Skitbit Mar 2017: Saimaan Home Brewer's Special Copper Mallet Red Ale

Brewery: Saimaan Juomatehdas
Country: Finland
Style: Amber Ale
Abv: 5,9 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is thick brown with a large tan head. Aroma has caramel malts, sweet berries and spicy citrus. Taste starts with dry bready malts. Bready malts take over with vanishing fruity bitter flavour. Towards the end the bread gets sweet. Aftertaste has dry malts and bitter fruity pine.

Well, wasn't that monotonous. Dry malts and some malty dryness after that. If this brew really was made after the winner recipe of a home brewing competition, either the scaling went wrong or the judges were stoned. Let's say I've had only a few worse non-alcoholic "house brews" than this.

This beer was part of Alko's Finnish microbrewery craftbeer selection in spring 2017.

Skitbit

Probably this brew was actually top of the art, and I'm too uncivilized to show appreciation. The same goes with me and avant garde style music. Some other people take it as musical geniousness, I consider it crap. Copper mallet is a kind of a hammer, and the band, "The Hammers of the Underworld", fits the theme perfectly. Anyway, here goes - neither the brew nor the band will be missed from my behalf.

Alamaailman Vasarat: Vasaraasialainen (YouTube)

From the 2003 album Käärmelautakunta, the song was written by ?.

Ölbeat 127: Saimaan Brewer's Special Pacific Pale Ale

Brewery: Saimaan Juomatehdas
Country: Finland
Style: American Pale Ale
Abv: 4,7 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is cloudy light orange with a finger-thick white head. Aroma has lemon, grapefruit and hay. Taste wakes one up with heavy grapefruit bitter bite. Fresh grapefruit takes over with mild orange and lemon flavours. Near the finish modest dryness comes in the picture. Aftertaste has bitter grapefruit and light dryness.

Actually quite nice session ale. Simple and one-dimensional but the dimension tastes all right. Would nicely go down with BBQ or after sauna. Hopefully getting rid of my brewery allergy.

Ölbeat

The ocean theme and the picture in the label guided my choice with this one. We'll probably see the widow of the shark-eaten surf dude crying at the seaside. Then we'll take another sip from the can, leave the scene and get back in the sauna tent.

Amorphis: Weeper on the Shore (YouTube)

From the 1996 album Elegy, the song was written by Olli-Pekka Laine and Kim Rantala.