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Brewery: Tanker
Country: Estonia
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 8,5 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a finger-thick beige head. Aroma has strong fresh mint with some malts and dark chocolate. Taste begins with a medicine-like strong mint or even menthol bite. Mint-covered slightly roasted
malts take over. Sweet fresh mint even covers the bitterness near the finish. Aftertaste has
mint all over with some medicine-like cleaned freshness.
So I got the Yellow Belly effect: just Kahlua replaced with mint liquor. No, no, no! People should keep herbs out of the kettle. This isn't beer, this is cough syrup. Didn't work at all.
Ölbeat
Spice, even in a beer, can be nice. When it's there in tolerable amount. When you get run over with an army of mint leaves, it's not. When it reminds you of a short but yucky youth experience with mint flavoured liquor, you get some other pretty annoying things picked from your youth memories. Like this so-called song.
Spice Girls: Spice Up Your Life (YouTube)
From the 1997 album Spiceworld, the song was written by Spice Girls, Matt Rowe and Richard Stannard.
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Brewery: Sori Brewing
Country: Estonia
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 10,2 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a tiny beige crown. Aroma has roasted malts, dark chocolate and espresso. Taste starts with roasted boozy bitterness. Bitter strong espresso with faint dark
chocolate hints takes over. Towards the end growing bitterness with
alcohol dryness drowns the other flavours. Aftertaste has bitter dark chocolate
and dry roast.
Aroma promises something a lot better than the taste delivers. Boozy
bitter domination until the end is too much. The chocolate flavours don't
come out as expected. After all, this is named Hot Chocolate. Or is that some kind of dark humor, too?
Ölbeat
The name of the brewery comes from a quarter in Tampere city centre, where e.g. the city police station is situated, and not so much from the Finnish diminutive of anteeksi (sorry). So it's probably polite to respect the city where the Sori guys Pyry and Heikki learned the basics of brewing. And what could be better way to show respect than a song about the singer's and his friends adventures with other Tampere ice hockey club, by a Tampere-based oldie rock band. It's dark humor, at least. Sori, everyone.
Popeda: Mää ja Tapparan mies (YouTube)
From the 1992 album Svoboda, the song was written by Alex Harvey, Hugh McKenna and David Batchelor (Tomahawk Kid) - the Finnish lyrics were written by Juice Leskinen.
