This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from McIlhenney Brewing Co (Alpine, CA)Beer 1: “Parallel Paradise" // Style: IPA // ABV: 6.9% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 5.Beer 2: "BBA Molotov Special" // Style: Russian Imperial Stout // ABV: 13.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.2, Max - 7.Film: "Monkey Man" directed by Dev Patel. Ratings: Jonny - 6.4, Max - 8._____…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from T.F Brewing (Salt Lake City, UT)Beer 1: “Granary" // Style: Kellerbier // ABV: 4.7% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.2, Max - 8.Beer 2: "Squirrel" // Style: Juicy IPA // ABV: 6.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.9, Max - 7.Film: "Road House" directed by Doug Liman. Ratings: Jonny - 4.3, Max - 3.-----------Please leave us a ratin…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beer 1: "Little Gold Chain" from Bike Dog (Sacramento, CA) // Style: Hazy Pale // ABV: 5.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - NA.Beer 2: "Icky IPA" from Great Basin (Reno, NV) // Style: IPA // ABV: 6.4% // Ratings: Jonny - NA, Max - 7.Film: "Perfect Days" directed by Wim Wenders. Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 7.Inside Hot &…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Cerebral Brewing (Denver, CO)Beer 1: “Elusive Thought" // Style: NE IPA // ABV: 6.3% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.3, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Endemic Species" // Style: IPA // ABV: 6.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.5, Max - 7.Film: "Dune 2" directed by Denis Villeneuve. Ratings: Jonny - 9.8, Max - 8.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max: "…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Break Even Beermakers (Amador City, CA)Beer 1: “Jawbone" // Style: Farmhouse Saison // ABV: 4.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 3.Beer 2: "Trunkbox Motherlode Porter" // Style: Porter // ABV: 5.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 2.1, Max - 3.Film: "The Zone of Interest" directed by Jonathan Glazer. Ratings: Jonny - 1.1,…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Berryessa Brewing (Winters, CA)Beer 1: “Fast Pass to Helles" // Style: Helles Lager // ABV: 5% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.2, Max - 7.Beer 2: "House IPA" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.6, Max - 5.Film: "Argylle" directed by Matthew Vaughn. Ratings: Jonny - 1.1, Max - 7.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max: …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Brujos BrewingBeer 1: “Thou" // Style: Triple IPA // ABV: 10.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 10, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Bird Point" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 14% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 10.Film: "Out of Darkness" directed by Andrew Cummings. Ratings: Jonny - 6.6, Max - 6.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max: 'Top 10 F…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Half Acre BrewingBeer 1: “Benthic 2x4" // Style: Imperial Sout // ABV: 13.6% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.5, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Benthic Chocolate Hazelnut" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 14.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 8.Film: "American Fiction" directed by Cord Jefferson. Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 9.Inside …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Ola Brewing (Kona, HI)Beer 1: “Da Hazy Light" // Style: Session IPA // ABV: 4.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.5, Max - 2.Beer 2: "Kiawe Vanilla Porter" // Style: Porter // ABV: 6.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.5, Max - 5.Film: "Anatomy of a Fall" directed by Justine Trient. Ratings: Jonny - 8.7, Max - 8.Inside Hot & Both…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Casa Agria (Oxnard, CA)Beer 1: “Broken Jars" // Style: Maple Brown Ale // ABV: 5.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.3, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Space Craze" // Style: Hazy IPA // ABV: 6.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 5.2, Max - 6.Film: "The Book of Clarence" directed by Jeymes Samuel. Ratings: Jonny - 2.2, Max - 4.Inside Hot & Bother…

With 2023 coming to a close a couple weeks ago, we sat down to catch up on some films we either A) hadn't seen yet or B) saw but couldn't fit into their own episode.Beers from Hop Butcher for the World (Darien, IL)Beer 1: “The Adventures of Strata and Peacherine" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 3.5, Max - 5.Beer 2: "Monster Cave" // …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Slice Beer Co (Lincoln, CA)Beer 1: “Axe Toss" // Style: Imperial IPA // ABV: 8.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.5, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Saucer Sled Land Speed Record" // Style: Triple NEIPA // ABV: 9.7% // Ratings: Jonny - 5.9, Max - 5.Film: "Poor Things" directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 9.Insid…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Southern Grist (Nashville, TN)Beer 1: “Binding Fate" // Style: Imperial NEIPA // ABV: 8% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.2, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Moderate Fleek" // Style: Triple NEIPA // ABV: 10.1% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.5, Max - 8.Film: "The Iron Claw" directed by Sean Durkin. Ratings: Jonny - 7.7, Max - 9.Inside Hot & Bo…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Shred Beer Co (Rocklin, CA)Beer 1: “Mystic Vapors" // Style: Hazy IPA // ABV: 7% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.2, Max - 8.Beer 2: "Macrodose" // Style: IPA // ABV: 8.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 10, Max - 9.Film: "Godzilla Minus One" directed by Takashi Yamazaki. Ratings: Jonny -9.4, Max - 8.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max: "…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Varietal Brewing (Sunnyside, WA)Beer 1: “Hedge Row Fade" // Style: IPA // ABV: 6.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Mithril Clouds" // Style: Hazy IPA // ABV: 6.9% // Ratings: Jonny - 4.4, Max - 4.Film: "Dream Scenario" directed by Kristoffer Borgi. Ratings: Jonny -5.2, Max - 6.Inside Hot & Bothere…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Trademark Brewing (Long Beach, CA)Beer 1: “Code Breaker" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.8, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Perfect Circle" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 7.Film: "Saltburn" directed by Emerald Fennell. Ratings: Jonny -7.7, Max - 4.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max - Ital…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beer 1: "Fractal Citra/Mosiac" from Equilibrium Brewing (Middletown, NY). Style: IPA ABV: 6.8% Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 9.Beer 2: "MC²" from Equilibrium Brewing (Middletown, NY). Style: IPA ABV: 8% Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 7Film: "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles" (1987). Directed by John Hughes.Inside Hot & Bothere…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Knotted Root Brewing Co (Nederland, CO)Beer 1: “We Love the Architecture" // Style:Czech Pilsner // ABV: 5.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.2, Max - 8.Beer 2: "Perpetual Embrace" // Style: Imperial NE IPA // ABV: 8.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.7, Max - 6.Film: "Five Nights at Freddy's" directed by Emma Tammi. Ratings: J…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Imprint Beer Co (Hatfield, PA)Beer 1: “Blur" // Style: Imperial NE IPA // ABV: 8.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.5, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Sketchy AF" // Style: Imperial NE IPA // ABV: 8.6% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.6, Max - 10.Film: "Killers of the Flower Moon" directed by Martin Scorsese. Ratings: Jonny -9.2, Max - 9.Insid…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Cellarmaker (San Francisco, CA)Beer 1: “Coffee & Cigarettes" // Style: Smoked Porter // ABV: 7.7% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 4.Beer 2: "Highway to the Dankerzone" // Style: West Coast Hazy IPA // ABV: 8.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.3, Max - 7.Film: "The Creator" directed by Gareth Edwards. Ratings: Jonny -6.…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Single Hill Brewing (Yakima, WA)Beer 1: “Sightglass" // Style: Hazy Pale Ale // ABV: 5.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.9, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Lateral A" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 8.Film: "Dumb Money" directed by Craig Gillespie. Ratings: Jonny -6.2, Max - 7.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max - "…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Highland Park Brewing (Los Angeles. CA)Beer 1: “Philosophy of Love - Superstition // Style: Rustic Saison // ABV: 6.3% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.4, Max - 4.Beer 2: "Tonight Tonight Tonight" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 12% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.1, Max - 9.Film: "It Lives Inside" directed by Bishal Dutta. Rat…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Fort George Brewery (Astoria, OR)Beer 1: "3-Way IPA - Chico Hazy" // Style: Hazy IPA // ABV: 7% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.1, Max - 4.Beer 2: "Vortex" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.6, Max - 8.Film: "A Haunting in Venice" directed by Kenneth Branagh. Ratings: Jonny -6.5, Max - 6.Inside Hot & Bot…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beer 1: "Zeal - Nelson" from / Eredita Beer (North Haven, CT) // Style: Double IPA // ABV: 8% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.7, Max - NA.Beer 2: "Lychee Hime" from Onibi Beer (Sacramento, CA) // Style: Fruited Sour // ABV: 4.2% // Ratings: Jonny - NA, Max - 6.Film: "The Equalizer 3" directed by Antoine Fuqua. Ratings: Jonny - 2…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Solid Ground Brewing (Diamond Springs, CA)Beer 1: "Makalu" // Style: Hazy IPA // ABV: 6.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.2, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Darvaza" // Style: Double IPA // ABV: 9.1% // Ratings: Jonny - 2.2, Max - 2.Film: "Past Lives" directed by Celine Song. Ratings: Jonny - 10, Max - 10.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Ma…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Fonta Flora (Morganton, NC)Beer 1: "Oak Stand" // Style: Schwarzbier // ABV: 6.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.1, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Local Snacks" // Style: Wild Ale // ABV: 6.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 3.5, Max - 3.Film: "Heart of Stone" directed by Tom Harper. Ratings: Jonny - 6.5, Max - 5.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max -…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Crooked Stave (Denver, CO)Beer 1: "Just Peachy" // Style: Fruited Sour // ABV: 4.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.3, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Vieille" // Style: French Saison // ABV: 4.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.4, Max - 2.Film: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" directed by Jeff Rowe. Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 8…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Tired Hands Brewing (Philadelphia, PA)Beer 1: "Punge" // Style: IIPA // ABV: 8.3% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.1, Max - 8.Beer 2: "Peach Eviscerated Pathway of Beauty" // Style: IIPA // ABV: 8.6% // Ratings: Jonny - 4.2, Max - 5.Film: "Talk To Me" directed by Danny & Michael Phillipou. Ratings: Jonny - 8.9, Max - 8…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Temblor Brewing (Bakersfield, CA)Beer 1: "Ruby's Boysenberry Cobbler" // Style: Kettle Sour// ABV: 6% // Ratings: Jonny - 4.1, Max - 6.Beer 2: "Electric Pineapple" // Style: Fruited Beer // ABV: 7.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 1.1, Max - 3.Film: "Barbie" directed by Greta Gerwig. Ratings: Jonny - 9.3, Max - 9.Film:…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Liquid Gravity (San Luis Obispo, CA)Beer 1: "Cooler Than Cool" // Style: Cold IPA // ABV: 6% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.2, Max - 5Beer 2: "Midnight Luau" // Style: Porter // ABV: 6.8% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 3.Film: "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" directed by James Mangold. Ratings: Jonny - 2.2, Ma…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Creative Creature Brewing (El Cajon, CA)Beer 1: "Cha Ma Noa" // Style: Hard Thai Iced Tea // ABV: 5.% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.7, Max - 8Beer 2: "Flavor Flow" // Style: Hard Seltzer // ABV: 5% // Ratings: Jonny - 3.2, Max - 3.Film: "Asteroid City" directed by Wes Anderson. Ratings: Jonny - 6.2, Max - 7.Inside H…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Noble Ale Works (Anaheim, CA)Beer 1: "Naughty Sauce" // Style: Golden Milk Stout // ABV: 5.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.1, Max - 8Beer 2: "Naughty Sauce: Cinnamon Roast Crunch" // Style: Golden Milk Stout // ABV: 5.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 2.7, Max - 4.Film: "The Blackening" directed by Time Story. Ratings: Jonny …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Seek Beer Co (San Diego, CA)Beer 1: "North of Stoked" // Style: NZ Pilsner // ABV: 4.6% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.6, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Modern Escape" // Style: Hazy IIPA // ABV: 8% // Ratings: Jonny - 2.1, Max - 6.Film: "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts" directed by Steven Caple Jr. Ratings: Jonny - 4.5, Max - 3.…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Trillium (Canton, MA)Beer 1: "The Fens" // Style: IPA // ABV: 7.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.4, Max - 8.Beer 2: "Really Big Bird" // Style: Imperial IPA // ABV: 9% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.1, Max - 6.Film: "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson. Ratings…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Equilibrium Brewery (Middletown, NY)Beer 1: "String Theory" // Style: Saison // ABV: 5% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.9, Max - 6.Beer 2: "dHOP49" // Style: Imperial IPA // ABV: 8.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 1.9, Max - 5.Film: "Fast X" directed by Louis Letterier. Ratings: Jonny - 7.5, Max - 4.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max …

This week, we sit down with our friend and Patreon supporter Chris Gomez to talk about the 2000 film "Titan A.E." The turn of the century film is perhaps most famous for integrating traditional animation techniques with computer generated images; an approach that resulted in a movie that was simultaneously a box office flop and undoubtedly idiosync…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Humble Forager (Waunakee, WI)Beer 1: "Forbidden Fortune" // Style: NE DIPA // ABV: 8% // Ratings: Jonny - NA, Max - 6.Beer 2: "Existential Bliss" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 12.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 9.5, Max - 10.Film: "Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3" directed by James Gunn. Ratings: Jonny - 8.9, Max -…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Tox Brewing (New London, CT)Beer 1: "Myceluim Dream" // Style: Pale Ale // ABV: 6% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.3, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Poltergeist" // Style: Triple IPA // ABV: 10% // Ratings: Jonny - 3.3, Max - 5.Film: "Sisu" directed by Jamali Helander. Ratings: Jonny - 7.5, Max - 4.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max - Mud…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Nightmare Brewing (Long Island, NY)Beer 1: "Glasgow Smile" // Style: Fruited Gose // ABV: 6.7% // Ratings: Jonny - 4.1, Max - 4.Beer 2: "Matricide" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 15.1% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.6, Max - 8.Film: "Beau Is Afraid" directed by Ari Aster. Ratings: Jonny - 1.7, Max - 9.Inside Hot & …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from RaR Brewing (Cambridge, MD)Beer 1: "Out of Order: Here Kitty Kitty" // Style: Smoothie Sour // ABV: 6.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 1.1, Max - 1.Beer 2: "Out of Order: Wowzers" // Style: Smoothie Sour // ABV: 6.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 5.2, Max - 8.Film: "Renfield" directed by Chris McKay. Ratings: Jonny - 2.2, Max -…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Great Notion(Portland, OR)Beer 1: "Juice Jr" // Style: Hazy IPA // ABV: 6% // Ratings: Jonny - NA, Max - 7.Beer 2: "Unbalanced Breakfast" // Style: Fruited Sour // ABV: 6.4% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.7, Max - NA.Film: "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves" directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley. …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beer 1: "Lords of Turbidity" // Brewery: Slice Beer Co (Lincoln, CA) Style: Hazy DIPA // ABV: 8.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.6, Max - NA.Beer 2: "Lord Lupulin // Brewery: Revision Brewing Co (Sparks, NV) Style: NE IPA // ABV: 6.5% // Ratings: Jonny - NA, Max - 2.Film: "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre" directed by Guy Rit…

Our annual Academy Award predictions episode is year. We run through some of the major categories and make our guesses as to what the Academy voters will select as well as what WE think should get the tiny golden man. Plus, not predictions episode would be complete without some griping about films the Academy completely ignored this year. As always…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Fieldwork Brewing Co (Berkeley, CA)Beer 1: "Pulp" // Style: NE IPA // ABV: 6.9% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.6, Max - 2.Beer 2: "Pulp Free" // Style: IPA // ABV: 6.9% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.9, Max - 6.Film: "Women Talking" directed by Sarah Polley. Ratings: Jonny - 9.2, Max - 9.Inside Hot & Bothered:- Max - "Swallow…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Prairie Artisan Ales (Oklahoma City, OK)Beer 1: "Pumpkin Pie Treat" // Style: Sour Ale // ABV: 5.5% // Ratings: Jonny - NA, Max - 4. Beer 2: "Mo Peanut Mo Problems // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 13.6% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.4, Max - NA.Film: "Knock at the Cabin" directed by M Night Shyamalan. Ratings: Jonny…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Wiley Roots Brewing Co (Greeley, CO)Beer 1: "Midnight on the Run" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 9.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 5.8, Max - 4.Beer 2: "Midnight on the Run to Mexico" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 9.2% // Ratings: Jonny - 2.2, Max - 4.Film: "The Fabelmans" directed by Steven Spielberg. Ratings: …

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Tripping Animals (Doral, FL) Beer 1: "Ma, He Did It!" // Style: Triple NE IPA // ABV: 10% // Ratings: Jonny - 6.1, Max - 9.Beer 2: "Sour Tripp" // Style: Fruited Sour // ABV: 6% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.8, Max - 8.Film: "Triangle of Sadness" directed by Reuben Östlund. Ratings: Jonny - 3.2, Max - 6.Inside Hot &…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from 8 Wired (New Zealand)Beer 1: "Opium Cake" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 11.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 4.1, Max - 4.Beer 2: "iStout 11th Anniversary" // Style: Imperial Stout // ABV: 15% // Ratings: Jonny - 2.1, Max - 2.Film: "The Pale Blue Eye" directed by Scott Cooper. Ratings: Jonny - 7.5, Max - 6.Flick Pic…

This week on Fresh Hop Cinema;Beers from Altamont Beer Works (Livermore, CA)Beer 1: "Waui Nugs" // Style: IPA // ABV: 6.5% // Ratings: Jonny - 8.9, Max - 6.Beer 2: "Crew Brew Pineapple Kush" // Style: Pale Ale // ABV: 5.6% // Ratings: Jonny - 7.3, Max - 5.Film: "Tár" directed by Todd Field. Ratings: Jonny - 6.3, Max - 8.Flick Pick: "Glass Onion: A …

To get more episodes like this, join our Patreon community for as little as $1 per week at www.patreon.com/freshhopcinema.This beer featured art from local Chico artist Micah Black aka “Mr. B.” Micah gave us this beer and sent in a little more info on the inspiration behind the label artwork. Enjoy!Kirjoittanut Max Minardi and Jonny Summers: Craft Beer & Film Enthusiasts