Officially, this is a parody of the “I Am A Craft Brewer” first released 18 months ago. But it also stands on its own. Give it a look, and a laugh, and read on if you want.
Make no mistake. These are not random people off the street. Some of them work for Rifftrax (“We don’t make movies . . . We make them funny!), so they had a creative leg up. Because the video was posted on Conor Lastowka’s You Tube channel, I asked him for a few details, provided by email:
“I live in San Diego. I’m a writer for rifftrax.com and a homebrewer/beer fan. Sometimes they show our movies at the Stone Brewery during the summer, so that’s where we saw the original video, and we were talking about some way to get RiffTrax involved in San Diego Beer Week (editor’s note: that begins tomorrow), and we decided to make a parody of their video. It’s me, my wife, two co-workers and some friends who appear in it.”
Could these guys probably create something centered around a mainstream lager that would make me laugh out loud? I wouldn’t be surprised.
Would they be motivated to?
Rhetorical question.
hahahaha EFF CORN! The ‘Things Fall Apart’ quote at the end was quite brilliant!
The odd think is, even with that corn stuff, it is as much a better ad than it is a parody. It is certainly a much better ad than the too stolid original. I imagine the original excepting that I interject the music at the end of the movie “Platoon”, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, you know, when I want to feel really bad about enjoying Spotted Cow – aka “the craft beer with corn!”
I am not saying craft beer has lost its humour but it certainly does not maximize its opportunities – including from time to time a genial self-deprecation. It is one aspect, I would suggest, of your Rule #5: “It is only beer”.
I think that is hilarious. I think it compliments the original, as in the original seemed more scripted (I’ll use the work formal) and the parody was more off the cuff- Yes, I know they were both scripted, but that is how I felt when I watched them. And that can be kind of like the brewers, the professional brewers are straighforward, while the homebrewers are much more casual.
Well I know for a fact, that this Homebrewer version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwy6XMN30CA was the first video response. In true homebrewer collaborative fashion (each line doled out online, sent back and edited together) it had some very high and low points.
It was more passionate than the original, but not very original. At various points, I didn’t think it would see the light of day. There was no grand plan to it, we just did it. A pilot batch, if you will.
So, I’m glad to see that the rifftrax guys are homebrewers, because in true homebrewer fashion, they tweaked it and got some more things right. That’s really all we could ask for. That was the intent of our video.
If you’re interested in the best video response to all of these, you’ll have to check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWc8-uLPAg Jestem Piwowarem Domowym – I am a Homebrewer
I like drinking a beer with Jason at Trinity Brewing in Colorado. Try it!
hey, i was in las vegas, nv when a work buddy said i should call the brewery “bad ass brewery”. we were install fans for an arena at south point and the fan we were installing were call “big ass fans”. he had tried the home brew i was making which was a high grav. and call it “bad ass brew”. funny how names come about. but the llc name is babbrewery. thank for the input.
by the way there will be a home brewers contest monthly and the winner will brew a one barrel batch at the shop and put it on a guess tap. get to take home a cornie.