<p>It&rsquo;s not business as usual this time on Brew Ha Ha with Herlinda Heras and Daedalus Howell, as Herlinda presents Beatles and Brews today. She has had this playlist on her main fridge for about 6 years. What&rsquo;s more, she has such a collection of beers that she can line up the labels to match the songs for today&rsquo;s show. The show begins with two Beatles tunes, She Loves You and I Want You / She&rsquo;s So Heavy.</p> <p>Herlinda is a Beatles superfan. She knows&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Best" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pete Best</a>, who was the drummer for The Beatles before Ringo joined the band. Herlinda even has a signed picture with him from when he played in Petaluma on tour. Pete&rsquo;s mother Mona Best bet on a horse named Never Say Die to win the 1954 Epsom Derby, at 33-1 odds. (<em>sorry, audio garbled at 8:00</em>) She used the winnings to buy the house where they built The Casbah Coffee Club in the basement. Pete&rsquo;s brother Roag still runs tours at the original Casbah location.</p> <div class="entry-content"> <p><strong>She Loves You</strong>&nbsp;goes with A View From The Top from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.instagram.com/fiveboroughsbrewing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Five Boroughs Brewing</a>&nbsp;in Brooklyn. They brewed this beer to commemorate the refurbishing of the Empire State Building. It matches the Beatles arrival in NY in 1964 on Ed Sullivan and at Shea Stadium, and all the later New York connections.</p> <p>Daedalus asks Herlinda how she became such a big Beatles fan. Herlinda&rsquo;s dad was in the Navy, and they were stationed for a while at Hunter&rsquo;s Point Shipyard. Candlestick Park was nearby, and her mom wasn&rsquo;t at the Beatles concert, but she said she could hear the crowd screaming. When her dad was in the Far East in the Navy, there where places where he could record albums onto reel-to-reel. Herlinda had an Akai reel-to-reel tape player. He gave her an audio documentary history of the Beatles that she listened to it over and over again.</p> <h4>Black is Beautiful and Blackbird</h4> <p>Herlinda was doing her math homework one day while living at Hamilton AFB in Novato. She was listening to KRQR San Francisco when the news came in of John Lennon&rsquo;s murder. She immediately started her reel-to-reel recorder and captured the local coverage from all the local radio stations.</p> <p>Herlinda opens a beer called Black is Beautiful. She pairs it with the Beatles song Blackbird and points out Paul McCartney&rsquo;s story of its origin. A bird means a girl in British English and Paul had seen stories of young black girls having to be escorted to school in the American south, and he wrote the song to describe them. The Black Is Beautiful beer started from an African American brewer Marcus Baskerville in the wake of George Floyd&rsquo;s death.</p> <p>The song Tomorrow Never Knows, with its Indian sitars, suggests an IPA, India Pale Ale. There is more beer and Beatles music than we have time for in one show, so we will have to revisit this topic. Before we end this episode, Herlinda opens a Ukrainian style Golden Ale flavored with coriander. The BJCP judging guidelines recently admitted this Ukrainian style to their catalog. Herlinda suggests the song Golden Slumbers, for the Ukrainian ale. We will have to do a 2.0. We didn&rsquo;t even get to the English beers.&nbsp;</p> </div>