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Beer Review – St Eriks Pompona Porter

Beer Review – St Eriks Pompona Porter

A Porter. A collaboration between brewer Jessica Heidrich and Galatea. Available between 1st September – 14th November or while stocks last. 5.4% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 11409-03. Price 19.90SEK (330ml bottle) Look A delicious looking dark dark brown porter with a thick, clingy cappuccino-coloured head. If you count the bottle too (which has been embellished [...]

Beer Review – Jämtlands Hell

Beer Review – Jämtlands Hell

A Premium Lager From Jämtlands Bryggeri (with a little help from Oliver Twist and Akkurat in Stockholm) 5.1% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 11460. Price 22.80SEK (500ml bottle) Light copper colour with a typical lager-looking head that fades quite quickly. One word. Butter. It’s a though someone has melted a packet of Bregott into my glass. [...]

Beer Review – Guinness Extra Stout

Beer Review – Guinness Extra Stout

A Stout Brewed by St James Gate (Diageo) 5% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 1561. Price 16.50. (330ml bottle) Is there a more instantly recognisable beer pour in the world than this one? Guinness is iconic because of its colour and the 'cascade' effect when it is poured that causes it to shape-shift from creamy vanilla [...]

Beer Review – Avery New World Porter

Beer Review – Avery New World Porter

A porter Avery Brewery Company, Colorada, USA 6.7% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 11738. 26.40 SEK (355ml bottle) This is a pretty looking porter with a dense black body (actually hold it up to the light and it's deep, deep brown with a splash of red wine colour) under a compact, fluffy mud brown head. Oh [...]

Beer Review – Nils Oscar Harvest Ale

Beer Review – Nils Oscar Harvest Ale

An Amber Ale Nils Oscar Bryggeri, Nyköping 5.5% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 11424. Price 26.90SEK (500ml bottle) I was taken off-guard by the colour of this beer, incorrectly (as it turned out) thinking this would be a rich yellow colour like a field of Autumn barley. As it turns out it is amber-red and has [...]

Beer Review – Dugges Lager No 1

Beer Review – Dugges Lager No 1

A Premium Lager Dugges Ale & Porterbryggeri, Gothenburg 4.7% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number 1413. 24.90SEK (500ml bottle) This lager has a rich golden amber body (far more colour than a standard macro lager) and topped with a 'bubble bath' white head that recedes quite quickly but what's left sticks to the glass stubbornly. To look [...]

Beer Review – Mohawk Barley Wine

Beer Review – Mohawk Barley Wine

A Barley Wine A colloboration between Wicked Wine and Stefan Gustavsson. Brewed at Sigtuna Brygghus. 10.5% ABV - Systembolaget Article Number TBC. 36.40 SEK (330ml bottle) Reassuring burst of CO2 upon opening. Cloudy cognac colour under a roasted corn-coloured head that quickly evaporates. There's an intriguing deep amber/red tinge to it. It looks old - [...]

Spanish Beer ‘hecho en China’

Spanish Beer ‘hecho en China’

If you’ve ever wandered around one of those variety ‘value’ stores (as they like to call themselves) such as ÖB or Dollar Store in Sweden you’ll probably have come out of it clutching a thin plastic bag full of what you hope will be a bargain but what you really know will be a complete [...]

Beer Review – Närke Stormaktsporter 2008

Beer Review – Närke Stormaktsporter 2008

An Imperial Porter Närke Kulturbryggeri, Örebro, Sweden 9.5% ABV. A 250ml bottle that is not available at Systembolaget but through selected bars only. As dark as an afternoon in northern Sweden in the depths of winter this beer is simply spectacular to look at in the glass. With most other beers a casual glance is [...]

Beer is Like a Box of Chocolates

Beer is Like a Box of Chocolates

If Halmstad Sommar Lager was a film character it would be Forest Gump. A little simple but full of a naive enthusiasm you simply can’t help but like. On the surface it’s very plain to look at. The bottle label is all shiny and cheap looking, as though it was designed as a last-minute homework [...]

Watch out Wine Loverschh* Umeå Beer Club Starting Up Soon!

Watch out Wine Loverschh* Umeå Beer Club Starting Up Soon!

03 september 2010

Do you prefer the grape to the grain? Are you bowled over by Bordeaux but pass when it comes to pilsner? Then write this date down in your diary – Saturday, September 18th – the day when I’ll attempt to change the way you think about the worlds two favourite alcoholic drinks forever. Now I [...]

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A Tale of Two Pubs

A Tale of Two Pubs

02 september 2010

Monks Porter House and Pubologi are two new beer places that have just opened within stone throwing distance of each other in Stockholm’s picturesque Gamla Stan. Monks Porter House is the latest addition to the Monk ‘cloister cluster’ of pubs in the Swedish capital and is housed in an imposing 16th century listed building on [...]

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Super-size your Beer

Super-size your Beer

01 september 2010

Right now it’s Hop Week at the Bishops Arms in Folkungagatan where you can order your beer with an extra side order of hops! Until Saturday September 4th the team at one of the BA’s most beer friendly pubs will be giving you the chance to super-size your beer by infusing it with hops of [...]

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The Birth of a Beer

The Birth of a Beer

31 augusti 2010

I’ve been privileged to see the birth of a new beer this morning. Lots more to follow. Share and Enjoy:

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Gone Fishing (well drinking)

Gone Fishing (well drinking)

31 augusti 2010

I’m currently in the UK brewing a very special beer along with the guys from one of Sweden’s best beer bars – Akkurat in Stockholm! That’s why it’s just a little bit quieter round here than normal but rest assured I’m collecting lots of film footage and stories of our time here in England and [...]

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Oktober in September

Oktober in September

28 augusti 2010

On September 1st something pretty amazing happens in the beer world in Sweden because that’s the day September turns into October and stays that way until Christmas. Next Wednesday marks the annual release of Oktoberfest beers at the Systembolaget and this year you’re being really spoilt for choice with no fewer than 12 Oktoberfest beers [...]

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Britain and Bubble Wrap

Britain and Bubble Wrap

26 augusti 2010

It’s time once again to dig out the suitcase, pack more bubble wrap* than clothes and turn every drawer in the house upside down in a frantic last minute search for my passport because I’m off on yet another beery adventure! This time I’m headed back to the UK (with the fuzzy memories of the [...]

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New Rating System Introduced

New Rating System Introduced

25 augusti 2010

Tasting beer is rarely a team effort but rather a very personal pursuit. The way you interpret all those beery aromas and flavours depends entirely on your own unique tasting DNA as well as a raft of other external factors that can easily turn a good beer into a drain-pour or into an drinking experience [...]

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First look at new Innis & Gunn Beers

First look at new Innis & Gunn Beers

20 augusti 2010

In another first for BeerSweden here’s an exclusive peak at the two upcoming Innis & Gunn beers due to be released at the Systembolaget over the next couple of months. First out is Innis & Gunn Highland Cask, an ale that has been matured in casks that held 21-year-old single malt whisky and which goes [...]

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Guest Blogger – Video Review of Pripps Blå India Pale Ace

Guest Blogger – Video Review of Pripps Blå India Pale Ace

20 augusti 2010

. A few days ago I asked you, the ‘thirsty faithful’ to submit your own posts for BeerSweden. The idea is for all of us get involved in creating a beery buzz in this country by uploading original content that you yourself have created. It doesn’t matter if it’s a video, an article, a beer [...]

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