OMH Ratings - Stockhom Beer Festival 1999

Tärnö Bryggeri have reasons to celebrate their effoerts. Two of their beers made out top-10! Their new christmas seasonal is an awesome imperial stout loaded with licorice aroma, which was only fractions of a 1/100th point to grab first place. The other top ten beer is their new Octoberfestbeer, which far, far hoppier than what the style should be, but I get the idea that they don't really care much about styles at Tärnö. Also the draught version of Lundgrens Lager, a beer usually cathegorized as Modern Swedish Lager

The next two beers on our chart were from Slottskällan. Their lovely Belgian abbey style ale and their hoppy lager in the same style as Lundgrens Lager both made our top-100.

The best non-Swedish beers this time was Antoon from De Koninck. Bernard Tmavé is the darkest beer from the excellent Bernard brewery in Humpolec. A.Le Coq Porter is an Estonian beer which shows what Baltic porter usually is: a, strong dark lager. Brookyln Brewery offered an excellent line of beers, of which their Black Chocoalte Stout and East India Pale Ale were my favourites.

Some om the more unusual beers included a nice coffee flavoured lager, and a liniment smelling green coloured eucalypthus flavoured ditto from Dúm in the Czech Republic. Bredaryds Wärdshus had breed a strong, malty lager with plums, raisins, honey and syrup which was highly interesteing, while Christoffel Taboe is subtly flavoured with tobacco.

Beer from Turkey and Greece are unusual to us. Marathon is a reasonably malty international lager, while Efes Dark was a forgettable dark lager. The two lagers we tried from DB from New Zealand was, just as the Swiss Cardinal, thin and dull interpretations of international lagers. To lump them in the same category as the sweet Icelandic lager Thule Export Beer would be all too flattering for the latter.