Private Beer Tasting in English

Just like Norwegian youngsters of today, the vikings are thought to have resorted to strong beverage for courage. Today, mostly courage to approach the opposite sex – or same sex for that matter, while back in the viking age the courage to plunder. And approach the opposite sex – but in a slightly more brutal way than today.

The Beer Academy invites you to a 60-90 minutes long beer tasting session. Here, while tasting a selection of Norwegian beers of today, you learn about the Vikings’ relation to ale, mead, and intoxicants in general. We also give you a perspective of how significant alcohol consumption impacted our constitution of 1814, up to more recent beer history; like the story of the oldest still running brewery in Norway and the Norwegian craft beer revolution.

The beer tasting session is served with humor almost as dark as the cellar that houses it.

This heritage is partly what we learn our visitors at beer tastings all year. We also teach students how to make their own beer, and to combine beer and food, and every year more than 13.000 people visit The Beer Academy.

More information:
• Language: English
• Age limit: 18 years or older. Bring picture ID if you are under 25
• Address: Ølakademiet, Thorvald Meyers gate 71 A, entrance from Nordre Gate, 0552 Oslo
• Transport: Tram lines 11-12-13 to Schous Plass