Showing posts with label Linkin Park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linkin Park. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Ölbeat 297: Emelisse Black & Tan Port Charlotte BA

Brewery: Brouwerij Emelisse
Country: Netherlands
Style: Imperial Stout
Abv: 10,5 % 
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with a tiny tan crown. Aroma has mostly peaty smoke and some roasted malts. Taste begins with strong peaty Islay whisky smoke. Bitter campfire smoke takes over with hints of roast, liquorice and espresso. Towards the end sweetish smoky bitterness rises above other flavours. Aftertaste has heavily bitter smoke, dry roasted malts and burned liquorice.

Smoky and deep Imperial Stout. The Port Charlotte whisky has almost complete dominance here. But in a beautifully raw Islay way. If you love Islay peat - enjoy. If not - avoid. For me this was extreme pleasure.

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There are moments when something you've completed is broken to pieces and burned to the ground by someone else. And sometimes it's you who tears things built by someone else apart: "When you fall, I'll take my turn / And fan the flames / As your blazes burn." Sadly, that's the way people are taught to act.

Linkin Park: Burn It Down (YouTube)

From the 2012 album Living Things, the song was written by Linkin Park.

Friday, November 25, 2016

Ölbeat 142: Tanker Masinaôli

Brewery: Tanker
Country: Estonia
Style: India Black Ale
Abv: 6,6 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is black with an overwhelming light beige bubbly head. Aroma has lemon-grapefruit, roasted malts and rye. Taste hits first with heavily roasted bitterness. Charred bitter and strong grapefruit takes over. Near the finish the taste turns roasty, a bit piny and extra-dry. Aftertaste has roasty dryness with bitter grapefruit.

Super-hardcore India Black Ale. Untamed roast and grapefruit flavours crash together with huge force. The result is more than just the sum of separate flavours. Delicious beer.

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Heavy machine-themed black brew has to be paired with industrial dark-themed rock. No apologies, no explanations, just waiting for the mercy. Perfect.

Linkin Park: What I've Done (YouTube)

From the 2007 album Minutes to Midnight, the song was written by Linkin Park.