Enter the Matrix

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill—the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill—you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

Morpheus – The Matrix

A moment inscribed in all the brains of every 80s and 90s kids / teens growing up. A movie that blew our collective brains clear out of our skulls while we were in high school or middle school. …..And it’s back. This time – for a cash grab. Well, sort of, who knows? Maybe the movie will be fantastic. Maybe it’ll replace how bad the trilogy ended. Who knows. Lets keep our fingers crossed on Wednesday when Matrix Resurrections hits movie theaters and HBO Max that it blows our brains once again.

So… do you want to take the Red Pill or the Blue Pill?

Second Sin’s Matrix Monday

Today, in celebration, anticipation, and hopefully getting all of us 80s and 90s geeks and kids who lost our brains in and because of the Matrix, Second Sin is hosting ‘Matrix Monday’. Announced on December 15th, that they will be hosting Matrix Monday at their brewery today – December 20th, 2021.

Their initial Facebook post showed the poster of the two new Pilsners they are releasing with a brief intro to what the event will be:

Join us at the brewery on Matrix Monday (12/20/21 at 5pm) for this double release and see how deep the Pilsner Rabbit Hole goes.#craftbeer#beer#drinkinbucksco#secondsin#beerstagram#instabeer#visitbuckscounty#visitphilly#breweriesinpa#drinklocal#buckscounty#candrop#matrix#lager#pilsner#thechoiceisyours

Second Sin – Facebook

Yesterday they provided a bit more information on today’s event in another Facebook post:

You taste the Blue Pils, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe you had a delicious Italian Pilsner. You taste the Red Pils, you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the lager rabbit hole goes.⠀⠀

We’ll be open at 5pm for Matrix Monday. Stop in, enjoy these two releases, and catch up on the original trilogy before the new movie is released. Both beers will be available for preorder starting at noon tomorrow.⠀

⠀#craftbeer#beer#drinkinbucksco#secondsin#beerstagram#instabeer#visitbuckscounty#visitphilly#breweriesinpa#drinklocal#buckscounty#supportlocal#matrix#redpill#bluepill#lager#pilsner#thechoiceisyours#downtherabbithole

Second Sin – Facebook

Both the Blue Pils and the Red Pils is listed already on Untappd. Their descriptions are:

Beer: Blue Pils
Brewery: Second Sin Brewing Company
Style: Pilsner – Italian
ABV: 5.7%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Blue Pils – Italian-Style Pilsner – Unfortunately, no one can be told what an Italian Pilsner is. You have to drink one for yourself…but I guess we can try. This beer starts with a simple, clean Pilsner base that is gently dry hopped twice with Halltertau and Loral, for a lovely floral hop character that is a nice change of pace from our other hoppy offerings.

Beer: Red Pils
Brewery: Second Sin Brewing Company
Style: Pilsner – Other
ABV: 5.6%
IBU: None
Untappd Description: Red Pils – American Dry Hopped Pilsner – As unbelievable as some (us included) may find it, there are people out there that don’t like lagers, and more specifically, pilsners. Well this one is for them. We start with a crisp Pilsner and hop it in the kettle and dry hop with Hallertau Blanc, Citra, and Mosaic for a twist on a great style. If you’re a hop head that doesn’t really care for lagers…Drink the Red Pils, and we’ll show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Second Sin Brewing Company

Second Sin Brewing Company is a micro brewery located in Bristol, Pennsylvania. According to Untappd they have 196 unique beers and have a total of 16,657 ratings (as of 12.20.21). They have a global average rating of 4.09 and they made the Pennsylvania Top 10 Untappd Breweries for 2021 list. You can find them on Facebook here: Second Sin Brewing Company’s Facebook Profile. Their brewery is located at 1500 Grundy Lane, Bristol PA.

We have reviewed two beers from them in the past:

• Beer Review: I Voted for Kang (Second Sin Brewing Company)
• Beer Review: I Voted for Kodos (Second Sin Brewing Company)

So What Will It Be?

Will you take the Blue Pill and wake back up in your bed in the morning? Maybe a slight hangover. Maybe not. And go about your day as if nothings ever been changed and not knowing about the true reality behind it all….. or…. do you take that Red Pill and dive deep into the Pilsners, the Lagers, and the myriad of other beers that Second Sin has to offer?

OR…

Do you have both? And then continue to have every other beer Second Sin has to offer at their brewery?

See you today for Matrix Monday at Second Sin to find out!

For More Information

• Second Sin Brewing Company – Facebook
• Second Sin Brewing Company – Instagram
• The Red Pill and Blue Pill – Wikipedia
• The Matrix Resurrections – Wikipedia
• A Matrix Primer – The Matrix Ending Guide – Catch You Up for The Matrix Resurrections (YouTube)

Trailers:

• Official Trailer 1:

• Official Trailer 2:

• The Extended Official Trailer:

Thanks For Reading

This is probably the first post I’ve done with this many YouTube clips or videos embedded. Hopefully all that coding junk and HTML and javascript and WordPress and other high – falutin techy sounding words all work out right. Fingers crossed. Don’t want the Matrix to break down on us now do we? (See…. see what I did there? Get it….?)

Anyway, thanks for reading as always. Always love to hear from you guys. Will you be going to the Matrix Monday event today at Second Sin Brewery?

2021 is just about wrapped up and things are getting a bit busy and hectic around here at The Beer Thrillers headquarters. But 2022 is really looking to be an exciting year. (Finally after the last two years!) Lots of new and exciting things here, and a pretty varied and wide range of things will be happening. (More beer reviews, more beer travels, more travelogues and brewery reviews, podcasts, board game and card game streaming, more video game streaming and meet ups, book reviews, hikes and hike reviews, and lots and lots more beer and brewery news and notes.) We will also be pumping up our home brewing next year and will be doing a lot more articles and news and notes on that as well (with home brewing videos too!). Also hop growing, and all kinds of other things. So 2022 is really looking to be fun and exciting! I can’t wait!

For more links to some of our stuff, check out our archive pages:

• Beer Reviews
• Hikes
• Travels
• News
• Book Reviews

As always though, thanks for reading. Let us know what you thought of this article, of Second Sin Brewing, of The Matrix, etc. Are you looking forward to the new movie? What did you think of the original trilogy? Excited for it all or just ‘bleh’ to it? Let us know!

Cheers everyone!

-B. Kline

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Another style underrepresented here on the blog and in beer reviews in general is the pilsner. I’ve done a few reviews of them, but they’ve been exclusively in multiple beer review posts where I’m doing a flight or reviewing two or more beers at once. But I was gifted a can of this by J. Hoak after his Halloween party from when he and Tattered Flag did their collaboration with Levante Brewing Company. So thats’ gonna change now… its time to do a review of a pilsner!

Beer: Birra Di Levante
Brewery: Levante Brewing Company
Style: Pilsner – Other
ABV: 4.9%
IBU: 32
Untappd Write-Up: A fine Pils is crafted from water with terroir. West Chester provides our brewery with such a pure water source that we hardly manipulate our water profile to achieve the characteristics of a true Bohemian-style Pilsner, lagered and further clarified through filtration. True to classic style, Tettnang hops brighten this crisp golden-straw hue Pils with earthy aromatics of noble spice.

Levante Brewing Company is probably best known for Tickle Parts (IPA); which as I write this blog, I’m currently drinking a variant of it (Tickle Parts Passionfruit IPA). But this pilsner certainly deserves recognition and should be mentioned when discussing some great beers that Levante has made. Pilsners for a long time are one of my ‘weird’ categories of beers or styles of beers; where it can go either way with little wiggle room. Either pilsners have a weird taste to me and its just off putting and I can’t drink it, or their extremely good and I could down a six pack in no time flat.

Luckily, this one falls more on the “how many cans do I have in the fridge? …thats not enough!” side of things.

Appearance for this is crystal clear light straw. Similar to the Newfangled Brew Works Lager I reviewed yesterday; this is clear, crisp looking, with nice bubbles, and good lacing on the glass afterwards. Great carbonation coming out of the can.

Aroma is light beer fare, but with some earthy undertones to it. Once again, similar to the Lager and similar to lagers and pilsners in general, this just has that ‘beer’ smell to it. The stereotypical, prototypical, nondescript ‘beer’ smell one associates with beer, when ‘cracking open a cold one’ after a long day’s work. There is some spices that you can get a faint hint of, earthy herbal spices, but they are pretty faint and more of an undertone than something to stand out.

Taste is clean, crisp, clear, straight forward pilsner. Not too many frills or sillyness with this beer. Light and low in ABV at only 4.9%, this is what a simple clear crisp refreshing beer should taste like. This is easily crushable and would make for a wonderful fantastic six-pack beer for a game or mowing the yard. There is a nice hoppy taste to this that kicks this up a bit of a notch from your generic or average pilsner, or lager, or lite beer. Certainly over the corporate swill of Coors, Bud, Miller.

My Untappd Rating: ****.25
Global Untappd Rating: 3.64 (as of 11.18.19)

This passionfruit Tickle Parts is super good too, you can probably look for this to be the review tomorrow, so keep your antennas ready to check out the site for when it drops! Hopefully before work (makes it easier), so check around 10AM.

Fingers crossed.

Cheers!

-B. Kline

Another one of my beer mails, and this time from Southern Prohibition out of Hattiesburg Mississippi. The only can of the bunch I got, so seemed perfect to enjoy with the can shaped Rotunda Brewing glassware I have. Also since Pilsners can be hit or miss with me, seemed like a good beer to try out on a dreary rainy Friday (dreary rainy days can always be hit or miss too, you never know what you are gonna get). And as a mid-day treat it pairs nicely with the pot pie from Rutter’s. Not a bad lunch if I say so my self (and you can’t beat the pot pie at Rutter’s; you can’t really beat the food there in general really).

So right off the bat, you can see this one foams up big time, regardless of how I poured it, it foamed up quick and gave a huge head (…..insert whatever you want here…), even when re-filling the glass and to top myself off, trying to pour different ways, it still had a lot of carbonation and foamed up big time. This is not necessarily a bad thing, and the head on this is nice and pillowy and fluffy and tasty in its own right. Also the bubbles are nice, interspersed, and popping regularly, a sign that the beer has been well made.

So I find myself at noon, enjoying Rutter’s pot pie, listening to Bach, sitting on the front porch, while the girls are inside devouring their hot dogs and wrap from Rutter’s (8$ total, not bad!) spending their last free friday before school season, while I listen to the soft but still somewhat steady beat of rain drops hitting and dripping off the Nugget and Saaz hop arbor in front of me (you can see it slightly in the background of the pic), and enjoying a tasty subtle pilsner.

Beer: Good Vibrations
Brewery: Southern Prohibition Brewing
Style: Pilsner – Other
ABV: 5.6%
IBU: No IBU
Untappd Write-Up: Good Vibrations is a new dry hopped Pilsner. A simple base of Pilsner malt, Vienna, and flaked Rice was used to create a crisp, dry, and bright backdrop for a dry hopping consisting entirely Motueka Beer: Good Vibrations
Brewery: Southern Prohibition Brewing
Style: Pilsner – Other
ABV: 5.6%
IBU: No IBU
Untappd Write-Up:

This is a pretty simple, basic pilsner, spiced up some with the dry hopping. Dry hopping has become such a huge thing in the past few years, that breweries have begun to dry hop just about every style possible, starting obviously with IPAs, and Pale Ales, to Pilsners, to Belgians, and even to Stouts and I even saw a Brown Ale advertised as dry hopped. I’m not super sold on the non-IPA/non-pale ale dry hopping, but I think of the various off-styles for it, pilsner works probably the best. I’ve had a few pilsner dry hopped beers and they’ve been pretty good and the dry hopping typically makes up for some of the things I don’t find enjoyable in pilsners. (And this is merely a “me” thing, not a “pilsner” thing or a “style” thing or “this or that beer was off” thing, its a “me” thing. We all have our styles and tastes that just don’t work with out tastebuds and mouth chemistry, and pilsners are in that range for me sometimes. I do and have enjoyed some, and I will continue to try them out and taste them, I just know going in that I have about a 50/50 on them. Sadly.)

Pouring this out, its a light straw, yellow “beer looking” beer. As I mentioned earlier, lots of carbonation, lots of head, lots of foam, but all looking good.

Aroma is not as ‘hoppy’ as I imagined being dry hopped. I was expecting a lot of hop forward aroma with the subtle backbone of a pilsner, but this really didn’t have the knock out hop aroma.

I’m enjoying this as I sip it. The hop characteristic is very subtle but a bit diffusing of the pilsner notes. There is no punch in the mouth knock out hop characteristics, but it is there with a subtlety. Unlike the Ghost in the Machine Parish Brewing beer I had yesterday, this isn’t an instant gulper, its a much more laid back, relaxed sipper.

This is in the category of pilsners I “like”. Its nothing outstanding or mind blowing or amazing, but it is a great summertime sipping pilsner, thats light, airy, and not high ABV either to really wreck your day, and going with food it won’t hit you at all. It has some of the pilsner bite, so if you don’t like that stay away, but its not as noticeable and subdued most likely due to the dry hopping, that its barely noticeable (except as a bit of an aftertaste).

My Untappd Rating: ***.75
Global Untappd Rating: 3.76 (as of 8.23.19)

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