A short discourse on alcohol in Finland.
Alcohol in Finland is EXPENSIVE. It was expensive before, but then the government levied an additional tax on it because the Finns are a bunch of drunks. Seriously. It is not at all unusual to see someone on the Metro halfway through a case of beer at 9am. The Finns love, love, love to drink.
Hard alcohol and wine has to be bought at an Alco Shop. I've never been in one, never had any need, but as far as I can tell they carry just about every alcohol imaginable, including nasty as Salmiaki liquor. [Salmiaki is a Finnish "candy". The closest I can come to describing it is imagine licorice soaked overnight in brine.]
The grocery stores is where you can buy beer, cider, that sort of thing. Beer is, well, beer. Most of it is dark and it all basically tastes the same. Cider is a bit more interesting. Finns like their cider sweet. Thus, you can buy regular apple cider, but also pear, grape, raspberry, and, most confusingly, pineapple. I wouldn't recommend the pineapple. There is also one kind of dry apple cider. Your third choice of alcohol is the Long Drink. What a long drink is, exactly, remains a mystery. Long drinks come in orange, lime, grape, and strawberry. They are approximately the color of water after you drop a highliter in it. Mmm, tasty. I think the alcohol in them is gin, but I could be wrong. No one really knows, but they are 10 cents cheaper than the cider, so people drink them. The orange isn't too bad, really. Imagine Tang made with gin instead of water and you have it about right.
The long drinks run about 1,80 for a can about the size of an Arizona Iced Tea, and the ciders run about 1,90.
I have no idea how much beer is, because a case of beer is not a fixed construct. Its entirely common for people to rip open cases of beer and buy individual cans, or make a case of 3 of one kind, 9 of another, and the rest of another. That shit would not fly in Food Lion, I guarantee it.