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We know summer is approaching but that doesn't mean we're leaving our favorite dark, heavy beers behind. We had to try couple of the highest ABV beers released by Swedish breweries this year. Smedsbo Slott is beginning to become a regular on the show. Pascha is a called a stout on Untappd but they call it a Seasonal Ale. What's a seasonal ale? Who knows...but at 14.5% ABV, it will put you in a festive mood. Ekero Brygghus Barley Wine is an English Barleywine that is aged in Irish whisky barrels. The barley wine really picked up the peat notes from barrel. This one will knock your socks off if you love peat smoke. At 15.5% ABV, like a fine whisky, it's a sipper. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #barleywine

This episode was recorded before the tragic loss of Li. She was an amazing woman and helped create in the Malmö beer scene. She will be greatly missed. Our hearts go out to Anders, Malmö Taproom and everyone affected by her passing. We haven't reviewed a Malmo Brewing beer from Malmö Taproom in a long time. They got a new head brewer last year and we felt it was time to check in with them to see if things have changed.  Björn from Björnguiden joins us this episode. Goodnik is a new hazy IPA made with nelson, waiti and nectaron. This is a really good start and a vast improvement over the hazy IPAs they have been making over the past few years. Malmö Brings all the Boys to the Yard is an imperial milkshake IPA at 10.1% ABV. It's a collab with Finnish brewers Tuju. Made with lactose, peach and vanilla, it was surprisingly drinkable and the 10.1% ABV could not be found. Lastly we tried an imperial pastry stout called Invisible Thunder. Filled with coconut, espresso beans and vanilla, it's also a heavy hitter at 11.3% AVB, This was quite the improvement over what we have tried in the past. Things are really starting to turn around! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #ipa #neipa #hazyipa #imperialstout #milkshakeipa

Summer is fast approaching so we wanted to look at some lighter beers. Wapno Lya Belgian Blonde is a 6% ABV that gets a little Belgian-ish without deep diving into the pure Belgian funkyness. Funky Fluid Free Szarlotka is a non-alcoholic apple pie gelato. It really hits the apple and cinnamon notes and feels like it would be a great non-alcoholic beer for the warm summer months. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #belgianblonde #nonalcoholicbeer

We looked over the shelves at Systembolaget and found a couple of things that grabbed our interest. Two classic breweries have beers out. One is a classic and one is...something else. Nynashamns Angryggeri  has been releasing some great traditional beers for years. Svenska Ölfrämjandet 40 år Jubileumsöl is a dark mild that celebrates their 40th anniversary. A dark mild isn't a strong style and it's hard to rate. This one is really solid. Schneider Weisse Cuvee Barrique (TAPX) 2018 is a weizenbock. It's a sour wheat beer with a heavy emphasis on sour. It's a crazy taste sensation for sure. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #darkmild #weizenbock

Martin made a trip to Stockholm and picked up some beers. The subway system in Stockholm is amazing and worth the time to ride each line to see all the different decorations per stop. It's a lot of fun. Martin stopped on the Grona Linjen or Green Line because they have beers. He picked up two beers from them. Bira Bira Bira is a nice lager at 5% ABV. Högdalen is a 6.2% English IPA. It's always fun to try a new brewery and we'll be riding the Grona Linjen again soon. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #ipa #lager

We searched around Systembolaget and found a couple of beers that peeked our interest. Martin found a Belgian IPA from Brouwerij-Kerkon. Hop Verdomme is a 7% ABV featuring 7 Flemish hops, which if 7 more than we were aware of. Stefan found an Irish dry stout from Sullivan's brewing. Black Marble comes in at 5.1% and give Guiness a run for it's money. It's a deeply roasted stout that really hits the spot.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #irishstout #dryirishstout #stout #ipa #belgianipa

It's Easter so that means it's time for Easter beers! What are Easter beers? I used to be boring lagers and brown ales but now it's just beers with an Easter theme. There were 108 beers released at Systembolaget to mark the holiday. Sadly, most of them didn't make it to shops in Malmö. We were able to find a few on the shelves. First is Bökebergs Bryggeri Big Red, a amber lager at 6% ABV. Next is Nynäshamns Ångbryggeri Pumpviken Påsköl, a traditional Strong Mild ale 5.6% AVB. Lastly, Perfectly Squared Brewing Resurrection, a barrel-aged Påskmust flavoured stout at 5.6%. Happy Easter and Glad Påsk! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #easterbeer #lager #mildale #stout #påsk

We got some heavy hitters this episode. Big beers are always in season no matter the weather. Beerium has released their annual stout called Beeriums Friendly Giant 2025. Filled with notes of liquorice and chocolate, this stout is roasted really hard and the flavors come through.  One of our favorite Norwegain breweries Lervig has come out their annual barleywine release Paragon 2023. This barrel aged beauty is always one of our favoite releases of the year.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #barleywine

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Martin and Stefan remember when Cascade Brewing released beers into the European webshops. It was a huge moment for EU beer nerds. 10 years later, Cascade has ceased production sadly. They lament the demise of the sour powerhouse that helped bring sour beers to the mainstream. Cascade Blueberry Ale 2015 is from that first release and after 10 years, it's got a lot of life in it. It could probably go another 10 years. They follow it up with another sour powerhouse beer brewery, The Bruery Terreux. Sans Pagaie 2017 is a sour blonde ale with cherries. Their version of a Belgian Kriek.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #sourbeer #kriek #wildale

Do you like Finnish beers? Of course you do. It's beer! We got to try two Finnish beers that are very local. Panimoyhtio Tuju Pumpattava Barbaari really excited Martin as his love of Conan the Barbarian is legendary. It's a simple 5% AVB lager that is great to drink after you crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women. Tuletorn Brewing has dropped Astelpaju Juju. This smoothie sour is filled with mango with a touch of sea buckthorn. Two very different beers from breweries we hope to start seeing in Sweden. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #lager #finland #smoothiesour

Another week brings an new collection of beers. Up first is from a hot new Finnish brewery Factory Brewing.  Cosmic Dance is an exciting hazy DIPA made with Citra, Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy hops. We're looking forwad to trying more of their beers. Hopfully we get some Sweden soon. We paired it with a 3F Oude Geuze Blend No 49 from season 23/24. It's a 6% gueuze that gives lots of apple and funky notes. For a young gueuze it's really exicting. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #dipa #neipa #gueuze

As spring is moving towards us, it's time to put away heavy beers and start thinking about lighter fare. We love sour and fruited beers. Martin was able to procure two subjects for today's episode. Fruktrocket Frukinger Plum is a 6% fruited sour beer that gives us a kiss of plum. Collective Arts Mango, Lime and Jalapeno gose sounds like it might a spicy little number. It's full of mango with a bit of lime and just a jalapeno heat to keep things interesting. Let's bring the heat! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #fruitbeer #sourbeer #gose

We haven't had many Romanian beers. Stefan was able to track down a couple of beers from a Romanian brewery called Clandestin. After butchering the name a few times, Stefan finally figrued out how to pronouce Non Perignon, a 7.5% ABV NEIPA. Brewed in collaboration with Voodoo Craft Brewery (not the US Voodoo), this NEIPA is made with motueka and citra. Space Cake is an imperial stout made with hazelnuts, caramel, vanilla and cinnamon for a rich pastry stout. It's always fun to find new craft beers from around the world.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #neipa #dipa #imperialstout

Martin went dumpster diving on some webshops and found a couple of Founders barrel aged beers. Released years ago, who knows what horrors they have seen in warehouses and shelves. Remember when Founders was a thing? They've really disappeared from the European market the last few years.  Velvet Rush (2021) is a brown ale which should have notes of coffee, chocolate and vanilla extract. Milk sugar was added before being barrel aged. Needless to say, most of that was missing. Nemesis is a straight up American style barleywine, which means it should be a little hoppy tasting. The have definetly faded on this. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #brownale #barleywine #founders

We got the gang together to cover three beers from Polish brewery Pinta. It got a little crazy and really went off the rails in several points. But that's to be expected when you get everyone together to podcast. We start with Risfactor Coconut and Coffee. This 11% ABV coffee stout starts us out with high expectations. Then we move to Liberty, a vanilla, coocnut and coffee imperial stout aged on bourbon barrels. At only 13% ABV, it's a smooth drink. Finally we end with Affection, the last of our coconut, coffee beers. This one also has cocoa nibs and vanilla and is aged on bourbon barrels for 18 months. It comes in at 12% ABV. Three coconut, coffee beers from one great brewery. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #pintabrewing 

We're keeping it local with two more Swedish breweries. Especially ones we haven't reviewed before.  Sad Robot Velvet Opression is part of the Sveriges Oberoende Bryggerier release that we discussed last week. Velvet Opression is a Belgian Strong Dark Ale. We really got into this one. At only 5.2% ABV, it takes like a fruit cake made with really dark rye bread. Brygghus 19 is back on the show with International Haze Double Pineapple Ed. It's 2x pineapple, 1x mango, 1x hops. All the fun we've come to expect.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #belgianstrongdarkale #neipa

Sveriges Oberoende Bryggerier is a collection of independent Swedish breweries. They have been releasing beers with the same label for a few months to show the depth and scope of independent Swedish brewers. We featured several of them during the 2025 Advent calendar. So far they have released over 30 beers. It's great to try so many different styles from so many different local breweries.  We tried three releases this episode. Beer Barons released a pilsner coming at 4.7% ABV and made with Nelson Sauvin hops. Next is BarlinBeer with a hazy IPA. It's 7.2% AVB with simcoe and citra hops. Finally we have Örebro Brygghus with a 5% ABV zwickel pils. If you see these on the shelf, grab some and try something from a local brewery.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #pilsner #ipa #zwickel

The holidays might be behind us but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate some Saints. Dugges has released a trilogy of barrel aged imperial stouts.  Saint Nick is a Barbados rum barrel aged imperial coffee, cocoa, coconut and vanilla stout. Saint Vance is a Indiana Rye whiskey barrel aged imperial coffee, cocoa, coconut and vanilla stout.  Lastly, Saint Bard is a Kentucky bourbon barrel aged imperial coffe, cocoa cocnut and vanilla stout. All three were made in collaboration with Fuerst Wiacek.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #barrelaged 

Slovakia is a beautiful country with a rich history. There is so much to see and do while you're there. While you'll find a lot of traditional breweries serving lagers and old world styles, the new beer scene is still in it's nacient days. Cierny Kamen is raising the craft beer game. We got to try two of their beers:  Riwaka Time and Nexthopoit. Riwaka Time is a 5%ABV NEIPA made with...you guessed it...Riwaka hops. Nexthopoit is a 6.2% ABV NEIPA made with Talus, Sabro and Sultana hops. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #neipa #ciernykamen

Stefan did some travelling over the holidays. He made it to Vienna, and of course, he picked up some beers. While you can find lots of great beers in Austria, you can't find a lot of craft beer. Fear not, he was able to find an incredible marzen from Bierschmiede. Werkstruk is a 5.2% ABV marzen that makes us sad we can't drink it all year round. We jump into the Bavarian region with one of our favorite breweries Schlenkerla. Their smoked beers are always a treat. Erle is a schwarzbier. A smoked black lager is just what we need! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #marzen #schwarzbier 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welcome to 2025 and our first episode of the year. We don't want to waste any time and get right to it with two exciting beers. Poppels Grand Cru Strong Ale is a 12.6% ABV strong ale brewed with Swedish brewers Smedsbo Slott. THis strong agle is barrel aged strong ale hits strong but finishes with honey, raisins and a little marzepan. Drake's Santa's Brass: Heaven Hill is an English barleywine clocking in at 14.6% ABV. Filled with bourbon barrel notes and dark fruit, this barleywine really helps kick off the new year! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #strongale #dugges #barleywine

That's a wrap for 2024. We hope you enjoyed the episodes as much as we enjoyed making them. We'll end the year on with a couple of beers from two of our favorite breweries.  Martin brought 3 Fonteinen Prium Mirabelle blend no 25. This geuze has Mirabelle plums added and was added to Olorosso barrels. This is one of our favorite blends that 3F makes. Stefan brought Lervig Silent Exchange by Rackhourse. The Rackhouse series is an outstanding line from Lervig. They always bring a high level of quality and flavor. Silent Exchange is a collaboration with Pohjala. They take the imperial stout and blend Finnish rye, maple syrup and put it in bourbon barrels. Have a happy holidays every and we'll see you in 2025. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #geuze #lambic #imperialstout #barrelaged

All good things must come to an end and on day 24 of our 2024 Advent Calendar, we are going our in style. Närke Kulturebryggeri has released several Kaggen Stormaktsporters over the years. This 2021 edition is the Skotsk-Kaggen Stormaktsporter. It's their traditional imperial stout aged on Scotch whiskey barrels. What a great end to a wonder calendar. Have a happy holidays! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #imperialporter #imperialstout #porter #stout

Advent 2024 Day 23 is the penultimate day of our little calendar. Dugges has been making lots of IPAs, sours and big imperial stouts. This little gem is a bourbon barrel-aged vanilla and chocolate stout. Lxy is rich and delicious with loads of vanilla and aged on Heaven Hill barrels for 36 months. Then they add grounded Standout Chocolate Dominican Republic cocoa nibs. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #imperialstout #stout

Advent 2024 Day 22 is the antepenultimate beer in our calendar. Ryssby Bryggeri continues our Swedish theme with a beer that asked a simple question, What the HELLES? This kolsch beer keeps it simple with a light, refreshing beer that is probablyl better on a warm summer day than a cold winter night. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #kolsch

Advent 2024 Day 21 is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. Moody Tongue Bourbon Barrel Aged Gingerbread Imperial Stout from 2018 is bringing the holiday cheer. Moody Tongue Brewing Company is a micro brewery out of Chicago. This imperial stout has cinnamon and vanilla and is aged for 12 months on Heaven Hill bourbon barrels.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #imperialstout #stouts

Advent 2024 Day 20 keeps it simple. Swedish nano brewery Potum is just getting started. Their No Rain is a 5.3% ABV helles. Simple clean and drinkable...but also our most controverisal beer of the calendar. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #helles #lager

Advent 2024 Day 19 is a favorite of ours, the pastry sour. Mortalis Echidna is a fruited smoothie sour blending coconut, mango, kiwi, banana and pineapple. It's a total fruit smoothie with a 7% AVB. Mortalis does great pastry sours and this really hits the spot. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #sour #pastrysour

Advent 2024 Day 18 has us celler diving. We go waaaaaaaaaay back in time to find a classic beer. This Greene King Strong Suffolk Vintage Ale is from 2007. At only 6% ABV, should it really have been cellared so long? We had to find out. In 2013, this beer was renamed to Strong Suffolk Dark Ale. It might be the oldest beer we've ever reviewed. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #stongale

Advent 2024 Day 17 brings us another Oberoende beer. This time from Nyköping Brewing Co. Oberoende Rököl is a smoked beer made with beachwood smoked malts, Munich malts and dehusked black malk. Then they add some Magnum hops. The result is a lightly smoked easy drinking smoked beer.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #smokedbeer

Advent 2024 Day 16 features a blond.  Vreta kloster Bryggeri is one of the many participants in the independent brewery releases. There are around 30 beers released so far. Oberoende belgisk blond is a 6.6% ABV Belgian blonde. They are really great at deep diving into traditional Belgian styles. We always look forward to their releases.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #belgianblonde

Advent 2024 Day 15 is from NYC. Evil Twin NYC has released Walking Down the Streets of NYC with a Christmas Tree Is Completely Normal. This is a NEIPA coming in at 6.5%. It's double dry-hopped with citry and galaxy hops. The result is a very drinkable NEIPA that won't look out of place when you're walking down the streets of NYC with a Christmas tree. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #neipa

Advent 2024 Day 14 takes us to Belgium and the amazing Cantillion gueuze. Kriek 100 Lambic Bio 2020 is a cherry lambic. At 4 years old, it's still really strong. The great things about Cantillion lambics is that they really start coming to life around 5 years. We're at a good spot but this could use a couple more years. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #lambic #kriekgueuze #gueuze #advent2024 #adventcalendar

Advent 2024 Day 13 keeps us in Sweden with Nääs Barley Wine 2024. This is part of their 10 year celebration and just in time for Christmas. We're glad to celebrate with them. It's a very traditional barley wine the keeps the style without adjunct or barrel aging.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #barleywine #advent2024 #adventcalendar

Advent 2024 Day 12 comes from Swedish brewery Brewhuslan. Bloody is a red ale. This calendar is bringing us lots of different styles. We weren't sure what to expect but the can art really hooked us.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #redale

It wouldn't be an Advent Calendar if we didn't feature a beer from the brewery that started it all. Day 11 is To Ol 365 Day of Darkness 2023. This dopplebock was aged in calvados and cognac barrels. We're really excited about this and we'll always feature a To Ol beer in the calendar. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #dopplebock #barrelaged

Advent 2024 Day 10 brings us Weldwerks Brewing German Chocolate Cake. We've had a very few milk stouts on the show over the years. Largely because there aren't a lot of milk stouts out there. Weldworks Brewing made milk stout with pecans, coconut, dark chocolate, milk sugar and vanilla. It takes a boring 5.5% ABV beer and jacks it up a few notches.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #milkstout

Advent 2024 Day 09 takes us back to Sweden with Svartbergets Highlands. We don't see many breweries doing Scottish Ales. We love traditional styles and always look for a chance to feature them on the show. A scottish ale is a malty ale with a light roasty, caramel body that's easy to drink. Highlands is a traditional scottish ale that is very much to style. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #scottishale

Advent 2024 Day 08 is a big ole stout from the masters of big ole stouts in the Netherlands Moersleutel. We used to have a lot of their beers to review a few years ago but we backed off them a little. Cinnamon Bun Plasterer is another imperial stout this time with raisins, cinnamon, vanilla, tonka beans, coffee and cassonade sugar. It's really going for that cinnamon bun experience. Moersleutel never backs away from a big ole stout. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #imperialstout #stout

Advent 2024 Day 07 brings us winter cheer as always. It's sad that Mikkeller's Baghaven is no more. They did great wild ales.  Ensenada Batch 1 is a prime example of that. This Danish wild ale aged in tequila barrels and blended with red grapefruit, sea salt and sabro hops creating an almost gose like experience. You've very lucky if you still have one of these. Might be a good time to open it. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #wildale

Advent 2024 Day 06 is a delight. Some said it was a collaboration that would never happen. Some said it's a collaboration that shouldn't happen. But Omnipollo and Närke Kulturebryggeri collaborated on a version of the Närke Kaggen series. Tårt-Kaggen is a double imperial porter with heather honey, bourbon barrels with raw and toasted coconut, Madagascan vanilla steeped in buffalo trace and heaven hill bourbon for 3 years plus freshly cut volcanic vanilla. Omnipollo doesn't hold back when they make a beer. They definitely kicked this up a notch. #beer #drinks #craftbeer #imperialporter #porter #omnipollo #advent2024 #adventcalendar

Advent 2024 Day 05 brings something a little different. So far we've had big stouts and barleywines and a relaxing geuze. Now it's time to get a little rough. Vault City makes great sour beers. They are really under valued. They are always cranking out odd combinations and flavors. Vault Dweller is a real kick in the teeth with it's upfront sour candy flavors. Vault City describes as "More Sour" and they aren't wrong. This green beer will really get your mouth to pucker. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #sourbeer

Advent 2024 Day 04 brings us an old friend. Nerdbrewing has been doing big stouts for a long time. They teamed up with Emperor's Brewing out of the UK for this one. Brute Force is an imperial stout with dark forest honey and aged on toasted coconut. It's another big beer coming in at 13.3% ABV. This calendar is definetly big and bold this year. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #nerdbrewing #imperialstout #stout

Advent 2024 Day 03 brings us Smedsbo Slott Barley Wine Bourbon Oaked. Coming in at 14.5% AVB this is a big beer. A classic barleywine aged on bourbon oak, which probably means wood chunks and not barrels. We dig into this big boy and a little saucy. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #barleywine

Advent 2024 Day 02 is here and with it comes 3 Fonteinen Cuvee Armand and Gaston Vintage 2017. We getting fancy this episode and drink our beer with our pinkies out, and not because we have syphillis. We're fancy. It's got all the tart notes of green apple and citrus that we love from a 3F geuze. If can sustain this level of quality, this will really be a great calendar this year. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #adven2024 #adventcalendar #geuze 

Ooooh wheee...it's time. Let's kick this off. Advent Calendar 2024 has begun and it's day 01. Gamla Enskede Bryggeri kicks off the calendar with their annual release of Bloodofjupiter. This one is called 13 Anti-Christ Strong Ale. It's a strong ale mixed with lingonberries that boarders on a barleywine. At 13% ABV, it's a "Strong" start to the calendar! #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2024 #adventcalendar #strongale

It's the final Thursday of November and that can only mean one thing...Systembolaget Julöl episode. We try five different Jul Öl beers released from Systembolaget at the beginning of November to help you understand which beers should be a part of your Christmas celebrations. This we picked a lot of milds, dark ales and bocks. Since Stefan always picks the beers based off the label, he got an unintended theme. This year we have a dark Mild from Beer Baron's called Mild Winter, a spiced ale from Bustad Brewing Co called Tomteluva, a schwarzbier from Beerium called Down the Chimney 2024, a julbock from Ringu and a Winterwarmer Gingerbread strong mild ale from Österlenbryggarna. It's a very merry Christmas time!  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #julöl #christmasbeers #mildale #schwarzbier #julbock #strongmildale

It's the UK vs US in a saison double header. Don't get to do back-to-back saisons very often. This is a real surprise. The Kernel is one of the UK's best producer of traditional style beers. They do a lot of traditional ipas, porters, table beers, saisons and more. Foeder Beer Mosaic is a farmhouse ale made with mosiac hops fermented in red wine barrels. At only 5.4% ABV, it's a light refreshing farmhouse ale that's light on the funk. Jester King is Texas premiere wild ale makers. Super Ultramega Hyperforce is a 4.5% ABV farmhouse ale made with ginger, salt, tarragon and refermented with cataloupe. It's not as weird as it sounds.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #farmhouseale #saison

We love the fall. The leaves change colors. The temperature gets colder. Stouts and Barleywines appear on the shelves. Autum brings so many wonderful changes. Evil Twin has brewed over a 1000 beers in their NYC brewery. How do we know? They released a beer called Batch No 1000 Brewed in NYC. This is an old ale made with maple syrup. While it's not a stout or a barleywine, it is a 13% ABV big boy. Danish brewers Bad Seed don't show up on shelves in Sweden very often. It's no surprise that Stefan found this in Copenhagen. Bourbon Barrel Aged Colossus 2023 is a English barleywine aged in Heaven Hill bourbon barrels. It's keeping us warm for sure. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #barleywine #oldale #barrelaged

This episode we've got a couple of stouts to warm us as winter slowly approaches. No need to break out your heavy coats and scarves when you're drinking high ABV stouts. Drake's Brewing out of California has taken their imperial stout and aged it on St. George single malt barrels. Amburana Death of the Sun is a 12.9% ABV barrel-aged stout is missing some of the barrel aging.  Rivington Brewing from England released an imperial pastry stout called Lamb-or-Genie. Coming in at 10.5%, this bad boy has banana and coconut in it. It's a collab with Latvian brewers Arpus and American brewers Commonwealth Brewing. We had high expectations that weren't entirely met. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #imperialstout #stout #pastrystout