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Sweden. The Canary in the Coal Mine.

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Nice chat with Ingrid Carlqvist, a popular Youtuber and writer from Sweden, to discuss what life is really like in her country. We go over the political landscape of Sweden, its immigration problems, no go areas, the Julian Assange sex case, Greta Thunberg, and what unites the Swedes, amongst other things.

Please check out Ingrid’s stuff:

Youtube: Ingrid and Maria: https://youtu.be/KD_TqGxKsQQ

Website:https://www.ingridochmaria.se

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ingridcarlqvist

https://vk.com/ingcarl

https://mewe.com/profile/5c7682506bab462a83cab389

 

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Democracy in the banana republic

Democracy in the Banana Republic

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Good discussion with The Irish Megaphone on the awful state of Irish democracy.

Democracy in the Banana Republic: Joined by The Irish Megaphone, we take a look back at the most recent elections in Ireland. Viewing the European and Local election results and trying to figure out what it all means for little old Oireland.

Thanks to TIM for his time and for sharing his thoughts and experiences.

Check out the Irish Megaphone

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/theirishmegaphone

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https://twitter.com/theirishmega

 

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Lucky Jack American Pale Ale

Lucky Jack American Pale Ale

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Lucky Jack American Pale Ale

www.lervig.no/

Brewed by Lervig Aktiebryggeri
Style: Pale Ale
Stavanger, Norway

Lucky Jack American Pale AleLervig Aktiebryggeri, in the city of Stavanger, southern Norway, was founded in 2003 by Kristoffer Stensrud.

The brewery is part owned by an American investment fund called Orkila Capital who, in 2018, purchased 50% of the company. The investment fund itself is part of, Danish brewery, Mikkellers investment portfolio.

The craft brewery produce a wide range of beers from easy-drinking pilsners and pale ales to barrel-aged stouts, barley wines, and sours, exporting about a third of all their beers abroad.

Review: 0,33l bottle of Lucky Jack American Pale Ale: 4.7% vol.

A beer from a brewery once rated as one of the top 100 breweries in the world according to a well known beer rating site, ok so lets see about that then……..

Cool enough logo on the bottle, a rugged character looking out to sea, nice blue colouring. 

Lucky Jack American Pale AleOn pour get a massive white head with a lot of carbonation, fizzing away like mad, a lively beer from the start!
A golden coloured beer with what looks like a reddish hue, and after we get a well maintained white creamy head that lasts. Some lacing present.

Looks very nice, like a fine wine! To be looked at and admired. Good start.

Holy fuck that smell is powerful stuff, very strong on the nose, very spicy and very fruity, both regular fruits and the more tropical ones too. 

The toxicity level is high, nearly afraid to drink this fella! Floral smell, and that smell off the hops, is powerful and very intense. Bit like nail varnish or paint stripper. Piney as well.

Lucky Jack American Pale AleTastes like your average IPA, strong in the hops and in the taste. A long gentle bitter finish with this one. This beer has three hops, the citrus flavouring Citra hops, the Chinook hops tasting of grapefruits, and the fruity Amarillo hops, and boy does it show as all three are easily found on the taste buds. 

Not a bad beer, very, very tasty, grains, hops and the light tropical fruits all lovely on the tongue, going down nice, this is a beer to sip and enjoy. Also can taste the yeast, a slight kick to let you know its there all the same!

Taste is hoppy, of course, but the balance between sweetness and hoppiness is exactly spot on.  
A nice tasting beer that is definitely worth looking at again.

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Lösch-Zwerg

Lösch-Zwerg Cola Weizen

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Lösch-Zwerg

www.loesch-zwerg.de

Brewed by Privatbrauerei Schimpfle
Style: Cola Weizen (wheat)
Gessertshausen, Bavaria, Germany

Lösch-ZwergThe brewery Schimpfle is located near the old city of Augsburg. It all started when, in 1864, a Mathias Schimpfle bought a small inn with brewing rights in the quiet town of Gessertshausen, in the heart of Bavaria. 

Using raw materials from the region and sticking to traditional brewing principles, the Schimpfle family brewed special beer specialties that proved popular amongst the locals. This popularity meant expansion of the brewery, to meet the demands of the ever growing customer base.

The love of beer brewing has been passed down from generation to generation. Today Thomas Schimpfle, leads the brewery into the fourth generation of the family, as a freshly brewed master brewer, he took over the brewery at the age of 22 and developed his own beer brand – the Lösch dwarf was born.

The brewery now do a variety of dwarf bottled flavours, from a hot spicy number, to a pils, a cellar, a shandy type brew, and a wheat lemon non-alcoholic, in addition to the cola weizen.

Review: 0,33l bottle of Lösch-Zwerg Cola Weizen: 2.8% vol.

Lösch-ZwergLike the little brown bottles with the pull caps, has the logo of a little elf on the front, as a fireman. Zwerg means dwarf!

On pour, as to be expected this looks exactly like a cola, brownish in appearance, no head. Except this in fact has less carbonation than the real thing!

A white head did make an appearance in the second bottle, but died quickly after, and the beer looks generally flat. 

Minimal smell, just picking up the cola aroma, but on a very faint level.

Lösch-ZwergBit of a disappointment in the taste department, expected more of a cola taste, but what I got was pretty flat, and tasteless really. Like a bad watery cola, with a hint, and just a hint, of alcohol. 

Second bottle served ice cold, much better in the taste, more cool and crisp on the tongue, and much more of a cola taste, and this time the alcohol is alive! Sugary, cola, caramels, wheat, and a bit of yeast. 

Overall I think I would much prefer to have the real thing, a cola, perhaps with a dash of vodka. This is simply not worth it. 

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Feldschlösschen Ice

Feldschlösschen Ice

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Feldschlösschen Ice

www.feldschloesschen.ch/home

Brewed by Feldschlösschen (Carlsberg)
Style: Pale Lager
Rheinfelden, Switzerland

Feldschlösschen IceFeldschlösschen is the best known beer brand in Switzerland. Their beers have been brewed at the Feldschlösschen brewery in Rheinfelden, the biggest brewery in Switzerland, since its foundation in 1876 and has been the leading Swiss beer brand for more than 100 years. Today its by far the leading brand in the country with 45 per cent of the beer market, with more than 40 Swiss beer brands, mineral waters, soft drinks and wine produced and shipped all over the country and beyond.

The brewery logo is in the shape of a castle and Feldschlösschen means ‘small castle in the fields’ in German.

Have tried Feldschlösschen beers before, most notably their main brew, their Pale Lager which I actually liked, much to the chagrin of beer geeks everywhere. Yes it is a generic lager but on a hot day a cold one is great. As I said at the time, it is a “bloody good beer!” Also tried their strong Pale Lager, Feldschlösschen Stark , at 7% ABV. Also found it quite nice and did the business. And I recently drank their Feldschlösschen Frühlingsbier, a seasonal spring beer, which was shit, basically!  So you can see, it’s a bit of hit and miss with Feldschlösschen! 

Review: 50cl can of Feldschlösschen Ice: 4.7% vol.

Feldschlösschen IceHas a nice cool design on the can, cold icy colouring leaving you in no doubt this is best served ice cold.

On pour looks good, a nice golden colour appears with a nice and very decent frothy white head. Does die a bit, but nothing wrong with the appearance.

A nice lagery smell on the nose, light and not too strong, of malts and barley, small hint of hops but not much, some citrus. Ok but not strong.

On taste I get a nice initial lovely cold and cool taste on the tongue, as expected very cold and crisp. Otherwise I am getting your standard lagery tastes.

A slight sour aftertaste with this one, bit of a metallic flavour off it too, bit yucky! Must be this that gave me a slight head the next day, polluted my head!

Overall this is a very cold lager with a bit of an off taste. Not nice, too bitter, difficult to enjoy and not good for the head. Avoid!

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