Country: Denmark (brewed in Belgium)
Style: Porter
Abv: 7,4 %
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Colour is black with a bubbly large beige head. Aroma has roasted malts, sweet black coffee, vanilla and burned wood. Taste starts with charred malty bitterness. Sweet roasted malts and bitter
espresso take over with spicy notes in the background. Towards the end
roasted bitterness gets on top with some alcohol and dark fruits
getting in, too. Aftertaste has charcoal dryness and roasted bitterness.
Excellent and uncompromised strong Porter. The charcoal roast is
deeper than I've had recently. The dry and bitter flavours are
perfectly untamed here. The master of beer recipes has yet again composed a
masterpiece for the monkeys to play.
Ölbeat
The label art shows a cartoon man shaking a possibly empty bottle upside down. If the bottle really is empty, the dude has turned from a porter or a doorboy to a poor boy. Probably Willy and the rest of the band is somewhere near, too. Actually, haven't had CCR on the blog at all so it's about time. And who would be a better brewer than Mikkeller to have his beer combined with the swamp sound first? Well, probably any of the California breweries, but let's not stick to details too much...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Down on the Corner (YouTube)
From the 1969 album Willy and the Poor Boys, the song was written by John Fogerty.
