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)

Buy a Idjit to your home...

Just read that through the result that Brill & Co has taken over the distribution of all beers from Dugges, it also means that directly a range of the beers will be available over at Systembolaget. As a start this means;

1. Gustafs Finger
2. Bältesspännaren
3. Kals Stout

all available on 0,5l bottles.

But the most interesting news is that Mikael over at Dugges also informs that during spring 08 we can look forward for "½ Idjit!" at Systembolaget and finally in the fall we can enjoy; Idjit!.

If you have missed the talk about the Idjit! range of beers, then here is a short recap;

½ Idjit! is a porter brewed by Dugges Ale & Porterbryggeri on the west-coast of Sweden. ½ simply means that it never went the whole way up to a full Idjit, so it just became of potent port at 7.0 ABV. It comes with a darkish color with a very thick tan head, coffee, choco and with a hint of liqorice flavour. Simply a amazing beer when it has been available.

Then to double that and brew something totally crazy Dugges is also brewing the full Idjit that can be described as big Imperial Stout at ABV 16.5!. Still only available as limited test brews this beer will be stored at least six months and seems to be a beer that might come up to the level as Imperial stout beers as Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter or Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition.

At least it has been a beer to wait for, and getting the news that we can actually buy it locally at the Systembolaget is great news, and much better than the hype with Kaggen that is a great beer but impossible to get hold of.

The best 6 beers you'll never drink

I just stumpled over a short but a bit interesting article over at tampa bay!

It can be connected a bit about a entry a few days ago where I wrote about unusual and hard found beers.

That is exactly what this article is about, beers that we talk about but rarely can drink because it is almost impossible to get them. And it is quite fun that 2 of the beers from this paper in tampa bay are both from Scandinavia, one from Sweden (Kaggen) and one from Denmark (X Imperial Stout).

Seems that this reporter know his stuff, but are also a bit arrogant (maybe its ironi, I do not know, :-)), but he writes about why they are so rare is due to;

The foremost is the general public doesn't want them

and

They are typically obscure styles such as Flanders Red, Imperial Stout or Baltic Porter

So a Baltic Stout or a Flanders Red are "obscure" beer styles?, well its not to me, but I am maybe not seen as normal and part of the "general public" when we talk about beers, :-).