Svalbard Bryggeri is a
microbrewery
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in
Longyearbyen
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at the island of
Spitsbergen
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, the archipelago of
Svalbard
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,
Norway
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. Svalbard Bryggeri at 78° North is the northernmost commercial brewery in the world.
[Svalbard Bryggeri]
Bryggeri- og drikkevareforeningen
Establishing a brewery on the Svalbard archipelago required a change of Norwegian law, which prohibited commercial production of alcoholic beverages there. This meant that production was only started as late as 2015, after the law was changed by the
Storting
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and an Italian supplier of equipment delivered and installed them.
The brew is characterized by that 16% of the water used for brewing are thawed ice from the 2,000 year old Bogerbreen
glacier
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.
Beverage can
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s from Svalbard brewery are distributed throughout the mainland Norway and an increasing share is exported. The brewery also offers beer tastings for visitors to Longyearbyen.
Svalbard Bryggeri – Världens nordligaste öltillverkare
Lindh Craft Beer (in Swedish)
Products
* Spitsbergen IPA
* Spitsbergen Pale ale
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* Spitsbergen Pilsner
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History
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* Spitsbergen Stout
Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout. Stout is a type of ale.
The first known use of the word "stout" for beer is in a document dated 1677 in the E ...
* Spitsbergen Weißbier
* Spitsbergen Rav Lager
* Spitsbergen Blonde
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References
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External links
Official website, English language version
Companies based in Svalbard
Longyearbyen
Breweries in Norway
Norwegian companies established in 2015