Ölmönger Special: First 60 Ölbeats - So far, so good, so what?

After making the first 60 beer and song matches it's time to wrap things up a bit. Since sixty tracks make 4-6 albums it's time for... *drum roll*
...the first Best of -collection of Ölmönger.

"Another lame excuse for not blogging about new beers, eh?" cries the voice inside my head. The voice may be right. The voice is now silenced with a simple invention: using duct tape.

Checking the beer styles, so far I've posted an Ölbeat of:

• 23 India Pale Ales (incl. Session, Double & Imperial IPAs)
• 13 Stouts (incl. Sweet, Smoked & Imperial Stouts)
• 7 Porters (incl. Baltic, Smoked & Imperial Porters)
• 4 India Black Ales and
• 13 representatives of other styles of beers. 

One Imperial IPA that almost made it...

If we look at the countries the breweries are from, then

• 21 beers are from Finland
• 9 from the Netherlands
• 7 from the United States
• 5 from Estonia and
• 18 from other countries.

As everyone knows, compilations are made to rip the fans off by putting the songs that everybody's heard the most to the same album. That's why I don't put this one together on the basis of post popularity.

...one surprisingly fine Finnish brew just out of the top...

To make it easy - no, it wasn't - I'll just pick 4 + 4 + 4 subjectively best beers I've blogged so far on these groups:

• Top 4 Finnish beers
• Top 4 non-Finnish dark-coloured, mostly black beers and
• Top 4 non-Finnish light-coloured beers.

The beers will be presented in publishing order, not in any kind of preference order. The best beers are chosen in a pure feeling and recollection basis, since there's no beer ranking in my head. Probably the chosen beers would be different next week, but hey, it's allowed to change your favorite beer, football club or band once in a while. Enough with the babbling - let's start.

...and one of the last ones out was this Gods' Nectar

Top 4 Finnish beers from the first 60:

• Ölbeat 004: Sinebrychoff Koff Porter (1)
• Ölbeat 022: Beer Hunter's Mufloni Imperial Stout (2)
• Ölbeat 055: Ruosniemen Diplomi-insinööri (3)
• Ölbeat 059: Malmgård Imperial IPA (4)

Top 4 non-Finnish black beers from the first 60:

• Ölbeat 032: Brouwerij Kees Export Porter 1750 (5)
• Ölbeat 037: Buxton Rain Shadow (6)
• Ölbeat 042: Dunham Imperial Black IPA (7)
• Ölbeat 046: Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (8)

Top 4 non-Finnish non-black beers from the first 60:

• Ölbeat 002: Flying Monkeys Smashbomb Atomic IPA (9)
• Ölbeat 010: Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale (10)
• Ölbeat 015: De Molen Amarillo (11)
• Ölbeat 039: Orval (12)

Ölbeat Playlist: Best of First 60

One could think about putting the songs of the list in some kind of playble order but I didn't. Match the beer with song number on the list = see the number in the brackets after each Ölbeat link:

That's it for now. Let's continue traveling in the world of beer and song matching in a couple of weeks.