Ölbeat 125: Bell's Expedition Stout

Brewery: Bell's Brewery
Country: United States
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 10,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a tiny beige halo. Aroma has sweet roasted malts, coffee, chocolate and a note of alcohol. Taste lifts off with a sweet roasty bitter bite. Delicious combination of roasted malts and black coffee with dark chocolate and vanilla hints takes over. Near the finish sweet bitterness and alcohol bite come through. Aftertaste is rich & deep and has coffee, roasted bitterness and warming alcohol.

Incredibly savoury Imperial Stout. Perfect roast, coffee and bitter flavours. Strong and thick but still amazingly smooth and soft. I feel lucky to still have couple of these stashed.

Ölbeat

Now, we entered the area of personal favourites once more. Shortly, my choice is a heavy metal classic with a dark vision fot Earth and suberb melodic guitar riffs.

Black Sabbath: Into the Void (YouTube)

From the 1971 album Master of Reality, the song was written by Black Sabbath (Butler, Iommi, Osbourne & Ward).

Ölbeat 114: Bell's Two Hearted Ale

Brewery: Bell's Brewery
Country: United States
Style: India Pale Ale
Abv: 7 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is hazy golden orange with nice large foamy white head. Aroma has mild lemon and orange with a flowery scent. Taste begins with gently bitter, a little lemon-tart bite and smooth carbonation. Fresh, not overly bitter grapefruit takes over with sweet slowly-growing orange flavour on the side. Near the finish a gently dry touch of pine comes out. Aftertaste has mostly bitter grapefruit, some piny dryness and the final touch of orange.

Smooth and balanced performance. Delicious citrus-driven semisweet India Pale Ale that gives bitter kicks all the way and some moderate dryness in the end. Even though this wasn't as fresh as it could be but still extremely tasty and drinkable. A classic that had to be tasted.

Ölbeat

One of the legendary IPA's requires a rock classic. So I'll pick the immediate association that I had after the first mouthful: I just stopped fighting and looking for flaws.

Rainbow: I Surrender (YouTube)

From the 1981 album Difficult to Cure, the song was written by Russ Ballard.