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You Should Only Worry if the Moon Responds

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You Should Only Worry if the Moon Responds

Talking to the Moon

Counterpart Brewing

6.5% Alcohol

Bowie was daydreaming about it, Frank wanted us to fly him there, and Niven thought it was a balloon. Pink Floyd was interested in its darker side. Audrey Hepburn scored Oscars and Grammys for mooning over a river. And Bruno Mars was actually talking to it. That moon sure gets a lot of attention. *

Wife: Have you heard a single word I’ve said?

Husband: That’s an odd way to start a conversation.

Wife: It’s like I’m talking to the moon.**

But don’t worry Counterpart, when it comes to reviewing this brew I’m your Huckleberry friend.*** I’m ignoring the moon and paying attention to you, and your astral lost in space crescent craft of a brew too.

A yellow orange buttery moon of a pour. As thick as cheesy thieves. An aroma of tropical super juice. That’s one juicy brewski. And the first taste is tropical juicy hoppy bitters with a slightly boozy back bite, I did a double take to see if it was a double. Tasting honeymoon is over and here come the bitters. Citrus and more, a juice fest going on. And the boozy backend was replaced by grapefruit bitters in the body, on the booty, and lingering beyond. A grapefruit bitters after party. I do like a grapefruit bitter or two, and this brew has them in spades.

It is a big juice big hop tasty bitters IPA. I wouldn’t say I loved it to the moon and back and I wasn’t over the moon about it, but I wouldn’t mind one once in a blue moon.

*Editor’s Comment: Bowie’s “Moonage Daydream” is from his 1972 album “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”. Frank Sinatra probably delivered the most memorable version of Bart Howard’s 1954 song “Fly Me to the Moon”, In 1964 which coincided the start of the Apollo space program. David Niven’s 1971 memoir “The Moon’s a Balloon” is one of the more intriguing tales of early Hollywood. Pink Floyd’s defining album “Dark Side of the Moon” was released in 1973. Audrey Hepburn sang Mercer and Mancini’s “Moon River” in the 1961 movie based on the Truman Capote book “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and won a best song Oscar and Grammys that year. Bruno Mars song “Talking to the Moon” is from his 2010 album “Doo-Wops and Hooligans”.

**Editor’s Comment: The idiom “talking to the moon” is about trying to express yourself but no one is listening.

***Editor’s Comment: From the song “Moon River”. “My huckleberry friend, moon river and me.” A huckleberry friend means being the right person for the job, or the ideal partner for a given activity. However in Mark Twain’s time, “huckleberry” was a term for a person of no consequence so to “get the huckleberry” would mean to be ridiculed. Interestingly enough, when it comes to our reviewer both definitions apply.

Final Rating: The Grapefruit Moon Sings to a Tune of 14 out of 20

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