Intro: The Buffalo Brews Podcast.

Jason: You told me a story about how your neighbor used to give you money to bet on horses when you were younger.

Bri: Well, she paid for my bet and for my birthday present. Instead of giving me a gift card or a gift, she would say, what horse do you want to pick to bet on?

Jason: Right?

Bri: And so I did. And I would always pick it by the name because I have no clue about horses. So I would pick whatever name was cool and that's what she would bet for me.

Jason: Okay.

Bri: Mhm. One year I won big. One year.

Jason: one.

Bri: Year, one year. This year I thought I was gonna win, and I did not. Thank you, Golden Tempo, for coming out of nowhere and destroying my dreams of winning. For the second time in my life. Of betting on the horse races. You're on the Kentucky Derby. I mean, there's other horse races, but.

Jason: Right. Your, um, your horse came in a close second.

Bri: Oh my gosh. Should have been first.

Jason: Yeah. I mean it was looking good. I mean switching switching around places there that last half mile was just it's it's amazing that there's like this five, six hour work up for a mile and a quarter.

Bri: For the fastest thing you'll ever watch. Yeah. For sure.

Jason: It's like betting on the one hundred yard dash.

Bri: Like the most intense few minutes ever. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy, it's crazy. But yeah, whatever it is, what it is. Yeah. This is why though, honestly, I don't bet. Right. Like, I am just not a betting person because I feel like, like I always say, oh, I want to win the lottery so I don't have to work anymore because work is stupid, but you have to buy a lottery ticket. And I know my chances of winning the lottery. I have a better chance of like, you know, getting struck by lightning or whatever than winning the lottery, right? Therefore, I never buy tickets to win said lottery because I hate just saying bye bye to money.

Jason: Yeah, but it was fun to do. You know, a group of us getting together all throwing a twenty dollars bill on the table.

Bri: Yeah. You know, I mean, it's something I've always done.

Jason: I think I put mine on further ado. You had renegade. Was that who. Yeah. Yeah. And then you know who was it. Golden temple was a thirty to one at the at the end. Thirty to one.

Bri: Oh it's crazy. Yeah, it was crazy. It was crazy to watch who come from behind everyone else. And then just all of a sudden, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. What is happening right now?

Jason: Five out of the last seven races came in dead last.

Bri: And then literally beats my horse by not even a head of the horse. Yeah, I was like, what is happening?

Jason: Oh, well.

Bri: By by twenty dollars.

Jason: That's okay.

Bri: And congratulations. It was like a woman who owned the whole.

Jason: Yeah, the first female trainer in the history of, uh, the Kentucky Derby.

Bri: So, I mean, that was cool. If I'm gonna if I'm gonna lose like my bet that's a.

Jason: Lose it to history.

Bri: Right? That's a cool thing to lose it to. Yeah. So that was awesome.

Jason: That was good.

Bri: But yeah, we're all like looking at your cell phone, trying to watch on this tiny screen.

Jason: And I was kind of commentating it because, because like, the guy is like, he's not telling you everything that's going on, but he's telling you the exciting stuff. In the meantime, I'm like, for people who are like had horses that are in the top six, the leaderboard kept switching. So I'm like just talking about what the leaderboard was doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then to see that overhead shot of, of, uh, you know, coming from dead last and then just charging the outside and I'm like, okay.

Bri: Yeah. So anybody else who is sipping on a mint julep betting on horses that day, I'm not sure you bet on Golden Temple, but if you did, good for you.

Jason: Cha ching. Right. All right.

Bri: What do we have here?

Jason: So this is Wyvern. So Wyvern is a it's a mythological creature. You know, if if I go back to my nerdy D&D days, it's also a D&D monster as well. But this is from Strange Bird, who we actually just visited yesterday. Yeah. Uh, Double hazy IPA at seven point eight ABV. And then how many IBUs did you say this had? Eighty seven.

Bri: Yeah, right on the back.

Jason: Yeah. So we've got, uh, long, long time the let's see the, the mansome fo he.

Bri: Oh, you really need a reading.

Jason: Glasses. He saw it and just had an eye appointment today too. So he rested by the tree and stood a while in thought and then has crush in Idaho seven hops. Yeah. Yummy yummy. This will be a nice stick to your ribs kind of beer. I like it. Look at you putting that War Horse credit card opener to good use.

Bri: All I have to. My fingers can never get under there.

Jason: You're already.

Bri: Look at this. Like, look what it does to my finger.

Jason: You're listening. Name one part of your body that ain't hurting right now.

Bri: My brain.

Jason: Your brain. So while she's pouring here.

Bri: She's. Make a nice noise for you.

Jason: Make always makes a nice noise. She said they're doing a five K in Rochester. And she's like, should I sign up for it? Now I'm on the shelf.

Bri: I didn't say, should I? I said, I want to.

Jason: Oh, you want to?

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: Okay. I feel like you. You ask me if you should or not or should or should not. I don't know. I don't know.

Bri: All right. Cheers.

Jason: Cheers. Okay. I give you the I pour a glass from Georgia Beer Company out of Valdosta, Georgia.

Bri: Yes. Where my son will be leaving from very soon.

Jason: Well, that's fine business.

Bri: Very good.

Jason: Yeah. So you, uh, on Sunday, just this past Sunday, ran the Rochester Lilac Festival. The fair life because it's named now. So the Fair Life lilac Festival, five K.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: And you did quite well.

Bri: It was a good race. Yeah.

Jason: Mhm. I can't. And then this weekend.

Bri: Then on Saturday we'll be doing the Buffalo Marathon five K.

Jason: Right. I will be walking that because he as previously mentioned I am on the shelf.

Bri: Are you angry about getting old.

Jason: I don't I have no idea what happened. Like sometime back in October, I suffered some injury of the longest muscle on the outside of my on the outside of my right leg. And it just has not been the same. They say it's not torn. They don't think I have any sort of a bone spur. And the doctor says, you need to.

Bri: Rest.

Jason: Sit, not do anything.

Bri: Funny.

Jason: Insert start of, you know, the end of the winter hiking challenge, the start of the, you know, summer hiking challenge. Yeah. I got things to do, doc.

Bri: Right.

Jason: So I, I guess we'll be hopeful for tunnel to towers and then possibly the veterans race. We'll see what happens.

Bri: Maybe.

Jason: So that's where we're at right now with things there. Uh, then yesterday we enjoyed, uh, Strange Bird and, uh, where did we go? Fairport Brewing company.

Bri: Mhm.

Jason: Which was, uh, it's an old gas station.

Bri: Because it was a beautiful day. And I love to be able to, like, sit in the, in sort of like in out area where you can sit at like this kind of like bar area that faces out to the streets. You're outside, but technically inside. So you're in the shade, but you're kind of outside, I don't know. I like it.

Jason: Had, uh, sly move, which was the.

Bri: Oh, you're skipping back over to stranger.

Jason: Yeah. Just because we're because we're drinking strange bird. Um, there. Twenty twenty six silver medalist in the New York state competition. Great beer. I mean, they they they don't do anything bad there. If you want fun variety if you want different styles of beer. Strange Bird is your place to go.

Bri: And cocktails. And pizzas. And they.

Jason: Do great.

Bri: Food too. Yeah, they have a lot of stuff going on over there.

Jason: But you know, since we talked about horses, what I, what I wanted also, you know, touch on as we're kind of moving through things here is we did Seneca Lake the, the week a few weeks before, but then we went out to Cayuga Lake.

Bri: Mhm.

Jason: And enjoyed some wine and some beer out there.

Bri: Yeah. We just kind of did our own thing. We hadn't been out to Weiss in a long time, so we went to check out how all the things they've been doing there, which looks so completely different, so completely different.

Jason: I remember the first time I ever went to Weiss, it was, uh, we did that tasting in the barn, dirt floor, pouring down rain. Mhm. Just hideous rain that night. And then fast forward and now the barn is this beautiful tasting room with natural beam work and lighting, and the schoolhouse is done up for special events. They've expanded out on an L to their main facility. Yeah, I just.

Bri: In the schoolhouse was the first time I had ever been to Weis, and that's where we had. Our first tasting was in this little, this little schoolhouse where they had like a tasting table, and they had boxes of wine over here for you to buy. Like if I would have I, if I would have pictures, I don't know if I do, but if I would have pictures, you would just be blown away at the difference. I mean, I'm sure there's somewhere on Weis social media or whatever. Yeah. But um, yeah, so that was good. And then we went over to um, Doctor Franken. So doctor what is it called?

Jason: Constantine. Frank.

Bri: There you go. Constantine. Frank. I kept wanting to call a Doctor Frankenstein.

Jason: Which has been.

Bri: Around since.

Jason: nineteen sixty two I think it was.

Bri: And um yeah, I'd never been there. So we went up there for a tasting and I know you had been there, but had been years, years and years and years.

Jason: At least ten years since I've been there at least. Um, but as I always remembered.

Bri: It, the wine was delicious.

Jason: Personal curation.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: Very nice. Very nicely done.

Bri: Yeah. And then we went to. Did we go to beer from there? I feel like we went to beer.

Jason: Yeah. I mean, I think we did the wine early and then we.

Bri: Only did two wineries. That was the plan. And then we were at, uh, what's the, what was our next stop?

Jason: I mean.

Bri: Oh, Keuka brewing Keuka. Then we went to Crooked Tusker and then Steuben Brewing, and then ended up last at abandon.

Jason: Abandon. And then we went to lake life.

Bri: Oh, Lake life was our last one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because we had to, like, kind of drive up, back up through pinyon.

Jason: Yeah, yeah. And then Keuka is always great. I mean, fat stack. Fat stack porters always my jam. Their maple pecan, you know, like. Yeah. Porter just it tastes like it just tastes like pancakes, maple syrup, and sugared pecans.

Bri: Had our first tasting of absinthe at Crooked Tusker. I never had absinthe in my life.

Jason: No, um.

Bri: I had no idea. It tastes like black licorice. Like, it was incredible. I loved it so much when.

Jason: Uh, when we went to LA, I was like, last year or the year before we went to the Mary Shelley, which is this horror themed literature bar on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo. Yeah. And their big thing is absinthe. But we didn't have it that night. We didn't even have absinthe cop cocktails. Nope. Uh, but yeah, it's, you know, having this discussion and, and going up to the girl and just like, hey, you know, like that's a absinthe apparatus that you got in the window. She goes, yeah, we, we actually make our own and gave us a sample. And it.

Bri: Was delicious.

Jason: Delicious.

Bri: It was really good.

Jason: It was really good. Um, yeah. Crooked Tusker. I think their big thing is still their Bloody Mary's like. They just.

Bri: Well, that's only on Sundays.

Jason: Huge thing there.

Bri: Yeah, they do it on Sunday. You can like build your own Bloody Mary.

Jason: But what a what a fine. What a fun menu of cocktails.

Bri: So many cocktails there. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. You definitely just go. And it's cocktail, cocktail cocktail. It is so delicious and I love it. They come up with so many different concoctions. And if there's something that you think you'd rather have, they'll make it for you.

Jason: It seems like it. Yeah, it really does.

Bri: Yeah. So it's really good there, I like it.

Jason: Um, they're big nerds there too, because you can tell they're Trekkies and, uh, yeah, there's a, there's, there's a little bit of everything. I mean, you can see all kinds of science fiction influence in their, in their cocktails and in their, uh, in the liquors that they make, uh, stew. Ben uh, brewing I like because they always make that trail town. We brought a four pack of at home, which is a collaboration they did with the Finger Lakes. Uh, the Finger Lakes trail system, just, you know, a nice, easy drinking IPA.

Bri: Yeah, I had a rye IPA was delicious.

Jason: Yeah. I like, um, I like stubborn and it was funny because like, I couldn't remember going there, but I know I'd been there and you were like, yes, you have been there.

Bri: Yes.

Jason: Like I was like, I know I've been there. I'm like, have I been there? Yes, you've been.

Bri: There, you've been there. And then I pull up the pictures and I'm like, here's the picture.

Jason: Yes, this is fifty three folks.

Bri: And then a band help me.

Jason: I don't know where I am.

Bri: Of course, when we're at a band and we have to have the root beer because. And he almost said, oh, the root beer is not working. We were like, oh.

Speaker 4 Fix the root beer.

Bri: I've come all this way for root beer.

Jason: Don't make me go to.

Bri: Wagner.

Jason: Will make me drive over to Wagner.

Bri: We were not driving to Wagner, but, uh, but yeah, so he tried it and he's like, oh, I guess it's working. Somebody fixed it. So I was like, oh, thank God. So we had that. Um, it was a chilly day. It was a chilly day.

Jason: Yeah. Yeah. That's okay.

Bri: Um, I really wanted it to be a little warmer, but, you know, it was what it was.

Jason: Okay. It was a good day to stretch the legs.

Bri: Mhm.

Jason: Um, you know, in the spirit of going out and trying new things, we we ended up at Lake Life brewing up in Penn. Yan.

Bri: Yeah. And I feel like we tried almost every single beer on the menu and then some.

Jason: I don't remember.

Bri: That girl's name.

Jason: But all I know is she was funny.

Bri: Yeah, she.

Jason: Was dry humor.

Bri: And.

Jason: Funny.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: Like just yeah, kind of like that. Yeah. And type of girl. Right. Like, what are you gonna do about it?

Bri: Yeah. And they have a pizza oven there too, that they make pizzas. And the beer was fantastic. I mean, I would definitely go back there.

Jason: Yeah. Big military police, fire supporters. Um, the, uh, NASCAR was in Watkins Glen, which was like just south of us, maybe thirty, thirty five minutes. And, uh, they were. They were racing at the Glen and it was up on the TV. So that was, uh, that was fun to see as well. Yeah. They, uh, they do a nice job there and get back out there and, and, and try some more things. Uh, they don't have a large, a large. Would you say wine trail there? But, you know, the usual suspects, you know, Keuka Springs. Weiss.

Bri: Oh, if you wanted to have wine. Right. Yeah.

Jason: Yeah. Bully. Doctor. Frank. You know, there's, uh. Mhm. You know, a lot of usual. The usual suspects that I remember from before there. But I mean, it's it's really nice. It's a nice area to drive around. I mean, whether you're, you know, just like hopping through Hammondsport for a hop, you know, for a hot minute or you're up in Penn Yan. I think it's a, I think it's a really good, um, I think it's a really good time driving around there. You know, unlike Seneca, where it's like it takes you forty five minutes to get from Geneva to, to Watkins Glen, it seems.

Bri: I know, but for whatever reason, I felt like when we were in Cayuga, it's like forever to get places. And when we're in Seneca, we're like, oh, we're there, oh, we're there. I don't know if it's just because I know it more. So in my head, I think.

Jason: I think everything's just.

Bri: Right there or what it is. But that was the only thing is, I don't remember when the because it's been so long since we've been to Cayuga. But you really drive.

Jason: Yeah. I think the furthest stretch between places is like if you're going from three brothers to say like idle ridge or boundary breaks, that's like a thirty five minute drive.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: And you're not even going that far. Yeah. It's just like you just have to get over the tip of the lake and.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: You know, get down for fourteen and yeah.

Bri: But it was a fun day. And then we ended up, um, not leaving lake life early enough to get to where we were going to have dinner. So we ended up some like corner bar kind of.

Jason: Oh, the smugglers.

Bri: To eat dinner.

Jason: Smugglers tavern.

Bri: It turned out to be delicious food.

Jason: Yeah, yeah. Just this duo, this duo playing music.

Bri: And I don't know, we had a great waitress and yeah, it looked like everybody was just really local. And they looked at us like, oh, some outsiders showed up, but it was cool. The food was really good.

Jason: We take you bowling if you had a couple more fingers on it.

Bri: Oh my God, it's so ridiculous. But yeah, so the food was great. I thought, you know, whatever, it was a fine way to end the night. And then we drove home in the driving rain.

Jason: Yeah. Well, yeah. And again, watching the radar like we do, we know when, when the, when the doom is coming.

Bri: Oh my gosh.

Jason: Dress rehearsal for hell. As I like to say.

Bri: Oh so crazy, so crazy. Yeah. And then this past weekend, um, we tried a new dinner place with our friends. What was that called? Something Gypsy.

Jason: It was gypsy parlor.

Bri: Gypsy parlor.

Jason: Grant Street in Buffalo.

Bri: So I was like, where are we going?

Jason: Right down the street from Buff State.

Bri: And, uh, that that food was fantastic, too.

Jason: Mhm.

Bri: I don't know. My pasta with that chicken. Ooh. I would definitely go there again for that, although that was a special.

Jason: But you go in there and it's got the corner bar feel right when you walk in the door, but you go on the other side of the, the bar and there's this like a really nice restaurant seating area, like nice decor chair. I love the, I love the, um, the throne like chair that was on the up in the corner.

Bri: Yeah, it was a little place, but I don't know, they were doing good food. And when by the time we left. So we went at six because it was a Friday.

Jason: Mhm.

Bri: And you know, we're done with work and we're all starving. So we don't want to wait like forever to go to dinner. So we met at six and we left at about, what would you say, like eight thirty because it was starting to get dark, but it wasn't dark yet. So I would say like eight thirty and the place was packed when we were leaving. And I mean to the point where they had a security guy at the door. I don't know if he was just checking IDs as people were walking in to, because when it gets that busy, I think that the bar can't handle.

Jason: Sure.

Bri: Making sure.

Jason: That by buff state.

Bri: Right, that making sure that everybody in this place is over twenty one. So you can just serve. I think it's a smart idea, you know?

Jason: Yeah, maybe at a certain time they turn into twenty one and over possibly.

Bri: But I think when it gets that busy, like because it really like ramped up, I just think that they don't want to have to worry about it. Yeah. They just want to be able to when people order, build the drink, right? Bring the drink, build the drink, bring the drink. They're not trying to be like, oh, you know, let me check your ID or whatever.

Jason: So fuss with the.

Bri: Yeah. And then the next day we got up and went to go get Josh to start our first hike of the new summer challenge that started on Friday. So we went straight away to hike on Saturday morning at not Oka, but.

Jason: Oatka.

Bri: Oatka.

Jason: Oatka Creek Park. Learn the proper pronunciations as we go on.

Bri: So the fun fact about that place was not only was it a gorgeous day, but Josh ran his Merlin app, thirty one different birds showed up on that app, and we're pretty sure the property that was next to the park had a peacock that we kept hearing, but we were. It was never making. It's like peacock noise when we were close enough for the app to like, catch the bird noise, right? So we heard it, but it wasn't. I don't think the app could hear it. So I would say there's thirty two birds. But, uh, yeah, it was really cool.

Jason: All I remember just my head whipped around like, is that a peacock? Like.

Bri: But what a beautiful, beautiful day. Not a ton of people out there. So it was like a super enjoyable hike. We saw a few people out there in their horses, which was cool, really quiet. You could just hear all the birds chirping and singing and we kind of took our we made our own kind of path within the hiking trail because one of the people we ran into said, oh, you should do this warbler circle that they have right in the in that area to see, hear some more and see some more birds. So we're like, all right, well, let's take a piece of this. So not we didn't pass a single person when we did that part.

Jason: No, it just it was great to be able to see, you know, for especially for you, like you, you know, somebody who grew up in Florida and to see so many unique northern birds. Oh my gosh, I got hearing pileated woodpeckers. We're hearing, you know, different, uh, different types.

Bri: I got out my binoculars. We were checking birds out way up in the trees.

Jason: Indigo bunting.

Bri: Oh my gosh, the thing was so beautiful. It was awesome. Yeah. It was.

Jason: So many oranges and yellows that were.

Bri: Yeah, those birds that look like they had freckles on them. Like it was just it was so cool, so cool, I love it. I love to have like, not just like hiking through the woods, but a little bit of nature and a little bit of education all, you know, mashed up into one. Yeah. So super fun. And then, uh, the reason why we stopped at that place to go hiking was we were on our way to rails and Ale's first time we've done that in the sunshine. And then of course, it rained straight away when we left.

Jason: Dam, dam skies opened up as soon as we left.

Bri: Like, I was like, seriously, you couldn't get the whole day to be beautiful. That was bonkers.

Jason: I just felt bad for the vendors.

Bri: I know, I know.

Jason: They sure as hell got caught in that.

Bri: Yeah they did. Uh, but it was a great time. And there was a lot of really good beers. And we saw some folks that we see, you know, what other beer events. And, uh, it was nice to be able to say hello to people and enjoy our, you know, some beers from what would you call that, like more central kind of New York or whatever? I don't know, it's more like the breweries that are more towards like Rochester and Syracuse, you know, because the, the rails and ales is held at it. Where is it? Genesee? No, what is it called?

Jason: It's, uh, that's the Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad.

Bri: There you go. So it's in rush, New York. So, you know, it's a little further out. So you get like the different breweries that are out that way, which are always fun to be able to, you know, have and Josh got to experience some other breweries that we haven't taken him to yet, you know, to first.

Jason: Experience that we had with Jim Creek, which is a new place in Canandaigua that just opened in October, I think he said.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: And yeah, so.

Bri: Pretty excited to check that place out because they had some really good stuff.

Jason: Yeah. So new friends, old friends, you know. Yeah. See the saw the guys from solitude.

Bri: Mhm.

Jason: Um, saw our talking concur. So, yeah. Paul Zemba, who's the head brewer at Talking Cursive in Syracuse. We see Paul at every single event we go to.

Bri: Uh, spotted octopus was there.

Jason: Evan. Evan was pouring it. Spotted. I, I said you drew the short straw. He goes, I am the short straw.

Bri: But Evan's a big.

Jason: Proponent of of of. He feels that spotted should be in events like that.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: It's great exposure.

Bri: Right, exactly. And now that they're in Rochester. Sure. I mean, yeah, you have to do events.

Jason: Like that if you're in Rochester and you know where Rock brewing used to be, that's where Spotted Octopus is now. I think when we've been up there. Dominic's been up there. Yeah. Though since the times we go up there. But I mean, great space, good food. Um, yeah. Nice nice open seating. Huge, like huge windows on the front of this building. This thing reminded me of a library when it was rock brewing.

Bri: I liked it when it was there. I'm glad they have that space. It was a beautiful space. I'm glad like another brewery went into that space. Because it was it was very, very nice. Like all that sun that comes in those windows just makes it feel so inviting. And they even, you know, they have created an outdoor space, but there's not tons of seating because you're really in kind of.

Jason: You're right on one of the main drags.

Bri: Right? So you don't have like the space, but the space is used wisely, you know, and then being inside with all those windows, even in the winter time, you know, you can enjoy it.

Jason: It's a great neighborhood too, because there's a lot of new builds right there. So there's a lot of apartment living right there and they get a lot of foot traffic.

Bri: Yeah, it was nice, I liked it. Yeah. So we had a really good time. And uh, like I said, rain again on our drive home so that, you know, wasn't pleasant. But it is what it is.

Jason: It's okay. Uh, you know, yeah, we, uh, you know, made our way back and then literally, it was like early, early to bed, early to rise and.

Bri: five thirty to get out to.

Jason: Roger. Right back out to Rochester, down to Highland Park, right next to the Highland Reservoir, where the. The lilac field or the lilac. The lilac park is there and you know, the five K. So I was kind of doing the hang back and photos and videos and just waiting for you to come in and missed your crossing the finish line because there was so much there.

Bri: It was crazy.

Jason: In front.

Bri: Of me. You know what though? When I crossed the finish line, it was like, it was the weirdest thing because you crossed the finish line and then you're just smack into like, so many people. And I'm like, wow, wow. Like it was hard to catch your breath from doing what you were doing. And then just running into a crowd of.

Jason: People you felt like you were, you were being boxed.

Bri: In. Yeah. I was like, they really should have put up some cones where you had like a lane to come into that.

Jason: Volunteers were not doing their job when it.

Bri: Should have been in that space.

Jason: Because they even discussed it when people were, they said, look, this is going to get highly congested. We've got to keep people moving through. It's like if they want to be in the back over here, let them be in the back. Yeah. And I remember the two organizers there were like, then let them be back here. But you got to keep this area.

Bri: Like I think of how when you run through at tunnels or when I think of how when you run through at like Buffalo Marathon or whatever, they always have just this area. That's right. When you cross that, you have space to breathe, right? Because if you're really pushing yourself, like, listen, I'm not a runner, right? Like, I'm just, I'm not do I love to do some things and push myself? Sure, sure. But I am not a gazelle. I'm not hopping through this thing like, oh, I just finished a five K. Let me do like five more in a row. Like it's not right. So for me, this is like a hard thing to like push myself through. But like when I came over the finish line, so did like three people, like there was one person right in front of me, me and literally one person that was kind of like beside me. And now we're all just smacking into like all these people.

Jason: Could you imagine going through.

Bri: So that was like a little weird.

Jason: Finishing the tunnels five k and then just everybody stopped once they got through the gate. Right. And it's just like this gaggle of people.

Bri: And that's what it felt like was happening.

Jason: It's what was happening.

Bri: But it wasn't the people who were running that was there because the people weren't, they weren't, you know what I mean? Like with their running gear or anything, these were just people. And I'm like, come on guys, the trees are over there. Go that way. Playground's over there, go that way.

Jason: Pretty trees.

Bri: Right? Just don't be right here. So that was the that was my only complaint about that race. Otherwise, I think that they did a good job. They had the last minute change the route, um which you could tell because there was a piece that we had to run that was not closed off, but I think they had no way around it because of how they had to change it because of, you know, all the construction they were doing on that other side. But yeah, otherwise, I think they did really well with like closing down the streets where nobody was worrying about people. There's a lot of people out with signs in their driveways. There was a dude like a big thing cut out of a beer that said, run for your beer. Like it was just, I don't know, the kids out there like clapping in their driveways and stuff and waving. They had made signs. So I think like the whole neighborhood, who knew they were going to be closed off to do this were really like supportive of it. And it was, it was really cool because you could tell these people just lived there. They just brought out their lawn chairs, you know what I mean? So I don't know. I thought it was neat. I really liked it. So I would definitely do it again.

Jason: Yeah.

Bri: We did the Lilac Festival itself. Yeah, man.

Jason: It was all right.

Bri: I don't know that I would walk around like.

Jason: A ton of food vendors. It was a little like narrow.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: Um, I don't know. It was kind of like a maze. It was. Yeah, it was weird.

Bri: I feel like it wasn't really an organized kind of pattern of walking around the place and, um, it was like there was food and then shopping and then they had like a band shell. And I was like trying to figure out where like they could possibly have, like lilac alcohol, right?

Jason: I think it was just near the stage.

Bri: Yeah, they had that. And then I think Bully Hill like had their own thing kind of separate that we passed.

Jason: Yeah. Like one I remember like one is I just was looking at the lock one bottle over here at our liquor emporium.

Bri: Oh yeah. They had like a distillery.

Jason: Yeah.

Bri: Set up.

Jason: But I'm like, I, but like one of the major sponsors was Rohrbach. Where was the Rohrbach.

Bri: I right.

Jason: There was no signage. There was no prominent set up for. Yeah. So I don't know.

Bri: So who knows.

Jason: But Sager Stoneyard.

Bri: Where's my lilac beer?

Speaker 4 Lilac beer. Next year.

Bri: I even said that to him when we were at Rails and Ales. I said, okay, here's the problem. Why don't I have lilac beer this year?

Jason: And Oz goes, here we go.

Bri: And right. And then he's like, oh, we're gonna do this again. But like, seriously. So I said, I was like, okay, so you're not making the lilac beer and then black button, right? Was that it? Who's the buttons that closed? They had lilac gin.

Jason: Yep.

Bri: And then they're gone.

Jason: We don't talk about that Swindell deal.

Bri: But like why. So we have nothing. I just feel like if you're going to have a festival, like a lilac festival, why wouldn't you have one lilac beer spirit? Some the something made infused, I don't know, I don't know. And if there was something and I totally missed it, it's because it was not advertised.

Jason: So maybe we have a conversation, you know, lock one.

Bri: I don't know.

Jason: I mean, what other distilleries are there in Rochester besides, what do they call that bar water? Is that what they're called?

Bri: I don't know.

Jason: What's the maybe we just discovered maybe it's bar water. Oh, no. We have to have a talk.

Bri: All I know is I if I missed it somewhere and somebody was at the lilac Festival, please send us a message and let me know if you had something that was lilac infused. You know, of the adult beverage? You know something? Did they do a seltzer? Did they do a beer? Did they do a a mixed cocktail? Like something that I totally missed. I feel like that's.

Jason: What I feel like that's what we're missing.

Bri: And the run was the last day. So maybe they had stuff on other days. I'm not really sure.

Jason: Maybe. Uh, so okay, so the stage area. So the stage area was like, if you took the lawn area of Darien Lake, but instead of having the seats and then the stage, you just had the lawn area and then the stage. Yeah, just like without the seats.

Bri: Which I totally understood how they built that because then if they had some bigger acts at night or later afternoon or whatever people wanted to jam to.

Jason: Claudia was there. Yeah.

Bri: So that's really.

Jason: Mother's Day or something.

Bri: I think that would be that area was perfectly put together.

Jason: So I feel like that the alcohol setup there was similar to Darien Lake or maybe the CMac.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: You know, where it's just like you have these stands that are just like, I know where to go if I want what I want.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: Um, but it just didn't seem like there was anything prominent that drew me. Like I would have a sign.

Bri: And you're a festival.

Jason: Sandwich board or something? Yeah. Would be out there like, you know, whatever lilac infused cocktail or. Yeah, stuff like that.

Bri: Because you're a festival.

Jason: Do the ID check, get your wristband and then, you know, go enjoy some things, right?

Bri: Yeah. Yeah. So maybe we missed it. I don't know, but, um, we did get to smell the beautiful eyelash and, you know, walk around for a while. Got our almost twenty, zero zero zero steps in. Well, at least I did. I had ten thousand before ten, which is always my favorite.

Jason: Did you hit twenty thousand?

Bri: No, I was just short of twenty thousand.

Jason: Come on. There's no way.

Bri: There's no way I was.

Jason: I missed twenty eighteen and some change.

Bri: Yeah, I missed twenty thousand steps by like eighteen steps. I'm not even kidding you. I should have, like, done jumping.

Jason: Jacks before.

Bri: Before bed or just marched in place.

Jason: Ten of them, ten of them would have done it.

Bri: I know, but I was so tired. Honest to God, I was so tired and I knew I had to wake up to go to work today. I was just like, I can't, I can't, I just, I passed right out. But I do remember like looking. And then I checked it this morning and I was like, seriously, I literally could have just marched in place for a second.

Jason: I wish I would have had like a sad trombone doot doot doo doot.

Bri: Oh gosh. But it was fine. It was fine, but it was a beautiful, beautiful day. Gorgeous day. Like I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful day. So now this weekend we have the Buffalo Marathon.

Jason: I'm just about to ask you what we got coming up.

Bri: And I'm pretty sure it's rain and sixty six degrees. Like I. I'm not even kidding you right now, dude. I'm looking right now to see. But when I check.

Jason: This my ass.

Speaker 5 You are fined one hundred.

Bri: It's like you just can't have nice days when you want them. um. Oh, the temperature dropped even more now. The highs sixty three and still rain. Sixty percent chance of rain. So all we can hope for is that it's not raining, like at eight o'clock.

Jason: Between driving rain.

Bri: Yeah. So like we what we don't want is any rain between the hours of seven a m and ten a m. So when it gets closer, we can look at the hourly to see, but oh my gosh.

Jason: Break out my, my clear raincoat because it goes with everything, you know.

Bri: You know, what's so funny too is like, I just ran that race and I was in pants and the t shirt that they gave you. And I was just like, I peeled my pants off to change into like, my skorts to wear like for the rest of the day because I was sweating so terribly that early in the morning. And now we may not even barely break a sweat because like, it's not going to hit the high. Like the overnight low is forty eight degrees. So it might be like fifty when we're running fifty two.

Jason: Maybe. Yeah.

Bri: What a difference. What a difference.

Jason: I have eighty six today.

Bri: Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Jason: What else.

Bri: Is.

Jason: On? What else we got on our schedule here. Might as well finish off with that.

Bri: Um, I don't know really.

Jason: Our last minute.

Bri: We got our, we got the Buffalo America Fund. Oh, I have Nicole's baby shower on Sunday. It's Memorial weekend. Yeah, maybe we'll hike. Maybe we'll just die on Monday, I don't know. Depending on the weather. Who knows? Right.

Jason: Seneca Lake. The following weekend.

Bri: Might just be a movie.

Jason: Sizzlin summer.

Bri: Barbecue. Um, you have your pinball playoffs?

Jason: Mhm. Yes.

Bri: On Thursday.

Jason: sixteen teams in the league. We are second overall, second in our division. And, uh, yeah, so next Thursday or no. Yeah, next.

Bri: Thursday, next Thursday.

Jason: Next Thursday we play for we'll see what happens.

Bri: And then next Friday, we have history on tap, which we just got those tickets and we're going to be doing a giveaway for, um, some other tickets for that.

Jason: That giveaway might be done by the time this episode airs, but that'll definitely be out on social media.

Bri: All right. And then we have a weekend of nothing. Thank you.

Jason: Becky. Who's the president of the Genesee. Genesee country home Museum. Home and museum. Out in rush. Uh, actually right around the corner from where Rails and Ales is. Oh, and. Yeah. Perfect. Uh, and, uh, they're going to supply us with four tickets to, to give away. So that'll be happening then by, by the time this episode airs, that and history on tap will be long.

Bri: I don't know if there's still tickets to the barbecue event at Seneca Lake.

Jason: Last I knew, they were under eighty tickets. Um, so that is the starting locations were sold out.

Bri: That's the first weekend of June.

Jason: Mhm. Yeah. Which might be sold out by by the time this comes around too. But that's the. Yeah. Like Brittany said in the interview that we had with her. That was the event that they saved, that they didn't know if they were going to have it again.

Bri: Yeah.

Jason: And people were like, no, no, no, let's do it.

Bri: I'm super excited. Yeah, the wine and cheese was super fun. So it's going to be great to do like a summer fun. You know, maybe it'll be warm.

Jason: Yeah. Right.

Bri: I would like to eat some barbecue.

Jason: I'm not.

Speaker 4 Putting my ice scraper.

Jason: Away. I'm just going.

Bri: To drink some wine and some, some warm weather, especially since some of these wineries have such gorgeous outdoor spaces. I'm pretty stoked. So that's about it.