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Many of us, like proper lab technicians, break down a beer into its smallest components, identifying hop varieties and yeast strains. We rarely reflect longer than a second on what goes into the artwork that decorates its bottle, pump clip or glass. Yet many times it’ll be the label that sparks that first interest in …

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Morning Beer Bums, I hope you had a great Valborgsmässafton and a sunny May 1st Holiday. I had a wonderful day off, relaxing and b-b-q-ing with family and friends. Today most of us are back to business and so is Systembolaget with its May release. It’s a twenty-something strong line-up displaying a multitude of styles …

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Nowadays there are so many new breweries popping up it’s hard goddamn work keeping track of them all. One emergence that hasn’t escaped my radar is CAP Brewery. Last weekend at En öl & whisky mässa, Mattias Hammenlind and his newly started brewery gave us an initial glimpse at what they’ll be putting into play. …

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Innovation, passion and knowledge are of course not empty and meaningless words to the likes of Matthew Clark and Alex Buchanan, but rather something of a philosophy. Matthew a brewer and Alex the marketing manager at celebrated British brewery Thornbridge, are currently touring our long and cold country together with nationwide distributor Stefan Johansson of …

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April is here and spring has finally arrived to Stockholm. Well, maybe its not here in full, but at least it’s around the corner. 2nd of April is also the time when Systembolaget will make room for new spring arrivals. Not a huge release, but instead a more manageable amount of 20 bottles. « This highly …

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