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Beer Trivia with Suds: The Man Behind Nerds On Tap

• Nerds On Tap • Season 1 • Episode 14

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When life throws you a curveball, you improvise—just like we did when my nephew Jared Shoop, usually the man behind the curtain of 'Nerds On Tap,' took the hot seat for a riveting exchange that was anything but planned. The episode transmutes into an unexpected brew of laughter and trivia, as Jared conquers his camera shyness and reveals his face for the first time to our audience. Our spontaneous tête-à-tête journeys through his path to Digital Boardwalk, the thrill of producing our quirky podcast, and culminates in a beer trivia showdown that leaves us both a little wiser in the ways of hops and barley.

Memories are the bookmarks of our lives, and in this episode, we thumb through some personal chapters, from the hustle of meeting deadlines at Digital Boardwalk to the amusing tales of my technological awakening courtesy of a tech-savvy uncle. We share a toast to the past, recounting stories of family, a ballroom dance class that humbled me, and the shared adventures in Europe that brought us more than just souvenirs, but a deeper appreciation for cultural nuances and a good hamburger. Tune in for these heartfelt anecdotes and a crash course in beer lingo that might just make you the MVP of your next pub quiz night.

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Tim Shoop:

Nerds, nerds, nerds, nerds on tap. Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Nerds On Tap. I'm your host Tim Shoop, , and today we have a slight change of plans and this will be a shorter show than normal. Our originally scheduled guest had a bit of trouble with their connection all the way from Germany, so we rescheduled that. But fear not, we have a special surprise guest stepping in all the way from down the hall. We have Jared, my nephew, and the controller at Digital Boardwalk, Jared Shoop. Welcome to the show, Jared. Oh, hello everyone. He's also the producer of Nerds On Tap. He's the guy that you never see his face, so today we are revealing his face and he loves to be on camera. Yeah, that's why he downed two beers before he sat down in the chair. Anyway, I am his wonderful uncle, tim, and he is so passionate to be on Nerds On Tap today. Jared, you want to say a few words before we go ahead and get started. Just tell us a little bit about what puts you in the hot seat today.

Jared Shoop:

Yes, I'm excited to be here. Yeah, we had some trouble with the guests, with the connection, and he basically couldn't be on, so Tim then forced me to be a guest today.

Tim Shoop:

Well, that's the spirit, Jared. Sometimes the best moments happen when we least expect them, and I never thought we would get Jared in the hot seat. But here he is, shirt and all. Make sure you got your logo going on. So we're going to start off with some wonderful beer trivia.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, okay.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, I figured, before we go into a little bit of my other questioning, I figured why not kick it off with beer trivia? Today's show is probably only going to be a 30-minute show as opposed to an hour and a half, because we really don't have content but watch. This is going to be the most watched show and the most listened to show since we launched Nerds On Tap. Why? Because that's how those things happen you get the surprise star of Nerds coming out from behind the camera to step in front of it and all the fandom starts to happen.

Jared Shoop:

Right, oh, yes.

Tim Shoop:

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Nerds On Tap. I'm your host, tim Shoop, and I couldn't be more excited to embark on this nerdy adventure with all of you. So grab your favorite brew, because things are about to get exciting. Three, two, one go, so I got five beer questions for you. Let's see if you can get five out of five, and if you do, you'll get a hug from your favorite uncle no no, All right. First question which country is known for producing the famous beer brand Heineken?

Jared Shoop:

Uh, netherlands, all right.

Tim Shoop:

Jared, you are one for one. What style of beer originated in the Czech Republic and is known for its golden color and crisp taste? Pilsner you are two for two. This is why he's our producer's. Ladies and gentlemen, this boy knows beer. Question number three in which country would you find the Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival?

Jared Shoop:

Oh my God, I don't know Germany.

Tim Shoop:

I used to live in Munich. Did you know that? Uh?

Jared Shoop:

I think so yeah.

Tim Shoop:

Didn't you you?

Jared Shoop:

have you ever been in Germany? Uh, I spent my first two years Okay there, I was born there, but I'm an American. I don't remember.

Tim Shoop:

Where were you born? Frankfurt, wiesbaden, wiesbaden, okay, and where was your? Where was your grandmother from? Oh, you just said that too. Uh, oh, come on, you better know that, buddy Darmstadt.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, I all right, it's all right. They never, we never talk about it.

Tim Shoop:

Jared's on the spread. Even the two beers didn't loosen you up. Come on man, this is me loose, this is what you get. No, I've seen you loose, buddy.

Jared Shoop:

We're not going to go into that, just a little more.

Tim Shoop:

All right. So the next question, number four. So he is three for three. Ladies and gentlemen, what is the main ingredient in traditional Belgian lambic beer?

Jared Shoop:

Oh uh, lambic, I uh there's only a few ingredients.

Tim Shoop:

It's going to be well. There's wheat, we got it. He is four. He is four. All right, he is four for four. Ladies and gentlemen, if you get five for five, we're going to have to take a hug break. I'm going to miss it, all right. So five number five. Don't get this wrong on purpose. What American city is famous for its craft beer scene, often referred to as beer Vana?

Jared Shoop:

American. Oh, come on, I have no idea. It's Austin, it's uh break. I don't know. I don't know. This is con here.

Tim Shoop:

I'll put it into a geographical perspective for you. It is in a beautiful Pacific Northwestern state where there's been a lot of I don't know Portland. Yes, all right, now we're good, all right. So he went four for five. So no hug for you today, buddy, but I'll give you one after the show, just to be a good uncle. There he did awfully well. So, jared, let's jump into segment one and we're going to dart through these segments, ladies and gentlemen, and hopefully you're as entertained as I am. So I think the listeners always have wanted to know who that mysterious fellow is behind the scenes that never shows his face. Now that we know and we can see, you tell us a little bit about your journey just in just a couple minutes. Just share with us how you ended up at digital boardwalk and what brought you here. Where were you before this and what were you doing, and how did you find your way, other than me being your uncle, how did you find your way to digital boardwalk?

Jared Shoop:

I don't. That's a tough one there, I guess. Basically I don't want to answer that. So if we go back, I was bartending waiting tables put my wife through college. Once she graduated college, I went back to college for a little bit and then we had some kids and I was doing work on the side. I started working at Navy Federal and I was working at Navy Federal and once we had our first kid, financially it didn't make sense for me to work with my wife. My wife's income versus us Hiring a babysitter, eating out more and everything we did the calculations, it really wasn't worth it. So I stayed home for five years when we had our second kid a year later, and I stayed home until they were grade school age and it was about the time to work. I worked at Navy Federal for a year before that, so I had a little bit of financial stuff there. So did someone come calling? Yeah, you basically yeah.

Tim Shoop:

And I literally had to talk you into it.

Jared Shoop:

Well, yeah, it worked out well because you needed somebody that you could trust to do financial stuff for you and I had a little bit of a background and I was available and I guess for me it worked out great because I also could take a day off if I needed to or work specifically. I didn't have to have like a nine to five. If I needed time off, I could take the time to do the parenting stuff.

Tim Shoop:

And that was literally almost 10 years ago, the first time that we worked together. You came on as a tech at my former company.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, okay, yes.

Tim Shoop:

And you quit on me. Yes, well, you quit on me because it was a whole different dynamic in that company because of, well, a few things. Right, you work in the counter. It wasn't really your forte. You wanted to really dig into numbers and you really wanted to do where your passion was and you're good with numbers and you're good with you know funneling numbers and understanding the meaning of numbers, and they make sense to you in a different way that they might make sense to other people.

Tim Shoop:

So you're a good asset to me as far as organizing spreadsheets and laying out data in a way where we can make sense of it and it helps us make financial decisions. But more so, let's fast forward because that first job as a tech, I knew that wasn't going to probably pan out because of what it was. So you went away, you did your thing and then you came back. And you came back because you got that random phone call from me and out of the blue and then I think it took me literally 45 minutes of negotiation to get your ass over to digital boardwalk right, I don't remember exactly.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, I guess, so I guess yeah.

Tim Shoop:

And that was a while back, and the rest is history, and it all kind of worked out and now we are literally running digital boardwalk smarter web and we have a real estate investment business that we also manage. So and then, of course, this podcast, this lovely podcast that you helped me produce the show for. So your role has expanded over the years, but let's go back to the core of that role and let's really dig in to what it is that you do here. So I know you get a real benefit out of helping our customers with their billing, you know, with anything billing related. So let's start with that, because that's a key part of your role, correct?

Jared Shoop:

Yes, the billing is a lot of what I do and I really, I guess I do enjoy when I can help a customer. It's actually whenever a customer appreciates what I've done for them or helped them. That actually is the best part of my job.

Tim Shoop:

So you get a real satisfaction from that, because I know I do. When I see smiles on our customers and I see that feedback that we get digitally from customers on a daily basis from our front line, it makes me smile every single time. Yeah, yeah. So tell us what else you do here. I do a lot here.

Jared Shoop:

I do invoicing, I do purchasing, I do payroll, I do some forecasting. Obviously I do the QuickBooks and stuff. But yeah, you know, I work with the vendors. I work with the customers to I guess I don't know. I work with the customers a lot to get them, you know, see what they need, to try to get them on the right terms. I work with vendors a lot.

Tim Shoop:

So what would you say, your favorite moment? This is a big, this is a loaded question, and I'm sure our viewers and our listeners want to hear this, because I know they hear from me a lot. Now, I'm always talking about you know the thrill I get from being able to help these businesses. What was your moment? When you said wow, I'm having a great day because I was able to do this. Now I know you have a great relationship with all of our partner, with a lot of our partners and our you laugh at that I'm just trying to figure out where you're going.

Jared Shoop:

I'm just a little worried.

Tim Shoop:

Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize, jared's making me laugh and I usually don't laugh too much on the show, but no, you have a great rapport with a lot of our vendors and a lot of our actually in a lot of our customers. They know they can go to you and get answers and I know you work with our vendors to get the best pricing and the best and those things. So is there a moment like a moment that stands out in the history of your role at Digital Boardwalk that really made you feel great in your role? Is it that time I yelled at you?

Jared Shoop:

Well, which time?

Tim Shoop:

I don't yell. I don't yell.

Jared Shoop:

This is why I'm not going on to spot all those questions and I don't know a specific instance of, I mean, I don't know, whenever you know something, that's tough, you know, I think sometimes when a customer calls and they're like oh, we need this and we need this tomorrow, like 10 am and I'm like, all right, that's every week, yeah, and I got to get it overnighted.

Jared Shoop:

Get it to him. It comes in and I get it. You know I get everything done. We get the project going. It feels really good when it works and it doesn't always work because especially when COVID happened with that was another one with COVID, with just being able to get hardware. That was that was actually really difficult but also really fun, trying to find it and get it and get it out there.

Tim Shoop:

Tell our listeners, tell our listeners what the struggle was. I mean, everybody knows we had oh geez, supply chain problems during COVID.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah you couldn't get anything. You couldn't get routers, you couldn't get switches, you could get computers a little bit, but only certain ones. So when trying to fill your customers' needs was super difficult. And I think that's where the relationship with our vendors worked out well for me, because I had a really good relationship with our two major distributors and I was able to get things that I feel other people weren't able to, just because I was able to work the relationship. But yeah, that was a struggle.

Tim Shoop:

Where you have an abalance pressure from the buyer with the shopping experience. So it was kind of like and I know what that can feel like where you have that anxiety of I've got to help him, like yesterday.

Jared Shoop:

Well, yeah, and the other thing is people don't understand what it takes to get a product out to them quickly. And you know it's like they always say you can do maybe two or three things, you can get there quickly, you can do a quality product, or what's it? Quality, quickness, or what's the third shoot?

Tim Shoop:

I don't know. Yeah, there's three.

Jared Shoop:

You're the specialist here we rely on this Usually you can do two or three things, but you can't do all three, so it's tough. It's tough, but with the shipping issues too. You couldn't rely on FedEx to get you anything. It was tough.

Tim Shoop:

So did you hand deliver it?

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, multiple times, a lot of times locally right.

Tim Shoop:

You were jumping in the car.

Jared Shoop:

I drove out to Diffunit, which I drove out an hour and a half to pick up a product at their location because they kept saying it was on truck for delivery like three days straight and it never was delivered. I drove out there an hour and a half and then drove back and went to the customer and hand delivered a computer that they were waiting on. It was, oh man, that was tough. It was tough dealing with the shipping at the door in COVID.

Tim Shoop:

So when you were hired, did you know you would be sitting here today, or a year or two ago, filming a music video?

Jared Shoop:

I tried to stay in the background.

Tim Shoop:

Oh, you're such a good dancer, Jared.

Jared Shoop:

Oh I have awful.

Tim Shoop:

You should go on dancing with the stars. Now that you're on here, you're a star, so you should take those dancing skills and-. My wife and I took a dancing class. Oh yeah, what was that? We were younger.

Jared Shoop:

It was ballroom dancing and we took it and we dropped out because we were so bad at it. Oh man, it was awful.

Tim Shoop:

That's funny. Today, ladies and gentlemen, by the way, we are drinking the HuffPrawl Original. That's right, and this is one of my tastiest beers for these kind of segments and it's great in a mug, and you're missing out if you have not had this beer. So forgive me for not starting the show with a beer tasting, because we had already been drinking prior to this show, so-.

Jared Shoop:

I took my one job of the podcast talking about the beer.

Tim Shoop:

Because we don't have formatted content for this show. In questioning, we're gonna jump around today until our time runs out, oh great. And so we talked about your role at Digital Boardwalk. We talked about the beer. We talked about what led you here. Let's go way back, oh geez. Let's go way back, ladies and gentlemen, and talk about Jared's his inspiration for the technology industry as a little kid and where that came from.

Jared Shoop:

I don't know if we should talk about that.

Tim Shoop:

Hey, we can talk about anything on this show. Oh, so, jared, didn't you? So you guys, you lived about two hours away, two and a half hours away. Yeah, and just to preface this, ladies and gentlemen, I am Jared's uncle. I have and I lost count after a while, but I think I have like 13 nephews and nieces, or did we lost one not that long ago, jason?

Jared Shoop:

Oh yeah.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah.

Jared Shoop:

Well, he's older than me. It's weird to-.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah Well, I hung out with him because he was closer to my age. You know, and I've gone through all of them and you know, since they're none of them liked me anymore, I figured maybe I'll grab onto you. No, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, no, but going way back, you guys used to travel up to our home on holidays and special weekends and whatever. And me being the nerd prior to the tap, me just being the nerd part, I had a computer when I was 13. I ran a bulletin board system and for many of you we talked about that on a prior show, on a prior nerd show in here, about how I ran a bulletin board system out of my bedroom and my parents' house and I was basically the internet for the local community.

Tim Shoop:

Before the internet existed it was mostly computer hobbyists and gamers from way back and pilots, because I was outside of a army base Fort Rutger, alabama and you guys would come visit and you would always go into my room and I would kick you out, but I would always find you hovering around my computer. So I knew you were gonna gravitate towards technology the same way my son Caleb gravitates towards technology. You guys have a lot of similarities, and did. I have some interesting things on that computer as a 13-year-old.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, well, I always tried to play games on there.

Tim Shoop:

What was your favorite game on my computer as a? I was 13,. How old were you?

Jared Shoop:

That can't be right.

Tim Shoop:

No, at the time I was probably a little older yeah yeah. I was probably 15 or 16. Yeah, so we don't need to talk about ages. Just tell me what was your favorite game on that computer.

Jared Shoop:

I don't know what my favorite game is.

Tim Shoop:

Ladies and gentlemen, it was Strip Poker.

Jared Shoop:

That's that's. That was on a different computer.

Tim Shoop:

No, that was on that one.

Jared Shoop:

Oh well.

Tim Shoop:

Maybe it was a different one.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, well, yeah, the Strip Poker.

Tim Shoop:

yeah, and it was, it was all eight bit, I think, or something, and the pictures, and you, you, basically, if you want a round, a piece of clothing just fell off and there wasn't a whole lot to it because it was eight, eight bit pixelated.

Jared Shoop:

But the first game was Kung Fu on your Atari computer. But then later, yeah, there was that game when I was a little older and I never won. I never.

Tim Shoop:

I think I got, I got down and I never got. That's right. I walked in there one time and you did not. No, I walked in one time and he was sitting in his underwear. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not true.

Jared Shoop:

So that is not true. You got your butt spanked. There's, first of all, there's no way you would have left your computer just sitting there open for anybody to use.

Tim Shoop:

Just yeah, what, what Really?

Jared Shoop:

Tributing to the uh. What's the uh?

Tim Shoop:

that's the one Delinquency of a lot my yes. So this is probably going to be our best episode. I don't know about that. So so you gravitated towards technology and that's, I think, the most important part of this. Was that your first, or was there something more local to your home, maybe to friends house or at your school, that really got you involved?

Jared Shoop:

Well, I would say that that was the first computer that I actually was able to get my hands on. Uh, was the Atari computer you had?

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, I had an Atari 800. That was my first one, and then I had a PC 25 megahertz. Ladies and gentlemen, on the PC, the Atari 800 was a um, uh, 80, 88. Uh yeah, it was old school. My third computer was a Pentium 100. So we fast forward a few years to the 100s came out, and then I think I went to a 233 megahertz. What are we on now?

Jared Shoop:

What is it? Five, oh yeah.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, oh yeah.

Jared Shoop:

Three. Uh, the gigahertz isn't it's, it's yeah.

Tim Shoop:

It's not a level.

Jared Shoop:

But my, so I, your Atari computer was probably the first one I ever was like oh, I get to play on this, uh. Uh, when I was in sixth grade, uh, in math class we had an Apple II Is that sound right? We had a green uh, had a disk drive, had a keyboard, had a monitor that was color, um, and we used to get these magazines in class. That on the back of it there would be basic and you type the code in and play the game. So I would finish math like we'd go through math class. I'd finish everything as fast as I could, run back to that computer and try to type in all the code so that I could play the game before class ended. And, uh, that was probably my first time really, uh, messing with the computer.

Tim Shoop:

So you know I had a. I used to go into monkey wards, montgomery wards, sears, jc, penny, when I would go shopping with my parents and they would let me kind of wander around a little bit but stay close and I would always end up in the computer aisle and back then you didn't have Best Buy and all these things. You had one little section devoted to computers because the market there was the demand in the market wasn't there for it. Yet this is pre PC in every home. This is way pre. This is in the uh 80s, specifically the early to mid 80s, and I used to go in and I'd find a TRS 80, a Tandy TRS 80 or an Atari 800, a Commodore 64 you'd usually see in there and I would do the famous two line uh code. I would figure out how they have the machine locked, because the salespeople would lock the machine so kids couldn't do this. I would figure out how it was locked, get it unlocked and then I would put the two line code in. And do you remember what that was?

Tim Shoop:

So I think it was something like print open quote Tim Shoop is the coolest kid in the world. Close quote uh, line 20,. Go to line 10, enter, run, and basically I put that all over the screen in an infinite loop and then I would lock the computers and nobody could change it. And then next time I would go to one of those places, I would see if it was still on the screen and if the salesperson figured out how to unlock what I did. So yeah, I used to have fun as a kid.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, I, uh, I didn't get to do that. You didn't get to by the time I was getting. You're a lot younger than me.

Jared Shoop:

They were yeah, they had started, started to get. But yeah, I would go in a mockery ward. I go in a Sears, I'd go over the computers and look at them and they'd have them locked down. They'd have a salesperson nearby all the every time you go up to one a salesman or a walkable what you'd like to do, then they obviously they knew a kid wasn't, they just wanted to fool with it and they'd kind of shoe you off.

Tim Shoop:

So who, outside of work, is your number one client when it comes to computer support? Is his name? Is his name Ronald? No, outmarket takes three out of a bucket. Okay, I figured it would. I figured it would be your dad.

Jared Shoop:

No, it's not my dad, it's my aunts that lived down the road from me. The three hens the three hens. I have three aunts. They all live in my neighborhood.

Tim Shoop:

My sisters.

Jared Shoop:

And they have called me more than anybody for computer sport.

Tim Shoop:

And you know what they do. They'll call me and I'll go. Jared lives on your street. Call him, he knows what to do and Nancy will go. Oh yeah, I'll call Jared.

Jared Shoop:

I moved into that neighborhood and then, one by one, they all moved in there.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, we had the option to move into that neighborhood and we decided not to for all those reasons. So we needed a little space. But yeah, they'll call me and ask me something and I'm busy like all over the place and I'm like you know what Call Jared? He's right down the street. He can be there in two seconds.

Jared Shoop:

Yeah, they used to call me all the time Not so much anymore, but yeah, they used to call me like monthly. I'd have to go over there and be like I don't know what your problem is.

Tim Shoop:

You're welcome. You're welcome, man. You're welcome. Yeah. Yeah, are you glad that I? It's called Jared, so let's step away from I love this conversation and I love where it's going and I think we have a few little bit more time. Let's step away from that. And I downed it. You want to get another one?

Jared Shoop:

There's only one left.

Tim Shoop:

You want to go get it.

Jared Shoop:

No.

Tim Shoop:

Okay, I think we should.

Jared Shoop:

You want me to go grab?

Tim Shoop:

it. Well, I'm going to a hockey game tonight to watch my dog race across the ice.

Jared Shoop:

What.

Tim Shoop:

Oh yeah, it's funny. We went to a hockey game and this is totally off the subject, ladies and gentlemen, but we went to a hockey game a few weeks ago and I forget what they call it, but everybody brings in the same similar breed of dog, and tonight it's small dogs, it's the little.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, you're bringing a hank.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, a hank. And I told so anyway, oh, this is the greatest thing in the world Last time it was Doxons and somebody releases them on one side and you're on the other side. They have to race across the ice and it is so funny to watch. So my wife signed up hank, I told her because he has a problem with going after dogs he doesn't know, and maybe you know getting a little rough and not not bad. How rough can those little dogs be? I mean, they're Yorkies, ladies and gentlemen, but he's not rough. But you've heard him, oh yeah. So I told her I go.

Tim Shoop:

So who's releasing them? My daughter, Tori, is releasing them and Kathleen's going to receive him. And I said, you know, I'm going to be laughing so hard while I'm up there eating my notches and drinking my beer because I'm not going down there, because that's going to be so embarrassing when he, when she kept going, he's going to be the fastest dog. He is so fast, he's going to be fast. And I go yeah, he's going to be fast to run to the dogs next to him and bite them, or do what dogs do.

Tim Shoop:

What pee on the ice?

Jared Shoop:

Well, dad, but no, they tend to die.

Tim Shoop:

We haven't seen a deuce on the ice yet. No, we want. Oh, it's so fun. You should go to the game tonight. It's at the pilots game we always go to one. Go to the game tonight. I already watched. I already went this year, Nancy and Dottie, your, your, your favorite ants, the three hens, the ones we were talking about, and you know they, they periodically listen to the show. Oh great, so they're going to call you and go get down here and fix my damn computer.

Jared Shoop:

I think they found somebody else. They haven't called me this year, last year.

Tim Shoop:

I'm going to give you five more beer questions. Oh great, we're going to take a break from the tradition and we're going to go into some questions. Which beer style originated in the city of Cologne, Germany, known for its pale color and crisp taste?

Jared Shoop:

The Kosh.

Tim Shoop:

Do that right away.

Jared Shoop:

We went on a trip to Germany on our 20th my wife and I's 20th anniversary and we did a cruise down the Rhine and it's so wonderful.

Jared Shoop:

Cologne. Cologne was one of the stops and we stopped there and we had lunch at one of the places and you sit down and they just bring us beers. They even ask, which is fine Cause, I wonder one. And we were ordering our dinner and they had a sausage plate on the side and they had the quarter or the half, and I was thinking quarter pound, half pound, but it was actually kilogram, which is a lot bigger. Anyway, I said I'll take the quarter and the waiter, he looked at me and said oh, you want the women's or the men's.

Jared Shoop:

And I was like I'll take the women's.

Tim Shoop:

But yeah, come on, man. That is sexist. Right there, man, come on.

Jared Shoop:

That's a waiter. Did he really say that? Oh yeah, he was messing with me. I could tell right away he was trying to.

Tim Shoop:

So this isn't a Germany story, but this is a France story. I have a similar story, me and Kathleen, a pre child. We were in France, we were on the last leg of our two week trip, went across Germany and we had a layover in Paris and we were due to fly back the very next day to come back to the States, and I had spent two weeks eating, oh man, sausage and schnitzel and Austrian ribs. Oh my God, let me just amazing. Anyway, we ate so good over there, but I remember being the last day and all I was craving was a fricking cheeseburger. So we're near the Eiffel Tower, we're in a little place there on the corner, I forget the name of it, but we're sitting there. We ordered a beer, we're sitting there and he comes up and we had the menu and it only had like eight or nine selections on it and one of them was a steak and some other stuff, and then there was a hamburger.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, I know this story and I went oh, a hamburger.

Tim Shoop:

So I ordered a hamburger and he looks at me. He goes you American? And I go yes, how did you do? He said, oh, the hamburger, it's the meat and the uh meat and the uh cheese, the meat and the cheese, no bun. And I go no bun. I go well, can you, can you put it on some bread? Uh, bread will be fine.

Tim Shoop:

And he goes no, no, no, no, it's the meat and the cheese. And he said it just like that. And he paused and I went okay. And he goes the meat and the cheese, it's just the meat and the cheese. And I said okay, no, I don't need bread, just give me the steak. So we're done with him and we're sitting there and we're reminiscing over our European trip, because we were heading back the next day and we were having a great time sipping on a good cold beer. And I glanced over and he's standing in the doorway of the kitchen with the chef and he's standing there like this the meat and the cheese, and the meat and the cheese, and the meat and the cheese. And I went oh, my God, he is talking about me and I will never forget it and if I ever go back to that restaurant I'm going to go. It's the meat and the cheese.

Tim Shoop:

And number two in brewing, which term refers to the process of adding hops to the beer during the boiling stage to impart bitterness and aroma. Come on suds. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, this is suds In brewing, and you need to talk into the microphone, which term he's not used to being on this side of the table.

Jared Shoop:

I don't like being on the side of the table. Yeah, I think you do You're? A star man. That's the question.

Tim Shoop:

Look at you, you're a star. He's brewing with stardom.

Jared Shoop:

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know the answer to this one. I don't think.

Tim Shoop:

In brewing, which term refers to the process of adding hops to the beer during the boiling stage to impart bitterness and aroma. I don't know. So what do you put in beer? No-transcript, you said weed earlier. What else? Okay, hops.

Jared Shoop:

Dry, yeah, dry hopping, dry hopping. So oh boy.

Tim Shoop:

Hey, this show has gone off the rails.

Jared Shoop:

ladies and gentlemen, this is going to the next one, which Dry?

Tim Shoop:

It's dry hopping, dry hopping, which Belgian beer style is known for its high alcohol content and complex flavors, often brewed by Trappist monks. Oh, this is a. It's kind of a tough one for me. It's which Belgian beer style is known for its high alcohol content and complex flavors, often brewed by Trappist monks. It's not like Abu Dhabi, it is Abbey Dubell. Oh yeah, abbey Dubell, that's a hard one. This next one's a lot easier. Oh, okay, so far you have one out of three.

Jared Shoop:

After the first one, round one was easy. It's got to be easy, yeah.

Tim Shoop:

What is the world's oldest brewery still in operation, dating back to the year 1040 AD? This is super easy.

Jared Shoop:

It is Oldest brewery, it's got to be some monks.

Tim Shoop:

Weihenssteffen brewery in Bavaria, Germany.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, yeah, do you remember? That one? I do know that one. I think they sell it at Aldi's, do they really? Yes, they sell a four pack of tall boys at Aldi's. But the oldest brewery in the United States, oldest American brewery still producing is England, england.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, I knew that one. We had that in a prior episode. Yeah, that's. This beer style is fermented at warmer temperatures, typically between 60 and 75 degrees Fahrenheit, resulting in fruity and spicy flavors. This is easy Fruity and spicy.

Jared Shoop:

So it's not I-Bit.

Tim Shoop:

No, and it's obvious because it would talk about Hoppy. So this is fruity and spicy and there's only a few kind of beer choices. Would it be a sour? Well, it's one of mine. I get headaches from IPAs. Remember, I told you in a prior episode I switched to Pilsner's and Lager Ales, Lager's and Ales, oh, is it an ale yeah, it's an.

Jared Shoop:

ale I don't know man, I like drinking it. I don't do the research, except for the beers we get. I research those.

Tim Shoop:

All right. Well, I'm going to give you a couple more. Oh great, Since you missed all of those.

Jared Shoop:

I didn't miss all of them.

Tim Shoop:

I got one of them. I was getting a trim used to describe a beer that is intentionally aged for an extended period under controlled conditions, often resulting in enhanced flavors and complexities. Oh, think about it when you make. For instance, let's go to Bourbon.

Jared Shoop:

Oh yeah.

Tim Shoop:

Okay. Or wine what makes a wine when somebody says, oh, I have this wine. What makes it so expensive? What makes a bourbon? Well, the bourbon is the aging. It's the aging, okay. And what are they aged?

Jared Shoop:

in and bourbon, oh barrels, there you go.

Tim Shoop:

Barrel aging. I don't see I can get you to the answer, Jared. Uh, which country is credited with the invention of the popular beer style known as India Pale Ale or an IPA?

Jared Shoop:

I would think. I would think India, but I don't know.

Tim Shoop:

You know a good IPA would go great with some fish and chips.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, it's England.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, it is England. Oh wait, no, I didn't have that.

Jared Shoop:

They love their Indian. The curry is basically a English dish now.

Tim Shoop:

Okay, the curry. Well, actually, in.

Jared Shoop:

Germany. You get the curry worse, but curry is like a.

Tim Shoop:

Something you might not know about my favorite nephew here is that he is a great curry. He is that. He is a great cook, great chef. I know you don't like the term cook. You like to be referred as chef Jared or chef.

Jared Shoop:

Shea Gerald no.

Tim Shoop:

Shea sheepdog junior. No, caleb is sheepdog.

Jared Shoop:

That's right.

Tim Shoop:

What are you, your sheepdog, want to be?

Jared Shoop:

I'm not, I'm just you All right, what's?

Tim Shoop:

What is the name of the process by which yeast converts the sugars and malt into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation? Oh door.

Jared Shoop:

Oh, see now you can't, You're.

Tim Shoop:

you know who you remind me of? Uh uh, somebody on family feud that decides to ring the buzzer before, uh, he finishes the question. What is the name of the process by which yeast converts the sugars and malt into alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation? This is a really hard one, to be honest with you. It's, it's a yeah, that's the answer. Sacrification Well, I swear to God. Sacrification. Saccharin or sacchar, what is that?

Jared Shoop:

Well, I mean, I thought saccharin was fake sugar.

Tim Shoop:

Yeah, sacrificing the I don't know Could be something. I need to look that one up. You know we should know this on Nerds on Tap E. All right, what's the main ingredient? This is easy in the traditional German beer style known as Hefeweisen. You don't know that? Wheat yeah, it is wheat.

Jared Shoop:

All you got to do is answer wheat to every question.

Tim Shoop:

And which beer style is characterized this is so easy, oh my God by its dark color, roasted malt flavors I'll take my time so you can think a minute and often features notes of chocolate or coffee. It's a stout, it's a stout baby. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to give it up for our favorite nephew, the new controller and producer of Nerds on Tap, the guy behind the guy. Behind the guy that makes me look great in front of the camera while he sits behind the camera and drinks beer where he's most comfortable. But today we put him in the hot seat and we did it for a reason because Farouk, he'll be coming in an up, we're rescheduling to get him in an upcoming episode and we had a terrible connection between here and where. Was he in Hamburg? He was in Hamburg, I think in Germany, and it was a terrible connection. So we we didn't want to put out a bad show, so I decided to bring this, this character, on and get him in the game.

Tim Shoop:

Ladies and gentlemen, jared, I want you to close the show oh great. By telling our audience and thanking them to join us for this episode of Nerds on Tap and to and what they can expect from the show with Faruk.

Jared Shoop:

So, alright, thanks for catching our show here, downloading, watching whatever Our next show is with Faruk. He is the future of car advertising with CGI Innovations. I went on their website. It's pretty amazing. They basically what do they do? They shoot the car and they put the backgrounds in. Yeah, they do a lot of cool stuff.

Tim Shoop:

A lot of cool stuff with CGI.

Jared Shoop:

It's pretty amazing.

Tim Shoop:

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for joining Nerds on Tap. We always are happy that you decided to choose us for your listening pleasure today, and I hope you continue to enjoy the nerdy love that we want to spread and tell your friends about Nerds on Tap and get them to check us out and subscribe to our show. We're really trying to grow this show. This is episode 14 and we are cruising right along. Thanks, have a great day. Alright, thanks, cheers my fellow Nerds and Beer lovers. Stay tuned for more Nerds on Tap. Oh, and one more thing Help us spread the nerdy love and the love for Great Brews by sharing this podcast with your friends, colleagues and fellow beer enthusiasts. Let's build a community that embraces curiosity, innovation and the enjoyment of a cold one.

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