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Advent 2025 Day 03 is a mild day, a Smedsbo Slott mild day. XXXXAle is a 13.5% ABV mild ale. Smedsbo Slott is Sweden's reigning king of making high AVB ales. The lowest ABV we could find is 9.5%, it just goes up from there. XXXXAle is a collab with Shapes & Objects.  #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #mildale

Advent 2025 Day 02 takes it down a notch with a bitter.  Woodforde's Nelson is a traditional English bitter. Most canned bitters are flat and uninteresting. Woodforde's Nelson is a real treat. Smooth, roasty and malty, at only 4.5% ABV, you can easily have a few of these. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #bitterale

It's the first day of Advent. That can only mean one thing, it's time to start the What's on Tap Podcast 2026 Advent calendar. Day 01 brings us a classic from Italian brewery Crak. Monsueto 2024 is a 13% ABV barleywine. Sweet, boozy, and packed with caramel and fig notes, what a great way to start the calendar. #beer #craftbeer #drinks #advent2025 #barleywine

Oooo...wheeeee...it's time for the holiday's to begin. We kick off the season as always with a fine collection of Christmas ales from Systembolaget. Every year we get more and more to choose from. This year's collection has some interesting choices. We review beers from Omnipollo, Brewski, Dugges, Stockholms Brygghus, Götaälvdalens Brygghus and Rocky Point Brewery. Next week is the start of the 20...

The final episode before we start our holiday beer festivities. A friend of Martin's gave us three beers from Lithuanian. Volfas Engelman has over 340 beers listed on Untapped. This is part of their Alaus Laiskai or Beer Letters series. We got to try 100% Cryo Hops IPA, a 5.7% AVB IPA. Next up is Funky Lambic, a 5.5% AVB sour lambic style beer. Finally, we get Fig Stout Twist, a 4.6% ABV style sto...

We're heading into the holiday season. This means we're excited to start our advent calendar but we can't start yet. To fill the time we drank some beers. Omnipollo Practice the Art of Connection is a collab with DIPA experts Verdant. This 8% ABV DIPA is made at their church brewery in Sundbyberg, Sweden. Pohjala Evening Colours is part of the Cellar Series. This barrel-aged imperial Baltic porter...

We're feeling a little fruity this episode. We need more fruited beers. Rodenbach has always been a solid, dependable brewery cranking out Flemmish red ales for a long time. Recently they have started experimenting more. Evolved Caractere is a raspberry and mango sour beer that's somehow light on all of those things. At 7.2% ABV, we want stronger flavours. We had Fidens a couple of episodes ago. I...

Fall has arrived and just in time for Halloween we found some scary fun beers. Brauhaus Riegele Weizen Doppelbock Augustus is a classic German style that you don't find very often. A weizen doppelbock is a top-fermented beer with a fuity, roasty taste. We will never say no to a traditional German style. Koningshoeven La Trappe Quadrupel is a Belgian Quadrupel from the people that know how to make...

We have a couple of heavy hitters today. Fidens and Brujos are two of the top hazy beer creators in the US. If you get lucky enough to try their beers, don't pass up on the chance. We certainly didn't. Fidens Jasper with Peach is their classic Jasper NEIPA make with citra hops, but they added peaches. It's a fun mix of peaches and IPA. Brujos TDH San Nosferatu is a triple dry-hopped NEIPA. They we...

Martin also went to Poland this year. He went to Wrocław. It's just Northwest of Krakow. While he was there he tried many many many many many many beers. He also found a couple to bring back with him. First is from Inne Beczki. Martin thought Miami would be a sour beer. Instead it's a pale lager or as they call it, an American lager. We follow that up with Browar Amber Woodside. This an imperial p...

We're keeping the Danish theme alive this week with a new brewery and a closed brewery. Tiny Hill in Copenhagen just has 4 beers listed on UnTapped. Merrimack is one of their first beers. It's a 5.5% ABV hazy IPA. Björn drops some serious Civil War knowledge on us about the Merrimack and its ties to Sweden. Baghaven was one of our favorite brewery and probably the last best thing Mikkeller has don...

Björn and Stefan were in Copenhagen the other day and discovered a new brewery. Brewsketeers is a new contract brewer in Copenhagen. They have a bottle shop called The Beer Hive in Amager. They fortunate enough to visit The Beer Hive before running into one of the onwers at Peders. West Coast Warrior is a collab with another Danish brewery, Ghost Brewing. This 6.5% ABV American style IPA is made w...

10 Year is a long time. We can hardly believe it ourselves. To celebrate we brought together Björn and Martin to go head to head in our toughest Game of Beers yet! Five rounds, winner takes all for the ultimate bragging glory. Who knows their beer trivia? Who can pick the right lager? It was a very close race but only one could survive. We want to thank everyone that has participated on the show a...

We've talked about Malmö Taproom many times but did you know they have a second bar (some would say hidden) bar? Just behind Malmö Taproom is Malmo Mead and Cocktail Bar. It's a small room with lots of meads, cocktails and craft beer. We tried the cleverly titled Ask Staff IPA. This is a solid IPA that wasn't on the Taproom menu. We followed that up with a couple of meads, Tropical Blueberry and E...

If you're a bar and you're only going to serve one beer, it better be a good one. In Malmö, we have a series of Czech inspired bars that only serve the same beer. Now, we have a kolsch style bar. Based on the German concept, Gaststatte kolsch has one beer, Muhlen kolsch. It's only served one size, 20cl. They will keep bringing you glasses as long as you don't tell them to. It's a great experience...

Summe is over and the fall is fast approaching. To celebrate Martin dusted off some forgotten beers from his cellar to remind us that somethings don't need to be saved forever. Traquair 900 (2007) is an English barleywine. Barleywines are great to age...for a little while. After awhile it comes oddly minty. Not sure why it does but it's an instant clue your barleywine has past it's prime. Brooklyn...

As the summer starts to wind down, we still want to take a moment to apprecaite the sun and fun. What better way then with two light, refreshing sour beers. Drottningholms Sur blends blueberries, black currants and honey for a heavy hitting 7% AVB sour. Flying Guru Hrym is a farmhouse ale aged for 14 months and 8 months on riesling grapes before being dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin. Also at 7% ABV,...

We got to try a double shot of Drowned Lands. It's a new brewery from the US for us. Fern is a 6.5% ABV NEIPA. Made with lots of wheat and oats and hopped with strata and citra, it's a juicy little number. With a name like Fern you would think it would be more earthy.  Black Gold Coffee is a straight down the middle bourbon barrel aged imperial stout with coffee. With a 10.5% ABV, it's a solid sto...

After featuring Funky Fluid/Nerdbrewing collab last week, we thought it woudl be fun to return to Poland and try some more beers. Funky Fluid Gelato is their marquee beer. They crank out a lot of them. Stefan picked up Plum and Cherry Jam Gingerbread. Swedes love these flavors so it's only natural that we should have this beer on the show. At 5.5% AVB you can expect lots of flavor and excitement f...

Hannes over at Nerdbrewing has been quite for a while. After leaving Molecule he's taken some time to figure out his next step. Now he's back with two killer collabs.  First is a collab with Smedsbo Slott called Karamellstout.  This is a 12% ABV imperial stout that uses Palo Santo (listen to find out what that is) and vanilla. It's an interesting blend that really works well together. Up next is a...

We had some fun this episode. We got two beers to put us right in the mood to drink beer. (Honestly, all beers put us right in the mood to drink beer.) Norwegian brewery Salikatt Camel Up is an 8% AVB hazy DIPA. Made with citra dynaboost, citra cryo and galaxy hops, it packs a fruity, delicious punch. Moersleutel Barcode: Nitro Blue is part of the excellent barcode series. This is a collaboration...

Summer sours are the best kind of sours. Martin reached into his cellar and brought out a couple of treats for us to try. Originally released in 2019, Speciation Extropian is a wild ale with peaches, cinnamon and vanilla. It was part of the Mikkeller Beer Club, back when that was a thing. We follow it with Side Project Blueberry Flanders (Blend #2). This is a Flanders style red ale aged in Missour...

Stefan went on a bit of a summer trip and brought back some beers. He visited Poland. The craft beer scene in Poland is strong and very alive. He was able to visit tons of craft beer bars and didn't try the same beer twice. Browar Artezan has released a traditional Polish beers style called a grodziskie. It's a light abv beer with hints of smoke. Fafik comes in at 3.5% and brings in a little hops...

It's summer and we need to cool off. Fortunately we have beers! Goteborgs Nya Bryggeri is bringing the passion to all the hot steamy days with Summer Passion. This Berliner Weisse is packed with raspberry and passion fruit. At only 4.7% ABV, it will help you cool off. Broughton Brewery Wee Jock 90 Shilling is a wee heavy or scotch ale. It's not a light sour beer but it is a light, easy to drink an...

It was the best of time. It was the worst of times. Martin brought two beers for this episode, which includes one of Stefan's least favorite styles. Next to Black IPA, witbier is his one of his least favorites. There's a reason in 674 episodes there have never been a review. We love our virginity to Common Roots Spinner. This 4.5% ABV witbier has corriander and orange peel giving it a bit of citru...