ÖBWF 2009, part 2

The festival didn't open until 13:00 which meant we could sleep a bit longer then usual before jumping on the train to Örebro. The train ride is very comfortable in fairly new trains and it only takes about 12 minutes to get there from Frövi. Unfortunately the trains don't run that often so we arrived in Örebro about an hour before the festival opened. But it was a sunny day and we took our time walking through Örebro. Eventually ending up at the pub Lilla Örebro where we had a glass of Närke Örebro Bitter. Here are some pictures from a sunny Örebro:

We came to the festival a few minutes after 13:00 and the first booth we went to was Närke Kulturbryggeri. We chatted a bit with Chrille and tried some of their beer. I had to try their Pannknektarnas Porter and I took this picture of the two brewers, or Pannknektar if you will. Can you see the resemblance from the sticker?

I thought the porter was better as a real ale but it was still pretty good. I gave the real ale version 3,4 and this one would get a 3,3. Apparently the beer got very popular and people came up and asked about the coffee porter. Good job Chrille and Pyrre! Chrille also tipped me off that they had a hop filter connected to their cAmarillo. It looked really interesting and the beer was full of fresh hoppy flavour. Here are some pictures of it...


... and a close-up of the actual filter. I really want to see more stuff like this. Please make a DIPA and connect one of these bad boys to it. :)

Närke cAmarillo (Tap) 5%
The smell was filled with very fresh hops. It had an extremly smooth mouthfeel. Tasted of fruity hops, but despite all the hops it had a fairly low bitterness.
Total: 3,5/5

Tomorrow I will post some short reviews of the beers we tried at Närkes booth.