Fresh Hop Cinema

One of our most polarizing film discussions to date! What did YOU think of Green Book? Let us know! Beers of the Week: Beer 1: “Quarter Panel” Brewed by: Gilman Brewing Co (Berkely, CA) Style: West Coast IPA (ABV): 6.5% A modern West Coast style IPA. Light body, aggressive bittering. Massive tropical/dank/citrus aroma and flavors from huge late additions of Amarillo, Simcoe, and Mosaic hops. Beer...

This week on the show we tackle one of the 2019 Oscar frontrunners with "Roma." We have highly anticipated the opportunity to sit and talk about this movie. Did all the buildup payoff? We also drink a fantastic coffee stout from Modern Times called "Membata" (Know what that's a reference to? Tweet me. *No cheating*) and an Old Ale collaboration between 21st Amendment, Stone, and Firestone Walker....

Sexism, mansplaining, the EPIC Ruth Bader Ginsburg. All discussed while drinking IIIPAs and Barleywines! Beer 1: "Grain Man." It's a triple IPA from Local Craft Beer clocking in at a whopping and surprisingly refreshing 11.0%. Beer 2: "London Balling." A barrel-aged Barleywine coming in with a shattering 12.5 ABV. Enjoy1 We sure did.

Two indie films in a row on FHC?! Welcome back to Oscar Season. This week we recap the Golden Globes, talk favorite 2018 films, and discuss our thoughts on "Beautiful Boy" (Steve Carrell, Timothée Chalamet). In Hot & Bothered we name names of podcasts with terrible commercial transitions. We drink a nitro oatmeal stout called "Nutty Operator" from Altamont Beer Works (Livermore, CA) and a barrel-a...

This week we talk about "Mary Queen of Scots." We drink a deLISH gose by Westbrook that tastes like a mother effin key lime pie and a scotch-style ale from Moylan's. Enjoy! Please rate and review us on iTunes!

All Transformers movies are NOT created equal. "Bumblebee" is what happens when you ditch Michael Bay and build a story around a compelling character, add some wit, and wash it all in a big splash of 80's nostalgia. This week we drink a delicious IPA from Toppling Goliath called "Pompeii" and an imperial stout from TO ØL called "What the Fudge." Please rate and review us wherever you listen- unles...

Woohoo! Merry Christmas everyone! What better way to celebrate than with what may be the greatest superhero movie of 2018?! We also drink a Christmas Ale from St Bernardus and a nitro brown ale with coconut and coffee from Modern times called "Bedrock." Enjoy and happy holidays!

This week on the podcast we cover the latest installment to the magical world of JK Rowling with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. We drink a tasty ESB from Altamont and taste the newest from Sierra Nevada Brewing with the "Resilience Butte County Strong IPA."

This weeks on the podcast, we discuss the critically acclaimed "Widows." Does the movie stand up to the hype? We also drink two big fat imperial stouts. The first is "Double Chocolate Stout" from Rouge Ales and the second- "Expedition Stout" from Bell's. Episode Timeline: 0:00 - 11:37: Intro & Double Chocolate Stout 11:38 - 20:07: Hot & Bothered 20:42 - 38:35: Widows (No Spoilers) 39:10 - 46:55: E...

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema, we enter a new age of podcast episodes with episode 101. We cover the sequel to 2012’s “Wreck It Ralph” with “Ralph Breaks the Internet. We also tackle two very different stouts. “The Patsy” is a coconut rye stout from Barley Forge Brewing Co out of Costa Mesa, CA and “Queen Anne” is a collaboration stout from Mason Ale Works and Humble Sea Brewing Co out of San Marc...

We've made to episode 100, everyone! After talking beer and film this week, we revisit some of our favorite moments from the last 50 episodes in a "Danger Zone Supercut." Episode Timeline: 0:00 - 15:52 - Intro & "Windsor Porter" **Ratings- Jonny: 8.2 Max: 8.5 15:53 - 23:19 - "Hot & Bothered" 24:06 - 44:36 - Robin Hood **Ratings: Jonny: 2 Max: 1 45:26 - END - DANGER ZONE SUPERCUT

After a week's hiatus due to the Camp Fire in Northern California, we're back! Tune in to hear our take on the film Bohemian Rhapsody and review "Fresh Hop Cine Haze," our namesake beer from Secret Trail Brewing Co and "Freddie Murkury" by Mikkeller. 0:00 - 9:31 - Intro + Fresh Hop CineHaze 9:31 - 18:24 - Hot & Bothered 19:13 - 36:23 - Bohemian Rhapsody (SPOILER FREE) 37:20 - 45:19 - Freddie Murku...

Join us for a discussion of the first film by writer/director Jonah Hill. "Mid90s" explores ideas of masculinity, skate culture, and growing up. We drink beers from two breweries that we've never had the pleasure of trying before. Black Market Brewing from Temecula, CA created a FANTASTIC IIPA known simply as "The Orange Can." It won the gold medal this year for "Juicy or Hazy Imperial or Double I...

This week we catch up with Hollywood's latest introspective Western in "The Sisters Brothers." Starring Joaquin Phoenix, John C Reilly, Riz Ahmed, and Jake Gyllenhall, this film tells the tale of two bounty hunter brothers (Phoenix, Reilly) on a mission to chase down a chemist (Ahmed) who has stolen a formula from their employer, a man called The Commodore. Can a one-dimensional character portraye...

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema we review of "A Star Is Born;" the fourth remake of a Hollywood tradition dating back to 1937. In this iteration, Bradley Cooper directs while costarring next to silver screen first-timer Lady Gaga. This film is a cautionary tale of fame and alcoholism, a telling of a star's rise in the modern music industry and ultimately a pendulum of romance and heartbreak. We drin...

What a week! We talk zombie virus outbreaks as we cover 2017's "Cargo." Starring Martin Freeman, the film explores what a father must endure when a massive virus has "wiped out" much of the human population. We drink a tasty IPA from Bearded Iris (TN) called "Homestyle" and a rich and robust stout called "Naval Gazer" from New Heights (TN). Episode Timeline: 0:00 - 14:47- Intro, "Homestyle," and "...

This was a crazy fun episode! Tune in for all the info you'll ever need on "White Boy Rick" and "Holy Hermit from Moonraker and "Err to Excess" from Breakside Brewing. 0:00 - 29:05: Intro, "Holy Hermit," and "Hot & Bothered" 29:53 -41:45: "White Boy Rick (Spoiler-Free) 42:29 - 50:12 - "Err to Excess" 50:13 - END - "White Boy Rick" (DANGER ZONE)

One of our most anticipated movies of the year this week; "Blindspotting." We drink a NE IPA from Lead Dog called "For Redding with Love" and a fruited porter from Latitude 33 called "Native Trails Black and Blue." Episode Timeline: 0:00 - 14:02- "For Redding with Love" 14:03 - 38:25- "Blindspotting" (Spoiler Free) 38:26 - 50:15- "Black and Blue" 50:16 - END - "Blindspotting" (DANGER ZONE) Review...

We're a little late to the game but we're here to discuss Chloé Zhao's April 2018 film "The Rider." The film flirts a delicate line between documentary and drama as it tells the true story of Brady Jandreau, a rodeo cowboy who suffers a traumatic brain injury and may never ride again. For the most part, the cast of this film is made up of the actual people who lived the events. We sip a pale ale t...

This week we FINALLY get a chance to cover Bo Burnham's first feature-length film "Eighth Grade." It tells the story of Kayla; an 8th grader navigating her final week's of middle school and juggling the pressure's of identity, adolescence and puberty amidst a world entwined with social media. To help us along our conversation are two very different beers. The first, a NE-inspired IPA called "1-2 P...

This week on the podcast, A THROWBACK to 2017. Join us for a discussion of "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected); A 2017 film by Noah Baumbach starring Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman, and Elizabeth Marvel. We drink a West Coast IPA called "Strata" from Worthy Brewing out of Bend, OR and an East Coast IPA called "All Clouds Everything" from New Glory out of Sacramento, CA. Episode T...

Join Jonny and Max as they dive into one of their favorite movies from the 90's; David Fincher's "Fight Club." We'd talk about it more here, but that'd be against the rules. To lube up their vocal cords along the way are a 4.5% sour saison born of a collaboration between Two Roads & Stillwater called "Ground Loop" and a hazy New-England IPA from Revision called "Playafication." Episode Timeline: 0...

Join us for a discussion of the first Hollywood film in 25 years to feature an all Asian/Asian American cast AND one of the best rom-coms in recent memory; "Crazy Rich Asians." Our conversation is fueled by a pFriem's "Oud Bruin," an 8.7% aged brown ale and Track 7's "Under Construction," a 14.2% Imperial Stout. Plus, since Jonny wasn't able to see the film this week, HIS conversation is also file...

Jonny and Max discuss one of their favorite films of the year so far. Spike Lee's biting, witty retelling of Ron Stallworth's 2014 memoir details Stallworth's experience as the first African-American on the Colorado Springs police force and his time infiltrating a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. We drink beers from El Segundo Brewing Co and Dogfish Head Brewery. Episode Timeline: 00:00 - 28:10...

This week we dive into the indie film "First Reformed." Jonny didn't love it. Max didn't love it either. BUT... did Jonny like it? No... not really. But Max did. Or did he? Find out by listening to this episode. Also, find out if the beers we drank this week were delicious. Spoiler alert: they were. OR WERE THEY? Episode Timeline: 0:00 - 12:35: Intro & "Ngongo" by Bruery Terreux. 12:36 - 23:20: Ho...