Country: Finland
Style: Porter
Abv: 5,6 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a finger-thick tan head. Aroma has roasted sweet malts, espresso and liquorice. Taste begins with gentle charred roast. Spicy sweet charred malts take over with gently bitter chocolate flavour. Towards the end charcoal roast is joined by sweet spices and dark chocolate. Aftertaste has gently bitter coffee and lasting roasted malty dryness.
Gentle and sweetish Porter. Sweet spicy smoothly charred malts have the dominance but chocolate and coffee show up, too. No flaws, no tricks, just simple and tasty pleasure. Quality stuff from Suomenlinna.
Ölbeat
Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Gentle but dark-flavoured Porter. Guess I have to pick a Helsinki-based band and their Helsinki-themed song. The music style - defined by the band's singer Juha Lehti - is soft but gruff "keskiolut"-jazz but the dark lyrics tell about a stormy rainy night in Helsinki. Or about how "god punishes Helsinki tonight", as the name of the song goes.
Sir Elwoodin Hiljaiset Värit: Jumala rankaisee Helsinkiä tänä yönä (YouTube)
From the 1991 album Varjoissa vapaan maailman, the song was written by Juha Lehti.
