Explorations in beer
The dark season is upon us, and until there’s permanent snowcover, reflectors are an easy way to stay visible on the roads.
Fat Lizard’s take is obviously a big-bellied reptile.
FI: Läskin liskon heijastimesta turvaa pimeille poluille.
The annual release of Fat Lizard Glims is done and gone.
The hops are harvested from the Espoo City Museum’s tracts.
Managed to pick up a bottle back in 2019. Very fresh, nicely balanced, but ultimately nothing special, a solid 3/5 APA.
FI: Kahdessa minuutissa loppuunmyyty Glims Wet Hop Ale jäi tänäkin vuonna maistamatta.
Pyynikin Brewing, one of the big domestic microbreweries declared bankruptcy in mid-September.
Following quite a bit of bad press and accusations of being just a front for beer brewed in Estonia, this was not a big surprise.
The brewery had been very active in courting more and more stockholders, but the final figure over 10000 was quite thoroughly eyebrow-raising.
However, the news that a consortium of interested parties had purchased the company was even more surprising. Especially considering that the brewery was over 3M€ in the red.
Let’s see what comes out of this, the hill sure is steep to climb.
FI: Pyynikin panimo kaatui kuin Mats Sundin, saman tien ponnahtaen uudelleen pystyyn.
Moving closer to timely content in the blog.
The best beer of the first six months was Cloudwater’s take on a Trillium-original: Insert Hip Hop Reference There, a massively heavy New England Triple IPA that skirts both booziness and hop burn neatly and remains just omnipleasantly juicy throughout.
Domestically the top dog is Salama’s Choco Loco Maca, which neatly combines two of my favorites: macadamia nuts and chocolate. Soft, sweet and dark.
FI: Yllätyksettömästi alkuvuoden valiokisi valikoitui hedelmäistä IPAa ja makeaa stouttia.
Spent a very enjoyable evening at Salama Brewing two weeks back on a three-man brewery tour.
Started off with an unnamed pilsner off the staff tank. Probably the last beer enjoyed in an outdoor setting during 2022.
The tour was physically short, due to the confined location, but informative and very interactive. Topics covered state of the brewery, state of Espoo as a brewing city (plenty of collaboration between the companies), international agenda and collaborations as a channel to even deeper waters outside the borders.
Had half a dozen beers throughhout the tour, ranging from mild IPAs to wild sours and finishing off with a stroopwafel imperial stout. With a personal highlight of finally getting to taste the Green Goozer direct off a tank. Green Goozer is a beer infused with a very traditional and essence-ridden domestic marmelade candy (yeah, color me impressed on account of the page in english wikipedia preaching the gospel of the green spheres).
FI: Salama tarjosi oikein viihteellisen ja informatiivisen illan.
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