Pop Culture Brews

It's the second best Star Trek movie of all time: Galaxy Quest! The 1999 movie that did what no modern Star Trek movie has been able to do... keep the fans happy! Joined by local musician and Galaxy Quest fanatic Rob Silk, these three go where plenty of nerds have gone before! Grabthar's Hammer Smash Ale (5 Gallons) (90 min Mash, 90 Min Boil) Grain: 16lb Pilsner Hops: 1oz Galaxy (Mash) 1oz Galaxy (First Wort) 0.5oz Galaxy (90 mins) 1oz Galaxy (15 mins) 0.5 Galaxy (5 mins) 2oz Galaxy (Dry Hop) Yeast: California Ale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If music be the food of love then play on, and if beer be the food of great banter drink up! Joined by Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and host of The Reduced Shakespeare Podcast and The Shakespearience we talk about the Bard, how he's for anyone who wants him (oo-er), and make a lot of C-bomb puns. Like the Shakes, we keep it classy! Shakesbeer British Ale (5 Gallons) (90 min mash, 90 min boil) Grain: 7lb Maris Otter 12oz Biscuit Grain 12oz Light Crystal UK Hops: 0.5oz Target (90 mins) 0.5oz East Kent Golding (5 mins) English Ale Yeast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special boo-nus episode for Halloween! We're talking the evolution of the Slasher movie. We made beers for three of the most influential slasher movies of all time: Psycho, Halloween, and Scream. So grab a beer, and let us know if you like scary movies! All beers 5 Gallons Psycho Show Shower Steam Beer (90 min mash, 90 min boil) Grain 9.5lb / 4.5kg 2 Row 2lb / 907g American Crystal 60 Hops 1oz / 28g Amarillo (90 mins) 1oz / 28g Hallertau (30 mins) 1oz / 28g Willamette (15 mins) Yeast Bohemian Lager yeast (Ferment at ale temp) Halloween Pumpkin Spice Latte (60 min Mash 60 min boil) Grain 4.5lb / 2KG Pale Malt 2.2lb / 1Kg Mild Malt 1lb / 400g Biscuit Malt 8oz / 250g Melanoidin Malt 7oz / 200g Briess Extra Special Malt 3.5oz / 100g Oat Malt Hops/Spices 0.7oz / 20g Phoenix @60 2oz / 60g Phoenix @5 1 tsp cinnamon @5 1 tsp allspice @5 1 tsp ginger @5 1 tsp ground clove @5 1 tsp nutmeg @5 Yeast Nottingham Ale Yeast Adjuncts Coffee. 1 week after brew day. Brew medium roast ground coffee ratio of 1 cup of coffee to five cups water. Mix and leave 24 hours. Strain out coffee grinds and then add cold brew coffee direct to fermenter. Add same spice additions added in boil direct into fermenter as well at this stage. Scream Black Lager (60 min mash, 60 min boil) Grain 6lb / 2.6kg Pilsner malt 1lb / 454g Munich 10l 1lb / 454g Crystal 60l 0.5lb / 226g Carapils 0.5lb / 226g Carafa Special Hops 1.25oz / 35g Perle (60) 0.5pz / 15g Sterling (flameout) Yeast Wyeast 2633 Oktoberfest Blend Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joined by host of Queenpod: The Queen Podcast, and Queen fanatic we're joined by Rohan Acharya to talk A*Teens... Just kidding, we're talking about the greatest rock band of all time: Queen! With our 3rd cohost Paul Crowther (@themadbrewery) we talk about this wonderful band, the music they made, and the movies it's featured in. Inspired by the song Seven Seas of Rye, which was inspired by the mystical land Rye created by Freddie Mercury, we made a rye lager Seven Seas of Rye Lager - 5 Gallons (90 min mash, 90 min boil) Grain 7lb Pilsner Malt 3lb Rye Malt Hops: 2oz Saaz (90 mins) 0.5oz Saaz (15 mins) 0.5oz Saaz (5 mins) Yeast: Bohemian Lager Yeast **we pressure ferment in Fermzilla pressurized fermenter. We hold the pressure at 12psi until fermentation is complete Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're joined by the Poptimistic Podcast to talk the first 2 Terminator movies... and it turned into our most Freudian episode ever... and one of our funniest! We made a Barleywine in honor of the killer robot, because like The Terminator, this beer will put you on your ass! Terminator Barleywine - 5 gallons (90 min mash 120 mins boil) Grain 25lb Maris Otter 1lb Caramel 80 Hop 2oz Target (90mins - 30 mins after start of boil) 0.5oz Styrian Golding (30 mins) 1.5oz Stryrian Golding (10 mins) Yeast 2x English Ale Age for 2 months in secondary after fermentation complete Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We go back to our childhoods to discuss the 1993 classic: The Sandlot, a baseball movie about the childhood that happened 20 years before we were born! Joined by Jason Wuerfel, founder of of the Micro-brewery/Bookshop Books & Brews (https://www.booksnbrews.com) we talk Baseball, nostalgia, and of course: Beer! Sandlot Pilsner (90 min mash, 90 min boil) Grain: 10lb ger. Pils 8oz ger. Light crystal malt 10L Hops 1oz chinook (90 mins) 0.5oz hallertau (30 mins) 0.5oz tettnang (30 mins) 0.5oz hallertau (10 mins) 0.5oz tettnang (10 mins) Yeast Ger. Lager yeast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The game is afoot! The Pop Culture Holmes and Watson are joined by their friend Lestrade to get to the bottom of the enduring mystery - who is Sherlock Holmes? Well as we discover, whoever he wants to be! We're joined by our good friend Zach Eastman of the wonderful podcast Ballyhoo Yesteryear Revue to talk the world's most famous consulting detective! London Fog - Earl Grey Vanilla British Mild - 5 gallons (90 min mash, 90 min boil) Grain: 10lb Maris Otter 1lb UK Medium Crystal 1lb UK Cara Malt Hops: 2oz East Kent Golding (90 mins) 0.5oz East Kent Golding (15 mins) 0.5oz East Kent Golding (5 mins) Yeast London Ale Adjuncts 20x Tea Bags of Twining Earl Grey (soak in vodka, add to secondary) 0.5oz Vanilla flavouring (or to taste - add in packaging) How to make a London Fog Tea 1x earl grey tea bag Steamed Milk 1x shot of vanilla syrup Make a strong cup of earl grey by filling a quarter of the mug with boiling water Add steamed milk stir in vanilla enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back at the (un)safest school ever: Hogwarts! Does Dumbleydore make the school safer this year? No! Does the Timetravel work? No! Does Harry Potter fiddle with his wand too much? Yes! Azkaban ESB - 5 gallons (90 min mash 90 min boil) Grain: 9lb Maris Otter 1lb Crystal 70 0.5lb Crystal 26 Hops: 1oz Target (90 mins) 1oz Challenger (15 mins) 1oz Northdown (10 mins) 1oz Golding (Dry)= - leave about a week) Yeast: English Ale Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it the worst movie ever made? Possibly. Is this the worst beer we've ever made? Definitely. Joined by Colter of the hit podcast Homebrewing DIY, we discuss the Wiseau classic The Room. A movie that confounds and entertains in a way the world, and Tyler was not ready for! This is the most on point beer we've ever made! Lisa's Beer (5 gallons) (60 mins mash 60 mins boil) Grain: (all measurements are rough guesses.... It's The Room afterall) 14lb Pilsner Malt 6oz Chocolate Rye Hops: 1oz Hallertau (60 mins) 1oz Hallertau (10 Mins) Yeast: Saison (Wyeast 3711) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Season 4 kicks off with Tyler, Andrew and The Mad Brewer himself, Paul Crowther, watching a sci-fi classic: Blade Runner This episode sees them talk about Blade Runner... and the BBC classic kids show Byker Grove (think Saved by the Bell, but with Geordie accents, more sex and Geordie accents), as well as a bunch of other topics. For Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic we made a Szechuan Pepper Steam beer to conjure up the futuristic LA of the year 2019 Blade Runner Pepper Steam Beer (90 min Mash, 90 Min Boil) Grain: 5kg/11lb Vienna Malt 0.5kg/1lb Flaked Corn Hops: 56g/2oz Chinook (90 Mins) 28g/1oz Cascade (10 Mins) 28g/1oz Chinook (10 Mins) Adjunct 22g/0.8oz Szechuan Peppercorn - crushed (5 Mins) Yeast: Bohemian Lager Yeast - ferment at ale temperature Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We welcome back the incomparable Ruvani De Silva (@amethyst_heels) for another music episode. We're discussing One Hit Wonders, and we brew perhaps the ultimate One Hit Wonder: a Brut IPA. So crank up the music loud, and get ready for a good time! This Recipe was actually originally featured on: https://beerandbrewing.com/social-kitchen-and-brewery-brut-ipa-recipe/ It is the homebrew 5 gallon recipe of the original Brut IPA by The Social Kitchen MALT/GRAIN BILL 8 lb Pilsner malt 1 lb flaked corn 1 lb flaked rice HOPS AND ADDITIONS SCHEDULE .17 oz Mosaic [12.25% AA] at 15 minutes 2.5 oz Mosaic [12.25% AA] at Whirlpool 7.5 oz Mosaic [12.25% AA] at Dry Hop YEAST Neutral Ale yeast .65 ml Amyloglucosidase (Wyeast Ultraferm) Ultraferm is an enzyme that converts non fermentable sugars into fermentable, this is what makes a Brut IPA so dry. Add Ultraferm 60 minutes into the 90 min mash. Be sure to not have mash higher than 148f to avoid denurturing of the enzyme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back at Hogwarts for Harry's 2nd year! And we brewed perhaps the best beer to be featured on this show yet! Guildroy’s Golden Locks Hopped British Golden Ale – 5 gallons (60 min Mash 60 min boil) Grains: 6lb 2 Row 3lb Maris Otter 0.5lb Honey Malt 0.5lb Torrified Wheat Hops: 1oz Fuggle (60 mins) 1oz Nugget (15 mins) 1oz Amarillo (Flameout) 1.5oz Azacca (Flameout) 2oz Azacca (Dry Hop) Yeast: London Dry Ale III Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are tilting at windmills! For 5 years we toiled to learn how to create beer recipes, and then launched a podcast! For 28 years Terry Gilliam tried to make a movie based on a book from the 1600s, failed, was subject to a notorious (and great) documentary. Struggled to make other movies, and then eventually was able to make his movie The Man Who Killed Don Quixote. Join us as we travel 400 years from page to screen! Honey Lemon Blonde (5 gallon) (90 min mash, 90 min boil) Grain: 8lb of 2-Row 8oz Crystal 10l 8oz Vienna Malt Hops 1oz Spalt (90 mins) Adjunct: 1lb Wildflower Honey (5 mins) 1oz Dried Lemonpeel (5 mins) Whirlfloc (5 mins) Yeast: American Ale For a variant, use Simpson's Ale base recipe, and add honey & Lemonpeel in last 5 mins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We return to Hogwarts for the first episode in a our new Harry Potter Series. 7 books means 7 original beer recipes! In this episode we reveal how horrifying the Harry Potter universe is from the outset, and why Dumbledore should be in Azkaban for child endangerment and possible murder! Golden Snitch Helles (based on recipe from https://linecreekbrewing.com/) (90 min mash 90 min boil) Grain: 9lb German Pilsner 0.75lb Light German Munich 0.25lb Caramunich Hops: 2oz Hallertau (90 mins) Whirlfloc (5 mins) Yeast: German Lager Yeast **Pressure fermentation method used Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices