It's the sequel nobody wanted!  Join your intrepid and somewhat sexy hosts, Matt and Marcel as they continue the belated madness of reviewing the best of 2022 in this second volume. Tune in to share some more IPAs and other beers and to find out why Mike Nichols might be the best movie director ever. Cheers!

Beers tasted (In volume 2)

• OC / Bearded Brew / Yeti Underground's Dark Matter Oatmeal Stout
• Dancing Hops Brewery's Ko Ko Mo Hazy IPA
• Darling Brew's Warlord DIPA
• That Brewing Co's Alpha Hopper Galaxy IPA
• Darling Brew's Arrowhead Russian Imperial Stout

The Lists (warning - spoilers ahead)

Marcel's Picks

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Dirty beer can tops - what's going on here?
  
  
• The best movie released this year: Prey (2022); Shout-out: Turning Red
  
  
• Best beer label of the year: Tin Hat Brewing Co's IPA Sheer Courage
  
  
• The best old (i.e. no longer running) tv series re-watched this year: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  
  
• Best ongoing tv series: Line of Duty; Brooklyn Nine Nine
  
  
• Best new tv series launched in 2022: Slow Horses and Only Murders in the Building (Apple TV).; Shout-out: Rings of power
  
  
• Best novel of the year (published in 2021-22): Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch (2022)
  
  

• Best old novel read this year: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler; Crete by Antony Beevor

• Best Beer of 2022: Bearded Brew / Yeti Underground - Nitro Leprechaun
  
  

• Favorite beer style of the year: Pilsner
  
  
• Best old movie watched for the first time this year: Ghost Town (2008)
  
  

• Best / most rewatched movie this year (not released this year): Deja Vu (2006) / Crimson Tide (1995)

• Band/artist and album of the year (most listened to): Hanah Wicklund - Hannah Wicklund & the Stepping Stones (2016) & Charlie Cunningham - Lines (2017)
  
  
• Favorite video game of the year: Red Dead Redemption 2, Shout-out: Battletech
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022 - did it come true?: A really good, super-bitter DIPA produced locally (IBUs 100+). Did it come true? Warrior DNEIPA comes close though.
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2023: A very interesting barrel-aged beer that is not a stout (other than Soul Barrel Brewing Co).
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022 - did it come true?: More focus on local ingredients and local cultural / arts/craft partnerships: Not that I could see - if anything it became more balkanized, sadly
  
  

• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2023?: An increase in high-quality, craft-beer-focused gastropubs.
  
  

• Brewery of the year: Jack Black Brewing Co.
  
  
• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2022: Jack Black Brewing Co's Butcher's Block Pale Ale & Ghostbusters (1984)

Matt's Picks

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Not enough craft beer in pubs
  
  
• The best movie released this year: X; Shout-out: Turning Red
  
  
• Best beer label of the year: Brewdogs (whole range); Agar's (whole range)
  
  
• The best old (i.e not running anymore) tv series re-watched this year: The Leftovers
  
  
• Best ongoing tv series: The Witcher; What we do in the Shadows;

• Best new tv series launched in 2022: The Offer (HBO) Star Wars: Andor 
  
  
• Best novel of the year (published in 2021-22): (2020) - The Overstory - Richard Powers
  
  

• Best old novel read this year: Watership Down - Richard Adams
  
  

• Best Beer of 2022: Brewdogs -  Hazy Jane Guava
  
  

• Favorite beer style of the year: Pilsners
  
  
• Best old movie watched for the first time this year: The Thing (John Carpenter's)
  
  

• Best / most rewatched movie this year (not released this year): Fight Club (1999)

• Band/artist of the year (most listened to): Songs I hear/ Jason Molina - Magnolia Electric Company; Bo Burnham- Inside
  
  
• Favorite video game of the year: Rimworld (Shout-out: Stellaris)
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022 - did it come true?: Jack Black Brewing Co. Fresh Hop IPA 2022 (as good as the original) - Didn't come true, none made (as far as we know).
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2023: More good quality craft stouts and porters
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022 - did it come true?: More craft beer taps in local, everyday pubs and restaurants (especially in Jozi) - nope
  
  

• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2023?  More craft beer!

• Brewery of the year: Swagga Breweries
  
  
• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2022: Swagga Brewery's Irish Red Ale; True Romance (1993)

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It's the end of another year and we're all mostly alive and still kicking! Join your intrepid and somewhat sexy hosts, Matt and Marcel as they reminisce and wax semi-literately about the year that has gone by in this first installment of a two-volume marathon episode.

Laugh as Matt reveals his pathological fear of science-fiction horrors, and cry as Marcel yet again fails to remember anything of lasting importance. But most of all, share a brew or three with fellow nerds as we drink away annoying family gatherings and Xmas blues.

Beers Tasted (in volume 1)

• Maredsous's Belgian Blond Ale
• Richmond Hill Brewing Co's The Upside IPA
• 400 Brewing Co's Hyrda American Amber Ale
• Agar's Brewery Warrior Double NEIPA

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In this episode, Matt and Marcel delve deep into the scary world of selecting favorite movies. But not just any old film, folks. They're talking about the most re-watchable flicks out there. The kind of movies that suck you in no matter what you happen to be doing, much like a small quantum black hole that suddenly appears in your living room, centered on your favorite recliner. And much like a fine old barley wine with a double-digit ABV, this bumper-edition director's cut pod needs to be savored, low and slow. 

So strap in. Get a brew. Get a few more. And prepare to hear both your hosts use the word, "oeuvre" at least twice. Find out why we've lost something important when movies stopped being about people just doing their damned job, whether Michael Biehn has ever not been cast as a soldier, and appreciate the curious, yet rather extraordinary recurrent brilliance that is Val Kilmer. 

Movie Lists

Marcel:

Hunt for Red October
Snatch
Tombstone
Heat
Aliens
Predator
Return of the Jedi
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Apollo 13
Mississippi Burning
Black Hawk Down

Matt:

Con Air
The Rock
Armageddon
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Roadhouse (1989)
A few Good Men 
Back to the Future 1
Back to the Future 2
Back to the Future 3
Magic Mike
Edge of Tomorrow
The Shawshank Redemption
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Beer List and Reviews

Tolokazi Lager
That Brewing Co. -That Alpha Hopper Simcoe IPA
Bearded Brew / Yeti Underground - Nitro Leprechaun
Frontier Brewing Co. - Karma Citra IPA (2022)
Hoghouse Brewing Co. - Hogtail African Pale Ale
Folk & Goode & OnTap Magazine - I Want it That Way West Coast IPA
ACBC - Coconut IPA

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In this short episode of Scum, Beer and Villainy, Matt and Marcel review the Keghouse brewery's limited release, rum barrel-aged pumpkin ale. Christmas in a glass! Tune in to find out what our intrepid beer nerds think of this interesting brew!

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It's the end of another trash-fire year! And what better way to celebrate the passing of 2021 than by listening to your two favorite beer nerds, Matt and Marcel as they review the very best that the year had to offer?

So tune out your drunk aunt, the annoying children, and that weirdo who rocked up for turkey that nobody invited and tune in to the mad ravings of the SBV crew as they contemplate such weighty matters as the best beer of 2021, their favorite video games, the best tv show of the year and many (some would say way, way too many) other beer and non-beer related geekery.

Join us for Part 2 of this 2-part bumper Xmas edition and find out why there is still hope despite the fact that Marcel likes silly sitcoms and Matt believes that the end is nigh..

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Marcel's Picks:

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Wax sealed bottles.
  
  
• The best movie released this year: Love and Monsters (2020); Project Power (20/21)
  
  
• Best beer label of the year: Richmond Hill Brewing Co. November Child Chamomile Saison
  
  
• The best old tv series re-watched this year: Seinfeld (All Seasons) &  Law and Order (Season 7; 1996-7)
  
  
• Best ongoing tv series: Bosch and Kim's Convenience
  
  
• Best new tv series launched in 2021: The Defeated
  
  
• Best novel of the year (published in 2020-21): Widowland, by C.J. Carey
  
  

• Best old novel read this year: Voyage to the end of the Room (2003), by Tibor Fischer & A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by N.K. Jemisin.

• Best Beer of 2021: Soul Barrel Brewing Co.'s Live Culture Cape wild ale
  
  

• Favorite beer style of the year: Saison

• Best old movie watched for the first time this year: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)

• Band/artist of the year (most listened to): Sleeping Operator by The Barr Brothers (2014) and Dirty South Hip Hop - Chris Thomas King (2002)
  
  
• Favorite video game of the year: The Long Dark
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022: A really good, super-bitter DIPA produced locally (IBUs 100+).
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022?: More focus on local ingredients and local cultural / arts/craft partnerships.
  
  
• Brewery of the year: Soul Barrel, Franschoek (Honorable mention: Devil's Peak)

• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2021: Westmalle Dubbel & Die Hard

Matt's Picks:

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Supply Chain of Lagunitas Beer & Wax sealed bottles
  
  
• The best movie released this year: Dune
  
  

• Best beer label of the year: The Kennel Brewery: Love Buzz NEIPA.
  
  

• The best old tv series re-watched this year: Community (All Seasons)
  
  

• Best ongoing tv series: Doom Patrol; Curb your Enthusiasm; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; The Expanse; & Succession
  
  

• Best new tv series launched in 2021: Squid Game; Wanda Vision; Mare of Easttown & Invincible
  
  

• Best novel of the year (published in 2020-21 or near enough in this case): The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
  
  
• Best old novel read this year: The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
  
  
• Best Beer of 2021: Red Bridge Brewing Co.'s Golden Ale
  
  
• Favorite beer style of the year: Pilsner
  
  
• Best old movie(s) watched for the first time this year: The Studio Ghibli Collection

• Band/artist of the year (most listened to): In the Airplanes over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) & Electric Magnolia Company by Jason Molina / Songs: Ohio

• Favorite video game of the year: No Man's Sky (Shoutout to Suzerain)
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022: Jack Black Brewing Co. Fresh Hop IPA 2022 (as good as the original)
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022?: More craft beer taps in local, everyday pubs and restaurants (especially in Jozi)
  
  
• Brewery of the year: Soul Barrel (Franschoek)
  
  
• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2021: Jack Black Lumberjack & Fight Club

Beers Tasted:

• Soul Barrel Brewing Co - Ale of Origin (2017 vintage)
  
  
• Anvil Brewhouse - Mjolnir IPA

• Devil's Peak Brewing Co. - Juicy Lucy NEIPA
  
  
• Kennel Brewery - Love Buzz NEIPA
  
  
• OC Breweries and Yeti Underground - Jekyll and Hops Pale Ale
  
  
• Agar's and Goodwill Breweries - Brut Savage Brut IPA
  
  
• Devil's Peak Brewing Co. - King's Blockhouse Grapefruit IPA
  
  

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It's the end of another trash-fire year! And what better way to celebrate the passing of 2021 than by listening to your two favorite beer nerds, Matt and Marcel as they review the very best that the year had to offer?

So tune out your drunk aunt, the annoying children, and that weirdo who rocked up for turkey that nobody invited and tune in to the mad ravings of the SBV crew as they contemplate such weighty matters as the best beer of 2021, their favorite video games, the best tv show of the year and many (some would say way, way too many) other beer and non-beer related geekery.

Join us for Part 1 of this 2-part bumper Xmas edition and find out why there is still hope despite the fact that Marcel likes silly sitcoms and Matt believes that the end is nigh..

Tunes by Pollinator. Check them out and buy their music on Bandcamp here.

Marcel's Picks:

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Wax sealed bottles.
  
  
• The best movie released this year: Love and Monsters (2020); Project Power (20/21)
  
  
• Best beer label of the year: Richmond Hill Brewing Co. November Child Chamomile Saison
  
  
• The best old tv series re-watched this year: Seinfeld (All Seasons) &  Law and Order (Season 7; 1996-7)
  
  
• Best ongoing tv series: Bosch and Kim's Convenience
  
  
• Best new tv series launched in 2021: The Defeated
  
  
• Best novel of the year (published in 2020-21): Widowland, by C.J. Carey
  
  

• Best old novel read this year: Voyage to the end of the Room (2003), by Tibor Fischer & A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, by N.K. Jemisin.
  
  

• Best Beer of 2021: Soul Barrel Brewing Co.'s Live Culture Cape wild ale
  
  

• Favorite beer style of the year: Saison
  
  

• Best old movie watched for the first time this year: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)

• Band/artist of the year (most listened to): Sleeping Operator by The Barr Brothers (2014) and Dirty South Hip Hop - Chris Thomas King (2002)
  
  
• Favorite video game of the year: The Long Dark
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022: A really good, super-bitter DIPA produced locally (IBUs 100+).
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022?: More focus on local ingredients and local cultural / arts/craft partnerships.
  
  
• Brewery of the year: Soul Barrel, Franschoek (Honorable mention: Devil's Peak)

• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2021: Westmalle Dubbel & Die Hard

Matt's Picks:

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Supply Chain of Lagunitas Beer & Wax sealed bottles
  
  
• The best movie released this year: Dune
  
  

• Best beer label of the year: The Kennel Brewery: Love Buzz NEIPA.
  
  

• The best old tv series re-watched this year: Community (All Seasons)
  
  

• Best ongoing tv series: Doom Patrol; Curb your Enthusiasm; It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia; The Expanse; & Succession
  
  

• Best new tv series launched in 2021: Squid Game; Wanda Vision; Mare of Easttown & Invincible
  
  

• Best novel of the year (published in 2020-21 or near enough in this case): The Three-Body Problem, by Liu Cixin
  
  
• Best old novel read this year: The Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
  
  
• Best Beer of 2021: Red Bridge Brewing Co.'s Golden Ale
  
  
• Favorite beer style of the year: Pilsner
  
  
• Best old movie(s) watched for the first time this year: The Studio Ghibli Collection

• Band/artist of the year (most listened to): In the Airplanes over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998) & Electric Magnolia Company by Jason Molina / Songs: Ohio

• Favorite video game of the year: No Man's Sky (Shoutout to Suzerain)
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022: Jack Black Brewing Co. Fresh Hop IPA 2022 (as good as the original)
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022?: More craft beer taps in local, everyday pubs and restaurants (especially in Jozi)
  
  
• Brewery of the year: Soul Barrel (Franschoek)
  
  
• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2021: Jack Black Lumberjack & Fight Club

Beers Tasted:

• Soul Barrel Brewing Co - Ale of Origin (2017 vintage)
  
  
• Anvil Brewhouse - Mjolnir IPA

• Devil's Peak Brewing Co. - Juicy Lucy NEIPA
  
  
• Kennel Brewery - Love Buzz NEIPA
  
  
• OC Breweries and Yeti Underground - Jekyll and Hops Pale Ale
  
  
• Agar's and Goodwill Breweries - Brut Savage Brut IPA
  
  
• Devil's Peak Brewing Co. - King's Blockhouse Grapefruit IPA
  
  

Check out the Bearded Brew here.

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In this episode, we look at the very best heist movies while drinking some of the very best beers we’ve ever had on the pod. Dare we say that your hosts, Matt and Marcel, will be pulling off an epic heist of your ears for their beer and nerd shenanigans?

We probably shouldn’t.

Tune in anyway to find out why Matt has a fascination with his own urine, why Marcel’s fanboy hysteria for Soul Barrel Brewing Company knows no bounds, and why we should all agree that Matt won this movie draft the way an aircraft carrier beats up a little silly rubber dingy.

Along the way, you’ll be treated with such SBV staples as, obsessions with font sizes, the use of the word “Pastoral” and why IPAs are more important than life, the universe, and everything.

Join us.

Beers consumed and waxed lyrical about:

Agar’s English Ale

Smack Republic Newtown Nemesis Milk Stout

Soul Barrel BC Pale Farm Table Beer

Soul Barrel BC SA Pils

Soul Barrel BC Tropical Parade IPA 

Soul Barrel BS Cape Cone IPA

Heist Movie Draft (Warning: Spoilers ahead)

Matt’s Picks:

• The Inside Man

• Sneakers

• Sexy Beast

• Inception

• Rogue One

Marcel’s Picks:

• The Score
• Three Kings
• Entrapment
• Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
• Heist (2001)

Links:

IPA Leaderboard: https://beginnerbrewer.com/beer-reviews/ipa-leaderboard/

The Beginner Brewer YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD8q7NF30ivNp7sfTJyLg1A

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Join your intrepid hosts and beer nerds, Marcel and Matt, for another episode of mayhem, IPAs and geekery. In today's show, they drink a load of brews from Cape Town-based outfit, Afro Caribbean Brewing Company, add beers to the IPA leaderboard, and review the best of science-fiction television. Join these two ne'er-do-wells as they contemplate Star Wars copyright infringement, Matt's growing addiction to speculative fiction, and Marcel's use of the word: "isomerization"! 

Beers Tasted:

• Jungle Paradise IPA
• Clonegarden Witbier
• Coconut Masala Stout
• Valley of Skulls BIPA
• Steelworx IPA
• Session 157 IPA

Television Shows Discussed:

• The Expanse
• Seven Days
• Quantum Leap
• Alien Nation
• Lexx
• Altered Carbon
• Westworld
• Eureka
• Farscape
• Stargate SG-1
• Fringe
• Black Mirror
• Caprica
• The Twilight Zone
• Falling Skies
• Rick and Morty
• Firefly
• Star Trek Discovery
• V
• Buck Rodgers in the 25th Century
• Star Trek: Deep Space 9
• El Ministerio Del Tiempo
• Travelers
• and quite a few more!

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It's the unluckiest numbered episode of your favorite podcast about beer, geekery, and everything in-between! In this installment, buff your sci-fi reading list with Matt and Marcel's low-brow-pretending-to-be-high-brow novel selections.

Things will get interesting as Frank Herbert is worshipped and then discarded, IPAs are reviewed (warning: faux-PAs might come up), and Ian M Banks novels are stolen.

Tune in for more beer, more geekery, and the answer to the question: Why is the world a dystopian hellscape?

Warning: Spoilers ahead!

The Sci-Fi Novel Draft:

Matt's draft picks:

1. Use of Weapons, Ian M Banks
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. Neuromancer, William Gibson
4. The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
5. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
6. Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
7. Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis

Matt’s Remainders:

• A Deepness in the Sky, Vernon Vinge
• The Difference Engine, William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
• The Mars Trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Otherland Saga, Tad Williams
• The works of Peter F. Hamilton
• The works of Brandon Sanderson
• Do Androids Dream of electric sheep, Philip K. Dick
• The Mote in God’s Eye. Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
• Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama

Marcel's draft picks:

1. Anvil of Stars, Greg Bear
2. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
3. Look to Windward, Ian M Banks
4. A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernon Vinge
5. Ivory: A Legend of Past and Future, Mike Resnick
6. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
7. Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie

Marcel’s Remainders:

• A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
• The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
• The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
• Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandell
• Take Back Plenty, Colin Greenland
• To your Scattered Bodies go, Philip Jose Farmer
• Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey
• World War Z, Max Brooks
• A Philosophical Investigation, Philip Kerr
• Chaga , Ian McDonald
• Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

Beers tasted:

Firebird IPA, The Redrock Brewing Co.

Fresh Hop IPA (2020), Jack Black Brewing Co.

Karma Citra IPA, Frontier Brewing Co.

Show Notes:

Music by Lindo M. Find out about his gigs on Facebook and catch his tunes on Spotify 

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It's this long-overdue short edition of Scum, Beer and Villainy, Matt and Marcel review Jack Black's Cape Pale Ale. It's an APA-style beer from the Cape. Sweet.

Tune in to see if Marcel can get over the dark undertones in this beer's branding. Matt also reflects on his time as crack mule for the Medellin Cartel! And that's such a bonus, right?

Will this interesting little ale make it to Mars? Is this the beer our intrepid hosts have been looking for?  You'll have to listen to find out!

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