This club started 1982 in Lund, Sweden. We meet every month or so. Then we try at least 6 new beer, sometimes up to 10. Only the host of the meeting knows what's in the glasses. No home brews or beer on tap are tasted, only bottled or canned beer.
The participants give marks from 5 (exceptional) to 1 (undrinkable) and rank the beer.
When everybody has given their judjements, the mean value of each beer is calculated, and the beer is presented.
After that there's free drinking and eating (potato chips, dipping sauce, nachos etc.).
The participants in the club travel quite a lot and bring home beer from all over the globe.
We have also got some beer by friends over the years, see the list of "sponsors" below.
After Sweden joined the European Union in Jan 1, 1995 the Swedish monopoly (Systembolaget) has increased the number of beer, and for example 1 January 2022 they listed 4428 beers.
Before Jan 1 1995 beer stronger than 5,6 vol % (abv.) was not allowed to sell (we had to buy it in Denmark or elsewere, and bring a maximum of 6 bottles) but nowadays Systembolaget sells also very strong beer.
Despite the travel and the sponsors there are a number of countries we have not yet tried; Andorra, Surinam and a lot of African countries like Benin and The Ivory Coast.
We are interested to get hold of a bottle or two from any of these countries. See the country list to see which we are missing. Missing countries are with bold.
MEMBERS:
Erling V. Jirle (Permanent Secretary, homepage, e-mail), Claes-Göran "CG" Dahl, Sven Denbert, Paul-Eric Jönsson, Nils Kjellén, Rune Svensson and Anton Bodahl.
FORMER MEMBERS:
Björn Aksell, Per Andell, Fredrik Haas, Elsa Hansen, Torsten Gunnarsson, Katarina Hedlund, Anders Karlsson, Ulf Ottosson, Olof Persson, Vesna Stefan & Peter Sundin.
John Rodney -2001 
SPONSORS:
Dainius Plepys, Karin Johnson, Olle Anderbrant, Christer Löfstedt, Ann Södergren, Dehbia Abed, Peter Valeur, Marcus Stensmyr,
Hong-Lei Wang, Glenn Svensson, Camilla Ryne, Lars Thoma, Jan-Thomas Johansson, Lars 08 Jonsson, Håkan Eriksson, Jean-Marc Lassance, Margareta Truedsson-McKenna, Linnéa Svensson and Rolf Ahl.
GENERAL EXPLANATION TO THE LISTS:
mean or m = mean value of the rating (5 is exceptional, 1 is undrinkable)
Country (bought) = brewing country (purchasing country, if different)
n = number of times tasted
vol % = volume percent, or alcohol by volume (abv.)
no./date/n = tasting session no./date/number of participants.
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Updated 7 February 2024.
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