The Beer & B Movies Podcast

This episode, get swept away to an exotic locale with 1952's Macao, with Van Ice American Lager generously provided by @vannuysbeerco and @macleodale. Not even the star power of Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell could make this a hit, but for us it's all about watching these two legends playing it smooth and sexy. The convoluted plot is simply window dressing. We chose an easy drinking lager packed...

The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, aka Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, aka Don't Open the Window, with The Dark, from @thirdwindowbrewing . It's a delicious, roasty dark lager generously provided by Third Window in Santa Barbara, paired with a zombie/ecological horror film from 1974. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on  Apple Podcast   or  Google Play . You...

This Saturday, 1973's The Baby, with Adult Nap Time Pecan Porter and Bow Chicka Wow Wow Chocolate Caramel Bock, generously provided by our good friends at @millstreambrewing . An odd film, it concerns a family consisting of a mother, her two daughters and infant son, Baby. Baby, as it happens, is a 21 year old man, and the social worker assigned to the case becomes unwelcomely attached to the fami...

Our 50th episode. For a special milestone we wanted a special pairing, and we have one with the 1955 noir classic Kiss Me Deadly and Deep Roots Amber from @threeweavers . It's Ralph Meeker as Mickey Spillane's iconic P.I. Mike Hammer, scouring the grimy streets of L.A. for the great 'whatsit.' The beer is from one of Los Angeles's great breweries, a smooth, malty, easy drinking Amber with a ton of...

The Whip Hand with Baltic Maple Porter from @enegrenbrewing. This 1951 Cold War thriller has a reporter accidentally stumbling upon a secret Soviet plot to poison the entire United States, from a secret base in rural Wisconsin. We paired it with a delicious Maple Baltic Porter kindly provided by one of our favorite breweries. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the show...

This Saturday, The Prowler, with Risk it for the Biscuit brown ale, provided by @hopsecretbrewery . This slasher film is unusual for a few reasons, and also has some intense practical effects from legend  @thetomsavini . We paired this with a delicious, malty brown ale from a great local brewery. Join us. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on  Apple Podcast   o...

Our first episode of the new year drops, New Year's Evil, with Opulence Russian Imperial Stout, kindly provided by @oddmusebrewing . It's New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, 1979, and local DJ Blaze is hosting her biggest show yet. Unfortunately, a psychotic murderer is bent on upstaging the night. There are disguises, punks and New wavers, slasher tropes left and right, and one seriously roasty and ta...

Our Christmas movie is Trancers, with Zombie Dust from @3floydsbrewing! It's the year 2247, and trooper Jack Deth is sent back to 1985 to prevent the evil Martin Whistler from killing the ancestors of the leaders of the future. Sounds cool, right? Well, it gets better, because Deth is played by the one and only Tim Thomerson. Trancers, squids, Helen Hunt, and Tim Thomerson as a noir style man from...

We're mining Canada again for this Saturday's episode, The Brain, with Noise Violation DIPA from @hidefbrewingdtla. A malevolent alien brain seeks world domination by using television to spread its mind control! And the only one who can save us is a jerky teen who likes dumb pranks. It's paired with an incredible DIPA HiDef was generous to provide our podcast. There's a lot to unpack in this weird...

This Saturday, Master of the Flying Guillotine with Valkyrie Amber, from Enegren Brewing Company. We decided to find a completely insane movie and pair it with an incredible beer from Enegren, one of our favorite breweries. And they were generous enough to provide Valkyrie, a German style altbier. Toasty, malty, sweet, this beer is an epically good time. Join us. Thanks for listening! Check out ou...

This episode we're discussing 1945's My Name is Julia Ross, with Bessie British Brown Ale from @angryferretbrewing. What would you do if you woke up one day and everyone called you by a different name and told you you were someone else? That's what happens to Julia Ross in this twisted Gothic style drama. Strange stuff, indeed.   Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the s...

ShOctober comes to a creepy end this Saturday with Messiah of Evil, and Picnic Lightning Hazy IPA from @brouwerijwest . Elements of Lovecraft permeate this surreal coastal tale of a woman seeking her father, and finding one of the most unsettling beach communities ever. It's just plain weird, which is just how we like it. Join us as we wrap shOctober up in eerie style. Thanks for listening! Check...

ShOctober barrels ahead this Saturday with 1985's Demons, and Cacao Del Diablo Imperial Mole Stout from @reunionbrewery . This Lamberto Bava/Dario Argento freak fest pairs great with a smooth, sweet stout aged on Guajillo, Ancho, Chile de Arbol, cinnamon and cacao nibs, provided by Reunion, from Coralville, IA.  Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on  Apple Podc...

ShOctober continues this Saturday, with Phantasm, and beers from @dimensionalbeer . This classic from  @don_coscarelli is a favorite of ours, and introduces two of horror/scifis classic characters: The Tall Man and the Spheres! It has mutant zombie dwarves, grave robbing, a weird monster fly, Reggie the Ice Cream Man, and a whole lot more. Phantasm is a pedal to the metal interdimensional heart po...

ShOctober continues this Saturday, with Black Pit of Dr. M, or, Misterios de Ultratumba (translation: Mysteries of the Afterlife). I guess Black Pit of Dr. M sounded spookier. This Mexican horror film has the look of a classic Universal horror movie. It tells the story of the obsessive search for the secrets of the afterlife and vengeance from beyond. It also has elements of Faust and the monkey's...

This Saturday shOctober returns, with new episodes every Saturday! Kicking off the festivities is Hammer's 1972 freak out Vampire Circus. It's got a whole lot going on, including the famous Tiger Woman dance scene. We're pairing it with a flight of beers generously provided by  @millstreambrewing . Great movie, great beer, the best month. Join us. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website S...

On this episode: 1968's Witchfinder General, with English Pub Ale, from @jubeck_brewing . Vincent Price is Matthew Hopkins, a fanatically righteous and sadistic witch hunter in 17th century England, terrorizing the citizenry with his singular zealotry. We paired this intense film with a delightful English style pub ale from Dubuque, Iowa. It's a perfect pairing, and we invite you to join us. Thank...

The Love Ins, with Lots O' Peach Sour Brown ale from @newglarusbrewing . Take a counter culture  #60s  movie loosely based on Timothy Leary and pair it up with a sour loaded with fresh peaches and you get episode 36. Tune in, turn on, and drop by. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on  Apple Podcast   or  Google Play . You can also find us on  Audible ,  Stitch...

In this episode, we discuss Vanishing Point, with All Gas, No Brakes TIPA, from @reunionbrewery  and  @wakebrewing . This 70s cult movie stars Barry Newman as Kowalski, a car delivery driver who leads police on a multi-state car chase in a souped up 1970 Dodge Challenger. The beer, provided by ReUnion Brewery, is a delicious, smooth triple that may be the most perfect pairing we've had to date.  T...

It's our special episode: Slasher Films, and it's paired with Snuggy Irish Red Ale, generously provided by @textilebrews , in charming Dyersville, Iowa. Suburbs, sororities, camps, even mines, with final girls and vicious villains slashing and stabbing their way through victims, that's what it's all about. We thought a red ale was the perfect pairing with a bloody genre, and this one from the Midw...

This week on the podcast: My Bloody Valentine, with Strawberry Rhubarb Wheat from @riverridgebrewing . An overlooked slasher (in our opinion), this Canadian film set in a sleepy mining town tells a bleak tale of cannibalism, insanity, revenge and Moosehead Beer. We paired it up with a bright, fruity, refreshing wheat beer generously provided by River Ridge Brewing, set along the Mississippi River...

Thrill me! We discuss Night of the Creeps, featuring Fittingly Schwartzbier from @mumfordbrewing . This fun throwback to earlier scifi/horror pairs great with an incredible black lager from one of  #dtla  finest breweries. Thanks to Mumford for providing the beer for this episode and thanks to  #TomAtkins  for being you. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  website SUBSCRIBE: to the show on  A...

Episode 31, Black Samurai with Brut IPA from Project Barley Brewery in Lomita, California drops this Saturday. It's Jim Kelly as Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N, taking on a drug trafficking warlock, his army, and a vulture. We paired it with a beer generously sponsored by one of our new favorite breweries. It's a nails Brut IPA: crisp, dry, drinkable. Big thank you to @projectbarleybrewery.   T...

We needed a huge beer to pair with this one, and we found it in Mill-pocalypse Belgian Quad, from Millstream Brewing Company, who generously sponsored this episode. Sergio Leone's directorial debut is a sword and sandals romp starring Rory Calhoun. There are some great set pieces, a lot of intrigue and more than a couple unintentional laughs. Join us. Thanks for listening! Check out our new  websi...

Something new is going down for the Beer and B-Movies Podcast. This Wednesday we're releasing the first in a series of podcasts dedicated to specific genres/styles of B-Movies, to be released on the last Wednesday of the month. Our regular episodes will continue as usual, but we thought it'd be a good time to talk about the genres that dominate the B-Movie universe. First up,  #filmnoir , with a S...