Day 2 of the Advent Calendar 2019 brought out the holiday spirit in Mathias. He dug deep into the depths of his cellar and found a 10 year old barleywine. We were pretty excited about the Herslev Bryghus Mjolner Barleywine. Sometimes good things do come to those who wait.

Day1 of the 2019 Advent Calendar is happening and we kick off this years calendar with a fun beer from the US. The Answer is a small brewpub in Richmond, VA. It's kind of rare to find their beers in Europe but we found one for the calendar.  Fresh AF is an amazing IPA made with amarillo, ella and simcoe hops.

We love Christmas and one advent  calendar isn't enough. We needed two! We return our favorite advent calendar. This is our third time to cover the To Ol Advent Calendar. They start it off on a strong foot with Santas Secret Mochaccino Messiah Triple Shot. When the calendar starts like this, it's exciting to see what they will bring to this year.

It's Christmas time again and you know what that means...CHRISTMAS BEER! We kick off the this years holiday season with a fun collection of Systembolaget beer. This year there were over 80 beers listed as Christmas beers, we picked four we thought were interesting. We review Brekieret Lusse Lelle, Remmarlov Winter Brew, Wastach Wonderful Winter Ale, Nerdbrewing Xmas Override. Starting December 1st, we'll start our Advent review. This year we did something different. Listen to find out what!

Before there was craft beer in Malmö. Before there was a craft beer bar in Malmö. If you wanted to get something that wasn't a lager, you didn't have many choices. Thankfully, we had Pickwick. It's setup like a traditional English pub. It's warm, cozy, you can play dart, it's everything you want in a pub. Of course we had to go back to where it all began. This episode we review Äbro Bryggeri Bron APA & Sadler's Ales Peaky Blinders Black IPA.

We have recorded at Bishop Arms Savoy many times since we started. Recently they have undergone a change in management and with it comes a change in style. Martin and Stefan check out what has changed and if they can still recommend it. This episode they review Laugar Brightlight & Frequency Beer Works Smash the Pastryarchy. One is a hazy lager and the other is a non-pastry stout. We'll let you decide which is which.

We went to All In Beer Festival this year. It was an amazing time. It's not as big as other Swedish beer festivals but don't think it isn't as equally as much fun. There were amazing breweries from Sweden, Denmark, Russia, US, UK and Germany. This was Martin's first time to attend a beer festival as a podcast host instead of a just an attendee. This episode we interviewed Byron Burroughs from Proof Brewing, Fridtjof Stelter from FrauGruber, Yuri Mitin from Bakunin, and Alex Ek from The Attic Meadery.

We were at the Great Swedish Beer Festival and had a chance to sit down with Malin Derwinger a.k.a. Swedish Cicerone. She knows beer! We have a great conversation about beer history, trends, what it takes to be a cicerone and the current beer market. We had a great time and hope she'll be on the show again in the future. The Great Swedish Beer Festival was a great time as well. If you missed it, you missed one of the most relaxing, social beer festivals we've ever been to.

Collaborations can be a weird thing. Quite often breweries will work to create something outside their normal comfort zone. We don't get many Romanian beers in Sweden, so we were pretty excited to try a collab between Romania brewery Hop Hooligans and a Serbia brewery called Dogma Brewing. Small Talk Big Brewing is an incredible NEIPA. Next is a dobbelbock from Skåne brewers Remmarlöv and Gothenberg brewers O/O brewing. It's sweet, malty treat that you should grab a few bottles of it.

It's not often you get to try two collaboration beers from two breweries at the same time. British superstars Northern Monk journeyed over to Denmark and made an IPA with up-and-comers Gamma Brewery. That beer is called Adaptation. It's a fun NEIPA that uses Citra, Mosiac and Galaxy hops. Then Gamma ventures over to Leeds and they create a NEIPA with Mosiac, Citra and Idaho 7 called Humle. How do breweries that create essentially the same beer differ when they cross regions?