Thirsty Thursday with Meier's Cork and Bottle - November 21st 2024 4 p.m.
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Thirsty Thursday with Meier's Cork and Bottle - November 21st 2024 4 p.m.
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Happy Friday to start your weekend. Go ahead, start right now. Your thirsty now and 93-7, the ticket is here to help you stock up. Just in time for the weekend when I like to hit the clubs. Time to broaden your horizons and try some new wine and beer. It's Thursday, with Kevin Meyer from Myers-Corkin-Bodel. It's like cracking knuckles. We'd call that a clicky for Stricky, but he ain't here. My buddy, Jay's with me. You're bringing the 18. The Jay team. That's right. We got Jay. I'll be getting loose on that whiteboard after this. I'll be hammered. Oh, no. You're drawing up plays on there, Jay? Yeah. Plays for the station? That went really well yesterday. I wasn't pressed. I wasn't surprised that technologically, right? Yeah. That's not my forte. That's not my forte. We made it work. We did it. It was like the first play of a NASA championship game. We're glad you're a quick learner. Yeah. Kevin Meyer, Myers-Corkin-Bodel. That's right. In the building. Uncle Kevin, you're in the house. What's happening, you know? No, Kevin. I want to ask you this, man, before we get started. Yeah. Is it true with Turkey, you can have wine or should have wine? Is that true? Absolutely. In fact, I'll throw something at you. There's more wine consumed on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year in this country. Hey. Did you read the article about Denzel? No. No. Yeah. He said he's like a wine. Was it fishinato? Oh, yeah. I'm surprised. Or I'm not surprised. With high level stuff. Yeah. Well, you know, like all the, you know, like vet MBA guys, they're all way into it. Because they have your body, supposedly. Yeah. Well, it's got, it's got natural antioxidants for one. There it is. And number two, flavonoids, which strip any of the fat out of your arteries. And you lean? Yeah. Well, that's all I needed. Yeah. And flavonoids. Yeah. Have you brought that up here before? I don't know if I brought up flavonoids before. That's definitely a word I've heard, but not in a long time. The fun one. Like so, LeBron, D Wade has his own wine. And, but you know, when those guys are traveling, say to the city, they'll actually pack bottles with them. And then they'll get together with their boys. And everyone brings like a high level bottle and they get together, you know, after the game or whatever. You're gonna sleep on the plane. Oh, yeah. And, you know, it's not like it's not like they're getting stupid because they got a, they got a play. But, you know, they find that number one, it's a healthier way to, you know, have to let out some stress. And number two, it's just fun because those guys like collect them and then they'll share them with each other. And you know, it's just kind of a bonding thing too. So well, it sounds like something I need to do this is I can get lean. Absolutely. How many years does it add to the average lifespan? Well, I, I will tell you, I'm not the most in shape individual in the world. You can tell by looking at me. But I do have a zero heart calcium score, which is unusual for a 53 old man, especially the one who eats a lot of beef and whatnot. And I attribute that to drinking a lot of red wine. Get a ham. So there you go. Is it specifically reds? Or are there any in whites? Whites also have some health benefits, but reds have more than whites do because of the skin mass aeration. So Ellie, reds have more health benefits than whites. Get with the program. I drink reds. Cap. Sometimes false. How do you feel when you switch to Geico and save on your car insurance? It's like going to work on one Thursday morning and thinking to yourself just one more day until Friday. But then somebody in the elevator says, happy Friday. Then you check your phone quickly and discover today is actually Friday. So yes, happy Friday, random stranger in the elevator. Happy Friday indeed. Yep, switching and saving with Geico feels just like that. Get more with Geico. And then you can see the first step. What we're starting with, Kev, today is a super special day. And so let's let's lead with the wine. So the reason I say it's super special is that this is Bojole Nuvo de and Bojole Nuvo is the first wine produced in the Northern Hemisphere every year. And how it got started was back in the days of the French monarch, the peasants used to have to make all the wine for the French royalty. And so what they would do once their work was complete or whatnot, they would squirrel some away for themselves and hide it, hide it from the man. And then once they were off doing whatever they were doing, they would have a big party and it's to celebrate the completion of harvest, the change of the seasons and kind of sticking it to the man a little bit, which I can appreciate. And but you are the man right now. Well, no, I'm not the man. I kind of seem like the man, Kev. Well, Kevin, you're the man. But I don't put myself above or beneath anyone. I'm just, you know, where everybody else is to. But so then the thrown off my train of thought again, Jason's pulling a strike. I love it. The pretty good. The cafes in Paris then found out about this first wine, this Nuvo wine. And so they would send their horse and buggies and they would have races to see who could get it first. And then that spread throughout Europe and then it spread worldwide. And now everything's air-frated. So we all get it at the same time. It can be released no sooner than the third Thursday in November, which is always exactly the week before Thanksgiving. And so it's become a very timely Thanksgiving, you know, sort of nostalgic sort of thing for a lot of people and a lot of families to try the first wine. It's made of a grape called Game, and it's meant to be fresh and young and light and fruity and it's sort of like the French party wine. It's not a wine that you would age. In fact, I tell people if you buy a bottle, drink it before Easter because it's picked fermented and bottled all within about a six or eight week time frame. And so it doesn't have a lot of tan, doesn't have oak aging. It's fresh. You get that sort of like light sort of strawberry and almost some banana tones, sometimes in the Game grape. And so today's kind of a cool day for my family. Growing up, my father would always have these Bojolei Nuvo parties and it would benefit a different charity every year. And this was an upscale, but drunk, I mean, it was swanky, but yeah, I could tell you some stories. Eventually the liability became became too great. So Uncle Kevin doesn't want to be on the hook for that. So we don't really do those anymore, but we still bring in the Bojolei Nuvo every year. Take it after dark. Sounds like the time for those stories. It is definitely fruit forward, lighter definitely. That's good. What's the punishment if someone were to release some Bojolei Nuvo on say the Wednesday before Thanksgiving instead of the Thursday? The distributors can't even deliver it until the Thursday, really. And if they were to cheat, then they would probably lose the distribution rights to it and they would go with a competitor that's going to follow the rules. Sounds like a problem. Could be a problem, but you know, you don't want to ruin it for everybody. That's kind of part of the fun part of the anticipation of seeing the first wine every year is that that day like today, the third Thursday in November. So here we are and we carry the George DeBuf. These are on the shelf on sale, 15 bucks, $14.99. In fact, in the office, I've got, I've got a large picture of my father with George DeBuf in the early 1980s when my old man had his white man's fro. He had my curly hair on my dad's side. And yeah, he and George DeBuf are sitting there with a glass of wine in France, so I still have that in my office. Is he touring one of the DeBuf vineyards? Yeah, exactly. Nice. And it's kind of an interesting story. This guy, you know, in France, they don't really have, or at least back then, like legal drinking ages and, you know, and things like that. And so when he was a kid, 14, 15 years old, George, not your dad. Yeah, George DeBuf, they called him the King of Bojolei and what he did, he hopped on his bike and he would go winery to winery. And the way he envisioned it was that he thought he wanted wines that reminded him of fresh fruit and flowers. And so he went to these wineries, he tasted their wines and the ones that he liked the best that had fresh fruit and flowers or reminded him of that, he would buy them and then sell them to the cafes as like a 14 year old kid off of his bicycle. And he grew sort of an empire starting that way. And so he's kind of known as King of Bojolei, this is George DeBuf fella. Mm. And surprising. Cool stuff. Yeah. What do you like about it, Jay? I look at that as light, but more importantly, what I taste, it makes me feel elegant. It makes me feel like royalty. I feel like I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm royalty. I know they didn't have any of us over there, but I over here, I, they just were ready for us. Yeah. This is good, man. I'm glad you like to pick some up, man. And have it with my turkey. And that's the other thing about it is it goes really well with that type of food. You know, you can almost get a little bit of that tart cranberry flavor in there. And I like, I'm, I'm one of the few people that likes cranberry sauce. I don't know. Some people just don't like it, but I make a special cranberry sauce where I take a Belgian raspberry ale and I boil the fresh cranberries and the Belgian raspberry ale. You add a little sugar, a little orange zest and it thickens up and man, it's good. It's really good. Cranberry sauce. Yes or no, Jay. Nope. Ellie cranberry sauce. Yes or no? Nope. Or one for four. It's just you, Kevin. I'm basically the only person in the world that likes cranberries. So if you have any leftovers, you want to bring it in two weeks? Yeah, sure. Yeah. I could bring some in. That'd be nice to try. It's almost like a cranberry jello, but it's made with, it's not the kind that comes out like the shape of a can of dog food, you know, it's, it's the real homemade real McCoy stuff and it's man, it's good. Nice. All right. Next what we got. This is called zip lines winter alt and it's a modification of their alt beer where they take the basic alt beer recipe, but then they add some holiday spices to it. So it has a little bit of that cinnamon, a little bit of that clove, a little bit of that nutmeg hits the nose right away. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Nice. I smell it. It's small. It's just hit my nose really hard in the back, but I, I smelled the holiday of it. It smells like a holiday, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. I like it though. I like it though. Yeah. I like the, what is that aftertaste nutmeg? Yeah. I think so. And the other reason why this beer kind of resonates with me is back 30 years ago when my wife and I were newly married, we were broke as a joke, trying to finish college, newly married and found out we were going to be parents. She was pregnant and we couldn't afford to buy anybody Christmas presents. And so I went to Kirk's home brew, which isn't there anymore on 13th and Cornhusker highway. And well, when we, when we got married on our bridal registry, I signed up for a Mr. Beer home brewing kit and it had like the fermentation tanks and, you know, and, and this stuff that you need to base, do a, like the most fundamentally basic beer you could possibly make. German purity law stuff, even like lesser than that. And, and so I went and I bought a kit for an Oktoberfest recipe and, and basically you start with what's called the wort, which is basically it's like thick, like molasses. And that's the boiled down reduced grain and, and hops and all that kind of stuff. You add water to it, then you boil it, you let it cool off, you add your yeast, and then that ferments it to beer. Well, I decided to make a holiday ale and that's what we were going to give out as gifts, Christmas gifts. And so I added, you know, you have what's called a steeping bag, which is, it's almost like the consistency we all like panty house. And so you put the spices in there, you tie it up, and you let it sit in the beer for a while, but, and, you know, while it's, while it's working, it's magic. And it tasted almost identical to this. Then we didn't have, you know, it was like basically pre-internet, right? And I don't even think we had a printer at home. So about seven trips to Kinkos later, I had some labels and we didn't have a name for the baby yet. So everyone was just calling it Babu, Babu the baby, I don't know. And so I, the beer I called it Babu's best and I, that's what I gave out to my family for Christmas was a six pack of Babu's best and it tasted just like this. How long did it take you to make all that? It doesn't take that long. It's maybe about, I would say about a three week process, three to four weeks. Yeah, it's not that long. Well, I mean, you know, when you're broken, don't have any money. Yeah, you know, that counts, right? Yeah. Well, you know, you try to put some, put some love into it. And so yeah, I had the labels made and stuck them on the bottles and washed out all the bottles and bottled them up and, you know, like, you don't put them in six pack holders and everyone got their six pack of Babu's best that year. And this beer just reminds me of that 100%. So it's nostalgic for me there too. So. That's awesome. There you go. I love the color. Yeah. This one. Nice caramely color. Yeah. Yeah. It's not a heavy beer. It's like holiday tastes like holiday and just really, really nice stuff and made right here in good old Lincoln, Nebraska. Okay. Here's, here's a big question here. All right. Evan, OG Les Landcaster needs a Hail Mary, a little bit of favor. Okay. Need a wine to take to my in-laws for Turkey Day. What do you recommend? Got to impress the in-laws. Well, you got to find out what they like first. So but you don't want to lead, you know, you don't want to bury the lead too much because then they know you're automatically bringing wine. So ask around, maybe ask someone that knows them and what kind of wine they like. And basically the, the first thing you'd want to do is go wider red and then dryer sweet. And then, and then then it boils down to basically what you want to spend. You come see old Uncle Kev will take good care of you. Once we ask you those three questions, we can get you the best am wine in the store. Where can people find Uncle Kev? Uncle Kev is at 13th and South 4761518 and look for the bright neon and it's a, it's a great time to be in, in the wine business. I can tell you that. Hey. You can't miss the store. You don't want to miss out on Kevin and I'm sure the great staff as well. Great staff as well. You know, the, the, the quality of the help and the quality of the people that we have working for us is unsurpassed and, you know, it's basically something that we drill into them, uh, about we, we want to be the most service oriented store in Nebraska, if not the Midwest and, uh, we'll take good care of you. I always take good care of us and we always appreciate it. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving. We'll see you in two weeks. Ain't that the truth? Enjoy it. You'll be back with us here in a couple of weeks. We'll go to break DP and J got old school in just a sec. How do you feel when you switch to Geico and save on your car insurance? It's like going to work on one Thursday morning. And thinking to yourself, just one more day until Friday. But then somebody in the elevator says, happy Friday. Then you check your phone quickly and discover today is actually Friday. So yes, happy Friday random stranger in the elevator. Happy Friday indeed. Yep, switching and saving with Geico feels just like that. Get more with Geico. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH]