Belgofest 2010, part 1

Yesterday I visited the Belgofest in Uppsala. It's a home brew festival focusing on Belgian style beer. This year they had moved the festival to a much bigger building. It seems like the number of guests had gone up with the size of the room.

43 brews participated in the festival. The most common styles where all represented like, double, triple. quadruple, blonde, Witt and so on. But there where also some beers that stuck out, for instance a beer with elder berries brewed with champagne technique. Also some cherry and raspberry beer. The quality of beer was overall very high. With very few exceptions I rated all beers between 3,3-4,3, which are all great scores. Felt like several beers could have won prizes.

Belgodeli was there and sold some cheeses. My father bought one of each with only one exception. I also bought a couple of cheeses but skipped the Blue Chimay and only had a small piece of the green Chimay (Grand Cru).

The green Chimay (Grand Cru):

Here is a picture of what different Chimay cheeses they had on sale:

We had a really good time at the festival and I got to try some Vallon beer again. It's a beer that the Vallon's brought with them when they migrated to Sweden. They have used the same barrel for ages and when they have drunk half of it they just brew some more and add to the barrel.

I ran into another beer bloger at the festival, Gjölen. He had been part of a brew course lead by Ulf Henrysson in december 2009. It was the first brew he had made so he was participating for the firs time. They had brewed a pale strong belgian ale called 'Bövel' at 8,2%. A very tasty brew that I gave 3,9/5.

I'll post some pictures of the winners in the peoples choice competition tomorrow. Hopefully I have managed to get my filthy paws on the winners in the judges competition.

Belgofest tomorrow

Tomorrow I jump on the train to Uppsala to visit the Belgofest. It's a homebrew festival that focus on belgian beer and is usual helt this time of year. It's one of my favorite festivals due to my love to belgian and homebrewed beer but also that it's quite small.

I should have some pictures up on sunday, depending on how many beers I sample on saturday ;)

Port Brewing High Tide

Port Brewing High Tide (Bottle) 6,5%
This beer was part of a news release at Systembolaget a couple of months ago. It cost 89 SEK and according to www.systembolaget.se there are still bottles available but it is probably just a miss count on their behalf as usual.

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Appearance: 3/5
A pale yellow liquid with just a little bit of haze with a small white foam. The last couple of cl was allot more hazy due to some sediment on the bottom.

Smell: 8/10
Strong smell of grapefruit, hops, grass, fruity, passion fruit.

Taste: 9/10
Strong taste with lots of hops, also grapefruit, fruits, grass and passion fruit. High bitterness and long aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: 4/5
Smooth mouthfeel that wasn't very harsh. Medium body.

Comment:
I enjoyed this beer, a nice american style IPA fresh with lots of hops both grassy, fruity and a very noticeable grapefruit flavor. With a very high bitterness if that is what you fancy. I think this would work great on a hot summer day. If I where to combine this with food I would choose a tasty and salty hard cheese.

Total: 4,1/5

New breweries and beer blogs.

As most of you know there is a new micro brewery starting in Kalmar called Ängö Kvartersbryggeri. The brewery is being built at the moment and you can follow their progress at their website. The latest news about their idea to sell 10 litre kegs of beer through Systembolaget sounds very interesting. Nice to see something besides Carlsberg or Norrlandsguld in that segment.

On the same site you can read about a new brewery in Lund, Lundabryggeriet. Bosse Bergensthål is the brewer behind the project and he has been involved with the swedish home brewers association (SHBF) and worked on their magazine. Looks like a promising project I hope they make it to SMÖF next year.

I also stumbled onto yet another beer blog the other day, called Beer over där. The blog is written by a swedish guy that has moved to the US. He writes about what happens around beer locally and in the US, and his target audience is people outside of the US and in specifically people in Scandinavia.

I now have 46 beer blogs listed to the right. All of them with a swedish connection. Either being written by swedes or by foreigners living in Sweden.

Brewing Death By Hops 3

During the weekend me, my father and Chrille meet up at Källarknut to brew another beer for the Swedish Championship in Homemade beer. We plan to participate with two different brews, a honey-porter and a DIPA named Death By Hops 3. We brewed the honey-porter during Christmas and on saturday we brewed DBH3.

We started out early and where at the brewery at 08:00. Well it felt very early due to spending all friday evening in the jacuzzi. So I was pretty tired and dried up when we started warming the water.
My father was brew-leader here you can see him and Chrille discussing the recipe.

When the water was warm we poured in the malt...



... and stired the thick mash to seperate lumps and push out the air.


We then circulated the beer to get the particles to rest on the top of the malt that creates a natural filter. Above you can see how we let the vort pour into a small container to then be pumped up and into the mash tun again.


Here you can see how the vort is being pumped back into the mash tun. The vort is being divided into four different streams through a cross section at the end of the pipe.


We then pumped the beer into the cooking barrel. In this picture you an see the vort coming in at the bottom of the barrel. The chain mail looking thing sticking out of the vort is a hop filter. The thing sticking in from the right is an electrical heating cartridge (in lack of a better word).


Ths is the hops we use while brewing the beer, you can see Amarillo, Chinook, Centenial and Simcoe in this picture. We also add some hops for dry hopping later on.


A huge amount of hops in this beer. Think we ended up using more then a kg of hops. The smell in the brewery was amazing.

Since my father was the brewleader he keept bossing me and Chrille around....

... and after a while I snapped :)

The beer is now fermenting nicely in the brewery and I can hardly wait to try it out when it is done.

Plans for the weekend

I'm gonna spend the weekend at the old birthplace, Frövi. Tonight I got some friends coming over for beer and jacuzzi. I also plan to make some chocolate-honey-truffels. The idea is that it will be a nice combo with our honey-porter (Nalle Puh Porter) that we brewed during Christmas. We will bring both truffels and beer to the Swedish Championship in home made beer this year. But hopefully I can taste it tonight.


Tomorrow me, my father and Chrille are going to brew Death By Hops 3 - Raiders of the Big Hops. As you can see from the title it's the third time we brew it and we are bringing this beer to the SC as well. I'm really starting to look forward to the SC, it's going to be interesting to be on the other side of the counter. Feels like it could be an entirely new experience.

Stay tuned for beer reviews and brewing reports after the weekend. Here is some friday fun for thoose of us that like beavers:

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier Urbock (Bottle) 6,5%
This is the second beer I try from this brewery, the other one is their Märzen Rauchbier. A fun fact about this brewery is the word Schlenkerla (comes from the Franconian word Schlenkern) which roughly translates into: moving your arms in a funny way when you walk. It came from the man who became an owner in 1877, Andreas Grasser, who was a bit handicapped. Read more about it here.

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Appearance: 3/5
Very dark brown-amber liquid with a small light brown foam that left very little lacing.

Smell: 7/10
Smoke, smoked ham and salt.

Taste: 7/10
Lots of smoke, salt, smoked ham, malt and burned toast.

Mouthfeel: 4/5
Smooth, creamy and buttery with just a little bit of sting. Thick body and fairly low bitterness.

Comment:

This beer is very smoky, not sure if it's heavier then the märzen. From my notes it seems like the märzen is more intense but I would have to test them together to make sure. I'm personally not a huge fan of smoke beers but I think this works well. Tastes a bit like it has been filtered through an old hunting cabin.

Regarding food I think this would work well with regular home cooked food. Maybe some oven roasted potatoes and veggies with a big chunk of meat or sausages.

Total: 3,4/5

Zlatopramen Half n' half

Zlatopramen Half n' half (Bottle) 4,8%
This is a beer I picked up at Systembolaget a couple of days ago. I can't remember seeing it before, but considering how common it is at Systembolaget I'm not sure how I could have missed it.

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Apperance: 4/5
Hazy amber liquid with a big dirty white foam that left a nice lacing with lots of foam.

Smell: 5/10
Malt, caramel and something sweet.

Taste: 5/10
Malt, caramel, lots of sweetness and sugar.

Mouthfeel: 5/5
Very smooth and pleasant mouthfeel. Creamy thick body that went down easily

Comment:
Actually a surprisingly nice beer. It's not very complex but a malty and sweet beer, with a pleasant mouthfeel. I think this beer would work very well with some heavy salty food, like a Weiner schnitzel or some meaty sausages. It didn't work very good with spicy food. It's biggest problem is the very high sweetness, at first it didn't bother me but after a while it got too heavy.

Total: 2,9/5

Slottskällans Black Rocket Porter

Slottskällans Black Rocket Porter (Bottle) 5,5%
This beer was in the temporary news at Systembolaget in October of 2009, priced at 19.80 sek. On the sticker it says this is a modern American porter. The reason this beer looks different from other beers from Slottskällan is that it's a project between Stefan Gustavsson and Wicked Wine. They usually brew their beer at Sigtuna.

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Appearance: 4/5
Pitch black liquid with a big light brown liquid that left some lacing.

Smell: 7/10
Chocolate, hops, nuts, dark bread, roasted and pumpkin seeds.

Taste: 7/10

Chocolate, coffee, dark bread, something roasted, hops. Fairly high bitterness. The flavour was fairly intense and lasted a long time.

Mouthfeel: 4/5
Fairly smooth with just some bite to it.

Comment:
Despite the low alcohol this beer was quite interesting with allot of flavour. I liked the combo of hops and chocolate, something that I also experienced in Dark Hops from Beer Here. It worked well with chocolate but I think this beer is just as good on it's own.

It's going to be interesting to see what these guys cook up in the future. They are releasing another beer in mars called Mohawk Rye IPA.

Total: 3,6/5

Alvinne Struise Pipeworks Pipedream

Since Karin hadn't showed up yet I figured I could try some more beer. I asked the bartender for an american hopped up beer and he suggested this beer:

Alvinne Struise Pipeworks Pipedream (Bottle) 7,8%
The description in the beer list said IPA and he assured me it would be a hopped up type of IPA. That is the same description Ratebeer has. But I was surprised when I tried it, since it was more of a Belgian style ale. Well anyway the beer has been brewed as a joint project between Alvinne, Struise and Pipeworks brewery.

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Appearance: 4/5
It poured a hazy golden liquid with a soapy white foam that left a lacing that quickly disappeared.

Smell: 4/10
Weak smell with just a faint hint of yeast.

Taste: 7/10
Yeast, malt, hint of hops. The relatively high carbonation took over and hid allot of flavours.

Mouthfeel: 1/5
Very stingy mouthfeel with lots of carbonation. Hard to drink until the carbonation disappeared.

Comment:
Slightly hard to rate this as I was expecting something completely different. However it didn't take me long to reset my expectations. The biggest problem with this beer was the extremely high amounts of carbonation that hid all the other flavours. After a while it disappeared and became drinkable. Felt unbalanced, maybe it needs some time to mature. Not sure what kind of food would work with this, probably best on it's own.

Total: 2,7/5

De Molen Kannen & Kruiken

While I was finishing off my H&V I browsed through the list of beers and found another De Molen beer that wasn't to expensive.

De Molen Kannen & Kruiken (Bottle) 6,2%
This is an IPA, dry hopped with Cascade, Chinook and Galena.

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Appearance: 4/5
It poured a hazy dirty orange-brown liquid with lots of yeast floating around and a small white foam that left no lacing.

Smell: 7/10
Very strong smell of honey. Also yeast, hops, something sweet, malt and hint of nuts.

Taste: 7/10
Lots of honey, also yeast, malt, sweetness, hint of hops and some hop resin.

Mouthfeel: 5/5
Very smooth and nice mouthfeel with a medium body.

Comment:
Nice beer that was easy to drink, but it didn't feel like an english or american IPA. More like an ale spiced with honey. I think this beer would work well with most foods, specially salty food. Well regular home made cooking.

Total: 3,7/5

Monks Café Hel & Verdoemenis Stockholm Edition

Last weekend I went shopping for some clothes. In other words I bought everything I needed in about 15 minutes and then ran over to Monks Café on Sveavägen. I had heard they had a new beer that I had to try.
Monks Café Hel & Verdoemenis Stockholm Edition (Tap) 8,7%
This beer was brewed at Monks Café at Wallingatan together with Menno Olivier from de Molen. This is a new edition of the original H & V beer that is ranked as the best beer in the Netherlands.

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Appearance: 4/5
It poured a very hazy dark brown liquid with a huge light brown foam. The foam took a long time to dissapear and left allot of leftovers on the side of the glass.

Smell: 8/10
Chocolate, coffee, soy sauce, malty, hops, grass and hops resin.

Taste: 9/10
Chocolate, coffee, some soy sauce, nuts, malt and some grassy hops.

Mouthfeel: 5/5
Smooth mouthfeel with a thick liquid that coats my mouth.

Comment:
A fantastic beer, malty and rich with flavour. It was also very easy to drink and the flavours didn't overwhelm and the alcohol was well hidden. The beer worked very well on it's own but I think it might work well with a chocolate cake. Compared to the original H&V this version is lighter and easier to drink. The original was stronger in both flavour and alcohol, more aggressive. I actually preferred this version better although I'm rewarding both beers a 4,3/5.

Total: 4,3/5

Midtfynds Brygghus Double IPA

Last friday I had a couple of bottles of IPA. Starting with Midtfynds Brygghus DIPA, then Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA and finally Death By Hops 2 (DIPA). I have reviewed Torpedo and DBH 2 here before but Midtfynds was new to me so here we go:

Midtfyns Bryghus Double IPA (Bottle) 9,2%

This beer was part of the December news release at Systembolaget and cost 66 sek. There are still available bottles in many stores.

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Apperance: 4/5
Hazy amber liquid with a medium dirty white foam that left a nice lacing with lots of foam.

Smell: 3/10
Hops, butter, buttered popcorn, melted butter, alcoholic.

Taste: 3/10
Hops, lots of butter in different varietes, buttered popcorn, melted butter and alcohol

Mouthfeel: 4/5
Smooth and creamy with just a little bit of sting. Quite enjoyable mouthfeel.

Comment:
This beer was clearly infected and the taste of butter was very strong. It efficiently hid most of the flavours and only a hint of hops managed to break through. Not a beer I would recomend and I almost poured it out. The only reason I didn't do so was that it was still drinkable and it had a nice mouthfeel. But if you are expecting a hopped up monster you are going to get very dissapointed, I had been warned by other bloggers about this beer so I wasn't that suprised. Hopefully I can get my hands on a bottle that hasn't been infected.

Total: 2/5

Update to my reviews

I've been working on how I want my reviews to look, at least the reviews I make when I do it one beer at the time. The thing that bothered me was that it felt like a bunch of text that wasn't very interesting, like describing body, bitterness, and so on. I also wanted them to be easier to look through and possible skip to the part you find interesting.

Compromises
To start off I haven't been able to do it the way I initially wanted, it was just to advanced for blogspot. I've made some compromises but the general idea is still there.

Visual aid
I want a visual way of describing some keystones of the beer, at the moment I have Bitterness, Sweetness, Sourness, Body, Flavour (as in how strong the flavour is, from mild to intence). It feels like there should be more keystones, but I recon I will figure these out as I go along. Im not quite finished with the look of these. I want them presented horizontally and for it to be easy to browse over.

Seperated sections
I have then divided Apperance, Smell, Taste and Mouthfeel into clearly seperated sections with grades on all. For this I just want to describe it in short words instead of compiling a longer text.

Finish with a comment
I finish the review of with a comment, here is where I will write what I thought of the beer, add stuff like what food would work with it or what situation would be suitable for the beer. Well anything I can think of pretty much. This is the part I personally like to read when I read reviews. To make it clear what score the beer got I put in a total score in caps and bigger letter at the end.

Numbers everywhere
I know that some people don't want numbers in their reviews. Which I can understand, but Im personally a sucker for numbers and statistics. As you might notice the numbers system is taken from Ratebeer with one difference, I have trashed the dividing of Flavour and Aroma.

Tomorrow will be my first review with the updated system. Let me know what you think or if you have any ideas of improvements.

Time for changes

It's a new year and I have been writing allot more actively on this blog then I originally intended. So it feels like it's time to improve the blog a bit. Here are a couple of things I'm looking at:

Beer reviews

I've been thinking about making some changes to the way I review beer. I'm not entirely satisfied and want to make them easier to glance through and read the parts that are interesting. I have a layout that I like but I feel restricted in the way blogspot works. But I'm trying to make some adjustments to see what I get, so from now on you might see some odd reviews and layouts.

Layout
I want to make some improvements on the layout of the site, not sure how much can be done with blogspot but I will experiment when I get time. So far I haven't really spent much time with it.

Language

My choice to switch to english was more controversial then I first thought. I've gotten lots of comments about it and I have a feeling it scares some people away. However I also don't want to exclude my non-swedish friends. But the proportion of foreign visitors have steadily gone down from 20% to 14%. I will stick to english for now and just see what happens. As long as I have friends reading this I might as well keep writing it in english.

Projects
I have some projects that I've been wanting to do for a while, but just havent had the time to do so. Hopefully I can put these together in the near future. They include beer-food-combos, map the variety of micro brewed beer and beer testing for beginners.

Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel

This is a coffee stout from the Canadian brewery Dieu du Ciel. It was also part of the news release at Systembolaget at the beginning of December. It costs 34.40 SEK per bottle and is still available at some stores.

Dieu du Ciel Péché Mortel (Bottle) 9,5%
It poured a pitch black liquid with a small light brown foam that left some lacing.

It had a strong smell of primarily coffee, but also chocolate, toffee and an interesting smell that I couldn't quite distinguish, probably related to the added coffee.

The mouth feel was smooth and creamy with a thick body and medium bitterness. The bitterness was more of a coffee and dark chocolate bitterness then a hoppy bitterness. It had a strong taste of coffee but also chocolate, coconut and something burned and roasted.

A fantastic beer! It felt complex and interesting to drink, perfect to sit and sip at for a while. I'm not a big fan of coffee and don't normally drink it, but this was really nice. Definitely recommended and at this price it's an absolute steal. Just as with Rigor Mortis I hope to get a couple of extra bottles.

Total: 4,3/5

Dieu du Ciel Rigor Mortis Abt

This beer was part of the news release at Systembolaget at the beginning of december. It costs 34.90 SEK per bottle and is still available at some stores.

Dieu du Cieal Rigor Mortis Abt (Bottle) 10,5%
It poured a hazy dark amber liquid with a small dirty white foam.

It had a strong smell of yeast, dried fruit, wood and an alcoholic finish that I relate to brandy.

The mouth feel was very smooth and creamy, felt nice in my mouth. The high alcohol made it feel dry though and a bit stingy on the tip of my tongue. It had a thick body and a low bitterness. The flavour was quite strong and the most noticeable where dried fruit, yeast, something sweet and an alcoholic finish.

A very good and interesting beer, maybe a bit to alcoholic but besides that I have no complaints. The alcohol wasn't that intense it was mostly something I felt after taking a sip. Definitely a beer that is worth it's money, it's an absolute find at 35 SEK per bottle and I plan to buy a couple of extra to keep in my storage.
Total: 4,1/5

Testing St Bernardus

When Per turned 25 we visited Akkurrat for a couple of beers. The last two beers I tried before heading on home was these two:

St Bernardus Triple (Bottle) 8%
It poured a hazy golden liquid with a creamy white foam that left lots of lacing.

Smell of yeast, dried fruit, wood and honey. The honey scent was quite strong.

The mouth feel was semi-smooth with just a bit of roughness. It had a medium body and low bitterness. Tasted similar to the smell and the most dominant flavour was definitely honey. Lots of sweetness.

Very nice beer, one of the best triples I have ever tried.
Total: 4,3/5

St Bernardus Abt 12 (Bottle) 10,5%
It poured a hazy brown-amber liquid with a small beige foam that left very little lacing.

It had a smell of figs, wood and nuts.

It had a semi-smooth mouth feel, medium body and low bitterness. Tasted of red wine, figs, druid fruit and nuts.

Also a very nice beer but the triple was better.
Total: 3,9/5

Both of these where very affordable at 78 and 88 sek each and the triple became a favourite amongst my friends. I went to the bathroom to come back and see four of them sitting with a glass each.

Sorry about the lack of pictures I forgot to put the memory card in my camera.

Beers tried over Christmas, part 2

I tried some more beers during Christmas.


The Lost Abbey Interno Ale (Bottle) 8,5%
It poured a hazy golden liquid with a big white foam that left chunks of foam on the side of the glass.

It had a smell of yeast, fruits, pepper and apples.

A bit stingy and rough mouth feel. Medium-thick body with a low bitterness. The flavour was strong and I noticed yeast, fruits, coriander and apples. It was quite dry and didn't have that much sweetness.

A nice beer and even my grandfather enjoyed this one. Well he enjoyed it so much he was finished before I got a chance to try it ;)
Total: 3,9/5

Mikkeller Fra Til (Bottle) 8%
It poured a pitch black liquid with a big brown foam that left lots of lacing.

It had a smell of chocolate, hops, coffee and something burned.

The mouth feel was a bit stingy and dry with a thick body. Lots of Christmas spices in this one, the commercial description is fairly spot on when it comes to the spices, the star anise, coriander, cinnamon and cloves are all noticeable. Specially the cloves. It also has a taste of roasted nuts, coffee, hint of hops and some burned caramel. It has a long after taste that really digs in and stays there.

Very nice beer!
Total: 4,1/5

Beers tried over Christmas, part 1

I tried some more beers during Christmas.

The Lost Abbey Interno Ale (Bottle) 8,5%
It poured a hazy golden liquid with a big white foam that left chunks of foam on the side of the glass.

It had a smell of yeast, fruits, pepper and apples.

A bit stingy and rough mouthfeel. Medium-thick body with a low bitterness. The flavour was strong and I noticed yeast, fruits, coriander and apples. It was quite dry and didn't have that much sweetness.

A nice beer and even my grandfather enjoyed this one. Well he enjoyed it so much he was finished before I got a chance to try it ;)
Total: 3,9/5

Mikkeller Fra Til (Bottle) 8%

Making malt bread

I took some of the left over malt (we call it drav in Swedish not sure about the English term) after brewing Nalle Puh Porter (Vinnie the Puh Porter) and made bread from it. I didn't have a recipe for it so I invented my own:

15 dl flour
5 dl malt (quite wet)
5 dl water
1,5 dl hazel nuts
2 teaspoons of salt
0,5 dl of pale baking syrup (ljus baksirap)
50 g dry yeast

Take some finger warm water straight from the tap add the yeast and syrup and stir. Mix flour, nuts and salt and then add the liquid. Start working the dough until it is smooth and flexible. Let it rest for 30 minutes under a blanket. Take the dough out, bang the air out of it and make loafs out of it. Let it rest for another 45 minutes and then bake it in an oven (225 degrees) for about 15 minutes.

Now my malt was a bit wet, I started out with 1 litre of flour and then added quite allot. Also after eating the bread I think it would have been better without the nuts.
Here are some pictures:

Brewing Nalle Puh Porter

Me, my father and Chrille plans to participate in the Swedish Championship in Home made beer. So after Christmas we started brewing for the competition. Our first brew is a strong honey porter. The honey is locally produced and called Puhs Honung (Puh's Honey). So we named the beer Nalle Puh Porter (Vinnie Puh Porter). Here is some pictures of the brew, for those that want to know more about the beer (and want the recipe) come visit us at the SC in Gothenburg in the end of April. Here are some pictures:

My father stirring the malt.

Looking down into the big bucket of honey. My father bought 10 kg so we will bring some to the SC.

Hey buddy, point that thermometer somewhere else!

Cooling the beer of and pouring it into the fermentation buckets.

The beer is ready to ferment. Chrille reported that they where fermenting nicely and that they tasted yummy.

After brewing the beer we walked over to Närke Kulturbryggeri where we attended their Christmas party. We meet some interesting people and had allot of beer from the brewery. Unfortunately I had to leave early and missed out on both Kaggen and a wedding. But it was allot of fun to be there and see the brewery that makes that magical black liquid.