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Omicron Persei 8 by Space Time Mead and Cider Works – a Metheglin style mead for our Futurama Monday.

Futurama Monday

Back for our second week of Futurama Monday. Last week Futurama premiered on Hulu, and they continued with “Season 11” Episode 2 today – Children of a Lesser Bog.

As I said previously – we will be doing a Futurama themed article each week, and later in the day I will be doing a Futurama episode recap / review on YouTube. So be sure to check out both.

Last week for our blog article I covered Futurama and Philosophy and did a book review of it. You can find that here – Book Review: Futurama and Philosophy (Edited by Courtland Lewis). Then later in the day I hopped on YouTube and did a recap / review of the episode – “Season 11 – Episode 1: The Impossible Stream” which you can catch here: Futurama Episode Review – The Impossible Stream and Mead Review: Omicron Persei 8 (SpaceTime Meadery) – you can also go straight to the video here: Season 11 – Episode 1 Review: The Impossible Stream.

On the video I did a recap / review of the episode as well as drank the Omicron Persei 8 and discussed it a bit, giving it a small, light review. I will be doing the full review in this blog post. (Later today, I will do a video recap / review of today’s episode – Season 11 – Episode 2: Children of a Lesser Bog.) I will be most likely having Allusion Brewing Company’s Star Wars themed beer – “Stay on Target”. (I won’t always be having a Futurama themed beer while doing a review, but I will try when I can.)

Futurama Monday Articles

Omicron Persei 8

Lrrr and the other Omicronians hail from Omicron Persei 8. They are a Reptilian / Lizard / Somewhat bird-ish species. For fun, I asked Chat GPT if they know about Omicron Persei 8, and here is its response:

Yes, I’m familiar with Omicron Persei 8. However, it’s worth noting that Omicron Persei 8 is a fictional planet from the animated television show “Futurama.” The show, created by Matt Groening, follows the adventures of a delivery boy named Fry who is cryogenically frozen and wakes up 1,000 years in the future.

In “Futurama,” Omicron Persei 8 is portrayed as a distant and dangerous planet, home to the Omicronians, an aggressive and warlike alien species. The Omicronians are often depicted as an exaggerated parody of science fiction tropes, and their planet serves as a recurring location in the series.

As a real astronomical object, Omicron Persei is a star system in the Perseus constellation, located approximately 1,100 light-years away from Earth. There is no known planet called Omicron Persei 8 in reality.

Chat GPT 3.5

The two Omicronians we see the most on screen is Lrrr and Nd-Nd his wife. To say they have a ‘complicated marriage’ is probably putting things mildly. Possibly my favorite episode involving the Omicronians is “Spanish Fry”.

Mead Review: Omicron Persei 8

Omicron Persei 8 by Space Time Mead and Cider Works

Beer / Mead: Omicron Persei 8
Brewery: Space Time Mead & Cider Works
Style: Mead – Metheglin
ABV: 9.3%
IBU: N / A
Untappd Description: Omicron Persei 8 has a nice hop character with almost malt like taste created by the buckwheat honey and coffee (think stout). This semi sweet mead is made with local wildflower honey, buckwheat honey, hops grown by Avery Mountain Bines & Twine, and Moka Origins Coffee. Hops and buckwheat honey added in boil. A wonderful mead when you are devouring. Lightly Carbonated. Gluten Free. Featuring art by Alexya Rauso.

Since I covered this a bit in the YouTube video, I’ll dive more into it here in the blog mead review. I suggest watching the video to get an idea of how the mead looks and how I thought it tasted on initial try. (Futurama Episode Review – The Impossible Stream and Mead Review: Omicron Persei 8.)

Appearance is very pretty, its a lovely light honey colored mead. It is transparent but with that golden orange glow. It has very good carbonation with wonderful bubbles that dance their way up to the surface.

Aroma is a honey, coffee, sweet, wild flower, with light hop note medley. This has a lot more interesting stuff going on with it than I had imagined at first pour. Taking a good nose of the mead gives you lots of different notes. The honey and hops might be muted due to the other notes of wildflower, sweetness, and coffee – or it also might be muted a bit due to age. This makes for an interesting (and nice) concoction of aromas.

Sipping on this – and its certainly a sipper, since its both a Mead, and a 9.3% ABV drink, you get the full gambit of tastes and things to notice. First taste, first impression, I get the sweet, the honey, the wildflower, with just a wee hint of coffee. Not much, and honestly without knowing the nose and reading the description, I’m not sure if I would believe its fully there. This could be an age thing, or it could be the mead itself. The hop characteristics have certainly tailed off, and I would place that a hundred percent on the age of the mead and not a thing to take umbrage with the mead itself. As you sip this you get a bit more of the medley of notes you first pick up in the nose and aroma. I get more coffee, I get more grounds and earthy notes (possibly the hops), and a lot more of the sweet, wildflower, and some of the hops fully and outright. The honey seems to sneak back in as the mead finishes up hitting you with a very sweet dosage of its potency. This was a wonderful addition to my “nerd panel” of beers and meads, to go along with all of the Star Wars RAR beers, the other Futurama themed beers I’ve had, and the numerous other Star Wars beers as well.

My Untappd Rating: ****
Global Untappd Rating: (Not Enough Reviews For a Global Rating) (as of 7.31.23)

Children of a Lesser Bog

Quick note on today’s episode – I will do a full review and recap on YouTube later, but since I have seen the episode already, I’ll jump in here and give a little bit of thoughts on it before expressing myself fully later.

I enjoyed the episode. I thought the start and the lead up to getting to the Amy / Kiff part was a bit weak (the honey stuff), and I thought some of Zapp’s lines felt forced, but generally I enjoyed the episode. I liked Kiff’s portrayal and segments, and I think it gave Amy some good character growth as well. Leela I thought was dumbed down a bit though, and not really sure my thoughts on how I feel they portrayed her in this episode.

I did enjoy the “bear biologist” and his return (he was the “whale biologist” from the original Fox run). The tardigrades was a fun inclusion, and I did like Axel, Mandy, and Lil Newt. I kinda wanted to expect more out of the idea of thousands and thousands of baby tadpoles and that there’d be more to it than just Kiff and Amy having three kids at various age stages, but I think this can work for future references and bits and segments. I was fully expecting them to do something different though.

Overall, I enjoyed the episode, and am looking forward to next week’s episode about “How the West Was 10101010101” and then the episode after that – “Parasites Regained”.

All of Our Nerd Content

Here’s all of our nerd content, served up best in one single place. Enjoy!

I know ya’ll here for the nerd reviews. So check out our other nerd reviews below:

Star Wars:

Futurama

Lord of the Rings:

Magic the Gathering:

Zelda:

Rick and Morty:

Space Balls:

Game of Thrones:

The Simpsons:

Back to the Future:

Scrooged:

Groundhog Day:

A Christmas Story:

The Peanuts:

Pro Wrestling:

Soccer:

World Cup:

Phillies:

Matrix:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

HP Lovecraft / Cthulhu:

Seinfeld:

Other:

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Omicron Persei 8 by SpaceTime Meadery

Futurama is Back Baby

As we covered in the previous two articles: Good News Everyone, Futurama is Back: Exploring Futurama – Inspired Craft Beers and Book Review: Futurama and Philosophy (Edited by Courtland Lewis) – Futurama is back, starting today with the first episode airing on Hulu streaming (July 24th, 2023).

Video Review

I did a YouTube (video) review of the first Futurama episode – Season 11 Episode 1 – The Impossible Stream. You can find that video here:

Futurama Episode Review – Season 11 Episode 1 – The Impossible Stream (as well as a Mead Review of Omicron Persei 8 by SpaceTime Meadery)

Please head over to YouTube by clicking the above video and checking out our YouTube page. Also please subscribe to be able to get more future YouTube content from us. We will be posting a weekly review of each episode of Futurama every Monday when they release. As well as there will be plenty more content.

And of course – make sure you “smash” that like button, subscribe button, and hit the notification button. Otherwise Nixon will sneak into your house at night and wreck up the place.

Futurama

We will be covering a weekly blog article each and every Monday for all 10 episodes of the Season 11 run on Hulu. I will also be following that up with a weekly video on YouTube giving my thoughts, opinions, and other commentaries about each episode. I will also likely be doing these reviews while having a beer and giving a quick review of the beer as well.

The first Futurama weekly blog article is a Book Review of Futurama and Philosophy, edited by Courtland Lewis.

Mead Review: Omicron Persei 8 by SpaceTime Meadery

Before we completely jump into this mead review, let’s first take a look at Omicron Persei 8.

Omicron Persei 8

From “The Infosphere” (Futurama’s version of Wikipedia or akin to Star Wars’ version of Wookiepedia), we get the following information on Omicron Persei 8:

Omicron Persei 8 is a planet situated about 1000 lightyears from Earth, in orbit around the star of Omicron Persei. The rulers of the planet are Lrrr and his wife Ndnd. Its surface seems to consist mainly of deserts. It is the home world and capital of the warlike Omicronians, the single greatest threat Earth and the entire Democratic Order of Planets are facing. It seems to have a small, asteroid-like satellite. [1ACV12] In addition to this, there are hundreds of small moons in the planet’s low orbit. [7ACV16]

In 3017, Fry travelled to Omicron Persei 8 to retrieve an artifact that would help clear the universe of hypnowaves. Lrrr, upset because he was using the artifact to steal cable channels from Earth, invaded New New York, and wouldn’t leave until President Nixon turned Fry over to him. The Omicronians were surprised that the Earthicans put up such a fight, and decided to call off their attack. However, Lrrr and Ndnd remained on Earth, along with a replica of the Omicronian Palace and several other Omicronian buildings.

……..

The Omicron Persei system contains at least 27 planets, as Omicron Persei 27 has been mentioned and the number indicates which planet in the system is being referred to, with the highest numbers being furthest from their stars. Omicron Persei 8 is neighbored by the planets Omicron Persei 7 and Omicron Persei 9 as have been referenced by Ndnd. This is a reference and a gag on the common Earth expression, and book by John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, the planets that “surround” Earth on either side of its orbit. It is merely meant to hyperbolically portray the large gap in cultural understanding between the sexes.

In “T.: The Terrestrial“, it is shown that the planet has hundreds of small moons in its low orbit. Its “third moon” is mentioned by Lrrr in “Spanish Fry“.

Omicron Persei 8 (The Infosphere)

Mead Review

Omicron Persei 8 by SpaceTime Meadery

Beer: Omicron Persei 8
Brewery: Space Time Mead & Cider Works
Style: Mead – Metheglin
ABV: 9.3%
IBU: N / A
Untappd Description: Omicron Persei 8 has a nice hop character with almost malt like taste created by the buckwheat honey and coffee (think stout). This semi sweet mead is made with local wildflower honey, buckwheat honey, hops grown by Avery Mountain Bines & Twine, and Moka Origins Coffee. Hops and buckwheat honey added in boil. A wonderful mead when you are devouring. Lightly Carbonated. Gluten Free. Featuring art by Alexya Rauso.

Not going to go too crazy in depth on this due to discussing it in the video, but this was a really lovely mead. There is a nice hop character to it, but its also a lovely dry and crispy mead. There’s a non – cloying sweetness to it deriving from the honey and wildflower that adds a very nice character to it.

We had stopped in Scranton area and stumbled upon the meadery and loved its SciFi, science, NASA, themes, and being a huge Futurama nerd I had to grab a can of this to go.

(And I am so glad I did.)

My Untappd Rating: ****
Global Untappd Rating: (Not Enough Ratings) (as of 7.24.23)

The Impossible Stream

In this video:

Futurama Episode Review – Season 11 Episode 1 – The Impossible Stream (as well as a Mead Review of Omicron Persei 8 by SpaceTime Meadery)

I give my full thoughts on Season 11’s Episode 1 – The Impossible Stream. So I will give it a proper rating here on the blog, and let you watch / listen to the video for my full thoughts.

On a score of 1 to 10 (1 being the worst, 10 being the best) I gave The Impossible Stream a 6 going to 6.5; and with benefit of the doubt I’ll stick to 6.5.

So for each future episode, I’ll keep a running tally of the season. So far:

Season 11 Episode Ratings

  • Season 11: Episode 1: The Impossible Stream – 6.5 out of 10
  • Season 11: Episode 2: Children of a Lesser Bog – (will air next week – July 31st, 2023)

I will keep this list updated and will show the next upcoming episode after. There is 10 episodes for each of the two seasons currently greenlit for Hulu. Season 11 and Season 12 are both scheduled to have 10 episodes, and all of the episode names have been announced.

Futurama – Season 11 Episode 1: The Impossible Stream

So make sure you come back each week for my video recap and reviews of each episode, as well as the accompanying blog articles.

All of Our Nerd Content

Here’s all of our nerd content, served up best in one single place. Enjoy!

I know ya’ll here for the nerd reviews. So check out our other nerd reviews below:

Star Wars:

Futurama

Lord of the Rings:

Magic the Gathering:

Zelda:

Rick and Morty:

Space Balls:

Game of Thrones:

The Simpsons:

Back to the Future:

Scrooged:

Groundhog Day:

A Christmas Story:

The Peanuts:

Pro Wrestling:

Soccer:

World Cup:

Phillies:

Matrix:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

HP Lovecraft / Cthulhu:

Seinfeld:

Other:

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The Beer Thrillers are a blog that prides itself on writing beer reviews, brewery reviews, travelogues, news (especially local to the Central PA brewery scene), as well as covering other topics of our interests – such as hiking, literature and books, board games, and video games which we sometimes stream with our friends over at Knights of Nostalgia. We are currently listed as #7 on FeedSpot’s “Top 100 Beer Blogs” and #8 on FeedSpot’s “Top 40 Pennsylvania Blogs”. (As of January 2023.) Thank you for reading our site today, please subscribe, follow, and bookmark. Please reach out to us if you are interested in working together. If you would like to donate to the blog you can here: Donate to The Beer Thrillers. Thank you!

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