Friday, February 10, 2017

Ölbeat 213: Finch's Sobek & Set

Brewery: Finch Beer Co.
Country: United States
Style: India Black Ale
Abv: 8 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a huge tan head. Aroma has lemon, sweet orange candy and liquorice. Taste begins with biting roasted liquorice. Heavily roasted malts and strongly bitter citrus fruits take over with some liquorice. Near the finish piny and grapefruity bitterness gets through with late roasted liquorice. Aftertaste has roasted bittersweet fruits and a lasting dry bitter-roasty ending.

Now we're on the edge of what might be too much roasty bitterness. But the long nasty finish keeps us from falling. Strong tasty IBA with both heavy roast and bitter citrus.

Ölbeat

It takes a bunch of wild imagination to connect a beer with a wild boar and an alligator/a crocodile on the label and this song. In the ancient Egyptian mythology, Sobek was a deity associated with the Nile crocodile and murdered by Set, a deity depicted as an animal with resemblance to fork-tailed coyote. What has this to do with either the beer or the song? Nothing probably, just bringing some more animal to the picture.

N.E.R.D.: She Wants to Move (YouTube)

From the 2004 album Fly Or Die, the song was written by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo.