Posted: January 17th, 2009, 1:08pm CET
Not long ago, my advice to anyone wanting to try Norwegian
microbrew in Oslo would have been to buy bottles from the Wine
Monopoly stores and drink them in the hotel room. Not very appealing,
of course, but the alternative would have been to hit the two or three
pubs that carried a couple of such beers each, where you would have
had to argue with the waiters in the hopes of
perhaps persuading them to sell you one. (To be fair,
Bar & Cigar
could be relied on to not just have some, but to also sell them.)