Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Ölbeat 138: Tanker Hallucination

Brewery: Tanker 
Country: Estonia
Style: Imperial Pils
Abv: 7,6 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy cloudy yellow with large lasting white head. Aroma has strong sour lemon and some malts. Taste starts with fresh bitter-sour lemon-grapefruit juice. Sour lemon and bitter grapefruit go strong hand in hand with a tiny note of malts. Towards the end bitterness takes the upper hand and some dry pine and lemon peel shows up. Aftertaste has strong sour-hinted citrus bitterness with piny dryness.

Heavily hopped strong lager should taste like this. Strong citrus flavours are held up by a solid but untasted malt base. "But it's so IPA'ish", might a beer snob scream but in space you can scream as loud as you can: no one will hear you, mate, neither listen to you. Superb brew.

Ölbeat

The beer didn't cause any kind of delusions - I think - like the name promised. I feel obliged to bring some odd chemical to the picture. A song from the 1960's short-lived supergroup gives the brew some boost to the right direction.

Cream: Strange Brew (YouTube)

From the 1967 album Disraeli Gears, the song was written by Eric Clapton, Felix Pappalardi and Gail Collins.