If it's suds and buds you're looking for, you'll enjoy this week's cast on craft beer fans, and who better to talk about craft beer than Nick H from the [Epic Film Guys Podcast](http://www.epicfilmguys.com/)! Is it about getting drunk? Why beer? Why IPAs?? We're hop-ping to it, and getting the fans-eye-view for you! Want to see more awesome fandom content? [Become a Patron on Patreon!](http://patreon.com/thenickscast) Find more like this: [fanthropological.com](http://fanthropological.com) Find us on social media Twitter: [@thenickscast](http://twitter.com/thenickscast) Instagram: [@thenickscast](http://instagram.com/thenickscast) Facebook: [fb.com/thenickscast](http://fb.com/thenickscast) Youtube: [youtube.com/thenickscast](http://youtube.com/thenickscast) Email us about fandoms you want to hear about: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) Citations ["Walmart is being sued for inventing a fake craft brewery"](http://www.avclub.com/article/walmart-being-sued-inventing-fake-craft-brewery-250375) ["THE 5 STRONGEST NATURALLY-FERMENTED BEERS IN THE WORLD"](http://berghoffbeer.com/blog/5-strongest-naturally-fermented-beers-world/) ["Anthony Bourdain: Craft beer fans have gone too far"](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/anthony-bourdain-says-craft-beer-fans-have-gone-too-far-a7388996.html) ["Facebook group provides outlet for craft beer fans"](http://hrgrowler.com/facebook-group-provides-outlet-craft-beer-fans/) ["Why craft beer fans freak out when small breweries sell to big-name companies"](http://www.guidelive.com/craft-beer/2016/11/03/craft-beer-fans-freak-small-breweries-sell-big-name-companies) ["How Craft Beer is Disrupting Traditions | Sebastien Morvan | TEDxBrussels"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHhIkynELNQ) ["Brussels Beer Project"](http://www.beerproject.be) ["Anthony Bourdain: Craft Beer Fans Have Gone too Far"](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/anthony-bourdain-says-craft-beer-fans-have-gone-too-far-a7388996.html) ["What Colorado's Craft Beer Fans are Fearing"](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-colorados-craft-beer-fans-are-fearing/) ["15 Things Craft Beer Fans Think (But Nobody Says)"](http://firstwefeast.com/drink/2013/04/15-things-craft-beer-fans-think-but-nobody-says/) ["Craft Beer Asia"](https://craftbeerasia.com/) ["Competition Brewing in Germany as Consumers Tire of Traditional Beer"](http://www.dw.com/en/competition-brewing-in-germany-as-consumers-tire-of-traditional-beer/a-19526706) ["Brewing Beer in the Middle East Is a Tough Business"](https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/microbreweries-in-jordan-909) ["How Beer is made"](http://blog.beeriety.com/2009/07/06/how-beer-is-made/) ["Elitism, or something else? Millennials and the war on Big Beer"](http://www.cnbc.com/2014/11/07/why-those-elitist-millennials-hate-big-beer.html) ["Does craft beer taste better than mainstream beer or do people drink it to benefit their own self-perception?"](https://www.quora.com/Does-craft-beer-taste-better-than-mainstream-beer-or-do-people-drink-it-to-benefit-their-own-self-perception) ["Why is craft beer so white?"](https://bensbeerblog.com/2016/06/08/why-is-craft-beer-so-white/) ["There are almost no black people brewing craft beer. Here's why"](https://www.thrillist.com/drink/nation/there-are-almost-no-black-people-brewing-craft-beer-heres-why) ["Charting All the Beer Styles"](http://flowingdata.com/2016/12/19/beer-styles/) ["New Brewer FAQ - Reddit"](https://www.reddit.com/r/Homebrewing/comments/3yjvxb/new_brewer_faq/) Credits Music: All this week's music is provided by our very own G! Logo: ["Glasses"](https://thenounproject.com/term/glasses/132894) ...
### Fandom Facts * Relative to Mushrooms (general), not a lot of folks are looking up information on magic mushrooms (Psilocybin), [or even mycology](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F052sf,%2Fm%2F057v5,%2Fm%2F09l4w) and are getting more interested in mushrooms over time * There are at least five different subreddits on mushrooms, all tackling a different aspect of mushrooms ([identifying mushrooms](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShroomID/), [psilocybin](https://www.reddit.com/r/PsilocybinMushrooms/), [anything mushrooms](https://www.reddit.com/r/shrooms/), etc.), the largest being [r/mycology](https://www.reddit.com/r/mycology/) (but just by a few thousand) * In _Star Trek: Discovery_ there is a character, Lieutenant Paul Stamets, who is an astromycologist and is named after a real U.S. scientist of the same name who is investigating how mushrooms might be able to [save the world in different ways](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/paul-stamets-star-trek-mushroom-expert-mycology-1.4454204) (e.g. treating disease, cleaning up oil spills) * ...His obsession with mushrooms started at age 19 where he ate an entire bag of magic mushrooms. * Only about 5% of the world's fungi are thought to be identified ### First Impressions #### Z: Ever since I had a mushroom dipped in ranch dressing at some sort of party when I was a kid, I've enjoyed their texture. And, as I tried things like portabellas, and shitake, and cremini, and beech mushrooms, I found that there was a whole world of mushrooms out there. So, when it came to mycology, my impression was that people interested in it were either foodies looking to explore perhaps the most varied, unprocessed, vegetarian/vegan(?) food, or scientists classifying them. #### T: I put mycology up there with philatelists and numismatists; something that you can go quite deep into, but that I know nothing about. I've heard bits and pieces about it (pressings, how the mushroom responds to metal, etc.) ...
Does Pinball really go back to the 1700s? Why the resurgence recently? And is it more about playing, collecting, or building? We've got special guest, Jessica, from the Pinball Podcast to help us out! ## Episode Outline ### Fandom Facts **History and Origins:** > Pinball is a type of arcade game, in which points are scored by a player manipulating one or more steel balls on a play field inside a glass-covered cabinet called a pinball table (or "pinball machine"). The primary objective of the game is to score as many points as possible. Many modern pinball machines include a story line where the player must complete certain objectives in a certain fashion to complete the story, usually earning high scores for different methods of completing the game. Points are earned when the ball strikes different targets on the play field. A drain is situated at the bottom of the play field, partially protected by player-controlled plastic bats called flippers. A game ends after all the balls fall into the drain a certain number of times. Secondary objectives are to maximize the time spent playing (by earning "extra balls" and keeping the ball in play as long as possible) and to earn bonus games (known as "replays"). > — [Wikipedia - Pinball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball) **Search Data:** Interest in Pinball has been [on the decline since 2004](https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0gfk5), but has been stable since around 2015. However, since pinball has existed in some form since arguable the 1700s or 1800s... this isn't a lot of data to work with. The top ten countries for pinball, by search volume, are as follows: Hungary, France, Chile, Belgium, Croatia, Netherlands, Australia, Serbia, Germany, Uruguay (Canada is 13th, United States is 16th). ### [Last Episode's](https://fanthropological.com/vampirechronicles) Famous ...
