It’s beer day in Iceland!

30 years ago this summer, I attended a meeting in Reykjavik, Iceland. I spent two days in endless discussions, and I did not get to see the sights. But there is one thing I remember clearly. The local organisers insisted in us buying our duty-free quotas on arrival in Iceland. A duty-free shop in the arrival [...]

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A word of welcome

I have to admit I do not follow all the dozens of Swedish beer blogs. But with twitter et al, I have a general overview. When I read that there was a founding meeting of the Swedish Beer Writers, I send off an e-mail asking if they accepted Norwegian members. I have for several decades [...]

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Beer quality, not beer quantity

Some food for thought at the Lieblingsbier.de web site. There is a general discussion on the trends in the German and Austrian markets, which is interesting enough. But the core of the blog post by Felix vom Endt is this (my translation): I don’t mind if the beer consumption keeps falling in the years ahead. For me [...]

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Hide the beers, the government is coming!

There is liberalisation, and there is not. As I have told you before, the Norwegian beer scene is currently in a pretty good shape. The micro breweries are doing well, the industrial breweries are more or less standing still, but they are still making serious money on their markups. The selection of imports available, at [...]

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It’s them BrewDog guys in the middle of the fight again

If you thought the British beer scene was all quiet pints and cobwebbed pubs, you obviously do not follow Melissa Cole’s blog. She did not like what BrewDog has to say about other british brewers in a recently published book, feeling that BrewDog owes the industry as a whole a bloody enormous apologyy. It wasn’t exactly [...]

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