Saturday and there is snow everywhere! What does that mean? Well I think it means we should go all Nordic and get the drinking horns out for some crazy Viking beer! That's right. Viking!!
So let's go all Valhalla and pop a cap in Odin's ass!!
First up.
This has Viking written all over it. I mean really, look at the Viking head.
Funky can but what's inside?
It pours a magnificent white gold. It has a lustrous white head like a fine stallion I once rode into battle.
Mmm, wheaty wheaty yum yum!! It is a smooth, wintry beer. Citrus hints and little twizzles of coriander merge with the screams of the dying under my eldritch blade. VALHALLA!!!
Oh yes, I do approve of this. It's a great beer for a session and has enough character to cleave an enemy in two. 8/10 battle-axes!!
Cor, I am in the mood for some slaying. What's next?
Götterdämmerung!! What is this? Ragnarok, the famous end battle of the Norse Gods culminating in the end of the world as we know it? Well the beer doesn't have much to live up to eh!
Despite the name this is a Scottish beer, a bloody strong one too judging by the ABV. it claims to be an imperial IPA. Let's see...
A dark burnished copper on the pour. It looks grand. Lots of big gassy bubbles in the head. Like that weird sherbet piss you get after eating Thai food.
It tastes good. In fact it's great, very complex compared to the last one. Hops, barley and wheat all merging together into a fine toasted thing. The lingering aftertaste has a slight burnt caramel flavour. It's reminiscent of an Innis and Gunn beer. Like one of the ones that has been matured in rum casks. I like it!
Although normally I would score this higher than the last beer there is something lingering with the Viking white beer that I really liked so I am going to score this a draw, 8/10 battle-axes!! Any other day it might have won though :0)
So that's been my Viking beerity. Now I am going to go out and fling my beefy axe about in battle!!!
Raaar!!
Have a great weekend everyone!