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Grapewaves: Win The Ultimate Airwaves Goodie Bag!
So you’ve arrived at Airwaves and you are ready to listen to music until your ears bleed, drink till your liver goes on strike and meet your future *insert gendered spousal term*, but there’s a problem. You don’t have enough money 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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Fortune Favours The Brave: The Einstök Story
Just a few years ago, Iceland’s beer taps were dominated by a handful of basic, strong, fizzy lagers such as Víking, Gull, Polar Beer, and the odd Danish or Eastern European import. But recent years have seen the rapid emergence of a…
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Grapevine’s Super-Team Super-Review: Wednesday
Airwaves: it’s everywhere. There are rappers on the tables of your favourite morning coffee shop and punk bands in the yoga studio. As inescapable as the takeover is in this town, it is still hard to dodge that pervasive feeling that there is something else…
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#GrapeWaves Is Go! Win Amazing Einstök X Grapevine Goodie Bags!
The Iceland Airwaves Music Festival—just in case you haven’t noticed—is about to take over the city of Reykjavík. We’re celebrating in style this year via #GrapeWaves—our contribution to the funnest week on Reykjavík’s calendar. We recently published a special #GrapeWaves magazine, available…
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Beer Connoisseur’s Guide To Icelandic Beer
You have probably read somewhere that Icelandic authorities banned beer for very, very many years, until 1989. But true freedom of beer did not really begin until 2005, when Iceland’s first craft brewery was established on a remote farm in North Iceland.…
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Master At Work: This Man Makes Your Einstök
On an industrial estate by the Akureyri harbour, one building stands slightly taller than the rest. With its tall grain bins, steaming chimneys and hulking fermentation tanks, the Vífilfell brewery dominates the area, pouring the tempting smell of fermenting hops across the…