Germans, Germanophiles, and good old fashioned beer drinkers everywhere kicked off sixteen days of carousing this past Saturday when Oktoberfest officially began. Indiewire's latest curated selections for Hulu's Documentaries page takes a look at the pleasures and pitfalls of drinking and cutting loose. Watch these and other docs now for free! Phil Parkin's "Beertickers: Beyond the Ale" explores British beer drinking culture, following a growing group of men and women whose hobby it is to seek out and sample as many different types of beer as possible.A love letter to beer and to a city, John Weber's "Brewed in Brooklyn" details the history of the NYC borough's brewing industry from the early 1800s through to today's modern craft breweries.Expanding the view to whole of America, Anat Baron's "Beer Wars" exposes the cut-throat corporate world of the beer industry, and the challenges faced by independents to enter the market.
- 9/23/2013
- by Basil Tsiokos
- Indiewire
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