Posted on 18 mars 2010. Tags: beertography, competition, Mohawk Extra IPA
We are now only a few days away from deciding the winner of the first ever BeerSweden Beertography competition.
The stroke of midnight on Sunday, March 21st is the absolute deadline for entries, so if you’ve got any beery pictures lurking around in your hardrive now is the time to finally put them to good use for the chance to win some funky beer glassware from those jolly nice chaps over at Wicked Wine (who despite the company name also love their beers!)
I’ve already received lots of photos from budding beertographers throughout Sweden and the standard is pretty high so please keep them coming in!
If you haven’t already got any beery pictures then just grab a bottle, your camera and take one! As way of inspiration here’s a beertography shot I took a few minutes ago (although I seriously wouldn’t recommend drinking Mohawk Extra IPA in the sauna – the combination of perspiration and extreme levels of hoppy beer would probably leave you looking like this).
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Good luck!
(ps: Send your photos to me at darren@beersweden.se no later than midnight on Sunday, March 21st! This particular competition is only open to people living in Sweden).
Posted in Competitions
Posted on 09 mars 2010. Tags: Mohawk Extra IPA, Review, Stefan Gustavsson, Wicked Wine
An India Pale Ale (IPA)
A collaboration between Wicked Wine, Stefan Gustavsson and Sigtuna Brygghus
7.5% ABV. Systembolaget Article Number: 1419-01
A crystal clear orange/amber body with a thick, creamy puck of white head.
For a beer with 7 - that's right 7 - hop varieties the leafy nose on this beer is predictably huge but not as 'green' and fresh as in Amarillo Spring (another Swedish hop fav of mine). They're more thick, more musty and heavy hitting. Put it this way, if I was to put Mohawk in the ring with Amarillo Spring Mohawk would be George Foreman and AS would be Ali. Loads of spicy orange marmalade and a dash of that lime chutney you get with your popodoms at Indian restaurants. Surprisingly sweet malt smells coming through too.
There's not as much lemon/pineapple vibes as I would expect considering the abundance of US hop varieties. It's more spicy marmalade, some tropical fruit juice and then the hops, oh boy those hops come crashing in. I'm not talking fresh hop cones here but more intense, acidic, bitter hop pellets. Anyone who's chewed on one of these on a brewery tour will know exactly what I mean. This really needed every decimal point of its 7.5% ABV to carry off such a wild level of hop intensity.
With such an intense IPA you're going to need a dish with intense flavours to stand up to it. I mentioned some Indian spice and think this would meld perfectly with a spicy Indian meal.
Nerd note
IBUs (International Bitterness Units) are measured on a scale from 1-100, after which your tongue normally raises the white flag. That's what makes this beer so intriguing, because on paper it just shouldn't work but somehow the guys behind it have managed to make a 127 IBU beer smooth and drinkable. If you think you can handle your hops then you're going to love this!
Posted in Beer Reviews
Posted on 09 mars 2010. Tags: Mohawk Extra IPA, Review, Sigtuna, Stefan Gustavsson, Wicked Wine
Just a few minutes ago a box with two bottles of Mohawk Extra IPA, the tongue-curling 127 IBU (!!!!) brainchild of Sigtuna Brygghus, Wicked Wine and Stefan Gustavsson arrived at BeerSweden HQ.
In yet another exclusive BeerSweden is the first blog to get it’s hands on a review bottle of this insane beer that will be released at the Systembolaget later this month. Check back a little later today to see my full review on what promises to be a very interesting drinking experience indeed.
Can it really be 127 IBUs? Is that possible? Is it legal? Find out right here on BeerSweden in the next few hours………….
UPDATE – an impromptu ‘live’ tasting of this beer is currently taking place over at the BeerSweden fanpage at Facebook. See the minute-by-minute tasting here!
Posted in The Beervine
The stroke of midnight on Sunday, March 21st is the absolute deadline for entries, so if you’ve got any beery pictures lurking around in your hardrive now is the time to finally put them to good use for the chance to win some funky beer glassware from those jolly nice chaps over at Wicked Wine (who despite the company name also love their beers!)
