Country: Russia
Style: India Black Ale
Abv: 6 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a small tan head. Aroma has citrus scent, mild malts and some stuffiness. Taste begins with roasty
grapefruity bite. Bitter citrus with roasted malts takes over with hints
of liquorice. Towards the end pine gets mixed to the
fruity bitterness. Aftertaste has distinctive grapefruit bitterness and
roasty malty dryness.
Nicely growing India Black Ale. Aroma gives zero, at first the taste is
missing. Slowly and calmly the pirate ship gets its sails up and the
strong flavour - fine match of roast, grapefruit, malts and liquorice - shows
up. In the end, tasty stuff from the Moscow brewery.
Ölbeat
The brew is clearly pirate themed, so what are the choices other than pirate metal? Probably several, but for the fun and contrast of the idea, I paired the brew with a song by this Scottish "folk power metal" band. Hope I won't get keelhauled.
Alestorm: Black Sails at Midnight (YouTube)
From the 2009 album Black Sails at Midnight, the song was written by Christopher Bowes and Tim Shaw.
