It’s almost a good thing I neglected to post this story about smokey, Gotland, Sweden-style farmhouse ale, aka Gotlandsdricke, when it was published in Bend Source Weekly this past year. Why? Because it gives me a chance to share it now, now that it was awarded the 3rd Best Beer Review by the North American Guild of Beer Writers. It’s a real thing!

I neither fell in love with this beer style–perhaps most closely resembling a Polish-style Grodziskie or Lichtenhainer, but those also require high levels of beergeekdom given how obscure they are–neither in Sweden nor here in Bend, Oregon, but in Boston, Mass! That’s the backgrounder on how I played a roll in getting a stab at the style to be made here in Bend…