Beer, Life & Food with Dave Knuth & Johnnie Ray

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Beer, Life & Food with Dave Knuth & Johnnie Ray

Knuth Brew Talk · Fri Jan 16, 2026

Well, you know right where to find the jangle jangle. It's that time of week. Happy Friday. Happy Friday. We should write a song

We should write a song. Let's come up with a jangle for next week. Maybe a little polka behind it. Yeah, have to be

We were talking off the air here

So our buddy Johnny Peck. Yeah, he has a big a big desk in a big office now. Big that's your big our father retired. Yeah

So he looks out over the parking lot on the radio road. Yeah, a big bay window and you were promoted to secretary

So you get the coffee now. I get his coffee ready. I shoveled the sidewalk for him. I do a lot of stuff

Wow, he's gonna be good to be Johnny

So how has the

January been for you a lot of people curing the January blues at the bar? Oh, yeah, yeah

We we don't practice dry January down at the brewery. I would imagine that we got Alexander Pilsner here today

This is fresh off our new bottling line. We

Install this new piece of equipment. Is this in addition to what you've had it or is it just a bigger new piece bigger newer better

Yeah, we we we bottled the most amount of beer we've ever done on Wednesday and

New machine we're excited. It's a it's a probably like

Excuse my pun, but it's the it was the biggest bottle neck

To our production was our bottling line and so this is gonna hopefully allow us to increase our production line. So what how many bottles?

We did

I think we did over 4,000 bottles

Something like that and that's filling labeling. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was it was a good run

That's amazing you do all of that right downtown rip it is right there

Yeah, a lot of people they have other places that do it

You know a lot of a lot of breweries don't even brew their own beer. They just they contract it out which is you know

I mean, I don't want to get on a soapbox. Well, I get it. Yeah, I mean you're the real deal. Yeah, we're the manufacturing's hard

You know just like radio. It's not easy people don't have any clue all it is is you know

Just getting on the microphone right right you show up make sure you pour John peck his coffee

And then come into the office and I drink beer with you and then I go that's all we do

We've had our share of technical issues on the bug lately, but that's something that's hopefully gonna be resolved

Permanently by the end of the month. Okay

Things that are out of your hands. Yeah power company issues

That's frustrating. It is very frustrating. Well this week it's been for rise in issues then yesterday was like T-Mobile

Yeah, bright speed all you know internet stuff just it's well Johnny you're the reason we brew beer

I yeah because folks and every way to the world is a beer so Wayne

Mouser on the morning show on bug. He he in Linda make their own wine. Oh

So it's kind of he did to me what you did to me with the blue eyed blonde when I had the kegerator. Yeah, yeah

Oh, it's light. You're fine. Don't worry about it. It's the lightest one we got and I had about a

Half a bottle of his wine. This was on Sunday

Just kind of relaxing, you know, and I thought you know, I'm gonna make some salmon for dinner sure

So I went out and I lit the webber. Okay. I have one of those chimneys

Yeah, but the newspaper yeah

I have one of those young mind you. This is after the half bottle one

He sure and I walk outside I caught it early, but I'm like that. That does not smell like charcoal

I forgot to take the grill brush the scrubber out of the bottom

Here I'm dumping it and it's you know flaming papers all over the backyard and at least I live on a street where there's no one else

Right, yeah, you'll have that so I had the other half of the bottle on Wednesday night and I texted

I said I'm having the rest of this to bring your clean bottle back, and I just put the dirty dishes in the oven

Dishes in the other. Yeah, it's about 19 to 20% usually

Yeah, so it's not your 12 to 14. Yeah, that's well that reminds brings me back

My my mother-in-law Bhusha. She tells a story her dad used to make wine in Marie's grandpa

Mm-hmm, and she said she says he would make the best potato wine

I heard that I mean, and I'm like you mean vodka. Yeah, you know, something in that up there

Something red potatoes red one red potatoes. Yeah, we the skin on mine is though is it?

Potato line

It's vodka. It's vodka. Yeah, so the

Even though we had that warm up. It's still pretty good for anglers. Yeah, I was reading actually this morning before you came in

Winnebago didn't get too much damage from the from the warm. No, it's good

And I'm heading out to Nordic mountain after this. We're gonna do a little ski in out there nice

Yeah, nice. Yeah, we got a little fresh powder which is fresh powder. Yeah

It should be fun. We got socks and sandals. That's right. That's tomorrow night five to eight

They're kind of a funky blues jazzy kind of stuff really good

And then of course, well, I think after this we're cutting the new ad for winter polka fest, right?

I was just gonna say we have to bring that up today here Saturday

February 21st. That's gonna be here before you know it. Yeah, two fifths party band copper box

Fun for the whole family. We're doing it upstairs. It's here. You're gonna be up in the seven thousand square foot dancing floor

That's how big it is up. Yeah, yeah, geez. That's two times the size of my house. Oh, yeah, it's big

We can we can pack them in plenty of room for dancing and beer drinking

You bought the floor yourself. Oh, yeah

So you you have one I want to get one of those Zamboni

You know like sure but not the Zamboni you can get those floor things like a giant room book

Yeah, yeah, I tried I tried when we first opened I tried one of those. Um, I robot mop things. They don't work

No, I may be for a maybe for a apartment. Yeah, I got up there in their

Streaks everywhere and I mean the the place is so big. I think it took a month and a half

It's charging half the time that it's all running

Yeah, yeah, so you have our crew tonight. Yeah, Christmas party. Yeah, I'm excited

Shouldn't be too big of a shouldn't be too whip up not like in years past where we've had cars part

Places for two days afterwards. I think you had a car inside the brewery one year didn't you or maybe that's for focus

It was for focus. I remember that but it was there for a little bit. If only we would have opened the door first

Yeah

Anything else today. I hope not. I don't think so. Well, they have fun skiing. Yeah, and uh don't

Break anything. Yeah, yeah, yeah in this town. Yeah, we'll uh, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep her keep her on the on the ice or on the powder as they say

I'm not a big jumper

And I should let the folks know with the new bottling line

So we got the Alexander Pills and obviously we're drinking today, but we have coffee stout again, which is always a big

I love winter seasonals. So coffee stout and bottles now available very cool contact info

748 518 8 and socks and sandals tomorrow night 5-8