Big Wave Golden Ale

Aloha!

Quite an imaginative opening for a hawaii influenced beer... It's been a while. What can I say? Life's been hectic. A bit too hectic. Not that it's any less hectic now... Which might be good, otherwise it could be boring. Dont know.

Anyways. The beer. I got some of these since I was at a fair. They were for the "customers" *wink*. It tasted really good, so I decided to make a post of it on this, nearly dead, blog.
The beer is not made in Hawaii. That would be cool. But maybe too expensive. Influenced by Hawaii and what makes it so good.

Yellow color. Very good, refreshing taste. Not much too much that you get with alot of whey beers. This is light, tasty and just really good. One isn't enough. Wish I had more.
Also, the bottle, or the label actually, is nice. Very old school. 60s influenced or something.

Very good work with the beer. It has the whole package.

Until we meeet next time...

-P


... Aaaand i cant add a picture just yet. Coming later...

Mississippi Mud

Well met.
I've never been a fan of blends. Might be because blended whiskey aren't as genuine as single malts. Don't get me wrong. They might taste great, but the fact that in unblended whiskeys the brewers have to make the same stuff every time. As opposed to blends where if there is some difference in taste it can be compensated. It's just not pure somehow. That being said… I ordered Mississippi Mud for quite a hefty price. Even by Finnish standards. It's a blend of porter and pilsner. And mark my words. It tastes really great. I mean. Really great. Smooth, easy to drink, perfect sweetness, almost no bitterness. I can't think of a better beer right now. Boom! My favorite.

The color is quite dark, almost reddish, you can still see through it. Normal bubbles i think, not as different from others like Guinness is.

The bottle is perhaps the coolest ever with a loop. Can't remember what these are called. Really different from everything. The bottle is perhaps the thing i bought it for in the first place.

But the taste is amazing as i said. I really can't find anything I don't like in it. Not as robust or heavy as perhaps the Rebel which I thought was my favorite until now. Will definitely buy it again. The price was 10€ when i ordered from Gourmondo so quite steep. The bottle is close to 1 liter, 946 ml to be precise so it isn't _that_ expensive. But still, more expensive than your ordinary bulk beer (which this is nothing like).

I planned to drink this during the Superbowl but i had too much to eat as it was so I just couldn't drink it then and didn't want to spoil the beer by having to force myself to drink it. Congrats to the Seahawks. My team was nowhere near the Superbowl this year.

In any case. A great beer. I can't say if it is as complex as some other beers. Maybe not. But still. Really good, smooth and easy to drink.

Until next time…

-P

Unertl Weißbier

Well met. It's been a while since the last update again. That is mainly because I don't drink that much at all and when I drink, I forget or am unable to write here for some reasons. Also, I've started running again. I've been running on and off for a while now, but every time I run, I'm unwilling to take a beer. Or any alcohol at all, since according to my sources, it is cutting off the fat burning process. It might not be much, but it would feel weird. That is a shame, since after a run it would really taste good with a beer or two. However! I have found a loophole. One would think I would have found it sooner, given the vast intellect i behold. But no. The loophole is simple. Take away the alcohol. In other words, alcohol free beer. I know some wouldn't call it even beer. But, I'm rather fond of beer with less alcohol, especially in the summer. It tastes basically the same, a little lighter and more refreshing. Perfect.

I got introduced to a site on the internet selling alcohol and delivering it to you directly. www.Gourmondo.de . If I had extra money lying around I would probably spend it there. A huge assortment of pretty much everything you can put in your mouth… And stuff that isn't even available in Finland and to top it off, at a reasonable price. Read: cheaper than here. So i ordered a set of beers from bayern, a madeira bottle, a bottle of gin (Hendrick's) and a special beer from the US. Going to make a post about it here some day. You'll just have to wait.

So, about the beer. An alcohol free wheat beer. I like wheat beer a lot. Its more refreshing and easy drinkable than normal beers or darker ones. This one is called Unertl Weißbeer. I think my bottle is missing an etiquette on the back, since there is none there. D'uh. So no story on how great this beer is. Even if there was one, I wouldn't understand it since it would probably be in german and I don't speak or read german almost at all. Bummer. It's always fun to read how the brewers describe their beers.
The color was quite reddish. Not as yellow as some wheat beers are like.

The taste was at first a little chemical somehow. Possibly because of the lack of alcohol. I'm not really familiar with how the alcohol is removed. Maybe it leaves some unwanted taste. However, I can't really taste it anymore so it's not that bad. The taste is quite normal, wheat beer like. A nice aftertaste, sweetish and, yes, quite nice. I could have another one and I do believe I would buy it again if I had the chance, and remembered the brand. Unertl isn't something that you (or at least I) will remember.

Im quite bad at describing what I taste, as you may or may not have noticed. It could taste like chocolate chip cookies for all I know, but I think I'm missing some taste-definition-and-recognition-part of my brain. I guess nobody's perfect. All I can say is if like it or not. And that is what counts. Quite often people are afraid to buy more expensive whiskeys because they're probably afraid that they can't taste it enough. If you like it, you should drink it. It doesn't matter if you can't define the taste. Just my 2c. Practice makes perfect.

Until next time.

-P

Perlenbacher Pilsener v1.2

Well met yet again. I felt obliged to put in a better word for this beer. The day after i wrote the last post, I drank the notorious second bottle. And, to my surprise, it did taste much better. Maybe I was in a bad mood when i drank the first bottle. I cannot say. There still was bitterness,yes, but it wasn't that bad. An okay beer for the cost. Still, no firework of multifaceted tastes. But what could you expect?

Until next time...

-P

Perlenbacher Pilsener

Well met. A long time since my last post. Believe it or not, I haven't been drinking nearly at all. I must be sick or something… I promise I'll try to drink some more from now on. You don't hear a manly-man say that often, do you? After being encouraged by my dear fan (notice, "fan" not "fans), I decided to write a new entry. Pilsenbacher. Straight outta Lidl. Really cheap, 1,5€ per bottle. Since i rarely go to Lidl and today I happened to go there, I didn't want to waste my chance so i grabbed two bottles. I do have some doubts about this one, since Lidl is known for their sub-par quality. It remains to be seen…

The beer. Very lightly colored and a cool see-through bottle. Carlsberglike.

I know. The drinking glass isn't a typical beer glass. Blasphemy! So sue me.

The beer itself… a quite light taste but with a nasty bitterness that turns the sensation into a not so good one. Easy to drink, not a big taste, a small, fast one. But the bitterness ruins it. I regret buying two bottles… not overly bad though. If you want cheap beer then this is it. Want a taste sensation? Not so much.

Until next time.

-P

Karhu

Hello. Today I thought I'd taste a "normal" bear, namely a finnish beer named Karhu, mening bear in finnish. It also happens to be my favorite bulk beer, a beer i regard as normal, everyday beer. Not imported or otherwise special. One could say that bulk beers are sold in multipacks, sixpacks for instance. Fourpacks wouldn't count in my books since quite a lot of specialish beers are sold in fourpacks. I would have namedropped some, but could only think of two, Copenhagen and Sol. Anyways, bulk beers = sixpacks.

The picture is from Wikipedia: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiedosto:Karhu.jpg Why do I prefer Karhu over the others? It has taste. Alot of it. Is it complex? No, I don't think so. I said earlier that I'm no expert on taste, remember? Anyways, it has a lot of taste. It's musty, dark and a bit bitter. Simply better than the rest of the bulks; Koff, Karjala, Olvi, Lapin Kulta and so on. I will analyse more of these bulks as I get to it. I just couldn't start with anything other than Karhu. I just learned as I put the picture up that the most popular beer in Finland is Karhu. Turns out, I'm not that special after all. Shocker. If you haven't tried a Karhu before... the thought is so horrific i can't bear to think it through... just go get your hands on a bottle if you haven't tried it! Two posts in one week. Great! Until next time. -P-

Marsalkka Luomuvehnä

Well met. If you happen to read this and then on an off chance decide to continue reading, congratualations! You might want to check out the rest of the posts published earlier. If you aren't fluent in swedish then you face a problem. Maybe teh Google translate can help you in your quest for knowledge. Alas, I have doubt anyone would go through the trouble. In any case. This is a small blog about beers and how i perceive them. I do not say I am a master in the arts of beer, nor do I even think i know how a good beer should taste. What I do know is that i either like it or I don't. Simple. Do I feel ashamed of my often not so deep analyses of beers that have taken centuries to form? Maybe. Try to get over it. -- In Finland we have this thing called Luomu. It's something ecologically produced. No additives and toxins and things like that are used in the process of growing the seeds and whatever you use in the product. So, today my beer was luomu. I am a little sceptic against luomu. The price is quite alot higher but the taste is the quite the same. I havent tried luomu and non luomu head to head so I can't say for sure. But for me, the excess price for the same taste isn't worth it. Some people say the additives are the worst. So is excess sugar, fat, exhausts from vehicles, smoking and *gasp* alcohol. I just don't see the point. Some do, I don't.

The beer then. It was a wheat beer... that i spilled. Yes, I spilled half of the beer across the table, which took pretty much of the edge of this analysis. It was really good. I like normal wheat beer and this was frikkin luomu for christs sake!!1!! No really, it was quite good. Quite bitter, more bitter than other wheat beers in my opinion. I would have loved some more of it, but no. It will remain a distant memory. However I'll get some more of it in the near future. So, this was my analysis. Quite shallow. What can I say? Deal with it? Until next time -P-