The Worlds REAL Most Northern Most Microbrewery

I guess I was hoodwinked about the northern most brewery being in Tromso, unless you like semantics. Turns out that in Honningsvag (um, you have to imagine a lot of vowels in that town’s name with lines and dots through them) there is a microbrew pub and it’s is much farther north and claims for itself that title. So, in the name of adventure and culture, I went in and ordered my self a pint. Nice generous pints there too. Not the normal 0.4l, but a whopping 0.6l. That’s 50% more pilsner to quaff! And quaff I did. Feeling bold I decided to ask the kind folks if I could purchase a beer glass from them. Every beer has its own glass in Europe, with the beer’s logo on it. Also, the shape of the glass is important. You would never serve a Heiferweisen in a glass made for a Pilsner. Big Foopah. I have a couple of Heiferweisen glasses from Germany back at home, but I’m lacking a Pilsner style glass. Well, not that I drink many Pilsners back home. There definitely is a difference in true European style Pilsners than even American microbrew Pilsners, much the less your Buds and Coors style watered down pilsners (note the deliberate use of lower case ‘P’ here). Oh, but I digress. Well, my lucky day they said, and gave me a free souvenir glass. “Bloody American Tourist” they probably thought and just wanted me out of there. It was family pizza lunch time in there and not time to cater to the American tourist who takes up a table for four all by himself. What I don’t understand is that here in the middle of nowhere, with not much to do in town, the microbrew closes at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Saturday. Just what do they do on a Saturday night in Honnigsvag? I have a guess by the number of children running around the streets and in the pub. There were rug rats everywhere. By far more than I’ve seen in other towns on this trip.