Posts Tagged: Norway
Some Days There Just Isn't A Beery Meme Even To Steal
Posted by on Friday, January 27, 2012 in - 4 comments
Me-me's. That is the whole stock in trade of blogging when you think of it. A story to nick and build upon with a hope that someone builds upon it further, mentioning your name or at least offering a link. Not today. I blame the freezing rain in the middle of the night. It sounded like someone … read more »
Singing About Beer In 1936 At The Movies In Oslo
Posted by on Saturday, March 27, 2010 in - 1 comment
Knut posted this 1936 short film praising Norwegian beer this morning. It's pretty amazing. Notice at the end that the lyrics are put up on the screen so everyone in the cinema can sing along. Notice that singing along in Norway in 1936 includes a lot of "tim-tim-tim"-ing. It amazes me that some … read more »
Norway: Imperial Stout, Nøgne Ø, Grimstad
Posted by on Thursday, November 13, 2008 in - leave a comment
Samples. Reason enough to beer blog, I'd say, and when things from Norway come in the mail all the better. I had the porter from Nøgne Ø last year and seem to have loved it so this 9% bigger sibling was a welcome sight. I've also had their Julesnadder, a Christmas beer, last year care of Knut the …
Saturday Night Dinner Norwegian Style In Canada
Posted by on Saturday, September 27, 2008 in - 1 comment
I hope Knut would be proud. I made dinner tonight entirely out of the Kitchen of Light, a Norwegian cookbook based on a series by Andreas Viestad called New Scandinavian Cooking. We have a series on DVD. The parsnips baked with cumin and olive oil were the best but the way Viestad directed that … read more »
Norway: Norwegian Wood, HaandBryggeriet, Drammen
Posted by on Monday, February 4, 2008 in - 7 comments
Now is winter. Not the Yule of six weeks ago or the date on the calendar when the sun sat lowest in the sky. Now is the darkness greatest...because the Super Bowl has been won but pitchers and catchers have yet report. • In order to get me through to the first games of spring training at the end …
Porter Season: Porter, Nøgne Ø, Grimstad, Norway
Posted by on Saturday, October 6, 2007 in - 3 comments
We are having a two month dry spell that has extended into October, bringing with it the sorts of temperatures that should have been fading away five weeks ago. Porter season is late hear at the most easterly point of the Great Lakes. And yet I think of the snow and winter and of Knut because this …
Knut Pays The Taxman
Posted by on Friday, March 23, 2007 in - 6 comments
The wait is over. But the picture of the package on my doormat is not quite how it went. No, there was a new slip of paper in my mailbox, telling me there was a package to be picked up at the post office. So, what was the tab? • The alcohol tax was about 100 Norwegian kroner. • The value added …
Knut Goes Nowhere And Hangs Around His Mailbox
Posted by on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 in - 16 comments
On the outskirts of Europe there lives a peculiar tribe of people. Like most other nations, they feel that they have the solution to every problem on the planet. Other small nations have had to bow to the necessity of adjusting to their surroundings, but Norway had the curse to find oil and gas in …
Knut Goes To The World's Northernmost Bar
Posted by on Thursday, January 25, 2007 in - 4 comments
Kroa, Spitzbergen • Three hours by plane straight north from Oslo, excluding 45 minutes stopover in Tromsø, and you arrive at Longyearbyen airport. It is minus 20 degrees Celsius, but the gale hits you as you exit from the plane and run for the terminal building. It is pitch dark, which … read more »
Read Knut!
Posted by on Sunday, October 2, 2005 in - 1 comment
I have been away for about half a week on short notice as some of you might know but on the road I had a moment to check in with Knut in Norway and thought "good Lord, he's a great beer blogger!" • Go read Knut.
