Day 2 in the arctic

[luckykaa]

The Story So Far

Following a very nice Sushi dinner with a very nice friend, I was dropped off at the tourist information office and picked up some flyers. And didn't actually do much more than acquire information because the computers were down. Fortunately the tourist information people were informative so I have information. Was going to try again later but thought I'd stop at the hotel to use the loo, see what else I might see and keep LJ up to date.

Found out there was a brewery tour of the old brewery (now moved 70km south to a new building). Quite a short tour. Consisted of a film and a decent explanation of why the brewery moved (piecemeal expansion made the process very inefficient - a bottle moved 3km within the plant so a modern facility allowed twice the production with half the staff), the reason they changed the types of bottles (pre-made bottles take 17 times the number of trucks as parisons that can be blow-moulded into a variety of shapes), the ingredients used to make the beer (water, malt, hops, and yeast) and how to appreciate a beer.

Alo discovered Mack Brewery was founded by a German brewer hence the very Germanic flavour.

First sample was very nice. Ticket came with two more samples so I tried the 1877 special (pleasant but not that exciting) and the Nord Lys Winter beer (darker with a bitter edge) then decided to try the Bayer-Pilsner blend which was indeed very good. Randomly chatted to other people who were on the tour whilst I drank.

Have also discovered that the hotel has a waffle iron and coffee in the lobby for residents' use.

Not sure what else to do today but will need food.

Comments

[blue-sun-scribe.livejournal.com]

Ooh, waffle iron. Not heard of that being made available in hotels. You should try it out, freshly made waffles sounds good.