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Alvinne are stalwarts of the festival, and most of the beers of theirs that I've drank, I've drank here. They can be tough going, however, relying heavily on the super funky house yeast. I sometimes feel that the brewers get more pleasure from their beers than the drinkers do. An exception is this year's Berliner Kriek Munt: as the name suggests, a Berliner weisse with cherry and mint. It's 4.5% ABV, bright pink, and has a cleanly assertive sourness. There's a waft of cherry candy and a sprig of mint, like an hour after you've brushed your teeth. I'm guessing, given the brewery's love for Brettanomyces, that it's a proper mixed fermentation job, though I couldn't detect anything specifically Bretty about it. It's damn nice, however, regardless.
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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WtFL__qXnsmctyuM8RYFyXhHDCh4uj4rIbD96C6ofj 9QnFP5HHTJ_4X16sbHh1ZvS6kvngVvMVmZIFaS9zsBO0pWz3q5 laracgvjX3Qr5FFNpWyfCLnsFi2S8Wi-XkV1ktS-4kdbv74Z2vyJDgg-pmcSSLk3-H7d7BzfFpjDwWbsZj0_OzM/w200-h165/hop_hooligans_low_frequency_wirness_the_thiccness_ imperial_stout.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WtFL__qXnsmctyuM8RYFyXhHDCh4uj4rIbD96C6ofj 9QnFP5HHTJ_4X16sbHh1ZvS6kvngVvMVmZIFaS9zsBO0pWz3q5 laracgvjX3Qr5FFNpWyfCLnsFi2S8Wi-XkV1ktS-4kdbv74Z2vyJDgg-pmcSSLk3-H7d7BzfFpjDwWbsZj0_OzM/s2260/hop_hooligans_low_frequency_wirness_the_thiccness_ imperial_stout.jpg)Romania's finest, Hop Hooligans, were there with a collaboration they made with another Romanian outfit, Low Frequency. It's a cherry, coconut and chocolate stout of 12% ABV with the delightful name of Witness the Thiccness. You may not be surprised to learn it tastes a lot like a Bounty bar while also tasting a lot like a Bakewell tart. This is a great example of the liquid dessert style done well; gimmicky perhaps, but holding on to its essential stoutiness. Another hit from the Hooligans. Their beer appears in Ireland occasionally (https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/2022/04/darkest-romania.html) and you should buy some if you see it.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6IRRZhztLok_xAT8hCR42YDQ3pd4hTV-K4el6HeglDemddysYaopBzvm5KY8uQHdpKqy7NNWWCAANYvfeK TZsTQWKz_t2Cowj-pqA929dXVBw2k61c2NTOm019FJqZWkV21Sn7NIZggJ4Qyj4FR_ D_QIyJWpAG3ynXoZsHrc_TAwxdn5zlbs/w130-h200/metalhead_silvera_table_beer.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6IRRZhztLok_xAT8hCR42YDQ3pd4hTV-K4el6HeglDemddysYaopBzvm5KY8uQHdpKqy7NNWWCAANYvfeK TZsTQWKz_t2Cowj-pqA929dXVBw2k61c2NTOm019FJqZWkV21Sn7NIZggJ4Qyj4FR_ D_QIyJWpAG3ynXoZsHrc_TAwxdn5zlbs/s3470/metalhead_silvera_table_beer.jpg)I haven't had many beers from Bulgaria, and at the festival it was represented by Metalhead. I tried their not-very-metal 3% ABV table beer, Silvera. It is dry-hopped, though. Rock on! It's pale and light but has a pleasing depth of body. Fresh lemon peel meets a slightly funky, herbal, urinal-cake effect. Despite that image, it's clean and very thirst quenching with enough complexity to be properly interesting. Spot on for a table beer, then. Well done, Metalheads.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WVY6Aa0za81OT3gxXTeTo3FK0Cgn28vpeAUaleO4YN LaHqWLLDFkdC-Tb4DwW4730lnMBsSf6d0_mX-rXnyvcgaZ7UT5b75O91qYAbRQZTW2vFbT6IrAiEkr8sFkwC5Rb XACh-9JahBGg3biQ6NOp0-UZ28VVLtjgdgBh2EnLdYIJNpqFO4/w124-h200/stigbergets_cacao_imperial_stout.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WVY6Aa0za81OT3gxXTeTo3FK0Cgn28vpeAUaleO4YN LaHqWLLDFkdC-Tb4DwW4730lnMBsSf6d0_mX-rXnyvcgaZ7UT5b75O91qYAbRQZTW2vFbT6IrAiEkr8sFkwC5Rb XACh-9JahBGg3biQ6NOp0-UZ28VVLtjgdgBh2EnLdYIJNpqFO4/s3635/stigbergets_cacao_imperial_stout.jpg)And so to Sweden. Stigbergets is a brewery that seems to have come from nowhere (actually Gothenberg) to be suddenly omnipresent on the craft beer and festival circuit. Cacao! is a 12.5% ABV imperial stout with cacao. Supposedly loud cacao, judging by the punctuation. To me it's another one of those pastry stouts that taste like chocolate caramel wafer biscuits and not much else. That's it. That's the review. Next!
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeaWlCa1ZthFtHVRqJWfWCQf_lKf15vIBitW53YxVIt dQ7Df3Ou4295NPdOMjI8bk_hJiockLUzJWWkcWyf3GsZblp3k6 5Yq92ai_ob66tqnVvBUrNYDfewz9yR4kqlshtceJNH3GQIOlaB KOYYWfr-pqf1VAGMULs-2FiwIR13XC0Nw6r3Y/w186-h200/stigbergets_be_forewarned_dipa.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeaWlCa1ZthFtHVRqJWfWCQf_lKf15vIBitW53YxVIt dQ7Df3Ou4295NPdOMjI8bk_hJiockLUzJWWkcWyf3GsZblp3k6 5Yq92ai_ob66tqnVvBUrNYDfewz9yR4kqlshtceJNH3GQIOlaB KOYYWfr-pqf1VAGMULs-2FiwIR13XC0Nw6r3Y/s2045/stigbergets_be_forewarned_dipa.jpg)I didn't fare much better with their supposedly west coast double IPA Be Forewarned. Yes do: this is an opaque sunset colour and has very east coast vanilla notes in the foretaste. That fades and is replaced by an acrid and heavy pine bitterness, which is at least in keeping with the style even if it doesn't taste great. The haze returns in the finish to deliver a dreggy grittiness. This was both not to my taste and a violation of its purported style rules. A couple of turns in the centrifuge wouldn't do it any harm.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovo9siav-W0DFJ23H5MdnO6-RQJaccg0qS9z1tGVeybWKFvrhFJVLyyakHfSfy1AXMkBfpDbqw H2_wMt_967V5Bd1ADgyImeRhzAcoA9yRI5IwSkuIaGKV5BWy9E aLOSj9xdZr8NxGtcrAEs63dXo4yufDjURTkwY8bq-a8ng9LUtSZztGiU/w200-h158/narke_katalysator_rauchbock.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovo9siav-W0DFJ23H5MdnO6-RQJaccg0qS9z1tGVeybWKFvrhFJVLyyakHfSfy1AXMkBfpDbqw H2_wMt_967V5Bd1ADgyImeRhzAcoA9yRI5IwSkuIaGKV5BWy9E aLOSj9xdZr8NxGtcrAEs63dXo4yufDjURTkwY8bq-a8ng9LUtSZztGiU/s2020/narke_katalysator_rauchbock.jpg)We finish on another Borefts veteran: I don't think Närke has missed any of the twelve runs. They've been firmly ensconced in the same pitch at the back door of the barrel store for most of those. Plenty of favourites were available, including the novelty castoreum beer served from a urinal. For me, Katalysator: an 8.5% ABV rauchbock. Deep amber in colour, it has the crisp grain aroma of a standard lager, with no more than a faint wisp of smoke. Neither are there fireworks on tasting, it stays simple and balanced, not hot, not thick, just a little sweet and seasoned with a gentle smokiness. It's a lovely mellow affair, equally sippable or quaffable, and hitting a centre point between festbier and rauchbier with all the best features of both.
That seems as good a place as any to wrap this up. It was good to be back at Borefts, and great that it continued as if The Blip hadn't happened. I wish it many more successful years.
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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbTor-BSSz6CQzyuPfWc3TT3xXY3E7Xt6pGd4YsXM5aJ0uRTHaU6D7c-Qgzgz-fyZ6eaD-gjE0JAYVJgZWPs1veMMt1g6nLVEcC5Ig7lGf2FR9tbwYL3TP3m 59rX5FiS_8xLRP8ypAmAHPCdbNUyNQQ6GZOKsC7_vFIDs113Ua TnsZz2qpNY/w184-h200/alvinne_berliner_kriek_munt.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbTor-BSSz6CQzyuPfWc3TT3xXY3E7Xt6pGd4YsXM5aJ0uRTHaU6D7c-Qgzgz-fyZ6eaD-gjE0JAYVJgZWPs1veMMt1g6nLVEcC5Ig7lGf2FR9tbwYL3TP3m 59rX5FiS_8xLRP8ypAmAHPCdbNUyNQQ6GZOKsC7_vFIDs113Ua TnsZz2qpNY/s1470/alvinne_berliner_kriek_munt.jpg)Belgium, Austria, Romania, Bulgaria and Sweden are the remaining countries whose Borefts 2022 beers I haven't covered yet.
Alvinne are stalwarts of the festival, and most of the beers of theirs that I've drank, I've drank here. They can be tough going, however, relying heavily on the super funky house yeast. I sometimes feel that the brewers get more pleasure from their beers than the drinkers do. An exception is this year's Berliner Kriek Munt: as the name suggests, a Berliner weisse with cherry and mint. It's 4.5% ABV, bright pink, and has a cleanly assertive sourness. There's a waft of cherry candy and a sprig of mint, like an hour after you've brushed your teeth. I'm guessing, given the brewery's love for Brettanomyces, that it's a proper mixed fermentation job, though I couldn't detect anything specifically Bretty about it. It's damn nice, however, regardless.
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https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyx7Uf1qI3nHkwRJxlWz-hWLolCptmwI3khs9bHRzwz5EYAkdTnsnXJMYCvx4q5GkCRaGaM ZZxMGtnh07QEBb6Clq_H9fVyV0UBDE4coHEYzrQIxBsV8iLJIS cvxNDpC9HYvsF6VvxoQ4xJ8K8kX0JfMj4PFHvusihVqPI_lZef xKbZz6XwLE/w200-h198/bevog_seedated_imperial_stout.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyx7Uf1qI3nHkwRJxlWz-hWLolCptmwI3khs9bHRzwz5EYAkdTnsnXJMYCvx4q5GkCRaGaM ZZxMGtnh07QEBb6Clq_H9fVyV0UBDE4coHEYzrQIxBsV8iLJIS cvxNDpC9HYvsF6VvxoQ4xJ8K8kX0JfMj4PFHvusihVqPI_lZef xKbZz6XwLE/s2250/bevog_seedated_imperial_stout.jpg)The beer was starting to run out in general when I came back to Bevog late on the Saturday to try their Seedated, an imperial stout with pumpkin seeds. I got the last dribble in the keg as a freebie. I wasn't expecting to taste much pumpkin seed in an 11.1% ABV beast like this, and so it proved. There's lots of very standard, and delicious, mocha or macchiato, but that's it. Doesn't it count as a failure when your attempted novelty beer tastes beautifully unadulterated? Probably, but I enjoyed what I had of this one anyway.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WtFL__qXnsmctyuM8RYFyXhHDCh4uj4rIbD96C6ofj 9QnFP5HHTJ_4X16sbHh1ZvS6kvngVvMVmZIFaS9zsBO0pWz3q5 laracgvjX3Qr5FFNpWyfCLnsFi2S8Wi-XkV1ktS-4kdbv74Z2vyJDgg-pmcSSLk3-H7d7BzfFpjDwWbsZj0_OzM/w200-h165/hop_hooligans_low_frequency_wirness_the_thiccness_ imperial_stout.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8WtFL__qXnsmctyuM8RYFyXhHDCh4uj4rIbD96C6ofj 9QnFP5HHTJ_4X16sbHh1ZvS6kvngVvMVmZIFaS9zsBO0pWz3q5 laracgvjX3Qr5FFNpWyfCLnsFi2S8Wi-XkV1ktS-4kdbv74Z2vyJDgg-pmcSSLk3-H7d7BzfFpjDwWbsZj0_OzM/s2260/hop_hooligans_low_frequency_wirness_the_thiccness_ imperial_stout.jpg)Romania's finest, Hop Hooligans, were there with a collaboration they made with another Romanian outfit, Low Frequency. It's a cherry, coconut and chocolate stout of 12% ABV with the delightful name of Witness the Thiccness. You may not be surprised to learn it tastes a lot like a Bounty bar while also tasting a lot like a Bakewell tart. This is a great example of the liquid dessert style done well; gimmicky perhaps, but holding on to its essential stoutiness. Another hit from the Hooligans. Their beer appears in Ireland occasionally (https://thebeernut.blogspot.com/2022/04/darkest-romania.html) and you should buy some if you see it.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6IRRZhztLok_xAT8hCR42YDQ3pd4hTV-K4el6HeglDemddysYaopBzvm5KY8uQHdpKqy7NNWWCAANYvfeK TZsTQWKz_t2Cowj-pqA929dXVBw2k61c2NTOm019FJqZWkV21Sn7NIZggJ4Qyj4FR_ D_QIyJWpAG3ynXoZsHrc_TAwxdn5zlbs/w130-h200/metalhead_silvera_table_beer.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6IRRZhztLok_xAT8hCR42YDQ3pd4hTV-K4el6HeglDemddysYaopBzvm5KY8uQHdpKqy7NNWWCAANYvfeK TZsTQWKz_t2Cowj-pqA929dXVBw2k61c2NTOm019FJqZWkV21Sn7NIZggJ4Qyj4FR_ D_QIyJWpAG3ynXoZsHrc_TAwxdn5zlbs/s3470/metalhead_silvera_table_beer.jpg)I haven't had many beers from Bulgaria, and at the festival it was represented by Metalhead. I tried their not-very-metal 3% ABV table beer, Silvera. It is dry-hopped, though. Rock on! It's pale and light but has a pleasing depth of body. Fresh lemon peel meets a slightly funky, herbal, urinal-cake effect. Despite that image, it's clean and very thirst quenching with enough complexity to be properly interesting. Spot on for a table beer, then. Well done, Metalheads.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WVY6Aa0za81OT3gxXTeTo3FK0Cgn28vpeAUaleO4YN LaHqWLLDFkdC-Tb4DwW4730lnMBsSf6d0_mX-rXnyvcgaZ7UT5b75O91qYAbRQZTW2vFbT6IrAiEkr8sFkwC5Rb XACh-9JahBGg3biQ6NOp0-UZ28VVLtjgdgBh2EnLdYIJNpqFO4/w124-h200/stigbergets_cacao_imperial_stout.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WVY6Aa0za81OT3gxXTeTo3FK0Cgn28vpeAUaleO4YN LaHqWLLDFkdC-Tb4DwW4730lnMBsSf6d0_mX-rXnyvcgaZ7UT5b75O91qYAbRQZTW2vFbT6IrAiEkr8sFkwC5Rb XACh-9JahBGg3biQ6NOp0-UZ28VVLtjgdgBh2EnLdYIJNpqFO4/s3635/stigbergets_cacao_imperial_stout.jpg)And so to Sweden. Stigbergets is a brewery that seems to have come from nowhere (actually Gothenberg) to be suddenly omnipresent on the craft beer and festival circuit. Cacao! is a 12.5% ABV imperial stout with cacao. Supposedly loud cacao, judging by the punctuation. To me it's another one of those pastry stouts that taste like chocolate caramel wafer biscuits and not much else. That's it. That's the review. Next!
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeaWlCa1ZthFtHVRqJWfWCQf_lKf15vIBitW53YxVIt dQ7Df3Ou4295NPdOMjI8bk_hJiockLUzJWWkcWyf3GsZblp3k6 5Yq92ai_ob66tqnVvBUrNYDfewz9yR4kqlshtceJNH3GQIOlaB KOYYWfr-pqf1VAGMULs-2FiwIR13XC0Nw6r3Y/w186-h200/stigbergets_be_forewarned_dipa.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikeaWlCa1ZthFtHVRqJWfWCQf_lKf15vIBitW53YxVIt dQ7Df3Ou4295NPdOMjI8bk_hJiockLUzJWWkcWyf3GsZblp3k6 5Yq92ai_ob66tqnVvBUrNYDfewz9yR4kqlshtceJNH3GQIOlaB KOYYWfr-pqf1VAGMULs-2FiwIR13XC0Nw6r3Y/s2045/stigbergets_be_forewarned_dipa.jpg)I didn't fare much better with their supposedly west coast double IPA Be Forewarned. Yes do: this is an opaque sunset colour and has very east coast vanilla notes in the foretaste. That fades and is replaced by an acrid and heavy pine bitterness, which is at least in keeping with the style even if it doesn't taste great. The haze returns in the finish to deliver a dreggy grittiness. This was both not to my taste and a violation of its purported style rules. A couple of turns in the centrifuge wouldn't do it any harm.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovo9siav-W0DFJ23H5MdnO6-RQJaccg0qS9z1tGVeybWKFvrhFJVLyyakHfSfy1AXMkBfpDbqw H2_wMt_967V5Bd1ADgyImeRhzAcoA9yRI5IwSkuIaGKV5BWy9E aLOSj9xdZr8NxGtcrAEs63dXo4yufDjURTkwY8bq-a8ng9LUtSZztGiU/w200-h158/narke_katalysator_rauchbock.jpg (https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovo9siav-W0DFJ23H5MdnO6-RQJaccg0qS9z1tGVeybWKFvrhFJVLyyakHfSfy1AXMkBfpDbqw H2_wMt_967V5Bd1ADgyImeRhzAcoA9yRI5IwSkuIaGKV5BWy9E aLOSj9xdZr8NxGtcrAEs63dXo4yufDjURTkwY8bq-a8ng9LUtSZztGiU/s2020/narke_katalysator_rauchbock.jpg)We finish on another Borefts veteran: I don't think Närke has missed any of the twelve runs. They've been firmly ensconced in the same pitch at the back door of the barrel store for most of those. Plenty of favourites were available, including the novelty castoreum beer served from a urinal. For me, Katalysator: an 8.5% ABV rauchbock. Deep amber in colour, it has the crisp grain aroma of a standard lager, with no more than a faint wisp of smoke. Neither are there fireworks on tasting, it stays simple and balanced, not hot, not thick, just a little sweet and seasoned with a gentle smokiness. It's a lovely mellow affair, equally sippable or quaffable, and hitting a centre point between festbier and rauchbier with all the best features of both.
That seems as good a place as any to wrap this up. It was good to be back at Borefts, and great that it continued as if The Blip hadn't happened. I wish it many more successful years.
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