The Stockholm Beer Festival '96

The 5th of October was the day some members of OMH honoured the Stockholm Beer Festival with a visit. For different reasons only a handful of us could make it, and since we had no tickets it took us nearly two hours to get in. The arrangers had succeeded to collect around 400 different beers from all over the world. Unfortunately most of the rare Belgians were sold out, since this was the last night of the festival. I was delighted to see all the new Swedish brews.

The ratings were high all night, and there was quite a few highlights, like Weltenburger Kloster Asam-Bock, a superb bock, and the Flemish Red Ale of Rodenbach. A homebrewed stout was really tasty, and on top of that we got it for free... Also, we rated our first African beers, two Namibian lagers - not at all bad.

BEERS RATED 5 OCTOBER 1996

RANK	BEER	COUNTRY	AVERAGE	WEIGHTED	PS	LS	AH	FH
8	Weltenburger Kloster Asam-Bock	Germany	4,33	4,77	5	5	3
9	Rodenbach	Belgium	4,33	4,62	5	4	4
21	K Johansson's Homebrewed Stout	Sweden	4,00	4,15	4	5		3
32	Östgöta Blåbärs	Sweden	4,00	4,00	4	4	4
67	Herold Dark	Czech Rep.	3,67	3,89	3	4	3
78	Gambrinus	Czech Rep.	3,67	3,54	3	5	3
122	Bernard*	Czech Rep.	3,33	3,77	4	4	2
122	Maredsous 6 Amber	Belgium	3,33	3,77	4	4	2
122	Samson	Czech Rep.	3,33	3,77	4	4	2
129	Zeunerts Alt-Bier	Sweden	3,33	3,46	4	2	4
147	Herold	Czech Rep.	3,33	3,27	3	4	3
209	MacLay's Stout	Sweden	3,00	3,66	4	4	1
261	Banco Färsköl	Sweden	3,00	3,00	3	3	3
297	Zeunerts Skördeöl	Sweden	3,00	2,85	3	2	4
261	Schlossbräu Mickhausen Märzen	Germany	3,00	3,00	3	3	3
297	Windhoek Special	Namibia	3,00	2,85	3	2	4
304	Ushers IPA	England	3,00	2,65	2	4	3
367	Radegast Porter	Czech Rep.	2,67	3,39	4	3	1
367	Rochefort 10	Belgium	2,67	3,39	4	3	1
377	Uppsala Öl	Sweden	2,67	2,73	3	2	3
403	Nethergates Umbel Ale	England	2,67	2,54	2	4	2
406	Windhoek Export	Namibia	2,67	2,38	2	3	3
500	Hansen Pils	Denmark	2,33	2,97	4	1		2
580	Singha Gold	Thailand	2,00	2,50	3	2	1

Rated by: PS - Per Samuelsson, LS - Lars Samuelson, AH - Anna Hultén, FH - Fredik Huldt

You can also check out the homepage of Stockholm Beer Festival (In Swedish),

or you could see who won the awards at Beer World Sweden's page Stockholm Beer Festival 1996 (In Swedish).

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Updated 96-10-24 Per Samuelsson