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Hyllie Bryggeri – Black Sheep Black IPL (5.5% ABV) #BlackLager #BlackIPL

Welcome back to the weird and wonderful world of beer. The only IPL I’ve come across is the cricket one so finding this in a remainder box from Beer 52 is something of a curiosity. IPL being Imperial Pale Lager is a new style and here we have a black expression of it. Something thatContinue reading “Hyllie Bryggeri – Black Sheep Black IPL (5.5% ABV) #BlackLager #BlackIPL”

Vanvåg Beer – Mörker Schwarzbier (4.4% ABV) #Schwarzbier

Welcome back beer lovers. Today a Scandinavian beer born in the Stockholm creative district of Södermalm. It is produced by a self-confessed ‘artisan’ brewer that likes to re-invent and re-purpose traditional beers both old and new. This one is a Schwarzbier, a traditional German black lager and a style almost as old as brewing itself.Continue reading “Vanvåg Beer – Mörker Schwarzbier (4.4% ABV) #Schwarzbier”

Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing x 6°North – Whisky Barrel Aged Black Lager (2.8% ABV)

Hi there fellow beer lovers, As chief lager tester I get to sample this collaboration beer which according to the label “We’ve taken our traditional black lager and aged it in Scottish Whisky barrels to produce a smooth complex beer that has wonderful hints of coffee and chocolate and is beautifully crisp and unrecognisably 2.8%.”Continue reading “Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing x 6°North – Whisky Barrel Aged Black Lager (2.8% ABV)”