Stadin Grand Cru

Stadin Panimo from Helsinki Finland is propably the most interesting brewery in Finland. It’s craftbrewing is always intriguing, experimental and they don’t stick long with anything – they just make another tasty beer. This time it’s a “Paques”-special, 9,0% alc vol, perhaps a Belgian styled (like have they thought about Westvleteren XII or Chimay Blue maybe?) strong ale with sweetness and chocolate and such. It’s like having a nice portwine, but not at all port or even barley wine stylishly, but more like a very good strong black lager, though its not a lager either. It has coriander and liquorice, but its more like a nutty British styled ale, and maybe it also reminds me a bit of Fuller's London Porter as well. It has that kind of nice multiplexity when you just begin to wander in your thoughts and memories about other beers - and that is a nice feature in a beer. I like this beer a lot, this is like a chocolate easter egg, you just have to have it fast to see, what’s inside :) And it’s a very nice beer, very good and complex and diverse indeed.

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