Ölbeat 285: Ôllenaut Must Eksport Puidul

Brewery: Õllenaut
Country: Estonia
Style: Baltic Porter
Abv: 11,1 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a diminishing beige crown. Aroma has milk chocolate, vanilla, roast and coffee. Taste starts with sweet boozy roast. Sweet charred malts and milk chocolate take over with some coffee and vanilla flavours. Towards the end chocolate-malty sweetness gets joined with roasted smooth bitterness and spicy oak. Aftertaste has sweet vanillaish chocolate, bitter cocoa powder and malty roast.

Delicious sweet-spicy Imperial Baltic Porter. The bourbon barrel chips show their nature in flavour. Otherwise it's smooth layers of chocolate supported by roast and vanilla. Excellent dessert brew. Top of the art once again by Ôllenaut.

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This is the 10th post of a beer brewed by this great Estonian brewery - hopefully the series continues*. Haven't had an ordinary beer from them yet. All step out of the pack and have been excellent. So the song choice reflects my relationship with their brews.

Apocalyptica (feat. Brent Smith): Not Strong Enough (YouTube)

From the 2010 album 7th Symphony, the song was written by Diane Warren.

* I count the whisky experiment with traditional Must Eksport in, because the beers chosen to the test were top of the notch brews. And other opinions don't matter.

Ölbeat 062: Lost Abbey Mayan Apocalypse Judgment Day

Brewery: The Lost Abbey
Country: United States
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Abv: 10,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is thick dark brown with only a thin white crown. Aroma has temptingly delicious milk chocolate, raisins and vanilla. Taste starts with gentle sweet hops and smooth milk chocolate. Liquid chocolate holds the scepter but lightly roasted coffee, raisins, cherries and warming alcohol party in the background. Towards the end there's a bite of alcohol and some sweet bitterness. Aftertaste is dry and has the main flavour of bitter cocoa. 

Thinking I ordered the original Judgment Day I was thrilled that the beer turned out to be a tuned version with chili, cinnamon and tamarind. With or without some help from the spices, I was blown away by the deep, neverending melting chocolate flavour. The only sad thing is that I'm still craving for the actual Judgment Day. The beer, you wankers.

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Even though the Mayan profecies meant actually nothing like the idiotic doomsday theories born during the 2012 phenomenom, we'll have to bring something from the Judgment Day here. The beer surely is heavy and unforgettable but in a heavenly delicious way. This one tells a story about unforgiveness born from an individual undeserved hell:

Apocalyptica ft. Corey Taylor (YouTube)

From the 2008 album Worlds Collide, the song was written by Johnny Andrews and Geno Lenardo.