Recap – Longship Brewery
Tue Jan 23 2018

Longship Brewery

10320 Camino Santa Fe C
San Diego CA 92121
(858) 246-7875
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About Longship Brewery

Since the 9th century, the Viking longship has been a symbol and a vessel of exploration, trade, and cultural exchange. The pride of the nordic people was their ability to cross the oceans in ways that no other people had done before. With the curiosity of the unknown, this guided them to uncover the world's riches, solidifying their place in history. 

 

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It is this same drive of exploration that fills the sails of Longship Brewery.  We strive to seek out daring and bold ingredients and style combinations. Pushing the limits in order to create uniquely strong smooth flavors with a fearless determination to uncover new lands. Join us on our journey as we at Longship Brewery sail into the foamy unknown.

QUIZ RECAP

Tue Jan 23 2018
| by Quizmaster Cory Brin
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Before I get into the usual thing, I was asked many times to make a special announcement: During tonight's game, crowd favorites, Hawaiian Time, had the first place score for two rounds. TWO ROUNDS.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

Tonight at Longship Brewery, we saw an epic story of perseverance. A story of inspiration. A story of beer. And Vikings. Kinda.

We had a new team tonight by the name of "The Beer's Not Helping." I swear I'm not making fun, but at the end of round one, their score was a total of three. Perennial heavy hitters, Indifferent Penguins, Cyber Chemists, and Hawaiian Time started off strong with high scores.

Round two only saw "The Beer's Not Helping," adding a single point to their total, with the other teams adding in heaps and droves. But they remained steadfast and added on points when they could.

Then came the beer round. Longship Brewery announced that on Thursdays, they will be hosting "Pint Sized Lectures" about all things Vikings. More info on their website if you are interested. The Viking word of the week was "Berserker" which translates to "Bear Warrior" and is a Norse champion who fights without armor and in a trance like fury. So we asked our teams to write down advice to a Berserker Champion representing Longship Brewery. Here's some examples:

Unicorn Fury - "Be like Johnny Depp in a Tim Burton movie."

Hawaiian Time - Don't use a Broken Spear, use your Loki's Wit, go behind a Shield Wall, but the Abomination and when all else fails, do the Sabatini. (Note, most of those are beer names at Longship.)

White Walker - "Violence isn't the answer. Why don't we have a beer at Longship on Tuesday at 6PM? I hear they have great trivia!"

PQ Legends - "Stick 'em with the pointy end."

But... The Beer's Not Helping Us took the beer round with the following advice:

"If you're going to fight, fight like you are the third monkey on the ramp to Noah's Ark and it's starting to rain! Now get in there!!!"

So they got the Beer...and much like an actual Berserker, they drank it and the beer started helping, "The Beer's Not Helping."  They hacked and slashed their way through every question - picking up 29 points in two rounds, and by the end of regular, had forced a tie breaker with the Indifferent Penguins!!!!

The tiebreaker question - In minutes and seconds, how long was Ed Sheeran's 2017 album "Divide?"

The correct answer: 46:14.

Penguins: 63:12

The Beer's Not Helping: 46:30 - ONLY 16 SECONDS OFF!?!?!?!?!

What an amazing story and incredible accomplishment. Congratz to all and we hope to see everyone next week.

Game Rank Team # Team Name Score Teams Beaten Team Beat Average
1* The Beer's Not Helping! 41 5 0.917
1 11696 Indifferent Penguins 41 5 0.917
3 12182 Hawaiian Time 39 4 0.667
4 13508 White walkers 38 3 0.500
5 13424 PQ Legends 29 2 0.333
6 11779 cyber chemists 21 1 0.167
7 Unicorn Fury 19 0 0.000
* Won Tiebreaker