Brauerei Früh am Dom – Früh Kölsch, 4.8% 500ml can.
Probably one of the best? In my eyes, yes. Its very damn good.
Clear awesome light amber to dark straw colour, great head, lots of spidery lacing. Its dry but light, crisp and fast, then a bit of malt and nice light bitter finish. Nice carbonation. Basic but thats what you want. A great beer.
The guy who mixed Darkthrone A Blaze… also mixed Deathcrush
Seems the original press of Mayhem – Deathcrush (side B) has a picture of Frank The Cow which is some Pink Floyd thing? Atom Heart Mother?
Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste – VanderGhinste Roodbruin, 5.5% 250ml bottle.
A Belgian Roodbruin, a red-brown Flanders Sour ale made from blending what I gather is an oud-bruin type base beer that is blended with a Lambic and then aged in oak barrels for 18 months.
The colour is a brown – dark copper, its quite clear with a hint of reddishness. Very light head, just a ring with very mild lacing. Lots of carbonation going on in there. The smell is excellent, a real sour character as opposed to modern kettle sours, oakey barrel notes and a slight malty carmel sweetness. The taste is fantastic, an extremely well balanced caramel malt flavour, a nice sweetness, then a firm but not lingering sourness, before the oakey dryness on the end. Very interesting sweetness that sits well and is enhanced by while enhancing the nice sourness. Extremely drinkable. Really nice, and quite different as well.
Dainton Brewing – Bloodzilla, Double Blood Orange NEIPA, 8% 355ml can.
This is a throwback to what we just arent getting in NEIPA’s much anymore, its hazy as hell, its big hops flavour and its soft as hell. This is really good, like when the NEIPA thing started before NEIPA just became big hops and Hazy became it own thing for some reason…The soft mouthfeel is there which is sorely missed with this style now days. The blood orange is definitely there, its hard to say if theres rind/pith or its all the hops or what. Theres definitely some malt character in there, maybe crystal or something sweetish going on that just melds well with the bitter. This is a very good “old style” NEIPA style beer.
Awesome Czech band, earlier stuff has a bit of a avant-garde maybe Ved Buens Ende thing, later stuff kinda Dodheimsgard (Satanic Arts), but with lots of other original and interesting elements, the sax reminds me of Beyond Dawn.
[bandcamp width=350 height=654 album=932394984 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=7137dc]
[bandcamp width=350 height=621 album=1190464976 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=7137dc]
