Ölbeat 178: Hornbeer The Fundamental Blackhorn

Brewery: Hornbeer 
Country: Denmark
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 10 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is black with a tiny beige crown. Aroma has roasted malts, dark chocolate and liquorice. Taste starts with powerful roast and sharp biting bitterness. Charred-roasted malts and heavily bitter thick coffee take over with some dark chocolate and liquorice side tones. Near the finish roasted and slightly sweet bitterness becomes the leading flavour. Aftertaste has lasting strong roast and burned dry bitterness.

Powerful, strong-flavoured Imperial stout. Pure and clean heavy roast shows the power of malts. Continuously strong biting bitterness shows the strength of hops. This is something amazingly unusual and great.

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If we should cure a beer lover from an Imperial Stout allergy, this would either do the trick or kill the patient. That's exactly why this song with a somewhat dark message fits with the beer well.

Seether: Remedy (YouTube)

From the 2005 album Karma and Effect, the song was written by Shaun Morgan.

Ölbeat 111: Hornbeer Barleywine

Brewery: Hornbeer
Country: Denmark
Style: Barley Wine
Abv: 10 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is amber brown with a small tan head. Aroma has sweet berries (e.g. strawberry), grapes and flowery hops. Taste begins with sweet and heavy fruity bitterness. Sweet and sour mix of raisins and lemon takes over with strong malt flavour and sensible bitterness. Towards the end we get some piny and alcoholic elements. Aftertaste has dry piny alcohol and heavy fruity bitterness.

Beautifully strong and fruity barley wine, that resembles a fine dessert wine with grape-raisin flavour. In the end hoppy bitterness and piny dryness rip the brew apart from its distant Bordeaux cousins. Nice work from the Danish artisan brewery.

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The name of the brewery forced me to look for music with horns. Turning away every possibility to match a heavy beer with big band or jazz music, Ronnie James Dio came to the rescue. As the popularizer of the sign of the horns in heavy metal culture he showed me just the right track.

Dio: Stand Up And Shout (YouTube)

From the 1983 album Holy Diver, the song was written by Jimmy Bain and Ronnie James Dio.