London: Saturday morning at the Kernel Brewery

Brewery visits can mean a lot of things. There are large industrial breweries where you get a standard tour to watch bottles and crates flash past at incredible speed. There are old breweries which may have a museum or a cozy brewery tap with their most interesting brews. There are micros in wastelands of concrete and [...]

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London: Sourced Market, St. Pancras

  I am probably a bit of a snob, but I am usually avoid  food at airports and railway stations. But sometimes you cannot do any advance shopping, meaning you have to pick up something before running to your gate or platform. You’d usually go for an over-priced baguette in from one of the chains [...]

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London: Cask Pub & Kitchen

This is, for all purposes, a new pub, even if there has probably been an old boozer on the premises. The front is not up to much, no old-fashioned pub sign outside. It is in Pimlico, but for most of you it is more informative that it is less than ten minutes’ walk from Victoria Station, [...]

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Back to London

I was invited to London for a wedding reception last weekend, and of course I used the opportunity to get an update on the beer scene, as I haven’t been there for more than a year. The beer revolution has really come to town with new micro breweries and new pubs with outstanding beer lists. I [...]

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A German beer museum in the making

A German beer museum is being established in Central Berlin, due to open next year.  It is the first independent beer museum in Germany, though there are smaller museums dedicated to particular breweries or regions. The web site is still under construction. Thanks to Lieblingsbier.de, where you also can find details as a post for [...]

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Norwegian festivals

No international beer festivals for me this year, but there are interesting things happening here in Norway, too. I won’t go into a full report from the Øl & Mat festival here in Oslo a few weeks ago. I felt it was badly organised, they had a weird system of 2 cl samples which lead [...]

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