Tag: alcohol
Drunks spoil some 17th of May celebrations
Police were busy in many Norwegian cities after Constitution Day celebrations on the 17th of May. Unruly drunks including youth as young as 13...
Police file charges in home brew case
Police in Southern Norway have charged a senior citizen with selling illegal alcoholic beverages at a private gathering in Mandal last week. Several of those...
Customs officers may test drunk drivers
The Norwegian government has proposed a new border control measure that would allow customs officers in the border patrol to test motorists suspected of...
Vinmonopolet had a great year
Never before has Norway's state-controlled liquor store chain Vinmonopolet sold so many liters of wine, liquor, strong beer and even non-alcoholic beverages as in...
It had to come: A dictionary of drunkenness
There are at least 330 words in the Norwegian language that describe the state of being drunk. Documentation of this sobering fact has just...
Business booms at Vinmonopolet
After cross-border shopping in Sweden, tax-free stores and local bars and restaurants were all shut down in the Corona crisis, Norwegians have been flocking...
Wine carton ban raised a flap
Norway's state health directorate wants to ban the sale of wine in large three-liter cartons, claiming they lead to higher alcohol consumption. Protests were...
White wine flowed in the summer heat
For the first time ever, Norwegians drank more white wine than red wine in July. Red wine has always dominated the market in Norway,...
Brewery forced to halt production
Norway's historic family-owned brewery Aass in Drammen has run out of the liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) it needs to produce beer and other carbonated...
Conservatives ban the ‘nachspiel’
Norway's Conservative Party is holding its annual national meeting (landsmøte) this weekend, without one potentially troublesome feature: the notorious nachspiel. They're the late-night parties-after-the-party,...
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