Music

Darkthrone & Deathcrush & Frank the Cow

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?

Drinks

VanderGhinste Roodbruin

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.

Drinks

A Beer

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.

Food

Strog

  1. Use Greek yoghurt, in the sauce and on the top to finish.
  2. Cook your piece of meat whole to medium-rare, let it rest, slice it and add it to the sauce right at the end .
  3. Use lots of pepper.
Music

Awesome Band – Voluptas

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.

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Drinks

4 Drinks

Wolf of the Willows – The S’Mores Man Toasted Marshmallow Nitro Amber Ale. 6.2% 355ml can. Biscuit malts, real roasted marshmallows, vanilla, Mork organic cacao nibs.
Dark amber kind of cloudy colour, a big head because I should have used a pint glass. Caramel slightly biscuit malt and “lagery” yeast smell.
Taste is slightly sweet and vanilla, great biscuity flavor, not cloying in anyway, extremely smooth. The biscuit character is just fantastic. More vanilla/marshmallow, and maybe cacao arrives in the aftertaste as you sip. The biscuit character is the winner here. Very nice.

Dainton Brewery – Fudge Dredd Double Choc Fudge Porter. 8% 355ml can. No ingredients listed.
Big thick brown head, viscous pour, smells like molasses and roasted malts. Taste is a big dark malt hit, slight burnt black malt character, cocoa more than chocolate, a sweetness like molassess, slightly boozy. Theres bitterness but its balanced with the darkest malt flavors and the alcohol. This is big and very rich, not as sweet as I expected from the fudge in the title. Nice.

Brookvale Union – Spiced Rum Ginger Beer & Vodka Peach Iced Tea. 4% and 330ml cans each.

Brookvale Union is 4 Pines Brewing making pre-mixed drinks, and they aren’t bad according to these two.
The spiced rum ginger beer is not bad, could do with more spice and ginger beer heat. The rum isnt very noticable after a while but seems apparent on the first few sips. Extremely drinkable.

The Vodka Peach Iced Tea though is excellent, it is exactly like Liptonice Peach Iced Tea but carbonated, the peach flavour is strong and good, you can really taste it and also smell it from a distance, the tea is there just like it is in Liptonice, and you cant taste the alcohol. This was excellent and I hope they make more Ice Tea varieties. Again, extremely drinkable.