SBWF Live Report II:nd week: The Beers…

1. Nogne IPA (d)
2. Lake Placid Ubu Ale, NY (b)
3. Sigtuna Black October (d)
4. Bruton Lilith (b)
5. Rogue Brutal Bitter (d)
6. Teerenpeli Hippaheikki Bitter (d)
7. Lakefront IPA, WI (b) (NEW from Galatea)
8. Flyging Dog Gonzo Special Hops Imperial Stout (handpump\cask)
9. Rogue Brutal Bitter (d)
10. Kaggen Stormakts Porter 2006 (b)
11. Kaggen Stormakts Porter 2007 (d)
12. Dugges 1/2 Idjit (d) (Todays winner)

SBWF Live Report: The Beers…

1. Gotland Bryggeri Sitting Bull Dog IPA

2. Butte Creek Brewing Organic IPA

3. Butte Creek Brewing Organic Pale Ale

4. Nils Oscar God Ale (NEW)

5. Brouwerij De Molen Bloed Zweet & Trancen

6. Sigtuna Brygghus IPA

7. Sigtuna Brygghus Red Ale (a hops bomb) (My No. 1)

8. Rogue Shakespear Stout

9. Butte Creek Organic Porter.

10. Lost Abbey Serpent Stout

11. Butte Creek Organic Pale Ale

12. BrewDog Bashah (cask conditioned) (Amazing beer done together with Stone)

13. Lagunitas A Little Sumpin' Extra! Ale

SBWF Live Report 2009

Hi, seems I have been located in a very warm place (under the spotlights) at Stockholm Beer and Whiskey Festival and the OT VIP corner.

Tricky to report any big details, anyway the top things right now include;

1. The Brewdog booth where they served the beer brewed together with Stone. Yes, it was great. Also fun to see one of the brewers visiting the festival. Always fun when SBWF gets the proper attention it deserves.

2. The new initiative from Gotlands Bryggeriet (owned by Spendrups) where they are playing around with IPAs and Pale Ales. Also fun to see that they have understood the importance of dogs together with breweries, i.e. beer labels including names like Wisby Sleepy Bulldog Pale Ale.

3. The Kaggen 2005-2008 collection of taps at Bishop Arms.

4. The Butte Creek organic brewery booth. Really fun to see that a American brewery have come all the way to Sweden to show their beers.

5. The beer provided by OT, as always amazing.

6. A new brewer and new beers from Sigtuna Brewhouse. The new Red Ale with late added hops were simply amazing and a good restart for this brewery. Until now the beers have been traditional and well balanced, but in my taste very boring, but now it seems we can see more imitative that is at least once or twice are outside the borders. Good luck, now we hopefully we can look forward for a couple of great IPA or DIPAs.

MY_BEER_DIARY #6: 2009-09-10@Oliver Twist

1. Rudgate Jorvik Blonde (c)
2. Rudgate Battle Axe (c)
3. Port Brewing WipeOut I.P.A (b)

Did not the chance to sample any of the Ruby Mild (this years best beer award at Great British Beer Festival) but OT had instead 2 other beers from the Rudgate brewery. This was quite a busy day at OT when visited last Thursday. Seems a lot of people have come down to enjoy one of the last summer evenings, you sort of forget that September can be quite nice in Stockholm. Hope it can last at least a couple of more days.

 

( c = cask\handpump, d = draught, b = bottle, cn = can)

Some exiting beers and breweries coming to Systembolaget

15 September:
Southern Tier Hoppe 8,0% 65 cl
Southern Tier UnEarthly 11,0% 65 cl

2 November:
Haandbryggeriet Norwegian Wood 6,5% 50 cl
Haandbryggeriet Ardenne Blond 7,5% 50 cl
Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel 10,9% 50 cl

16 November:
Nøgne Ø Underlig Jul 6,5% 50 cl
Ayinger Winter-Bock 6,7% 50 cl
Mikkeller Fra____ Till____
Three Floyd & Mikkeller Oatgoop 10,4% 65 cl
Haandbryggeriet Haandbakk 7,0% 50 cl
Haandbryggeriet Dark Force 9,0% 50 cl
Lost Abbey Judgment Day 10,5% 75 cl
Lost Abbey Inferno 8,5% 75 cl
Port Brewing Old Viscosity 10,0% 65 cl

MY_BEER_DIARY #5: 2009-09-05@Monks Cafe

The latest beer report, now coming from Monks Cafe (@Wallingatan), surprise surprise. It actually worked out very well this time as every beer asked for actually existed. So this time it is possible to say Cheers and a big thank you very much for all the beer experience today.

1. SKA Brewing Buster Nut Brown Ale (b)
2. Big Sky Scape Goat Pale Ale (b)
3. Great Lakes Brewing Commodore Perry IPA (b)
4. SKA Decadent Imperial IPA (b)
5. Port Brewing Old Viscosity Ale (b)

Best beer?, well I can not help myself to simply say that Port Brewing rules in this compilation.

 

( c = cask\handpump, d = draught, b = bottle, cn = can)

MY_BEER_DIARY #4: 2009-08-29@OT

1. Triple FFF Rat & Warthog (c)
2. Smuttynose IPA (d)
3. Great Divide Fresh Hops Pale Ale (b)

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@Akkurat

1. Skebo Bruksöl (c)

79 US-breweries & 453 different beers at Monks

I guess the news about Monks bar in Stockholm to be serving 453 different beers from 79 US-breweries from Sept 1th is some kind of record (must be, at least in a bar).

The complete list is specified below and from the list its surely some interesting breweries that I have been thinking about trying, including Big Sky Brewing and SKA brewing.

The news is at least that they will have bottles from all these breweries from Sept 1th connected to their biggest US beer festival and guest beer list ever (the initial goal was 500 beer). Do not know if this includes both locations in Stockholm, but I guess that would be the case.

 

1. Abita Brewing Company
2. Allagash Brewing Company
3. Anchor Brewing Company
4. Anderson Valley Brewing Company
5. Anheuser-Busch InBev
6. Arcadia Brewing Company
7. Avery Brewing Company
8. Barley Island Brewing
9. Bear Republic Brewing Company
10. Bells Brewery
11. Big Sky Brewing Company
12. Black Mountain Brewing Co.
13. Boston Beer Company
14. Boulder Beer Company
15. Breckenridge Brewery
16. Brooklyn Brewery
17. Brownings Brewery
18. Buffalo Bills Brewery
19. Capital Brewery
20. City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
21. Coors Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
22. Dark Horse Brewing Company
23. Dogfish Head Brewery
24. Eugene City Brewery & Rogue Ales
25. Flying Dog Brewery
26. Founders Brewing Company
27. Goose Island Beer Company
28. Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
29. Great Divide Brewing Company
30. Great Lakes Brewing Company
31. Half Acre Brewery
32. Harpoon Brewery
33. High Falls Brewing Company
34. Hoppin Frog
35. Iron City Brewing
36. Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales
37. Lagunitas Brewing Company
38. Lakefront Brewery
39. Left Hand Brewing Co.
40. Leinenkugel Brewing Company
41. Lion Brewery, Inc.
42. Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
43. Magic Hat Brewing Company
44. Matt Brewing Company
45. Mendocino Brewing Company
46. Metropolitan Brewing
47. Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
48. Minhas Craft Brewery
49. Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
50. New Belgium Brewing Company
51. New Holland Brewing Company
52. North Coast Brewing Company
53. O'Fallon Brewery
54. Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
55. Ommegang Brewery (Moortgat)
56. Otter Creek Brewing
57. Pipeworks Brewing Co.
58. Port Brewing/Lost Abbey
59. Pyramid Breweries Inc.
60. Redhook Brewery
61. Rogue Ales
62. Sand Creek Brewing Co.
63. Sea Dog Brewing
64. Shipyard Brewing Company
65. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
66. SKA Brewing
67. Southampton Publick House
68. Southern Star Brewing Co.
69. Southern Tier Brewing Company
70. Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
71. Sprecher Brewing Company
72. Stevens Point Brewery
73. Stone Brewing Co.
74. Sudwerk Privatbrauerei Hubsch
75. Summit Station Restaurant & Brewery
76. Three Floyds Brewing Company
77. Two Brothers Brewing Company
78. Tyranena Brewing
79. Victory Brewing Company

So I guess its time to give Monks a new visit in a close future. Hopefully the list above actually means that the beers are available in real life. Simply if you are a bit frank I really hope that this do NOT mean that 453 beers means just a couple of bottles per beer, that has been the case before.

Because if that would be the case again you can really question what the purpose is, except to be able to impress the public with nice numbers. To be serious (and this time it truly looks amazing) if this is a hit it need to mean that you have the chance to get what you want and when asked for during a visit. I understand that beers from the US are limited and will be out of stock during the coming weeks, but seriously if a beer is only available with 2-3 bottles it does not matter if the list is impressive, it is still just a nice facade and nothing visit or recommend.

Enough with complaints- I will give it a chance and recommend others to come, and I hope all the luck to Monks that this is a true success that will make all US-craft beers in Stockholm happy and satisfied.

I at least already have a short list building up that I want to test.’

If interested here is the complete list of beer from each brewery; Monks US Guest Beers.

Its Tuesday with World Wide Stout

Thanks Sam and Dogfish Head to be able to lighten up a boring and normal workday Tuesday. What can be better then simply deciding that you deserve a beer from the “cellar” and decides that what about World Wide Stout 06? When is it a better then a day you just feel for it?, you simply can never find the perfect day or occasion anyway.

I really enjoyed the Bruery’s Black Tuesday and is trying to figure out how to get myself a bottle over to Sweden when it comes out in October, but really the WWS is still the champion!, and I will survive as long the bottles do not end (still have 6 bottles left).

It simply reminds me that it is really not so long until its time for the BA Extreme Beer Fest in Boston again so that you can get a chance to drink some World Wide Stout on pitcher, the trip just needs to be planned.

Now I need to give the beer my full attention again as it deserves.

Cheers Sam.

A record in serving beers from Stone Brewery

Life is really unfair sometimes when see that Stone seems to try to break some kind of record during the 13th Anniversary party.

Its a great treat for us here in Stockholm when ONE bottle of Stone is available in a good beer bar near you, and its a real beer party when you get the chance to have a Arrogant B. or Ruination on draught. But when you see the following list of beers from Stone over at the 13th anniversary party you almost start to cry of envy.

“Stone Brewing Co standard”

1. Stone Smoked Porter

2. Arrogant Bastard Ale

3. OAKED Arrogant Bastard Ale

4. Stone Cali-Belgique IPA

5. Stone Smoked Porter with Vanilla Beans

6. Stone 13th Anniversary Ale

“Stone “Collaborations” Booth”

7. AleSmith/Mikkeller/Stone Belgian Style Triple Ale
8. BrewDog/Cambridge/Stone Juxtaposition Black Pilsner
9. Ken Schmidt/Maui/Stone Kona Coee, Macadamia, Coconut

10. Porter Stone 13th Anniversary Ale

“Stone Handpump Station”

11. Stone IPA with Simcoe and Amarillo hops
12. Stone IPA with Centennial hops
13. Stone Cali-Belgique IPA with French Oak
14. Stone Smoked Porter with Chipotle Peppers
15. Stone Smoked Porter with Vanilla Beans
16. Arrogant Bastard Ale with American Oak
17. 13th Anv.Ale with Columbus hops
18. 13th Anv.Ale with Amarillo hops
19. 13th Anv.Ale with Simcoe hops

 

19 in total! Is that a record or?

Anyway I hope everyone joining this party have a great time, cheers to all you bastards. Myself can only wonder what a Stone IPA with Simcoe and Amarillo hops would be, I guess great, sigh.

MY_BEER_DIARY #3: 2009-08-21@OT

“Oliver Twist (OT)”:

1.	Triple FFF Alton's Pride (c)
2.	Sly Fox Phoenix Pale Ale (can)
3.	Two Brothers The Bitter End Pale Ale (b)
4.	Long Trail Double Bag (b)
5.	Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA (b)

 

Great to see that Long Trail brewery has founds its way over to Sweden and OT. We found this a very nice brewery in Vermont during our trip to New England last year. They do not do monster or master piece beers, instead its traditional styled beers with very good balance and variety. More in the English tradition compared to the more alpha hoppy variants many US brewers tend to stick with.

Also it was nice to see that OT has finally convinced the brewers that also the Pale Ale styled beers travel well, at least if you drink them early. Before the beer bottle batches from the US have almost 100% been stronger beers in ABV and high in the hoppinies, with styles like DIPA, Imperial Stouts or Barley Wines. So you sort of miss the more softer and balanced Pale Ales that you enjoy so much during the beer trips to the US. Finally it was nice to see several examples, including the Two Brothers and Sly Fox examples, instead of the monster beers we have had before from those breweries.

Then of course I could not help myself and ended the night with one of the better beers in the world, i.e. the Double Simcoe IPA from Weyerbacher, Simply amazing.