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Irresponsibly Hopped for Pine Nuts

West Coast Double IPA

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

IBU 88

Other Info

Irresponsibly Hopped for Pine Nuts

Twin Pines

Sawdust City Brewing

8.8% Alcohol

Good times

Sawdust City’s toast to Hill Valley’s favourite shopping mall, Twin Pines and that blast from the past Back to the Future.* Come to think of it, Sawdust also brews Lone Pine, which was the name of the Hill Valley shopping mall after Marty comes back to the future.

I always wondered why Marty’s parents and Doc Brown seem oblivious to meeting Marty only 20 years earlier even though he played such a pivotal role in their lives? I was deep in deliberation on the butterfly effect and time travel conundrums in general and the importance of suspension of disbelief in filmmaking as I popped and poured this hopped up Sawdust blast from the past of a 8.8% IBU 88 heaping helping of hoppiness. Time for a rhyme. Here’s another one.

8.8 and 88, I can’t wait. Hoppiness guaranteed, a pine fest indeed.

Pop the top on this hop crop. A golden white cap with a double pine bough slap.

A golden treetop bronze beauty with foam dome combining for a picture perfect pour. A couple of Muskoka pines in the background made the picture even perfecter! An aroma of double juice to go with two pine bough slaps to the face. The taste is over the top citrus tropical with two pine bough slaps to the face with two pine boughs at the same time! Very piney but lots of tropical juice so the scales are tipped at least two ways to Sunday, and it ends up some way, somehow being wildly balanced. As the fruit mellows a bit, I’m feeling like a third stringer, riding the pines. This brew is aptly named, that’s for sure.

Sawdust takes full responsibility for what they call an “irresponsibly hopped ale”, and they ain’t lyin’. Not everyone could handle this pine fest, it really is for pine nuts. A few years ago I would have tapped out, today I’ll be looking for this ode to pine on tap. A great hoppy treat.

*Editor’s Comment: In the 1985 movie, Back to the Future, quite a bit of the imaginary town of Hill Valley was built in the Universal backlot. Marty’s house was a home in Arleta, LA. The mall parking lot scenes were filmed at the Puente Hills Mall in City of Industry, California.

Final Rating: 16 Pine Bough Slaps to the Face out of 20

West Coast Double IPA

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

Other Info

IBU 88

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