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I tried various canned and on-tap local stuff, despite Elder Daughter's warnings. Let's just say I didn't find anything I liked.
Then on a boat-restaurant on the river in Turku, I asked the waiter what a beer lover should order. He brought me a pint of locally-brewed IPA, I've forgotten the name of the brewery, but it brought tears to my eyes. Charged me nine euros for it, mind. I suspect it's one of these citrussy beers you're talking about. A moving experience.
Up till then, I was started to think the best beer of the trip was the Oettinger I had on the Lufthansa flight. But my faith in humanity is restored. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
But I will take good, banal bier any day over the stuff they drink in Finland.
No, I didn't stay long enough to be qualified to dismiss a nation's brewing prowess so... dismissively. On the basis that "90% of everything is crap", it's probably fair to say that I would have been just as unimpressed drinking random popular beers in most countries (I would except Belgium and Germany, there are probably other countries to add to that list) It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
- Jake Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.
Pretty sure it was a pilsner, though.
If you want drinks with history up here, it is all in the booze department. Sweden's finest (and perhaps only) collaborative, leftist e-newspaper Synapze.se
This was at about 9.30 pm on Monday. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
I know and like Skottskallens beer. I've had a Nils Oskar beer, which was very good, but don't know their range very well. keep to the Fen Causeway
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