The movie lions that came to mind for me didn’t really elicit the fear response. The Cowardly Lion, “I’ll fight you with one paw tied behind my back.” Elsa, “as free as the wind blows, as free as the grass grows,..” or Simba “hakuna matata”. * The there is the movie “The Young Lions” with a veritable who’s who of Hollywood stars. And we have reviewed a few beer lions in our day, a Singha golden lion from Thailand and a dark brooding Sinha from Sri Lanka, and Lions Winter Ale from rainy Vancouver to name a few.
Stone Brewery Virginia
After all of that, it turns out that the name of this beer has nothing to do with lions, or movies or lions creating fear in movies, or fear of movies with lions in them, or fear of lions*** while innocently watching a movie, or any of the above. According to Stone, the three words identify a location in a global positioning system known as What 3 Words. Fear.Movie.Lions is the location of their Richmond Virginia brewery where this brew was brewed. So I am doing this review from Direct.Robot.Hissing And all this time I thought I had tinnitus.
So after a mild creamy cream ale I am switching gears to a high octane daily double which spells trouble (not literally of course). Pop the dice because this kind of trouble is lots of fun. A golden roar of a pour, hazy, with a full white mane of a head to top things off.
Aroma. Fear movie lions, hoppy zingy juicy. First a whiff of double hops, time to hop to it. A taste of juicy tropical, with a bitters pine grapefruit finish. It’s strong, it is a double after all. My beer glass has me in an arm bar but I’m not tapping out yet. It settles into a nice juice body, with a brisk crisp zingy hoppy finish that is starting to drop a few adjectives as I work my way down the glass. As it mellows a bit the finish turns a bit juicy funky, all good.
A solid fresh drinkable double no matter what three names you are drinking it at.
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