Showing posts with label La Quince. Show all posts
Showing posts with label La Quince. Show all posts

Friday, July 7, 2017

Ölbeat 275: La Quince LLIPA!

Brewery: La Quince (in Spanish)
Country: Spain
Style: India Pale Ale
Abv: 6,4 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy golden orange with a finger-thick natural white head. Aroma has grapefruit, lemon and kiwifruit. Taste starts with sharply biting grapefruit. Bitter grapefruit takes over with sour lemon and herbal spice. Towards the end herbal pine rises in the line with grapefruit, some sweeter citrus lingering to the background. Aftertaste has strong grapefruit bitterness and lasting piny dryness.

Pretty tasty and rich India Pale Ale. Bitter grapefruit dominates, lemon, pine and herbs play important side roles. Texture has a malty backbone, but the beer goes down nicely. A Spanish version of CCCCC, perhaps? This works absolutely beautifully.

Ölbeat

Actually it the comparison to CCCCC that got me to select the band, the album and finally the song. Both the band and the brewery have been in Finland within a week: Guns N' Roses had their pension money fu... err, Not in This Lifetime tour gig in Hämeenlinna last weekend, and La Quince brewery is in Helsinki in Craft Beer Helsinki and a pre-CBH happening this week. Pure coincidence? 

Guns N' Roses: Welcome to the Jungle (YouTube)

From the 1987 album Appetite for Destruction, the song was written by Guns N' Roses.

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Ölbeat 274: La Quince Hop Fiction

Brewery: La Quince (in Spanish)
Country: Spain
Style: American Pale Ale
Abv: 5,5 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is golden orange with a medium-size white head. Aroma has fresh grapefruit, orange and malts. Taste begins with strong kick of citrus. Fresh bitter grapefruit takes over with gentle pine and a twist of lemon. Near the finish sour-bitter citrus fruits come dominant. Aftertaste has bitter grapefruit, sour lemon and herbal dryness.

Fresh and great American Pale Ale. Lemon and grapefruit beat the mouth gently, but the flavour couldn't work based only to hops - the base has to be solid. Looking forward to get my hands to some other La Quince brews. Great stuff!

Ölbeat

Brewed as a tribute to the brewery's favourite film Pulp Fiction and director Quentin Tarantino, this one leaves no options than to pick some surf rock from the film. The final sequence and the credits, here you go! 

The Lively Ones: Surf Rider (YouTube)

From the 1963 album Surf Rider, the song was written by Nokie Edwards.