It’s a great headline isn’t it? In fact I can just picture it strapping the front page of the infamous tattle-trading English newspaper The Sun, famous for such unforgettable tabloid headlines like OBAMA LAMA DING DONG (used above a story covering the meeting of President Obama and the Dalai Lama) and I’M ONLY HERE FOR DE BEERS, printed the day after thieves attempted to steal a De Beers diamond from London’s Millennium Dome.
I feel a bit like one of those fanatical Star Wars fans just after they found out that the first three films they had worshipped and committed line-by-line to memory over the last 16 years were not, in fact, the entire story but there was actually quite a lot more Mr Lucas had been holding back. The cheeky little peko-peko.
But in keeping with the tabloid philosophy of never letting facts get in the way of a good story headline I’m using it anyway, as it was generally accepted this was going to be a beer trilogy until the man behind the Mohawks, gypsy brewer Stefan Gustavsson jumped into a debate on BeerSweden’s Facebook page the other day to tell me otherwise.
Lamenting the last of the Mohawk-ans (it’s so good I used it twice) he replied: ”Don’t worry Darren. You will see more Mohawk in September”!
”The second one is … More Mohawk Barley Wine (Ed: oh I like that!!). This one is modelled on a recipe for an Imperial Ale made in Scotland in 1835. It is made with mostly pale malt and huge amounts of classic English hops to an abv of 10,5 % and around 90 IBU. I suspect that it will age well for a few years.
”I think I will keep the third one a secret for a while yet…”.






A Barley Wine style Mohawk? Can’t wait! Also, thanks for a fantastic blog.
There it is. The very nerdy beer association names/headlines that only a true beer lover can come up with. That is in fact what they really should call their last Mohawk.
Do you think I can own the copyright on that one?
Thanks Sjökvistarn! Glad you like it here. Come back often!