The names of our beers are usually references a local place or area or may include 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.
| IBU: 70 | EBC: 10 |
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.
| IBU: 55 | EBC: 20 |
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.
| IBU: 19 | EBC: 13 |
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.
| IBU: 30 | EBC: 80 |
Dönsby Dark
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.
| IBU: 25 | EBC: 32 |
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.
| IBU: 65 | EBC: 9 |
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
| IBU: 71 | EBC: 14 |
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.
| IBU: 17 | EBC: 34 |
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.
| IBU: 44 | EBC: 20 |
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.
| IBU: 24 | EBC: 12 |
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.
| IBU: 53 | EBC: 10 |
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
| IBU: 16 | EBC: 6 |
Scheisse Weisse
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.
| IBU: 15 | EBC: 6,5 |
Friends Lager
The Friends Lager is a vienna lager. This type of beer has a hint of roasted or toasted malt character with a quite low bitterness and light colour for this type of beer.
| IBU: 26 | EBC: 10 |
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