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Why not take the opportunity to drink
like a Viking in Iceland, where there
are a surprising number of avantgarde
micro-breweries in operation,
offering award-winning ales and
ice cold refreshingly well balanced
blonde beers brewed in traditional
Pilsner custom. There is even an
opportunity to go to “beer college” at
the oldest brewery based in Reykjavik,
the Ölgerðin Egils Skallagrímsson
brewery is equipped with 10 beer taps
and provides lessons in everything
beer related, from how to brew and
taste to how to serve beer correctly
English beer has never gone out of fashion, and in the capital there has been a resurgence
and momentum offering liquid tours at various cool and trendy craft alehouses and,
conversely, heritage London pubs, steeped in history and character, whilst the monks at
Leicestershire’s St Bernard Abbey recently comprehended the popularity of beer over
milk and diversified their farming production to create the quaintly named Tynt Meadow
beer. Using traditional British brewing methods, with a great deal of research and advice
from experts the finished product is a testament to the intrinsic vocation of hundreds of
years of the monastic labour of brewing beer. Beer lovers can now visit the brewery and
enjoy a tour of the Monastery, the only one of its kind in the UK.
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