Good evening! Your drinking buddy the Meista here tonight getting sludgy with a Noir Milk Stout from Ninkasi Brewing Company and "Nude With Boots" by the Melvins... a pairing that goes out to Chad and Stephanie, without whom, I would be a complete and utter train wreck! Cheers my friends... I love ya!!
Album Info:
- Artist: Melvins
- Title: "Nude With Boots"
- Recorded: January 2008 at West Beach Recordings and Behind The Bar Studio
- Release date: July 8th, 2008 (17th studio album by the Melvins)
- Record company: Ipecac Recordings
- Production: Melvins
- Album cover art: Mackie Osborne
- Personnel: Roger "Buzz" Osborne (aka King Buzzo - guitars and vocals), Dale Crover (drums and vocals), Jared Warren (bass guitar and vocals), and Coady Willis (drums and vocals)
- Additional musicians: Tom Hazelmyer (aka Haze XXL - guitar and vocals)
- Musical style: Doom metal, drone metal, experimental/art metal, sludge rock/metal, stoner rock/metal
- Sound: With tones and riffs reminiscent of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, the Melvins lay down some heavy licks on "Nude With Boots"... and I mean HEAVY! King Buzzo, Crover, Warren, Willis, and Haze XXL provide an incredibly powerful and mesmerizing music journey that doesn't let up!
- Major themes: Abstract views of states of consciousness, states of being, states of sanity, life and death, sadness, etc.
- Tracks:
- "The Kicking Machine"
- "Billy Fish"
- "Dog Island"
- "Dies Iraea" (cover of the theme song to The Shining)
- "Suicide In Progress"
- "The Smiling Cobra"
- "Nude With Boots"
- "Flush"
- "The Stupid Creep"
- "The Savage Hippy"
- "It Tastes Better Than the Truth"
- Brewery: Ninkasi Brewing Company (Eugene, Oregon)
- Website: http://www.ninkasibrewing.com/
- Brew: Noir Milk Stout
- Style: Milk / Sweet Stout
- Serving: 22 ounce bottle
- ABV: 7.6%
- IBUs: 60
- Original gravity: 1082
- Ingredients: 2-Row Pale, Munich, Chocolate, Crystal, Brown, Black, and Rice Hulls malts with Nugget hops, milk sugar, and cold brewed coffee from Stumptown Coffee Roasters
- Pour: Ink black with 1-finger, firm mocha head that displays layered lacing throughout.
- Nose: The nose is a big, inviting blast of roasty, toasty, earthy, and slightly smoky scents. There are aromas of freshly brewed coffee, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and fresh cream.
- Taste: Like the nose, the taste of the Noir Milk Stout is a bold, earthy, roasty, chocolaty, and creamy brew. There are notes of dark roasted ice coffee, bittersweet baker's chocolate, fresh cream, marshmallow, dark malt, and burnt toffee.
- Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied with low carbonation, the mouthfeel is creamy and velvety smooth with a dry finish.
HAILS!!
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