Friday, March 17, 2017

Ölbeat 239: Vakka-Suomen Prykmestar SavuVehnä (4,5 %)

Brewery: Vakka-Suomen Panimo (in Finnish)
Country: Finland
Style: Smoked Ale
Abv: 4,5 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is murky brown with a huge quickly dissolving natural white foam. Aroma has tar, meaty smoke and sweet wheat. Taste begins with smoky malty bite. Smoked meat flavoured malts take over with slight sweetness. Near the finish tar, sweet malts and gentle fruity bitterness get on top. Aftertaste has tar-flavoured and bittersweet malts.

Tasty smoked and light ale. The combination of smoke, tar and wheat malts works, even though the flavour has lost its freshest edge. Pretty good mild Bamberg imitation from Vakka-Suomen Panimo.

Ölbeat

"Drink a little drink / Smoke a little smoke". I hear someone asking about the connection between Finnish Bamberg-style brew and American cannabis-favouring(!) country(!!) rock song. The answer: none. Ok? Just sit down, relax, drink a little smoke and feel good.

Eric Church: Smoke a Little Smoke (YouTube)

From the 2009 album Carolina, the song was written by Eric Church, Jeff Hyde and Driver Williams.