My pre-trip trial order at Systembolaget (done in the user-friendly website) pinged its readiness, and I walked down to PK-Huset’s shop to pick it up. The process was smooth, and easily conducted in english: announced my intention to a random employee who directed me to a very blatantly marked “order pickups”-location, had to flag down a second employee to get my three beers, but all in all this took less than two minutes and the result was tangible: three otherwise unavailable domestic imperial stouts in my paws.
So the trial was a rousing success, and I definitely look forward to trawling deep into the selection in the future.
The trawling is necessary, as the små partier selection available in the shop was not that wide, but had nonetheless quite a few interesting offerings. Sadly most of the bombers were of the sour kind. Purchased the mopst prominent non-sour: a previously un-encountered Sierra Nevada brew. But the smaller wares included enough barley wines and imperial stouts to fill up the suitcase nicely.
All in all a very pleasant trip to cap off the summer vacation – easy flights, easy transport and easy hotel made this about stress-free as things can be.
FI: Oikein onnistunut lomanlopetusreissu Tukholmaan. Ja nyt on Systembolageting tilausvalikoimakin korkattu.
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