Ölmönger: Ölbeat 341: Suomenlinnan Kealakekua IPA
Brewery: Suomenlinnan Panimo
Country: Finland
Style: India Pale Ale
Abv:—
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What about the beer?
Colour is hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma has pineapple, orange and grapefruit. Taste starts with piny grapefruit bite. Bitter grapefruit and spicy pine take over with sweeter fruity tones. Towards the end piny-fruity bitterness and sweet citrus get on top. Aftertaste has bittersweet grapefruit-orange juice and sour spicy dryness.
Fruity and piny New England -style India Pale Ale. Very nice bittersweet citrus bomb. But. The freshness factor could be clearer. Not excellent nor mind-blowing but still very tasty.
This beer was part of Alko’s Finnish artisanal beer selection in spring 2018.
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Kealakekua Bay on the west coast of Kona Island in Hawaii is known for being the place, where Captain James Cook was stabbed to death by a native chief. Of course, that was after Cook and his crew had already achieved tension with the natives and tried to kidnap a Hawaiian chief to his ship. Things didn’t really go the way they do in The Beach Boys songs, did they?
The Beach Boys: Hawaii (YouTube)
From the 1963 album Surfer Girl, the song was written by Brian Wilson.