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Last of the Mohawk-ans


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.

You thought there were only three Mohawks didn't you? You were wrong!

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”!

”For this autumn Systembolaget wanted to go Old World. The first one they liked is Mohawk Stitch. It is inspired by the strong brown beers that used to be party-gyled (Ed: that means mixed people) from March and October beer in England in the 18th century. Our version is a Brown Porter at 5,3 % abv, made with brown malt, honey and dark sugars.

”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…”.






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