time to play the "can you name this style by the pictures" game.

OK, chaps. This one is going to be very difficult to pin down because the brewery is very new and not well known. So I will start by saying it is a recent release, draft only. Questions format. You will need good investigative skills to get this one.

Also, after this I am retiring from the game because I feel like I'm sucking the fun out of it for everyone else and I just can't help myself because I love a puzzle.

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west coast?

 

I vote you don`t retire from the game, just makes me want to learn more about beer and breweries. You are an inpiration

 

Yes, west coast.

 

Artifex??

also, yeah don't retire. we don't have enough players as it is

 

Artifex is the correct brewery! But I think you will still have to dig deep to find the beer.

 

This scene popped into my head after I mentioned retiring. It made me laugh so I had to flesh it out and post it. I swear it's from having watched too many cliche movies about a guy "coming out of retirement" and not about being an egomaniac. Apologies if I missed anyone in the credits, it just means you need to play more often because it came from a mostly random sample of clicking around for the last few dozen pages. And the actor choices were mostly random.

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SCENE: A dark, seedy bar. chocotaco sits alone at a table for two, nursing a glorious craft beer. Two men enter, in black Armani suits, with black ties and white shirts. They scan the bar and spot chocotaco. One approaches his table; the other approaches the bar.

AGENT 1: chocotaco?
CHOCOTACO: (looks up) who wants to know?
AGENT 1: We're here on behalf of the United States government. It's about the game.
CHOCOTACO: (looks down into his glass) Then you're here about ten years too late. I retired from that a long time ago.
AGENT 1: We know that. (he pulls out the chair opposite chocotaco and sits) We also know that there was a time when you were the best.
CHOCOTACO: (takes a sip) I was never the best. I was just lucky. With all your files, you should know that.
(The second agent approaches the table. He sets a glass of beer down on the table. chocotaco's eyes immediately fix on the glass. The second agent smirks.)
CHOCOTACO: (eyes dart to the second agent, then to the first) I... I have no idea what that is.
AGENT 2: (sarcastically) Sure.
CHOCOTACO: Look, what's this about, anyway?
AGENT 1: (slips a photograph across the table) Recognize this?
CHOCOTACO: (looks at the photo) Of course. It's Secretary Smith.
AGENT 1: Yes. But what's he drinking?
CHOCOTACO: Oh my god.
AGENT 2: Now do you see?
AGENT 1: Your country needs you, chocotaco.
CHOCOTACO: (stares hard at AGENT 1 for several seconds) I have one condition.
AGENT 1: Name it.
CHOCOTACO: (looks around nervously). Pliny the Younger.
AGENT 1 looks puzzled.
CHOCOTACO: I never tried it. Get me some.
AGENT 1: (quizzical look) OK, that shouldn't be a problem.
CHOCOTACO: Not just for me.
AGENT 1 looks shocked.
CHOCOTACO: For everyone from the old thread. Bragona71, DarthCitra, CorporateHippie, JordanKnudson, MrFeltimo, Tripplehazard... everyone.
AGENT 1 shoots AGENT 2 a glance. AGENT 2 nods.
AGENT 1: I think we can do that.

OPENING TITLES BEGIN (theme music a la Blade Runner or Deus Ex):
The Most Dangerous Beer Game
Starring:
Sam Rockwell as Chocotaco
Don Cheadle as CorporateHippie
Ray Park as DarthCitra
Paul Rudd as Bragona71
Samuel L. Jackson as JordanKnudson
Clive Owen as MrFeltimo
Ron Perlman as Tripplehazard
Micky Rourke as Drainbamage

Directed By: Steven Soderbergh

 

No name ipa or hibisc-this cream

 

Oh and......Don cheadle??? Really??? Lol

 

No to both (like I said you will have to dig deep - deeper than their website)

And what's wrong with Don Cheadle? He's a great actor!

 

great stuff!!! Im ok being played by Paul Rudd .

 

see ya later IPA

 

Yes!

 

Pffff..... I epically guess the micro-brewery and got robbed

 

I was impressed how quick you got the brewery! Go ahead if you have something up

 

Typical Paul Rudd, being such a gentleman about it.

 

And CorporateHippie was all like
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Here goes.....

Should be a fast one....

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I guessed the brewery and I was all like....

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Clive Owen . AWESOME.

 

Going by chocotacos fantasy.
Pliny the younger?
I have never had or seen it so I don't even know what it looks like.

 

see chaco you just brought the fun back into this game by trying to quit..Your staying

 

never had younger but elder is pretty good but not worth standing in line for an hour on Friday after work!!!! Russian river has good beer and better marketing

 

ok back to the game.. east coast?

 

Sorry, I was out at our local club meeting sipping on tasty home brews all night ....NOT east coast

 

I'm going to stick my neck out and say it's NOT from the box behind the glass. Going off a clue from the box, I'd have to say another WI brewery. None more sought after than New Glarus.

 

We have the brewery!! Now the beer....??

 

New Glarus Serendipity?

 

Close.....this one is the grand daddy of em all

 

Drat... used up my guess for the day.

 

just go ahead man...this is all you. The 4-5 of us that play use more then one a day

 

WI Wild Sour?

 

Raspberry Tart?

 

The rule is that if a hint is given (or something that can be interpreted as a hint) you can guess again.

 

Hint#2 The clone recipe has eluded homebrews to this day

 

New Glaris, Road slush?

 

Wisconsin Belgian Red

 

Moose druel

 

spotted cow

 

There we go.... "A pound of cherries in every bottle"

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