Drinking on a Blanket

Beer names based on Jeremy’s Name: 

Jeremy’s Japes

(Amanada Doesn’t Believe in) Jeremy’s Japes

Jeremy’s Grapes

Jeremy’s Apes

Jeremy’s Capes

Jeremy’s Papes

Jeremy’s Crepes

JEREMY VAPES (Cotton Candy Smoked Beer)

Anniversary merriment 

10 Percent Demon is a slow country ballad 

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS

Jeremy chugs beer

Thumping melons

Old traditions

Amanda hates The Foo Fighters’ “My Hero.”

Memories

FP Origin stories

Drag Brunch

J. Wright’s Mustache origin story

Most favorite and least favorite FP beers

We’ll never brew a Wit again

Ratings aren’t everything

Looking forward

This week we put Amanda under pressure to entertain us at a moment’s notice. We also chat about our new The World Isn’t Perfect…beer, Collin’s trip to New Orleans, and what else is happening this week at Funky Picnic! Further talking points include:

• Disconnecting the WiFi

• What’s Your Enneagram?

• “Have the best day ever!”

• Ask a Buc-ee’s employee to point

• I’m a Troublemaker!

• The New Orleans brew scene

• Being in the right state for polka music

• Coffee beer

• Is coffee in its third or fourth wave?

• Fried green tomatoes are our weekly special!

• A music centered “Tell Me Three Things”

Friends, be sure to stay tuned to our events page and follow us on Instagram for all the latest happenings at Funky Picnic Brewery and Cafe! Bad Bitch Bingo Tuesdays has proven to be a hit and Jeremy ALWAYS kills it on Wednesdays with Tall Bearded Guy Trivia.

Also, we’re releasing our latest The World Isn’t Perfect and Neither Is This Beer charity beer, a SMaSH IPA using TexMalt’s Wildfire Pale and Barbe Rouge hops. This beer benefits StacheStrong, an organization dedicated to brain cancer research. We only made a little bit, so be sure to get some of this IPA this week!

Amanda and Harper go duet this week without Collin who, we later found out, was on his way home from a trip. His absence created a fun new game however, called “Where’s Collin?!”
We also experienced what might be the worst technological episode ever, but we carried on!
Further talking points include:

• Charge your scooters here

• Roller skate chat

• Where is Collin?

• Gardening chat

• One lone carrot 

• Listening to your plants

• Harper hates a Kolsch glass (Stange)  

• Figuring out the holy day holidays

• Vector’s one year anniversary 

• Easter rules

• Harper visits Globe Life Field

• Bia Hoi and Czechoslovakian Hedgehog return

Be sure to visit us this Thursday for Third Thursday Art Walk featuring Jeff Church and on Sunday for a District 9 meet and greet! We hope to see you at Funky Picnic real soon!

We missed a few weeks but we’re back again! This week we discussed springtime beer and even had a chance to chat with Matt Reynolds of Celestial Beer Works in Dallas about our latest collaboration. It’s a sour IPA called “No Clear Liquor Until Opening Day” and we’re pretty pleased with it! Further talking points include:

• Making our First Reel

• Sandwich on a skateboard

• What is Reiki? 

• What is Collin’s favorite swear word? 

• Visiting Dallas breweries

• Listening to Vinyl

• Houston and its allergies

• SO MANY SPORTS!

• What’s your favorite springtime beer? 

• It’s tornado season

Here’s a list of what’s going on at Funky Picnic this week, but be sure you don’t miss:
Movie Mondays

Tipsy Tuesdays

Trivia Wednesdays

Wandering Roots Market

and this week we’re launching our latest beer, a smoked pecan Helles we brewed in collaboration with Vector Brewing of Dallas! It’s called “The Aforementioned Fall From the Eternal Sky” and it’s as delicious as the name is long!

We survived Snow-vid!
We apologize for missing the last episode but you know, snow and all that.

We’ve got a lot of fun stuff to talk about this week including how we survived the winter storms. This is also our first episode recorded in a bustling cafe because WE’RE NOW OPEN on MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS!
Guess what else we’ve got going on during the week?
Movie Mondays — we’re currently watching the Star Wars sagas (and the order in which we’re watching them is a sticking point for Amanda.)
Tipsy Tuesdays — including Bad Bitch Bingo hosted by Monna!
And this week our food special is,
”SHRIMPLY” THE BEST shrimp tacos. It’s more fun to order them in song!

Other talking points include:

• Snow-vid

• Texas Independence Day

• Stars Trek vs Wars and in what order? 

• “Shrimply” the Best 

• TWIP Hazy IPA

• Cook Children’s Heart Center

• Proprietary information

• Disney film chat

• Harper Game: Tell Me 3 Things  

Pop in this week to try our weekly specials and have a beer or two! We’ll see you again in 2 weeks!

It’s episode 11 of Drinking on a Blanket, and this week we present a very special interview with the folks at Vector Brewing of Dallas, TX! We were fortunate enough to brew a collab with Vector — a Smoked Pecan Helles — this week that should be hitting our taps around March. Further talking points include:

• What have we been watching? 

• Games are back!

• Black is Beautiful re-release

• Quarantine fun times 

• Witchy Potions

• Discussing Away We Go

• True Vine collaboration

• Last year’s Black is Beautiful vs this year’s 

• Tasing beer and tasting beer vocabulary 

• “Interesting” is wrong

COMING THIS WEEK:

• Black is Beautiful Belgian Stout with Cherries

• Loft 22 Chocolate Cherry Cake 

• Egg Sheeran Egg Salad Sandwich 

• Big Game Special: 50 Wings and 5L La Raza mini kegs

Coming NEXT WEEK: 

• Valentine’s Day Cocktail Specials 

• Beer and chocolate pairings

• Brewer’s Table Dinner, February 19th

The face of a man who has a set of specific skills.

We’re back for the ninth episode of Drinking on a Blanket, and to celebrate we have a very special guest, Mr. Jay Webb!
Jay is a great collaborator and a solid human being and is the namesake of our latest beer, “Jay’s Own Funky Japanese Lager.” Be sure to come try it this week!

ALSO coming this week:
Grilled cheese and tomato soup
Wednesday Trivia

Suggested talking points for this episode include:

• Everything is closed on Monday

• Vegan and BBQ options 

• Dad jokes 

• Sausage talk

• How to build a bunyip

• Friends is a curse 

• Brewers Table 

• Jay’s Own Funky Japanese Lager

• Koji fun times

• Wild Plums are Small 

• Ways to trigger Harper

• Harper Game, Food Review Edition: QT Mac and Cheese

• WTF is Watergate Salad 

• Emo’s Not Dead

• The Friday Night Bundle

We’ll be back February 1 with another episode of Drinking on a Blanket, and we hope to see you here at Funky Picnic soon!

We’re back for the New Year! This week Amanda, Collin, and Harper chat about all the new and exciting things coming to Funky Picnic Brewery and Cafe, including our new, DELICIOUS brunch menu, a fancy bottle of beer barrel-aged bourbon, a whiskey barrel-aged Doppelbock, and our NEW Happy Hour specials!
Further talking points include:

• Punery 

• Waterloo

• Idioms

• Hunting 

• Dance Competitions

• Doula superhero outfit 

• Superman in the gig economy 

• What Have You Been Bingeing? 

• Canadian comedy 

  And stay tuned for the Harper Game: What Sort of Beer Would They Drink.

Come try our new Happy Hour Specials this week! Wednesday through Friday from 2-6 and enjoy savings on the following:
$2 off beers
$2 off cocktails (excluding beer cocktails)
$2 off boilermakers (yes, boilermakers!)
$1 off appetizers

We’ll see you again in two weeks!

The BEST scene in the movie.

It’s the holiday season, so let’s whoop dee do a podcast!

This week’s show topics include:

• Ska Santa

• 2-year old birthday parties 

• Evil Unicorns

• iSteam

• Growing mold (koji)

• Sake

• Glitter is in my skin

• White Christmas 

• Vera Bradley is Lisa Frank for Adults

• Santa wants whiskey and cookies 

• Would you rather 

• Opinions on pastry stouts

And NOW we’re featuring beer cocktails at Funky Picnic, so come try your new favorite beverage this week!

(Opening song credit goes to Eddie Higgins Trio. Check ‘em out)

We’re back! November was a long one but Drinking on a Blanket crew are back to discuss the Thanksgiving holiday, collaborations, and of course what’s happening at Funky Picnic Brewery and Cafe.

Some talking points:

• A craft blanket for every taste.

• Thanksgiving dinner chat.

• ALL. THE. LINGONBERRIES.

• Can you eat raw rhubarb?

• Hippie guilt.

• New Hoodies!

Wanna join us live? Tune in December 14 at 6:00 PM CST on Facebook to chat, and be sure to subscribe to Drinking on a Blanket on your favorite podcast catcher!