The Fourth Annual Destiny City Film Festival will be held Aug. 25-27 at the Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma’s Proctor neighborhood. Festival Director Emily Alm will presents 32 dynamic films from around the world, filmmaker Q&As, a free screenwriting panel and recognition of this year’s short screenplay competition winner. “In its fourth year, the Destiny City Film Festival” is proud to bring award-winning films to Tacoma, and to connect our community with the power of storytelling,” says Alm. For more information, visit destinycityfilmfestival.com. Peaks and Pints is honored to host a 6 p.m. DCFF prefunk with festival information, giveaways and a special craft beer movie flight we call Craft Beer Crosscut 8.15.17: A Flight of Films.
Silver City Foxy Lady
6.2% ABV, 12 IBU
Ivan Reitman produced and directed the comedy Foxy Lady (1971), one of his few early financial disappointments on his way to direct Stripes and Ghostbusters. The Canadian penchant for self-mockery is a strong theme in this gender-switched retelling of the myth of Hero and Leander. Here, Hero (Alan Gordon) simply cannot resist helping people who are in trouble, and Leander (Sylvie Feigel) is the richest girl in the world. After a series of encounters, they fall in love and get married. This Reitman debut feature film was also the first film appearance of Eugene Levy. Silver City Brewery’s Foxy Lady is a Flanders Red, a style originating in the West Flanders region of Belgium, this red ale gains a raspberry-like tartness from fermentation on Lactobacillus. Foxy Lady — aged in oak barrels and featuring Pilsner, Vienna, Caramel and Wheat malts — is delightfully crisp, but also hearty, brew that will satisfy all your cravings on these final summer days.
Breakside Dreamboat
4.6% ABV, 15 IBU
In the late 1940s and early ’50s, 20th Century-Fox produced a number of movies set on college campuses, including 1952’s Dreamboat, starring Clifton Webb as an English professor, Thornton Sayre, who has a secret past as Bruce Blair, a silent movie swashbuckling star. Anne Francis plays his scholarly daughter Carol, who is shocked when some unkind girls from a campus sorority spring the news on her by showing her one of her father’s old movies on TV. The professor sets out to demand its cease. However, his former co-star (Ginger Rogers) is the hostess of the TV show playing the films, and she has other plans. Breakside Brewery’s Dreamboat, one of three beers created by students at Lewis & Clark College as part of the final project for their course in brewing science, is an interpretation of a Belgian witbier with the addition of more flavoring and aroma hops than would be found in a classic version. The Citra and Huell Melon hops provide beautiful notes of honeydew and grass.
Triceratops Hans Gruber Wheat
5% ABV
London-born actor Alan Rickman was primarily a stage performer, studying Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as a young man and rising to prominence in 1987 following a Tony-nominated Broadway turn in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. But, for most pop-culture junkies, he was something else: the ultimate movie villain: Hans Gruber. In Die Hard, Hans Gruber was Bruce Willis’ John McClane match. Gruber was smart, cultured, funny and a ruthless international terrorist. Every time McClane tries to take the upper hand, Gruber out-maneuvers him. This beer flight isn’t over until Hans Gruber falls off the Nakatomi Plaza! Tricetatops Brewing‘s Hans Gruber Wheat sports a three-way balance of malt, bitter and wheat, with a touch of orange. Yippee ki yay!
Double Mountain A River Runs Through It
6.5% ABV, 65 IBU
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Robert Redford’s iconic film, A River Runs Through It, the story of two boys growing up in Montana with a love for fly-fishing. The book was made into an American film in 1992, starring Brad Pitt, Craig Sheffer and Tom Skerritt. After the movie was released, anglers both veteran and rookie descended on Montana in droves to fish both the rivers in southwestern Montana where River was filmed (the upper Yellowstone, Gallatin and Boulder rivers), and the Blackfoot where the story was set. A River Runs Through It – Hop Shake IPA is the story of Fort George Brewery traveling along the Columbia River to Hood River, Oregon, where it collaborated on a hazy IPA at Double Mountain Brewery. The impact on craft beer drinkers was immediate — full and ripe with deep citrus and earthy forest additions. Lactose was added in the boil to round out the balance, and keep things smooth and juicy.
Alpine Duet
7% ABV, 45 IBU
Duet, the film, is set in the world of karaoke singing. That’s right, “the world of karaoke singing.” According to this movie, there really are circles in which warbling pop songs to recorded tracks in bars isn’t an occasional alcohol-induced amusement but a full-fledged lifestyle, with its own jargon, etiquette and hard-fought competition. The film is a real heartwarmer about competitive karaoke that stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Huey Lewis and Paul Giamatti. In a pivotal scene, Paltrow joins Lewis on stage to sing Smokey Robison’s “Cruisin’,” and soon, the duo is cruising right along into a hopelessly cheesy version of the Motown classic. Duet, the Alpine IPA, is a stellar blend of malt sweetness and fruit-forward hops starring tangerines, pineapple, kiwi, grapefruit and pine flavors. Bitterness is spot on, providing an excellent contrast and cleansing the palate without diminishing the hops candy character. Finishes dry and bitter, yet somewhat balanced and restrained, just like the movie.
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