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𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐰 on Draft and Cans at Intermission Beer Company

B. Kline — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:15:58 +0000

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐰! by Intermission Beer Company (photo courtesy of Intermission Beer Co.)

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐰!

Zapp Brannigan: Brannigan’s Law is like Brannigan’s love: hard and fast.

–Zapp Brannigan

Intermission Beer Company from 10089 Brook Road, Unit A, Glen Allen, VA, United States, Virginia has released Brannigan’s Law! – a Braggot beer; styled like an Irish Red Ale. Braggot is a honey beer (similar to mead) and typically higher in ABV although Brannigan’s Law! comes in at 6.1% ABV. It is also Gluten Reduced which is certainly a plus for many people.

Zapp Brannigan: I don’t pretend to understand Brannigan’s Law. I merely enforce it.

–Zapp Brannigan

Brannigan’s Law! is available both on draft and in 16 oz pounder cans from the brewery. They are located in Glen Allen, VA; just north of Richmond VA. They come in four packs or cases when bought at the brewery. (The brewery does not ship, and its only available at the brewery.) [So as a side note – if you live in the VA area and are able or willing to trade up to Central PA, we here at the blog would be forever grateful. Reach out via the CONTACT page and form to get ahold of us!]

Zapp Brannigan: April thirteenth… point two. We have failed to uphold Brannigan’s Law. However, I did make it with a hot alien babe. And, in the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars? [A few seconds pass.] Kif, I’m asking you a question!

–Zapp Brannigan

Announcement

𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐩 𝐚𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐰!

Braggot (honey beer) brewed in the style of an Irish Red Ale. Deep red hue, full bodied, and as smooth as a velour fog.

Available on tap and in cans to-go at the Brewery (Brook Rd) and Arcade (Lakeridge Pkwy)!

ABV: 6.1% & Gluten Reduced

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Intermission Beer Company – Facebook Post

For More Information on Intermission Beer Co.

The following comes via Untappd.

Intermission Beer Company is a micro brewery from Glen Allen, VA. They have 49 unique beers and over 5,000 ratings, with a global average rating of 3.63 as of 4.17.24. Their Untappd description reads: “Justin and Courtney met at TheatreVCU. She was a Stage Management major, he was a Set Design major. Justin started home brewing with a few roommates during his college years. They both worked professionally in theater in Richmond, Williamsburg, Norfolk, and surrounding areas. Justin got back into home brewing after they bought a house in 2007. The house quickly filled with brewing supplies so they built a garage. The garage quickly got filled with brewing supplies as well! Shortly after Virginia Senate Bill 604 was passed in 2012, Justin and Courtney decided to open a brewery and to put their 2 passions together: Beer and the Arts! Thus, Intermission Beer Company was formed!”

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Futurama Episode Review – Children of a Lesser Bog and Beer Review: Stay on Target (Allusion Brewing Company)

B. Kline — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:32:14 +0000

Futurama: Season 11 – Episode 2: Children of a Lesser Bog

Week Two of Futurama Mondays

Its week two of Futurama Mondays and that means another YouTube video review. This week we have Season 11 Episode 2 – Children of a Lesser Bog for you. As well as a beer review of Stay on Target by Allusion Brewing Company. (While it might not be a Futurama themed beer, it is at least a Star Wars themed beer.)

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Book Review: Futurama and Philosophy (Edited by Courtland Lewis)
Futurama Episode Review – The Impossible Stream and Mead Review: Omicron Persei 8 (SpaceTime Meadery)
Mead Review: Omicron Persei 8 (Space Time Mead and Cider Works)
Futurama Episode Review – Children of a Lesser Bog and Beer Review: Stay on Target (Allusion Brewing Company)

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.

Stay on Target by Allusion Brewing Company

Beer: Stay on Target
Brewery: Allusion Brewing Company
Style: IPA – English
ABV: 6.7%
IBU: 57
Untappd Description: A traditional English IPA with a sweet malt backbone from floor malted Maris Otter malt with herbal, citrus and sagebrush hints in the aroma from the English Target hops. Enjoy one to help you stay on target and bring an end to the empire that has been plaguing your galaxy far far away.
My Untappd Rating: ****.25
Global Untappd Rating: 3.68 (as of 7.31.23)

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 – 8 out of 10
Season 11: Episode 3: How the West was 1010101010 (will air next week – Monday August 7th, 2024)

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Book Review: Futurama and Philosophy (Edited by Courtland Lewis)

B. Kline — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 12:05:24 +0000

We’re Back Baby!

So Futurama returned this morning at 3:00 AM (EST) on Hulu streaming. Who woke up super early to catch it? (I finished off the final Comedy Central season and let it run into it upon waking up this morning, watching Meanwhile and going directly into the new ‘The Impossible Stream’.)

I will give my full thoughts later today in the video I’m going to be doing for the episode review, so I won’t go into too much here. I will say I enjoyed the episode, but its certainly not the funniest episode they’ve made – and its far from the worst too.

We covered previously – Good News Everyone, Futurama is Back: Exploring Futurama – Inspired Craft Beers – that Futurama is back starting today and will be airing a weekly episode for the next ten weeks, and with each episode I want to (try) get a Futurama themed article up on the site, as well as a reaction / review of each episode on YouTube. So make sure you follow us at our YouTube page: The Beer Thrillers on YouTube.

Philosophers in Space

Futurama and Philosophy is the 78th entry into the “…and Philosophy” series. It started many years ago with “Seinfeld in Philosophy” and has ballooned from there covering a wide range of topics from Baseball, Jeopardy, Lady Gaga, to Futurama, Batman, Marvel Movies / Marvel Universe, to Curb Your Enthusiasm and much much more.

I do enjoy the series for what it is. Each book is a collection of essays looking at their particular topic (in this case Futurama) through the lens of philosophy. The articles are hit or miss, just as the writers themselves are. But overall its pretty entertaining / interesting stuff.

We have previously covered the Curb Your Enthusiasm volume here: Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy Book Review.

If you are looking for more philosophy book reviews, you can find that we have covered quite a bit – from The Philosophy of Snoopy to On Bullshit. (I’ll link them at the end of the article in a list to make it easier.)

Book Review

Futurama and Philosophy: Pizza, Paradoxes, and Good News

The back cover blurb (from GoodReads):

Good news everyone! A billion years late and right on time, here’s Futurama and Philosophy. Now at least you can activate your pleasure unit by jacking on to the universe’s deep thought generator! This may be counter-indicated by your operations manual and denounced by Fathers Against Rude Television but at least it won’t make you your own grandfather. And according to the Hypnotoad … ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Back Cover Blurb: Futurama and Philosophy (GoodReads)

This edition that I’m reviewing is the paperback edition, released on October 8th, 2013, and is 284 pages long. (The editing and formatting for my edition makes me believe it was a galley or pre – release review edition.)

As I said about this type of book – the essays can be hit or miss. Luckily this edition is more hit than miss. They do a good job of doing a deep dive into the characters, some of the settings and the make up of the Futurama universe, as well as things like robot ethics, freedom, “sexlexia”, and much more.

The Zapp Brannigan “sexlexia” article while being somewhat interesting discussing the inadequacies of each of the characters when it comes to sex, doesn’t really offer a whole lot of philosophical insight. And this kind of brings to light how these “… and Philosophy” books kind of work. They tend to either be more heavily bent on discussing the particular matter (in this case Futurama) and typically attempting to be humorous, or they come across too heavily focused on the philosophy and lose sight of the source material to a degree. I feel like its an unfortunate ‘nature of the beast’ as far as these collections go. As much as I love philosophy and love Futurama or Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm or whatever the particular book is about, its too hard to truly weave source material with philosophy and keep it engaging for both crowds.

This book does offer a great gateway or introduction to philosophy for younger readers (middle school or high school) who enjoy the source material and are looking to go a bit deeper into it. Seeing how the characters mindsets are, why Robot Ethics are important, how AI is playing out now in 2023 is a bit elucidated by things involving ethics and morality regarding robots and humans alike, the Popplers article discussing eating meat, eating intelligent creatures, and the morality behind it all, using Peter Singer as the backdrop is a great way to get younger people discussing and thinking about important topics and ideas such as that.

None of the “and Philosophy” books are considered official, so you won’t be finding any pictures or promotional material from Futurama; it’s just text – which for a Philosophy book is fine. I know it would be nice to have a picture of the episode or character in question for each chapter, but it is what it is and not a big deal.

By the end it does get a bit repetitive, some of the episodes are more heavily focused on than others, and thus get a fair bit more attention than others, so at times it feels like its being hammered on a bit.

All in all though this is a great introduction book for fans of Futurama to take their first look and step into the greater world that is philosophy.

Average GoodReads Rating: 3.80 (as of 7.24.23)
My GoodReads Rating: ****
My LibraryThing Rating: 3.5

(LibraryThing lets you do half stars where as GoodReads is whole stars only.)

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Scrooged:

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

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HP Lovecraft / Cthulhu:

Beer Review: Azathoth (Edmund’s Oast Brewing Company)

Seinfeld:

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