The brewing non-brewer

Frederikshavn, Denmark.
During the summer, this is the gateway to Jutland for ferry-loads of Norwegians and Swedes. Year round it is a destination for those who take the overnight ferry from Oslo, with two hours for shopping – meat and booze mostly.
In this pre-Christmas season, most of the passangers seem to be either sleeping it off [...]

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Austria in London

Boak and Bailey beat me to it. Sometimes you save a photo for a rainy day. I was thinking about a blog post giving the news about an Austrian cafe in Lodon with draft beer and a rotating range of bottles.
It is even a place for coffee and a piece of torte or strudl.
I was happy to [...]

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Free beer for life

If you are an Austrian soccer player doing your job, that is.
The Ottakringer brewery is promising a lifelong supply of free beer to any Austria player who scores a goal for the co-hosts in their remaining Euro 2008 group matches against Poland and Germany.
Don’t worry. This will definitely not turn into a soccer blog. I couldn’t [...]

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Euro 2008 soccer newsflash

There are deep worries that Austria will be running out of beer after problems with the supply lines from Germany.

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Orbital warming

The mainstream media have a tendency to focus on the Big Issues. The survival of the planet or the Lisbon Treaty or whatever. This means that they rarely have room to champion the small causes. But, luckily, the Times Online has asked one of the important small questions of our time:
Why is beer on planes always [...]

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Everything but the kitchen sink

The Danish Herslev Bryghus has brewed a carrot beer, containing carrot juice, malted oat and heather honey. This is a part of the drive for a spectre of Nordic beers as an answer to German or Belgian beers. They are also experimenting with asparagus.
I applaud the innovative spirit, but I have a strong feeling this [...]

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Big beers vs small beers I

There is a discussion that has been going on for some time on various beer blogs and in forums like ratebeer about extreme beers vs session beers. Some beer writers and enthusiasts are tired of the imperial stouts and super hoppy IPAs and want to promote the more modest, traditional styles.
I have, especially when reporting [...]

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Beer festival in Vienna

Lots of Europeans, and indeed beer lovers from around the globe, have travelled to Copenhagen for the annual Danish beer festival in May. This year the festival is moved to September, but that does not mean you have to go thirsty.
I am sure there are CAMRA festivals to be found, but something that caught my [...]

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