Germans, Germanophiles, and good old fashioned beer drinkers everywhere kicked off sixteen days of carousing this past Saturday when Oktoberfest officially began. Indiewire's latest curated selections for Hulu's Documentaries page takes a look at the pleasures and pitfalls of drinking and cutting loose. Watch these and other docs now for free! Phil Parkin's "Beertickers: Beyond the Ale" explores British beer drinking culture, following a growing group of men and women whose hobby it is to seek out and sample as many different types of beer as possible.A love letter to beer and to a city, John Weber's "Brewed in Brooklyn" details the history of the NYC borough's brewing industry from the early 1800s through to today's modern craft breweries.Expanding the view to whole of America, Anat Baron's "Beer Wars" exposes the cut-throat corporate world of the beer industry, and the challenges faced by independents to enter the market.
- 9/23/2013
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
Welcome to Film on Tap, a new column about the many ways that beer (or sometimes booze) and cinema intersect in Austin.
October is always one of the biggest months for craft beer in Texas, and this year has been no exception, especially with the revival of the Texas Craft Brewers Festival here in Austin. The second annual Austin Beer Week is in full swing, with over a hundred events taking place from October 22-30 highlighting local breweries and brewpubs. Several movie-related beer events are happening at venues around town, including most of the Alamo Drafthouse locations.
North by Northwest Restaurant and Brewery is hosting a free screening of the documentary Beer Wars in the pavilion behind their restaurant at 8 pm tonight. Beer Wars explores the U.S. beer industry from the inside, revealing the truth behind the label of your favorite beer. Told from an insider’s perspective, the...
October is always one of the biggest months for craft beer in Texas, and this year has been no exception, especially with the revival of the Texas Craft Brewers Festival here in Austin. The second annual Austin Beer Week is in full swing, with over a hundred events taking place from October 22-30 highlighting local breweries and brewpubs. Several movie-related beer events are happening at venues around town, including most of the Alamo Drafthouse locations.
North by Northwest Restaurant and Brewery is hosting a free screening of the documentary Beer Wars in the pavilion behind their restaurant at 8 pm tonight. Beer Wars explores the U.S. beer industry from the inside, revealing the truth behind the label of your favorite beer. Told from an insider’s perspective, the...
- 10/25/2011
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
The top-selling beer in America is Bud Light. One out of every two beers sold in America is manufactured by Anheuser-Busch. Another 25 percent of those beers come from MillerCoors (the two companies combined their distribution operations in 2007, and also distribute Pbr). In many bars in America, beers produced by Anheuser-Busch or MillerCoors are the only options you are given. If you go to a grocery store, most -- if not all -- of the shelf space is devoted to beers from these companies. Is it because those companies create the best beers? If you've ever had a Bud Light, a Coors, a Miller Light, or a Pbr, you already know the answer to that. They taste like toilet water.
The beer industry is a lot like the movie industry (and a lot like a lot of industries, I suspect): It's not about quality, it's about who has the bigger advertising budget,...
The beer industry is a lot like the movie industry (and a lot like a lot of industries, I suspect): It's not about quality, it's about who has the bigger advertising budget,...
- 3/29/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
I am really going back to my roots recently immersing myself in documentaries which have always been my true passion. We very rarely talk about Documentaries on this site and I for one am going to work very hard to correct that. My latest foray back to the documentary Genre is Anat Baron’s Beer Wars which gives you an in-depth [...]...
- 11/13/2010
- by Michael
- MoviesOnline.ca
If you've seen Beer Wars then you'll know who Sam Calagione is and maybe even why international beer writer Michael Jackson called Dogfish Head, which Calagione founded, "America's most interesting and adventurous small brewery." Known for being off-centered, the brewery has worked with an archaelogist to recreate ancient brews including an ancient Turkish recipe using the original ingredients from the 2700-year-old drinking vessels discovered in the tomb of King Midas. So what does a Delaware brewery have to do with Austin film?
Calagione himself brings this off-centeredness to Austin by hosting the Off-Centered Film Fest, part of a two-night event at the Alamo Lake Creek. The annual event includes a beer and food pairing as well as a short film competition. Submissions are currently being accepted until March 1, 2010.
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Calagione himself brings this off-centeredness to Austin by hosting the Off-Centered Film Fest, part of a two-night event at the Alamo Lake Creek. The annual event includes a beer and food pairing as well as a short film competition. Submissions are currently being accepted until March 1, 2010.
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- 1/14/2010
- by Debbie Cerda
- Slackerwood
Rating: 6.5/10
Director: Anat Baron
I love beer. Like, I love it way too much. While I’ll pretty much drink and enjoy any beer, I tend to put my beer snob hat on whenever I can and go for whatever microbrew is on the menu or in the cooler at the store. And I’m also extremely lucky, as I live in Northern California where microbrews are plentiful (big ups to local faves Russian River Brewing and Lagunitas!). Anat Baron takes a look at the changing beer landscape in her interesting documentary Beer Wars. And while the film’s subject matter is near and dear to my heart, this wasn’t exactly the kind of in-depth, probing look at the beer industry I was hoping it would be, although it’s still pretty good.
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Director: Anat Baron
I love beer. Like, I love it way too much. While I’ll pretty much drink and enjoy any beer, I tend to put my beer snob hat on whenever I can and go for whatever microbrew is on the menu or in the cooler at the store. And I’m also extremely lucky, as I live in Northern California where microbrews are plentiful (big ups to local faves Russian River Brewing and Lagunitas!). Anat Baron takes a look at the changing beer landscape in her interesting documentary Beer Wars. And while the film’s subject matter is near and dear to my heart, this wasn’t exactly the kind of in-depth, probing look at the beer industry I was hoping it would be, although it’s still pretty good.
Read more on Movie Review: Beer Wars…...
- 11/20/2009
- by Don R. Lewis
- GordonandtheWhale
After watching Anat Baron’s new documentary, ‘Beer Wars,’ you are sure to want a cold one. An expert of the business and former general manager of Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Baron has an insider’s mindset when it comes to the world of alcoholic beverages and the corporate environment that surrounds them. Her film not only covers the big corporations of the beer industry, Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, it sets its sights on the little guys, the companies that are struggling to survive in a market that is completely swamped. And, what’s more, she does so with a confident eye for filmmaking that makes ‘Beer Wars’ every bit as entertaining as it is eye-opening.
Baron utilizes several different techniques to get her points across, but none of them feel forced. She incorporates talking heads, found footage and even animation to express her ideas to the audience, and it all...
Baron utilizes several different techniques to get her points across, but none of them feel forced. She incorporates talking heads, found footage and even animation to express her ideas to the audience, and it all...
- 9/25/2009
- by Kirk
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"Beer Wars Live" with Ben Stein will hit movie theaters for a one time only event on April 16 at 8 pm Et. This showing will feature Anat Baron's documentary "Beer Wars," which will be followed by a Live panel discussion with leading independent brewers and experts.
The documentary takes fans inside boardrooms and back rooms of the beer industry and tells the story of all of the fish in the beer pond, both big and little, and their journey in the land of big, beer business. Ben Stein will be joined by independent brewers and industry experts.
The list includes Sam Calagione, the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery founder, Rhonda Kallman, the founder of New Century Brewing Company and co-founder of Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams), Greg Koch the founder of Stone Brewing Company, Charlie Papazian the Brewers Association president, Maureen Ogle the historian and author of Ambitious Brew and Todd Alstrom,...
The documentary takes fans inside boardrooms and back rooms of the beer industry and tells the story of all of the fish in the beer pond, both big and little, and their journey in the land of big, beer business. Ben Stein will be joined by independent brewers and industry experts.
The list includes Sam Calagione, the Dogfish Head Craft Brewery founder, Rhonda Kallman, the founder of New Century Brewing Company and co-founder of Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams), Greg Koch the founder of Stone Brewing Company, Charlie Papazian the Brewers Association president, Maureen Ogle the historian and author of Ambitious Brew and Todd Alstrom,...
- 4/13/2009
- icelebz.com
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