Brekeriet Alpha Beta

I haven’t been to Sweden before but luckily Sweden came to me. 

This craft beer is crazy, a Berliner Weisse (cloudy, sour usually weak beer made in Germany since the 16th century). 

Check out the colour!

Get this, the beer has passionfruit, beetroot, lime and vanilla.

Passionfruit and lime have always been good flavours for beer but beetroot and vanilla???

Beetroot is great in hamburgers and I will admit it makes for a good dip?

On the other hand, vanilla goes great with coke and icecream.

This beer was indeed sour, and it had a flavour unlike anything I’ve ever had before.

It wasn’t weak though, at 4.7% it is the strength of a regular beer.

If Swedish brewers can come up with this, I wonder what else they make over there?

I picked this up from Crown Cellars for about $10, it was worth a try!

Cheers,

Dave

Swedish things look good!

I will be on the search for more Swedish beer!

Little Rivers Imperial Darth Lager

Tasmanian Craft Brewers are joining the fray and adding their own touch to Star Wars themed brews.

Yes, I’m writing about another Star Wars beer, no, I’m not over them, haha.

Based in Scottsdale, Tasmania, Little Rivers has many really nice beers churning out to the masses, they already had a European Dark Lager which they increased in strength and used the Dark Side of the force when they bottled it.

Using a variety of European malts this beer has roasted coffee and dark chocolate notes and at 9% is a fun thing to drink while it’s cold here in the deep south.

I found this beer over at Tandy’s Ale House, another Craft Beer Bar in Launceston.

Can you feel it?

The pull to the Dark Side?

Darth Vader is calling…

He wants you to join him…

Cheers,

Dave

James Squire The Wreck Preservation Ale

1797 was a long time ago, but it was the year when the ship, the Sydney Cove, sunk after it failed to navigate Bass Strait.

Fast forward to 2018 and I’m at Saint John Craft Beer drinking The Wreck Preservation Ale, made from yeast recovered from the same wreck of the Sydney Cove.

First of all, it wasn’t the same yeast from the wreck, but yeast engineered to match living yeast that was found underwater 200 years later and used to create a dark porter that brewers believed would be close to what the beer originally tasted like.

An awesome event!

Divers who examined the wreck found bottles of beer intact, in a lab it was found some had seawater inside, but one was found still sealed, with yeast alive inside.

James Squire got the rights to make something with the genetically created yeast and came up with Preservation Ale.

In exclusive tastings around the country, the beer that failed to make it to Sydney reached its destination and many others around the country. So far in a one-off brew of 5000 litres it was made available to beer enthusiasts.

Local craft beer bar, Saint John Craft Beer got eight kegs of this intriguing brew and managed to sell around 220 tickets to a tasting event.

As one of the first inside I was handed a cool little card to exchange for a beer, getting a schooner I examine the glass of dark brew, it smells good, it tastes unlike anything I’ve ever had.

My special card

Once I finish it I feel a bit empty thinking that was my only taste, but I was wrong, you could buy more, as much as you could drink.

Needless to say, I finished the night with quite a few going down very well.

Beer and burgers! yes!

It was an incredible experience, I’m glad I could share it with you.

Cheers,

Dave

Cheers!