'Beer Y'all' - A Rock and Roll Road Trip Across North Carolina

by Hanna Raskin, Posted May 22nd 2009 @ 5:00PM

Fret not, Southern beer drinkers: While the region's craft beer scene has gone and grown up, its fans (if a newly released documentary is any indication) show no signs of maturing.

"Beer Y'all," billed as "rock-and-roll road trip across North Carolina," follows a scruffy septet of wannabe homebrewers on a nine-day pilgrimage to 27 microbreweries across the state. Like any great epic, the film has a hero (the guy in Allegheny County who lets the travelers crash on his couch); obstacles (drunken ping-pong); encounters with inscrutable seers (brewmasters who mumble about keg conditioning) and a moral that inspired the industry crowd at last night's world premiere screening to hoist their pitchers in appreciation: Beer shouldn't be taken too seriously.

While the ~~dudes~~ filmmakers marvel politely at the tanks their hosts show off, they have little patience for academic discussions of wort and hops. They'd rather get drunk and watch "Lethal Weapon 2." They like to nap. It takes 48 minutes before anyone in the film mentions how the ales taste, which leaves plenty of time for backyard volleyball playin', lazy guitar pickin' and mongrel dog scratchin'. That's Southern beer, y'all.

"Beer Y'all" will be screening in parts of the Tarheel State this summer.

Filed Under: Television/Film, Food News, Drink Recipes
Tags: beer, beer yall, BeerYall, movie, north carolina, NorthCarolina, roadtrip

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

6-06-2009 @11:53AM Asheville Beer Lover said... I work in Asheville's brewing industry and I loved this movie. It's great promotion for NC breweries and it should appeal to lots of folks in NC who aren't yet into craft beer.

This review is unnecessarily snarky and frankly I can't understand why. I don't think that "Beer shouldn't be taken too seriously" is said or suggested in the movie, but maybe foodies and beer geeks should approach with caution if they're looking for 90 minutes of tasting notes.
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