In another first BeerSweden can today reveal the news that Brewdog’s experimental range of Abstrakt ‘concept’ beers will being going on sale in the Systembolaget throughout the remainder of 2010.

The Abstrakt series from BrewDog. It's likely the labels and colouring may change before they get over here to Sweden.

I have been told that all four of the Abstrakt beers will be available to buy through the government alcohol monopoly stores, starting next month (April) with the launch of Abstrakt 1 – a 12.1% ABV vanilla bean infused Belgium Quadruple beer. Details of the remaining 3 concept beers are as follows:

Abstrakt 2 will be released in June and is an Imperial Ale at 10% ABV that has been aged for 12 months in oak casks with strawberries.

Abstrakt 3 will go on sale in September and will be a 16% Tripel Red Ale.

Abstrakt 4 will be available in December and will be their much talked about Tokyo Imperial Stout in Islay casks with raspberries thrown in for good measure.

All four bottles will be bottle conditioned and presented in limited edition, corked, half-size champagne bottles with minimal branding and will only ever be made available once. All four Abstrakt bottles will cost 125 SEK each.

The guys at the acclaimed Scottish microbrewery BrewDog describe the Abstrakt series as an ”outlet for our creativity”.

This from their website: ”BrewDog and Abstrakt will only ever brew and release a beer once.  BrewDog’s Abstrakt is about exciting, progressive and conceptual beers, beer which not only push the boundaries but smash them up completely”.

Exciting stuff indeed! A vanilla bean infused Belgium Quad you say? It seems like BrewDog continues to push the boundaries of beer and it will be interesting to see whether the Systembolaget beer buyers (who must be taking a bit of a punt on this idea) will be smiling come Christmas time. I’ve got a sneaky suspicion they will!

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