Ölbeat 284: Käbliku Penumbra

Brewery: Käbliku Pruulikoda (in Estonian)
Country: Estonia
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 10,6 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a tiny beige lace. Aroma has sweet espresso, dark chocolate, roasted malts and spicy booze. Taste starts with sweet and bitter espresso. Sweet roasted malts and strong espresso take over with dark chocolate and spicy booze. Towards the end dark chocolate bitterness and boozy sweetness take over. Aftertaste has bitter cocoa, dry roasted malts and spicy alcohol.

Complex, simply superb Imperial Stout. Beautiful domination of dark chocolate and sweet espresso, not forgetting the solid roast and growing bitterness. Flavours seem simple but strong. Great work from this rather new Estonian brewery.

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Umbra, penumbra, antumbra. All are forms of shadows - umbra the perfect one, while the others are partial. Or something. Well, at least there's a lot of darkness in the brew. Probably some perfect and some partial.

Children Of Bodom: Kissing the Shadows (YouTube)

From the 2000 album Follow the Reaper, the song was written by Alexi Laiho.

Ölbeat 038: Pyynikin Vahvaportteri

Brewery: Pyynikin Käsityöläispanimo
Country: Finland
Style: Imperial Porter
Abv: 7,5 %
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Enjoy - or the Bogeyman gets ya!

What about the beer?
Colour is black as the night with medium beige head. Aroma has roasted malts, black coffee, hops and a tiny slice of liquorice. Taste begins with black coffee and sweet bitter hops in front. It smoothly rounds up to roasted caramel malt, and towards the finish liquorice and dark chocolate are added to the palette. Some rye taste is clearly present. Aftertaste is dry bitter and slightly burned.

Here we have a classic imperial porter at the purest. Slightly roasted malts, black coffee and sweet bitterness make this one a very enjoyable brew. As a bonus we get some liquorice and rye. Excellent - gets my recommendation.
 

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Something dark, powerful and spooky was the kind of music that was needed here. After some searching I got my hands to this happy and joyful tune. My apologies to the band (and the blog readers), but instead of the razor blade I'll keep choosing the bottle opener: 

Children of Bodom: Blooddrunk (YouTube)

From the 2008 album Blooddrunk, the song was written by Alexi Laiho.