The Beer & B Movies Podcast

Beer and B-Movies Episode 104: Tom Atkins Appreciation, with River to River from SingleSpeed Brewing

Episode 104 comes out this Saturday, and it's a special one. I want to celebrate the great B-Movie actor Tom Atkins, and I'm pairing it with River to River German Pilsner, provided by my friends at @singlespeedbrewingco. Tom has had...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 103, The Big Heat, with Ruekeller Helles, from The Bruery

Episode 103: The Big Heat, with Ruekeller Helles, provided by Placentia's The Bruery. This is one tight, vicious little picture about a good cop pushed to the edge when gangsters blow up his life. Big thanks to The Bruery for...

Ep. 102: Repo Man, with Shivaya Wild Ale, from Cellador Ales

Episode 102 drops today, and it's a blast. Repo Man, with Shivaya Dry Hopped wild ale, from @cellador_ales. Emilio Estevez gives one of my favorite performances as Otto, a nihilistic punk in mid 80s Los Angeles, who gets tangled up...

Episode 101: Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, with R&D Vintage 2023 from New Glarus Brewing

  Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, with R&D; Vintage 2023, from New Glarus Brewing. Guest host Jane picked this 1982 picture starring Diane Lane as a young woman dealt a series of devastating, life altering blows in a short amount...

Ep. 100: A look back, with Big Chef Barleywine,from Court Avenue Brewing

Beer and B-Movies reaches its 100th episode. I'll be covering a number of topics from the first 99 episodes, from favorite movies to forgettable, awful, and dumb movies. But I have to shout out all the breweries that have contributed...

Beer and B Movies Presents: The Evil Dead, With Marshall D's Hefeweizen, from Allerton Brewing Co.

Sam Raimi detonated onto the horror scene in 1981 with this grueling, wild picture, starring the man himself, Bruce Campbell. The premise is simple: five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods to "party down," and happen upon...

Episode 98: Prophecy

Prophecy, John Frankenheimer's 1979 eco-horror about pollution from a logging company in Maine creating mutant plant and wildlife, and an ornery EPA doctor investigating. There's a giant, lumbering mutant bear named Katahdin causing all sorts of trouble, and unintentional comedy. I...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 97- I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle

The Beer & B-Movies Podcast returns with 1991's I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle, and four beers generously provided by my good friends at @threeweavers. This British comedy horror picture was picked by guest host Jon, and it's something else. A...

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Beer and B Movies: Episode 96 - Black Christmas (1974)

In celebration of the season we're covering Bob Clark's 1974 #slasher Black Christmas. Before Halloween, this terrifying picture laid out the blueprint for the modern slasher (if slasher movies are your bag, check out episode 34 of our podcast, a slasher special)....

Beer and B Movies: Episode 95 - The Big Combo (1955)

Episode 95 wraps up #noirvember. The Big Combo, paired up with Radiant Beauty West Coast IPA, which was given to us by the wonderful people at @greencheekbeer. Joseph Lewis directed this gritty picture, with legendary Cinematographer John Alton providing some classic #filmnoir shots. But...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 94 - The Shanghai Gesture (1941)

We're starting #noirvember with episode 94, The Shanghai Gesture, Josef Von Sternberg's dreamlike tale of revenge from 1941. Known for its fantastic costumes, camerawork and performances, this was Sternberg's last directing job for a decade, until he made Macao (covered in episode...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 93 - Possession Movie Special

Episode 93 is a special episode to close our a special month. We're chatting all about Possession Movies! From The Exorcist to Christine, to all sorts of other types of possessions, it's a circuitous conversation, and we have a great...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 92 - Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

This Saturday! 1965's Die, Monster, Die!, with The Fog Knows Your Name Hazy IPA, given to us by Placentia's @junipermorganbrewing. Another adaptation of The Colour Out of Space, this finds Boris Karloff as the loony patriarch of a family cursed...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 90 - The People Who Own the Dark (1976)

The People Who Own the Dark, with Tip the Cow Cocoa Espresso Stout from @singlespeedbrewingco. Episode 90s picture starts like it's going to be some Pier Paolo Pasolini picture. Various government agents, scientists and an adventurer and drug smuggler (played by...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 89 - The Killing (1956)

The Killing, Stanley Kubrick's tight, amazing film noir, is paired with beer the great folks at @hopsaintbrewingco gave us. Sterling Hayden plays Johnny Clay, fresh out of a five year stay in prison, and he's planning a new caper. Robbing a horse...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 88 - Escape from New York (1981)

Episode 88 is a special one, folks. Escape From New York, with Rye So Dark Black IPA, kindly provided by @naughtypinebrewing. It's 1997, and due to an increase in crime, Manhattan has been walled off and turned into the country's largest...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 87 - The Caller (1987)

This Saturday is episode 87, The Caller, with Double Hopnosis Imperial IPA the good people at @firestonewalker_propagator provided. This Charles Band production sports a cast of two. No extras, nothing, just two people. It's a quirky little picture that's part murder mystery,...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 86 - Hard Ticket to Hawaii (1987)

Episode 86 is a doozy, folks. This Saturday it's Hard Ticket to Hawaii, with Blonde Fatale Belgian Style Blonde Ale kindly provided by the good people of @peacetreebrewing. Director Andy Sidaris was a B-Movie kingpin from the mid 80s to late...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 85 - Johnny Guitar (1954)

This Saturday it's 1954's Johnny Guitar, with three beers from @bhbc, procured by Jayson's dad. Joan Crawford is Vienna, a tough business woman with some advance knowledge about the railroad, so she sets up a casino in anticipation of cashing in...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 84 - The Living Skeleton (1968)

The Living Skeleton, comes out this Saturday. This Japanese tokusatsu horror picture is a true mystery to us. Pirates slaughter an entire ship of passengers for gold, only to be hunted down by a ghost three years later. Or is...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 83 - Beach Party (1963)

It's summer, so for episode 83 we're going with 1963s Beach Party, with Suburban Foam Blonde Ale, a unique collaboration between @hermosabrewingco and @descendents. When summer break arrives, Frankie and Dee Dee head to the beach for sun, surfing and, in Frankie's case,...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 82 - Let’s Scare Jessica To Death (1971)

 Let's Scare Jessica to Death, paired with Bohemian Rapids Czech Pilsner, which the good people at @iowabrewingco gave us. A dreamlike horror tale from 1971, this picture is about a woman, recently hospitalized for an unexplained mental situation, who moves...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 81 - Enter the Ninja (1981)

Episode 81 is stealthily creeping up on us. This Saturday, we're bringing the 1980s ninja sub genre to the podcast, with 1981s Enter the Ninja, paired up with Mediator Doppelbock, which the good people at @heaterallenbeer were kind enough to...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 80 - The Curse (1987)

This Saturday we're returning to the world of Lovecraft in episode 80, The Curse. Based on the classic story The Colour Out of Space, this picture tells the tale of a struggling family farm that is rocked when a strange...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 79 - Deathstalker (1983)

Folks, episode 79 comes out this Saturday! 1983s Deathstalker, with Candor Pastry Stout, generously provided by @courtavebrew. Check out Boris Vallejo's cover art. It's so cool. Back in the 80s, pre internet, this was click bait. You saw this at...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 78 - Trouble Man (1972)

 Episode 78 this Saturday, Trouble Man, with Manhattan Beach Hazy IPA, which was kindly provided by our pals at @culturebrewingco_la. Mr. T is a neighborhood fixer. He's cool, smooth, dresses like a champ and takes no crap from nobody. When...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 77 - He Walked by Night (1948)

This Saturday episode 77 crashes onto the podcast. 1948's He Walked by Night, with Tag Grapefruit Wheat from @lionbridgebrew. Is this a film noir, or a police procedural? We have our opinions about this gritty picture based on a true story....

Beer and B Movies: Episode 76 - Re-Animator (1985)

Stuart Gordon's over the top Lovecraft adaptation Re-Animator, with the delicious Black Lager, which was kindly provided by the friendly folks at @clockhousebrewing. What can we say that hasn't been said about this one. Herbert West is a slightly disturbed...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 75 - Dead & Buried (1981)

Folks, episode 75 is a fun one. 1981's Dead and Buried, with Lights Out Black IPA, which our friends at @farfieldbeer in Lawndale gave us. A zombie/Lovecraftian picture set in the fictional Northeast town of Potters Bluff, it stars James Farentino as...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 74 - The Junkman (1982)

Episode 74 is headed your way, pedal to the metal. 1982's The Junkman, with a couple beers generously provided by our Midwest friends at @potosibrewingco. H.B. Halicki, the action auteur who never met a car he didn't crash, basically plays himself,...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 73 - The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)

New episode this Saturday! 1946's eerie psychological horror picture The Beast With Five Fingers, paired up with a flight of three beers from the generous folks at @bhbc. Robert Alda, Andrea King and Peter Lorre star in this one about...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 72 - The Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971)

Episode 71 drops this Saturday! 1971's The Blood on Satan's Claw, with a trio of beers provided by our friends at @portbrewing. It's 18th century rural England, and something monstrous has been tilled up in a field. Now, the local...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 71 - Billy Jack (1971)

Billy Jack, episode 71, with The 4 Year Beer, from @foursilosbrewery. Tom Laughlin starred, directed and wrote, along with his wife Delores the story of Billy, a Vietnam vet who retreats back to his desert roots, trying to leave society...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 70 - Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)

Episode 70 blasts off! Beyond the Time Barrier, with Vice Apricot Peach Berliner Weisse @wildbarrelbrewing kindly provided. This 1960 scifi adventure tells the story of a pilot who accidentally finds himself 64 years in the future, to 2024. Earth is...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 69 - The Saracen Blade (1954)

This week we're swinging into swashbuckling territory, with 1954's The Saracen Blade, and Toasted Coconut Porter that @jubeck_brewing generously provided. Episode 69 gives us Ricardo Montalban as Pietro, the swaggering hero, born a common man, who seeks nothing but revenge...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 68 - Q: The Winged Serpent (1982)

This Saturday, episode 68 drops, and it's a fun one. Q: The Winged Serpent, Larry Cohen's 1982 monster picture/police procedural, with Q barrel aged Stout, kindly provided by @ogopogobrewing. There's a monster flying around New York eating folks, and the only...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 67 - Blue Sunshine (1978)

This week we wrap up October with another horror movie, 1978's weird, freaky Blue Sunshine, with Landlocked Blues Sour, a collaboration from @backpocketbrewing and @morebrewing, which the fine folks at @backpocketdbq were kind enough to provide. People are suddenly losing...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 66 - Zombie Movies

It's zombies, zombies, zombies! Episode 66 is a new special episode, Zombies, with a trio of tasty beers provided by our friends at @potosibrewingco. Zombie movies have been around forever, and like most of you, we're huge fans. Slow walkers...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 65 - The Dunwich Horror (1970)

Our new episode, The Dunwich Horror, with NoHo BoHo Czech Style Pilsner, kindly given to us by North Hollywood's @lawlessbeer drops this Saturday. H.P. Lovecraft's insane story gets the Roger Corman/AIP treatment in this 1970 horror picture that kicks off...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 64 - Who Killed Teddy Bear (1965)

1965's dark neo noir Who Killed Teddy Bear, with four tasty beers @prbrewing, from Decorah, IA gave us. Sal Mineo is a disturbed young man peeping and making vulgar phone calls to his coworker. The menace escalates, a lot of...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 63 - The Brain Eaters (1958)

We're back in the comforting waters of AIP this Saturday, with episode 63, The Brain Eaters, with Peach Dreams Milkshake IPA from our good friends at @textilebrews. A mysterious cone pops up outside the quiet town of Riverdale, IL, and...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 62 - Alligator (1980)

We're doing another "nature run amok" film this Saturday, with episode 62, 1980s Alligator, with Crack That Wit, from @whittierbrewingco. A little girl has a pet alligator that her grump of a father flushes down the toilet. Flash forward 10...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 61 - Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)

We are back this Saturday with episode 61, 1977's Kingdom of the Spiders, with Tarantula Hill IPA, generously provided by @tarantulahillbrewingco, from Thousand Oaks. Part of the "nature runs amok" sub-genre of the 1970s, spiders up their game after humans...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 60 - Something Weird (1967)

Herschell Gordon Lewis's 1967 picture Something Weird, with Saturday Night Pants wheat ale and 1923 kölsch generously provided by our friends at Millstream Brewing in the Amana Colonies. A Faustian bargain is made, a serial killer is tracked in Wisconsin,...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 59 - The Undertaker (1988)

This Saturday, 1988's The Undertaker, with X-Ray Specs, from @strandbrewingco. Joe Spinell, in his final role, stars as Roscoe, the truly unnerving killer in this lost, never finished film. Roscoe's motives are never really clear, but the body count keeps...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 58 - The City of the Dead (1960)

This Saturday, episode 58, The City of the Dead drops, with Weekend Escape West Coast IPA from @smogcitybeer and @topatopabrewingco. A witch is burned at the stake in 1692, and curses the villagers that did it. Flash forward to 1960, and Christopher Lee...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 57 - The Uninvited (1944)

This Saturday, 1944's The Uninvited, with Castle Dangerous from @yorkshiresquarebrewery. A beautifully shot haunted house tale with dark family history thrown in, paired with a rich, deep, dark stout generously provided by Yorkshire Square, out of Torrance, we're going to...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 56 - Wild in the Streets (1968)

Wild in the Streets is up next. Episode 56, this Saturday, paired with Confuzzled Wild Ale with Mango, Guava and Pineapple, from @cellador_ales. Max Frost is a powerful, groovy young singer and entrepreneur, with a bold idea. Lower the voting age...

Beer and B Movies: Episode 55 - Starcrash (1978)

Boy, oh boy, do we have a fun one this Saturday. Episode 55, and it's 1978's Starcrash, with Unlikely Couple DIPA, a collaboration from @tortugobrewing and @amarokbrewing. This unabashed ripoff of Star Wars has Caroline Munro, Christopher Plummer, and David Hasselhoff. The...