Author: Morven

Spring wine tasting March 29th!

After two succesful wine tastings last year, let us continue that revived tradition by another wine tasting this spring! This time we will focus on wines from South Africa. We will again introduce the region and its characteristics, before  providing…

Tastefull spanish wines

Last friday 26 people joined for a Spanish wine tasting evening at the Geophysical Institte. A great success although it turns out blind tasting is not that easy! The presentation about the region and wine list can be downloaded here:…

Starting up brewing again!

Dear beer lovers, Winter is coming… rejoice yourself, for the Gate of Gale will be soon re-opened, pouring a scent of hop in the air absolutely recommended to face darkening days. Our brewing club (Gale) will gather again to…. brew!…

Successful wine tasting!

Last friday 36 wine enthusiast from GFI, Uni Klima and the Nansen Center joined together in the Nansen Center canteen for a cozy italian wine tasting event. Geosupen organized this evening’s tour around Italy where we had chosen five different…

Christmas-beer blindtest

  On November 1st Vinmonopolet released this year’s selection of 201 different types of Christmas beer. With so much choice it can be difficult to decide on what to buy. We did the hard job for you and blind-tested eleven…

Smalahåvesupen 2017

Save the date! The most important event of the year will take place on Friday October 13th. Every fall, when the happy Norwegian sheep come down from the mountains, we celebrate and socialize. And of course, lamb’s head is on the…

First batch of 2017

The friends of the barley and hops have started up again for the year! The success of the New Year’s party is still fresh in memory, but this is no time to rest. We’ve heard the inhabitants of the Institute…

Successful Julesup

Around 30 people joined in a joyful advent celebration Thursday 1. December. In a great joint effort the Christmas tree was decorated and people enjoyed about 15 kilos of “risgrøt”. A great start of the holiday season!