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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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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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Geothermal Beer: Hveragerði’s Ölverk Brew Pub Is A Must-Visit
Until recent years, many of Iceland’s small rural towns have had—despite a couple of top-notch exceptions—very limited options when it comes to dining and drinking. Due in part to the country’s ongoing tourist boom, today this situation is changing. With more potential…
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Let Them Eat Wings: The Brewdog Empire Comes To Reykjavík
Downtown Reykjavík has, for years, been a largely chain-free environment. With the exceptions of an ill-fated Dunkin’ Donuts franchise, the single Hard Rock Café, a handful of KFCs and Subways, and a single suburban Taco Bell, most bars and restaurants in Iceland…
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Icelandic Craft Beer Trends: Raise a Glass
1988 sucked in Iceland. Beer, believe it or not, was still puritanically illegal and there was certainly no Icelandic craft beer scene. However, in 1989—as the world flocked to see the first ‘Batman’ reboot and ‘Honey, I Shrunk The Kids!’—all that changed.…
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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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Hold My Beer: Brews, Bros, Beards and Business at the Icelandic Beer Festival
“Well… we’re not losing money by coming here,” an ultra-friendly Australian craft brewer tells me above the din at the Icelandic Beer Festival. He works for Pirate Life, out of Adelaide, South Australia, and he’s just poured me their IPA, so pleasantly…
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A Bucolic Brew
While the drive through the north of Iceland may not offer as diverse an array of neck-craning scenery as the south, its serenity is unparalleled. This much was obvious on the Saturday evening that I set off for Skagafjörður, in search of…