Country: Finland
Style: Bière de Garde
Abv: 7 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is bright copper red with a small diminishing white head. Aroma has sour fruits, sweet berries and some flowery scent. Taste begins with yeasty citrus bite. Sour and yeasty fruits take over with
slightly sweet caramel malts. Towards the end nutty dry bitterness
joins the flavours. Aftertaste has dry lemon sourness and bitter alcohol
warmth.
Refreshing Saison/Farmhouse Ale like brew. Sour, yeasty and fruity
start and dry, bitter and a bit boozy finish fit together nicely. The
Kuopio brewery shows that Savonian people can also brew. In addition to
being crooked in humorous self-hurting way and
speaking an odd dialect.
This beer was part of Alko's Finnish microbrewery craftbeer selection in spring 2017.
Ölbeat
For one minute, I thought that France's representative in Eurovision song contest 2014 would have paired with the beer perfectly. But despite the greatness of the song - placed last in the final after a direct entry - I just couldn't fit moustache in the same picture with the brew. So because it's a nice trick from Savonians to brew a French-style beer, I picked a song sung in English by a French lady. No logic? Never needed. But I liked the song already as a kid.
Vanessa Paradis: Be My Baby (YouTube)
From the 1992 album Vanessa Paradis, the song was written by Gerry DeVeaux and Lenny Kravitz.
