Ölbeat 257: Finch Fascist Pig

Brewery: Finch Beer Co.
Country: United States
Style: American Strong Ale
Abv: 8 % 
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What about the beer?

Colour is copper brown with a large natural white head. Aroma has stingy bitter citrus, hay and caramel malts. Taste begins with biting bitter citrus. Sweetish caramel malts and bitter grapefruit take over with spicy dark fruit side tones. Towards the end caramel malts get in front with gently piny bitterness. Aftertaste has bitter grapefruit, dry malts and alcohol warmth.

Fruity and malty American Strong Ale. Bitter citrus and caramel malts play together nicely. Some spices on the way, and the booze shows up only in the end. Pretty delicious.

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Fascist Pig somehow reminds us of Horse's Ass Sweat Pig Vomit, don't you think? Only by the name and the label, though. Staying with the theme, I selected a loyal cover of a heavy metal classic. It wasn't the easiest song for Mike Patton to start with in a new band.

Faith No More: War Pigs (YouTube)

From the 1989 album The Real Thing, the song was written by Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward.

Ölbeat 213: Finch's Sobek & Set

Brewery: Finch Beer Co.
Country: United States
Style: India Black Ale
Abv: 8 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a huge tan head. Aroma has lemon, sweet orange candy and liquorice. Taste begins with biting roasted liquorice. Heavily roasted malts and strongly bitter citrus fruits take over with some liquorice. Near the finish piny and grapefruity bitterness gets through with late roasted liquorice. Aftertaste has roasted bittersweet fruits and a lasting dry bitter-roasty ending.

Now we're on the edge of what might be too much roasty bitterness. But the long nasty finish keeps us from falling. Strong tasty IBA with both heavy roast and bitter citrus.

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It takes a bunch of wild imagination to connect a beer with a wild boar and an alligator/a crocodile on the label and this song. In the ancient Egyptian mythology, Sobek was a deity associated with the Nile crocodile and murdered by Set, a deity depicted as an animal with resemblance to fork-tailed coyote. What has this to do with either the beer or the song? Nothing probably, just bringing some more animal to the picture.

N.E.R.D.: She Wants to Move (YouTube)

From the 2004 album Fly Or Die, the song was written by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo.