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Are there beer websites for enthusiasts in your region?

What appeals you to a US-centric site?

What beers do you think US brewers have yet to really solidly produce?

Do you believe the internet was invented by Al Gore?

Do you believe global warming was invented by Al Gore?

Do you have a pin up of Tipper Gore?

Cheers
harry
 
Are there beer websites for enthusiasts in your region?

Yes. Also the various regional European sub-fora on RateBeer.

What appeals you to a US-centric site?

What's not to like here? People send me tons of good beer.

What beers do you think US brewers have yet to really solidly produce?

Surprise, surprise: lambic/geuze.

Do you believe the internet was invented by Al Gore?

Al Gore invented the Internet, the ballpoint pen, and the phonograph. These are well-known facts.

Do you believe global warming was invented by Al Gore?

No way, that was Clinton.

Do you have a pin up of Tipper Gore?

*fapfapfapfapfap*
 
Is Närke gonna brew Stormaktsporter again anytime soon?
This is like the constant beer gossip item in Sweden. A guy I met who claimed to know HG (the head brewer at Närke) said "there's a new batch out next month". Another guy I met who also claimed to know HG said "Oh, he's never gonna brew that again, he knows he can't possibly top the hype".

It's anyone's guess, really.
 
Why do you hate freedom?
Define dat. I'll trade a little liberal socialism for conceal/carry rights.
;)

Are there beer websites for enthusiasts in your region?

What appeals you to a US-centric site?

What beers do you think US brewers have yet to really solidly produce?

Do you believe the internet was invented by Al Gore?

Do you believe global warming was invented by Al Gore?

Do you have a pin up of Tipper Gore?

Cheers
harry
Yes
It's not polluted with those friendly Canadian ****s
Macro lagers
He did? Probably. He is Canadian right?
No such thing as global warming, it's called climate change.
Pin up worn out.

What did I win?
 
You may or may not be able to answer this. I have heard that you Swedes have a taste for old American muscle cars, while the rest of Europe tends to ignore them. Why is that? Do you have a favorite?
 
You may or may not be able to answer this. I have heard that you Swedes have a taste for old American muscle cars, while the rest of Europe tends to ignore them. Why is that? Do you have a favorite?

It's true but I honestly have no idea why. There are vintage US car clubs all over the country, most often in rural areas. "My" part of Sweden has several. Not my thing though.
 
Ever been to Minnesota? It's like Sweden I hear.
Nope. Been to NY, PA, MA, NM, AZ, CO, and OR so far.

I don't understand those immigrants back in the 1800s. All the Swedes went to Minnesota and the Dakotas 'cause it was just as snow-filled and ****in' cold as back home. If it was me, I'd have gone to SoCal or Florida and never looked back.

OK, not Florida.
 
are all women in sweden gigantic (not gigantic like a sea creature but just really tall like a giraffe)

how good is your chocolate on a scale of 1-10 (if 10 send me some plez)

can you walk into a gas station and grab cantillon out of the fridge (if yes send me some plez)
 
Are there beer websites for enthusiasts in your region?
Not beyond the big 2's Canada sections. Hoping we can get a few more canadians over here in due course... but we're still a few steps behind you guys.

What appeals you to a US-centric site?
Mostly the travel side of it. Showing american beer geeks around Vancouver beer spots, trying to ignite a spark of interest in our fledgling beer scene (and failing). Getting to trade with people like hopstar when I visit portland.

What beers do you think US brewers have yet to really solidly produce?
I haven't had many sours that lived up to Belgium's, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there! Compared to Canada... well, I think we come close in some styles but we don't have anything that surpasses your greatest beers. We're still playing catchup up north.

Why do you hate freedom?
Poutine & caesars.
 
Not beyond the big 2's Canada sections. Hoping we can get a few more canadians over here in due course... but we're still a few steps behind you guys.


Mostly the travel side of it. Showing american beer geeks around Vancouver beer spots, trying to ignite a spark of interest in our fledgling beer scene (and failing). Getting to trade with people like hopstar when I visit portland.


I haven't had many sours that lived up to Belgium's, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there! Compared to Canada... well, I think we come close in some styles but we don't have anything that surpasses your greatest beers. We're still playing catchup up north.


Poutine & caesars.

Next time I'm back home, we are drinking together.




















No homo.
 
We down in the Southern Hemisphere get so left out. Oh wait............. I have not done my Australian Citizenship yet. So still a Yank. I am a PR so does that count???
No bears down here though. Koala's are pretty dull really and kangaroos are hopping deer
 
For the Aussies...how do you get Founders half way around the world while I have to trade brewery only California beer for KBS?
really good distributor??? Phoenix beer has done a brilliant job in the last few years in getting Sierra Nevada, Rogue, Heretic, and Founders. Used to have Bear Republic and Green flash as well.
Some really good imports come into OZ. Anderson Valley, Deschutes, Coronado, Ballast Point, and a few other US stuff from other importers. Strange as it may sound but apparently Australia is a top 5 market for Mikkeller.
We do get a fair amount of Cantillon and we seemed to get more A&T than Canada did.
Did I say Australia is a big grey market country for Stone?? Guess not.
 
What American breweries are available in Sweden?

Macro US lagers are of course available (Bud being the most common, though you don't see any of the Bud Lite variants, Chelada etc) but the less said about them, the better.

First, some basic information on Swedish alcohol/licensing laws: there is a government monopoly on the retail sale of alcoholic beverages (supermarkets and the like are allowed to sell non-alcoholic/low-ABV beer only, the ABV limit is 3.5). Most towns have just one monopoly liquor store, bigger cities have more (my home town has two). The way the monopoly system works (I could go into detail here, but I'll spare you) is that the shops do not necessarily carry the whole range of beers from a brewery. For example, you can walk into any liquor store in Sweden and buy Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale and Modus Hoperandi from Ska Brewing, but no other Oskar Blues or Ska beers. Often, importers are able to get selected beers into monopoly stores in small quantities, that will be available only for a short time. Thus, this month you were able to get Oskar Blues G'Knight and Ten FIDY, but once they're out of stock, that's it, and these beers probably won't be available until around the same time next year - if at all. Last year we got BCBS, for example, but not this year (at least not so far).

So you have to differentiate between US beers that are available most of the time, and US beers that are only occasionally available or available one-time-only. It is also more profitable for importers to sell direct to bars and restaurants so there are many US beers (again, often in small quantities) that turn up in dedicated beer bars but are not available for sale in the monopoly liquor stores (because bars/restuarants buy up the whole stock from the importers). One example would be Lost Abbey/Port Brewing, which you can occasionally get in the stores but relatively regularly at dedicated beer bars.

That said: US beers you can get almost in any store, year-round include Anchor, Anderson Valley, Boston Beer Company, Brooklyn, Flying Dog, Founder's, Goose Island, Great Divide, Lagunitas, Napa Smith, Sierra Nevada, and some Stone beers. We still would not be able to just get the whole range though. In the case of Stone, for example, we normally get some of the slightly more limited releases (e.g. Imperial Stout, Espresso Imperial Stout) whereas the more regular offerings (IPA, Ruination) might be avaliable on special order and in limited quantities only. From Great Divide, I've bought both Oak-Aged Yeti and Chocolate Oak-Aged Yeti in my local store (and regular Yeti), but I've had to order Titan especially, for example.

The list of breweries we've seen here one time or other is much longer - off the top of my head I've seen Boulevard, Caldera, Ballast Point, Southern Tier, Widmer, Westbrook, Victory, Left Hand, New Belgium, Smuttynose, Stillwater, Red Hook, Shipyard, Thomas Creek, Peak Organic, North Coast, Ommegang, Mission, Deschutes, Jester King, Kona, Green Flash, Coronado, and AleSmith - I'm sure there's more. So all in all distro is pretty OK here, if random - as I said, you might get BCBS one year and then never again.

EDIT: Some people posted while I was writing this. We get Founder's regular stuff, but never, ever KBS.
 
are all women in sweden gigantic (not gigantic like a sea creature but just really tall like a giraffe)

how good is your chocolate on a scale of 1-10 (if 10 send me some plez)

can you walk into a gas station and grab cantillon out of the fridge (if yes send me some plez)
The average height of Swedish women (in 2013) is 167.7 centimeters, i.e 5' 6".
Chocolate = 6 on average.
No Cantillon in gas stations, sorry.
 
HenrikO-hypothetically, how hard would it be for me to find a job in Stockholm and live there forever?
Not too hard, I'd imagine, but it depends on what line of work you're in.
House/flat prices in Stockholm are murder, though.
You also might find it hard to adjust to all the freedom-hating socialism and free health care.
 
No bears down here though. Koala's are pretty dull really and kangaroos are hopping deer

I absolutely loved my time down in Australia. A bit expensive but a beautiful country, I'd live there in a second. And kangaroos are delicious and a hell of a lot easier to shoot than deer (though, they take longer to cook).
 
Drop bears, bro.
Government_Drop_Bear_Warning.jpg
 
Don't even get me started on this reputation "Canada" has earned for having Cantillon polluting its shelves.

Oh how I wish that were true...
 
The Swedish importer of Cantillon (which is the team/guy behind Akkurat, surprise surprise) used to sell stuff to the retail monopoly. Goldackerl Geuze was a shelf beer here - granted, they only released like two cases to the general public, but they were on the shelf in an actual store. Acquaintance of mine bought two. Bastard. Then, allegedly, the owner of Akkurat got so tired of getting dicked around by crazy monopoly laws/procedures that he stopped selling to them, and now he only sells 'loons at the bar/restaurant. And of course, it's severely illegal to sell alcohol to-go from bars/restaurants here, so very few bottles make it into the wild. That's not to say it never happens, though.
 
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