Beer in Gothenburg?

The Rover - it does beers from Swedish micros, as well as real ales from a couple of English micros, when I can get them in there. You'll certainly find beers from Nynaeshamn in there, and if you're very lucky, you might find some of Dave Jones' wonderful Jaemtlands beers, too.

(Sorry, can't recall the address offhand - ask when you get there).

Skal!

Black Bat9/12/03 12:12 AM

I tasted a wonderful Swedish brew (had a half dozen pints of it actually) earlier this year, called "Bedarö Bitter" (4.6% ABV) IIRC. The Swedes have long since liked bitters and ales as well as pilsner styles.

Lovely refreshing quite bitter brew with a lovely acid fruitiness. I've heard it called Nynäshamns Bedarö before, although I understand it is or was brewed by Angbryggeri AB, Sweden. Maybe someone's got the lowdown. If you get a chance, give it a whirl.

CR

It's Bedaro Bitter (with the umlaut - I can't figure out how to do those in Agent), brewed by the Nynashamn Angbryggeri, or Steam Brewery. I don't think it's 4.6% though, more like 4.2-4.3%.

Their Indianviken Pale Ale (6.0%) went down very well at Huddersfield Beer Festival this year, too.

Their Christmas Beer (Mysingen) is in the country at the moment, as is the Smorpundet (Butterpound) Porter. The Sheffield area is probably your best bet if you want to try these.

The beers are available in specialist pubs in Sweden, but almost exclusively in keg form. Cask outlets are on the increase though; I understand the Rover in Gothenburg has one handpump. The (live) keg version tastes great too.

They fill casks for their exports to the UK :-)

Wonderful beers, and they're a great bunch of people.

I'll pass on your comments when I see them at the weekend.

Mike Roebuck - a made-up name if ever I've heard one

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Hold down the alt key, type 148 on the number pad, then release the alt key.

Black> I'm going to be in Central Gothenburg, Sweden, next Black> week. Is there anywhere to get a decent beer? Brewpub Black> perhaps, or is that asking too much...

The "asking too much" will be done by the barman, if my experience of drinking in Sweden is anything to go by. :-)

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Thanks, Cliff.

Is there somewhere I can get a list of the alt+ codes?

If you are using Windoze you can easily have your keyboard set to type in several countries types. You can switch between them just by hitting a button on the bottom bar. I use Danish sometimes & it works well. (You need to print a copy of the countries keyboard so you know the key to use) You set it up on the control panel/keyboard settings.

-- Dave Croft Warrington England

Mike Roebuck - a made-up name if ever I've heard one

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No prob!

For the letters you need in the major European languages:

Funnily enough, I can't seem to find an alt+number code for the c with a little v denting its top (to use the technical parlance!) which occurs in Czech and other central/east European languages.

Try and scroll down.

Thanks for the recommendation. I made it to the Rover on Wednesday but sadly had all too little time as I was only over for a day trip. A great selection of beers though. Around 20 taps (didn't spot the handpump, but that's not to say it wasn't there as the place was packed out) with a couple of Shepherd Neame beers and even Bush Noel on draft. I tried a Swedish Christmas beer whose name escapes me at the moment (it wasn't Mysingen as I saw that but chose another) which was very tasty. At SKr49/pint one does appreciate it as well :-)

Talking of price, they had Westvleteren Trappist in bottles at something over £8/330ml. I reckon this must be some sort of record for the price of a beer in a pub! My flight was only £10 inc. each way....

Justin

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:34:04 +0000, Black Bat wrote (in message ):

Don't go there, just don't f*cking go there.......