#monkish brewing

[dndtreasury]

Ferrous Fists

[random-doctor-on-the-internet]

Hello earthlings, your favourite aliens back! Well, not favourite, I probably don't even make it to the top fifty, but let a guy have dreams.

I am currently drowned in exams and two days late on my art commissions schedule, but I've just eaten coffee beans thinking it was chocolate (don't do that, kids) and decided that it's time for a new BSfLM.

@weirdly-specific-but-ok , tagging you because I haven't bothered you in a while. Read this coffee induced masterpiece and cry.

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So, since @randomvoices and @zonzolik asked about the cults, I'll talk about...well, the cults. And now, mortals, IT'S SHOWTIME. Neil Gaiman have your mercy, for the worst is yet to come.

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Okay, buckle your seatbelts, here's the story of how I almost got dragged into a cult. Welcome to hell.

Alrighty-almighty, it all starts, as it will end, in some little russian town. You know, these little towns that seem to only exist to say things like "this famous guy was born there", "that famous guy tried to sleep there for a night but was met with a lot of suspicion", "that one blorbo on the net got dragged into a cult there", etc. You see what I'm talking about.

"But, Ash, why were you in this town?", you ask.

The truth is, I don't know. We were looking for a place to sleep, then God decided that my life will be a crossover between Florida News and those traumatic fairy tales from your childhood that you remember all your life, and threw me there. Hi!

So, we arrive there, it's late, almost everyone is sleeping, and we need to stay unnoticed for runaway reasons. The villagers, however, are not very eager to welcome two black haired strangers carrying an impressive amount of close combat weapons. After a bit of useless bargaining, we realised that it's time to pack our bags and hitch the road.

So, we get a loaf of bread for dinner and go away, trying to look very offended. Historians don't say if it was effective. We're almost gone when we see a guy who yells us that there's a small community of monks in the woods who usually welcome well minded strangers.

Sleep in a monastery is better than no sleep at all, we decide, and go in the woods. We arrive, the monks are nice even if not very monkish, they give us some mushroom stew and send us to sleep.

I don't know what they put in the stew, but we both sleep for more than three days. When we wake up, they're all nice, all seem very worried that we haven't woken up earlier. We apologize for abusing their hospitality and ask if we could do something to make up for it. We may be punk, but we have a heart. They happily agree and we spend an unknown amount of days alternating between enormous amounts of sleep and chopping wood, collecting flowers, brewing beer, and other monastery stuff.

We start thinking about leaving, but every time we mention it, they ask us if we could help with something else, and make clear that they won't tell us where they put our travel bags (with the guns inside.). Now that we live with them, we can see that they don't look like monks at all. Neither of us knows a lot about Christianity, but I'm pretty sure monks aren't supposed to wear flower crowns, sleep together, and sing songs about how Nature is a massive slay. They're hippies, we think, nice ones, and keep chopping wood.

They seem pretty excited about the full moon. Is God supposed to look at us through the moon's eye? Is God the moon? Were they secretly werewolves? Who knows. But they were acting very strange when we mentioned it. Told us that we need to see the full moon ceremony, that it will change our lives.

We help them decorate the woods, and put a small monolith around which it's going to take place. They ask Beez to pick a goat, because they're going to do a thing in our honour. Goat meat stew? Why not. Another 2 day-long nap later, it's the full moon. They give us white robes. Beez insists to keep all the things they haven't put away under them. The black-white combo doesn't look good, but it works.

We reunite in the clearing. As soon as the moon appears, they start singing. I don't know that song but it sounds metal. I'm joining them, stammering some lyrics about burning Christians. It fortunately goes unnoticed.

And then, the goat arrives. It's very clear that there won't be any stew. Beez looks at me. I look at Beez. And we run like our lives are in danger, which is probably true. Without the robes, we're almost invisible in the night. And we mindlessly run for dear life, two days of running almost without stopping. I don't know if they sent people after us, but they didn't catch us.

So, yeah, here's how we survived a moonlight cult, and people from said cult obtained two brand new backpacks, a dozen guns, perfectly done passports (it was awful to redo these without being found) and half a loaf of bread. Hope they remember us.

Remember, children, always trust suspicious strangers. Fun adventures might happen.

[woollymitts]

Why WARRIOR NUN is the ultimate homage to Female Sainthood and why you should care

OK this is going to be longish series as I have so many opinions. The show has revived my love for all things female sainthood and relics and all that holy stuff.

As a fantasy series embedded within Roman Catholic Reformation ideas and refracted through the baroque aesthetic, it is deliberately too much. Too hyperbolic. Like adolescent girls losing their shit over their latest crush the TV show is just way way over the top in the very best way.

This is where high and low culture mashes together into a gorgeous multi-layered lasagna of meaning. I love how the show doesn’t give two hoots about cultural hierarchies.

I wrote a PhD about female sainthood way back in the Ice Age. In particular, I loved how some of the brightest and best of these women transgressed, breaking tons of papally sanctioned rules and generally went fuck the status quo and clerical authority.

First, a little primer in how to view the world with a medieval perspective. It is often refracted through lenses we would term as allegorical and fantastical.

There are some Italian scholars that hold that all the reports of demons, angels and dragons were due to everyone being basically either drunk or high. Water awash with bacteria was going to kill you. So in the West to make it sterile it was brewed, ecoli being no match for alcohol. Everyone,everywhere, and much of the time, was inebriated.

In particular, the argument goes that the majority of the European population also ate some form of rye bread which was contaminated with fungi that had hallucinogenic properties. In essence, people swallowed the fantastical stories while supping on their daily portion of magic mushroom bread.

I happen to think this is too reductivist. They lived in a world where scientific thinking as we understand was long forgotten and epistemologically remote that it is yet to be discovered. The Enlightenment, Renaissance thinking and scientific discovery were a couple of hundred years off.

Further, all written communication is within the monopoly of the educated religious elite conversing with each other in Latin. The Church dictated terms of reference of life to the rest of the population for about one thousand years. The super highway of thought was copyrighted in its entirety by the Catholic Church.

It was not a con trick. The medieval thinker just approached what they saw and felt through inductive rather than deductive reasoning. Interpretation starts from the premise of where have I seen this before?

The monkish scholars would run to the library and consult works that clued them in on what they observed in the world around them. They applied their scholarship within terms they found familiar and reassuring and therefore real. Remember this: distinguishing between inductive and reductive thinking will help you understand the medieval mindset on its own terms without our modern judgements cluttering up their view of the world.

The second most important thing to remember and something the TV series does so well is that the veil between what is corporeal, ie of this world, and incorporeal, not of this world and sometimes interpreted as spiritual, is wafer thin.

It is a credit to the medieval imagination that they could escape into their minds when the reality of existence is that of subsistence and survival for the vast majority. Let’s take how circumscribed their geographical limits are as an example.

In a short lifetime of 30 years, if you are lucky, the distance travelled and your world in probably about a days walk. We are talking 15 miles max. If you have a horse a bit further. In practical terms, that meant your home, the land you worked, where you paid your tithe to the local lord and the market place which was extra exciting on high days and holy days.

So in this landscape apart from the local lord’s manor or barns the largest edifices on the landscape was the churches. Unlike your wattle and daub shitty house, it was made from the latest materials of dressed stone and vaulted in tufa. The spire dominated the landscape. Its bell regulated your day. On a Sunday you would sit in the nave staring at the judgement fresco showing heaven and hell while a priest intoned something magical in a language that was incomprehensible as a sign of who was spiritually and materially dominant.

Areala, Ava, Lilith and all the halo bearers are not merely a fictional exaggeration to the medieval populace. They come out of a cosmography of sainthood and female communities that are insanely muscular in ambition compared to our expectations of what women can achieve. Current girl power and ambition is anaemic compared to what those women wanted then.

Hey, girl, in the twenty first century you can be whatever you want- a CEO, a doctor, an anodyne influencer of your fellow tik tok addicts; the president of the US (oh hang on that one is still buffering)

The saints’ lives are a written cornucopia of all the slayers of dragons in powerful men. Women who wanted and got so much more and were written up in lore. Statues were erected in their honour. Communities were founded in their name. And little men who overawed and slightly freaked out tried to keep up and tell their stories in a more palatable manner.

There are literally thousands of examples recorded and collected by the Catholic church. So far as ten thousand and counting. The project in earnest began three centuries ago when the church’s response to the Protestant Reformation was to double down on the stuff for which they were excoriated by their more pious and puritanical critics.

- preposterous claims of ability of items of dubious provenance to cure ills ie relic collection and pilgrimage.

- the miracles performed by the elite of the church ie those proposed as saints in an attempt to assert the dominance of the spiritual over the material world.

The church came out of the closet on this. Actually it sashayed down the religious runway of hyperbolic campery in all its baroque finery. The Roman Catholic church were telling their opponents that their worship was just so much cooler than the pared down asceticism currently doing the rounds. And they used and promoted their saints to provide a techni-coloured ultra saturated with spiritual dynamite exemplars.

As a preview I want to pick a few female examples from this rich tapestry and discuss how they relate to all things Warrior Nun. The ones we can do some more in depth analysis on are

Margaret of Antioch Slayer of Dragons. Enough said

Hildegarde of Bingen. I give you the ultimate Medieval Renaissance woman. Medic, composer, mystic, scholar, abbess, counsellor to kings and popes. Worked out how blood ciculated through the body five hundred years before a dude took credit for it. She came line of women who liked telling the pope off starting with Mary Magdalene and including Catherine of Siena

Joan of Arc; proto Ripley taking on the alien English for the namby pamby Dauphin.

Benedetta Carlini. The poor Florentine scribes seriously lost their shit over her. The church authorities were investigating in the seventeenth century for potential beatification In a series of interviews, her doings in the abbey with her companion cause so much scandal. It had them reversing that process so fast everyone got monastic whiplash. Ignore the Verhoeven version; it is shit and doesn’t do her justice on any level.

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#Repost @val.beer.i Monkish Brewing • Natural Lightning . Triple IPA brewed with Phantasm, Citra, & Galaxy. 10.3% abv . Nose is citrusy. Taste is fruity, juicy and hoppy with notes of grapefruit, peach, and lime. It’s boozy, floral, with a dry finish. Good creamy mouthfeel. #monkishmonday Cheers 🍻 . . . . . #monkishbrewing #naturallighning #tipa #monkishandme #beer #beerporn #valbeeri #beerjunkie #beergeek #beerlover #beerlife #beerpics #beergasm #beerme #beerselfie #beerstagram #craftbeer #craftbeerlife #craftbeergirl #beerfluencer #craftbeerblog #showyourcans #craftbeerjunkie #craftbeerporn #craftbeerpics #craftbeerenthusiast #cheers https://www.instagram.com/p/CnOWUCKrFFr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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#7449 Monkish Compute (USA) The final brew from Fred is a banger. Compute is a 10.2% Triple IPA from Monkish with Galaxy, Nelson Sauvin and Simcoe, a ramped up version of their Relax Your Mind and Conscience Be Free. It pours hazy af with a foamy head and a dank citrusy nose, the body is big and bold with chalky vibes, it’s pretty boozy while being super drinkable, I’m getting mango and papaya, it’s sticky and dank, pineapple and earthy notes, wrapping in a bone dry finish. Bloody amazing. (at Hamilton, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/CknJ8p7O1ZD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[christophermarlin]

Visiting Torrance and it’s thriving beer scene

There is no secret that Los Angeles Metropolitan Area has one of the greatest varieties for beer in California, being apart of that region means that you have over 150 breweries to choose from. And Torrance, in fact, is where you will find some of the top breweries! Los Angeles residents sometimes tend to overlook the area of Torrance and how prevalent the craft beer scene has become. And it is…

[kahuna-64]

Stillwater Artisanal brewing

[myhopshabit]

Hit Monkish Brewing in Torrance, CA earlier tonight. Wish I had more time to enjoy it, as the one beer I had, 2-1 & Lewis, was amazing!

[aestheticvoyage2022]

Day 212: Sunday July 31, 2022 - “Bend Brewery Circuit”

Souvenirs - I wanted some souvenirs - In the form of Pints bagged in this Beer Tourist Destination.  We’d get to four of them over the course of the weekend - each one different.  Each of them spectacular.   Each of them satisfying, the need.

The first stop, I waited impatiently for but when the word came down that we were getting out of this Summer Heat Wave, I knew exactly where I wanted to go - to The Belgian Ale place!  At Monkless I enjoyed the FNG, probably the closest thing to Brother T outside of Fort Bragg.  I stood proudly in front of the ornate monkish bar holding my pint of the Good Stuff.   No doubt will be one of the top Beers of the Year.   Best Beer in town for sure.

From there we visited a Good Life kind of place - your standard Craft Brewery with garage doors and hops growing out front, a very big patio, and some outdoorsy art on the walls to class it up.  Exit through the Brewhouse!  I enjoyed a few Rehearsal Dinner Brews here as William slept on me.  It was great!

On the day after the Wedding (Sunday) we enjoyed continental breakfast out on the lawn with the other wedding-goers.   As they floated the Deschutes, we decided to spare William the exciting of his first floating trip (both of us to exhausted to manage that!) and instead go take in a couple more Brew offerings.     The first stop was on I most certainly had my eye on before we landed in Bend - a place called Boss Rambler.   When we drove around I knew right away that this place would be different than any other Brew house Id ever visited (and Id like to think Ive been around my share).   Its setup was like an old beach house, and its big open patio and walkup bar something you might see at an amusement park.  I wondered if we could even go inside!  Which we did, to find it all bright and clean and all White - a long ways off the stone and wood motif commonly pulled in on a craft brewery.   The name and the style was good enough for me -  but the beers were great too, especially the can of Super Tubes - aptly named for the place near by where tubers come off the River - the big thing to do in Bend.

One last stop was for one of the big old flagships - Bend Brewing.  Our crew had gathered up there on the grass lawn outside where we could spread out and be social. I immediately loved the welcome sign, designed like a Wilderness Sign.  With my taste buds all but burned away by all the hoppy juicy hazy IPAs I’d been drinking, I took on a really big pint of Export Stout called Trade War.  Refreshing change of pace, this high octane pint may have been the most satisfying of all.  Great way to put a bow on our little Bend Brewery Circuit before heading back to the hot(ter) desert.

Song: Seaforth, Jordan Davis - Good Beer

Quote: “He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” ― Saint Francis of Assisi

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Trillium brewing Company & Monkish Brewing Company; Insert Hip Hop Reference There; Triple Indian Pale Ale #SupportLocalBreweries #DrinkLocal Oh Wow!! A very very good Triple IPA. This was a collab between @trilliumbrewing and @monkishbrewing. And this post had to be a special one because this was my 150th review..!!!! What happens when 2 of your favorite breweries come together for an Epic collaboration, well the result is that they produce a Damn good beer. I was lucky enough to get these based on how quickly the cans sold out. This was an all-Citra Triple IPA. Sprinkling a stunning light orange with thick, sparkling haze, vibrant aromas of ripe mango, juiced citrus, and pineapple exploded from the bottle delicately backed with floral spruce top. Up front bold orange peel grows into a palate filled with tropical melon, ripe papaya, lychee and lime waves. With a gentle touch of pine and a pleasant sweetness of biscuity, This beer displays a full body and smooth pillowy mouth-feel that makes every returning sip pleasant. (10.0% Alc./Vol.) My Rating : 5.5/5 , Grade : A+ #beerstagram #beer #beergeek  #TripleIndianPaleAle #MonkishBrewingCompany #Trilliumbrewingcompany #BeerCanCollectible #limitededition #craftbeer #zythophile #lovebeer #beerrebels #amazingbeer #AmericanCraftBeer  #beertography #beerlover #beerporn #instabeer #beersoftheworld #beersofinsta #beersofig #beernation #cheers #craftbeerlife #ilikecraftbeer #craftbeerandbrew #BeerCollaboration #inserthiphopreferencethere (at USA, Massachussets) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDpAHXiJf_k/?igshid=1cj6u3rn88z3k

[brandonsdrunkagain]

New Brews!! Citralious Wet Hop IPA and Finial Doinle IPA from Urban South, Dead and Dead from Rouge, Tranquil Dawn from Urban South, Hazyvale Pale Ale from Marz, Candied Apple Slushy from 450 North, Jumbo Mumbo from Marz, Crawford Bock from Karbach, Triple Cream Double IPA from Other Half and Freestyle Fanatic DDH Double IPA from Monkish Brewing!

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Inspired by cooperation, Brooklyn's Other Half Brewing invites breweries, worldwide, open sources a recipe.

Press Release

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- – The team at Other Half Brewing Co is proud to announce All Together, a worldwide beer collaboration created to raise funds & awareness for the industry we love so much. Regardless of location or circumstances, when one member of the hospitality industry struggles, the rest of the group (including brewers, servers, bartenders, bussers, dishwashers, GMs, buyers, chefs & owners) steps in to help and lend a hand.

With this spirit in mind, Other Half Brewing (OHB) is spearheading the All Together project, started by a collective of beer industry partners from around the globe, to raise awareness and provide relief to those struggling in the industry as we’re all in this together.

“Raising awareness about the devastating losses in the hospitality industry is the core vision of this project,” says Matt Monahan, co-founder, Other Half Brewing. “We want to keep these losses at the forefront of conversations so that anyone who wants to help can learn what is happening and find a way to contribute to the recovery.”

How does the project work? #AllTogetherBeer invites any brewer, from any corner of the planet, to participate by providing the tools needed to make the beer at the lowest possible cost, including an open-source recipe, artwork, and name. In exchange, the collective asks that a portion of the proceeds go to supporting hospitality professionals in each brewery’s own community. The rest should be donated to keeping the brewery in business to weather this storm.

Recipe: OHB created a base recipe that easily brewed with commonly sourced ingredients. Each participating brewery can modify the beer as they see fit and brew it at their own convenience.

Artwork + Label: Stout Collective created the label artwork that can be customized by brewery, and Blue Label Printing has offered to print at cost.

Website: Craftpeak Team donated their time, talent & technology for the site

Breweries can get involved by reaching out to alltogether.beer/ for more information.

Beer drinkers can support this cause by signing up for the mailing list. The beers are being brewed around the world, and the newsletter will inform beer lovers worldwide when they’re available to purchase from their local brewery.

At OHB, the proceeds of All Together will go to the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation; https://bit.ly/3bKAlVv and the beer is expected to be available starting April 2020. Social assets can be found here.

The #AllTogetherBeer project begins with the following breweries with more to be announced: Other Half Brewing, NYC; Side Project, St. Louis, MO; Monkish, Torrance, CA; Trillium, Boston, MA; Alvarado St, Monterey, CA; Arizona Wilderness, Phoenix, AZ; Outer Range, Frisco, CO; The Veil, Richmond, VA; Omnipollo, Stockholm, Sweden; Humble Sea, Santa Cruz, CA; Finback, NY; Crak, Padua, Italy; 3 Sheeps Brewing, Sheboygan, WI; Sigma Brewing, Houston, TX; Southern Grist, Nashville, TN; Burial, Asheville, NC; Mikerphone, Chicago, IL; Pilot Project, Chicago, IL; Modist, Minneapolis, MN; Homes, Detroit, MI; KCBC, Brooklyn, NY; Industrial Arts, Garnerville, NY; Fifth Hammer, Queens, NY; Hidden Springs, Tampa, FL; Green Cheek, Anaheim, CA; Bottle Logic, Anaheim, CA; Parish, Broussard, LA; Vitamin Sea, Weymouth, MA; Ska, Durango, CO; Equilibrium, Middletown, NY; Northern Monk, Leeds, UK; Garage Project, Wellington, NZ; Wylam, Newcastle, UK; Lervig, Stavanger, Norway; Juguetes Perdidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Carton Atlantic, Highlands, NJ; American Solera, Tulsa, OK; Civil Society, Jupiter, FL; Anchorage, Anchorage, AK; Hoof Hearted, Columbus, OH; Barrier, Oceanside, NY; Sand City, Northport, NY; Bellwoods, Toronto, ON; Whiplash, Dublin, Ireland; Boundary, Belfast, N. Ireland; Dancing Gnome, Pittsburgh, PA; Collective Arts, Hamilton, ON; and more. alltogether.beer/.

About Other Half Brewing

Founded in 2014 by Sam Richardson, Matt Monahan and Andrew Burman, Other Half Brewing is rooted in a simple mission: to push the boundaries of beer. Known for its hazy IPAs, pastry stouts, and creative sours, Other Half has built a loyal community of fans around its Brooklyn taproom, and grown to become one of the most sought after breweries in the country. Through their innovative festivals (Pastrytown & Green City), creative flavors and with locations in East Bloomfield, NY and Brooklyn, NY, Other Half seeks to be constantly moving the beer industry forward. otherhalfbrewing.com/

from Northwest Beer Guide - News - The Northwest Beer Guide https://bit.ly/2UVEkI2

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#Repost @val.beer.i Monkish Brewing x Omnipollo • Space Cookie: Pumpkin Spice Latte . Special Cookie Double IPA with cookies, vanilla, milk sugar, AND a blend of Columbia and Honduras coffees by Portola Coffee, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. 8.3% abv. . That’s the season… 🎃 What’s your thoughts about pumpkin beers? For my part, this is not something I enjoy. I love spice latte coffee but beers…. It’s a no… comment here 👇🏼 Cheers 🍻 . . . . . #monkishbrewing #omnipollobrewing #spacecookie #pumpkinbeer #monkishmonday #monkishandme #beer #beerporn #valbeeri #beerjunkie #beergeek #beerlover #beerlife #summer #beerpics #beergasm #beerme #beerselfie #beerstagram #craftbeer #craftbeerlife #craftbeergirl #beerfluencer #craftbeerblog #showyourcans #craftbeerporn #craftbeerpics #craftbeerenthusiast #summer #cheers https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj0lLY5Lh-x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tallguycm]

Mad Phat Fluid • Monkish Brewing Co. • Torrance, CA 🍺 . I don’t know anything about brewing, but I do know that mosaic hops are to my liking. Each and every time. And this one is no different. . . . #beer #beers #craftbeer #craftbrew #craftnotcrap #beerstagram #instabeer #beerporn #craftbeerporn #quarantine #beerlover #beerlovers #alcohol #lovebeer #beernerd #beertime #beerpics #beertography #beersnob #beerme #beergasm #ipa #drinkup #losangeles #photooftheday #latergram #nofilter #beersofinstagram #monkish #monkishbrewing (at Hancock Park, Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CARASn5jUKw/?igshid=17ony4gugtf5c

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#nowdrinking @monkishbrewing @monkishhenk @mrsmonkish Round 2 on #visionsfromtheotherside canned on 3/23/20 #strangertimes #doubledryhopped #ddh (DDH) #doubleipa brewed with CA pilsner and wheat malts from @admiralmaltings and heavier DDH’d with Idaho 7, Galaxy, Citra, & Vic Secret 8.3% ABV #monkish #monkishbrewingcompany #monkishbrewingco #drinkfreshie #drinklocal #westcoasthazy #westcoasthaze #hazecraze #meccaofmurk #dank #dankipa #ipa #dipa #tipa #❤️ #neipa #craftbeer #beerphotography #beer #sometimesbeer 🍺 #beerhop #independantbrewers (at Simi Valley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_8rj2zHHAX/?igshid=134npjcvsez5c