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Worth Making a Meal out of Leo Lager. Primator Premium Dark – One NOT to Forget! Stensbogaard Bryghus English Dark Stout Sotholmen Extra Stout – Missing that little bit ‘extra’? Dugges 1/2 idjit – Normal service resumed
 
Worth Making a Meal out of Leo Lager.

Worth Making a Meal out of Leo Lager.

I remember walking along a beach in Koi Samui in Thailand with my wife-to-be many years ago, the feeling of cool white sand pushing up between our toes and the late evening sun warming our backs. We stopped at one of the beach-side bars, under the shade of a palm leaf roof and ordered a cold [...]

Primator Premium Dark – One NOT to Forget!

Primator Premium Dark – One NOT to Forget!

Isn’t it funny how you can overlook something that’s right there under your nose? I do it all the time. Like snow for example. There’s lots of it up here in the north of Sweden but it took several years before I realised you could actually use it to ski on. The same thing regularly happens to [...]

Stensbogaard Bryghus English Dark Stout

Stensbogaard Bryghus English Dark Stout

We throw the term artisan and craft beer around a lot these days. The boundaries of the term are often stretched by breweries desperate to convey the message that they still personally roll their sleeves up and get involved in the creation of beer rather than leaving it all up to computers, buttons and valves. [...]

Sotholmen Extra Stout – Missing that little bit ‘extra’?

Sotholmen Extra Stout – Missing that little bit ‘extra’?

With breweries producing ever more intense , alcoholic beers these days it’s a welcome relief to see that Nynäshamns Ångbyggeri at least agrees with me that good things can come in little packages. The brewery has fairly recently upgraded its bottling line so that it can handle smaller bottle sizes and Sotholmen Extra Stout is the [...]

Dugges 1/2 idjit – Normal service resumed

Dugges 1/2 idjit – Normal service resumed

It’s time for my second beer from Dugges Ale & Porterbryggeri this week. The first one left me feeling a little flat but my hopes were high for their 1/2 idjit Imperial Porter, the ‘younger brother’ of Dugges floor-kissing’15% ABV Idjit Imperial Stout. At a ‘mere’ 7% ABV 1/2 idjit is still a porter worthy of [...]

Beer Review – Mohawk Extra IPA

Beer Review – Mohawk Extra IPA

09 mars 2010

An India Pale Ale (IPA) A collaboration between Wicked Wine, Stefan Gustavsson and Sigtuna Brygghus 7.5% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number: 1419-01 A crystal clear orange/amber body with a thick, creamy puck of white head. For a beer with 7 - that's right 7 - hop varieties the leafy nose on this beer is predictably huge but not as 'green' [...]

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Beer Sweden Exclusive – Mohawk Extra IPA

Beer Sweden Exclusive – Mohawk Extra IPA

09 mars 2010

Just a few minutes ago a box with two bottles of Mohawk Extra IPA, the tongue-curling 127 IBU (!!!!) brainchild of Sigtuna Brygghus, Wicked Wine and Stefan Gustavsson arrived at BeerSweden HQ. In yet another exclusive BeerSweden is the first blog to get it’s hands on a review bottle of this insane beer that will be [...]

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Beer review – Ichtegems Grand Cru (Cuvée 2007)

Beer review – Ichtegems Grand Cru (Cuvée 2007)

08 mars 2010

A Flemish Red/Sour Ale Brouwerij Strubbe in Belgium 6.5% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 11719. 59.50 SEK (750ml bottle) A 'rummy' looking colour with a cloudy body and red tinge under a thin tan head. OMG (Oak My God)! There's so much toasted oak nose on this beer I could swear someone's slipped some New World Chardonnay into it. Underneath [...]

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Latest News from Oceanbryggeriet

Latest News from Oceanbryggeriet

08 mars 2010

Whenever I feel like drinking a beer that reminds me of being back ‘home’ in England I turn to Oceanbryggeriet, a Swedish micro that holds true to British styles of beer rather than constantly treading the more trendy American path. I just got this email from Ocean’s head brewer Thomas Bingebo with news on what’s coming [...]

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Beertography Competition

Beertography Competition

08 mars 2010

*I’m bumping up this article that I posted yesterday as I can see from Google Analytics that a lot of BS readers spend more time drinking beer (or recovering from the effects of it!) than reading about it on a Sunday.* They say a picture says a thousand words. I’d like to think a picture can [...]

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Beer Review – BASHAH

Beer Review – BASHAH

07 mars 2010

A Black Belgium-style Double IPA. Yes, you read that right. Stone Brewing from the US and BrewDog from Scotland 8.6% ABV. Systembolget Article Number 11726. 38.40 SEK (330ml bottle) For those of you that don't know BASHAH is an acronym that stands for Black As S@*t Hoppy As Hell. Couldn't really have put it better myself. Pitch black [...]

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Sigtuna ESB – Fuller’s Responds

Sigtuna ESB – Fuller’s Responds

05 mars 2010

A few days ago BeerSweden broke the news that UK brewery Fuller’s had threatened legal action against Swedish microbrewery Sigtuna Brygghus unless it removed the acronym ESB from bottles of its ESB Extra Sigtuna Bitter. BeerSweden contacted Fuller’s to ask for their side of the story and the brewery’s Export Controller Michael Campbell-Lamerton issued the following [...]

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Beer Review – Schneider Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock

Beer Review – Schneider Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock

05 mars 2010

An Eisbock (Ice beer) / wheat beer mash-up Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn, Germany 12% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 11725. 31.90 SEK (330ml bottle) This is a wheat beer where the yeast remains in the bottle suspended in the beer itself. This means it's going to be cloudy so don't worry - you haven't got a dud one! [...]

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Beer is Art #2

Beer is Art #2

05 mars 2010

Took this picture on the way to the office this morning of a bottle of BASHAH, the beer I’m going to be reviewing tonight. Check back later today for details of an exciting new BeerSweden competition which involves beer, cameras and beery prizes. More soon!

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Beer is Beauty. Beer is Passion. Beer is Art.

Beer is Beauty. Beer is Passion. Beer is Art.

04 mars 2010

. I was feeling a little bit arty and creative today so thought I’d take a slightly different kind of picture of the beer I’m going to be reviewing tonight. Beauty really is in the eye of the beer-holder isn’t it!

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