Country: Estonia
Style: Old Ale
Abv: 7,7 %
@RateBeer
What about the beer?
Colour is dark reddish brown with a huge cream white head. Aroma has
sweet rye bread, dried plums and raisins. Taste begins with grainy and
fruity sweetness. Sweet rye malts and dried dark fruits take over with
lingering bitterness. Towards the end malty sweet,
fruity bitter and warming boozy flavours get on top with some burned
sugar. Aftertaste has burned bready dryness and fruity-boozy bitterness.
Beautiful and complex Old Ale. Rye malts show clearly up as malty
strength and sweetness. Dark fruits, bitterness, alcohol, some burned
sugar in the end - everything's at its right place. From my point of
view Ôllenaut has so far succeeded extremely well with
their unordinary brews.
Ölbeat
Since the brew is named "the king of rye" in Estonian, having a taste of it is riding with the king. So, the choice was between the Eric Clapton & BB King cover and the original. I chose the original.
John Hiatt: Riding with the King (YouTube)
From the 1983 album Riding with the King, the song was written by John Hiatt.
