Things are getting better and better in Oslo. The following was posted on Facebook from Schouskjelleren Mikrobyggeri this morning: It has taken some time but finally we have installed 8 new taps in our bar. So as of today we can offer a wider selection of our own beers and beers from other craft brewers. We [...]
Archive for March, 2011
A bargain in Oslo
Posted in beer, craft beer, Norway, USA on March 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Not dead
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
No, I’m not dead. It’s just the polar bear.
Amundsen Bryggeri og Spiseri, Oslo
Posted in beer, brewing, Norway, pubs, travel, tagged Amundsen Bryggeri og Spiseri, Oslo on March 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »
OK, so I finally got around to visiting the new brewpub in town, Amundsen Bryggeri og Spiseri, meaning Brewery and Eatery. The Amundsen in the name is of course the polar explorer, but this is not a place with seal fur and the remains of polar bears, it’s just named after the street outside, which is named [...]
Ask a Norwegian!
Posted in Norway on March 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In case you don’t get enough around here, there’s a new blog in town.
Where no craft beers have gone before
Posted in beer, Norway, travel on March 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A few of you have been following this blog from its earlier incarnation years and years ago. I even did some brief guest blogging over at Alan’s place. One of the places I covered was Longyearbyen in the Spitzbergen archipelago, halfway between the Northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. Almost two hours flight Oslo- Tromsø, [...]
Weeding out the not so good beers
Posted in beer, brewing, UK, tagged Brains brewery on March 3, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The Publican reports on Brains of Cardiff, who have stopped brewing their 45 lager because of dwindling sales. Arfur Daley of CAMRA Wales has an explanation:“It is not really a surprise – it wasn’t a very good beer.” What if other breweries did the same and focused on their good beers instead? Some of them [...]
Proud of British Beer
Posted in beer, beer marketing, brewing, England, UK on March 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is everywhere now, but I want to join in the chorus. For any beer lover, it is worth a few minutes of your time!
Oslo snapshots
Posted in beer, craft beer, Norway on March 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There is a World Championship in what they call Nordic skiing here in Oslo at the moment. That means cross country and ski jumping, sports which are fairly big in a handful of countries in the Northern part of the globe but hardly get any attention elsewhere. Anyway. This is also, of course, an excuse [...]
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