beer
Small beers with good food
So it’s been a while I guess Finally got round to breaking the blogging log-jam, with this one. For beer lovers in Finland there is only one event to go to – the Small Breweries, Big Beers event! This year I visited on the Friday and it was a very pleasant afternoon, standing in the [...]
A new type of event?
So yesterday the first un-sauna took place here in Helsinki. Sami from HUB Helsinki had decided to take the un-conference idea and add a Finnish twist to it. The idea being to do short discussions between the “rounds” of sauna. Even though only 3 of us turned up, as one of the ideas behind un-events [...]
Couple of beers after Xmas
First up, a pleasant surprise I found in the local supermarket. Brewed by locally to Helsinki, this is a rather strong flavour (not sure I would want more than one), but very pleasant. Next up an import from the UK. This one I got from Alko (as it is 7.1%), you can actually taste and [...]
Nice pub in Göteborg
So while in Göteborg for FSCONS, I found a rather nice little pub, The Flying Barrel. It seems that English stlye pubs are rather popular in Sweden as that is what they associate with good beer and good times. I started with a couple of export only beers from the Ridgeway Brewary. A nice stout, [...]
Syystober
This was a joint idea between Suuret Oluet-Pienet Panimot and Karhu Reasonable selection of beers from the small brewaries, and Sinebrychoff only had Karhu beer available (designed for their more discerning customer?). They were all strong beers (over 5% abv). You could also get a one litre glass for a 5€ deposit. The food was [...]
SSWC – the memories
How do you sum up a weekend like that? If someone asked you “Hey, do you want to spend 50 hours traveling to spend 41 hours surrounded by 250+ people you have never met before?” you would think they were mad, but then they would have missed out some cool times and stories. Would I [...]
