February 20th, 2025 - The Bambule of I Robot

 

Guten tag and happy Thursday my rock and roll friends and beer lovers!  You pal the Meista here on this snowy day pairing the wonderful "I Robot" by the Alan Parsons Project and a crisp and tasty Bambule Pilsener from ÜberQuell! 

Album Info: 

• Artist: Alan Parsons Project
• Title: "I Robot"
• Recorded: December 1976 through March 1977 at Abbey Road in London, England
• Release date: July 8th, 1977 (2nd studio album by the Alan Parsons Project)
• Record company: Arista
• Production: Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson
• Album cover art: Hipgnosis
• Personnel: Alan Parsons (Projectron ,Synthi-A Sequencer Programming, vocoder, acoustic guitar, tape loops and effects, and backing vocals) with Ian Bairnson (electric and acoustic guitars, and backing vocals), Stu Calver (backing vocals), Allan Clarke (lead vocals on "Breakdown"), B.J. Cole (steel guitar), The English Chorale (chorus vocals), Jack Harris (lead vocals on "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)"), John Leach (cimbalom and kantele), Duncan Mackay (keyboards), The New Philharmonia Chorus (chorus vocals), David Paton (bass, acoustic guitar, and backing vocals), John Perry (backing vocals), Andrew Powell (Hammond B-3 organ, and choir and orchestra arrangements and conducting), Tony Rivers (backing vocals), Peter Straker (lead vocals on "Some Other Time"), Stuart Tosh (drums, percussion, and water gongs), David Townsend (lead vocals on "Don't Let It Show"), Hilary Western (soprano vocals on "I Robot"), Jaki Whitren (lead vocals on "Some Other Time"), Eric Woolfson (clavinet, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer organ, piano, keyboards, and backing vocals), and Lenny Zakatek (lead vocals on "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You")
• Musical style: Rock, pop, progressive rock, art rock, soft rock
• Sound: Richly textured, cohesive, 
• Major themes: A concept album based on the Isaac Asimov book of the same name, themes on the album include the future, self-awareness, autonomy, artificial intelligence, technology, robotics, the rise of machines, the fall of humanity, creation, destruction, etc.
• Tracks:  

1. "I Robot"
2. "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You"
3. "Some Other Time"
4. "Breakdown"
5. "Don't Let It Show"
6. "The Voice"
7. "Nucleus"
8. "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)"
   
9. "Total Eclipse"
10. "Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32"

Brew Info:

• Brewery: ÜberQuell (Hamburg, Germany)
• Website: https://ueberquell.com/en/brewery/our-beers/bambule-pils/
• Brew: Bambule Pilsener
• Style: German Pilsener
• Serving: 16 ounce can
• ABV: 5.0%
• IBUs: 38
• Ingredients: Pilsner malt, barley, and Tettnanger and Polaris hops
• Pour: The Bambule pours a clear, straw-yellow hue with a frothy, half-finger, bright white head with good retention and lots of soapy lacing.
• Nose: The nose is bready, grainy, musty, and slightly sweet and fruity.  There are aromas of cracked wheat, pale grains, cereal grains, crackery biscuit, apple, light pear, grapeseed, lemon zest, and summer grass. 
• Taste: Following the nose, the taste of the Bambule is grainy, grassy, fruity, slightly tart, and semi-sweet.  There are notes of wheat bread, grapeseed, lemon zest, apple, light pear, and noble and grassy hops.
• 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 crisp, grainy, and sweet, and very crushable flavors and aromas of the ÜberQuell Bambule Pils is the perfect companion to the mellow, yet captivating sound of the Alan Parsons Project "I Robot" for a leisure afternoon watching the snow fly!  'Nuff said!

Prost!! 

"I Robot... The story of the rise of the machine and the decline of man, which paradoxically coincided with his discovery of the wheel... and a warning that his brief dominance of this planet will probably end, because man tried to create robot in his own image."