Just got back from Stockholm and as a Belgian I really enjoyed the Nebukadnessar beer from Omnipollo. Did not expect that. Also Akurat in Söder is a great place for beer geeks.
Akkurat really is a nice place isn't it! Full of passionate beer geeks. But happy to hear that you liked the Omnipollo - even though I think most Swedes prefer Belgian beer (at least the ones who don't drink lager).
We just got back to the US the other day after spending the last two weeks in Stockholm. Being a home brewer of 20+ years, I always sample as many of the local beers as I can get whenever I travel. The beer was great! But you need more bathrooms...what goes in, has to come out... 🙂
the old public "peehouses" looking like a small military guard house and the public toilets are a long gone memory in sweden. The swedish salary's are so high that having a oldstyle toilet lady and a public toilet would never be a idea today.
You are so right! When I go out in Sweden (or travel anywhere) I always have to plan where the next bathroom is going to be. "Hmm I'd like to have something here, but it's just a small hole-in-the-wall that doesn't have a toilet. I'll grab something at a bigger place where I can use the bathroom after I'm done, before I move on" and so on. The US really has a lot more public toilets...everywhere!
Worth mentioning that the smaller craft breweries have been complaining about the sales monopoly hindering them from establishing, as Systembolaget (gov't-owned retailer) makes it difficult for them to distribute their beer across the country. The bar is high. Then there has been the problem of exclusive contracts with bigger breweries in restaurant establishments preventing them from entering there. There is also legal requirements to serve food when establishing a pub that sells alcohol. Making it harder to start such. We'll have to see how it changes in the coming years.
Very good points! I would love to see more relaxed alcohol politics so that it could open up the playing field for people a bit more. But yeah, fingers crossed that that will happen any time soon...
@@ThreeStarVagabond We are seeing social beer culture change, of hopefully. It will become a bigger part og culture. And it is not fair that breweried or wineries like in Österlen where I am can’t sell their products at their place. And when Systembolaget is a 20 min ride away by car. Anyway, it would revive our culture here.
I find that lager on tap always tastes better than canned or bottled lager. But I like me a bottle or can of lager too. My favourite is Budvar. On tap I very much enjoy Krušovice!
Both are good! As in both Budvar and Krusovice. But then again, I actually like lager in cans as well - but I guess that it's like pizza. Even a bad pizza is still good because it's pizza ^_^
And please also talk about Swedish meat balls. I had the IKEA ones and every Swede says IKEA meat balls are the 👎👎👎👎👎👎. but this was the only meatballs I had so I never complained. Please talk about the best Swedish meat balls.
It's common in rural Finland to find people also making alcohol at home For example sahti, a non foaming dark beer like drink usually over 8% and up to wine territory in strength And pontikka, an illegal moonshine with strength from 30% up to 90%
you had me smile, better said grin soooo broadly while watching this! ;) I do love beer but never even thought about checking out particular "holidays " for it^^ However, I've recently been to my "if ever/once a year" - holiday to the UK and loved it as I do since more than 20 years ^^I /we had a blast as usual! Strangely enough, my partner and I were both thinking of you and how "that would be great in a video" while being there :D (well, for you, !I really s*** at taking pics, not talking about video attempts :D ) We've even met a lovely couple of Swedish grandparents in a pub, waiting for their youngsters to come back :) A few days later I've met some nice Norwegians - but they started bashing the Swedes just in the way that neighboring countries do. I thought it was fun to "learn" something new, but well, did't take it for what they said, but rather as a thing telling more about them ;) (There could be - and probably are - books filled with jokes, just about different towns in tiny Switzerland, not to mention our neighbors ^^ guess that sometimes simply comes with loving where you're from ^^) I simply love and found it a tad more interesting to learn about where the people are from, what they find funny and why, but probably that's just me ^^ And yes, even if if I'm rewinding that sequence of the video a 100 times or more - I'd never be able to correctly pronounce that cider brand :D I used to love it back in the days when I wasn't so sensitive to sweet stuff ^^But stillI always recommend it to friends who love ciders and cherish "my" moments past which where being flavored by them :) Nowadays I'm even more of a lager kind of person - I still can be picky and with wine, even more! (being from a family who actually lived on making wine ^^) but at the end of the day - the most important thing is always, that you're having (a drink) something to enjoy. No brand, age or whatsoever should tell you how to feel (imho) simply be in the moment, have a great time and know what you like or don't (so you don't order crap twice ^^) I've tried loads of beers around the world, but I'm sad to say - there wasn't a Swedish one you mentioned! Trying to make it a mission ;) (But well, maybe that's another thing that Swedes and Swiss have in common ^^ loving beer, but the neighbouring countries simply nailed it so hard, we'll just stand by, acknowledging it, nodding, and having a great tasteful sip :D ) Have a great night and take care! ;)
Thank you so much for those thoughts! Haha I don't even know where to start to reply. But I can just say that you don't have to think about how to pronounce Rekorderlig - because no one outside of Sweden does. Or in Sweden either for that matter :D Cheers!
@@ThreeStarVagabond thank you so much ☺️ I can’t even imagine how it must be for a Swede in a different country, listening to people talking bout stuff from IKEA 🤣 Already looking forward to your next video 😉 cheers!
@@juliettemathier Exactly! You can either grind your teeth at the pronounciation, or just sigh dejectedly and accept it :D Thank you so much! Cheers and have a great one ^_^
When I arrived in Sweden back in 1962, I saw no beer drinking in pubs (or bars), because there were none. I did see a sign that said "bar", but it sold milk? My favorite beer, so far, is "Old Ox" -- haven't yet tasted anything better. Vad säger du?
I've actually never tried Old Ox! And I'm afraid that I never experienced the time before drinking beer was common - by the late 90s / early 2000s it seemed to be quite common at least. I'm really boring when it comes to beer though, as I really prefer simple lagers most of all. I happily have a Heineken for example..
@@ThreeStarVagabond -- What do you say about lager that they ADD alcohol to in order to increase strength? I never felt they still tasted like beer, but recently I came across Three Hearts 7.6 and was pleasantly surprised. It actually still tastes like beer! Never cared much for Heineken, though -- it is what Bavarians call "holländisches Pisswasser". Ursäkta språket.... 🤭
Congratulations to Sweden coming in 2nd in Europe with brewing! I suppose we all have our versions of Carlsburg, but it's great that places all around the world are brewing such lovely varieties of beer! Also, thanks for the history lesson 😀
I have been drinking a lot of modern IPAs and Pale Ales - and it can be quite boring and sometimes disappointing as I look for balance och inte beska. But I have more come to like traditional styles like English Ales. And there even are some good lagers. Omaka Betong is one of my favorites when it comes to lagers. We have been brewing beer at work in the past. It has become a social activity. Having beer tasting evenings also.
That sounds really fun! Maybe something I should propose at work too... But yeah, some variation is always good I think. Even though I have a pretty unrefined taste in general
I see this video generated a lot of comments. I always try the local beer when I visit another country. But I’ve never had a chance to try Swedish beer. When I get there someday I definitely will. Here’s a quote about beer from the American musician Frank Zappa. “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline-it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer”
Hi Good morning ( 9:20 am here in New Delhi ,India ). Can you show us around the sea front of Npunktan in Helsinborg and the Odokra railway station please ? I love those two places as I stayed in Odokra for 17 days and we would often go to Npunktan.
Another genius video with the distinctive Swedish humor undertone. It's quite funny that beer is so cheap in the "systembolaget " where it is taxed according to alcohol content.. and so expensive in bars and pubs where it is double and triple taxed. That's why so many Swedes have "förfest" (pre-party) before they go out.. A kind of social home party where you comfortably get a little drunk with cheap beer from the systembolaget before throwing the plastic card in a bar and have to sell a kidney when the bar bill arrives later. =)
Thank you! :D And yeah, the good old pre-parties are definitely a Swedish tradition. Some people have so much fun at the förfest that they never get out...and some people get too drunk at the förfest so they never get out either. It's a good way to save some money ;D
@@ThreeStarVagabond yepp all we swedish ppl has done it..coming with a plasticbag from systembolaget and playing "tetris" filling the fridge at a "förfest" at somebody's house or flat. Its kind of pretty unique Swedish(or nordic)..in other country's i meet friends at the bar directly =)
Seeing all the footage of Stockholm really makes me want to go back! ❤ I'm not a beer person but I'm a big fan of Rekorderlig. Thanks for clearing up the pronunciation! Now I won't make a fool out of myself while ordering it in Sweden! I do feel like I should try at least a couple of Swedish beers next time I visit 🙂
You might want to try out some mead actually if you're a fan of sweet cider! But yeah Rekorderlig is an old-fashioned word for "really nice" sort of. No one actually uses the word in daily speak :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond I did try some mead at Aifur and it was great stuff! Have you ever been there? It's very over the top but fun to do at least once 😄
I have to give huge respect 👍to you as clearly you were still standing by the end of your video. As a Brit, I love beer🍺, and especially larger, I attended college in Lewes, where there is a well-known brewery called Harveys. As much as I enjoy the finished product, the hops brewing were always a bit smelly, especially in the summer, but it kept many a student happy 😊
I had to struggle a bit to articulate everything properly at least :D But yeah I agree! The end product is always wonderful but there's quite a bit of mess in getting there. Haha, especially when making your own beer
Norrlands Guld och Norrlands Ljus are great every day beers- clean and crisp. Looking forward to the change in law that will allow micro, I mean, craft breweries to sell their beer from their boutiques. Thanks for another tasty video.
I agree actually! They're very nice summer beers especially. And I definitely agree about looking forward to more lax regulations - that's going to be so much fun! Cheers
As a Finn born in 1980 and growing up among Finnish lager beers i have to say that there isn´t as good lagers in Sweden. I think that most of Finns prefer lager or pilsner. I have tried severeal differend Swedish beers and if i buy any from System bolaget it will be Stockholm Festival Beer. It is cheap and the taste is ok. I also have to say that i have travelled between Finland and Sweden whit ferries and most of the people that buys beer from the tax free buys Finnish beers.
I think that that might be true. Swedish lager really isn't the best, and I don't mind an Aura or Karhu now and then. But personally I typically go for some cheap and crappy Heineken instead when I buy stuff at the taxfree..
@@ThreeStarVagabond Heineken isn´t that bad at all. It is mild lager so i think most people like that over here. Propably at least 15 years ago they selled Heineken in the vessels too and i rather bought that than the normal Finnish brands. There usually were somekind of special offer to buy 4 cases of beer (not anymore). Last time i actually bought some very cheap Swedish beer. I don´t even remember the brand, but i hadn´t seen that ever before. It wasn´t bad at all.
@@ArchieArpeggio I think there's so much beer these days that you can always find good and bad ones in each country. But they do sell Heineken on the boats! I have 24 beers at home as proof of it ^_^
@@ThreeStarVagabond I didn´t see Heineken last time when i travelled with Viking Line. I also like some of the Durch lagers like Oranje Boom and Bavaria. Very much for my taste. And that is true. I don´t like all Finnish lagers either. But mostly those are good. Olvi Sandels is my propably the best for my taste. Little bit darker, but still smooth and little bit creamy.
Ooof, the thing is that I don't really like mead at all. But you can find mead at a bar called Sjätte tunnan in Old Town. And they also serve mead at the viking restaurant Aifur in Old Town. I'd recommend you ask for a recommendation there! ^_^
Your best video to date, who doesn’t Love beer. When we were in Sweden I quite enjoyed the beer, I thought it had a smoother taste and not such a hard after taste, but had a great flavor. I may be wrong but I was thinking Micro Brewery’s made craft beer, way too many for me, I had to try over 20 just to find one that suited my taste, or maybe that is a good strategy to sell more. Stay safe till next time
Haha, I knew that beer would be something people find appealing :D But yeah I'm often not a big fan of too experimental beers and sour beers and whatnot that people fancy. I'm a basic bitch when it comes to beer, myself
LOL! As a Dane it's super funny that you're salty about Carlsberg. They own god knows how many brands in god knows how many countries. I don't even consider them "Danish" any more. They've turned into an international beer conglomerate. Which is probably good for their share holders.
Haha I always take the opportunity to poke fun at the Danes! ^_^ But yeah Carlsberg is probably as Danish as IKEA is Swedish these days. But I just don't understand why so many people enjoy Carlsberg beer - I really don't like the flavor at all...
@@ThreeStarVagabond Carlsberg also bought up Tuborg which makes the best strong lager I've ever tasted: Tuborg Gold. But yes, standard Carlsberg Pilsner is... meh...
@@hanslindvall7530 That may end up becoming a problem for you, as if any of the Swedish micro breweries, you like, start to make an actual splash, Carlsberg will give them an offer they can't resist. Carlsberg is not a brewery any more. They're a "brewery infrastructure support company" in the sense they handle all levels of supply chain items, permits, certification, PR and marketing, distribution, real estate management, licenses, legal matters and contracts for their subsidiaries. This gives them a massive scale advantage, and that is why they are so hard to compete against. Which is exactly why many smaller breweries are thrilled to get bought up.
@@andersjjensen Yeah Tuborg is actually better... But there's just something about Danish lager that doesn't work for me. I don't know what exactly - but I much prefer other brands
That's so hard to say! If you go to the cheap places at Södermalm then you can find beer below 4 EUR. If you go to the bars around the central station then you won't find anything less than 10 EUR
@@ThreeStarVagabond Thanks , that's a little expensive compared to Belgium , The Netherlands or Germany . Here in Belgium it's about 2 to 2,80€ for a regular beer and 4 to 5,20 for a strong or special beer . Next week we travel to Stockholm , see you and thanks for the reply !
If you're staying at a place with a fridge you might actually consider going to Systembolaget then (the state-owned liquor store). It's a lot cheaper, and they have an excellent selection!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Den fungerar den med. Har aldrig förstått mig på IPA. En schysst ale är dock aldrig fel men på sommaren är billiga lagers helt rätt.
Oh I'm sure the beer will be plentiful if you get here - especially if it's on a weekend. That's when all the Swedes emerge from their introverted weekday slumber!
@@ThreeStarVagabond be sure to time it after the 25th..becase the 25th is the "salary day " in sweden when most swedes get their monthly salary and that probably the wildest party weekend king in the bar weekend after salary and noodles and pasta rest of the month =)
@@ThreeStarVagabond well raise your glass up cousins because, well Ill ask about my platoon sergeant if I can, because Ill volunteer, its not like Im from Cali or the deep south, we get snow where I from too
You can't drink pripps blå and falcon and sofiero and some others. They are terrible. I like mariestad and norrlands and some if I go out. At home I prefer beer from Vreta Kloster. You have to order that beer at systembolaget and get it some days later. Thats beer from 4% up to 18%.
Oof, I'm not much for strong beer like that. But I agree about Falcon and Pripps blå. For some reason Sofiero is still pretty okay in my view, though. But I can't do normal Åbro any longer.
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Everybody loves beer. I drank a bunch of beer in Sweden sitting in the lovely pubs. Great video, brother.
Well done! I hope you enjoyed them just as thoroughly as I did last Wednesday :D Cheers!
Just got back from Stockholm and as a Belgian I really enjoyed the Nebukadnessar beer from Omnipollo. Did not expect that. Also Akurat in Söder is a great place for beer geeks.
Akkurat really is a nice place isn't it! Full of passionate beer geeks. But happy to hear that you liked the Omnipollo - even though I think most Swedes prefer Belgian beer (at least the ones who don't drink lager).
We just got back to the US the other day after spending the last two weeks in Stockholm. Being a home brewer of 20+ years, I always sample as many of the local beers as I can get whenever I travel. The beer was great! But you need more bathrooms...what goes in, has to come out... 🙂
the old public "peehouses" looking like a small military guard house and the public toilets are a long gone memory in sweden.
The swedish salary's are so high that having a oldstyle toilet lady and a public toilet would never be a idea today.
You are so right! When I go out in Sweden (or travel anywhere) I always have to plan where the next bathroom is going to be. "Hmm I'd like to have something here, but it's just a small hole-in-the-wall that doesn't have a toilet. I'll grab something at a bigger place where I can use the bathroom after I'm done, before I move on" and so on. The US really has a lot more public toilets...everywhere!
A liter mug of Gränges at Hirschenkeller is a must every time I'm down in the capital :D
Haha niiice! I like Gränges. Nothing wrong with the cheapest beer one can find :D
Worth mentioning that the smaller craft breweries have been complaining about the sales monopoly hindering them from establishing, as Systembolaget (gov't-owned retailer) makes it difficult for them to distribute their beer across the country.
The bar is high.
Then there has been the problem of exclusive contracts with bigger breweries in restaurant establishments preventing them from entering there.
There is also legal requirements to serve food when establishing a pub that sells alcohol. Making it harder to start such.
We'll have to see how it changes in the coming years.
Very good points! I would love to see more relaxed alcohol politics so that it could open up the playing field for people a bit more. But yeah, fingers crossed that that will happen any time soon...
@@ThreeStarVagabond We are seeing social beer culture change, of hopefully. It will become a bigger part og culture. And it is not fair that breweried or wineries like in Österlen where I am can’t sell their products at their place. And when Systembolaget is a 20 min ride away by car. Anyway, it would revive our culture here.
@@marna_li Yeah! Well, I for one know which party I'll vote for if this comes up in their program :)
Fast 7:an finns ju.
An excellent video Miro!
Lots of tempting lagers there.
I strongly recommend the lager from Gotlands Bryggeri!
I like that one! I always have it at Sjätte tunnan :D
Yes and I can recommend Wisby stout too.
And ",Wisby kloster"
More Wisby kloster than stout for me I think... But I haven't tried the stout yet so I'd better check it out!
great idea for a video! you come up with some terrific videos!
Haha thank you so much! I do try to find interesting excuses to go out and have fun :D
I find that lager on tap always tastes better than canned or bottled lager. But I like me a bottle or can of lager too. My favourite is Budvar. On tap I very much enjoy Krušovice!
Both are good! As in both Budvar and Krusovice. But then again, I actually like lager in cans as well - but I guess that it's like pizza. Even a bad pizza is still good because it's pizza ^_^
@@ThreeStarVagabond very much like that! Except for Norrland on can. 🤮
@@beorlingo Haha fair enough! :D
Svensk öl är riktigt gott. Hälsningar från Finland! Heja Sverige!
Kiitos paljon! :D
In Finland we also have a national beer day
It's called friday
Just Friday? I was expecting every day!
Jösses vad man blir nostalgisk av att se alla krogar. Helt klart något jag saknar från tiden jag bodde i Stockholm.
Alltså Stockholm har ändå rätt mysigt uteliv! Det saknas lite ställen med bra uteplatser på sommaren, men det finns många kul ställen allmänt
And please also talk about Swedish meat balls. I had the IKEA ones and every Swede says IKEA meat balls are the 👎👎👎👎👎👎. but this was the only meatballs I had so I never complained. Please talk about the best Swedish meat balls.
That's actually an interesting topic for a video! There's some interesting history behind it all.. Thanks for the idea! :)
It's common in rural Finland to find people also making alcohol at home
For example sahti, a non foaming dark beer like drink usually over 8% and up to wine territory in strength
And pontikka, an illegal moonshine with strength from 30% up to 90%
Oh nice! My mom used to make sima at home. But yeah that was really weak compared to those
Jättebra video, bra jobbat. Skål!
Haha tack så mycket! Skål :D
you had me smile, better said grin soooo broadly while watching this! ;) I do love beer but never even thought about checking out particular "holidays " for it^^
However, I've recently been to my "if ever/once a year" - holiday to the UK and loved it as I do since more than 20 years ^^I /we had a blast as usual! Strangely enough, my partner and I were both thinking of you and how "that would be great in a video" while being there :D (well, for you, !I really s*** at taking pics, not talking about video attempts :D )
We've even met a lovely couple of Swedish grandparents in a pub, waiting for their youngsters to come back :) A few days later I've met some nice Norwegians - but they started bashing the Swedes just in the way that neighboring countries do. I thought it was fun to "learn" something new, but well, did't take it for what they said, but rather as a thing telling more about them ;) (There could be - and probably are - books filled with jokes, just about different towns in tiny Switzerland, not to mention our neighbors ^^ guess that sometimes simply comes with loving where you're from ^^) I simply love and found it a tad more interesting to learn about where the people are from, what they find funny and why, but probably that's just me ^^
And yes, even if if I'm rewinding that sequence of the video a 100 times or more - I'd never be able to correctly pronounce that cider brand :D I used to love it back in the days when I wasn't so sensitive to sweet stuff ^^But stillI always recommend it to friends who love ciders and cherish "my" moments past which where being flavored by them :)
Nowadays I'm even more of a lager kind of person - I still can be picky and with wine, even more! (being from a family who actually lived on making wine ^^) but at the end of the day - the most important thing is always, that you're having (a drink) something to enjoy. No brand, age or whatsoever should tell you how to feel (imho) simply be in the moment, have a great time and know what you like or don't (so you don't order crap twice ^^)
I've tried loads of beers around the world, but I'm sad to say - there wasn't a Swedish one you mentioned! Trying to make it a mission ;)
(But well, maybe that's another thing that Swedes and Swiss have in common ^^ loving beer, but the neighbouring countries simply nailed it so hard, we'll just stand by, acknowledging it, nodding, and having a great tasteful sip :D ) Have a great night and take care! ;)
Thank you so much for those thoughts! Haha I don't even know where to start to reply. But I can just say that you don't have to think about how to pronounce Rekorderlig - because no one outside of Sweden does. Or in Sweden either for that matter :D Cheers!
@@ThreeStarVagabond thank you so much ☺️
I can’t even imagine how it must be for a Swede in a different country, listening to people talking bout stuff from IKEA 🤣
Already looking forward to your next video 😉 cheers!
@@juliettemathier Exactly! You can either grind your teeth at the pronounciation, or just sigh dejectedly and accept it :D
Thank you so much! Cheers and have a great one ^_^
When I arrived in Sweden back in 1962, I saw no beer drinking in pubs (or bars), because there were none. I did see a sign that said "bar", but it sold milk? My favorite beer, so far, is "Old Ox" -- haven't yet tasted anything better. Vad säger du?
I've actually never tried Old Ox! And I'm afraid that I never experienced the time before drinking beer was common - by the late 90s / early 2000s it seemed to be quite common at least. I'm really boring when it comes to beer though, as I really prefer simple lagers most of all. I happily have a Heineken for example..
@@ThreeStarVagabond -- What do you say about lager that they ADD alcohol to in order to increase strength? I never felt they still tasted like beer, but recently I came across Three Hearts 7.6 and was pleasantly surprised. It actually still tastes like beer! Never cared much for Heineken, though -- it is what Bavarians call "holländisches Pisswasser". Ursäkta språket.... 🤭
Congratulations to Sweden coming in 2nd in Europe with brewing! I suppose we all have our versions of Carlsburg, but it's great that places all around the world are brewing such lovely varieties of beer! Also, thanks for the history lesson 😀
Always a pleasure to spread knowledge about curious bits of information...and beer :D Especially beer! :D
I would put family on the first place in the list, but beer will be on second place togerher with friends 😂 Cheers!!!
Haha I love that friends get to share the spot with beer :D Cheers!
I have been drinking a lot of modern IPAs and Pale Ales - and it can be quite boring and sometimes disappointing as I look for balance och inte beska. But I have more come to like traditional styles like English Ales. And there even are some good lagers. Omaka Betong is one of my favorites when it comes to lagers.
We have been brewing beer at work in the past. It has become a social activity. Having beer tasting evenings also.
That sounds really fun! Maybe something I should propose at work too... But yeah, some variation is always good I think. Even though I have a pretty unrefined taste in general
...och där ser man sig själv också i baren på Akkurat, där man sitter rätt många kvällar varje år. Missade kameran helt faktiskt den här gången. 😄😄
Hoppas det är okej! Jag försökte att inte filma folk i allmänhet utan bara "fånga stämningen" :D Haha, Akkurat är väl värt ett besök ofta!
I see this video generated a lot of comments. I always try the local beer when I visit another country. But I’ve never had a chance to try Swedish beer. When I get there someday I definitely will. Here’s a quote about beer from the American musician Frank Zappa. “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline-it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer”
Haha thanks for the quote! I guess we can say beer gives Sweden legitimacy as a country way before we had a unified country like we do today then :D
Hi Good morning ( 9:20 am here in New Delhi ,India ). Can you show us around the sea front of Npunktan in Helsinborg and the Odokra railway station please ? I love those two places as I stayed in Odokra for 17 days and we would often go to Npunktan.
Hey good morning! I'll see what I can do if I have my way around the south of Sweden again :D
Perfect timing. We get to Sweden next Friday. Keen for a pint?
I might be in town then! August 2? I'll probably return home after a mini road trip :D
Another genius video with the distinctive Swedish humor undertone.
It's quite funny that beer is so cheap in the "systembolaget " where it is taxed according to alcohol content.. and so expensive in bars and pubs where it is double and triple taxed.
That's why so many Swedes have "förfest" (pre-party) before they go out..
A kind of social home party where you comfortably get a little drunk with cheap beer from the systembolaget before throwing the plastic card in a bar and have to sell a kidney when the bar bill arrives later. =)
Thank you! :D And yeah, the good old pre-parties are definitely a Swedish tradition. Some people have so much fun at the förfest that they never get out...and some people get too drunk at the förfest so they never get out either. It's a good way to save some money ;D
@@ThreeStarVagabond yepp all we swedish ppl has done it..coming with a plasticbag from systembolaget and playing "tetris" filling the fridge at a "förfest" at somebody's house or flat.
Its kind of pretty unique Swedish(or nordic)..in other country's i meet friends at the bar directly =)
I havent even been to a bar for 15 years since they raised the prizes. Its not that fun either on bars anymore
Maybe I should make a video about that part of Swedish culture as well :D Ooh, I could arrange a förfest and document it maybe...
That's very true! I like having a beer or two, but even that feels really weird when they take more than 100 kr for a single beer at places!
Seeing all the footage of Stockholm really makes me want to go back! ❤ I'm not a beer person but I'm a big fan of Rekorderlig. Thanks for clearing up the pronunciation! Now I won't make a fool out of myself while ordering it in Sweden! I do feel like I should try at least a couple of Swedish beers next time I visit 🙂
You might want to try out some mead actually if you're a fan of sweet cider! But yeah Rekorderlig is an old-fashioned word for "really nice" sort of. No one actually uses the word in daily speak :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond I did try some mead at Aifur and it was great stuff! Have you ever been there? It's very over the top but fun to do at least once 😄
@@lulu.chains.88 Been there twice and I love it :D It's cheesy but so much fun! I don't like the mead though - I'm more for beer ^^
I have to give huge respect 👍to you as clearly you were still standing by the end of your video.
As a Brit, I love beer🍺, and especially larger, I attended college in Lewes, where there is a well-known brewery called Harveys. As much as I enjoy the finished product, the hops brewing were always a bit smelly, especially in the summer, but it kept many a student happy 😊
I had to struggle a bit to articulate everything properly at least :D But yeah I agree! The end product is always wonderful but there's quite a bit of mess in getting there. Haha, especially when making your own beer
@ThreeStarVagabond, no systembolaget needed. I say that's a winner 😂
@@sarahtaylor3950 Winner winner, beer for dinner! :D
Norrlands Guld och Norrlands Ljus are great every day beers- clean and crisp. Looking forward to the change in law that will allow micro, I mean, craft breweries to sell their beer from their boutiques. Thanks for another tasty video.
I agree actually! They're very nice summer beers especially. And I definitely agree about looking forward to more lax regulations - that's going to be so much fun! Cheers
Swedish answer to Budweiser...
1:11 but I thought beer day was between Friday and Sunday every week? 🤔
That's the normal beer day! This is the National Beer Day when everyone should drink in the middle of the week :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond ah, now I understand lol 😆
@@TheGramophoneGirl I think I prefer the thought that every weekend is a beer day :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond I think you need to lead by example and hopefully others will follow lol. If nothing else it's worth a try 🍺
@@TheGramophoneGirl Haha! I shall have to do my best to give it a shot at least :D
As a Finn born in 1980 and growing up among Finnish lager beers i have to say that there isn´t as good lagers in Sweden. I think that most of Finns prefer lager or pilsner. I have tried severeal differend Swedish beers and if i buy any from System bolaget it will be Stockholm Festival Beer. It is cheap and the taste is ok.
I also have to say that i have travelled between Finland and Sweden whit ferries and most of the people that buys beer from the tax free buys Finnish beers.
I think that that might be true. Swedish lager really isn't the best, and I don't mind an Aura or Karhu now and then. But personally I typically go for some cheap and crappy Heineken instead when I buy stuff at the taxfree..
@@ThreeStarVagabond Heineken isn´t that bad at all. It is mild lager so i think most people like that over here. Propably at least 15 years ago they selled Heineken in the vessels too and i rather bought that than the normal Finnish brands. There usually were somekind of special offer to buy 4 cases of beer (not anymore).
Last time i actually bought some very cheap Swedish beer. I don´t even remember the brand, but i hadn´t seen that ever before. It wasn´t bad at all.
@@ArchieArpeggio I think there's so much beer these days that you can always find good and bad ones in each country. But they do sell Heineken on the boats! I have 24 beers at home as proof of it ^_^
@@ThreeStarVagabond I didn´t see Heineken last time when i travelled with Viking Line.
I also like some of the Durch lagers like Oranje Boom and Bavaria. Very much for my taste.
And that is true. I don´t like all Finnish lagers either. But mostly those are good. Olvi Sandels is my propably the best for my taste. Little bit darker, but still smooth and little bit creamy.
@@ArchieArpeggio Fair enough! And aha, I haven't tried that yet. So many brands to try, and so little time...
Sweden ❤🇸🇪❤
Yes! Sweden AND beer :D
I am headed to Sweden on August 12th. I am a fan of mead - can you recommend a good Swedish mead? Mjödhamnen Mölska Bergslagen? 🍺 thanks, Miro!
Ooof, the thing is that I don't really like mead at all. But you can find mead at a bar called Sjätte tunnan in Old Town. And they also serve mead at the viking restaurant Aifur in Old Town. I'd recommend you ask for a recommendation there! ^_^
Oh and by the way, mead is mjöd. But mölska is a mix of beer and mead, just so you know!
@@ThreeStarVagabond Tack! I didn't know that! I could have made a GIANT blooper! 🤣
Mariestad means "Mary-place".
Presumably referring to Jesus' ma.
Fair point!
We have a national beer day!? 😮
Apparently we do :D
Sweden has over 500 breweries today 👍🏻
Damn! I'm not keeping up :D
💡 100w skål! 🍻
Skål! :D
Your best video to date, who doesn’t Love beer. When we were in Sweden I quite enjoyed the beer, I thought it had a smoother taste and not such a hard after taste, but had a great flavor. I may be wrong but I was thinking Micro Brewery’s made craft beer, way too many for me, I had to try over 20 just to find one that suited my taste, or maybe that is a good strategy to sell more. Stay safe till next time
You can say that there's something for everyone 😉👌🍻
Haha, I knew that beer would be something people find appealing :D But yeah I'm often not a big fan of too experimental beers and sour beers and whatnot that people fancy. I'm a basic bitch when it comes to beer, myself
This is new information to me that Sweden is the second biggest bear producer in Europe. Cheers 🥂 🥂 🥂 to that 😄😄
Just per capita! We're still a small country - but we have many beer enthusiasts :D Cheers!
Make sure you don"t burn your nose again.
I can't guarantee it... But I'll try! ^^
LOL! As a Dane it's super funny that you're salty about Carlsberg. They own god knows how many brands in god knows how many countries. I don't even consider them "Danish" any more. They've turned into an international beer conglomerate. Which is probably good for their share holders.
Haha I always take the opportunity to poke fun at the Danes! ^_^ But yeah Carlsberg is probably as Danish as IKEA is Swedish these days. But I just don't understand why so many people enjoy Carlsberg beer - I really don't like the flavor at all...
I like Danish people but I avoid Carlsberg owned brews... :) Prefer micro ones, from Sweden.. :)
@@ThreeStarVagabond Carlsberg also bought up Tuborg which makes the best strong lager I've ever tasted: Tuborg Gold. But yes, standard Carlsberg Pilsner is... meh...
@@hanslindvall7530 That may end up becoming a problem for you, as if any of the Swedish micro breweries, you like, start to make an actual splash, Carlsberg will give them an offer they can't resist.
Carlsberg is not a brewery any more. They're a "brewery infrastructure support company" in the sense they handle all levels of supply chain items, permits, certification, PR and marketing, distribution, real estate management, licenses, legal matters and contracts for their subsidiaries. This gives them a massive scale advantage, and that is why they are so hard to compete against. Which is exactly why many smaller breweries are thrilled to get bought up.
@@andersjjensen Yeah Tuborg is actually better... But there's just something about Danish lager that doesn't work for me. I don't know what exactly - but I much prefer other brands
Hey ! What is the average price for a regular beer in Stockholm ?
That's so hard to say! If you go to the cheap places at Södermalm then you can find beer below 4 EUR. If you go to the bars around the central station then you won't find anything less than 10 EUR
@@ThreeStarVagabond Thanks , that's a little expensive compared to Belgium , The Netherlands or Germany . Here in Belgium it's about 2 to 2,80€ for a regular beer and 4 to 5,20 for a strong or special beer . Next week we travel to Stockholm , see you and thanks for the reply !
If you're staying at a place with a fridge you might actually consider going to Systembolaget then (the state-owned liquor store). It's a lot cheaper, and they have an excellent selection!
John Malkovich?
Shush, don't ruin my cover
Det finns inget bättre en varm sommardag att ta en Norrlands Guld.
Haha, jag kör på Heineken ofta faktiskt
@@ThreeStarVagabond Den fungerar den med. Har aldrig förstått mig på IPA. En schysst ale är dock aldrig fel men på sommaren är billiga lagers helt rätt.
Pripps Blå…en svensk klassiker men numera…dansk.
Ett öde värre än döden...
oh something to think about if I went to to Sweden for NATO business I guess, I mean if thats if the US Military give me weekend pass or anything
Complain of undefined backpains..works in any army to get a short R&R or just extra bedtime..haha
Oh I'm sure the beer will be plentiful if you get here - especially if it's on a weekend. That's when all the Swedes emerge from their introverted weekday slumber!
@@ThreeStarVagabond be sure to time it after the 25th..becase the 25th is the "salary day " in sweden when most swedes get their monthly salary and that probably the wildest party weekend
king in the bar weekend after salary and noodles and pasta rest of the month =)
"Då finns det ingen som tar en.." etc :D
@@ThreeStarVagabond well raise your glass up cousins because, well Ill ask about my platoon sergeant if I can, because Ill volunteer, its not like Im from Cali or the deep south, we get snow where I from too
Omnipojjo. Det är spanska
Aha! Ja det låter ju helt rimligt nu när du säger det
I hate beer, so why am I even here? ☺
If you hate beer you just haven't found the right one yet.
Trying to get inspiration for which one to try? :D
Everyone knows danish beer is better then swedish😅
Danish swill! Swill, I say 😄
There are no swedish national beer day
Look who's the grumpy person who hasn't kept up with the last decade!
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You can't drink pripps blå and falcon and sofiero and some others. They are terrible. I like mariestad and norrlands and some if I go out. At home I prefer beer from Vreta Kloster. You have to order that beer at systembolaget and get it some days later. Thats beer from 4% up to 18%.
Oof, I'm not much for strong beer like that. But I agree about Falcon and Pripps blå. For some reason Sofiero is still pretty okay in my view, though. But I can't do normal Åbro any longer.