April news at Akkurat

You might not always notice these lists outside Akkurat (if you are not a smoker also, :-)). But anyway here is the planned list for Akkurat in April. And if you have missed it, Akkurat is one of the best pubs/bars in Sweden and probably the world (beeradvocate rating).

Something to look forward for?, well Harviestoun always marks out the coming of spring and summer together with Dark Star, and what about some Avery Reverand on draught (now when the list is getting to the end at Oliver Twist, it is time for Akkurat to strike back, :-) ).

Närke Beer Festival at Akkurat

(Quote based and translated on information from bk);

"Akkurat as the first bar in the world will have a small "Närkefestival" and will have up to 12 draft beers with up to 7 different served simultaneously. This will start on Thursday Jan 24 at 17.00 & will continue as long as beers is available.

The beer from Närke Kulturbryggeri will be;

1. !
2. Anders Göranssons Bästa Rököl
3. Black Goldings
4. Närke Sim-Ko
5. Kll’n v f n d’vill
6. Riktigt Jävla Mörker (Cask)
7. Riktig Örebro Styrian Bitter (Cask)
8. Örebro Bitter
9. Närke Slättöl
10. Närke Mörker
11. Max Goldings 2007
12. Stormaktsporter 2005!!! "

This seems to be a great initiative from the world famous beer bar in Stockholm and with a brewery that is getting better and better during the years. Örebro Bitter is a classic beer now, anyway feels like it. And the latest US-inspired beers of Sim-Ko and Kll’n v f n d’vill are both really quality and fun beers.

Damn, of course it seems that I will miss this event due to work and a planned trip to Åre. Well I hope those that can get there on Thursday will have a great time.

The return of the Rocky Mountain IPA outside Fort Collins

The attentive reader of my blog maybe remembers that I talked about a very small brewery outside Fort Collins that we visited during the GABF week in October.

The name is Fort Collins Brewery and they are producing a bunch of great brews, which is a great achievement for such a tiny brewery (5000 barrels).

The fun part about this was that they were a bit surprised that the IPA had been served outside Fort Collins, and outside Colorado, and even outside the USA, and not just the bottle!

Because the beer that was a couple of months old as a product was served both on bottle and even a draught version was served over at my local pub in Stockholm, Sweden, here is the proof; The OT US-draught list.

And now this strange and fun story continues, because today the Rocky Mountain IPA was served on draught for the second time outside the US (at least to my knowledge) and at a other location over at Akkurat.

And to be even more fun it was now served with a proper and genuin pump clip. The clip was brought directly by myself from the brewery during our visit to the tap room and was later delivered to "Rille" over at Akkurat during the Friday beer run.

He had built his own pump clip, but was very satisfied that I have been keeping the clip in my wallet since the visit to the brewery.

So thank you very much to the girl (do not remember your name) over at the tap room that gave away some valuable merchandise.

Now we are waiting for the Chocolate stout, or probably just me because I also have the clip for that beer kept in the wallet, :-).

For you guys over at the brewery, it seems that we over here in Sweden are still enjoying your beers although it is a bit of a secret how it has travelled over here. But I guess Jugge over at Oliver Twist has something to do with it, :-).

Anyway a great beer, and it was surely enjoyed by the rest of Akkurat beer geeks tonight. Akkurat only has 2x20l kegs so I guess the beer will be gone during the beginning of next week.

Rocky Mountain IPA served at Akkurat, with a proper beer clip.

And the beer served as the US-beer of the evening.

Also thank you very much for recognizing my little blog over at; BLOGS: Rocky Mountain IPA.

QUICKTAKE: He'Brew Miraculous Jewbelation (8) (2004)

Straight from the cuvee list at Akkurat we decided to sample a beer beer from one of our favorite breweries in the US, namely Shmaltz Brewing Company (He'Brew).

So we found a HeBrew from 2004 and the 8th Jewbelation beer from this small but amazing brewery. Seems that you can store the beer but in the same time it was really time for the beer, it had started to sweeten and loosing the touch. But still you could feel that it was a genuin HeBrew.

The beer is labeled as a Amercian porter and the taste is very sweet with rich dark fruity notes and a slightly alcoholic finish. When you sipped on the beer you could get notes of everything from raisins, plum to chocolate & espresso. In the end a amazing beer that is slowly passing its best moments.

If you have missed the concept of Jewbelation it means based on the number you get the same amount of malts, hops and abvs, for example 8 malts, 8 hops and 8% ABV for this version.

Based on that you could enjoy the latest incarnation of Jewbelation this year in the form of the 11th version (amazing beer sampled at Falling Rock, Denver).

Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2007

Just reminding you all, now it is 1 day left before everything kicks off; URL.

And do not forget that Akkurat is having a pre festival starting today with the theme; Crazy Draught Festival.