Extra strong. Sweden has a rather peculiar alcohol culture. The only beer you can buy in a grocery store is between 2.2 and 3.5% alcohol. If you want the stronger stuff, you have to go to a state run liquor store. In my humble opinion, all Swedish beer tastes about the same, and is almost as bad as Swedish coffee 
I actually kind of miss the 3.5 stuff; although I drank mostly Carlsberg, which I guess is really Danish.
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I see you guys are having fun 
I my self wuld preffer even stronger stuff yesterday, l promissed kids to get them to a water park yesterday, it was clowdy and cold but a promisse is a promisse. They ofcorse dont mind a bit but my jewels are just begining to drop back to place 
Marcus, Jesse is your cousin?
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I agree on peculiar. I guess it’s one of very few things that reminds us of the good old days. Also, the staff are all experts. You can ask any of them and they know exactly what champagne to go with your caviar
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Yes Jesse James is family on my dad’s side. I would have to dig through my mom’s family tree stuff to see exactly how again but my mother and his mother figured it out at Sturgis the big bike rally a few years back. It’s through my dad’s side by blood we are both direct decendents of Jesse and Frank James the wild west outlaws
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Explain please…never heard of a “capercaillie”. I assume from other posts that it is a “grouse”, but we don’t have those either…
Jakob built a pretty neat charcoal grinder out of an exercise bike a couple years ago, but it’s now in the back deep-storage barn because we never need to grind charcoal. I suppose it is because we use cabinet scraps from the factory to make char, and it’s always small enough to not need to be ground. We almost pulled it out to crush apples for cider this year.
Yeah, that’s why we turned it down…to do the show. Not really our tone, or style.
Can’t be any more peculiar than the United States. Every state has it’s own laws and rules. Actually, every county. Our county just recently made alcohol legal again. The county south of us is still dry. In the county west of us, you can buy alcohol, but only within municipalities that have voted it in, but not in the county.
In AL beer and liquor/wine/spirits have to be sold from separate buildings…or at least rooms accessed by different outside doors. So that beer can’t be bought where whiskey is sold, etc.
In Maryland, beer is only sold at liquor stores.
In Florida, hard liquors can be bought at Walmart, but you never find that in most other southern states…
In AL you can not legally buy drinking alcohol on Sunday.
And it is still illegal to own a still to make moonshine, but it is legal to produce several gallons of moonshine a year for personal use. 
Although illegal, most look the other way when someone owns a still that is not in use…like as an antique or museum piece.
Come to think of it, growing up in these dry counties during high school…our main supplier of beer was the police chief in Lineville. LOL 
Jakob, hit that Dixie horn again…we ARE the Dukes of Hazard.
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Billy, l feel dizzy now
Althugh me and JO did have a few laughs on the sign saying “if you look 40 or younger, prepare your ID” or something like this at the big grocery store, l never imagined its so complicated!!
Here, buying anything is just a matter of being 18 years old. Anywhere. But you can only buy alcohol in a store from 21.00 to 6.00, and you can not order distilates before 10 in the morning in a bar (but you can in a store )
Nevertheless, one of my favourite moments from the visit in US was on the last day at Argos, me and JO just went to hit the sack in the tent, when a big black bearded man opened the zipper with a huge botle of whiskey hanging from his finger was a great ending to a real nice memory.
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On that note, there is a folk storry here about the life of a young sheppard and one of the main charracters is Bedanec, a black bearded poacher
Billy, now you know what old memoryes you brought out that day
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I live in a somewhat dry county. Can’t buy liquor on Sundays and the only places to get them are bars and ABC Liquor stores. Beer and wine is sold at convenience stores and grocery stores as well as bars. Makes me glad I’m a teetotaller.
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That makes two of us!
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Not to mention the cost…with this ice business, I spend many days in about 80 different stores. It amazes me how much money people spend on alcohol.
Kristijan, you’re going to turn into a pickled fruit one of these days.
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Listening to you all, I feel myself like citizen of Alcoholistan 
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I don’t judge other people that do drink, I just have a genetic predisposition for alcoholism on both sides of the family.
I guess being 90% British Islander has something to do with it 
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Cody, very good idea to stick with that wisdom.
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I do as well, and ADD, so I choose to let my addiction manifest in usefull things mostly anything with a engine or motor, gun, and the outdoors. Keep myself busy with things that I love and no time to start drinking. I do enjoy a drink now and then but examples of my alcoholic family show me the path to not take. Funny though I enjoy making alcohol and simple wines and then gifting it away since I don’t drink much haha
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Billy, been a pickled fruit for a long time now. Not alcohol related, maybe woodgas has something to do with it? 
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Black grouse and capercaillie are our most common forest birds in the pheasant family. Capercaillie males can reach 15 pounds.
https://images.app.goo.gl/FsC9UATaXp9mmVNq7
This being Scandinavia, alcohol consumption is not mainly regulated by law. It’s regulated by taxes
One liter of pure alcohol is taxed ~$50. If the vodka, whisky or whatever contains 40% alcohol, $20 is added to every bottle.
No wonder vans and trailers run like shuttles to Germany and back. Right at the border there are big liquor warehouses/stores for Scandinavians There is a rather large brewery only 50 miles from here, in @Jan 's neck of the woods. People around here make 1,000 mile roundtrips to Germany to buy that same beer that was resently sent down there.
It seems people consider 65% of the gasoline price being tax is a bargain.
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It is even better if you are DOW to the borders of Germany. Right?
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Holy cow that’s as big as our native turkeys!
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I keep hearing about possible gas shortages in the South again either due to the hurricane or trucker strikes. If I can’t resolve my issues with the Mazda’s gasoline system I just might have to disconnect the fuel lines and hard start on charcoal. I’m sure it won’t get to that but I’m just mentally preparing for it.
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