Just In Time For Independence Day of Finland Sinebrychoff Porter Has Been Launched

On 2 December, in time for the Independence Day of Finland, the Finnish porter from Sinebrychoff in Sweden was launched. Sinebrychoff Porter has won a number of awards, both nationally and internationally. It is a dark, top-fermented beer brewed with roasted malt and lots of hops.

Sinebrychoff Porter was manufactured back in the 1860s, then in relatively small quantities and mainly during the winter months. Since 1957, this porter was brewed continuously and the recipe remains largely unchanged. The flavor is rich with malty burnt notes with traces of chocolate, coffee and liquorice, together with fruity aromas give a rich taste experience.

- Sinebrychoff Porter is Finland's oldest specialty beers and consists of four different kinds of malt, pilsner, brown and caramel.  It is best enjoyed in the winter when the soft rich taste is a perfect medicine against blustery winds and sub-zero temperatures, says Anna Wallner, beverage educators at Carlsberg Sweden.

Award-winning, nationally and internationally
Sinebrychoff Porter has received numerous awards. The Beverage Testing Institute in Chicago rated the stout as one of America's top imported beer, where for the last ten years it has also been sold in 37 states, and at international beer Olympics in England, where nearly a thousand beers from around the world participated, and won the silver medal both 1998 and 2002. The American magazine Men's Journal has included Sinebrychoff Porter on its list of the world's 25 best beers in both 2010 and 2011. In the international competition The World Beer Awards 2013 the beer lately won silver among European porters.

In Finland Sinebrychoff Porter has been nominated several times for this year's draft beer. In 2011, it was elected Finland's best beer of Finland Ölförening.

- It is of course great that Swedes now may take advantage of this award winning beer with its venerable history. Sinebrychoff Porter is an exciting beer in many ways. It's dark, bordering on black, unfiltered and smells wonderfully of malt, says Anna Wallner.

Many applications
Sinebrychoff Porter is a rich flavor experience in itself, but is also good with coffee instead of brandy or related to cooking, such as in sauces, marinades and meat stews. Sinebrychoff Porter is also suitable for chocolate cake or as a flavoring in ice cream, or why not as glaze for dessert. Try also with game meat, heavy meats and oysters.

Please try to serve it in different temperatures, from refrigerated to room temperature as it affects the port's many fine flavor nuances.

Sinebrychoff Porter will be launched at Systembolaget on December 2, in time for the Independence Day of Finland on 6 December. Sinebrychoff Porter will cost 19.90 SEK at Systembolaget.

Celebrate Independence Day of Finland with Sinebrychoff Porter and classic Finnish dishes
On December 6, celebrated Independence Day of Finland as the country's national day. Marjatta Stobin, owner of Gulf shop in Hotorgshallen in Stockholm, offers tips on two dishes with classic Finnish products suitable to celebrate Independence Day together with Sinebrychoff Porter. A dark archipelago bread served with a traditional mushroom salad and sauna smoked bacon harmonizes nicely with the beer's rich, burnt tones. For dessert fit a heavy chocolate cake with lakritstopping breaking off nicely against porterns fruity aromas.

Hyvää ruokahalua (bon appetit)!

Archipelago Bread with mushroom salad and sauna smoked bacon

Ingredients
Finnish archipelago bread (or rye bread, or any other dark bread)
Sauna-smoked bacon (can be replaced with smoked pork or bacon)
Mushroom Salad

Mushroom Salad
Mushroom in brine
Yellow onion
1 part Smetana
3 parts whipping cream
Black Pepper

To do this:
Leach sponge to desired salinity by placing it in plenty of cold water, let it drain, and chop it finely
Chop the onion and mix with the mushrooms
Whip the cream and mix with sour cream, then stir together with the fungus. Let stand cold for a while before serving
Cut a slice of bread, put on a spoon mushroom salad and top with a slice sauna smoked bacon

Finnish licorice chocolate cake
Ingredients
200g butter
200g chopped dark chocolate
0.5 cups of coffee
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons licorice powder
1 pinch salt
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
3 cups
Cream cheese fluffed
300-400 g of plain cream cheese
1/2-1 cups powdered sugar
 
To do this:
Melt butter in a saucepan, stir in the chocolate and remove from heat. Stir and allow to melt. Add liquid and eggs, stir. Aiming to dry ingredients, stir.
Pour the batter into the paper dressed springform, about 22 cm in diameter. Bake in center of oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. The cake is best if it is allowed to stand in the refrigerator overnight.
Beat the cream cheese to the batter, add the icing sugar and whisk together to form a fluff.
Decorate with cream cheese fluff and Finnish salty licorice pieces just before serving.