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. 

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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