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A bargain in Oslo

Posted: March 31st, 2011, 2:54pm CEST by knutalbert

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 [...]
Not dead

Posted: March 23rd, 2011, 10:12am CET by knutalbert

No, I’m not dead. It’s just the polar bear.
Another beer from Scotland

Posted: March 11th, 2011, 5:51pm CET by knutalbert

A guest post from the Ulster-Scot again: Travelling back through Scotland the tippler stopped off at Morrison’s supermarket in Girvan, an Ayrshire coastal town. With a little while to spare there was time to peruse the beer shelves and the selection of Scottish bottled beers. So the other Saturday night while doing a bit of [...]
Amundsen Bryggeri og Spiseri, Oslo

Posted: March 11th, 2011, 12:30pm CET by knutalbert

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: March 7th, 2011, 12:05pm CET by knutalbert

In case you don’t get enough around here, there’s a new blog in town.
Where no craft beers have gone before

Posted: March 4th, 2011, 2:44pm CET by knutalbert

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: March 3rd, 2011, 11:30pm CET by knutalbert

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: March 3rd, 2011, 4:25pm CET by knutalbert

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: March 2nd, 2011, 6:04pm CET by knutalbert

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 [...]