
20 Aug We take a look at the second part of our collaboration history, release a new IPA plus start selling our first sour beer
To start of this week I’d like to give a shout out to all the guys and girls we met at The Brekeriet and Friends Beer Festival in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. What a day. And not to mention the great beers. It was a pleasure hanging out with you guys.
Now while we’re on the topic of sour beers, Richard has finally put aside some time to go and keg the rest of “Sour Berry Quite Contrary”. It’s our first sour beer we brewed at our first Sockerbruket Sour Brewery, and certainly not the last.
We won a bronze in the category Sour Beer at the Gothenburg Beer and Whisky Festival 2016, which made us very happy indeed.
Sour Berry Quite Contrary out next week
Be on the lookout for this beer in the market. We’ve only got about 15 kegs, so it’s going to be first come first served. Rumour has it that BrewDog Södermalm in Stockholm will be the first with a keg on tap.
Our first sour fermented beer, with our own home grown, mixed cultures. Add crazy amounts of raspberries, and you're holding a beer like nothing we've ever made before.
Collaborations are an integral part of our brewing philosophy.
In the second part of our collaboration history tour we mark off beers #105 to the end #159. All in all 20 collaborations out of 54 new beers brewed is not bad going.
#107 Unperial Stout with Dugges and Da Matteo
This is a collaboration stout between us, Dugges and Da Matteo Coffee roasters in Gothenburg. The Challenge was to create a low ABV coffee stout with the full flavour and mouth feel of an Imperial Stout. We used copious amounts of Da Matteo’s single origin coffee from Carmin Joven’s farm in Colombia to create the great roasted tones and aromas in this beer.
One more Gothenburg collaboration between Dugges, Beerbliotek and Da Matteo. The idea was to brew a small beer with a big heart.
#108 Brewers in Arms with Nils Oscar
Our first collaboration with our friends at Nils Oscar. It’s an India Pale Lager or IPL. Basically and India Pale Ale, but instead of using Pale Ale yeast, we used Lager yeast. It means fermentation happens at a lower temperature and you get the best of both worlds.
#109 Dalarado Collaboration Stout with Dalarado Brewery
This beer has quite a kick with Roasted malts, smoke, intense coffee, dark chocolate and is balanced with a lot of American hops.
Unfortunately Dalarado Brewery had to close down, but it was great while it lasted, and I think we brewed a great beer. There’s still some available in the market, and seems to just get better with age.
#113 Potbelly Home Brew IPA No.01 with Potbelly Brew Shop
This was a big competition and involved a lot of people. It was a collaboration with our friend Trevor at Potbelly Brew Shop in Gothenburg and the organisers of the Gothenburg Beer and Whisky Festival.
The idea was to get home-brewers to submit their version of an IPA, and the winner will get to brew it at our brewery, and launch it during the festival. The winner was Jonas Barlind, who actually went all the way and opened his own brewery called Barlind Beer.
#114 & #115 Oak Aged Baltic Porter with Mackmyra
This collaboration was a lot of fun. We teamed up with our friends at Mackmyra, the Swedish Whisky Distillery and created two oak aged version of our Baltic Porter. The one was in a French Oak barrel, and the other in a Swedish Oak barrel.
Very different and was great to see the reaction on the people who got to taste it at the Gothenburg Beer and Whisky Festival. Especially the Whisky lovers.
#117 Session IPA with The Red Lion & Tapasbaren
We’re really lucky to have two great places, to drink and eat, just down the road from the brewery. The Red Lion is a great English style pub, while Tapasbaren is, well, a Tapas restaurant with a great wine selection.
This is the same Session IPA, but called “Blöta Lövet” at the Lion and “Kungslardugårds Session IPA” at Tapasbaren.
We teamed up with our friends at Rådanäs Bryggeri to create a beer with enough flavour to leave you cross eyed.
#131 What a Girl Wants with FemAle
So to answer your question, what does a girl want? It’s an 11% Imperial Stout. Well that’s what the girls from the FemAle Beer drinking group came down to the brewery to brew in any case. It turned out lovely. I’m looking forward to seeing how it ages.
If you want to get in touch with them, then do so at femalesocialbeer.se
#134 Do IPA Yourself with Köksbryggeriet
This is our first collaboration with Köksbryggeriet. What they did was scale down our recipe for a session IPA, then sell it together with a brewing kit online to home brewers. It gave them the chance to compare how close they can get to the original beer.
We live in Sweden, which means we can’t sell any beer directly to the public over 3,5%.
#136 Sweason with Brewfist
Sweason was our first collaboration with a brewery in Italy. We all tend to think that they’re mainly a wine producing country, and they are, but they do make great beer, especially Brewfist.
A clear Saison with the addition of Lambrusco wine and cherries. The mix of Saaz and Calypso hops with cherries gives a sensation that leans towards fruity, without overpowering the beer… very balanced and sensual!
#138 Lovechild with Beavertown and Brekeriet
Lovechild is technically our first sour beer, and we brewed this in collaboration with Beavertown from London, and Brekeriet from Malmö. The writeup should really explain the beer.
In April 2015 three breweries got together... they brewed beer... they drank beer... and somewhere along the way they created a lovechild.
#141 International Men of Mystery with Amager
Our first and hopefully not our last collaboration with the crazy guys from Amager in Denmark. Here’s the history.
Take an Australian, a New Zealander and a South African – a mysterious bunch, indeed – and have them start a brewery together… – in Gothenburg, Sweden. This sounds like a recipe for disaster, bordering on a regular meltdown. But the reality turned out quite differently. Perhaps because they threw a bit of Västra Götaland common sense into the mix, but whatever the reason, Beerbliotek has become one of the most successful new Swedish breweries. A success not founded on hype or hot air, but simply on the quality of their beer.
We at Amager Bryghus were honoured that these happy nutters felt like visiting us to brew a collaboration beer. The choice fell on something at least as exotic as Beerbliotek’s background. Let’s just call the result a different Double IPA.
#142 Pissed Volunteers with Dry and Bitter Brewing
What happens in Denmark, hopefully stays in Denmark. But we did manage to get hold of some kegs of this.
It’s a modern style saison brewed with wheat, barley and loads of Sorachi Ace. Post fermentation it has been spiced with red pepper corns and dry hopped with even more Sorachi Ace. Dry, spicy, fruity and hoppy.
#146 Min Farsa with Ölstugan Tullen
To show how Swedish beer is growing, you can have a look at what our friends at Ölstugan Tullen is doing. They have opened 7 pubs at the last count, that only sells Swedish beer. And they’re very poplar indeed.
#147 Tap 3 with Söder om Småland
We’ve done collaborations with Söder om Småland before, but this collaboration we are doing over and over again, as it is their house beer on a fixed tap. Number 3.
#152 Golden Sour with Stockholm Brewing Co.
We teamed up with our friends at Stockholm Brewing Company to create this hop inspired sour. The name was put out to competition on our social channels and our good friend Robin Bruhn was the first to come up with Golden Sour. It was really a closed contest after that.
#159 I F*cking Made it with Haket
One of our favourite pubs in Gothenburg is Haket. It’s also the first place where we dropped off samples of our first beer Black Ale Chilli, when we just started out. They’ve been good friends ever since.
This beer was brewed in collaboration with them for their daughter, who just finished school. But was celebrated by all students before summer.
New beer out next week
Our follow up to Raters Gonna Rate is another IPA called Hopped and Hyped. The description says it all.
#beerbliotek #craftbrewery #craftbeer #swedishcraftbeer #ipa #163 #hops #nowdrinking #beerporn #hopporn #instabeer #beergeek #beergasm #beerpix #goodtimes #cheers #beer #drinkfresh
That’s it for this week and the history tour of our collaborations. As I said before, collaborations are a vital part of our brewing philosophy, so we look forward to join up with more people in the future for more collabs.
We hope to see as many as possible at the Brewskival next week. Details are below.
Keep well, and drink fresh beer.
Webshop
If you’d like to get hold of the same Beer T-Shirt Henrik is wearing then you’d need to get to our webshop soon. We have limited stocks available.
But fear not, we’re releasing our new merchandise range soon, so keep watching this space.
Festivals
Brewskival – 26-27 August 2016

This year we’re heading to Brewskival, the great human project 2016.
It’s Brewski’s outdoor beer festival in Helsingborg, taking place on the 26-27th of August at their Brewery! Look for some great craft beer, food, music and a lot of people.
Here’s the list of breweries that will be attending.
Brewski, Mikkeller, Green Bench, Pipeworks, Warpigs, Angry Chair, Evil Twin, Cycle Brewing, Cigar City Brewing, O|O Brewing, Brekeriet, Beerbliotek, … with more coming.
For more information on the festival and getting hold of your tickets, or have a look at theirwebsite for more information.
All in Beer Festival 4-5 November 2016

One of our favourite festivals is the All In Beer Fest. The reason? It’s just about beer.
We’ll be attending again this year, but if you’d like to attend, then there’s two ways to go about it. Buy a ticket, or enter our #FreshestCanInTheLand competition, where you stand the chance to win two entrance tickets.
Finding our beers in Sweden
Have a look at our Systembolaget page, where you’ll find a map that features the stores that have our beers on their shelves. If you live in other parts of Sweden, then you can follow this link to order the beers directly from Systembolaget.se to your closest store.
Visit our Folköl page if you’d like to find out which Stores & Supermarkets, such as ICA & Hemköp stock our low ABV or “folköl” across Sweden.
You can also follow us on Instagram
Sunny disposition. A New England Session IPA.
Every beer has a story which fits into our beer library. This can design falls into the lower ABV lighter greens we use for IPAs, added with a twist of bright yellow and orange for a sunrise effect in the B logo.
This is our second New England Session IPA, and ninth Session IPA in total, following in the footsteps of our best selling beer, A moment of Clarity, and inspired by our previous springtime beer, Here comes the sun.
Available to all good bars and restaurants in Sweden, and to all our usual Export markets all over the world.
#beerbliotek #bryggeri #swedishcraftbeer #craftbeer #beer #craftöl #öl #starköl #folköl #systembolaget #bolaget #systemet #sweden #gothenburg #beercans #cans #can #canart #sessionipa #newenglandsessionipa #sessionipa #nesessionipa
Hello Sweden! Today two new beers are now available at Systembolaget online and in stores all over Sweden.
Even more of exactly the same - 7,5% Double IPA
Citra, Cascade, Columbus and Cashmere hops take the lead in this light, golden and bruised pineapple coloured DIPA while vanilla, passion fruit and bright fresh citrus notes hit the nose. Big tropical and stone fruit flavours are rounded out with sweet notes and a grassy bitterness making this juicy beer surprisingly easy to drink.
Crossing the streams in the dark - 6,5% Black IPA
Aromas of chocolate and coffee lean towards dried red fruits and then waves of mango. Fruitiness from the yeast enhances the dank, orange and grapefruit hop character, all playing together for a beer more IPA than black.
Both beers are now available to all good bars and restaurants in Sweden, and the rest of the world, at all our usual export markets.
#systembolaget #beerbliotek #newbeer #swedishcraftbeer #craftbeer #gothenberg #sweden #evenmoreofexactlythesame #doubleipa #crossingthestreamsinthedark #blackipa
Sunny Disposition. A New England Session IPA. Released on Monday 1st March to all good bars and restaurants in Sweden, and to all our usual Export markets all over the world.
If you want to try this ideal springtime beer, but don’t see it at your local, send us a message and we’ll make it happen.
Take Care and Stay Safe
#beerbliotek #bryggeri #swedishcraftbeer #craftbeer #beer #craftöl #öl #starköl #folköl #systembolaget #bolaget #systemet #sweden #gothenburg #beercans #cans #can #canart #sessionipa #newenglandsessionipa #sessionipa #nesessionipa
Our brewers didn’t go with the flow, but crossed the stream to brew up this crossover between the forgotten Black IPA, and the big New England IPA.
This Black IPA, Crossing the streams in the dark, will be available @systembolaget Monday 1st march 10:00 online and in stores all over Sweden.
Out now at all good bars and restaurants in Sweden, and the rest of the world, at all our usual export markets.
You can cross over to our blog to read more about this Black IPA. Follow the link in our bio.
#beerbliotek #bryggeri #swedishcraftbeer #craftbeer #beer #craftöl #öl #starköl #folköl #systembolaget #bolaget #systemet #sweden #gothenburg #beercans #cans #can #canart #blackipa #bipa #cascadiandarkale
As a brewery we are constantly taking on the challenge to brew new kinds of beers. Sometimes, as the name suggests, we brew Even more of exactly the same.
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Available @systembolaget Monday 1st March at 10:00.
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For those not in Sweden, this juicy Double IPA is out now at our usual Export markets all over the world.
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You can read more juicy details about our latest DIPA on our blog. Follow the link in our bio.
#evenmoreofexactlythesame #ipa #doubleipa #beerbliotek
#beercans #systembolaget #cans #can #canart #craftbeer #beer #sweden #gothenburg
Our brewers have brewed our second White IPA to add to our beer library. The first one we did was our collaboration with @moondogbrewing in Australia, called Modersmjölk, way back in 2017.
Inspired by the classic Belgian Witbier, or ‘white beer’, our brewers decided to mix things up. This White IPA is a marriage of two distinct beer styles; the American IPA with its high hop character and the wheat-based Belgian Wit with its refreshing and spicy presence. We punched up the orange zest and pulled back on the Citra and Cascade hops to let the typical Witbier tones of orange, citrus and a light spiciness from the coriander through.
#beerbliotek #bryggeri #swedishcraftbeer #craftbeer #beer #craftöl #öl #starköl #folköl #systembolaget #bolaget #systemet #sweden #gothenburg #beercans #cans #can #canart #whiteipa #ipa #squarepegroundhole
This afternoon we walked down the road from our brewery for the opening day of @hermanos_tacokiosk to support Niklas and his fun new TacoKiosk adventure! 🌮 And of course we dropped off some beer to add to their menu. We thought our little Pilsner, Li’l Pils, would pair nicely. 👌
Niklas has been a big part of the beerbliotek family and friends with us for a very long time. We wish him and the Hermanos TacoKiosk team the very best of success! We’re all excited to have a new lunch destination.
If you’re in or around Majorna, Gothenburg 🇸🇪 and in the mood for a ‘not entirely traditional’ tasty taco menu with some folköl, this is the new place to be.
Take Care & Stay Safe
#supportyourlocal #hermanostackokiosk #majorna #gothenburg #beerbliotek #folköl #lilpils #pilsner
We don’t know about you, but we’re ready for the snow to disappear and longing for warmer, sunny days to come 🌞
#sunnydisposition
#supportyourlocal
This is Riccardo, the newest member to grace the beerbliotek brewing team, brewing what is to be the latest beer in our single hop series, Single Hop Idaho 7! More will be revealed soon.
If you enjoy tasting single hop beers as much as we do, our Single Hop Mosaic is currently out in the world, and at @systembolaget , Sweden, right now.
#beerbliotek #supportyourlocal #supportyourlocalbarsandbreweries #swedishcraftbeer #sweden #gothenburg #craftbeer #öl #hop #humle #singlehop #singlehopmosaic #singlehopidaho #singlehopidaho7 #mosaic #idaho
Is the world getting you down?
We have a proposition.
Do the same as a funny clown,
put on a sunny disposition.
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Sunny disposition, a 5,2% New England Session IPA. An ideal springtime beer for all of you hop heads looking for a fresh IPA. The first batch will be heading out the door in a few weeks. More news to come.
#beerbliotek #bryggeri #swedishcraftbeer #craftbeer #beer #craftöl #öl #systembolaget #bolaget #systemet #sweden #gothenburg #hazy #session #ipa #sunnydisposition