Beer Traveller

Just to let you know that the latest issue of All About Beer Magazine has a special supplement – Beer Traveler. Focus is on the US, but there are articles about Germany and Belgium, too. A list of 150 Perfect Places to have a beer will surely lead to discussions. Nice to see Olympen in [...]

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… where everybody know your name

  I had other plans last Saturday. The morning was spent trying to tidy the apartment recently well, as there will be a photographer coming in today. I had planned an overnight trip with my eldest from Saturday to Sunday. But then I suddenly had something else to squeeze in. I opened my e-mail to [...]

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Irregular service

I had a number of ideas for blog posts lined up, but sometimes you get too busy doing other things. We bought a new flat last week, which means we have to get rid of the old one. Before that, my handyman capabilities are stretched to the limit whne I’m not tutting stuff into boxes [...]

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Look what the postman brought–

Actually, he didn’t bring it. I had to go to the post office to pick it up. Buit it was well worth the trip!

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Quite a beer bill

If you are under the impression that I buy a lot of beer, you are seriously mistaken. This guy, however, has done some serious shopping. I was told an anecdote on one of my visits to Øbutikken about a Swiss customer who got up at 2 in the morning, drove all the way to copenhagen [...]

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DC Brews

According to the Washington Post All We Can Eat blog, there will be a number of new breweries opening up over the next year or two, offering beer in kegs, bottles and cans. I haven’t been there for decades, but I still have fond memories of the Brickskeller, one of the pioneers among the beer [...]

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The Scandinavian Way

Swedish Moderate MP Hans Wallmark has visited small scale producers of beer and wine in southern Sweden, and his recommendations on his blog are clear. It should be possible to tweak the system to open for direct sales of alcohol from producers to consumers. The absurdities of the system are illustrated by the story of the sparkling [...]

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Cask Ale Festival, Oslo

  Now it’s public. At Håndverkerstuene.  Ægir, Haandbryggeriet and Nøgne Ø. Plus our friends from Scotland, BrewDog. 10-11 September Beermakers dinner as well. See you there!                                      

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All breweries great and small

The most promising about the revival of Norwegian Brewers is not their predictable views on government policies, taxes and such. It is the change from being an organ for the big and medium sized breweries to the inclusion of everyone from giant Ringnes to the smallest farm breweries brewing a few hundred liters at a [...]

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World Cup beers

For the tickers who want to drink beers from all participating countries, the good people at BierPost in Germany have made a box containing beers from 18 of the participating countries. No luck if you’re looking for refreshments from Algiers, Chile, Ivory Coast, Honduras, Cameroon, North Korea, Nigeria, Paraguay, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia or Uruguay, though.

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