It’s that time again. Tomorrow sees the release of 15 new beers at the Systembolaget stores, including several brands jostling for position to become your favourite fridge beer this summer.

Eleven of these beers are being released on a nationwide scale and will be available to pluck from the shelves at 10am in the morning. Four of them are a little more ‘exclusive’ (and consequently more expensive) and are only being stocked in around 30 stores so you might just need to order them in.

Here’s a list of the more widely available brands hitting the shelves:

And here’s those ‘harder to get hold off’ beers:

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I feel like dusting down my crocs and digging out my shorts when I read some of these names. Sigtuna Sommar Wit is summer in a bottle, Mohawk Summer IPA is a solid (if not spectacular) beer that will be in my hand when I’m BBQ-ing and Oppigård’s Summer Twist is destined, in my opinion, to become almost as folkkär as the brewery’s stupendous Amarillo Spring.

It will be fascinating to see if Jessica Heidrich’s summer sequel to St Erik’s Pilsner (you know, the beer in that bottle) is as hoppy and aromatic as the first and I’m curious to discover if Sleeping Bulldog has the bite a respectable IPA should have, or whether we should just let sleeping bulldogs lie.

Of course don’t forget Oppigårds’ ‘other’ beer, the grassy lager Slåtteröl or the big Mai-Ur-bock from Einbecker.

Probably the beer set to become the biggest seller of them all is Pistonhead Summer Brew. At just 10.90SEK and delivered in an eye-catching flaming skull can it certainly ticks the two largest boxes for commercial success. I’m really hoping it will be a bit more beer and a little less brand than the first Pistonhead. Fingers crossed.

Of the ‘harder to find beers’ the stand-outs are both American and both huge hop-bombs. Dugan A from Avery Brewing Co and Alesmith IPA from the Alesmith Brewing Company are certainly not beers for those looking for ‘light refreshment’ while mowing the lawn but they could be something to treat yourself to a little later on while watching the summer sun bounce down and back up again on the horizon.