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Who likes Meshuggah? Who likes Lady GaGa? Who likes MeshuGaGa? The boys at Seventh Sage thought that metal had done enough work covering pop and it was time for pop to pick up its game. Listener discretion is advised.

#metal #meshuggah #lady #Gaga #music #pop #funny #band #original

Mikkeller - Monk's Elixir

Dark maple colouration hints at its faintly roasted honey like smell. Really quite a pleasant bouquet, makes me think of comfy fireside seats and cigars. Smoked chicory and what might be called 'ethanol sweetness', like a honey-ish liquor that is balanced by the mid-density roasted malty body, imparted with just enough bitterness to give it that lip-smacking, adult drink aesthetic. Mature and complex, its like Mikkeller in their insanity crushed up a bunch of crooner vinyls for a mash.

#Mikkeller #craft #beer #divine

So, I said that I'd bury my nose in mountain of boutique beer after finishing the final vocal parts after years of recording, here's two of the nine beers from that night.

Firstly, HaandBryggeriet has been consistently awesome on a level that, in my books, puts it amongst the world’s best. Having now mashed out more then a hundred beers in these trials, there is only perhaps a handful of breweries who've consistently delivered an experience. This is one of them. This beer, like the metal its homeland is renowned for, is so black that when we placed it against a halogen globe, NOTHING got through. It's an unapologetic dark ale that smells like a fruit-bowl and has all the complexities and textures that make the dark beer fan swoon. Thick and unrelenting, it has a wine-esque fruity tang that punches through early before the complex, almost herbal-liquor tasting body sets in with a dry lingering finish. Yum.

Now, for the disappointment of the night, the St Ambroise has ruined Canada’s spree for me. It wasn’t terrible by any means, it was an oatmeal stout and had all the texture and warmth of one. But it was just bland and domestic. No bite or punch or anything really. Just a thick, dark and yeasty sparkling mineral water. It hasn’t killed my faith in Canadian brewing finesse, but as said before, it ruined an amazing streak that started with Trois Pistoles more then one hundred beers ago. Shame.

#Craft beer #beer #Norway #Canada #Awesome #beer geek

Did the final vocal takes for the album yesterday. I've been recording and re-recording them since late 2009. Be right back, burying myself under a mountain of craft beer.

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING

"The number of craft brewers in Australia tripled over the past 10 years," it says in its May 2012 Beer Industry report.

"There are now more than 140 brewers now in operation across the country.

"Rising disposable incomes (before 2009-10), the relatively homogenous nature of many traditional Australian beers and consumer demand for variety and better quality drove this trend.

"Beer drinkers have become increasingly discerning and have been more willing to try different brands and styles in recent years."

This just made my day.

(I still fear that the carbonated sewerage that CUB/Fosters pumps out is going to represent Australian culture indefinitely while some fantastic brewers remain forever (some literally) in their shadows (this is a small yet significant piece of my desire to leave and not come back, hopefully I'm wrong and can leave on better terms, hopefully)).

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/your-business/crafty-brewer-bucks-beer-fall/story-fn9evb64-1226392600346#ixzz1xZswCKOx

#Australian #Craft Beer #Beer #Beer Geeks #THERE MIGHT BE HOPE YET!

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As perhaps one of the world’s oldest beverages, along side its craft being one of the oldest and most established art forms (which, in a larger historical context has only recently been tarnished by economically-minded considerations such as its large domestication and capitalisation), beer; and...

#Craft beer #Awesomeness Bottled #boutique #beer #beer geek #geek

Now to balance out my last post, we've sampled eighty beers this year (Squancho and I have made a deal that we are not to have the same beer more then once unless for reverential purposes) so here is a short-list of the beers that changed the game for us and got us started on our beer pilgrimage.

La Maudite, Unibroue - I know I can't go more then a day without mentioning this beer, but it was love at first drop. Ludicrously complex, with a finish like red wine. Dark amber in colour. Full bodied and best served at around 12 degrees Celsius. Just amazing.

Duchesse De Bourgogne, Brouwerij Verhaeghe - This one was off the wall. So fruity, crisp and refreshing it's almost a cider. This one needs to be tried to be believed.

Black Lung, Moon Dog Brewery - A fine stout indeed. There was a nice chocolate finish and a pleasant smokiness that followed its smooth bourbon-barrelled body of reasonable density (it's a stout after all). We've been trying to get another bottle for further evaluation.

Original, Innis and Gunn - The creamy smoothness and well balanced sweetness of this beer is just perfect for putting the feet up and masticating a good Cuban cigar (which we've had the pleasure of doing)! Smooth in it's oak-aged toffee body and mature on the back palette, just an all round pleasant beer. There is a world of amazing scotch ales out there but this one is a fine place to start!

#craft beer #boutique #craft #beer #Awesomeness Bottled #beer geek #geeks

I thought I'd do my part and warn my fellow beer fans to avoid these monstrosities.

Renaissance actually do have a nice number, a Scotch Ale going by the name of 'Stone Cutter' but other then that, my partner in crime and myself have had a hard time finding another one of theirs we enjoy. For the most part, they've just been ordinary and paled in comparison to other boutique beers.

As for St Peters, I've been seeing their stuff for ages and in one of my favourite bars (Baranows) too so I'd always been curious. BIG MISTAKE. Bland and domestic, tastes like every other mass-marketed, artificially fermented drop of junk you find at the corner store (hence being flipped the bird).

#craft beer #boutique #beer #warning

Twenty something kilometres? Forty-five minutes to get there? Pissing down rain? Nothing but a bicycle and a playlist consisting of Ihsahn, Messhugah and Gojira?

Got there early, paid for the course in full before walking into the toilet to scrape the mud off my face then proceeding to pass the test in under two minutes.

In short, forces conspiring against me, don't get between me and my duty of serving craft beer to the world. You won't win.

#bad-arse wimp

So, I've gotta ask. Is there anything about Canada that isn't ******* awesome? You give us stunning geographical beauty coupled with amazing musical talent (Bieber not withstanding) and I'm yet to have a beer from there (particularly Quebec) that doesn't make me want to do something I'd probably regret with the bottle.

This beauty isn't the best beer I've had but I like my beers like my women; dark, obscure and complex. It pours like a coffee and finishes like a hot-chocolate! Honestly, the cocoa in this is actually present! It goes on smooth, lightly carbonated and goes down taking the complexity of the flavour with it so that you're left with the dry characteristics of the cocoa. There is a hint of spicy vanilla right before the mildly-malty body sets in. Not my all time favourite darky (a highly contended position that includes the likes of 'Trois Pistoles', also from Quebec *fap*) but one that I'll definitely remember.

#beer geek #craft beer #beer #Canada #Quebec

This is Deus, it is a genuine champagne Flanders ale, allegedly one of the only available in Australia (not verified, but I have it on good word). Now, up till this point, Flanders ales have ranged from 'very drinkable' to 'PUT IT IN MY VEINS!' but after experiencing this, I was fairly disappointed. As my partner in crime so aptly coined it, it was reminiscent of a 'yeasty champagne'.

It lacked the body of a beer and the subtlety of the flavour was buried under a mountain of carbonation. That said, it was remarkably crisp (as would be expected) and the fruity notes did make themselves known but it is safe to say it would suffice as a bubbly more so then a beer.

For anyone seeking a stretching of the beer pallet I would probably recommend only trying it if you happen to chance upon an open bottle as the $40 price tag does mar it's promising sheen. Craft beer salute!

#beer #beer geeks #craft beer #Deus

The clear winners of this bunch, Unibroue's 'Don de Dieu' (of course, it's Unibroue), Innis and Gunn original, Moon Dog brewery is almost always fantastic (sans the 'MacGuava') and the absolute game changer was Haandbryggeriet's 'Haandbakk' which just... wow. Okay, it smelt like a promising dark ale that someone once left a blueberry muffin near. All those earthy coffee scents with this faint fruity note. But flavour wise, think Worcestershire sauce or a really mature kriek. Just so sour and fruity and oddball.

#Beer #Craft Beer #Beer Geeks #Awesomeness Bottled

Many people are blissfully unaware that beer is awesome, and I can't blame them, because an unbelievable amount of carbonated cat-urine with the term beer hugging its glass/tin/ceramic casing like an uncomfortable intellectual forced to hug their idiot sibling floods the market. Here's some places you can go to find the elixir of the Gods. Some of the most moving beverages I've ever experienced.

Moon Dog - Melbourne, Australia

These guys (creators of the spectacular 'Black Lung' pictured above) are yet to make a bad beer in my eyes. Though I'm a fan of almost everything they've done, their 'Macguava' is the only one notwithstanding (but c'mon, guava flavoured beer... even though I found it bland, it's ballsy as hell). Experimental and consistent. http://moondogbrewing.com.au/

Unibroue - Quebec, Canada

Pure decadence. Anything they make, try it, buy it, love it. 'La Maudite' to this day remains one of my favourites (even though no longer available here in Australia) and is used as a sort of 'beer drinkers handshake' to sort those in the know from the poor, ignorant bastards living in a haze of watered down garbage. http://unibroue.com/en/home/

Mikkeller - Copenhagen, Denmark

Well, they said it themselves, they absolutely fail to "make beer that is watery and tasteless. In our world beer challenges people's taste buds - whether it's in a bitter, spicy, sour or fruity manner". This bunch are off the wall, so much so that I've found them difficult to drink at times (their '黑 Islay Edition' was a challenge for me, the Scotch note hit me hard) but always an experience. They deliver what they promise too (which is nice, I tire of breweries that talk about the rich aromas and complex flavours that seem so scarce once the bottle is actually opened) http://mikkeller.dk/

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Not sure, I can tell you my earliest non-human one though.

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