February 29, 2012
Above average vinmonopol selection. Very sentral in downtown Oslo, right next to Meny Oslo City that has a good selectoin of <4.7 ABV beers.

January 9, 2012
a good amount of beers, thats all but that is what we want :-) except the prices

November 9, 2011
Very good selection af beer, according to Norwegian standards. Almost 95 % of available beers in the Vinmonopolet system was seen during my visit in October 2011.

August 18, 2009
The good thing about this place is that it had quite a lot of beers from Nögne Ö and Haandbryggeriet which I cannot get without ordering a whole case in Sweden. Prices is of course high, as always in Norway. I didn’t buy that much, even though they also had some interesting Danish beers not found at Swedens Systembolaget. Visited in september 2008.

July 14, 2009
some interesting international things. but i expected a wide range of norwegian beers. four or five breweries is not very much. prices are high but that´s normal in scandinavia - especially in oslo which is one of the most expensive cities in the world.

March 27, 2009
Decent selection, they always keep a bit more than the standard Vinmonopolet selection. Staff is helpful, but often busy.

July 26, 2008
Vinmonopolet is norwegian for Wine Monopoly so you’ll mostly find wine and spirits here, but they have a decent selection of beer as well. The staff is helpful, but for some weird reason it isn’t possible for one shop to provide beer from another shop. This is why I gave them a lower service score.

June 19, 2008
This is the state owned alcohol monopoly of Norway, everything above 4,7 % is sold here only. Their main focus is wine and booze, so the beer selection isn’t the best - and the prices usually are rather stiff. On the other hand, they do have quite a few high quality beers among their standard selection - Nøgne Ø among others. According to their website it is possible to import pretty much everything you’d like, as long as it’s for private use. The costs might be high though.

March 22, 2008
This is just a store. I don’t even know why is on this list!. And it is not a great one by the way.

August 18, 2007
The price being what it is. What I like about the vinmonopolet is that you can go to their website, review their 72 beers and see which of their many locations spread across the country has which one. Quite service-oriented. Then again, I’m only here a few days so bought a couple of Nogne’s, Aass’s and a bottle from Lithuania. Those 5 bottles pushed me over the eur32 $40 mark... But they are good beers nonetheless.