December 19th, 2020 - Under Attack From The Käuzle

 

Guten tag!  The Meista here again with another killer brew and killer album pairing for ya my friends!  Tonight I'm rocking out to German thrash metal legends, Destruction and their "Under Attack" album along with a crisp and tasty Käuzle German Pilsner from Kauzen-Bräu!

Album Info: 

• Artist: Destruction
• Title: "Under Attack"
• Recorded: 2015 through 2016 at Gernhart Studios in Germany
  Release date: May 13th, 20016 (13th studio album by Destruction)
• Record company: Nuclear Blast Records
• Production: Destruction and VO Pulver
• Album cover art: Gyula Havancsá 
• Personnel: Wawrzyniec "Vaaver" Dramowicz (drums), Schmier (bass and vocals), and Mike Sifringer (guitars) 
• Additional musicians: Alex Camargo (vocals on "Black Metal")
• Musical style: Thrash metal
• Sound: This is classic Destruction!  Songs are characterized by fiery fast guitar riffs, machine gun fire drumming, and thunderous bass along with Schmier aggressive broken glass and gravel vocals.   
• Major themes: Violence, socio-political criticism, freedom, disillusionment, anger, death, history, heavy metal, etc.
• Tracks:   

1. "Under Attack"
2. "Generation Nevermore"
3. "Dethroned"
4. "Getting Used To The Evil"
5. "Pathogenic"
6. "Elegant Pigs"
7. "Second To None"
8. "Stand Up For What You Deliver"
9. "Conductor Of The Void"
10. "Stigmatized"
11. "Black Meta" (Venom cover)
12. "Thrash Attack" (re-recorded)

Brew Info:

• Brewery: Kauzen-Bräu (Ochsenfurt, Germany)
• Website: Altersabfrage - Kauzen Bräu Ochsenfurt · Gutes bewahrt seit 1809
• Brew: Käuzle German Pilsner  
• Style: German Pilsner
• Serving: 16 ounce can
• ABV: 4.8%
• Pour: The Käuzle pours a clear, bright golden yellow with a fairly thin, but firm, bright white head with soapy lacing.
• Nose: The nose is bready, grainy, and grassy.  There are aromas of pale grains, cereal grains, crackery biscuit, light apple, fresh Noble hops, summer grass, and soft caramel. 
• Taste: Following the nose, the taste of the Käuzle is grainy, grassy, yeasty, and semi-sweet.  There are notes of barley grain, light apple, and soft caramel.
• Mouthfeel: Light to medium in body with lots of bubbly carbonation, the mouthfeel is very crisp and smooth with a rather clean, slightly sweet finish.

Overall pairing: The crushably crisp, grainy, grassy, and lightly sweet flavors and aromas of the Käuzle is the perfect beer for an evening of heavy duty headbanging with Destruction's killer "Under Attack"!  The grassy and grainy notes are great for the aggressive machine gun fire guitars and drums, while the sweeter fruit ester aromas and flavors are a great foil to Schmier's gravely and angry vocals!

Prost!!  Hails!!