War on good beer?

In my recent visit to the Danish microbrewery Ølfabrikken, I was surprised to see no sign by the road. To be more accurate the sign was there, but it had been painted over.

I thought to myself that they just wanted to update the sign, and went on in. As always, in small breweries it is interesting to talk to their employees. Here I got the real story of the sign; It had been painted over in the the middle of the night. The empty sign was the result of pure vandalism.

It seems that one or more of Ølfabrikken’s neighbours does not appreciate a brewery being located where they are. At my previous visits to the brewery I have talked to several of the locals, many of which own part of the brewery and all being excited by their products and their mere existence.

My plea to the neighbour(s) in question: RELAX, have a homebrew. If you are annoyed by something at or about the brewery, go talk to them! They are really nice people, and you CAN talk to them. Please stop childish acts such as blocking their driveway with your car.

We need no more terrorists in the world – we need dialogue! I guess that everybody *but* the people I am writing to in this post, will read it. But now I started a dialouge instead of smashing up the car in question with a baseball bat :-)

NOTE: I picked up 'Ølfabrikken India Red Ale' and it is to die for.