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We hope your hangover isn't too bad. It's 2026 and we are cracking open a couple of bottles to kick the year off right. We've featured Smedsbo Slott quite a lot recently but that doesn't mean we don't want to keep trying their beers. Elektra Sauer Kveik is one of their highest ABV beers. Clocking in at 22% ABV, this sour ale uses wild fermented Kveik and a Belgian Quad grain bill.  Omnipollo and Trillium Brewing team up again to give us Kanelbullar. This pastry stout is filled with cinnamon, cassia bark, vanilla, coconut and cardamom. They went full Swede on this. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #pastrystout #sourbeer

It's the last episode of the year. 2025 was a great year for trying beers. We hope you enjoyed the year as much as we did. We cap off the year with two really fun beers. 3 Fonteinen Oude Gueuze Season 17/18 Blend no 61 isn't just any old 3F Oude Gueuze. It's a special release that was basically only released in Sweden. There is a great story behind.  The Bruery Barrel-Aged Three's Cocompany is a bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout with coconut, vanilla beans, milk sugar and oat milk. It's definetly a dessert in a glass. Have a Happy New Year! See you in 2026. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #gueuze #imperialstout

It's the last day of our Advent 2025 calendar. We really hope you enjoyed this years selection. We had a lot of fun drinking everything. Day 24 ends things on a real high note. Pohjala makes a return to the calendar with Faraway Friends (Cellar Series). This 13.4% ABV imperial stout is a collab with Lervig. It's uses a Colossal rey whisky barrel with vanilla pods and coconut sugar. It's an amazingly tasty treat. Have a great holidays everyone!  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #imperialstout

We are almost done. After a couple of dusty oldies, we have something from a pretty new brewery. Day 23 gives us some eXcitement with X-Brewing. The Dutch brewery released an imperial coconut cereal pastry stout aged on Wild Turkey bourbon barrels. Project X #01 is a 12.7% ABV beer that somehow really works despite the weird concoction.  #beer #drinks #craftbeer #advent2025 #imperialstout

Day 22 is an old money beer from 2008. Djaevlebryg Old Mephisto Batch 1 is from 2008. This English barleywine clocks in at 10.5%. This really should have been toothpaste at this point. Somehow it's still holding in there. They really knew how to make beers last back in the day. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #barleywine

Day 21 brings another blast from the past...the very distant past. Many, many years ago there was an amazing brewery called Stronzo. They were a defunct brewery when we started 10 years ago. Even though Stronzo went away more than a decade ago, you can still find their beers around. Anniversary #2 celebrates their second anniversary. This bourbon barrel aged Russian imperial stout has past its prime but still has some life in her. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #imperialstout

Advent Day 20 closes out the last full week of Advent. Just four days left, I hope you're ready. P.i.g.s. Brew Co. Deadspace Opera is a collab with Emperor's Brewery. This 14% AVB imperial stout has peanut butter, toffee caramel and Madagascar vanilla. It's really a dessert in a can. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #imperialstout

A What's on Tap advent calendar wouldn't be complete without a To Ol beer. Day 19 gives us To Ol Mash Test Yummies BA. This 13.1% ABV imperial stout is made with hazelnuts, cocoa nibs and vanilla then aged for 12 months in a mix of bourbon, rum and wine barrrels. It's an awesome addition to the calendar. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #barrelaged #imperialstout

Advent 2025 Day 18 is full of fruity goodness. Arpus makes really great fruit smoothie beers. This one is Chili X Pineapple X Passionfruit X Apricot. The chili is nicely balanced against the rich fruit flavors. It's not too spicy but builds gradually while enjoying the beer.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #pastrysour

Advent 2025 has a week to go but don't worry, we still have plenty of days left. Day 17 gives us anoterh beer from Pohjala. Rukkirääk is a 5.9% ABV rye beer which is the Finnish name for a Corn Crane that lives mostly in rye fields. It has eight different malts and hopped with Cascade and Chinook hops. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #ryebeer #advent2025

Day 16 is a cellar deep dive. Stefan found a website that has a good collection of old beers. He was super excited to bring this one back for a try. Danish brewery Amager released Linda The Axe Grinder back in 2016. How does a 9% ABV American Barleywine hold up after 9 years? Opinions may vary.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #barleywine #advent2025

Day 15 is a real treat. Since Martin messed up on his theme he replaced a beer with a 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze. Not just any oude geuze but a  Platinum Blend from the 18/19 release. No 82 is at a great point and ready to be consumed.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #geuze

It feels like if we had to pick a country of the year for 2025. It would be Poland. We've highlighted a lot of beers from the country this year. Even this calendar we've already had two beers from Poland. Day 14 features another brewery. Stu Mostow collaborated with Wylams to create Newcastle Donut. It's a pastry sour with mango, pineapple and donuts. #beer #drinks #craftbeer #pastrysour #advent2025

We return to a familiar brewery on Day 13. The guys had both picked the same Smedsbo Slott beer. Stefan had to replace his so he got another Smedsbo Slott beer. Alfablot is a 16% ABV barleywine. Smedsbo Slott only knows how to make big beers and this one is huge. #beer #drinks #craftbeer #advent2025 #barleywine

Advent Day 12 is another strong beer. We're a little weary of quadruple IPAs. They usually overly sweet to mask the high alcohol flavor. Dutch brewers White Dog created Resting at the Bottom of the Ocean in collaboration with Brazilian Cervejaria Escafandrista. This 12% ABV bad boy goes down a little too smooth.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #ipa #quadipa

Advent 2025 Day 11 is another dark beer. This time it's not a stout or barleywine. It's another type of dark beer, a black lager. Vinohradsky Black Panda is Tmave lager or dark Czech lager. A little hoppy, a little roasty and 100% drinkable. #beer #drinks #craftbeer #advent2025 #blacklager #tmave #lager

Advent 2025 Day 10 is from one of our favorite breweries. We've enjoyed quite a few beers from them this year. Funky Fluid Gelato XTREME: Berries and Cream doesn't disappoint. It continues their hits with a pastry sour of raspberries, blackcurrants and blueberries with an extra marshmallow and vanilla kick. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #funkyfluid #pastrysour

Sweden has a chocolate "treat" called choklaboll. It's a mixture of sugar, oats and butter. It's covered in chocolate and coconut. Day 09 gives us Brygglabbet Har Efterratten Chokladboll , a beer version.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #chokladboll #imperialstout 

On the 8th day we dip our toes back into the deep end of the pool with a bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout. Puhaste Oathbinder Bourbon BA is an imperial stout with mayple syrup and vanilla. It's a dessert in a glass.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #stout #advent2025

Advent Day 07 slows things down a bit. We're getting off the high ABV train for a moment to enjoy a little sour beer. Holy Goat Bramble Smasher mixed fermentation golden sour with Scottish blackberries. It's tart treat with lots of jammy goodness. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #sourale #blackberry #advent2025

Advent Day 06 asks only one question, are you ready to rock? You better be cause we have a triple IPA from Dutch brewers Rock City Brewing. Euro Tipa is a 9.5% ABV tipa made with hallertau blanc, callista and styrian dragon hops. It's a really good party. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #tipa #advent2025

Advent 2025 Day 05 has us up in Norway. Rygr Hugin Imperial Stout is another fun entry in the calendar. This 13% ABV stout doesn't hold back. It's a little sweet with a strong roasty finish. Of course the Norwegians know how to make a kick ass imperial stout. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #imperialstout

Advent 2025 Day 04 has us over in the Baltics with a Polish Baltic Porter from ReCraft. Mentor III is a classic porter with roasted almost smoked notes from the malts and hints of dark bread and chocolate.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #balticporter #porter #advent2025

Advent 2025 Day 03 is a mild day, a Smedsbo Slott mild day. XXXXAle is a 13.5% ABV mild ale. Smedsbo Slott is Sweden's reigning king of making high AVB ales. The lowest ABV we could find is 9.5%, it just goes up from there. XXXXAle is a collab with Shapes & Objects.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #mildale

Advent 2025 Day 02 takes it down a notch with a bitter.  Woodforde's Nelson is a traditional English bitter. Most canned bitters are flat and uninteresting. Woodforde's Nelson is a real treat. Smooth, roasty and malty, at only 4.5% ABV, you can easily have a few of these. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #bitterale

It's the first day of Advent. That can only mean one thing, it's time to start the What's on Tap Podcast 2026 Advent calendar. Day 01 brings us a classic from Italian brewery Crak. Monsueto 2024 is a 13% ABV barleywine. Sweet, boozy, and packed with caramel and fig notes, what a great way to start the calendar. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #barleywine

Oooo...wheeeee...it's time for the holiday's to begin. We kick off the season as always with a fine collection of Christmas ales from Systembolaget. Every year we get more and more to choose from. This year's collection has some interesting choices. We review beers from Omnipollo, Brewski, Dugges, Stockholms Brygghus, Götaälvdalens Brygghus and Rocky Point Brewery. Next week is the start of the 2025 Advent Calendar and we have some fun beers lined up. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #adventcalendar #advent2025 #lager #nabeer #viennalager #schwarzbier #imperialstout #winterale

The final episode before we start our holiday beer festivities. A friend of Martin's gave us three beers from Lithuanian. Volfas Engelman has over 340 beers listed on Untapped. This is part of their Alaus Laiskai or Beer Letters series. We got to try 100% Cryo Hops IPA, a 5.7% AVB IPA. Next up is Funky Lambic, a 5.5% AVB sour lambic style beer. Finally, we get Fig Stout Twist, a 4.6% ABV style stout. They call it a "special technology beer with fig flavor." It's a trip to a country that doesn't export beers. We were really happy to get to try them.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #ipa #lambic #stout

We're heading into the holiday season. This means we're excited to start our advent calendar but we can't start yet. To fill the time we drank some beers. Omnipollo Practice the Art of Connection is a collab with DIPA experts Verdant. This 8% ABV DIPA is made at their church brewery in Sundbyberg, Sweden. Pohjala Evening Colours is part of the Cellar Series. This barrel-aged imperial Baltic porter is aged in Tawny Port casks for 22 months. Worth a try but it depends on how you enjoy port aged beers.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #dipa #imperialstout

We're feeling a little fruity this episode. We need more fruited beers. Rodenbach has always been a solid, dependable brewery cranking out Flemmish red ales for a long time. Recently they have started experimenting more. Evolved Caractere is a raspberry and mango sour beer that's somehow light on all of those things. At 7.2% ABV, we want stronger flavours. We had Fidens a couple of episodes ago. It was a peach IPA. Now we're getting a full fruid bomb. Fidens Blending Dreams is a series of fruit forward beers. We got the orange, lime and pineapple version. It's an explosion of flavours.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #flemmishale #rodenbach #fruitsour

Fall has arrived and just in time for Halloween we found some scary fun beers. Brauhaus Riegele Weizen Doppelbock Augustus is a classic German style that you don't find very often. A weizen doppelbock is a top-fermented beer with a fuity, roasty taste. We will never say no to a traditional German style. Koningshoeven La Trappe Quadrupel is a Belgian Quadrupel from the people that know how to make this style. It's nutty, fruity with hints of vanilla cloves. At 10% ABV, you can't really have more than one but you'll really enjoy the one you have. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #doppelbock #quadrupel #belgianquadrupel #weizendoppelbock

We have a couple of heavy hitters today. Fidens and Brujos are two of the top hazy beer creators in the US. If you get lucky enough to try their beers, don't pass up on the chance. We certainly didn't. Fidens Jasper with Peach is their classic Jasper NEIPA make with citra hops, but they added peaches. It's a fun mix of peaches and IPA. Brujos TDH San Nosferatu is a triple dry-hopped NEIPA. They went crazy with the hops on this one. Citra, Nelson Sauvin, Maui Nelson, Nelson Hyperboost and Citra Cryo all went into this beer. It sounds like it would be a hoppy mess but it works. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #fidens #brujos #neipa #dipa

Martin also went to Poland this year. He went to Wrocław. It's just Northwest of Krakow. While he was there he tried many many many many many many beers. He also found a couple to bring back with him. First is from Inne Beczki. Martin thought Miami would be a sour beer. Instead it's a pale lager or as they call it, an American lager. We follow that up with Browar Amber Woodside. This an imperial porter with an ABV of 10.5%. Both were quite a lot of fun to try and we look forward to more beers from Poland. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #lager #paleale #porter #imperialporter

We're keeping the Danish theme alive this week with a new brewery and a closed brewery. Tiny Hill in Copenhagen just has 4 beers listed on UnTapped. Merrimack is one of their first beers. It's a 5.5% ABV hazy IPA. Björn drops some serious Civil War knowledge on us about the Merrimack and its ties to Sweden. Baghaven was one of our favorite brewery and probably the last best thing Mikkeller has done. Sadly, it is no more but their wild ales are here to remind us of better times. Art Decadence Blend 1 is a Danish wild ale with cherries, red vineyard peaches, cabernet cortis grapes and vanilla beans. It's about 5 years old and it holds up pretty well.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #wildale #hazyipa #ipa

Björn and Stefan were in Copenhagen the other day and discovered a new brewery. Brewsketeers is a new contract brewer in Copenhagen. They have a bottle shop called The Beer Hive in Amager. They fortunate enough to visit The Beer Hive before running into one of the onwers at Peders. West Coast Warrior is a collab with another Danish brewery, Ghost Brewing. This 6.5% ABV American style IPA is made with Citra, Mosaic and Simcoe. Next up is Fluffy, a collab with Thyras Bryg. This 5.2% hazy IPA is made with Citra, Mosiac and Nectaron hops. We look forward to trying more beers from this fledgling brewery. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #ipa #hazyipa #americanipa #brewsketeers

10 Year is a long time. We can hardly believe it ourselves. To celebrate we brought together Björn and Martin to go head to head in our toughest Game of Beers yet! Five rounds, winner takes all for the ultimate bragging glory. Who knows their beer trivia? Who can pick the right lager? It was a very close race but only one could survive. We want to thank everyone that has participated on the show all these years! We have a lot more to go.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks

We've talked about Malmö Taproom many times but did you know they have a second bar (some would say hidden) bar? Just behind Malmö Taproom is Malmo Mead and Cocktail Bar. It's a small room with lots of meads, cocktails and craft beer. We tried the cleverly titled Ask Staff IPA. This is a solid IPA that wasn't on the Taproom menu. We followed that up with a couple of meads, Tropical Blueberry and Exclusive Peach. These are part of the new trend of meads of being bright, fruity and not honey syrup. Tropical Blueberry is a meger 7% ABV while Exclusive Peach comes in at 12%. It's a fun place to check. You'll find some extra beers that aren't part of Malmö Taprooms menu. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #mead #ipa #malmotaproom

If you're a bar and you're only going to serve one beer, it better be a good one. In Malmö, we have a series of Czech inspired bars that only serve the same beer. Now, we have a kolsch style bar. Based on the German concept, Gaststatte kolsch has one beer, Muhlen kolsch. It's only served one size, 20cl. They will keep bringing you glasses as long as you don't tell them to. It's a great experience and highly recommended if you're in town. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #kolsch #germanbeer

Summe is over and the fall is fast approaching. To celebrate Martin dusted off some forgotten beers from his cellar to remind us that somethings don't need to be saved forever. Traquair 900 (2007) is an English barleywine. Barleywines are great to age...for a little while. After awhile it comes oddly minty. Not sure why it does but it's an instant clue your barleywine has past it's prime. Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout used to a sought after stout, back in 2006. Nine years later, it's not as trendy or hyped and shouldn't be aged this long. Cardboard and lifeless, if you're holding on to stouts, it's time to drink them.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #russianimperialstout #imperialstout #barleywine

As the summer starts to wind down, we still want to take a moment to apprecaite the sun and fun. What better way then with two light, refreshing sour beers. Drottningholms Sur blends blueberries, black currants and honey for a heavy hitting 7% AVB sour. Flying Guru Hrym is a farmhouse ale aged for 14 months and 8 months on riesling grapes before being dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin. Also at 7% ABV, it's summertime in a glass. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #sourbeer #farmhouseale

We got to try a double shot of Drowned Lands. It's a new brewery from the US for us. Fern is a 6.5% ABV NEIPA. Made with lots of wheat and oats and hopped with strata and citra, it's a juicy little number. With a name like Fern you would think it would be more earthy.  Black Gold Coffee is a straight down the middle bourbon barrel aged imperial stout with coffee. With a 10.5% ABV, it's a solid stout with not a lot of bells and whistles.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #neipa #imperialstout

After featuring Funky Fluid/Nerdbrewing collab last week, we thought it woudl be fun to return to Poland and try some more beers. Funky Fluid Gelato is their marquee beer. They crank out a lot of them. Stefan picked up Plum and Cherry Jam Gingerbread. Swedes love these flavors so it's only natural that we should have this beer on the show. At 5.5% AVB you can expect lots of flavor and excitement from the Gelato series (individual experiences may vary). Browar Kingpin is a new brewery for us. Burlesca says it's a farmhouse ale or saison. We didn't find it to be either of those things. This saison was aged in Rondo dry red wine barrels.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #pastrysour #farmhouseale #saison #polishbeer #sourbeer

Hannes over at Nerdbrewing has been quite for a while. After leaving Molecule he's taken some time to figure out his next step. Now he's back with two killer collabs.  First is a collab with Smedsbo Slott called Karamellstout.  This is a 12% ABV imperial stout that uses Palo Santo (listen to find out what that is) and vanilla. It's an interesting blend that really works well together. Up next is a collab with Polish brewers extrodinare, Funky Fluid.  BA Royal Cookie S'more smells like chocolate chip cookies and tastes great. Lots of chocolate, barrel-aging and the level of imperial stout goodness you would expect. It's great to see Nerdbrewing back on the shelves and we're looking forward to what comes next. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #stout #barrelagedstout

We had some fun this episode. We got two beers to put us right in the mood to drink beer. (Honestly, all beers put us right in the mood to drink beer.) Norwegian brewery Salikatt Camel Up is an 8% AVB hazy DIPA. Made with citra dynaboost, citra cryo and galaxy hops, it packs a fruity, delicious punch. Moersleutel Barcode: Nitro Blue is part of the excellent barcode series. This is a collaboration with O'Hara's Brewery. Be sure to shake it first to get the nitrogen activated. Once you do, turn it up and let it rip. The reward is a smooth, chocolate, barrel-aged treat. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #dipa #neipa #nitrostout #imperialstout

Summer sours are the best kind of sours. Martin reached into his cellar and brought out a couple of treats for us to try. Originally released in 2019, Speciation Extropian is a wild ale with peaches, cinnamon and vanilla. It was part of the Mikkeller Beer Club, back when that was a thing. We follow it with Side Project Blueberry Flanders (Blend #2). This is a Flanders style red ale aged in Missouri oad red wine barrels with Missouri blueberries. Sadly, not a single Missourian was present for the tasting.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #sourale #wildale

Stefan went on a bit of a summer trip and brought back some beers. He visited Poland. The craft beer scene in Poland is strong and very alive. He was able to visit tons of craft beer bars and didn't try the same beer twice. Browar Artezan has released a traditional Polish beers style called a grodziskie. It's a light abv beer with hints of smoke. Fafik comes in at 3.5% and brings in a little hops with nectaron and chinook. This is followed up with Ziemia Obiecana's Grand Kru. It's a sour beer made with white grapes and nelson sauvin hops.  These were a lot of fun to try and great for the summer. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #grodziskie #sourbeer #polishbeer

It's summer and we need to cool off. Fortunately we have beers! Goteborgs Nya Bryggeri is bringing the passion to all the hot steamy days with Summer Passion. This Berliner Weisse is packed with raspberry and passion fruit. At only 4.7% ABV, it will help you cool off. Broughton Brewery Wee Jock 90 Shilling is a wee heavy or scotch ale. It's not a light sour beer but it is a light, easy to drink and not heavy at all. Stay cool everyone! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #weeheavy #scotchale #berlinerweisse

It was the best of time. It was the worst of times. Martin brought two beers for this episode, which includes one of Stefan's least favorite styles. Next to Black IPA, witbier is his one of his least favorites. There's a reason in 674 episodes there have never been a review. We love our virginity to Common Roots Spinner. This 4.5% ABV witbier has corriander and orange peel giving it a bit of citrus notes. Burning Sky Anniversaire lifts things back up. This 7% farmhouse ale brings the funk. It's a classic from Burning Sky and this years is just as much funky fun as the pervious years.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #witbier #saison #farmhouseale

We're in the heart of the summer and we need some IPA's to cool us down. It's a perfect time for this! We start with Spyglass Borealis. This NEIPA comes in at 8.1% ABV made with British Ale yeast and hopped with Citra, NZ Rakau and EU Enigma. This is a stone fruit bomb. Finback Oscillation 040 is part of their NEIPA line. 040 is the latest version. It's dry hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe and Rakau. Tropical fruity and just what we want on a warm summer day. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #neipa

Even though it's bright and sunny, we still like to keep it dark. First up we're treated to a collaboration between great breweries. Stigbergets teamed up with The Kernel to create a traditional English porter. Taking inspiration from an 1800's London Porter recipe, Victorian Porter is a roasted delight. We follow that up with a big imperial stout from Nogne. Also inspired by Victorian times, Ship-Shape and Briston Fashion is a reference to the condition of the ship. Based on this, it was in very good condition. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #englishporter #porter #imperialstout #stout

It's time to play Martin's favorite game. Let's discover a new brewery. It's not so much a game as an obesssion. This time he found a brewery from Ontario, Canada. Badlands Brewing has some releases at Systembolaget so we jumped at the chance to try them. Secret Wave is an annual release of a Hazy IPA. Made with galazy, nectaron and simcoe, it's got tons of tropical and citrus notes. Badlands does a monthly DIPA release. They start with a base recipe and then go crazy with the hops. March DIPA uses peacharine, HBC 1019 and sabro hops. It's a peachy treat! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #dipa