14 August 2011

beer prices in oslo

yes, oslo is one of the most expensive cities in the world, and people often complain about measure it using the price of beer. the alternative newspaper natt&dag has a weekly “beer barometer” (ølbarometer) which lists oslo’s cheapest beer places, but unfortunately not online. fear not, I can share with you oslopuls’ recent survey of 55 bars [...]

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28 March 2006

mmm milk beverage!

ok, I don’t know when lactantia came up with this, but now you can buy “milk beverage”.

so… instead of grabbing something else (aka ‘real milk’) when I noticed this, I felt like I just *had* to buy it! (I’m not the only one attracted by sketchy labeling, am I?) sketchiness was further exacerbated by [...]

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27 November 2005

spruce beer

so this month’s en route (that air canada magazine) made me laugh because of two things:

1) someone’s made a cocktail (the, uh, “Buttstrip”) including as one of the ingredients ¨¦mile bertrand’s spruce beer. (man, it’s been too long since I’ve had a burger and spruce beer down on notre dame…)

2) one of “canada’s [...]

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