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:
- "I Surrender"
- "Spotlight Kid"
- "No Release"
- "Magic"
- "Vielleicht Das Nächste Mal (Maybe Next Time)"
- "Can't Happen Here"
- "Freedom Fighter"
- "Midtown Tunnel Vision"
- "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!!
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