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If You Brew It They Will Come

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

If You Brew It They Will Come

Ghost Runner

Left Field Brewery

5.6% Alcohol

A bit “corny”, but still a great movie.

Is it the ghost of Black Sox left fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson roaming the cornfield? The whispering apparition telling the LF gang “If you brew it they will come.”  Is this brew their Left Field of dreams?* Or maybe Ghost Runner is a spirited sprint of some sort? Or a delivery man for a Taco bar? None of the above, consider the following.

This beer delivers the goods too.

I was watching the Blue Jays in a near the end of the season nail biter, a must win if ever a win you must. I was cheering and beering them on, as I am prone to do at times. Top of the 10th and next thing I know there’s a man on second? What the hay? Did I just miss a ground rule double? Must have been when I went to the pantry to grab some extra innings chips. Bottom of the 10th, and I do a double take, because now the Jays have a guy on second who did one too. Way to go Ernie. What I am explaining is the relatively new rule in Major League Baseball, the Ghost Runner. A runner is automatically placed at second base in an extra inning regular game. **

A muted orange pour with a first base white bright froth. Mild tropical juice and mild hops on a nose that knows the score. The opening salvo is intense juice right to hoppy bitters. No shrinking violets or bashful begonias growing in this field. This fresh cold juicy almost but not quite over the top juicer switches immediately to aggressive bitters, the hops are working overtime. Very flavourful, refreshing and tasty.

Left Field has covered all the bases with this one and scored a grand slam in the process.

Well done Left Field. If you brew it this good, they will come for sure.

*Editor’s Comment: The 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” was based on the book “Shoeless Joe” by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella. Starring Kevin Costner, the movie was nominated for 3 Oscars including Best Picture. In the movie the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson (disgraced left fielder of the infamous 1919 Black Sox gambling scandal team) tells Ray Kinsella (Costner) “if you build it, he will come”. Costner has appeared in a number of baseball themed movies including Bull Durham, For the Love of the Game, The Upside of Anger, and Chasing Dreams. Costner was a pitcher in high school, he tried out for at California State University but didn’t make the team.

**Editor’s Comment: The Ghost Runner rule was implemented in 2023 for regular season games. It is meant to speed up extra inning games and reduce the strain on pitchers.

Final Rating: This Spirited Suds Scores a 16 out of 20

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

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