Look at the number of new beers in Denmark over the years:
- 1999: 17
- 2000: 15
- 2001: 21
- 2002: 30
- 2003: 54
- 2004: 82
- 2005: 234
- 2006: 506
- 2007: 556
- 2008: 647
According to Peter Myrup Olesen, who has compiled the numbers, the rise is not likely to continue, so 2008 is probably the top.
If your read Danish, he has just started a blog that has ambitions to be truly comprehensive when covering the Danish beer scene. Try Babelfish if you are really curious!
One of the things I love about the online beer community is that many have found their own niches. Sure, we want informed writings about particular beers or pubs and rants about taxes and the stupidity of the big players in the business. But we are also lucky to have people willing to devote their time to document, either the present or, as in blogs like Ron’s and the Zythophile’s, the past.
Cheers to those who actually do some work here, while some of us is only in it for, well, the beer!
Thanks for the kind words.
Should point out that the above statistics is new Danish beers. Because it can be hard to believe – it’s just crazy what’s going on.
My blog is just starting up now and looks very basic right now – just pure text. In a months time it will much more interesting to look at.
I also got the beerticker.com domain. At some point in the future, I will probably start publishing select stories that has an interest in an international context there. Good example: in a day or two I will have a Mikkeller story on Beerticker.dk, I’m sure will have interest outside of Denmark.
Amazing that their are that many Danish brews. I’ll have to seek a few of them out.