Ramlösa
- Ramlösa is also the name of a district, a park, and a railway station in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Ramlösa is a brand of carbonated mineral water from a source in Ramlösa Brunnspark in the southern part of Helsingborg, Sweden. Ramlösa goes back to the year 1707 when a health spa around the source was founded by Johan Jacob Döbelius.
Ramlösa is very common in northern Europe and is considered a high-standard mineral water. Ramlösa is also popular outside of Scandinavia and the water is exported as far as the United States, Australia, Middle East and New Zealand.
Ramlösa is today a wholly owned subsidiary of the Danish brewery group Carlsberg
Swedish commercials for Ramlösa previously had voice overs by actor Stellan Skarsgård.
In popular culture
- Patrick Bateman, the main character in the novel American Psycho rates Ramlösa as "very good".
- The beverage is also featured in the 1992 Robert Altman film, The Player where Tim Robbins character orders a glass of Ramlösa.
- The character Mikael Blomkvist requests the product as a favored drink in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
- The beverage is mentioned several times in the HBO series The Sopranos in the Season 2 episode "Bust Out".
- The beverage is shown several times in its blue waterdrop export bottle in the movie Ocean's Eleven
- The beverage is mentioned in the Swedish band Kent's song "Socker", within a biblical reference of "and Ramlösa becomes wine".
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Coordinates: 56°01′18″N 12°44′35″E / 56.02167°N 12.74306°E
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