Monday, January 23, 2017

Skitbit Jan 2017: Ruosniemen Koodari

Brewery: Ruosniemen Panimo
Country: Finland
Style: Premium Lager
Abv: 5,7 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy golden orange with a large white head. Aroma has grapefruit, lemon, malts and some herbs. Taste begins with strongly harsh herbal bitterness. Piny but unclean bitter citrus flavours take over with an earthy sidetone. Towards the end the soily flavours get stronger. Aftertaste has harsh bitterness and some bad vegetable flavours.

Damn. This shouldn't have happened: the first brew from a local favourite brewery that goes awfully wrong. A bad bottle, perhaps? Somehow I'm glad that the miss came with a style I don't so much care about.

Ölbeat

The commercial description of Koodari (Coder) begins with the words: "Coder closes out the distractions with big headphones." Utter crap. I can imagine the original lyrics of this song going: "I'm serious as a necromancer when I say / Coder is a f***ing cancer." But that wouldn't have been a 90's eurodance hit but rather a protest song by Slipknot.  

Snap!: Rhythm Is a Dancer (YouTube)

From the 1992 album The Madman's Return, the song was written by Benito Benites, John Garrett III and Thea Austin.