Welcome to the Grown-up Travel Guide 2015 Beer Diary!
A little background info:Â in December a group of us decided to set up the 2014 Beer Advent Calendar, whereby we would try a new beer each day up until Christmas. We shared our tipples on Facebook and Instagram and a great time was had by all – plus we all got to learn about some fine brews from around the world.
Faced with a sense of emptiness when the challenge was over I decided that 24 days a year was just not enough. Why not a year of beer? And so here we are. I reckon a beer a day can keep the doctor away – but even if not it’ll be fun, right?
Given that a large proportion of the year 2015 will be spent in foreign climes there will be the added element of finding a new brew wherever we travel and there are a huge number of excellent beers available here in Norway too – most of which I doubt any of our readers will have heard of.
Your participation is not only encouraged but required – just use the hashtag #grownupbeerdiary if possible. Add your entries here and/or use our social media channels – whatever works best for you.
To keep it simple follow the same format as we do here: describe your day in a maximum of five sentences, add some info about the beer and a photo or two.
Obscure ales and imports IPAs are always interesting but there’s to be no snobbery here – anything goes, even alcohol-free as we all need a good alternative now and again. We’ll work out the practicalities as we go – but since the first day of the year is nearly over we better get started on this journey around the world – in beer form. Cheers!
Day 12: January 12, 2015
Diary entry:
Today started well workwise but I got distracted searching for frequent flyer award redemptions.
I should finished my translation project by lunchtime or early afternoon, but, well…
Had it done by, er, 7 p.m. instead.
I’m just as inefficient about packing too – I’m off to Finland for a week in the morning, it’s 9.30 p.m. and I haven’t started yet.
Mmmmmm…beer 🙂
The Beer:
Name: Franziskaner Weissbier Naturtrub
Producer: Spaten-Franziskaner-BrauÂ
Alcohol content: 5%
Bottle size: 0.5 l
Purchased from:Â Vinmonopolet
#grownupbeerdiary
As you may know I’m a huge fan of weissbier – or weizenbier as they call it in northern Germany – and when I lived in Berlin I tried many different types. Franziskaner is one of my favourites, it’s a nigh-perfect hefe-weiss. Absent for some time from our local Vinmonopolet (state liquor store) it has now returned – prost!
For a full list of all the beers sampled so far this year, just look under the Beer Diary category – you’re sure to find some tasty inspiration 🙂
