Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Ölbeat 247: Swannay Island Hopping

Brewery: Swannay Brewery
Country: Scotland
Style: Golden Ale
Abv: 3,9 % 
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What about the beer?
Colour is clear golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma has lemon, malts, butter and some sweet fruits. Taste begins with fruity bitter malts. Sour-bready malts and bitter citrus take over. Towards the end sour and bitter citrus gets through with some sweeter fruits lurking in the background. Aftertaste is grainy-malty dry, citrus-oily sour-bitter and in the very end even fruity sweet.

Unbelievably tasty low abv (3,9 %!) ale. Pale malts meet fruity New Zealand hops in a crisp and fresh way. Many kinds of citrus present - sour, bitter and even sweet. Very drinkable, still.

Ölbeat

A light but refreshing ale from a brewery in Orkney, Scotland. The singer of this trio was born in Orkney, and the trio's name Lau means "natural light" in Orcadian dialect. The brew was naturally light, so it's a match.

Lau: Ghosts (YouTube)

From the 2011 album The Bell That Never Rang, the song was written by Kris Drever, Martin Green and Aidan O'Rourke.