#20: Ed Marriott / Scoville Labs

Draft Mechanic Episode #20: An Interview with Scoville/Scoville: Labs Designer Ed Marriott, Scoville on Tap, Letter Tycoon, Xia, & the World Beer Cup Results

On Kickstarter:

Anachrony [Kickstarter Page] [BoardGameGeek]
2017, Mindclash Games
Designers: David Turczi, with Victor Peter & Richard Amann
Campaign ends Tuesday, June 7th 2016, noon EDT.

Recent Plays:

Letter Tycoon
2015, Breaking Games/Squirmy Beasts
Designer: Brad Brooks
Artist: Mackenzie Schubert

Xia: Legends of a Drift System
2014, Far Off Games
Designer: Cody Miller

Interview with Ed Marriott
Contact Ed Marriott on [Twitter], [Instagram]
Visit Ed Marriott's website, Boards and Barley

On Tap Beer Pairings:
Scoville
2014, Tasty Minstrel Games
Designer: Ed Marriott

Scoville Labs
2016, Tasty Minstrel Games
Designer: Ed Marriott

2016 World Beer Cup winners: web, PDF

Section timestamps:

Intro
01:15 Show housekeeping
02:00 GenCon: Event Registration
03:30 Kickstarter: Anachrony
06:54 Recent Plays: Letter Tycoon
11:28 Recent Plays: XIA: Legends of a Drift System
17:21 Scoville Labs: What it adds
19:44 Interview: Ed Marriott
46:34 On Tap: Scoville
55:24 World Beer Cup 2016 Results
60:45 Outro

#19: Viticulture / Quadropolis

Draft Mechanic Episode #19: Viticulture on tap, Quadropolis, TableTop Day, Barrel Aging Beers

International TableTop Day is in the rear view mirror, and what a day it was! Over the weekend we played a ton and we want to tell you all about it. Two player, three player, four player and more - social games, tile games, magic games, city games, card games, games, games, GAMES! Phew. BREATHE. Ok. We also do a review of Quadropolis - let’s call it a four-pack rather than a six-pack review. Our on-tap game today is Stonemaier Games’ debut Viticulture and we pick four great beers that make use of wine and wine ingredients during the brewing process. TableTop Day, man, what a rush - so sit back, relax, grab a pint and enjoy the show!

Recent Plays:

Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
2015, Renegade Games
Designer: Christopher Chung

The New Science
2013, Conquistador Games, Inc.
Designer: Dirk Knemeyer

Lost Cities
1999, KOSMOS
Designer: Reiner Knizia

Terra Mystica
2013, Z-Man Games
Designer: Jens Drögemüller, Helge Ostertag

Quadropolis
2016, Days of Wonder
Designer: François Gandon

On Tap Beer Pairings:

Viticulture
2013, Stonemaier Games
Designer: Jamey Stegmaier, Alan Stone

  • Dogfish Head Brewing "Sixty-One" Milton, DE
    6.5% ABV, 60 IBU
    Dry-hopped IPA brewed with syrah grape must.
  • Wicked Weed Brewing "Succession"  Asheville, NC
    7.3% ABV.
    Golden Sour brewed with Riesling grape juice and aged in Biltmore Winery oak barrels.
  • Captain Lawrence Brewing Company "Cuvee de Castleton" Elmsford, NY
    7%ABV.
    Golden ale with muscat grapes, aged in French oak wine barrels.
  • Allagash Brewing Co. "Victor" Portland, ME.
    8.3% ABV.
    Ale with pilsner malt and Cabernet Franc grapes.

Section timestamps:

01:00 Show housekeeping
03:42 Upcoming: Charterstone from Stonemaier Games
07:58 Recent plays: Lanterns: The Harvest Festival
13:22 Recent plays: The New Science
24:22 Recent plays: Lost Cities
34:16 TableTop Day at our FLGS
36:11 Recent plays: Terra Mystica
40:55 Recent plays: Quadropolis
61:50 On Tap: Viticulture
74:01 Barrel aging beers
81:44 Outro

#18: The Golden Ages / Onirim

Draft Mechanic Episode #18: The Golden Ages review, Onirim on tap, Onitama, Best Treehouse Ever, and naming the GenCon Beer

I keep having this dream… and in it, there’s a new episode of Draft Mechanic! Make your dreams a reality with beer pairings for today’s on tap game, Onirim! Also, let’s explore what could have been earth if we had placed the tiles correctly in our six pack review of The Golden Ages. We’ve also shaken off the sleepies to talk about recent plays of the new hotness Onitama and the cute greatness Best Treehouse Ever. Finally, have you ever wanted to name a beer? Well, now’s your chance - Sun King Brewing is doing a beer naming contest for the beer they’ll brew for GenCon this year! So sit back, relax, grab a pint and enjoy the show! Just… turn off the lights and give me a blanket first, would you?

Kickstarter Roundup:

Bottom of the 9th: Clubhouse Expansion
Kickstarter ends May 13/ BoardGameGeek

Recent Plays:

Onitama
2016, Arcane Wonders
Designer: Shimpei Sato

Best Treehouse Ever
2015, Green Couch Games
Designer: Scott Almes

Six Pack Review:

The Golden Ages + Cults & Cultures expansion
2015, Stronghold Games
Designer: Luigi Ferrini

On Tap: Beer Pairings:

Onirim (second edition)
2014, Z-Man Games
Designer: Shadi Torbey

  • Birrificio Del Ducato "My Blueberry Nightmare" Sour Ale. Soragna, PR, Italy
    9.5% ABV.
    Sour stout brewed with hot chilies and aged for 2 years in oak barrels with blueberries
  • Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project "Nightmare on Brett" American Wild Ale. Denver, CO
    9.66% ABV.
    Dark sour with rotating barrel aging and fruit additions.
  • Uinta Brewing "Labyrinth" Black Ale. Salt Lake City, UT
    13.2%ABV, 56 IBU.
    Black ale aged in rye barrels.
  • Troegs Independent Brewing "DreamWeaver" Wheat beer. Hershey, PA.
    4.8% ABV, 15 IBU.
    Open-top fermented, unfiltered wheat beer.

Check out the Sun King Brewery 2016 GenCon Beer Naming Contest! (or the GenCon news post about it here)

Section Timestamps:
01:24 Upcoming Salud Board Game Night, April 19th
01:54 On Kickstarter: Bottom of the 9th: Clubhouse
04:30 Recent plays: Onitama
10:59 Recent plays: Best Treehouse Ever

Six-Pack Review: The Golden Ages / Cults & Cultures expansion
17:17 The Golden Ages: Gameplay Overview
22:07 The Golden Ages: Discussion
41:48 The Golden Ages: Final Thoughts

44:51 On Tap: Onirim
55:38 Sun King Brewing’s “Name the GenCon Beer” contest
59:30 Outro

#17: Baseball Games

Draft Mechanic Episode 17: Baseball games, Minor league + craft beer, & WWE Superstar Showdown on Tap

Baseball’s back! Peanuts? Cracker jack? How about a fresh, piping hot episode of Draft Mechanic? We’re kicking off the baseball season with a double-header of awesome baseball games: Baseball Highlights 2045 and Bottom of the 9th! And you can’t forget it’s Wrestlemania season - we recorded today’s episode right before the show of shows and put last year’s WWE Superstar Showdown from Gale Force Nine on tap! We’ve also got some recent plays and some Kickstarter news to talk about. But enough talk - it’s time to play ball!

Kickstarter Roundup:
Rahdo Runs Through...YEAR FIVE
Kickstarter ends April 17th / BoardGameGeek

Santorini
Kickstarter ends April 28th/ BoardGameGeek

Recent Play:
Zany Penguins
2016, Bombyx
Designers: Bruno Cathala, Mathieu Lanvin

Baseball Games:
Bottom of the 9th
2015, Dice Hate Me/Greater Than Games.
Designers: Darrell Louder, Mike Mullins

Baseball Highlights: 2045
2015, Eagle-Gryphon Games.
Designer: Mike FItzgerald

On Tap:
WWE Superstar Showdown
2015, Gale Force Nine
Designers: Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, and Sean Sweigart



 

#16: Paradox / The Bloody Inn

Draft Mechanic Episode 16: Paradox six-pack review; The Bloody Inn on tap; Spring Beer Roundup

Welcome back, listeners! Today we’ve got a heaping space spoonful of timeline meddling with Split Second Games’ new release “Paradox.” We also talk about some recent games that have hit Kickstarter and some games we played at our monthly open gaming night at Salud Beer Shop in Charlotte. On tap today we have last year’s “The Bloody Inn” with four great thematic beers. Finally, it’s spring now, so we’ve included a brief roundup of some great spring seasonals you can get your hands on now!

Kickstarter Roundup:

Monikers: Something Something
Kickstarter ends April 16th / BoardGameGeek

Fog of Love
Kickstarter ends April 3rd/ BoardGameGeek

The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire
Kickstarter ends April 7th / BoardGameGeek

Salud Board Game Night Roundup:

Sheriff of Nottingham
2014, Arcane Wonders / Cool Mini or Not
Designer: Lorraine Schleter, David Sladek

Tokaido
2012, Fun Forge
Designer: Antoine Bauza

Six Pack Review

Paradox
2016, Split Second Games - Website / Game Page
Designer: Brian Suhre

On Tap: Beer Pairings

The Bloody Inn
2015, Pearl Games
Designer: Nicolas Robert

Fonta Flora Brewing “Bloody Butcher” Appalachian Style Grisette. Morganton, NC.
    4.2% ABV, 750ml Bottle. Uses Fox Farms Bloody Butcher corn.
Heretic Brewing Company “Shallow Grave” Porter. Fairfield, CA
    7% ABV, 33 IBU. 22oz bottles. 
Boulevard Brewing “Tell-Tale Tart” Sour ale. St. Louis, MO.
    6.2% ABV, 10 IBU. 12oz 4-pack. Very light tartness and a ‘soft, biscuity’ malt.
Left Hand Brewing Company “Wake Up Dead” Russian Imperial Stout. Longmont, CO
    10.2 % ABV. 22oz bottles CO2, 12oz bottles Nitro.

Spring Beer Roundup

Dogfish Head Brewing “Aprihop”, Apricot IPA. Milton, DE.
    7.0% ABV, 50 IBU. 12oz bottle, 4pk. Apricot juice, Amarillo dry-hopped.
Bells Brewing “Smitten”, Golden Rye Ale. Kalamazoo, MI.
    6.0% ABV, 12oz bottles (6 and 12 packs), 16oz cans. Citrus hops, earthy rye.
Ommegang “Glimmerglass” Spiced saison. Cooperstown, NY.
    5.4% ABV, 12oz bottles. Pear, apple and citrus with floral hop profile. 
Revolution Brewing “A Little Crazy” Belgian-style pale. Chicago, IL.
    6.7% ABV, 35 IBU. 12oz cans, 6pk. Pilsner malt, with a citra & cascade dry hop.
Victory “Kirsch Gose” Cherry Gose. Downingtown, PA.
    4.7% ABV, 12oz bottles. Sour and tart.
NoDa Brewing “Ghost Hop” White IPA. Charlotte, NC.
    5.9% ABV, 70 IBU. Draft only. Light body, citrus & pine hops.
Founders “KBS” Bourbon-barrel stout. Grand Rapids, MI.
    12.4% ABV, 70 IBU. Coffee and chocolate, then aged in bourbon barrels for a year. Because some days are cold.

Section Timestamps:

01:15 Show housekeeping
03:06 Kickstarter: Monikers
06:28 Kickstarter: Fog of Love
08:36 Kickstarter: Manhattan Project: Energy Empire
10:40 Kickstarter: Pack-o-Game 2
11:50 Recent Plays: Sheriff of Nottingham
18:00 Recent Plays: Tokaido
22:20 Six-pack review: Paradox
56:03 On tap: The Bloody Inn
60:56 Spring Beer Roundup
67:20 Outro

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