Located in a Boston suburb and just a couple of blocks away from the nearest “T” stop, you will find The Publick House. With 35 taps ranging from delicate Belgian beers to hoppy West Coast IPA’s you’re sure to find a beer that’ll hit the spot. The menu is incredible, but their award winning Mac & Cheese is the highlight for me!
Located in a Boston suburb and just a couple of blocks away from the nearest “T” stop, you will find The Publick House. With 35 taps ranging from delicate Belgian beers to hoppy West Coast IPA’s you’re sure to find a beer that’ll hit the spot. The menu is incredible, but their award winning Mac & Cheese is the highlight for me!
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I had low expectations for Juan of the Dead -an obvious word play from my favorite zombie movie, Shaun of the Dead, Cuban produced (how good can a Cuban movie be) and it was subtitled. However, it was a funny take on the zombie apocalypse -a virus obviously unleashed on them by the evil Estados Unidos- and they ran with it making it their own. The perfect beer pairing for this movie is Undead Party Crasher from Clown Shoes. At 11% this beer will only make the movie better, however, it might make it a little harder to read the subtitles. One of the best parts about being a beer writer is I get the opportunity to travel around the country, visit breweries, drink lots of great beer and eat lots of great food. It gets even better when breweries invite me to write about food pairings that feature their beers. Every season (you know, winter, spring summer or fall type seasons) I write a beer and food pairing series featuring the Wolf Creek Brewery and menu items available at their restaurants. However, this series wouldn't be as rich and educational if it weren't for all "special guest palates" I bring with me to these pairing sessions. My guests and their palates broaden my flavor knowledge and vocabulary and help me discover new beer pairing options with each bite. This current Wolf Creek Pairing Series features Chris O'Neal a staff writer for the VCReporter and Bec O'Neal, a beer specialist for the Oxnard Whole Foods and my pints&pairings co-host Jason Hendrick. Chris O'Neal is a staff writer for the VC Reporter who enjoys reporting on the gaming world and writes one of my favorite columns, 5 O'clock Somewhere. 5 O'clock Somewhere covers the the local (and sometimes international) drink scene. Can you believe 5 O'clock Somewhere is responsible for our friendship!? In fact, that is how we met. We got together to drink some beer and talk about beer geeky things and recorded the session for a VC Reporter podcast. Podcast can be located HERE. Bec O'Neal is a beer specialist for Whole Foods Market in Oxnard, CA. What does that mean? Well, she's the one you talk to if you are looking for just the right beer or if you need a beer pairing suggestion. Bec maybe 1/2 my age, but she has some serious beer knowledge. She started her beer career working as a beer educator for Brew Dog, she is a Certified Beer Server and she is the brains behind the blog The Hop Zealot, a beer guide to Ventura County. The Cabin in the Woods is a classic slasher horror movie with lots of gore and creative demon monsters, Scream-esque humor, a light sprinkling of Hunger Games, all wrapped up with a pleasing twist. I think Aztec Brewery's Sacrifice is a perfect complement to the movie. Sacrifice pours a deep blood red, is full of malt with a refreshing hop profile and it's name is a not too subtle hint at the movie's twist. The first time I watched Pet Semetary I didn't get past the truck zooming by and the empty shoe tumbling down the road scene. The second time I did get through to the end but it was still quite disturbing to me. That said, I had a lot of fun pairing a beer to this movie. Ok follow along with me. Jud Crandall (the old guy who knows how to operate the magical semetary) is played by Fred Gynne. Fred Gynne is better known, to me at least, as Herman Munster. Three Floyds is located in Munster, Indiana and they make some damn fine beer. Conquistador De Muerte (conqueror of the dead) is a barrel aged milk stout clocking in at 10% and is reminds me of a certain semetary that conquers the dead and brings them back to kill and to be killed, again. Monster House is one of those animated movies that's way more intense than the trailer would lead you to believe. This is a great older kid and adult movie but I think the little ones might find it a bit too scary. For you adults that will be enjoying this movie, I am pairing Ballast Point's Tongue Buckler with Monster House as a nod to the house's nimble red tongue that makes short work of stray dogs, postal workers and police officers. This is an imperial red, which means it is BIG (10% ABV) with a lot of hops up front but full of malty sweetness to reward you for fending off tongue's advances. I will always find room for Tim Burton here at Hops&Horrors. Dark and sometimes un-nerving his stop animation or even his live action fits this season like no-other director. I think what I like the most about his movies is that almost all of them are suitable as family movies. The beer pairing for Frankenweenie will be difficult for many of us (myself included) but that doesn't mean that it can't be done*. Any beer from Sixpoint Brewery's Mad Scientist series (it rotates every couple of months or so) is the perfect pairing for this movie as it reminds us that we should use our brains to make delicious beer instead of brining creatures back from the dead! *Playing on the theme of before and after and the super-dog strength of the dead brought back to life, a perfectly appropriate substitute pairing for this movie would be Double Dog from Flying Dog Brewery. Flying Dog has national distribution and Double Dog's 11.5% will certainly improve the star rating of this movie. In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't seen Zombeavers, but that doesn't mean I couldn't find a perfect pairing for it! Those beady, glowing demonic eyes and the tagline "You'll all be DAMMED!" all led me directly to Belching Beaver Brewery's Dammed! double IPA. This is one of those pairings that will definitely help raise Zombeavers overall rating. DAMMED! is a gold medal beer, clocks in at 8.5% and is guaranteed to make all those beaver puns hilarious. Dammed, dirty beavers. There are three other demons in Hellraiser besides Pinhead, can you name any of them? Don't feel bad if you can't, Pinhead is the only character of consequence, you know, because of the pins and he seams to be the only being capable of operating the cube - oh and he will tear your soul apart. Not unlike the dimension ripping cube from Hellraiser, the Heineken cube is just as elusive. That may be the best part of this pairing - the fact that this marketing gimmick had such a short life span. The first mention of the cube was in late 2012 and there is nothing on their website about it today. I know it isn't fair to pair this beer (a beer that you have no chance of ever finding again) with this movie, but I do it because I love all my hopheads. I don't want you to end up being pulled apart by rusty hooks just because you were drinking beer from one of the biggest gimmicks, ever. Not just a trailer, the whole freak'n movie! |
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