beer

  • Tanked Up 107 – Rime of the Ancient Orwellian

    27/02/2018
    Ben and Lucy have some beers on this cold and frigid night and discuss what they’ve been playing. Ben’s played two games which are almost the opposite of each other in ‘Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy’ and ‘Rime’. Lucy got back into her episodic sleuth persona and played...

  • Tanked Up 106 – Mobile Madness or Gaming Fatigue

    23/02/2018
    Lucy, Aadil and Ben are casual gamers. It’s true, don’t try to defend them. Ben hates games and only likes casual educational experiences like the Assassin’s Creed: Origins Discovery mode. Aadil hasn’t touched a game in months but has been poking Zenge a mobile game, a mobile game! Uhh...

  • Tanked Up 104 – Playing Streets of Rage at Wiper and True

    05/02/2018
    Ben and Aadil went on a little day trip to the Wiper and True tap room to sample some of their and some of Partizan Brewing’s beers. This included the collaboration ‘Smoking Jacket’ Porter and the beer Ben drinks during the episode the ‘Phantasmagoria’ IPA from Wiper and True....

  • Tanked Up 103 – The Dark Side of Gaming

    29/01/2018
    This week features all three of us, huzzah! But we chat the darker side of gaming from Epic Games closing down Paragon after only 2 years to the arcade mode in Star Wars Battlefront 2 being tied to the mulitplayer for progression which has been designed around loot boxes...

  • Tanked Up 100 – Games of 2017

    08/01/2018
    2017 was a crazy year for games so we chat about our favourites. Lucy’s got a top ten and several honourable mentions whilst Aadil and Ben have top fives. We really get into it but of course stray along the way. What do we drink? We start with the...

  • Tanked Up 99 – Lucy comes to town

    23/12/2017
    One episode from the grand 100 and Lucy visits Bristol. We capture her, forever. Our chat takes us from Peak Beer to Dishonoured 2 and boss fights. From criminal intent to Mother Russia Bleeds and the brilliance of Devolver Digital. Finally South Park to comedy writing. We drank a...

  • Tanked Up 98 – Samus Reigns

    13/12/2017
    The chat starts with the new sequel/expansion of the swipey-monarch game: Reigns – Her Majesty. We talk about Metroid: Samus Returns, the wonder/pain of 3D, the best mario, Doki Doki Literature Club, Marvel’s Netflix series, Emperor Doom. Aadil and Ben start off with the “Wylam” session IPA ‘Swipe Right....

  • Tanked Up 96 – Elements of the Macarena

    04/12/2017
    Everyone does the Macarena. We drink three different pairings from the recent Beer 52 x Anders Elements project. We chat different ingredient changes, yeast, malts and hops and how this effects the taste of a beer. Lots of beer chat ensues then onto gamez. Ben’s got a PS4 and...

  • Tanked Up 94 – A Mobile Wolfenstein Odyssey

    13/11/2017
    This week Aadil does a mini-roundup of mobile games, courtesy of hours of travel. We chat “A Good Snowman is Hard to Build”, “Concrete Jungle”, “Dropsy” along with a couple smaller games like “Wolfenstein II” and “Super Mario Odyssey”. Lucy drinks the ‘Body Riddle’ pale ale from “Whiplash”. Aadil...