If you don’t like brew or booze, you might find my Twitter feed boring. I don’t have a personal feed, just a Drink314 feed, which I invite you to follow if you’re inclined. But that said, very few Tweets that cross my feed make me do a double take, until this one the other day.
Because no one has ever brewed a beer in honor of Love Actually. #yippieryeyaymotherfucker pic.twitter.com/PUAVtAMiFM
— Michael Sweeney (@mikesweeney) December 19, 2017
Okay, the real reason I noticed this Tweet was because it was shared with me by a fan of the movie ‘Love Actually,’ a movie, I never quite ‘got.’ I’ve tried, believe me, but it never quite took. Nevertheless, I understand that it is one of our generations best Christmas movies, but I never really gave a crap until now. Now that this movie finally has a beer brewed in its honor. NOW, the beer is relevant.
I wanted to know more about the beer as well as when it would be available.
The back story is a bit of an inside joke.
“For the past few years, I loved to crow about Die Hard being the best Christmas movie of all time,” said 2nd Shifts’ Michael Sweeny. “A lot of my friends are (no pun intended) “die-hard” Love Actually fans and I wanted to give them a little jab.”
As for the beer, Sweeny and 2nd Shift, have come to really appreciate the New England IPA trend but wanted to try something a bit more old school.
“Haven’t seen too many Rye IPAs as of recent, so I wanted to bring one back. And you can’t make an old-school beer without old-school hops, so it has a generous portion of Cascade and Centennial.”
We can all get our first taste of Yippie Rye Yay | 6% ABV |,65 IBUs, this Thursday, December 28th at the taproom. See you there.
