Dill You Take Me Higher?

Dill You Take Me Higher? is a 5.7% dill pickle sour from Saddle Mountain Brewing Co., a brewpub in Goodyear, Arizona.

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Brewery Description

The brewery publishes only a menu tile reading "Dill You Take Me Higher? ABV 5.7% Dill Pickle Sour", with no further description.

Source: Saddle Mountain: drinks menu (PDF)

Tasting Notes

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Ingredients

The menu's style label names dill pickle, and KTAR's report on the 2026 Arizona winners calls it a "dill pickle-infused sour" (KTAR). No base malt, hop, souring method or yeast is published.

Hop Profile

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Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for Experimental Beer covers beers that "employ unique and unusual techniques and/or ingredients", with ABV, IBU and color varying widely. A pickle infused sour fits that open definition.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Saddle Mountain Brewing Co. is in Goodyear, AZ. Brewery type in Open Brewery DB: Brewpub.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram.

Related

• Brewery: Saddle Mountain Brewing Co.

Links

• Beer page on brewery site
• Saddle Mountain Brewing Co.
• Saddle Mountain: menu
• KTAR: Arizona GABF medals
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Description, Tasting notes, Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hops, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Malts and grains, Yeast, Water, Process. Checked ktar.com, saddlemountainbrewing.com, saddlemountainbrewing.com, saddlemountainbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes.
• Not Found: IBU. Checked ktar.com, saddlemountainbrewing.com, saddlemountainbrewing.com, saddlemountainbrewing.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, catalog.beer.

Research Notes

• The brewery has no beer pages; the drinks menu PDF linked from its menu page (an image based PDF, read visually) is used as the beer url.
• KTAR (October 13, 2026) confirms the gold in the experimental beer category; no brewery announcement text was read.
• The online ordering page returned HTTP 403.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: New bitterness-focused searches found matching Untappd activity but no IBU or named hops; the previously read brewery PDF was not fetched again.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Dill You Take Me Higher? lists 5.7% ABV, style "Dill Pickle Sour" (entry last modified 2026-08-05). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery menu PDF gives name, style and strength only; no description, hops or figures beyond ABV.