Everywhere it’s Christmas

… at the end of every year.
This was the title of one of the few Beatles songs that never had any official re-release. (Since you asked, it’s on their Christmas album, distributed to their fan club members only.)
Well, one country where they have started celebrating is Sweden, with an impressive list of Christmas beers at the [...]

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Special order

When news got out that Nøgne ø had received some whisky casks from their Scottish friends at BrewDog, the expectations were high in the Norwegian beer community.
I won’t bore you with details about the Norwegian state monopoly for alcohol once more, but there is a kind of loophole. If you know that there is a [...]

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BrewDog interview

A good interview with BrewDog founder James Watt at the Full Pint.

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Scottish update

The courier company has promised to look into the issue. When I worked in a transport company 30 years ago, we had routines of informing the sender or the receiver if we were unable to deliver a package.
Meanwhile, some of the Williamson beers are avaialble in an Oslo supermarket. There must be 15 Scottish beers [...]

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Scottish mystery

It’s not my fault that I havent’t blogged about the new beers from the  Williams Bros in Scotland. It is not their fault either, they sent me a box months ago.
It seems to have vanished. In the middle of a word. A tracking system is not too impressive if it goes like this:

01/08/2009
06:22:00
London Colney
Held – [...]

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My precious

I’ve tasted this beer before. A fairly small sample at the Rake last December, plus a bottle I shared with the rest of the participants on the trip to Espedalen Fjellbryggeri.
But I kept one of the two bottles BrewDog sent me. To sip on my own.
The full name is Rake Raspberry Imperial Stout. Initially on [...]

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The BrewDog guys again

Yes, it has 1.1% alcohol, but it also, I quote, contains more hops than any other beer we have ever brewed. There is over 60 kilos used in our tiny 20HL batch. It contains more hops than any other beer ever brewed in the UK. It has a theoretical IBU of 225.

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The BrewDog brews – the verdict

There were four different beers in the box from BrewDog. Trying to control myself, I have only tasted three of them so far. The last one is the Rake Raspberry Imperial Stout, which I had on cask last year, possibly my best beer of 2008.
5 AM Saint is a prototype, meaning they will possibly adjust [...]

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Straight from the Dog

There is rarely anything interesting in the mailbox nowadays. Sure, there are books and dvds ordered on the web, which hardly comes as surprises, but apart from that it’s mostly  flyers for groceries and furniture. Even the bills tend to turn up in my e-mail inbox and not on paper.
But there are exceptions. Like the [...]

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A match for the dogs

One could expect that the success of BrewDog would have led to a rush of smaller breweries in the UK to make more extreme bottled beers, but som far there haven’t been too many. In addition, some of the super strength beers I’ve bought with me from the Pig’s Ear festivals have been rather bad [...]

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