Ölbeat 179: Great Divide Hibernation Ale

Brewery: Great Divide Brewery
Country: United States
Style: Old Ale
Abv: 8,7 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is reddish dark brown with a small diminishing tan head. Aroma has sweet caramel malts, alcohol, cherries and coffee. Taste begins with heavily bitter wooden bite. Sweet and bitter, strongly oaky malts take over with hints of alcohol, spices and dark fruits. Towards the end bitter fruity alcohol comes out with piny and spicy flavours. Aftertaste has oaky-piny dryness and alcohol bitterness.

Strong oaky and spicy Old Ale. Alcoholic bitterness, fruit flavours, caramel malts - excellent stuff from an excellent brewery.

Ölbeat

In addition to hibernation and cold climate, winter is a season of snow in the Northern Hemisphere. Reflection of light from snow can cause a state of snowblindness. This song has actually nothing to do with actual snowblindness, but rather an ode to cocaine from a completely addicted band. Still, the heavyweight song matches the mood of a strong ale nicely.

Black Sabbath: Snowblind (YouTube)

From the 1972 album Vol. 4, the song was written by Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne and Bill Ward.

Ölbeat 101: Great Divide Yeti

Brewery: Great Divide Brewery
Country: United States
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 9,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a small beige head. Aroma has roasted to charred malts, dark chocolate and black coffee. Taste starts with roasted chocolate malts and a gentle hoppy bite. Strong flavour of charred salty and malty coffee takes over with a note of cocoa. Near the finish hoppy bitterness comes along. Aftertaste has roasty bitterness and a twist of alcohol.

Dark and massive delicious substance. Roasted even charred malts dominate but the taste is perfected with black coffee, cocoa and late bitter hops. Superb and strong Imperial Stout.

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Monstrous black brew calls for a - surprise, surprise - heavy metal track. Despite being recorded in the 2010's the song is on its way to becoming a classic. The lyrical theme - a tale of a tyrant who destroys his objectors - kinda fits the mood of  the beer. Would you dare to fight against Yeti?

Avenged Sevenfold: Hail to the King (YouTube)

From the 2013 album Hail to the King, the song was written by M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, Synyster Gates and Johnny Christ.