{"id":4087,"date":"2021-01-19T22:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/247travelguides.com\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2021-01-19T22:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T22:41:02","slug":"us-marines-drank-bars-in-downtown-reykjavik-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/?p=4087","title":{"rendered":"US Marines drank bars in downtown Reykjavik dry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If the craft beer boom in the states has taught us something, it’s that Americans like to drink local. Apparently, that pertains to when Americans go abroad. In mid-October, US sailors and Marines drank all the local beer at a number of bars in Reykjavik, Iceland, over the course of five days.<\/p>\n

The military was docked in Iceland’s capital for NATO exercises. It turned out the largest NATO gathering for the reason that Cold War, with between 6,000 and seven,000 US service members entering into. When they weren’t working, these were sampling your neighborhood fare in the downtown bars. Well, a minimum of a nearby beer. In accordance with Iceland Magazine, service members drank most of the neighborhood beer at Sæta Svínið, American Bar, yet others that your bars must ask breweries for emergency supplies to refill their fridges.<\/p>\n

Whatever your thinking are about drinking cities dry on your off time, it’s heartening to learn that US service members are interested in these items produced in the united states they’re in. From small craft breweries to Iceland’s big-brand lagers, they took in all tastes of the nation. Local blogger Eiríkur Jónsson wrote the popular bars borrowed from others with a lot more inventory, but “these people were fighting a difficult force.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If the craft beer boom in the states has taught us something, it’s that Americans like to drink local. Apparently, that pertains to when Americans go abroad. In mid-October, US sailors and Marines drank all the local beer at a number of bars in Reykjavik, Iceland, over the course of five days. The military was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","tag-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/247travelguides.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}