Skarpi - TODAY? You can get any alcohol - but what is the price?
Ten years ago 1989 they searched automobiles leaving the base, for fear of alcohol (mainly beer) making it to the black-market. (Its' restrictive laws made it a place to refine the homebrewing process and move into distillation.) Raytheon/Hughes was installing radar systems and the U.S. military was the only source of cheap alcohol.
Yes, you could get beer in town, but at close to $5.00 a bottle. Iceland is an expensive place to live, but if you can live cheap and thereby bankroll yourself with U.S. tax credits, it is a goldmine.
Raykjavik is a nice, clean city. Your folklore is wonderful, perhaps, born of long nights inwhich to spin wonderful tales. But it is your natural resources that are astounding, the hotsprings, the waterfalls, the pecular land formations.
I find it ironic that Iceland has little ice, even in the winters. Iceland in the summer is green, green green. However Greenland, as far as I am concerned, is a frozen, baren, brown, and full of ice hunk of rock.
You live in beautiful and grand country. You have reason to be proud.
Sincerely,
Gargoyle