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Unboxing Hellboy's Right Hand Of Doom Red Ale And Watching Horns

Published Sat, 21 Feb 2015 21:59:28 -0600

by Hannah Means Shannon

Last updated Sat, 21 Feb 2015 22:38:05 -0600

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This is not a beer review. I'll leave that to our Booze Geek Dylan Gonzales who has, I have heard, already ordered Rogue's newly announced Right Hand of Doom Hellboy Red Ale. But I did get an elongated box delivered to the door recently in freezing weather and tonight decided to break it out at a full 1 Pint and 6 ounces in volume.

It's a beautiful bottle for one thing, substantial and Mignola-art decorated, and the heft of the bottle makes you think it would fit Hellboy's giant Right Hand quite well without too much shatter-danger.

Actually totally independently, at exactly the same time I found Joe Hill's story adapted into film Horns on Netflix without realizing the bizarre synchronicity, and this being such a massive bottle of ale, and me not much of a beer drinker (spirits preferred) that I actually drank it throughout the entire film. And could that have been more appropriate?! Wow. I mean the main character grows horns and ends up wielding a pitch fork, but like Hellboy, may not be exactly the devil people think he is.

It was a disturbing, interesting film and I'm glad I watched it, and the Right Hand of Doom Red Ale was a good companion for it. Like I said, I can't speak to a comparative beer review with my lack of credentials, but I enjoyed it, have had a few ales in my day, and considered the taste to be unique enough and winning enough to represent Big Red well.

Now that Horns is over and I still have a little ale left, I'm thinking of breaking into this new hardback of Baltimore: The Apostle and The Witch of Harju. Another good match, even if I am spooking myself tonight with supernatural overload. All go pretty well with a snowy evening, I have to say.