Coffee, Code, and Chronicles

I stumbled on, by accident, a Kickstarter for a “documentary" on the making of The Final Sacrifice . Take my money! And as a former Film/TV Producer and Location Manager, I had to learn more about the production of this movie, 37 years after its independent release. I first saw The Final Sacrifice on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) in the late 90s (Google tells me it would have been 1998). The right people will get it. The riffing on MST3K is easily in my top three episodes alongside, in no particular order, Time Chasers  and Space Mutiny . As a home brewer of some local renown I brewed an IPA recently that gave a serious nod to Zap Rowsdower (portrayed by Bruce J. Mitchell ) in The Final Sacrifice . Called Rowsdower's Final Sacrifice ,  it was a BIG Triple IPA, coming in at 10.9%. You may recall I blogged about this beer in March! The Kickstarter organizer and the director of The Final Sacrifice , asked me to post a picture of my label for Rowsdower's Final Sacrifi...

My wife and I are partner home brewers. While we are not distributed, we do a lot of bottle shares and we take our branding a little further than most home brewers. We have a home brewery on untappd, think "Facebook for Beer," We have labels printed for our bottles, stickers for laptops, and even custom bottle caps. Artistically inclined, we think we do a pretty good job. There's a nerd streak that runs through our brewery name,  Thirsty Stone Brewing . Both a pun and a homage to ourselves and our daughter. Then there is the logo modeled after Gallifreyan, the fictional language and writing system of the Time Lords, Doctor Who's birth race. Our beers always are a pun. All great and all usually the work of my wife.  Then there are "my beers": beers I make that my wife might not care for or drink a lot of, but I mostly share with my friends. There were the annual years of Night Gaunt (2015) — 2016 , 2017 , 2017 3.5e , 2019 — and Pale and Gaunt (2018) , an impe...