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It does look similar: a clear gold with a faint misting of floaty bits.
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It's only 5% ABV so maybe the Duvel glass was overkill. Three more from Odell? Yes please!įirst up is a golden ale called Kindling. None of them come with the promise that this will be good, this will be worth it.Īnd so, conversely, I am continuously cheered up by new releases from breweries I know and trust. I try to buy the occasional one but have found myself feeling less and less inclined. Endless hazy IPAs in eye-catching cans at eye-watering prices. So it's with no small pang of guilt that I find myself passing over a lot of what's on the market at the moment, from UK and US breweries in particular. This blog has always prided itself on the variety of beer described within, covering everything and anything, because it's always at least interesting (to me). I'm determined not to become one of those beer drinkers who know what they like and like what they know and don't mind telling you about it, repeatedly.
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Perhaps the true reward is the money we saved along the way. Even a big lager brewery like Eichbaum could have tried a bit harder here.ĭown at the budget end, you win some and you lose some. This is highly inoffensive, very easy to drink and was dirt cheap, but it's no kind of introduction to the joys of imperial stout. Only a faint vegetal tang in the finish suggests stout, but not of the imperial kind. You have to work to find the slightest traces of roast while the high gravity has been smoothed away to nothing. The only thing is it's not a very good one. My guess is that it is indeed cool-fermented so should probably be classed more as a Schwarzbier than an imperial stout, but that's OK - I'm down with Schwarzbier. What? There's a cool, clean, biscuit-and-grass thing that shows its German roots very clearly. It's a bit of a lightweight at just 7.5% ABV, but looks well: a properly pure silken black with a rocky ivory head that says traditional stout to be sure to be sure. I had written before about a couple of their Steam Brew series, noting that the intriguing Imperial Stout had escaped me. I quite liked it, although it's far from the sharp grassy number I was expecting. It's quite autumnal, or even wintery: filling, warming and calorific. There's perhaps a very faint ghost of pepperiness but that's your lot.
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The finish is dry more than bitter and I don't really see where the rye fits in. That effect is accentuated by a weighty malt sweetness: honey, spongecake and brown sugar, with characteristics in common with the farmhouse beers you only get in Lithuania. I'm guessing it's cool-fermented as it has the clean crispness of a lager, albeit a strong one: think bock or Märzen. There doesn't seem to be a grapefruit version yet but here's hoping one is in the pipeline.Ī litre of Lithuanian rye beer for a fiver? Thanks SuperValu! Ruginis from Aukštaitijos Bravorai is 5.2% ABV and a pale copper colour, mostly clear with a few light floaters. Admittedly there's little sign of the beer underneath the lemonade (it's only 2% ABV) but neither is it a sticky alcopop mess. That's enough to give it a real lemon taste: tangy and zingy with minimal syrupy sweetness. That helpfully informs us it's 40% Kölsch and 60% lemonade, of which 7% is lemon juice. Gaffel Lemon Radler is from one of Cologne's respectable Kölsch houses - it's odd to see their sober traditional brand on this Hawaiian shirt of a can. The first isn't actually from a supermarket, but was only €2.50 for the half-litre can. I'm a sucker for anything that looks interesting in the bargain corner of the supermarket beer shelves. Cheapie beer doesn't have to mean mass-produced chemical fizz.