Ölbeat 035: Sori Out of Office Session IPA

Brewery: Sori Brewing
Country: Estonia 
Style: Session IPA
Abv: 4,5 %
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After work it's time to chill

Sori Brewing, founded in 2014, is a microbrewery in Tallinn, Estonia. The people behind the brewery are two Finns, Pyry Hurula and Heikki Uotila, who decided to start a brewery without compromises. In Finland it would have been hard, if not even impossible. The brewery is owned by 225 investors, who have crowdfunded the brewery's growth with two batches of share emissions. Out of Office was one of the first brews from the brewery - tasted it for a couple of times and now bringing it out to the blog.

What about the beer?
Colour is cloudy golden yellow with huge white slowly suffocated head. Aroma has mild scents of orange, pear and pineapple.Taste gives fresh hops and lemon in the start: the absolute first bite is dry and very bitter. Lemon and grapefruit soon spread all over the mouth, some sweet fruit like pear or pineapple is sensed in the background. Palate adds some bitterness. Aftertaste is dry and piny.

This is a solid performance despite the low abv. The experience bites with a hop load and sour citrus fruits but is overall very balanced. I could imagine to start my weekend - or even better: an evening of any day of the week - with this beer.

Ölbeat

Ok. Even though this is an afterwork beer and not a beer for lightening one's teenage trauma, who can honestly say to have never thought of this song on Monday morning? Right, I explained this one:

Beastie Boys: (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party) (YouTube)

From the 1986 album Licesed to Ill, the song was written by Adam Yauch and Tom Cushman. The song was intended to be a parody of party and attitude themed songs like Mötley Crüe's Smoking in the Boys' Room and Twisted Sister's I Wanna Rock. (Un)fortunately, the parody has been lost with most of the audience and the song has became a legendary partystarter. Stylewise the song is a mixture of rap and rock, and the lyrics tell a story of a youngster who is anxious about living at home with "strict" parents. Out of Office fits the song perfectly: it surely can start the weekend, and the reason behind the brewery's "nationality" not being Finnish could be a parody. Unfortunately, it's not.