Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Ölbeat 307: Rocking Bear Pietniemi Pale Ale

Brewery: Rocking Bear Brewers (Facebook, in Finnish)
Country: Finland
Style: American Pale Ale
Abv: 4,5 %
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What about the beer?
Colour is dark orange with a huge natural white head. Aroma has mango, orange and pear. Taste begins with gentle citrus bitterness. Juice mix of sweet orange-mango and sour-bitter lemon takes over. Towards the end some bitter grapefruit strikes through. Aftertaste has grapefruit bitterness and slightly piny dryness.

Fruity fresh American Pale Ale. All the elements of citrus present. Light but good. Tastes like summer should have felt. Works like a charm. The beer of my neighborhood, by the way. Until they brew Pelle Miljoona Barley Wine, of course.

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Pietniemi Pale Ale has gotten its name from a quarter in the city of Pori. Near Pietniemi, in the fields of western Pori there used to be a grey barn with a text "Pelle Miljoona Oy" on its outside wall. The barn was burned down in 2004.

Pelle Miljoona Oy: Juokse villi lapsi (YouTube)

From the 1980 album Moottoritie on kuuma, the song was written by Pelle Miljoona and Ari Taskinen.