Ohhh... My Head... - Beer # 5000!

So, finally, after years of hard work, we reached the magic number of 5000 different beers. We reached this numer at the same time as we reached 130 countries, as Amarcord La Puténa from San Marino was chosen to be the official beer # 5000. It did not disappoint us at all. As a matter of fact it was fascinating how this tiny country can have a double bock with such vast character.

After this we wnet over to Russian beer. Finally we have found a real microbrewery in Russia, Shiko in St. Petersburg. Where other Russian beers are bold and unrefined, Shikos beers are stylish and mild.

We still had more Belgian beers to sample. Among these we'll find the winner of the night - Brugse Straffe Hendrik Bruin and a very interesting oud bruin from Liefmans. We finished the night with having some extremely powerful American microbrews of which Avery Old Jubilation scored the highest, but my favourite was the two heavy brews from Thirsty Dog.

Many thanks to Bov, jbrus duff, hopsrus, fiulijn and Sandro Regusci for supplying us with the beers, and of course the Alnebo family for hosting it!

Beers rated June 18th 2003

POS

BEER

COUNTRY

SCORE

PS

LS

FH

FN

JB

ABV

STYLE

198

Brugse Straffe Hendrik Bruin

Belgium

4,19

4

5-

5-

3+

4+

8,5%

Ale, Belgian style

222

Avery Old Jubilation

USA

4,15

4

5-

4-

4

5-

8,0%

Ale, British style

224

Amarcord La Puténa

San Marino

4,15

4+

4+

4+

4-

4

7,5%

Lager, Bock

296

Liefmans Odnar

Belgium

4,07

4+

4+

4-

4

4

 

Ale, Belgian style

356

Saku Porter

Estonia

4,02

4+

4+

4-

4

4-

7,0%

Porter/Stout

408

Thirsty Dog Siberian Night Imperial Stout

USA

3,97

4+

4-

4-

4

4+

 

Porter/Stout

732

Ch'ti Ambrée

France

3,79

4-

4

3+

4-

5-

5,9%

Ale, Belgian style

747

Adelardus Trudoabdijbier

Belgium

3,78

3+

4

4

4

4

7,0%

Ale, Belgian style

836

Saint Monon Bière au Miel

Belgium

3,73

3+

4

4

4+

3+

8,0%

Ale, Belgian style

967

Two Brothers Bare Tree Weiss Wine 2002

USA

3,71

4-

4+

2

5

4

11,0%

Ale, British style

983

Avery Salvation

USA

3,71

4

4

3-

4

4

9,0%

Ale, Belgian style

1088

Avery The Czar Imperial Stout

USA

3,63

4-

4

3

4+

3+

12,2%

Porter/Stout

1222

Great Divide St. Brigid's Porter

USA

3,55

4-

3+

3+

4+

3+

6,0%

Porter/Stout

1248

Shiko Admiral Svetloe

Russia

3,53

4-

3+

4-

 

4-

6,8%

Lager, Bock

1289

Thirsty Dog Bout Time Barley Wine

USA

3,51

5-

3+

2

4

3+

10,5%

Ale, British style

1483

Bavik Wittekerke

Belgium

3,46

3+

3

4

4

3+

5,0%

Wheat beer

1520

Shiko Devyatiy Val

Russia

3,44

3

3+

4

4

3+

8,5%

Lager, Bock

1593

Houten Kop

Belgium

3,41

4+

2+

4-

2+

4+

6,5%

Ale, Belgian style

1621

Shiko Admiral Temnoe

Russia

3,40

4-

3+

3+

 

3+

6,8%

Lager, Bock

1745

Shepeard Neame Late Red

England

3,34

3

3+

3

4

4

4,5%

Ale, British style

2164

Ename Blond

Belgium

3,21

3

4-

3

3

4-

6,5%

Ale, Belgian style

2260

Shiko Gladiator Svetloe

Russia

3,17

3+

2+

4-

 

4-

4,2%

Lager, Dark

2334

Abbaye de Vaucelles Bière Blonde

France

3,14

3

3+

3

3

4-

7,5%

Ale, Belgian style

3879

Leroy Ridder

Belgium

2,43

2+

3-

1+

4-

3-

2,3%

Special

3900

Stepan Razin Petrovskoe

Russia

2,41

2-

3

2+

3-

3

4,8%

Lager, Light

3968

Stepan Razin Pshenichnoe

Russia

2,37

3-

3

2

2-

2+

4,5%

Wheat beer

4160

Stepan Razin Specialnoe

Russia

2,23

2

3

2

2+

2

3,6%

Lager, Light

4202

Tinkoff Pilsner Platinove

Russia

2,19

3+

2-

2-

 

2-

5,3%

Lager, Light

4223

Stepan Razin Kalinkin

Russia

2,17

2-

2+

3-

3-

2

7,0%

Lager, Bock

4347

Bochkarev Bochkove

Russia

2,07

2+

2

1+

 

3-

4,0%

Lager, Light

4393

Bochkarev Svetloe

Russia

2,02

2

2+

2-

2+

2

4,5%

Lager, Light

4511

Stepan Razin Krepkoe

Russia

1,92

2-

1+

3

3

1

8,2%

Lager, Bock

Rated by: Per Samuelsson, Lars Samuelsson, Fredrik Huldt, Fredrik Nyström and Jonas Bofjäll

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Updated 2003-06-25 Per Samuelsson