FM Mixtapes
Just filled up at 23¢ a litre, man gas prices sure shot up after that oil crisis.* Bought a six pack yesterday and that set me back $2.80, ouch. Revin’ up the terrible two-tone turbo Torino, slammin’ some Seger in the cassette deck and shootin’ the tube. Rockin’ Main Street and working on some night moves.
8 tracks meant you could play your favourite six albums in your slant 6 Valiant. Cassettes meant you could play your favourite 20 albums in your souped up “Starsky and Hutch”** Gran Torino, and make mix tapes so all your favourite songs could play in the order your recorded them. The radio was ancient history.
How’s that for an adventure in time surfing. Or perhaps just another regressing digression on my part.
I am busy time surfin’ the 70’, but it appears this beer can is paying tribute to the mid- 80’s with reference to the 1987 flick Adventures in Babysitting and the 1985 classic Back to the Future with it’s time surfing DeLorean.**
Back to present day reality, or as real as it gets with a Flying Monkeys sampling. An orange hazy particles in suspension pour, abundantly unclear. Definitely a citrus tropical fruit fresh and hoppy aroma. First quaff is fruity and fizzy with a snappy hoppy grapefruit bitter borderline boozy finish. The fizz fades but the strong, substantial, significant conclusion, the forceful finale, the forte finis, is a fine finish that stays the course. Mango puree and blood orange juice, how’s that for fruity. Lots of everything happening here, almost out of control but somehow balanced. How can this strong double be easy drinking? Well maybe not easy peasy drinking but a refreshing and drinkable double.
Fruit tropics body with strong but balanced finish. Once again the FM show their mastery of the IPA with this adventure in IPA brewing.
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