Sunday, October 18, 2009

Museums and beer, part 1

Yesterday me and Karin vitited the central parts of Stockholm. We walked along Strandvägen towards Djurgården. I had been inspired by "Öl är gott, resor är kul", who recently visited the Titanic exhibition and ate food at Soldaten Svejk. However when we got to the exhibition there was a long slow moving line of people trying to get in. After standing in line for 20 minutes and hardly moving anywhere we decided to visit some other museum in the area. We started with the biological museum outside of Skansen. But we quickly realised it wasn't something for us. Just a bunch of stuffed birds and animals. It looked pretty cool with the wildlife scenes in that old wodden building.
After a quick look around we decided to head over to the Nordic museum instead. This museum is housed in an early 1900 century building. They had some exhibitons about weddings, traditions, internal design, samer, old photos, Livstycket and other stuff. Some of it was pretty interesting but we where starting to get hungry so we walked back towards Kungsgatan. Karin wanted to visit some stores so I ran over to Monks Café to try a couple of beers. I started out with an american beer that was on sale (60 sek):

Goose Island Honkers Ale (Bottle) 5%
It poured a hazy golden liquid with a small dirty white foam. It had a sweet smell of caramell, malt and honey. It had a smiliar taste of caramell, malt, bread , honey and something sweet at the end. It had a decent mouthfeel with some stingyness at the end. Medium thickness, a bit watery with a mild bitterness. Decent beer but nothing special.
Total: 3/5

They had a german beer festival going on but I wanted something a bit more tastey. I had tried all of their beers on tap and had to search the beer list for a while until I found something interesting:
Goose Island Pere Jacques (Bottle) 9%
It poured a clear reddish liquid with a big light brown foam that left allot of lacing. It had a smell of caramell, malt, yeast, spices, wood and pepper. Very nice. It had a similar taste of sweet malt, caramell, nuts, spices and a hint cognac or similar at the end. Very smooth and nice mouthfeel. Very enjoyable, I liked this one.
Total: 3,9/5

As I was just about to finish my bottle Karin showed up and we headed of to the south side of town for some food. But more about that tomorrow....

5 comments:

  1. Trots regn och rusk så blev det ju en trevlig dag! Fast du hade nog gärna sett att jag shoppade lite längre medans du satt på Monks ;)

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  2. Haha ja jag skulle stuckit åt dig ett par hundra-lappar så kanske du sprungit runt längre ;) hehe närå, jag var rätt hungrig så hade inte du kommit hade jag ätit mig mätt på ölkorv.

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  3. Seems like a fairly good day, i mean.. lots of beer and not having to go shopping. ;)

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  4. Titanic är verkligen fortfarande ett väldigt populärt fartyg, inte så konstigt förstås. Ännu har ni chansen att besöka utställningen.

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  5. Nicklas: Hmm.. räknas inte öl som shopping? ;)

    Ja vi får gå dit någon annan gång och försöka vara där i bättre tid. Verkar ju verkligen vara en populär utställning.

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