Time, as they say,  certainly does fly when you’re having fun! It’s been a little under 9 months since BeerSweden quietly arrived on the Swedish beer blogging scene. Now, 300 posts later, I’m proud to say we’re well on the way to creating the most exciting – and definitely the smartest and most attractive – online community of beer enthusiasts in this country!

It’s been one hell of a ride so far hasn’t it? Interviews with brewing stars, Beer is Art, brewery visits, BeerSweden TV, live Facebook tastings, competitions, volcanoes and exclusive tastings are just some of the beery highlights of the last nine months that spring immediately to mind.

But don’t for one minute think we’re sitting back with a cold beer and our feet on the table here at BS HQ – far from it! We’re looking forward to creating a heap of original new content and of finding new, ground-breaking ways of exploring the exciting world of beer in this country.

Of course none of this could have not been possible without all of you who follow this blog day in, week out. It’s your comments and enthusiasm that fuel this site so a massive beers and cheers to each and every one of you (yes, even you lurkers!)

One of the my main ambitions with BeerSweden has been to make it as interactive as possible – to give you the opportunity to get involved in beer in a very real way. I can’t think of a better example of this than earlier this week when Swedish microbrewery Sigtuna Brygghus gave the BeerSweden community the chance to vote for its favourite label design for its upcoming Black October beer.

The results are now in and are as follows: (a) got just 7% of the votes, (c) polled a respectable 32% but the winner and the label you’ll all be seeing on bottles of Sigtuna Black October come September is (b) with 61% of the total votes.

Thanks to everyone who voted!