Ölbeat 236: Stallhagen Vienna Lager

Brewery: Stallhagen (in Swedish)
Country: Finland
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Abv: 4,5 %
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What about the beer?

Colour is bright golden yellow with a small vanishing white head. Aroma has grainy malts, true barley scent. Taste starts with malty-fruity bitter bite. Bitter, wholegrain-bready malts take over with a hoppy side tone. Near the finish the malts get sweeter and the bitterness is enhanced with a fruity kick. Aftertaste has sweet and bitter malts with lots of grain.

Fresh and easy Lager. Grain and malts are present the way they should. Nothing remarkable but nice and very drinkable beer.

Ölbeat

There's a chance that I picked something too noble to be paired with this brew. On the other hand, there aren't any high expections either to drink too many fine brews from Austria or be sipping them in the country's capital. Anyway, liked the brew, like the song, and that's a match.

Ultravox: Vienna (YouTube)

From the 1981 album Vienna, the song was written by Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, and Midge Ure.

Skitbit Feb 2017: Stallhagen Hefeweizen

Brewery: Stallhagen (in Swedish)
Country: Finland
Style: Hefewezen
Abv: 4,7 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy murky yellow with a small white head. Aroma has sour lemon, clove and bananaish wheat. Taste begins with funkily sour bite. Sour lemon and sweet spicy malts take over with a strange meaty side flavour. Towards the end some thin citrus-banana sweetness gets added to the taste. Aftertaste has tart lemon and watery-dryish malts.

Unfortunately, this brew has the questionable honour to be this month's Skitbit. I'm not a huge fan of Hefeweizen style, but I'd expect some growth in the flavour near the finish. This just dies out after the start's sour-spicy hit.

Skitbit

An ungreat brew for summer requires a bad summer song. Since Stallhagen brewery lies in Åland, which is an autonomous Swedish-speaking region of Finland, the Skitbit is the worst Swedish-sung summer song in history.

Actually it's probably not, since it's a cover from an 80's original by Freestyle, which is utterly horrible. And we can't forget Herreys and Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley, which is a fine alternative to water torture and an excellent reason to avoid shit like Eurovision song contest even in the 2010's. But this brew wasn't that bad.

Drömhus: Vill ha dig (YouTube)

From the 1998 album Drömmar, the song was written by Tommy Ekman, Joakim Hagleitner, Christer Sandelin and Anders Uddberg.