Ægir Brewery in Flåm

And the Norway posts keep coming, just for a little while yet, I hope you're not bored of them yet. In yesterday's Flåm post I promised to write a post about the Ægir Brewery that is located in Flåm, so here it comes. We spent one very fun evening in this wooden pub building that is a new build, but built in the Viking style with suitable interior, an open fire at the centre of the room and heavy wooden furniture. It was very cosy and the service was excellent and extremely friendly.

They brew beer in the premises, but also have a bigger brewery building just a few hundred meters away from the pub. The beer selection is very wide, all imaginable beer styles are available. We decided to start with the tasting boards to get more acquainted with their beers, as we had never tasted the Ægir beers before.

I especially like the naming of the beers after local areas or characters from the Old Norse sagas, like Ratatosk or Tors Hammar, and also the artwork on the bottles and cans. Of course all the beers were excellent as well. It's quite an unique location for a microbrewery and I will remember this experience for a long time to come.

Flåm and Flåm Railway

From Bergen we took the train and wanted to head to a little fjord village called Flåm following Bergensbanen, the Bergen-Oslo railway line, one of the most beautiful railway journeys in the world. Taking Bergensbanen was actually the main purpose of our trip. I will be writing a bit more about it later, as we had some unexpected adventures along the route to Oslo.

Flåm was an absolutely beautiful village located at the end of a fjord, surrounded by mountains. We had generous two balconies in our hotel room and had the most magnificent views from there. The autumn colours were just beautiful around there, and the weather continued being good. We went for walks in the surrounding hills and tried to chase for a waterfall, which turned out to be too high on the mountainside, so we had to give our climb up. The village also has their own microbrewery, Ægir Bryggeri and Pub. I think I'm going to write a separate post about them not to make this post too long.

So in order to reach Flåm by rail, you need to take the picturesque mountain railway known as the Flåmsbana. You can connect to it from the Bergensbanen in a roadless mountain village of Myrdal. This heritage rail takes you through the most amazing mountain scenery, and it's a bit dizzying at times. This railway route has also been described as one of the most beautiful in the world. It is quite an impressive demonstration of engineering, building a railway under such difficult conditions.

I hope you'll enjoy the views.