your head.

Jason: 

Was it Stair Cake to Heaven?

Bri: 

Was it Stair Cake to Heaven? It's this like bucket you have in your head where every time you think you've had the best beer, it kind of goes...

Jason: 

I'll do it like that. So I'm going to have to do it in two separate files then. Okay.

Well, after a series of power failures on the main board and for whatever reason, whatever the camera was doing...

Bri: 

I don't know. Technology, man.

Jason: 

There's some crazy stuff going on down here in the Mount Fortress podcast studio. Washer, dryer, laundromat, fitness center, hair care, and tire center. Oh my God.

Okay. So I think we're back here. I don't know how the sound is going to be because I have this adjusted for barely getting started recordings, which is kind of a different acoustic setup.

So I'll play with the levels as necessary.

Bri: 

All right. Okay. Well, I was talking about Hoppageddon.

Jason: 

Hoppageddon. Okay.

Bri: 

It was my favorite beer that went into the bucket because it was a beer that I had only twice at Disney from California. So of course we can't get ahold of it anywhere here. And it was amazing and I loved it so much.

And that's in my best beer of all time bucket. And I feel like this, I feel like this for real Stair Cake to Heaven is going to go in that bucket.

Jason: 

Yeah.

Bri: 

Yeah. We have a- Crazy freaking good.

Jason: 

We have an episode that's going to be coming up in December that we're going to do. So normally we usually do that holiday double episode thing, but I think one of the things that we're going to play with this year is doing a beer of the year.

Bri: 

We should do it for New Year's Eve.

Jason: 

You think so?

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

New Year's Eve, beer of the year.

Bri: 

Yeah. All right.

Jason: 

Let's do it.

Bri: 

Do like a countdown and I'll do my three and you can do your three and we'll see if any of ours match. Yeah. We'll see.

It'll be fun.

Jason: 

We'll have a nice little award ceremony there, but we have some that are on the list right now. This is getting added to the list. I think we can agree that Arcane Bell BQ is going to be added to that list for this year.

Yep. That's a, that's a fun one. So yeah, we'll, we'll release that list as we get closer then and we'll make that part of the- Right.

Bri: 

Because we have to get our December beer to see.

Jason: 

2025 year in review. Why do you say it so seriously? 2025 year in review.

Number 10. I don't know. I don't know.

Bri: 

What was the guy that when we grew up, did the top, whatever, countdown? Oh. Casey Kasem.

Jason: 

Oh, I used to be able to impersonate him really well. I mean, this is- Sabrina writes into the show and it says, Dear Casey.

Bri: 

Because you know, back in the day there was no streaming, right? So you'd get excited to listen to these like people on the radio.

Jason: 

Right.

Bri: 

Yeah. For sure.

Jason: 

Okay. That's, that, that's, that's, that's fun. Maybe I'll have to work, try to work on my Casey Kasem impersonation again.

It's been a long time since I've done it, so I don't know. Maybe it'll work out. Maybe it won't.

Bri: 

We'll see.

Jason: 

Yeah. Okay. So beer.

Let's see. We figured it out. Power outage.

Paddles did not work. Time of death there. Okay.

Now we're back. So we're back to Kiel. Cars.

Yeah. Yes. I would have liked to see more Porsches.

Right. So if you've ever, during the summertime, you go to the Wurlitzer building. In North Tonawanda.

In North Tonawanda, New York. So for people who are out-of-towners that listen to this, if you remember Wurlitzer jukeboxes growing up, they were built in North Tonawanda, New York.

Bri: 

Did they do pianos too?

Jason: 

They did Wurlitzer pianos too. So jukeboxes, you can still find some out there. I've seen, I think one of the Wurlitzer pianos is still at Disney.

Yeah. And I think there's one.

Bri: 

That's why I was like, I feel like they did piano, which I had no idea until there was the big stamp on the side of the piano when we were at dinner. Yeah. I think so.

Jason: 

And then I know one of the pianos is also at the Carousel Museum in North Tonawanda. Okay. So, and I've seen maybe three or four Wurlitzer jukeboxes in my day.

So I definitely get excited when I see them because I know where they were built. So now the Wurlitzer is now an event space. It's also home to Platter's Chocolate and they do ice cream there.

That building is also home to Woodcock Brothers Brewing Company, Fatty Beer. There's a location there, but mostly it's the majority of its event space. Yeah.

It's a really nice place if, you know, weddings, corporate events and stuff. They're definitely some folks to check out because they have a great space, tons of ample parking. Yeah.

It's a great space to go into. So they do car shows during the year. The summer.

During the summer. And then they do theme nights.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

In the past, you've gone to a few of them.

Bri: 

Yeah, we did the Corvette one when Kieran was home last year.

Jason: 

Okay.

Bri: 

And that one, oh my gosh, there's so many people in Western New York that own Corvettes. New, old, super old, like there was so many of them.

Jason: 

Yeah.

Bri: 

I was hoping for that many Porsches. I get it. Porsches are harder to come by than a Corvette and way more expensive than a Corvette, but I was hoping maybe you'd see a few more.

I would say there was- But there was a good collection. Yeah. There was still a good collection.

It was nice to be able to see inside of like my dream cars. Right. You know.

Jason: 

There was one there from the eighties, one from the nineties that I remember, a few from the 2000s and a few from the 2010s and then the rest are all 2020 newer models.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

They were like newer ones. Some of them in there running about 225.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

It's like, wow. That's some beautiful pieces of work for sure.

Bri: 

Oh, I love a Porsche. That is literally my dream car.

Jason: 

Yeah. Yeah. It was very fun to go to.

The Vietnam Veterans 77 group, they're always there doing like drawings and they sell food. So they're putting the causes where it's right. I mean, people appreciating cars.

Bri: 

Yeah.

Jason: 

You know, and beyond the Porsches, I mean, every, you know, great muscle cars, newer, you know, newer.

Bri: 

You saw your Bel Air car.

Jason: 

Yeah. Yeah. There's a, yeah, I have these Holy Grail cars.

We just literally just yesterday saw the Holy Grail car, the 69.

Bri: 

Oh yeah.

Jason: 

The 69 Charger. The guy who.