Golden Road Brewing with Jordan Morris

"Golden Road Brewing with Jordan Morris" is Episode 308 of *Doughboys*, hosted by Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger. "Golden Road Brewing with Jordan Morris" was released on July 8, 2021.

## Synopsis

Jordan Morris (*Bubble*, *Jordan, Jesse, Go!*) joins the 'boys and talks *Lord of the Rings* and summer treats before a review of Golden Road Brewing. Plus, another edition of Let Me Be Frank.

## Nick's intro

Budweiser, Coors, Miller.

For decades, this tri-force of macrobreweries dominated the domestic beer sector. Through the 1970s, largely due to the lager distributed by this trio of megaliths, American beer was like American coffee - a purely functional liquid drug devoid of character and earning global notoriety as swill.

But on October 14, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed H.R.1337, a fittingly 'leet' law that legalized home brewing in the US. By the mid-1980s, now freed from legal shackles that effectively prevented upstarts from entering the market, craft breweries emerged; most notably, Boston's Sam Adams. And in the 1990s, contemporaneous with the explosion of artisan coffee roasters and upscale cafés staffed with baristas, craft or microbrewing took off in the States - booming, busting, and then after a brief refractory period, booming again.

And like the wine industry, the epicenter of microbrewing in the States clustered in the Golden State - California.

Today, there are over 1100 craft breweries in CA, comprising a $9 billion industry, including such stalwarts as Firestone, Lost Coast, Angel City, Sierra Nevada, Stone Brewing, and an LA-based brewery founded in 2011 by Meg Gill and Tony Yanow. The brewery burst on the scene with its compulsory IPA offerings, but really found its footing with fruit-infused concoctions like its popular Mango Cart Wheat Ale.

As the brand grew in popularity, it added more breweries as well as dine-in brew pubs, offering familiar gastropub fare to pair with its liquid breads. By the middle of the decade, the brewery was producing 45,000 barrels annually, towering over its SoCal competitors.

As for Budweiser, Coors, and Miller? (The latter two have now merged as MillerCoors.) They've evolved with the times, by simply buying up craft breweries in droves, including the very brand founded by Gill and Yanow. As Yanow told the *LA Times* at the time of the sale, "*I didn't sell out my soul. I sold my business. And I find it hard to believe that anyone in my shoes wouldn't have done it too.*" It's the kind of rationalization that one might expect from a man who named his brand for a Grateful Dead song.

This week on *Doughboys*, Golden Road Brewing.

## Fork rating

* Pineapple Cart Wheat Ale
* Melon Cart Wheat Ale
* Chela Amber Lager
* Classic Vegan Burger
	+ Mixed Green Salad
 Mike Mitchell
* Palisades Pineapple Wheat Ale
* Guava Dia Blonde Ale
* Dodgers Blonde Ale
* Mango Cart Wheat Ale
* a mystery beer that nobody can remember
* GRB Griddle Burger
	+ Mixed Green Salad
 Jordan Morris
* GRB Red Ale
* Passion Wolf Hazy IPA
* Classic Burger
	+ Mixed Green Salad
 shared apps
* Tot-chos
* Carnitas Fries

## Let Me Be Frank 🌭📰

That's right, it's time to review this week in hot-dog news in another edition of Let Me Be Frank.

Toast bun, don't it look pretty
Suckin' on a dog like you're suckin' on a titty
Pork and beef sausages and long bread
Rollin' on a roller grill, must've been relish

One bite, it's a different world
Swap dog bites with a girl
Munch on, munch on, and chomp all night
Despite the farts, it'll be alright
That taste when the casing has snapped
Later that day, you'll for sure have to nap
As it simmers in the city
Like you're suckin' on a titty*

Frying all the time
You ain't nothin' but a hot dog
Frying all the time
You ain't never been a burger
And you ain't no lunch of mine

They said you a sandwich
Well, no, that was just a lie
Yea, they said you a sandwich
Well, that was just a lie
You're just a bun around a wiener
So you sure don't qualify*

Eater, stop that snacking
Eater, don't you see?
Don't want a wurst to make you full
Maybe I should mind the grill
But I am eating well
Red hot franks will make me want to drool
I think of Sonic eating chili dogs with bliss
But even Rouge the Bat was never hot like this

Let me be frank, me be frank, me be frank
I'm a hot-dog eater
Let me be frank, so frank
I'm a hot-dog eater*

In less than three minutes, hot-dog news from my Google search will be read aloud from articles around the world, and we'll be launching the largest podcast segment in the history of frankfurters.
Frankfurters - that word should have new meaning for all of us today. They can be consumed without our petty differences; whether ketchup is allowed or not; whether the relish must be neon; or the bun have poppyseeds. (Looking at you, Chicago, you pieces of shit.)
Instead, we will be united in our common interests like how adding jalapenos to a dog can be a great addition, if you're a heatseeker, or how hot dogs are bad phallic symbols because they're too big.
Perhaps it's fate that today is the 8th of July and you will once again be hearing news, not about COVID or Trump or Biden or Epstein or more COVID, but about hot dogs.
We're fighting for our right to eat and then to eat more and more. There's no limit to how many dogs are acceptable at a cookout!
So should we win today, the 8th of July will no longer be known as National Chocolate with Almonds Day, but as the Day when the Doughmunity declared in one dumb, chunky voice:
WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE WEINERSCHNITZEL!
WE WILL NOT VANISH WITHOUT SOME DOG HAUS!
WE'RE GONNA EAT ON!
WE'RE GONNA ADD CHIVES!"

Today, we celebrate our Frankdependence Day.

In this segment, Mitch searches Google for 'hot dog' and discovers the latest news about hot dogs. The Doughboys discuss what he finds.

Mitch notes an article about Angelina Jolie eating a hot dog during a trip and another article about salmon hot dogs (written by A. Bear). Also, Nathan's Famous is adding a vegan hot dog to its menu. But the article he chooses to discuss is about how relish finally won the hot-dog race at an Orioles Game.

Next, Mitch finds an article about the best and worst ways to cook hot dogs. Mitch takes issue with the article's rankings.

Lastly, Nick asks for recommendations of vegan hot dogs.

## Roast Spoonman

 "Grime"

## Quotes

**Nick**: That's right. Get out of here. We're following it up with Kowalick Month.

**Nick**: I think so.
**Mitch**: Or is it like a hot link? Is it the insides that are hot? I mean, we shouldn't spend too much time on this, but we should spend at least a little bit of time on it.
**Jordan**: Mitch, I'm a Biblical scholar... there are some translations of the Bible, not all of them, but some of them, that says the devil's dick is cold, but the cum is hot.

## The Feedbag

* chocolate truffles
 Mike Mitchell
* wrapped burgers
* Cool Ranch Doritos
* Gatorade
 Jordan Morris

## Photos

Tasting FlightGolden Road BeerGolden Road BeerTot-chosPub PretzelCarnitas FriesClassic Burger - VeganGRB Griddle BurgerClassic Burger