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Beer Ban Years: Why Was Beer Banned For 74 Years?
And why was hard liquor allowed? It’s hard to believe now, with ale flowing from every tap and with beer being brewed in every township, but until 1989 you couldn’t walk into a bar in Iceland and ask for a beer to…
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Icelandic Fish Beer Conquers Global Audience
A new beer made with Icelandic capelin roe, or masago, has been a sensation at the recent Seafood Expo Global conference that just wrapped in Barcelona, Spain, reports mbl.is. The beer is produced by Icelandic Asia and brewed by combining masago with…
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Icelandic Beer Recalled From The Shelves
Cyclopath Pale Ale has been recalled from the shelves of ÁTVR, the company behind the country alcohol stores, Fréttablaðið reports. [su_pullquote]We are having a summer sale on all our Icelandic soaps, scrubs, face masks, perfumes and more! These are all high-quality products…
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Brotherly Beer: New Brews Crackin’ Open In The Westman Islands
Jóhann Guðmundsson on inadvertently turning passion into a job you love while bettering his home, the island of Heimaey “Now I can have as much free beer as I want,” says Jóhann Guðmundsson beaming with pride. It seems like he has already…
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Free Draft Beer At Participating Pubs
The brewing company, Ölgerðin, has announced that they will be offering one free Carlsberg on tap at restaurants and pubs that the company is in collaboration with. A new face for a classic Ölgerðin recently changed the appearance and recipe of canned…
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Bill Aims To Support Microbreweries In Iceland
Progressive Party MP Þórarinn Ingi Pétursson and others from his party have submitted a bill to Parliament which aims to provide greater support for smaller breweries in Iceland, Skessuhorn reports. The bill would make changes to existing alcohol laws that would lower…
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Half Capitalist Venture, Half Protest, Bjórland Sells Icelandic Beer Online
In an unprecedented turn of events, Bjórland, a new online store offering home delivery of beer from major craft breweries in Iceland, has opened. Owner and operator Þórgnýr Thoroddsen told Fréttablaðið, “As we see it, these products are actually just like any…
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Linda B: Beer Is Now Also Dessert
The Viking Brewery (VB) and RVK Brewing Company (RB) got together to create a dry, 10.5% in volume beer that tastes like candy. The two brewers, Baldur Kárason (of VB) and Valgeir Valgeirsson (of RB) were excited to join forces, reports Morgunblaðið.…
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Crack Open A Cold One: Your Guide To Reykjavík Beer Places
Legend has it that a new era of lager has begun. Here’s the ultimate Reykjavík beer guide to help you celebrate. BrewDog Frakkastígur 8 A Scottish import, Brewdog have become one of the larger players in the craft beer world. While they…
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Iceland: 30 Years Of Legal Beer
Last Friday, Icelanders celebrated Beer Day, which marks the anniversary of Iceland making beer legal again—as it has been for 30 years now. The history of alcohol prohibition in Iceland is a curious one, and went through many permutations. It started in…
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NATO Soldiers Finished The Beer At Several Downtown Bars Last Week
NATO soldiers participating in exercises in Iceland drank so much beer in downtown Reykjavík the weekend before last that several bars simply ran out of beer, Fréttablaðið reports. The exercises, called Trident Juncture 18, spanned all over Scandinavia, but also included Iceland.…
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Bill To Legalise Homebrewing In Iceland Submitted Again To Parliament
If a new bill becomes law, homebrewing of alcohol for personal consumption could be made legal in Iceland. The bill in question, submitted by the Pirate Party with support from MPs from the Reform Party, the Independence Party and the Social Democrats,…
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Our Monthly Picks – Festival February
With infinite days of miserable weather ahead and not a whiff of spring flowers to be smelt for the next three months at least (because we’re feeling optimistic), this February seems particularly grim. Yet, any occasion is good enough for Icelanders to…
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Buy Shit: Independent People, YPSILON, Craft Beer & More
A puffin fridge magnet won’t get you drunk, or enlighten you to the Icelandic national character, will it? Independent People by Halldór Laxness If you want to know the nature of a man, pay attention to his words; if you want to…
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Giant Beer Keg Could Break Record For World’s Biggest
Hipsters rejoice! A giant 12 metre beer keg brimming with 50 different craft beers on 78 different tabs has “safely” arrived in Iceland to delight day drinkers at the craft beer festival Bjórfestival on June 24. The keg emigrated from the state…
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Greenlandic Viking Beer Sets Sail For Iceland
Once upon a time, 982 AD to be precise, there was an Icelandic viking, who crossed oceans on a raggedy wooden longship, as vikings so casually did, and discovered the world’s largest island. He named it Greenland, and now Greenland finally returns…
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Icelandic Brewery Makes Beer From Sheep’s Heads
The Icelandic Brewery Borg Brugghús has teamed up with their Norwegian counterpart Voss Bryggeri, to make a stout brewed from … sheep’s heads? Svið, the main ingredient, is essentially a sheep’s head cut in half, which has had its fur singed off…
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Beer Ahoy! Colossal 78-Tap Keg Shipping Up To Bjórfestival
First the Americans brought us Costco, now the Maine Brewers’ Guild is sailing in a 40-foot beer container to Iceland. If it was a Friday night at three in the morning, we would probably be hanging over a bar declaring our love for America in…
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The Battle Over Beer
Iceland’s Parliament is currently debating whether to allow alcohol to be sold in supermarkets, and everyone has a strong opinion on the subject. This is but the latest battle in a long struggle going back over a hundred years. Iceland, it seems,…
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Cheers To Reykjavík! A Boozy Tour Of Iceland’s Capital
I’m not one to turn down a beer, let alone six pints paired with some Icelandic cuisine. ‘Cheers To Reykjavik’ started this summer offering you the opportunity to drink, eat and meet other tourists led by an outgoing Icelandic couple. The first…
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Nearly 50 Brands Of Christmas Beer Available This Year
If you thought the choice of coffee drinks in Iceland was daunting, then prepare yourself for the impending flood of Christmas beers. The State Alcohol and Tobacco Company of Iceland (ÁTVR) has announced that Christmas beer sales will kick off on November…
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Believes Tourists Being Tricked Into Buying Near-Beer
The Consumers’ Association of Iceland (CAI) has received numerous tips and complaints about shops downtown displaying non-alcoholic “beer” as actual beer. As many may be aware, the sale of alcohol anywhere but at a bar or the government’s alcohol stores is strictly…
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Grapevine’s Best Of 2016: The Best Place To Start The Night
The Reykjavík Grapevine is proud to present: The Best Of Reykjavík 2016! Earlier this summer we published our Best Of magazine to help you, our beloved readers, find the very best places this little city has to offer. You can use the…