The IPA Sanction

Earliest known poster for The IPA Sanction.

The IPA Sanction is a 1975 American thriller film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as an art history professor, mountain climber, and former brewer once employed by a secret government agency is blackmailed into returning to his yeasty profession for one last fermentation.

Taglines

His beer ... dosed with the hops he hated!

In the News

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  The Spuds MacKenzie Break is a British-American war comedy beer advertising campaign directed by Lamont Johnson and starring Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, and Jack Watson.

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  A Fistful of Jokers is a spaghetti western musical film starring Clint Eastwood and Steve Miller.

Fiction cross-reference

• A Fistful of Jokers
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• The Spuds MacKenzie Break

Categories

• Category:Films

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Gnomon Chronicles (nonfiction)

Categories

• Category:Beer (nonfiction)
• Category:Clint Eastwood (nonfiction)
• Category:Thrillers (nonfiction)

External links

• Beer @ Wikipedia
• Resurrecting Ancient Beer: Archaeologists, Biologists and Brewers Created a Time-Traveling Brew @ YouTube

• The Eiger Sanction (film) @ Wikipedia
• The Eiger Sanction (trailer) @ YouTube

Social media

• [ Post] @ Twitter (7 April 2025)