Episode 19 (Volume 2): Rebar and Corpses: The Best of 2022

It's the sequel nobody wanted!  Join your intrepid and somewhat sexy hosts, Matt and Marcel as they continue the belated madness of reviewing the best of 2022 in this second volume. Tune in to share some more IPAs and other beers and to find out why Mike Nichols might be the best movie director ever. Cheers!

Beers tasted (In volume 2)

• OC / Bearded Brew / Yeti Underground's Dark Matter Oatmeal Stout
• Dancing Hops Brewery's Ko Ko Mo Hazy IPA
• Darling Brew's Warlord DIPA
• That Brewing Co's Alpha Hopper Galaxy IPA
• Darling Brew's Arrowhead Russian Imperial Stout

The Lists (warning - spoilers ahead)

Marcel's Picks

• Pet beer-related peeve of the year: Dirty beer can tops - what's going on here?
  
  
• The best movie released this year: Prey (2022); Shout-out: Turning Red
  
  
• Best beer label of the year: Tin Hat Brewing Co's IPA Sheer Courage
  
  
• The best old (i.e. no longer running) tv series re-watched this year: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  
  
• Best ongoing tv series: Line of Duty; Brooklyn Nine Nine
  
  
• Best new tv series launched in 2022: Slow Horses and Only Murders in the Building (Apple TV).; Shout-out: Rings of power
  
  
• Best novel of the year (published in 2021-22): Amongst Our Weapons by Ben Aaronovitch (2022)
  
  

• Best old novel read this year: The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler; Crete by Antony Beevor

 

• Best Beer of 2022: Bearded Brew / Yeti Underground - Nitro Leprechaun
  
  

• Favorite beer style of the year: Pilsner
  
  
• Best old movie watched for the first time this year: Ghost Town (2008)
  
  

• Best / most rewatched movie this year (not released this year): Deja Vu (2006) / Crimson Tide (1995)

 

• Band/artist and album of the year (most listened to): Hanah Wicklund - Hannah Wicklund & the Stepping Stones (2016) & Charlie Cunningham - Lines (2017)
  
  
• Favorite video game of the year: Red Dead Redemption 2, Shout-out: Battletech
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2022 - did it come true?: A really good, super-bitter DIPA produced locally (IBUs 100+). Did it come true? Warrior DNEIPA comes close though.
  
  
• Wishlist beer for 2023: A very interesting barrel-aged beer that is not a stout (other than Soul Barrel Brewing Co).
  
  
• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2022 - did it come true?: More focus on local ingredients and local cultural / arts/craft partnerships: Not that I could see - if anything it became more balkanized, sadly
  
  

• What would we like to see happen in craft beer in 2023?: An increase in high-quality, craft-beer-focused gastropubs.
  
  

 

• Brewery of the year: Jack Black Brewing Co.
  
  
• Xmas Beer & Movie for 2022: Jack Black Brewing Co's Butcher's Block Pale Ale & Ghostbusters (1984)

Matt's Picks