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Yes, the alcohol is very expensive here. Many Swedes go to over to Putgarden in Germany to buy lots and lots of beer, the stores there is specialized in selling alcohol to Swedes, they have written info on both German and Swedish and also have the prices in both Euro and SEK.
The limit to take beer over the border is that high that the police or customs don't stop them for taking to much alcohol into the country but because they have exceeded the loading limit for the car!
When you come from Denmark on the ferry (Helsingör-Helsingborg) there is a scale in the harbor where they weights the cars (there is also a scale a few km north of the Oresund bridge).
If your car exceeds the limit you have to unload until you're legal and also pay pretty high fines.
This is ofc well known of in Sweden and people in southern Sweden go to the weighting places and see if there is some beer to “steal”. It's a good deal to get something for free that they can sell for 15-20 Euros (if there is 20 cases sitting on the side of the road it's 400 Euro in direct profit!)
A friend will go down there soon with a trailer and buy beer and I will buy some cases from him. He sells them fore about 3-4 Euros (that’s 5-10 Euro less than at the ‘Systemet’) more then he bought them for and he makes a pretty good profit.
The limit to take beer over the border is that high that the police or customs don't stop them for taking to much alcohol into the country but because they have exceeded the loading limit for the car!
When you come from Denmark on the ferry (Helsingör-Helsingborg) there is a scale in the harbor where they weights the cars (there is also a scale a few km north of the Oresund bridge).
If your car exceeds the limit you have to unload until you're legal and also pay pretty high fines.
This is ofc well known of in Sweden and people in southern Sweden go to the weighting places and see if there is some beer to “steal”. It's a good deal to get something for free that they can sell for 15-20 Euros (if there is 20 cases sitting on the side of the road it's 400 Euro in direct profit!)
A friend will go down there soon with a trailer and buy beer and I will buy some cases from him. He sells them fore about 3-4 Euros (that’s 5-10 Euro less than at the ‘Systemet’) more then he bought them for and he makes a pretty good profit.