Ölbeat 338: To Øl Mochaccino Messiah

Brewery: To Øl
Country: Denmark (brewed in Belgium)
Style: Brown Ale
Abv: 7 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is dark coffee brown with a big fluffy tan head. Aroma has roasted malts, coffee and dark chocolate. Taste starts with gently bitter malty roast. Roasted malts take over with cocoa-coffee bitterness. Towards the end dark chocolate and cappuccino get on top with hints of sweetness. Aftertaste has bitter dark-roasted coffee and spicy malty dryness.

Spiced and roasted Brown Ale. Malts and roast play the first fiddle, but different flavours of coffee and chocolate fit nicely in. Surely experimental and far from both too weird and too boring. Slow, tasty and complex brew. Pretty good, I think.

Ölbeat

This was easy, there's already a song for this one. You need a machine to make a mochaccino, right? Right!

Sepultura: Machine Messiah (YouTube)

From the 2017 album Machine Messiah, the song was written by Andreas Kisser, Eloy Casagrande and Derrick Green.

Ölbeat 272: Malmgård Eldorado Brown Ale

Brewery: Malmgård
Country: Finland
Style: Brown Ale 
Abv: 6 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is dark reddish brown with a medium-sized natural white head. Aroma has sweetish malts, gentle roast and pecan nuts. Taste starts with sweetish malty bitterness. Grainy and bready malts take over with bittersweet fruits. Towards the end citrus bitterness gets on top with a caramel-malty side tone. Aftertaste has malty-nutty dryness and fruity bitterness.

Fine fruity Brown Ale. Grain-bread domination turns to fruity bitterness and finish has dry nuts. Quality brew from a not-so-interesting style.

Ölbeat

El Dorado hops may have gotten its name from any of the United States cities, but I connect the name of the brew with the mythical city of gold in modern-day Colombia. The fresh approach to the beer style asks for a fresh song, so here we go.

Thea & The Wild: City of Gold (Video link coming up...)

Released as a single in 2017, the song was written by Thea Glenton Raknes.

Skitbit Oct 2016: Laitilan American Brown Ale

Brewery: Laitilan Wirvoitusjuomatehdas (in Finnish)
Country: Finland
Style: Brown Ale
Abv: 4,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is bright brown with a small diminishing white head. Aroma has gently sweet malts and a thin slice of fruits. Taste begins with malty bitterness. Gently sweet malty start turns then to supermarket lager-like musty harshness, even some vegetably flavour near the finish. Aftertaste is unpleasantly bitter malty and harsh, not nice at all.

The aroma and the start of the taste give a promise of tasty malty brown ale, but it changes to unpleasant vegginess that ruins this one. Not undrinkable but had more consistent brown ales. Somehow it feels bad to make this to be the one to open the shitpipe, but let's hope that there'll be worse tasting brews to follow.

Skitbit

I hate anything trying to imitate American - the emphasis on the verb trying. This brew is a failed try of an American Brown Ale. In the 90's - the golden decade of shit music - there was this country-disco wannabe-Yankee crap pump from Sweden. Yes, you too are trying hard to forget it. Try harder.

Rednex: Cotton Eye Joe (YouTube)

From the 1995 album Sex & Violins, the song was written by Janne Ericsson, Örjan Öban Öberg and Pat Reiniz.