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Seeing Ghosts

Hazy IPA

Beer Type

11 to 14

11 to 14

Honourable Mentions

Rating

IBU 20

Other Info

Seeing Ghosts

Ghost

High Park Brewery

6.3% Alcohol

You have your friendliest ghost, that would be Casper. Then there is the studly apparition Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze). Or how about Slimer, a gross ghost, a ghrost? Bettlejuice (Michael Keaton) is certainly in the running for grossest and most spirited spirit. A clueless manifestation of himself, that would be Dr. Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis), he doesn’t even know he’s a ghost.  There’s Shoeless Joe Jackson, a paranormal professional player poltergeist. How about Captain Gregg, the shipless ghost who’s the host with the most. Shakespeare made a living off of spirits in his plays, you could call him a ghost writer.*

High Park tells us that this spirit is so wheat white and hazy that I will be seeing ghosts. I will be seeing to it, or maybe just  seeing through it. Let’s see, or not, whatever the case may be.

A golden pour appears, not as light as advertised, no dragging chains or any other other worldly goings on going on. It is a near headless horseman, but there is a presences of a slim trim bed sheet white head. An aroma of tropical and stone fruit mild not wild. I really love those peaches, but I won’t shake the tree.** It tastes of fruit with a touch of funk and bitter bringing up the rear.  The body is smooth and fuzzy as a velvet peach, but still with a slight bitter fruit funk combo on the finish. So far it is well balanced and tasty. A hazy fruity funky translucent juicer, a translucier?

As it warmed a bit the funky junk in the trunk became more pronounced, It was losing it’s sense of balance, just as I am prone to do at times if I am that way inclined. Good body but the funky phantasm finish rather than a fantatstic fruit finale was only OK.

*Editor’s Comment: Casper first showed up in the mid 1940’s and became a cartoon and comic book staple of post World War 2. The 1990 movie “Ghost” starred Patrick Swazye as the attractive apparition with Demi Moore as his weeping widow. In the 1984 movie “Ghostbusters”, written by Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd, Rick Moranis steals the show as the clueless accountant who scores with Sigourney Weaver. Micheal Keaton, Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin are all ghosts in the 1988 movie “Bettlejuice”. Dr. Malcom Crowe has no sense in the 1999 movie “The Sixth Sense” as he deals with a young boy who sees ghosts. In the 1989 “Field of Dreams” Ray Liotta plays the ghost of real life baseball legend Shoeless Joe, who won’t even let Kevin Costner join them on his own dream field. Captain Gregg is the ghost in the 1945 novel and the 1947 movie “The Ghost & Mrs. Muir” which was turned into a short running TV sitcom in the late 60’s. Shakespeare has a total of 12 ghosts in his 5 of his plays.

**Editor’s Comment: The 1973 song and album from The Steve Miller Band “The Joker”. “I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree”. Miller actually borrowed these lyrics from the 1954 Clovers hit song “Lovey Dovey” which was written by Ahmet Ertegun, the co-founder and long time President of Atlantic Records.

Final Rating: A Funky Phantasm Finish for a 14 out of 20

Hazy IPA

Beer Type

11 to 14

11 to 14

Honourable Mentions

Rating

Other Info

IBU 20

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