Sweden-based cider-maker Kopparberg has released a new strawberry flavor to their lineup of hard seltzers – which includes passion fruit and mixed berries. Kopparberg Strawberry Hard Seltzer is bottled at 5% alcohol by volume [10 proof] and is touted as gluten-free, low-sugar, vegan-friendly and containing 93 calories per can. Kopparberg Strawberry Hard Seltzer is being […]
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has released their 10-year-old ‘Burning scarecrows by the sea’, a single cask malt whisky. SMWS’ Burning Scarecrows By The Sea was matured in a refill hogshead ex-Bourbon cask and supposedly contains notes of “pebble beach, seaweed, sun-dried driftwood, bonfire, smoked mackerel and cigar boxes” on the nose, with“blow-torched pineapple and […]
Mackmyra has released their 10-Year-Old single malt whisky called, appropriately enough, Ten Years – and if you find yourself to be asking yourself, “who or what is a Mackmyra?” – we cannot blame you for not knowing of the whisky producer from Sweden. Mackmyra Ten Years has been matured in ex-bourbon casks as well as […]
Motorhead became the latest musical band to have its name attached to a whisky as they prepare to release their aptly named Motorhead Whisky next week. Motorhead Whisky emerges in a collaboration with Swedish distillery, Mackmyra, and was aged five years in American oak barrels before being finished for six months in Oloroso sherry casks. […]
What began as an April Fool’s Day joke has become reality for Swedish cidermaker, Kopparberg, as they have produced the world’s first cider slushie. After an April Fool’s Day joke depicted frozen cider pops, Kopparberg has used that inspiration and turned two of its 4% alcohol content fruit flavored ciders – strawberry-lime and elderflower-lime – […]
Swedish cidermaker Rekorderlig is launching a new manly Dry Apple Cider that is aimed specifically at the male cider-loving market [which probably means it should have a beard or tattoo or something on it]. The 5% alcohol content cider is expected to be marketed as an alternative to beer by the 16-year old cidermaker from […]
As regular readers of my little blog may remember, I have family in Sweden and as such I tend to visit at least once a year. Heck, we’re such good friends by now, you and I, that I suppose I may as well reveal that it is my dear parents who have moved here – […]
And the prize for the least creative name of a “scotch” blend goes to… MacScot’s, which I heard of for the first time the other day. Apparently it is a blend produced in Sweden, yet I have been fortunate enough to try it. Scandinavia is pretty well known for having high taxes, especially on alcohol, […]