Beer review: Meteorite vs. Earth (8.5% Sweden: Modernist Brewery)

The Meteorite vs. Earth, is a pale ale, more specifically a Double India Pale Ale. It's brewed by Modernist Brewery, a Swedish microbrewery founded in 2012 and located in Stockholm. The name of the beer promises a powerful punch and the description on the bottle further pledges to "...give you the most pleasant whack on the chin you've ever had." That's saying a lot, let's see if the beer delivers what it promises.

Taste: The Metorite vs. Earth is a medium-bodied beer with a pleasant sweet front taste of raisins, and other dried fruit. It then delivers a nice maltiness and finishes with a medium-strength hoppiness and some berry aromas.

Overall, the Meteorite vs. Earth is a very nice DIPA with a distinct flavor and nice character. Personally, I'm left without the "whack on the chin" because the hoppiness is actually quite smooth and therefore the beer is a disappointment on that area. It does stand out among DIPAs because of its raisiny sweetness, and in my opinion that should be the factor the brewery should advertise this beer with.

70 Good

Beer review: Motörhead Bastards Lager (4.7% Sweden: Krönleins Bryggeri)

The Motörhead Bastards Lager is a lager, more specifically a pale lager, made by Krönleins Bryggeri, a large Swedish brewery founded in 1836. They have sold their soul not only to Kiss, but also to Motörhead and worst of all to IKEA. Everybody's got to make a living somehow I guess, and you never know...maybe it's a positive surprise. At least the label is quite nice in this one as well. Let's try it.

Taste: The Motörhead Bastards Lager is a light/medium-bodied lager that starts with a grainy maltiness. The taste doesn't provide anything special, and unlike the Kiss version which ends with a nice hoppy taste, this one ends with a metallic bitterness. Like the Kiss version, it tastes like a bulk lager because well... it is one.

Overall, The Motörhead Bastards Lager is a beer which reflects the discography of Motörhead nicely. This beer has short moments of promise and even accomplishment but like the most of the works of Motörhead, it ends up being a really average beer. It's kind of fitting that the beers of Motörhead and Kiss are produced by the same company, and thus are very similar, since in my opinion the works of these two bands are really similar as well. The Bastards Lager is better than all of the Finnish basic beers, but it's not worth its price and I personally prefer the Kiss version, because it tastes more fresh.

50 Average

Beer review: Kiss Destroyer (4.7% Sweden: Krönleins Bryggeri)

Kiss Destroyer is a lager beer, more specifically a Pale Lager, made by Krönleins Bryggeri, a large Swedish brewery founded in 1836. They have sold their soul not only to Kiss, but also to Motörhead and worst of all to IKEA. Everybody's got to make a living somehow I guess, and you never know...maybe the KISS beer is a positive surprise. At least the label is quite nice. Let's try it.

Taste: Kiss Destroyer is a light-bodied lager that starts with a grainy maltiness. The taste doesn't provide anything special, but ends with a nice faint taste of grassy hoppiness. Tastes like a bulk lager because well... it is one.

Overall, Kiss Destroyer is a beer which reflects the discography of Kiss nicely. This beer has short moments of promise and even accomplishments but like the most of the works of Kiss, it ends up being a really average beer. It's better than all of the Finnish basic beers, but not worth its price.

50 Average