Country: Finland
Style: India Pale Ale
Abv: 6,7 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy golden orange with a large white head. Aroma has orange,
grapefruit and pineapple. Taste begins with spiking citrus. Bitter
grapefruit with stingy pine and sweet orange takes over. Near the finish
orange and grapefruit bring out a storm of citrus. Aftertaste has citrus bitterness and piny dryness.
Deliciously hopped India Pale Ale. Fruits and bitterness come on
powerfully but smoothly. Every sip seems to strengthen the leading
flavours. I prefer the bottled version against the tap (Cafe Rooster visit). Clearly one of
the top IPAs from Finland now.
Ölbeat
So, the name of the brew is a word game with 'humala' (Finnish for hop) and 'Himalaja' (Himalayas). Since it's clearly an American style brew, some good blues rock seemed appropriate. Then Mr. Bonamassa offers a song that describes how it is to have a microbrewery in Finland, I presume. If it's not climbing and "pounding the hammer between steel and stone" every day, it's surely not a bed of roses either.
Joe Bonamassa: Mountain Climbing (YouTube)
From the 2016 album Blues of Desperation, the song was written by Joe Bonamassa and Tom Hambridge.
