Voodoo Ranger: An Amateurish Beer Review... and a Mormon Movie?

My last beer review included an IPA from New Belgium's Voodoo Ranger line. I liked it. Time for another! This is the Imperial IPA offering, and it ain't bad.

9% ABV is strong, but this doesn't taste like it at all. It also doesn't taste like 70 IBU. This is smooth. Highly recommended!

I don't know enough about hops to have any opinion. "Delta, Bravo, Centennial, Cascade, Calypso, Mosaic"? Whatever the blend is, I like it. The Pale and Black malts also work. Nothing jumps out as wrong.

It's not my favorite IPA, but it's a solid entry for the style in my amateurish opinion. And let's not ignore the badass can art with their skeletal mascot. That earns points. I arbitrarily give this 4 out of 5 stars. I can see room to make it stellar, but it's way above average.

We were celebrating the birthday of a game group member, and our hostess made rhubarb pies. The dairy-free pie for those of us with allergies was topless. This image may not be safe for work! I'll try to make sure @generikat gets some of the leftovers that were very forcibly foisted upon me as I departed.

We also watched Singles Ward as part of our group's former Mormon slowly introducing us to the pop culture of his old cult.

A few weeks prior, we watched Mobsters and Mormons. That was quirky, but I might go as far as to say it was funny, and maybe even... good?

This was distinctly less good. I would charitably describe it as very much of its time, and the fourth wall breaks were annoying, if still sometimes cleverly framed and near the end lampshaded well. There were some off-pace slapstick moments, and the humor made references that just went over my head as a non-Mormon.

This was released in January of 2002, and I would guess from the airport-chase-to-stop-the-romantic-interest-from-leaving trope that it was written and filmed before 9/11/01. This adds a layer of surreal strangeness since the world has changed so much. I can see how it's a bit nostalgic to even former LDS members, but I can't recommend this unless you really, really want a squeaky-clean rom-com with cult references you probably won't understand and no real surprises.