Reykjavík Grapevine


Reykjavík Grapevine - 10.03.2017, Blaðsíða 50

Reykjavík Grapevine - 10.03.2017, Blaðsíða 50
Find the best food in Iceland! Download our free dining app, CRAVING on the Apple and Android stores Hold My Beer Brews, bros, beards and business at the Icelandic Beer Festival Words Mark Asch Photo Art Bicnick Well… we’re not losing money by coming here,” an ultra-friendly Australian craft brewer tells me above the din at the Icelandic Beer Festival. He works for Pirate Life, out of Adelaide, South Austra- lia, and he’s just poured me their IPA, so pleasantly front-loaded with hoppy bitterness that I al- most swear I feel cold aluminum in my hands, slick with condensa- tion. They’d loaded a few kegs onto a plane, come to Iceland a few days early to explore Mývatn, and here they were, pouring for the assembled beer geeks in the warehouse space beneath Kex Hostel—formerly the Living Art Museum—over the three- day event. The Pirates have no grand scheme for global distribution or beer-world domination, but they were invited, and they said yes, be- cause, after all, what is beer even for? The Icelandic Beer Festival (“more like the Icelandic BEARD Festival,” a friend joked, prior to spotting silkscreened commemo- rative “Icelandic Beer-d Festival” t-shirts for sale at the merch table) was spread out over three happy- hour sessions, with live music upstairs afterwards for anyone still typing legibly into their Rate- MyBeer app after three hours of dogged connoisseurship. Steeped in exposed-beam hipness, it’s an- other spot-on curation of the Kex- land hospitality empire, with the room split equally between most of Iceland’s growing craft beer scene, and global drinking bud- dies brought to the party by Kex’s frequent col laborators Mikkeller and Friends. M i k k e l l e r were there, of course, their f a r - o u t f l a - vours comple- ment i ng t he subtly citrus-y pale ales and highly concentrated double IPAs brought over from American brew- eries like Stone and Other Half. Mikkeller’s vanilla stout was surely sweeter than the beer ice cream be- ing dispensed from slow-churning 7/11-style slushie machines, and stood out even amongst the other creamy stouts and porters pulled out as calling cards (along with puckery and fruity sours and lam- bics capable of staining teeth like bad red wine). Amidst raids on the bowls of olives and almonds left out to line stomachs, I recall with fond- ness Kaldi’s black IPA, which had a sophisticated, moody acridity, not unpleasantly reminiscent of scald- ed diner coffee; I also appreciated the very subtle hints of kelp in the mellow red ale from Iceland’s new- to-me Brothers Brewery, normally available only on tap in the West- man Islands, where it’s brewed. Behind the tables, brewmasters and sales reps sampled each other’s wares. One of them told me that they all know each other from the beer-fest circuit: an endless sum- mer of tasting, swapping recipes and networking that works better than in any other industry because, well, you know. Not that there aren’t drawbacks, but, as she explained, no- body really judges you if you beg out from a group out- ing like Saturday m o r n i n g ’s t r i p to the Secret La- goon—the occa- sional raging hang- over is just an occupational hazard. Between the tables, Icelanders in blazers and capes and tourists in flannel and fleeces gathered in semicircles of conversation, dis- banding to refill their glasses at opposite ends of the room before regrouping to sip, squint, and swal- low; impressed by the artisanal atmosphere, conversations begin with earnest comparison of tasting notes, but rarely stay there. Because after all, what is beer even for? SHARE: gpv.is/bru03 B E S T T H A I F O O D 2 0 1 6 also : 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 BanThai R E S T A U R A N T w w w . b a n t h a i . i s T O P T E N BEST RESTAURANTS IN ICELAND DV. 17.07.11 L a u g a v e g u r 1 3 0, v i ð H l e m m Tel : + 354 - 55-22-444, +354 - 692 - 0564 FOOD IS MADE FRESH FROM SCRATCH, PAN–FRIED FISH FISH STEW Onion, garlic, potatoes, celery, lime, white wine, cream and butter 1.850 isk PLAICE Tomatoes, capers, parsley, lemon and butter 2.100 isk ARCTIC CHAR Honey, almonds, cherry tomatoes, lemon and butter 2.100 isk salmon (lactose–free) Parsley root, broccoli, cashew nuts, coconut oil, chili and lemon 2.100 isk Our pan–fried fish is always served with butter–fried Icelandic potatoes & fresh salad desserts DATE CAKE Walnuts, coconut, cream cheese coffee cream, blueberries and whipped cream 1.400 isk any pans for lunch? lækjargata 6b, 101 rvk · 546 0095 · messinn@messinn.com Food “more like the Ice- landic BEARD Festi- val,” a friend joked, prior to spotting silkscreened com- memorative “Icelan- dic Beer-d Festival” t-shirts for sale Afficionados of that lovely golden brew which quenches our thirst and revitalizes the spirit that the locals like to call "bjúúúúúúr"
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