June 28th, 2024 - The New Feels of the Dominatress

 

Hey there headbangers and hop freaks!  Happy Friday!  Your rockin' drinkin' buddy the Meista here today getting the weekend off to the right start with a pairing of a tasty and hoppy The New Feels from the fine folks at Offset Bier and Savage Grace's classic, kickass "The Dominatress + Demo 1982"!  Hell yeah!

Album Info:

• Artist: Savage Grace
• Title: "The Dominatress + Demo 1982"
• Recorded: 1982 at Cereus Recording in Scottsdale, Arizona and 1983 at Track Record in Los Angeles, California
• Release date: August 3rd, 1983 / re-release with demo February 2021 (1st studio EP released by Savage Grace) 
• Record company: Metal Blade Records / Hooked on Metal Records
• Production: Brian Slagel
• Album cover art: Don Adkins (photography)
• Personnel: Brian "Beast" East (bass), John Birk (lead vocals), Dan Finch (drums), Christian Logue (guitars), and Kenny Powell (guitars)
• Musical style: Speed metal
• Sound: With high-caliber musicianship, strong songwriting, and ambition, the sound on "The Dominatress + Demo 1982" is pure, high-adrenaline, classic speed metal the way it should be!  The tracks are fast, furious, and fiery with some really stellar guitar work and vocal acrobatics! 
• Major themes: Freedom, anger, rebellion, rage, life, sex, deception, etc.
• Tracks: 

1. "Fight For Your Life"
2. "Curse The Night"
3. "The Dominatress"
4. "Live To Burn"
5. "Too Young To Die"
6. "Curse The Night" (1982 demo)
7. "Genghis Khan" (1982 demo)
8. "Sceptres of Deceit" (1982 demo)

Brew Info:

• Brewery: Offset Bier Company (Park City, Utah)
• Website: https://offsetbier.com/
• Brew: The New Feels
• Style: New World Pils / Hoppy Pilsner
• Serving: 12 ounce can
• ABV: 5.0%
• Ingredients: Pilsner malt, lager yeast, and Most, Callista, Anchovy, Superdelic, Luminosa, and Kohia Motueka hops
• Pour: The New Feels pours a clear, bright yellow hue with a thin, bright white head with good retention and sudsy lacing. 
• Nose: The nose is fruity, floral, grassy, and grainy.  There are aromas of mango, kiwi, lemon juice and zest, lime, freshly picked raspberries and strawberries, summer grass, wildflowers, hay, crackery biscuit, and light caramel.
• Taste: The taste is like the nose: tropical, crackery, grainy, grassy, and slightly hoppy.  There are notes of kiwi, mango, berry, lemon zest, lime, lemongrass, floral hops, crackery biscuit, minerals, and very light caramel.
• Mouthfeel: Light-bodied with good carbonation, the mouthfeel of The New Feels is very crisp, refreshing, and dry, yet smooth with a clean, slightly bitter finish.

Overall pairing: The New Feels from Offset Bier is a very tasty, hoppy, and crushable brew... perfect for banging your head and pumping your fists to the hard-rockin' punch of Savage Grace's killer "The Dominatress + Demo 1982"!  'Nuff said!

Raise those horns!!  Cheers rockers!!