what's your best ale

[chesterbells]

My memories of visiting Bodo & the Lofoten islands a few years back was that getting beer was like gold dust. All we found was 2% stuff tucked away on the further most shelf of the local 7-11 shop!! Do they still have the same attitude today?

Beer at normal strength is available from the food shops (I won't boost their egos by calling them 'supermarkets'), but anything stronger, including wine, is from the stazi shop. Having said that, you have to have run your beer through the till by, typically, 2000 hrs on a normal weekday, or 1400 hrs on Saturday. Some local areas are even stricter. In other words, you have to plan your drinking!

Interesting. Lovely part of the world, mind you (but this was in the summer with plenty of daylight!).
Iceland was even worse: alcohol only from special shops with very limited opening hours and the bottle of wine handed over in a brown paper bag; it was like some illicit currency.

 

[cityfansimon]

Love a pint of proper job.....Nice boozer called the Cornish arms in st meryn pull a great pint of that.

 

[Lrrr]

 

[nobody can eat fifty eggs]

Dragon Stout from Jamaica, it blow's your socks off. Also like the more mellow Black Sheep ale from Yorkshire.