Category: Articles in English
Watch Out! The Bastard is back!
At 9.24am on August 26, 2010 I wrote this comment on his blog: “Come back – we need you!!!” The blog in question was The Double Bastard* Beer Blog, one of the pioneers of Swedish beer blogging which in my eyes delivered the most opinionated, most insightful and most provocative take on the emerging craft [...]
Beer Studio Appoints Leif as new Brewer
(This is taken from a press release that has just gone out today, so please excuse the rather ‘formal’ approach). Beer Studio, a 1,500L craft brewery based in Umeå in northern Sweden due to open in the summer of 2013 has today announced the appointment of new brewer Leif Johansson. Leif, 30, from Kalix, is [...]
Ska & Nynäs Brew Day – A collaborative comedy
Lightning doesn’t strike twice but craft breweries do. In Nynäshamn anyway. You only have to turn the clock back a few weeks to when Sam and Dr Pat from the iconic US craft brewery Dogfish Head paid Nynäshamns Ångbryggeri a visit and brewed an Ancient Ale. It marked the first significant collaborative craft brew with [...]
Så Ska det Låta – New ‘Nynäs’ collab beer on the way!
Forget San Diego, Rome, Copenhagen, Prague, New York or Bamberg. The hottest beer place to hang out in the world right now is Nynäshamn. In Sweden altså “OK”, I can almost hear you say, “I know you’re naturally ‘enthusiastic’ about the Swedish beer scene but haven’t you gone a little too far with the hyperbole [...]
BeerSweden Again Appointed 2012 World Beer Cup® Media Endorser!
Once again we’re very proud to announce that BeerSweden has been appointed an official World Beer Cup media endorser. In 2012 we were the only Swedish online media source to attend and cover the biennial competition regarded as the ‘Olympics of Beer’ when it was held in San Diego, California. Next April the world’s largest [...]
USA Puts Craft Beer On The Map
CraftBeer.com, the consumer-facing website of the Brewers Association, has just released this cool looking map of the USA compiled of logos from breweries in every state. The tagline “No Red States or Blue States, Only Brew States” is designed to be a nod to the collaborative, unified nature of America’s craft brewing.
5 Questions to: UK beer blogger and author Mark Dredge
When I first started out blogging about beer there were a number of places in the blogasphere I’d stop at every day for tips, inspiration and motivation. In the UK scene one of them was always Pencil & Spoon, the creation of a young, ambitious food and beer writer by the name of Mark Dredge. [...]
The importance of Storytelling
Telling an inexperienced beer drinker they should try a certain beer because it’s got ‘X’ hops, ‘Y’ IBUs or multiple types of ‘Z’ malts is all very well and good but it’s probably more a feel-good demonstration of your beer smarts rather than an effective way to coax someone into trying more expressive beers. After [...]
Tjinooken Becomes Cartoon Character!
For a few weeks around the spring of 2011 the Swedish beer community held its collective breath as a mysterious ‘hobo-brewer’ by the name of Tjinooken sparked a major man-hunt after breaking into Nynäshamns Ångbryggeri at night and brewing a beer. The brew, a premium lager, was later salvaged and after inspection tasted so good [...]
Beers, Brooklyn, Bars and Sausages
If the next few days is anything to go by the revolution for better beer in Sweden is over. So put down your craft beers in fancy wine glasses. Stop posting your nasty tirades against industrial lagers and leave poor Bengt and Steffo alone. Because the revolution is over. We’ve won. OK….maybe I’m jumping the [...]
