Reporting from the Beer Fest, a selection of what I found interesting. There were a lot more but I hadn't the wherewithal to taste everything (also I'm too young to die 
) - and more often than not there were no labels to take piccies of - so it's a selection of a selection.
Starting with: Charlis Älvdans APA - (Elf-dance) Fruity, crispy. Charlis also produces one of the best non-alco beers I've tasted
Häxkitteln (Witches Cauldron) This is an ESO inspired brewery, I think. I hadn't time to ask the guy - and it's a one-man show, bare-bones but very, very decent results. Tasted all of them, very solid beers. What caught my attention was Jotun, the Norwegian kveik, a 48 hrs yeast ale - a very interesting flavour. I've seen that other places, so maybe it's trending
Brekeriet, one of the few breweries fully specializing in saisons, wild yeast and sour ales - two solid choices, if a bit odd - especially the cucumber one, definitely a summer beer
Basuun was very interesting, brewing Belgian saisons - these two (out of three I tasted) were a discovery, fruited and berried, with just a touch the saison funkiness in the aftertaste. The first one is a dry-hopped saison. Loved the labels too
Your trusty Bag of Cats, in a quiet moment. It went swimmingly well, emptied 2x30 litres kegs of our new 'Campos de Jalapeño' - flavoured with smoked jalapeños, very subtle. We have a very subtle master brewer, never goes over the top - and he was a former chef at NOMA, which shows - everything's locally sourced, except the hops (we take them in from Belgium, as there're basically no hops being grown in Sweden - there's an opportunity for anyone who wants to become a hop grower ).
In total, we must have poured about 200 litres, I'll do the math on Monday when I go pick the things. We also had a couple of other news items: NOVA 3.5, a lower alco version of our NOVA (5.2), coming soon to ICA and Systembolaget, for those of you in the region.
Expansion Immense, a 10-something ABV imperial stout . Marmalade Skies, sea buckthorn saison + our standards Caliban and Hollow Moon.
Descriptions at rocketbrewing.se <3
) - and more often than not there were no labels to take piccies of - so it's a selection of a selection.Starting with: Charlis Älvdans APA - (Elf-dance) Fruity, crispy. Charlis also produces one of the best non-alco beers I've tasted
Häxkitteln (Witches Cauldron) This is an ESO inspired brewery, I think. I hadn't time to ask the guy - and it's a one-man show, bare-bones but very, very decent results. Tasted all of them, very solid beers. What caught my attention was Jotun, the Norwegian kveik, a 48 hrs yeast ale - a very interesting flavour. I've seen that other places, so maybe it's trending
Brekeriet, one of the few breweries fully specializing in saisons, wild yeast and sour ales - two solid choices, if a bit odd - especially the cucumber one, definitely a summer beer
Basuun was very interesting, brewing Belgian saisons - these two (out of three I tasted) were a discovery, fruited and berried, with just a touch the saison funkiness in the aftertaste. The first one is a dry-hopped saison. Loved the labels too
Your trusty Bag of Cats, in a quiet moment. It went swimmingly well, emptied 2x30 litres kegs of our new 'Campos de Jalapeño' - flavoured with smoked jalapeños, very subtle. We have a very subtle master brewer, never goes over the top - and he was a former chef at NOMA, which shows - everything's locally sourced, except the hops (we take them in from Belgium, as there're basically no hops being grown in Sweden - there's an opportunity for anyone who wants to become a hop grower
).In total, we must have poured about 200 litres, I'll do the math on Monday when I go pick the things. We also had a couple of other news items: NOVA 3.5, a lower alco version of our NOVA (5.2), coming soon to ICA and Systembolaget, for those of you in the region.
Expansion Immense, a 10-something ABV imperial stout . Marmalade Skies, sea buckthorn saison + our standards Caliban and Hollow Moon.
Descriptions at rocketbrewing.se <3