Imagine for a moment you are Daniel Craig and you’ve just returned home exhausted after a day battling megalomaniac Russian spy masters, escaping from impossible-to-escape situations, luring a harem of beautiful women into bed and saving the world with little more than good looks and a high-tech ballpoint pen.

You hang up your fitted Hugo Boss suit jacket, kick off your hand-made Italian leather shoes and slump down into your favourite armchair. It’s time for a drink but you really can’t stomach another vodka Martini however much it’s shaken and not stirred.

Perhaps it’s time for something a little lighter and altogether more refreshing. A beer that manages to deliver great taste but still leaves you clear-headed enough to crack the toughest of codes. A beer that goes by the name of Bond – Klövsjö Bond.

Having stretched this tenuous link almost to breaking point I should explain that this particular Bond has nothing at all to do with Ian Fleming’s iconic creation and more to do with an old barn that was once full of cows.

Bond Ale is one of the first beers to be produced by Klövsjö Gårdsbryggeri in a renovated barn on a farm in the pretty village of Klövsjö. Farmer turned brewer Jan Zakrisson is the man behind KGB (could there be a more fitting acronym?) who is now putting his 20 years of home brewing experience into good use.

Jan opened for business in January this year and supplies the local market with two lättöl (low alcohol beers); Klövsjöbryggd, a British inspired ale that uses four different types of malt and a sprinkle of brown sugar and Bond Ale*, a lighter version flavoured with locally harvested honey and a generous portion of Amarillo hops to give it a citrus twist.

For a beer of just 2.25 %ABV Bond Ale is impressively tasty, with honey and lemon flavours combining on the nose and in the mouth to deliver a crisp, revitalising beer that’s the definition of thirst quenching.

A little while ago I reviewed BrewDog’s Nanny State and said it was the most interesting low-alcohol drink available in Sweden right now. It may well still be, but Klövsjö’s Bond Ale is undoubtedly the most balanced, complete beer of the two.

A huge thanks to BeerSweden loyalist (and sometimes guest blogger) Peter for sending a couple of bottles up to me. I’m not entirely sure where you can get hold of this beer (I assume living local helps) but if you ever spy it then buy it.

*The ‘Bond’ in question is I believe a reference to the Swedish word Bonde which means farmer.