"Ironic is the fact that the more interested I get in beer, the less I drink of it. In my younger days I drank a lot, but was not ready to learn about good and great beer."
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We are in the 7th place, even though we have high taxes.
Forbes reports that: "Taxes are apparently just a small piece of the picture. When Denmark turned to higher alcohol taxes a decade ago, the result was only a limited drop in demand. The country still ranks seventh in per capita alcohol consumption worldwide, at 11.5 liters per year."
Ølfestivallen this year was bigger and better than ever (amazing how Danish Beer Enthusiasts can achieve that year after year). The selection was broader and better than ever, and also for weird combination.
At the Mybeer booth I made a detour from beer. Ultraprés was served warm in small 2cl glases with a shot of whipped cream. It was sweet and the experience had noting to do with beer, ewww. Their own tagline is "don't take our word for io, ask someone who have tried it" - I just wish that I had. It was not unpleasant, but totally wrong.
Although the experince at Mybeer was bad, it has nothing to do with me not liking sweet beer. One of the good ones was Quadrupel 11% vol. from Ølfabrikken. This is an intense beer is brewed with pilsner malt and caramel syrup and with a belgian yeast. This beer is special and is only served at special occasions, after being stored for at least a year. Although my expectations were high, they where all met at the Ølfabrikken booth.
While being totally in the sportligt for brewing excellent beer Mikkeller did not excite me as expected. I tried a couple of beers from them. For instance their X Hop Juice 2007 IBU a hoppy ale with 5% vol. Probably the most hoppy beer in the world, and so what? While I HAD to try it, it was fun, but not an interesting beer apart from the fact that it had a teoretical IBU of 2007. That said, Mikkeller make great beer, and the brewer also works for Ølfabrikken (Note: Ølfabrikken is restructuring so who knows who works there today).
Greenland Brewhouse served musk ox saussage on toast. A very pleasant experience together with their Artic Ale a nice barley wine with 9% vol. although it would go better with good cheeses.
Pssst! Don't tell anyone... but I liked the Radler served at Gourmetbryggeriet. In the mountains of Germany and Austria, the bicyclists (Radler in German) need a good refreshment, and a little energy after a long climb up a mountain road in the blazing, humid weather, but they also need the soberness and strength to return home, down the long, steep hills. From these excursions has developed the concept of a beer and lemon-lime (actually Zitronenlimonade in German) mixture in Germany and Austria, the Radler and the Russ, basically the same as the Shandy in England. The Radler is a normal Munich "Helles" or a pilsner-style beer such as Zipfer mixed with 1/2 lemon-lime soda, and the Russ is a mixture of 1/2 Weizenbier, such as Edelweiß Hefetrüb, and 1/2 lemon-lime soda, - refreshing, relaxing, and enjoyable. At the Gourmetbryggeriet booth it was served with 70% beer and 30% lemonade.
Australians, long regarded as a nation of beer drinkers rivalled only by the Germans, seem to be turning soft, or sober.
VB, with its distinctive green label, has since 1894 been a staple of hard-drinking backyard barbecues, student revels and football games, not to mention healthy overseas exports. Now brewer Foster's has decided for the first time to produce the beer in a weaker yellow-label version with 3,5%, down from 5%, as Australians abandon it.
Smaller brewers such as Cascade, Boag's and James Squire have won huge followings in most city pubs as Australia's fledgling boutique brewing industry expands, while so-called microbreweries such as Little Creatures, Mountain Goat and Blue Tongue have lured drinkers away from VB by the thousands.
While being a hop-head, I like the dark and weaker beer from the Chezh republic, with an average 3,8% alcohol, so I look forward to test the VB yellow-label.
Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
The turbo tap poors a complete pint of beer in just under 2 seconds with just the right amount of head. It's unique, patented system taps in to a bars existing beer lines and pulls the beer out in record time.
Though they sell mostly systems for pro they also offer home systems for sale.
Video1 – the inventor tells about being an entrepreneur.
Video2 – speed test of a normal faucet compared to TurboTap.
This is an amazing device that attaches to any normal beer faucet. It can pour a beer four times faster than the common faucet. You also yield more beers off every keg, with less beer going to be foam. It pays for itself, this thing is revolutionary in the world of beer drinking and sales. For more info go to TurboTap.com
I just wanted to share this lovely lady, promoting craft brew with you. It is a Sexy Troegs ad where a this hot girl in a bikini keeps burping and farting cause its 'natural'.
In Denmark there is Tuborg (not quite as natural) also with daring commercials. In fact beer commercials on televison is not allowed in Denmark, but you can see them in movie theathers.
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