Our Story!
Five Friends, from Karis (Raseborg) Finland, went to a party in September 2020. After some common bulk beers the Friends started to get tired of the plain and ”boring” bulk beers. This is when the Friends came together ”I’d rather drink water, than this p_ss”, ”Couldn’t we make our own beers?”, ”How hard could it be”, ”What the heck, let’s make our own!”. Said and done, a few weeks later in October we were ready for our first beer brewing session.
Since October 2020, Friends Brewing Company has brewed great beers on a regular basis. In 2022 we are launching our first co-operation with one partner allowing the general pubic to start enjoying, really great tasting craft beers.
All of our beers are made with love to the traditional beer making process and in the company of great Friends.
Great Friends and Great beer!
The Beer!
The names for our beers are usually related places or area close to where we live, or it is a play on words in our local Swedish dialect that could hint what type of beer it is.
Bäljars IPA
This West Cost style IPA kicked off our beer brewing journey in September 2020. Made from pilsner & carared malt and citra/mosaic hops. A simple and clean IPA.
Karisfornia Red
This US Amber Ale is a ruby red traditional ale with rich and robust flavors and offers a delicious sweetened taste. Munich, Vienna and carared malts are used to provide the color tone.
Karis Bondie
This Belgian blonde strong Ale was first brewed in January 2021. It has a low malt flavour with floral and hint of spice.
Svartå Stout
The Svartå Stout is by far our darkest collared beer to date. It is a Irish stout with rich dark malty body with bittersweet aromas and flavours of malt, coffee and chocolate. The perfect beer to keep you company during the long and dark Finnish winter.
Dönsby Dark Lager
Dönsby Dark Lager was brewed as a Christmas beer in 2020. This earthy and full bodied dark lager has also been brewed and experimented with by using different yeasts, for example Kveik Yeast.
Väst Newland Pale
The ”Väst Newland Pale” has a fruity and fresh aroma and taste. It inspired by the New Zeeland IPA style of beer. It is a light and refreshing beer perfect for warm summer evenings.
Friends IPA
”Friends IPA” is our West Cost style IPA with a strong influences of Finnish traditional ingredients. The gutsy and bold fruity hops aroma & taste in cooperation with the rugged notes of rye malt and sweet and nutty notes of vienna malt is the foundation of this beer
Pumppis Weize
This Weizenbock beer, is a dark strong wheat beer, with notions of traditional wheat beer and robust & mild dark roasted flavours The styling was influenced by an 80’s.
Leftover IPA
The Leftover IPA was born with the purpose of reducing the hops stock and making a seasonal summer IPA. As the stock content will vary from year to year so will this beer.
Shhh! IPA
The Shhh! IPA is a Single Hop IPA. The beer uses Callista hop, that giving the beer a smooth fruity, berry and caramel flavour.
Lövkulla Amber
This Amber ale is a more down to earth ”red ale” with a malty body with a medium-low hops profile of floral aromas with an element of citrus.
Va’ Saani Lager
The Va’ Saani lager is a dry and crisp Japanese rice lager, that has been slowly perfected and finalised in cool temperatures
Kölsvine
Kölsine is a traditional German Kölsch Ale. It has a balanced and smooth malty body, low sweetness with medium carbonation.
The name came by accident when autocorrect didn’t understand
”Kölsch ” and suggested ”Kölsvin”
in stead.
Oktoberfest
The October fest beer is an annual beer that will vary from one year to another. For the Octoberfest 2021 celebrations we made this German pilsner with Vienna Malt and Kveik yeast as we were in a bit of a hurry to get it ready.
Scheisse Weisse
The taste of Scheisse Weisse is nothing like what the name would suggests, it is a smooth and balanced weisse beer. The name comes from a joke during the first time the beer was brewed.
Stationsberget IPA
Stationsberget IPA is a double dry hopped Hazy IPA with intense fruity flavours.
Who are we?
Christer Stenhäll
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Ulf Wadenström
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Mikael Westerlund
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Mikael Nylund
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Johan Westerlund
How to contact us
If you want to get in contact with us please contact us through our facebook page.
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