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Posted: February 22nd, 2009, 1:00pm CET
Beer consumption in Norway may be falling, but craft beer
production is booming. To cope with increasing demand
Haandbryggeriet
recently ripped out their old brewing plant, replacing it with a new
one. The old one had a capacity of 900 liters per batch, whereas the
new one does 2000, more than doubling the batch size. In fact, since
the old one could only do 700 liters of strong beers (because of the
amount of malts), capacity is close to tripled for these beers.
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Posted: February 15th, 2009, 1:35pm CET
I don't usually do beer reviews on this blog, but I got "reviewer
copies" of the BrewDog Paradox Smokehead and Isle of Arran, and
thought they were worth writing about. Contrary to what you might
think, this doesn't mean breweries have suddenly started to send me
their beers, clamouring for me to review them. BrewDog sent them to Knut Albert, who kindly
passed them on to me.
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Posted: February 10th, 2009, 12:34pm CET
It's odd that the pub should in one sense be the ultimate English
tourist attraction, since all countries have their own bars and cafés,
but somehow the English pub has become part of international culture.
And deservedly so, because there really is something special about
English pubs. A good English pub is almost like a communal
living-room; a kind of home away from home. That is, the good English
pubs are like this. They are of course outnumbered by the indifferent
or even bad pubs, which are just boozers like those you find anywhere
in the world.