Cold brew. Check.
Hot power chords. Check.
[strike]Aeolian Mode[strike].
Gotcha.
I used to have to work around my lack of basic musical theory when I was in MhBP and doing all the writing and arranging. My drummer was easy enough to deal with, as I could always get rhythmic ideas across, but trying to communicate with my bass player (classically trained with a BA in Jazz Performance) could get tricky. I think I spent more time trying to successfully convey things than I did actually working on the songs with him. We'd usually just revert to bastardized theory like "make it sound Major, but as if it's in a garbage disposal."
