With a good TV series like Game of Thrones, one likes to have something to eat or drink. Did you know that this could be Game of Thrones beer, bottled at Ommegang Brewery, which has been offering Game of Thrones beer since Season 3? Recently, the lineup has grown to include a new Game of Thrones-themed beer, which returns for Season 7 on HBO in July 2017. To give you a taste of what's to come, you can try a new beer, a golden ale (characteristically ale closest to the deckchairs) Bend the Knee.
Starkenberg Castle in the Austrian Tyrol (Tarrenz), where there is also a brewery of the same name, offers a very special attraction for tourists. Not a tour of the brewery, where beer has been brewed since 1810, but bathing in beer. Would you like to take a dip in a pool filled with beer, which is also drinkable? A rhetorical question for men, but still.
A self-service beer wall has come to life in Plac in Ljubljana, which gives the drinker complete control over the pouring of beer. "Your pipe, your beer" is their motto. It is the first beer wall of its kind not only in Slovenia, but in the entire Balkans.
We usually start the day not with a glass of beer, but with a cup of coffee or tea. Usually jam is also a gelled mixture of sugars and fruit pulp. Why usually? Because the Scottish brewery Innis & Gunn has prepared Marm & Ale, beer jam! From now on, you can also spread beer on bread!
Dave is the name of a hop juice that fetched US$2,000 for each bottle some time ago.
In the center of Ljubljana, just a stone's throw away from Prešeren square, Gig, a bar where you are served fragrant coffee in the morning, selected lunches during the day, and beer and live music in the evening, has opened in the premises of the former Lačna koza butchery.
Many men mistakenly believe that yoga is a 'grandma's thing'. Many women, however, believe that beer is a 'man's thing'. That won't hold! Old folk wisdom teaches that a mug of beer with a friend relaxes pleasantly, and yoga relieves stress. This time, BeerLab in Maribor will combine both: beer and yoga. This will be the first Beer Yoga or yoga with beer in Slovenia!
The best-selling beer in the world is not Belgian, not Czech, not Mexican, not even American. In fact, only one from Europe was on the list of the ten best-selling beers, namely the Dutch brewery Heineken, the newly minted owner of Pivovarna Laško, in seventh place. You probably haven't even heard of the beer that ended up at the very top, let alone tasted it.
Now that the climate is in high gear with summer and the mercury is moving towards unbearable temperatures, the thought of a cold beer with just the right amount of foam - because after all, just like we eat, we also drink with our eyes - is omnipresent. And speaking of food. Japanese beverage manufacturer Kirin Ichiban has created the Frozen Beer Slushie Machine, a device that literally turns the foam into the crown of a hop drink.
Between March 11 and 17, the Pir na Pir student beer festival will take place in Maribor. The project, which is being prepared by the Maribor Students' Club, will try to introduce beer to students through various lectures, workshops, tastings and tours of breweries and thus raise the culture of drinking itself.
Where to get beer? To Primož, at Trubarjevo ulica 47 in Ljubljana, to the pivotek Jeh v redu, Primož, where the shelves are creaking under the weight of microbreweries. Among them we also find many brews of Slovenian microbreweries, which in recent years have been steadily making their way to the counters, tables of bars and home refrigerators. The name of the store for beer lovers was given by an anecdote about Primož Trubar, who ordered a mug of beer in Tübingen, and it fell to the floor, and the lovely waitress said to him: "Schon gut, Primus" or "Already" okay, Primož.''
You look at the packaging of food that has passed its expiration date and wonder if it can still be used. Some things are simply kept in the kitchen for too long...