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Hopinions on Films | Die Hard

December 14, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

Buckle up, don’t forget your shoes and join us for another classic film. This time we get stuck into the ultimate Christmas movie, Die Hard, with this box of specially selected beer from Beer Merchants which you can order to drink along with us.

We chose what we thought was the best order for the beers, but as always, feel free to enjoy them in whatever way you want as we join John McClane in defeating Hans & his gang.

Here’s what Beer Merchants said about why they chose these beers…

Lost & Grounded ‘Hop-hand Fallacy’ | Hans Gruber innit

Augustiner ‘Helles’ | Why are the baddies always German?

Tiny Rebel ‘Fubar’ | Has a grenade on it

Northern Monk ‘Eternal Darkness’ | (spoiler alert) What Hans falls into

Gipsy Hill ‘Superfan’ | The lager that McClane (and anyone that actually listens to this) deserves

Siren ‘Kentucky Tickler’ | Yippee KIPA mother fucker

We were sent this box for free by Beer Merchants but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on any of the beers or on just how great Die Hard is.

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Hopinions 46 “Midlands Special (Part I)”

October 26, 2017 / steve / 2 Comments

Image courtesy of @gingerdaniels13

In the first half of our Midlands Special, we’re talking to the folks behind the Midlands Beer Blog and Carl from Twisted Barrel about Carl’s poll/post asking if the Midlands has been overlooked.

Beers | Twisted Barrel ‘Lokai’, Glasshouse ‘Me Julie’ & Green Duck ‘Ricochet’

Hopinions | (Courtesy of Carl Marshall) Do you think the beer scene in the West Midlands is overlooked?

Links | Carl’s blog following the above poll | Midlands Beer Blog

Many thanks to the Midlands Beer Blog for arranging the venue for this podcast and to all of the breweries involved who gave their beers for free. As always this didn’t impact on our views of the beers we tried.

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Hopinions on Films | Raiders of the Lost Ark

August 17, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

Grab your hat and whip, get your adventuring shoes on a join us for another classic film. Beer Merchants have put together this Raiders of the Lost Ark themed box for you to drink along with us.

This time we join Indiana Jones on his first adventure as he travels around the world fighting Nazis and saving the world (and the girl). This time we chose a lottery system for the beers, but once again, feel free to enjoy them in whatever way you want as you cheer Indy on to victory.

Here’s what Beer Merchants said about why they chose these beers…

Hacker-Pschorr ‘Munchner Kellerbier’ | very German

Red Hook ‘IPA’ | Old school American

Flying Dog ‘Snake Dog IPA’ | SNAKES

Kona ‘Fire Rock’ | coz the Staff of Ra was hot

Kees ‘Barrel Project #9’ | Archived away like the ark at the end of the film

Siren ‘Liquid Mistress’ | Because Marion is epic at drinking. And kinda hot.

Lervig ‘Hazy Days’ | Just an amazing film beer

Vibrant Forest ‘Kaleidoscope’ | Amazing new British beer

We were sent this box for free by Beer Merchants but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on any of the beers or on just how great Raiders of the Lost Ark is.

Outro from The Human Tim, check out the full version and more on You Tube here.

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Hopinions 34 “Come Dine With Me”

June 29, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we’re chatting about taking/serving beer at dinner parties.

Beers | And Union ‘Sunday P/Ale’, Fourpure ‘Indy Lager’ & Belching Beaver ‘Peanut Butter Milk Stout’

Hopinions | Would you consider taking beer to a dinner party?

#PrizelessPrize | The big box of nothing stays in Ireland and goes to first time winner Mark The Beer Trawler

Links | Part II of our Rhythm & Brews crossover | Paste Magazine article on RateBeer

Listener Survey | We’d really appreciate 10 minutes of your time to complete our listener survey. This will help us continue to tailor the podcast so that it’s exactly what you want to hear

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Hopinions 33 “Spoons”

June 22, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we’re on location recording from The Battesford Court Wetherspoons in Witham.

Beers | Adnams ‘Mosaic Pale Ale’, Uprising ‘Treason’, Oakham ‘Green Devil’ & Six Point ‘Resin’

Hopinions | Wetherspoons?

#PrizelessPrize | This week the big box of nothing heads back into the hands of Son0vagun

Part II | Of our Rhythm & Brews crossover is now available here

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Hopinions 31 “Mining”

June 8, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we’re drinking beers from Siren Craft Brew, chatting about clandestine purchases for the purpose of data mining and having fun with the monthly CAMRA letters page.

Beers | Siren ‘Yulu’, ‘White Tips’, ‘American Oak Brown’, ‘Broken Dream’ and ‘Acid Jam’

Hopinions | This week we’ve heard that ABinBev purchased a % of Ratebeer last year. What do you think?

Prizeless Prize | This cracker of a shot from Gregor J takes home the great big box of nothing this week

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We were given these beers for free from the folks at Siren Craft Brew but this hasn’t impacted on our thoughts of them.

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Hopinions on Films | Back to the Future

June 1, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

Here we go then folks… strap yourselves in, crack open your Hippo Beers Behemoth Box and floor the accelerator until you hit 88.8mph.

In our first Hopinions on Films special we ‘pair’ the following beers with Back to the Future, a timeless classic about the time travelling adventures of Marty Mcfly. We chose to drink the beers along with certain scenes to see if that made any difference to the beer or the film, we’ve included our selection and reasoning below, but feel free to enjoy in any way.

Marble ‘Ember City’ | intro scene & Marty goes to school / a beer from the Marble Metal series seemed to make sense here. You know why.

Drakes ‘IPA’ | after school / here we get to see more of Hill Valley which is quintessentially American. Made sense to drink with an American IPA.

Yeastie Boys ‘Pot Kettle Black’ | Twin Pines Mall / this is a night time scene, which felt right for a dark porter

Basqueland Brewing Project ‘Arraun’ | 1955 / there’s a lot going on in the time when Marty first makes it back to 1955, so we thought a beer that describes itself a complex red ale would make perfect sense

Omnipollo ‘Mazarin’ | Marty meets Lorraine / some of the best time travel paradoxing goes on during this scene, so we thought an easy drinking beer would work perfectly

Cromarty ‘Kool Runnings’ | the skateboard chase / the name of this beer lends itself perfectly to one of the most memorable scenes from the film

Jolly Pumpkin ‘ Calabaza Blanca’ | going to the ball / arguably one of the most uncomfortable sequences in the film, matched perfectly with a wild saison with orange zest & coriander

Weird Beard ‘Sadako’ | the end of the ball and back to 1985 / the film has a big memorable finish, and what better way to see it out than with a big impy stout?

We were sent this box for free by Hippo Beers but this hasn’t influenced our thoughts on any of the beers or on just how great Back to the Future is.

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Hopinions 29 “London Calling”

May 18, 2017 / steve / 0 Comments

This week we’re drinking beers from St Austell in Cornwall and chatting about if London is still considered as the epicentre of the UK beer scene.

Beer | St Austell ‘Baobab’, ‘Korev’ and ‘Eureka’

FABQ | Check out Tasting Nitch’s original video here

Hopinions | Is London still at the forefront of the UK beer scene?

Prizeless Prize | Two in a row! Son0vagun keeps the big box of nothing in Ireland

Links | More details on Beer Nouveau’s barrel funding project |Pete McKerry’s “Let them drink (crappy) stout” | Mark Johnson “Living with beer & mental health (part 3)”

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Hopinions on Films | Get your behemoth box from Hippo Beers here

We were given these beers for free from the folks at St Austell but this hasn’t impacted on our thoughts of them. Many thanks also to Ginger Wildheart for giving us permission to use part of “If You Want To Live In London Town” in this week’s show.