New Zealand Listener

Tuesday September 5

Film: BEERS OF JOY

So lovingly photographed are the beers and breweries in this documentary, it shouldinstead. Those interviewed have an almost spiritual relationship with brewskis: “Beer is the magic elixir,” says one, “I think that it’s really a gift from God.” It’s a US documentary and focuses on four brewers: Joe Vogelbacher, who co-founded Sugar Creek Brewing in Charlotte, and Ryan Daily, an Anheuser-Busch employee, who are trying to pass the notoriously difficult Master Cicerone Test, brewmaster Tonya Cornett, who is searching for the perfect Berliner Weiss recipe, and expert Sean Paxton, who recreates a historical 1620 beer dinner.

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