Cranky Reviews

Bones and Cones

American IPA

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

IBU 40

Other Info

Bones and Cones

Bone Pine

Sawdust City and Third Moon with Beertown

6.5% Alcohol

Mix well and enjoy.

Kipling once said “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet”. * What Rudyard (how’s that for a first name, thanks Mom, thanks Dad) didn’t count on was a collaboration between cottage country Sawdust City and the ever macabre malters at Third Moon. Come to think of it, who did? Combining Third Moon’s Bone Tree East Coaster with Sawdust’s Lone Tree West Coaster and you get, you guessed it, Bone Pine! A bi-coaster toaster of pine bones and cones.

But the collaboration participation doesn’t end there. Add Beertown into the mix and the brewer’s favourite beer geeks T&E ** and you’ve got a four-way IPA collaberet. Time to end the confusion with an infusion of this brew fusion.

Firmly seated on the boathouse lounge chair, I’m starting out on the right foot with a picture perfect pour. Hazy orange to blood orange (Third Moon had to get blood in there somewhere) with a heroic head.

A tropical aroma with some hops in the background. First taste is tropical juice, malt, hops to bitters in sequence and balance. Initially the tastes each stand out on their own but eventually they begin to morph together. A full mouth feel, mellow, smooth and tasty. Great sequence and consistently balanced, bi-coastal IPAs are tricky to brew but Third Moon and Sawdust City’s bones and cones nailed it.

*Editor’s Comment: In the 1889 poem “The Ballad of East and West” Kipling goes on to say that “That there is neither East nor West when two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the Earth.” Perhaps this verse of the poem is more apropos regarding the collaboration resulting in this beer?

*Reviewer’s Comment: Perhaps.

**Reviewer’s Comment: Of course COMDB are their favourite brew reviewer’s but since the only geeks on our team are the Editor and the accounting group, the cranky old outweigh the geeks so we don’t qualify as beer geeks.

Final Rating: No Bones About a Super Suds Score of 15 out of 20

American IPA

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

Other Info

IBU 40

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