November 4, 2024

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Drink Identifier: Office Uprising (2018)

Actor Brenton Thwaites holds a golden can of Howdy beer.

Brenton Thwaites deep in thought of "hmmm, beer?"

What alcohol the characters in "Office Uprising" (2018) drink (before they go crazy.)

Office Uprising is a weird little movie starring Brenton Thwaites (Oculus, Pirates of the Caribbean 5) and Jane Levy (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Evil Dead 2013). Basically all the employees at an evil company drink an energy drink that makes them go absolutely apeshit.

It’s kinda like Better Off Ted but extremely violent, profane, and gory.

It’s a decent time waster and Jane Levy is always watchable.

The majority of the drinking done in the film is the fictional Zolt Energy Drink. But before the murderous mayhem begins Brenton Thwaites’ character manages to have a few beers and towards the end, a CEO sips on some whiskey.

Howdy Beer – Desmond (Brenton Thwaites)

a golden can of Howdy beer sits in a styrofoam cooler
The proper way to load a cooler is *not* to put a single beer on top of the ice.

Desmond (Brenton Thwaites) is introduced as a slacker at his job. We know he’s a slacker because he gets drunk on Howdy Beer and rides around in shopping carts instead of writing a Very Important Report for his job. What a slacker.

Howdy is a real beer, described as an American-style Pilsner. Which usually means a nice chuggable beer, perfect for a slacker. Howdy beer is not available everywhere in the USA, which means I wasn’t able to try it myself.

Actor Brenton Thwaites holds a golden can of Howdy beer.
Brenton Thwaites deep in thought of “hmmm, beer?”

Whiskey Neat – Franklin Gantt (Gregg Henry)

A business man with a cowboy hat holds a glass of whiskey.
He seems like a nice man

Franklin Gantt (Gregg Henry, a guest star on every tv show ever made) is the evil boss of the evil company. He rides out the mayhem in his fortified office sipping on whiskey neat. Not going to lie, if in a similar situation I would try to do the same thing.

We don’t know what kind of whiskey it is, because he keeps it in a fancy decanter, but it looks to be fake prop whiskey anyway.

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