CLICKBAIT AH! Welcome beer friends to another episode of #beersaturday 🍺
This time we celebrate week number 450! I celebrate by drinking a non-alcoholic beer from Baladin
Why anal? Because in Italian non alcoholic translates to ANALCOLICO, or ANAL if you like stupid jokes ahaha
I've already talked about Baladin brewery in the past. It's an Italian little brewery born not so many years ago in north-est Italy and there's this pub near me, called Garage Guinguette, that was born as a "Baladin pub", so all their tap beers are from Baladin.
Because I had a intense - alcoholic - Saturday night, on Sunday I went to the Garage and I wanted to drink a beer but I didn't want to bring more alcohol into my body, so I tried one of their non-alcoholic beers.
This one is called botanic IPA. It's an IPA (duh) with many different botanics (duh). This one in particular has a lot of orange and grapefruit peel, but also passionflower and gentian, that I don't really know what kind of aroma they add to the drink but they do the difference for sure.
Pale golden color, very thick and aromatic foam. Agrumes come out at first, followed by the botanics dancing in your mouth. It's light and fresh, but also quite bitter, so I had some difficulty finishing it.
I went to the Garage because they organized this talk with three guys that work as promoters and concert organizers. We talked about the local music scene; how it's changed over time and why; what we can do to support it and so on. A very interesting talk. In the audience there were musicians, journalists for webzines, and simple concert goers, especially in the metal genre.
YONAKA - SEIZE THE POWER
I love when I get something new from the radio. It's rare. Radio for me equals shit most of the time, playing on repeat the same boring stuff, already listened to a thousand times. But I recently found this Easy rock radio that plays rock music with a selection of new bands that I've never heard of. So everytime I hear something cool I shazam it and YONAKA is one of this pleasant discoveries.
YONAKA is a British alternative pop-rock band that released a couple of EPs since 2014 and their full album on 2019. Even before their first album was out, they managed to open for Bring me the horizon!
On the radio I listened to a single from their last album that will be out on March of this year but I listened to their discography and this album called Seize the power is fire 🔥 They're able to blend a variety of music genres, starting with alternative rock and adding hip-hop vocals, techno beats, noises and effects that bring a futuristic dystopian feeling into their music. Clean and catchy choruses go in contrast with gritty and violent verses with a punk attitude that I love and inspires me. Every time I feel the punk coming out from other genres, it gets my attention.
See ya for the next one! 🍻