Beer Y'All

Drove the 2 1/2 hours out to Asheville on Thursday night for a documentary premiere: Beer Y'All.  Original working title was Drunken State, but a more "positive" outlook was preferred, so Beer Y'All won out.  The story of 7 friends spending 9 days traveling the state visiting gobs and gobs (27 actually) of NC brewers.  Fascinating.

The trailer:


Asheville Pizza and Brewing was the spot for the premiere. And a wonderful spot to do so. An old movie theater made into a brewpub and pizza parlor. The theater removed every other row of seats and installed long tables, so you can sit and watch a movie while drinking your pitchers of beer and pans of pizza pie. Outstanding.

Fun to see a lot of NC brewer elite, beer geeks, and just a general Asheville-ian liberal commune lovefest concerning all things beery.  A lot of fun.  Pizza was good, the Houdini ESP beer kicked the Shiva IPA's ass for whatever reason, and the blood levels reduced to a manageable state to drive home.  2:30am and I got home and it was time for bed.  Good thing I was able to switch Friday's work schedule 8-4 for a 2-10 instead.

Nice flick.  A little heavy on the rock band music portion and not a lot of brewer airtime, but with 27 breweries I'm sure that was a challenge.  I understand it was a "rock 'n roll" road trip, but the title was "Beer Y'All".  MORE BEER!