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From English to Norwegian: Ordering Beer Made Easy

"Beer Please in Norwegian" translates to "Øl, takk" (pronounced roughly as "uhl tahk"). This simple phrase is essential for beer enthusiasts visiting Norway, a country with a rich brewing tradition dating back to the Viking age.

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Norway's beer culture has experienced a renaissance in recent years, with a booming craft beer scene complementing traditional brewing practices. Major cities like Oslo, Bergen, and Tromsø boast numerous microbreweries and specialty beer bars, offering a wide range of styles from crisp lagers to bold IPAs and unique Nordic-inspired brews.

When ordering beer in Norway, you might encounter these terms:

"Fatøl" - draft beer

"Flaske" - bottled beer

"Halvliter" - a half-liter (roughly a pint)

Popular Norwegian beer brands include Ringnes, Hansa, and Aass, but craft breweries like Nøgne Ø, Lervig, and Haandbryggeriet have gained international recognition for their innovative approaches.

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Norway's beer culture is closely tied to its social customs. "Skål" is the traditional Norwegian toast, often accompanied by eye contact with fellow drinkers. Beer is a common feature at social gatherings, particularly during holidays and festivals.

It's worth noting that alcohol regulations in Norway are stricter than in many other countries. Beers above 4.7% ABV are only sold in state-run Vinmonopolet stores, not in supermarkets. Prices can be relatively high due to taxes, but the quality and variety available make it worthwhile for beer enthusiasts.

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Norwegian brewers often incorporate local ingredients like juniper berries, spruce tips, and Arctic herbs, creating unique flavors that reflect the country's natural environment. This blend of tradition and innovation makes exploring Norway's beer scene a fascinating experience for any beer lover.

Looking for the perfect way to tickle the funny bone of your beer-loving friends? Funny beer gifts are a fantastic choice! From quirky beer-themed apparel like hilarious T-shirts and socks to novelty items such as beer mugs with cheeky sayings, there's something for everyone. Consider unique gifts like beer pong sets, personalized coasters, or even beer-flavored jelly beans that bring a playful twist to any occasion. Whether it's a birthday, holiday, or just because,

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these gifts are sure to spark laughter and create memorable moments. Pair a funny gift with a selection of craft beers for a delightful surprise that will have them chuckling and raising a toast. Perfect for home brewers, casual drinkers, or anyone who appreciates a good laugh, funny beer gifts make every celebration a little more enjoyable!

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Global inventory of wonderful beer: What I drink is not wine, but creativity!

Isn't beer just yeast, barley, water and hops? Well, it's also right and wrong-for some beer, this statement is simply wrong. The brains of the beer brewer are too big, and sometimes the brewed beer-how to put it-is quite "interesting". The following wonderful beers are the best examples.

Collagen beer Speaking of weirdness, the Japanese definitely do their part. Suntory launched a collagen beer called Precious, which is said to remove wrinkles left by the years and make you look young and invincible. This 5-degree Talrag comes in 330ml cans and contains 2 grams of collagen per can.

Cat Shit Beer You must have heard of the famous cat feces coffee: a civet living in the tropics eats coffee cherries and is discharged from the other side of the body. The action of stomach acid can make coffee beans produce a different flavor. Beer Geek Brunch Weasel from Megele is a breakfast Shitao with an alcohol level of 10.9-be careful, the wine is full of strength.

Bloody (Mary) Beer Well, strictly speaking, it is not based on Bloody Mary, a good brunch partner. However, Short's Brewing Company of Bel Air, Michigan does use cherry tomatoes in its Bloody Beer, as well as black pepper and celery. Rapeseed, wasabi, and dill, so it’s similar to Bloody Mary. This "Cool Beer from Bel Air" has long been discontinued, with an alcohol content of 7, and an international bitterness index of 40.

Fossil beer The Lost Rhino Brewery in Virginia and PaleoQuest, a non-profit organization that promotes the excavation of dinosaur fossils rather than food trends, have teamed up to create a beer that will attract attention to science. They collected yeast from whale fossils 35 million years ago and made a 5.5-degree beer named Bone Dusters Amber Ale. Cool! It's a pity that the yeast is not collected from the fossils of the long extinct rhino or Tyrannosaurus.

Sheep dung beer After reading this list, you will find that Icelandic brewers really have a lot of free time and a whimsical spirit of adventure. The Borg Brugghus brewery is a good example: due to lack of wood, they lighted the sheep dung pile to smoke and roast the malt when making Fenrir Nr26. American IPA smoked and roasted with sheep dung, alcohol content 6, and international bitterness index 63.

Beer older than whale fossils Fossil Fuels Brewing Co has a product called AY108, which uses yeast found in bee fossils. This bee was wrapped in pine resin and turned into amber in the Eocene Eocene 45 million years ago (is it so shocking that it can’t close its mouth?). Professor Raul Cano figured out how to separate the yeast from above, and then wondered how to make the best use of it. Finally, he chose to brew beer instead of bread. The first result is this Dan Aier named after yeast, and there is also a Saisen.

Beer made with money The evil twins collaborated with the Norwegian craft brewer Lervig Aktiebryggeri in the port of Stavanger. The raw material is real banknotes. What's even more exaggerated is that they threw some frozen pizza into it. The alcohol content is 17.5 degrees.

Heavy beer from the toilet The Danish government and Norrebro Bryghus brewery are really fighting for environmental protection, and they even have the idea of ​​urinating. They recovered a large amount of urine from the famous Roskilde Music Festival and used it to brew a Pearson called Pisner. Do you want to contribute to the cause of sustainable development? Then taste the piss of these hippies.

Colorful beer Abashiri Brewery in Hokkaido, Japan uses seaweed and other natural ingredients to brew red, blue and green beer. They also used beer and excess milk to produce a malt drink called Bilk. Apart from other things, at least it is colorful.

Beer made from sewage The sewage in the sewer sounds as disgusting as dirty waste oil. I'm afraid no one can drink anything made of it. The Jushi Brewery in San Diego brewed an IPA using recycled water provided by the city's water purification project. This Dan Air, called Full Circle, is limited to five barrels, but it may indicate the future of beer brewing.

Roald Dahl Beer Yeast is ubiquitous and can be collected everywhere, so why not collect some yeast from the custom desk of the late children's literature writer Roald Dahl? London creative company Bompas & Parr entrusted this task to 40FT Brewery to brew Odious Ale for a pop-up restaurant based on Dahl's "Stupid Couple".

Beer from the moon Dogfish Head Brewery is keen to challenge the limit, but often thinks too crazy and circumvents itself in, but the time when they ventured into space may be their most rebellious exploration so far. With the help of the company that makes spacesuits for NASA, they got some dust on the moon, which was taken from NASA where the moon landed on the moon—well, no more obscurations, it’s on the moon— —Collected, and then spilled into this limited edition beer called Oktoberfest. Alcohol 5, International Bitterness Index 25.

Elephant Poop Beer The Japanese brewery Sankt Gallen wanted to brew a beer that will be unforgettable, so he thought of elephant poo. How does it work? They fed coffee cherries to elephants living in Thailand’s wildlife sanctuary, and then brewed a "chocolate shitao" called Un, Koon Kuro (a pun for "poop" in Japanese) from elephant dung coffee beans. It was also selected for sale on April Fool's Day, but this is not a joke.

Beer as dark as ink Cuttlefish juice—or more precisely the juice of cuttlefish, squid and octopus, or the juice of cephalopods—can be said to be everywhere now, so you can’t help thinking that these animals are scared when they face the extinction of humans. What is it like? Anyway, the master brewer of 3 Sheeps in Wisconsin created a black IPA called Nimble Lips Noble Tongue No3, using cuttlefish juice.

Too private beer We are all adults, but the Internet will always surprise us head-on, especially when you see a page on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo for the world’s first vaginal beer fundraising-this one is called Bottled Instinct's acid ale uses lactic acid extracted from a Czech model. We don't know if anyone will drink it, because this project has not even raised 1% of the final goal of 150,000 euros, and it should be a joke on April Fools' Day at all? Otherwise, it really makes people get goosebumps.

16. Add a whole chicken to beer

Over the years, the rooster Al almost cast a layer of mystery. It is said that it was very popular in England in the 17th and 18th centuries. In fact, it is an ordinary Al, but a whole rooster was added during the brewing process. Hand Pulled Cock Ale from Willimantic Brewing Co in Connecticut-7% alcohol, only available in barrels-is a modern version of Cock Ale, but its name still implies that old joke (you got it).

Fried chicken beer As the song in "Grease" sings, fried chicken and beer are good partners, so why not add some chicken to the beer? Veil Brewing Co of Richmond, Virginia, and the evil twins teamed up to brew chicken beer. Their Fried Fried Chicken Chicken DIPA uses a lot of Fried Chicken Nuggets.

Sheep brain beer Philadelphia's Dock Street Brewing Company brewed Dock Street Walker to pay tribute to "The Walking Dead," but it was more terrifying than zombies, using smoked lamb brains. This American Pale Shitao is 7.2 degrees, and cranberries are added to create a touch of acidity.

Whale testicle beer Icelandic microbrewer Steoji has launched Hvalur 2, which is an upgraded version of Hvalur 1, which was produced in cooperation with the whaling company Hvalur and caused a huge controversy due to the addition of full whale meat (fish meat and fish bones). As the second seasonal crossover, it uses whale testicles smoked and roasted with sheep dung—well, one is added to each winemaking cycle.

Masculine beer The Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout of Wynkoop Brewing in Denver was originally just an April Fools' Day joke, but I didn't expect it to become a reality because of the public's enthusiastic response. With an alcohol content of 7.5, three cow testicles are added to each barrel-this "gourmet" is nicknamed Rocky Mountain Oysters locally. A set of two cans is quite appropriate.

Bull Heart Beer Portland's Upright Brewing and Burnside Brewing collaborated to produce this Captain Beefheart. The ingredients include 27 kilograms of charcoal grilled beef heart and a lot of spices. Similar products include the Burke In The Bottle, a collaboration between Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company and chef David Burke.

Sunday barbecue beer Conwy Brewery in Wales caters to the close relationship between locals and sheep and brews a lamb beer. Sunday Toast is a Victorian-style Porter beer with the juice from slow roasting of Welsh lamb. Perhaps lamb-ic is more appropriate.

Truffle beer Truffles are very expensive. Using them to brew beer seems a bit risky, but some people have succeeded. Chicago Moody Tongue's black truffle crumbs Pearson is highly sought after in some of the top high-end restaurants in the United States, while Miki Le has chosen to use black truffles to brew a dark beer called The Forager.

Stag semen beer Green Man Pub in Wellington, New Zealand, and local brewer Choice Bros brewed a beer with stag semen, which caused a huge sensation for a while. We will not continue to discuss the name Lu Jing Shitao to obtain such a subtle beer, let's stop here.

Mushroom beer In the past few years, the brewery seems to have used all the mushrooms imaginable. Jester King of Austin, Texas used locally grown oyster mushrooms in this Snorkel. 4.5 Alcohol, Goss style.

Oysters (really real this time) beer The encounter between Oyster and Shi Tao gave birth to many interesting stories. We used to drink Shitao while sucking oysters beautifully. Now we use oyster shells to clarify the beer, or put them in a boiling pot, or even throw whole oysters into it. Flying Dog Pearl Necklace Oyster Shitao did just that.

Natural green beer Free Tail Brewing Co of San Antonio, Texas adds blue-green algae to a 4.2-degree rye white beer to give it a charming blue-green color. If the advertisements of Mandalay Brewing in Myanmar and Red Dot Brewery in Singapore are accurate, Spirulina beer has another magical effect-anti-aging.

Seaweed beer Bladderwrack is a good name for beer, but it is actually a kind of seaweed. Williams Bros Brew in Alloa, Scotland added it to its own Kelpie Seaweed Ale. This Scottish Groot-an ancient beer style-is intended to recreate the traditional style of beer from the coastal regions of Scotland.

Real gold beer We have all drunk golden Al, but have you ever drunk gold? Golden Queen Bee brewed by Golden Bee Beer contains edible 24K gold leaf. There is no need to throw gold like this, but if you can get another bottle of The Lost Abbey's Gift Of The Magi-a golden Al with frankincense and myrrh, then you must be full of every cell in your body The joy of Christmas.

Pizza beer Mamma Mia Pizza Beer is produced by the Chicago Pizza Beer Company. The ingredients include Margarita Pizza soaked in malt. We don’t know if the crust is Chicago-style.

Donut beer Voodoo Donuts Maple Syrup Bacon Al is the first beer launched by Voodoo Donut Bakery in collaboration with Rogue Brewery, also in Oregon. The series includes six products so far. They want to use these beers to reproduce the best-selling single-product flavors of this bakery in Portland. The latest flavors currently launched are Guerrilla Grape and Mango Spaceman.

Pig head beer Mangalica Pig Porter uses the head and bones of Mangalica Pig. This breed of pig is quite precious and is known as Kobe beef in pork. Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City, Missouri uses whole pig heads when brewing this beer, and even the eyeballs are still in the eye sockets. The winery also brews a series of more delicious pork pie beers, with raw materials including whole pork pie from a local bakery.

Expired bread beer The raw material of toast air is leftover bread that cannot be eaten, and it aims to eliminate food waste. All the profits from this beer brewed with excess bread are donated to charitable organizations, and even a factory is set up in the Bronx, New York. The recipe is public, so you can try it yourself with the leftover bread you eat.

Just put your crying beer There is a resonance between Chili Control and Beer Mania, which is why countless beers have combined these two things in one in pursuit of a mixed effect. The grimace killer at the Twisted Pine Brewery in Colorado—named after the Wudang rapist of the same name—uses six different varieties of peppers. Among them, the hottest pepper is the Devil Pepper (also known as Broken Soul Pepper). Scoville's index exceeds 1 million-the pepper is only about 2000. You can imagine how spicy it is.

Bearded beer Rogge Beard Beer can be regarded as one of the most weird beers in the world. Brewmaster John Maier extracts yeast from his beard and brews an American wild ale. Maier once vowed that he would never shave his beard, so the raw material of this beer can really be said to be

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Inspired by cooperation, Brooklyn's Other Half Brewing invites breweries, worldwide, open sources a recipe.

Press Release

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- – The team at Other Half Brewing Co is proud to announce All Together, a worldwide beer collaboration created to raise funds & awareness for the industry we love so much. Regardless of location or circumstances, when one member of the hospitality industry struggles, the rest of the group (including brewers, servers, bartenders, bussers, dishwashers, GMs, buyers, chefs & owners) steps in to help and lend a hand.

With this spirit in mind, Other Half Brewing (OHB) is spearheading the All Together project, started by a collective of beer industry partners from around the globe, to raise awareness and provide relief to those struggling in the industry as we’re all in this together.

“Raising awareness about the devastating losses in the hospitality industry is the core vision of this project,” says Matt Monahan, co-founder, Other Half Brewing. “We want to keep these losses at the forefront of conversations so that anyone who wants to help can learn what is happening and find a way to contribute to the recovery.”

How does the project work? #AllTogetherBeer invites any brewer, from any corner of the planet, to participate by providing the tools needed to make the beer at the lowest possible cost, including an open-source recipe, artwork, and name. In exchange, the collective asks that a portion of the proceeds go to supporting hospitality professionals in each brewery’s own community. The rest should be donated to keeping the brewery in business to weather this storm.

Recipe: OHB created a base recipe that easily brewed with commonly sourced ingredients. Each participating brewery can modify the beer as they see fit and brew it at their own convenience.

Artwork + Label: Stout Collective created the label artwork that can be customized by brewery, and Blue Label Printing has offered to print at cost.

Website: Craftpeak Team donated their time, talent & technology for the site

Breweries can get involved by reaching out to alltogether.beer/ for more information.

Beer drinkers can support this cause by signing up for the mailing list. The beers are being brewed around the world, and the newsletter will inform beer lovers worldwide when they’re available to purchase from their local brewery.

At OHB, the proceeds of All Together will go to the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation; https://bit.ly/3bKAlVv and the beer is expected to be available starting April 2020. Social assets can be found here.

The #AllTogetherBeer project begins with the following breweries with more to be announced: Other Half Brewing, NYC; Side Project, St. Louis, MO; Monkish, Torrance, CA; Trillium, Boston, MA; Alvarado St, Monterey, CA; Arizona Wilderness, Phoenix, AZ; Outer Range, Frisco, CO; The Veil, Richmond, VA; Omnipollo, Stockholm, Sweden; Humble Sea, Santa Cruz, CA; Finback, NY; Crak, Padua, Italy; 3 Sheeps Brewing, Sheboygan, WI; Sigma Brewing, Houston, TX; Southern Grist, Nashville, TN; Burial, Asheville, NC; Mikerphone, Chicago, IL; Pilot Project, Chicago, IL; Modist, Minneapolis, MN; Homes, Detroit, MI; KCBC, Brooklyn, NY; Industrial Arts, Garnerville, NY; Fifth Hammer, Queens, NY; Hidden Springs, Tampa, FL; Green Cheek, Anaheim, CA; Bottle Logic, Anaheim, CA; Parish, Broussard, LA; Vitamin Sea, Weymouth, MA; Ska, Durango, CO; Equilibrium, Middletown, NY; Northern Monk, Leeds, UK; Garage Project, Wellington, NZ; Wylam, Newcastle, UK; Lervig, Stavanger, Norway; Juguetes Perdidos, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Carton Atlantic, Highlands, NJ; American Solera, Tulsa, OK; Civil Society, Jupiter, FL; Anchorage, Anchorage, AK; Hoof Hearted, Columbus, OH; Barrier, Oceanside, NY; Sand City, Northport, NY; Bellwoods, Toronto, ON; Whiplash, Dublin, Ireland; Boundary, Belfast, N. Ireland; Dancing Gnome, Pittsburgh, PA; Collective Arts, Hamilton, ON; and more. alltogether.beer/.

About Other Half Brewing

Founded in 2014 by Sam Richardson, Matt Monahan and Andrew Burman, Other Half Brewing is rooted in a simple mission: to push the boundaries of beer. Known for its hazy IPAs, pastry stouts, and creative sours, Other Half has built a loyal community of fans around its Brooklyn taproom, and grown to become one of the most sought after breweries in the country. Through their innovative festivals (Pastrytown & Green City), creative flavors and with locations in East Bloomfield, NY and Brooklyn, NY, Other Half seeks to be constantly moving the beer industry forward. otherhalfbrewing.com/

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Spain Relief

One of my favourite pastimes - and I’m aware this might sound strange - is walking around foreign supermarkets. If pushed between visiting a local attraction - a castle, say, or a particularly well preserved Franciscan priory - and a large branch of Carrefour or Pingo Doce, then I’ll choose the second option every time. There’s something fascinating in the uncanny differences between supermarkets abroad and supermarkets at home. Walkers becomes Lays. Dairy Milk becomes Milka. Everything seems broadly familiar and yet profoundly different at the same time, a small vision into the life you would have lead if you’d only been born in Toledo or Nantes instead of Hull or Cirencester.

Nowhere are these differences more profound than in the beer aisle. Take Spain, for example, where I’ve just been. Instead of a the UK’s stacks of crates all trying to offer the lure of foreign exoticism - Belgian, Danish, French, Italian, Australian and all the rest, even if they all come from the same high-volume plants in the East Midlands - nearly everything in the Spanish supermarket traded on locality. Cruzcampo, Alhambra, Aurum - all of the big brands were from relatively close by. Add in the fact that you’re welcome to break up multipacks to buy as many as you like, and that they’re all diddy 330ml cans - well, it’s all too much to resist. So I brought them all.

I was thinking that I could provide accurate tasting notes of all them, but to be honest, there really wasn’t much to tell them apart. They were easy-drinking, low flavour, thirst-quenching adjunct lagers. At a push I maybe preferred Cruzcampo, but that might just be the Falstaffian figure on the can endearing me to it. But it doesn’t matter. At the low low rate of 22c a can (in the case of the charmingly retro Cordon Gard) it’s very hard to go wrong.

That’s not to say there isn’t excellent beer in Malaga. Like many cities, it’s got its share of “craft” offerings as well. We were in the area for a wedding, but spent two child-free nights in the city itself, taking in the tapas and some of the non-supermarket sights. It’s a lovely place. We strolled the Alcazaba, the palatial fortress dating from the era of Islamic rule in the city, where you sit by the tinkling fountains and overlook the harbour and the Mediterranean, almost imagining you can see Africa. We toured the Cathedral, a multifaceted jewel of the Spanish renaissance, where gargoyles shaped like cannon take aim at monstrous baroque altarpieces. We walked around the Bishop’s Palace, the only souls there aside from a team of bored security staff, admiring the painted wooden sculptures, a disconcerting bridge between classical marbles and Warhammer figurines. The city is small and mainly beautiful. Your shoes squeak on the shiny, polished stones.

There are a couple of well-thought of beer bars. Ceverceria Arte & Sana was the first we tried, which had a list featuring a couple of Spanish beers alongside Lervig, Pilsner Urquell and others. It was quiet in the early evening - the Spanish really do prefer to go out late - but I had a hazy, lactose-dosed NEIPA from Spanish brewery MALANDAR, and while it was a bit overly cloying, it made a nice change from endless lagers. Around the corner is Central Beers, a more open space with timber accents than brings to mind Barcelona’s legendary BierCaB, though the list doesn’t quite live up to it. It’s nothing to sniff at though, and I enjoyed a Basqueland Brewing What the F*** is DDH?, juicy and well balanced beer that went down well in the warm evening heat.

We also stopped in quickly at La Fabrica, a brewpub set up as the experimental arm of the aforementioned Cruzcampo (which is owned, ultimately, by Heineken). It’s an impressive space - almost eerily reminiscent of BrewDog’s enormous Tower Hill outpost, right down to the bleacher-style seating in one corner. Sadly the beer wasn’t worth sticking around for. I tried the inhouse pale ale, and, blindfolded, would’ve guessed it was Schweppes lemonade.

The single best beer I had was in El Pimpi, a Malaga institution, a rambling multi-roomed bodega full of nooks and crannies and an embarrassment of pictures of minor Spanish celebrities signing barrels (plus local hero Antonio Banderas). There, sat at one of the many bars, beneath a taxidermied bull’s head and an enormous painting of a rained-out corrida, I had a caña (and I am a complete convert to caña drinking - no more of this pint nonsense, give me either fleeting glasses of icy beer that disappear with a breath, or else a Maß I can get lost in) of Victoria Malaga, and it was just perfect - a slight malt sweetness, and a herbal hop finish, that combined with the setting and seating, I was ready to up sticks and settle down in the Costa del Sol forever.

All I need is a bar like that, and a really good supermarket.

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Norway to go but up!

Norway has been on the list for a while. One look at the photos of the fjords was enough to put it on the top of my bucket list. I wanted to hike around and see the beauty of Norway myself. Of course, being so north, we had to wait until summer to do so, which limited the window in which we could go. We couldn’t make it work last summer, so we had to wait to make this adventure happen. And the wait was worth it!

We flew into Bergen, Norway early in the morning. Bergen is not a small city, though it is also not a main destination within Europe. This was emphasized by the large welcome sign outside the airport, which simply said: Bergen? Yes, the question mark was included in the sign, as if the entire city is wondering why we were there. We were lucky enough to be meeting our friends Rachael and Andy, who were going to spend a two week Europe adventure with us. We had some time to kill, so we explored the duty free shop, which was pretty great in Bergen. The goods were actually discounted, and they had great stuff. I bought some Norwegian craft beer and the legendary Fazer mints! Look for the Finnish Fazer mints in your local Mountain Man Fruit and Nut shop- they will change your life!

Rachael and Andy arrived about two hours after we did, and we rented a car so that we could drive out to the even smaller towns that would be our staging grounds for the hikes. But first, we drove into Bergen proper for lunch. The city is gorgeous, and is built on the cliffs of the fjords. The colors of the houses pop against the green and blue backdrop, giving us our first taste of Norway’s beauty. After lunch we set out to Odda, which is nearest town to the famous Trolltunga hike. Surprisingly, and a bit disappointingly, a lot of the drive is tunnels, rather than along the fjords. But the tunnels themselves were very impressive- much, much larger than Eisenhower tunnel. It is impressive to see the quality and breadth of the infrastructure that a country can develop when it actually invests in that sort of thing over about 50 years.

Again, the beauty of Norway is stunning. When we weren’t in the tunnels, we were blessed with views the most gorgeous waterfalls. So many waterfalls. Seriously, so many. And fjords. So many fjords. Eventually we got up to our first ferry. It is a pretty cool experience, though truthfully the experience wore off quickly as the trip went on. Eventually, we got into Odda and checked into our Airbnb. The place was gorgeous. And apparently seized by the Nazis to house troops during the occupation in WWII. Our host was also really cool. I noticed his brewing equipment, and we got to talking shop. He made friends with a local monastery and borrowed their cider yeast strain. His set up was serious, and he even shared some of his home brews- including one of his few remaining holiday celebration beers. It was really good. We carb-loaded with some fairly awful spaghetti, and hit the hay.

The first waterfall on our drive. Little did we know they’d be everywhere!

Views from our Airbnb

We got up early (5am) to drive out to the Trolltunga starting point. Fully loaded with our snacks and supplies, my three favorite allies (Red Hot Chili Peppers anyone?) decided to drive up as far as possible, which cut off 2-3 km from the hike. Regardless, the hike was still plenty long. It took us about four hours to actually reach Trolltunga. The hike is stellar- to the point words don’t do it justice. So pictures will have to do- see throughout ;). We were lucky with the weather, at least on the ascent. The sun broke out as we reached Trolltunga, though we had to trudge through two hours of rain on the way down. We also made a friend- Akesh- on the way down. That evening we just rested- which will happen after walking hiking 20 miles in a day!

It’s time to pay the Troll Toll

It’s been a few years since I’ve seen snow...

The freshest water you’ll find

Getting closer!

Made it!

It was still foggy during our turn out on the tongue, but cleared up about five minutes later, making for much better photos on another ledge nearby

Survived!

The next day we drove down to Stavanger, another small city in Norway. Stavanger would be our staging ground for yet another hike. The drive again was filled with fjords and falls and ferries, as well as podcasts. We took it easy when we got in, just getting some lunch (great burgers), seeing the city- including the street art and a playground made up entirely of old oil drilling equipment, and drinking beer. Lots of expensive beer. Norway has great craft beer, and Lervig, one of the country’s best, is located just outside of Stavanger. While the brewery doesn’t have a tap room, several bars have a close relationship and carry several Lervig beers. Not to mention other rare and amazing craft beers from around Europe and the world. Unfortunately, beer is extra expensive in Norway, much like everything else, and my bank account was a bit lighter after this trip. Oh well :).

As a turn of bad luck, the weather was not great the next day. By not great I mean there was a constant rain for the entire morning both in Stavanger and our hike site. We weighed our options, and decided to skip our hike of Pulpit Rock. The hike was only four hours, but would require three hours of driving and would have to be done at the height of the rain. After hiking Trolltunga as the showpiece of our Norway adventure, we decided to just hang around the town instead. First, we walked around the Sverd I Fjell monument, which marks the ninth century battlefield that unified the Kingdom of Norway. Pretty cool. We hung out at our Airbnb for a bit (ie napped), and got up for more exploring. Mariah found a cool park in the middle of the city, which we walked around for a bit. Afterwards, we had some decent Indian food and more fantastic beer (including a way too expensive bottle of Side Project Saison du Pays). The next day we had to drive back to Bergen, but this route had far fewer tunnels, and still plenty of falls, fjords, and ferries.

A solid breakfast

Exploring some nature in the middle of the city

The beauty of Norway can’t be expressed in words. Sure, it rains as much as Amsterdam. And I hear the winters are dark and brutal. But seen in the bright sunlight of summer, the place is breathtaking. I honestly can’t help but think that Norwegians must be fairly disappointed with most other destinations when they travel. I don’t think this we’ll be my last trip to the country, as experiencing the views of a midnight hike in Reine (look it up- amazing!).

Leaving you with a midnight sunset

Tot ziens!

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Last year was so much fun, let’s do it again. After a successful inaugural BPBW festival in 2018, BPBW Beer Week in Budapest is back for 2019 and it is jam-packed with more beer, more bands and more excitement.

This time around, festival participants will have the opportunity to try beers from 60 breweries from around the world during the two day tasting sessions on May 24 and 25. And what a beer line-up they have. From Colorado’s Left Hand Brewing Company, to TotenHopfen from Luxembourg and 8 Wired Brewing coming all the way from New Zealand, this is truly an extraordinary opportunity for beer lovers to try some of the best craft beers around (including the 11 Hungarian breweries present). There will be something for everyone.

As this is a week-long festival, there will be events leading up to the main tasting sessions on the weekend. Warm yourself up by checking out some of these tap takeovers around Budapest during the week:

Monday 20 May

Stu Mostów (PL) Tap Takeover @ Hedon Bazilika Taproom

Omnipollo (SWE) Tap Takeover @ HOPS Beer Bar

Zichovec (CZ) Tap Takeover @ Hetedik Lépcső

Tuesday 21 May

Never go ALL IN (SWE) Meet The Brewer + Tap Takeover with All In Brewing, Beerbliotek, Dugges, Poppels, & Stigbergets @ Hopaholic

Iberian Delight Tap Takeover with Edge & Dois Covos @ Bölcső Bar

Berliner Vice Meet the organizer with Berlin Beer Week @ KEG Sörművház

Made in Italy Tap Takevoer with Baladin & Ritual Lab @ Kandalló

Wednesday 22 May

Colorful Colorado (USA) Meet The Brewer + Tap Takeover with Left Hand, WeldWerks, & Crooked Stave @ Jónás Craft Beer House

BrewDog + BrewDog OverWorks (Scotland, UK) Meet The Brewer + Tap Takeover @ BrewDog Bar Budapest

Norwegian Black Meet The Brewer + Tap Takeover with Lervig, Austmann, Crow @ First Craft Beer & BBQ

Pop-up beer dinner @ Beerganika

Thursday 2 May

BPBW 2019 Professional Day @ Neked Csak Dezső | Closed Event

Craft Save the Queen UK Tap Takover & Meet the brewers with Brew By Numbers, BrewDog, Magic Rock, North Brewing Co., BrewDog OverWorks, Siren Craft Brew @ BrewDog Bar Budapest

Chaos and Loathing from The Netherlands Meet The Brewers + Tap Takeover with De Moersleutel, Frontaal, Uiltje @ Hopaholic

Zagovor Brewery (MOS) meet the brewer & tap takeover @ KEG Sörművház

BPBW 2019 Official Opening Party @ Neked Csak Dezső | Closed event until 21:00! Tap takover with Finback, Crooked Stave, Pipeworks, 18th Street

Põhjala Brewery (Estonia) Meet The Brewer + Tap Takeover @ HOPS Beer Bar

Friday 24 May

Headline event Tasting Sessions – Day

Saturday 25 May

Headline event Tasting Sessions – Day

Sunday 26 May

Headline event BPBW Encore Session | Day – THE ESSENTIALS OF BEERS FROM THE FRIDAY-SATURDAY TASTING SESSIONS (What’s Left)

Did you get all that? So the challenge now is to see how many tap takeover events you an hit before the Tasting Sessions. Have a fun week Budapest.

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Yes we can!

Hop Burns & Black is launching a summer beer emporium on Blenheim Grove in June.

The popular beer shop on East Dulwich Road will open the HB&B Can Station at meat snack specialist Serious Pig, which is based under a railway arch in Blenheim Grove.

The Can Station will offer a convenient way for people to get their hands on some of Hop Burns & Black’s finest beers in can form, from breweries such as Beavertown, Cloudwater, Magic Rock, Northern Monk, Mikkeller, Evil Twin, Lervig, Yeastie Boys and many more.

Hop Burns & Black co-owner Jen Ferguson said: “We jumped at the opportunity to do a Saturday-only satellite shop at the Serious Pig arch. The main focus is to make it easy for those around the station area to get the world’s best craft beer to take away.

“However, the arch and its courtyard offers such a lovely space that it would be a shame not to use it, so people will also be able to sit back and enjoy a beer with some Serious Pig snacks on site as well.”

She added: “It’s been great to work with the Serious Pig guys and bring two local businesses together. Like us, they’re obsessed with great booze and great food and are ridiculously proud to live and work in Peckham.

“Our favourite breweries are now canning their beers, so we thought, ‘Why not devote an entire shop to cans?’ They’re easier to transport, they protect beer from one of its major enemies (light) and goddamnit, these days cans look bloody awesome. Plus you can fit a whole lot more of them in a fridge.”

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The HB&B Can Station launches on June 10 at Serious Pig, Arch 221, 42 Blenheim Grove.  

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CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL CRAFT BEER CARES RETURNS TO LONDON THIS JULY

Tickets available here: https://craftbeercares.eventbrite.co.uk/

 Following a highly successful event last year, charity beer festival Craft Beer Cares returns to London from the 19th to the 21st of July 2019. The event will take place at the Hackney-based London Fields Brewery, and will feature beer from over 30 breweries including Beavertown, Cloudwater and Denmark’s Dry and Bitter and Mikkeller.  Last year the event raised over £10,000 for London-based anti-violence charity Art Against Knives.  And proceeds from this event will be donated to local homeless charity - Hackney Winter Night Shelter.

 “From November through to March, the coldest months of the year, Hackney Winter Night Shelter opens its doors to the most vulnerable in our community.  We offer food, a warm bed and a warm welcome each night for those who would otherwise be sleeping rough as well as support people to access the help that they need to overcome barriers and help them to secure more stable move-on accommodation.” Christina Ball of the charity said. “Any money raised would be of enormous benefit and used to provide food for our guests and towards heating the shelter venues.”

 Craft Beer Cares will run sessions from 6pm-11pm on Friday 19th, 12 – 5pm and 6pm – 23pm on Saturday 20th, and 12pm – 5pm on Sunday 21st. Tickets for each session are priced at £10 per person and includes a Craft Beer Cares branded glass and ten beer tokens, which can be used to purchase up to five servings of beer by the half pint (beers will be priced according to ABV, with stronger beers costing more tokens.) Additional tokens will be available for purchase within the festival itself.

 “I’m so proud of our team for what we achieved together last year.  We’re hoping to build on this success with a bit of fine tuning to raise even more money this year for an incredible cause.” Craft Beer Cares founder Gautam Bhatnagar said. “On a personal note, I can’t thank everyone involved enough.  The brewers are always nothing but gracious and generous with their beer and their time, and the volunteers have been truly incredible, making for a great atmosphere of charity and giving, all with a beer in hand.”

Amongst the breweries who have kindly offered to provide beer for Craft Beer Cares 2019: Beatnikz Republic, Big Drop, Brew By Numbers, Brewdog, Brixton Brewery, Brooklyn Brewery, Canopy, Cloudwater, Collective Arts, Dry and Bitter, East London Brewery, Fierce Beer, Fourpure, Gipsy Hill, Hale Brewing, Kernel, Lervig, London Fields, Lost and Grounded, Magic Rock, Mikkeller, Mondo NZ Beer Collective, Partizan, Siren, Solvay Society, Stone  Brewing, Toast Ales, Verdant, Weird Beard, Whiplash, Wylam and Yeastie Boys with more to be confirmed.

Tickets for Craft Beer Cares are available from Eventbrite now. https://craftbeercares.eventbrite.co.uk/