Monday, February 27, 2017

Skitbit Feb 2017: Stallhagen Hefeweizen

Brewery: Stallhagen (in Swedish)
Country: Finland
Style: Hefewezen
Abv: 4,7 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy murky yellow with a small white head. Aroma has sour lemon, clove and bananaish wheat. Taste begins with funkily sour bite. Sour lemon and sweet spicy malts take over with a strange meaty side flavour. Towards the end some thin citrus-banana sweetness gets added to the taste. Aftertaste has tart lemon and watery-dryish malts.

Unfortunately, this brew has the questionable honour to be this month's Skitbit. I'm not a huge fan of Hefeweizen style, but I'd expect some growth in the flavour near the finish. This just dies out after the start's sour-spicy hit.

Skitbit

An ungreat brew for summer requires a bad summer song. Since Stallhagen brewery lies in Åland, which is an autonomous Swedish-speaking region of Finland, the Skitbit is the worst Swedish-sung summer song in history.

Actually it's probably not, since it's a cover from an 80's original by Freestyle, which is utterly horrible. And we can't forget Herreys and Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley, which is a fine alternative to water torture and an excellent reason to avoid shit like Eurovision song contest even in the 2010's. But this brew wasn't that bad.

Drömhus: Vill ha dig (YouTube)

From the 1998 album Drömmar, the song was written by Tommy Ekman, Joakim Hagleitner, Christer Sandelin and Anders Uddberg.