July 9th, 2024 - Difficult to Cure

 

Good evenin' rockers, rollers, and craft brew lovers!  The Meista here rocking out with "Difficult To Cure" by Rainbow and a Rice For The Cure from Bewilder Brewing!  Hell yeah!!

Album Info:

• Artist: Rainbow
• Title: "Difficult To Cure"
• Recorded: 1980 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark and Kingdom Sound Studios in Long Island, New York 
• Release date: February 3rd, 1981 (5th full-length studio release by Rainbow)
• Record company: Polydor Records 
• Production: Roger Glover
• Album cover art: Hipgnosis 
• Personnel: Don Airey (keyboards), Ritchie Blackmore (guitars), Roger Glover (bass), Bob Rondinelli (drums), and Joe Lynn Turner (vocals)
• Musical style: Hard rock, power pop
• Sound: More polished and more commercial than the earlier Rainbow albums, "Difficult To Cure" still packs a rockin' punch and provides some incredible guitar riffs, powerful rhythms, soaring keys, and the amazing vocal talents of a very young Joe Lynn Turner!
• Major themes: Rock and roll, relationships, love, freedom, rebellion, etc.
• Tracks: 
  

1. "I Surrender"
2. "Spotlight Kid"
3. "No Release"
4. "Magic"
5. "Vielleicht Das Nächste Mal (Maybe Next Time)"
6. "Can't Happen Here"
7. "Freedom Fighter"
8. "Midtown Tunnel Vision"
9. "Difficult To Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)"

 Brew Info:

• Brewery: Bewilder Brewing Company (Salt Lake City, Utah) 
• Website: https://bewilderbrewing.com/
• Brew: Rice For The Cure
• Style: Japanese-style Rice Lager
• Serving: 16 ounce can
• ABV: 4.9%
• IBUs: 14 
• Pour: The Rice For The Cure pours a clear, pale-yellow hue with a half finger, bright white, frothy head that slowly dissipates to a thin ring.
• Nose: The nose is grainy, malty, bready, floral, and slightly sweet.  There are aromas of steamed rice, grassy and slightly spicy hops, wildflowers, barley, toasted bread, and crackery biscuit.
• Taste: Following the nose, the taste of the Rice For The Cure is a well-balanced blend of grassy hops and slightly sweet malts.  There are notes of rice cakes, crackery biscuit, light barley, toasted bread, light grassy hops, and very soft caramel/toffee.
• Mouthfeel: Light-bodied and well carbonated, the mouthfeel is very crisp and smooth with a dry, clean finish.
• Note: A portion of the proceeds from the Rice For The Cure go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Overall pairing: The fun, fast-paced, polished hard rock sound of 1980s Rainbow deserves a bright, crushable brew... thus the delightful and very drinkable Rice For The Cure from the fine folks at Bewilder Brewing!  'Nuff said!

Rock on!!