Going to the beer festival in Copenhagen? So you thought the rather short opening hours of the festival meant you had some time to stroll along in the city, visit the Little Mermaid, visit the National Museum of Arts….
Nope.
Mikkel Borg Bjergsø, yes, that’s the Mikkel of Mikkeller fame, will open a beer bar. In Copenhagen. In early May. Obviously the Mikkeller beers, including rarities, will be prominently featured, but there will also be beers from his friends in the business: Scottish
BrewDog, Dutch Brouwerij de Molen, norske Nøgne Ø and Belgian De Struise Brouwers and De Dolle Brouwers. And American beers. And lambic on tap.
The precise opening date is not clear. The address is not public, either. But it will be on Vesterbro. Good thing I booked a room at Sct Thomas for the festival, then.
All this, except the hotel information, is stolen from beerticker.dk
That sounds like beer heaven! Copenhagen just got added, in thick marker pen, to the list of places to visit in the near future.
Come along to the festival if you can!
Great! I thought I was going to run out of places to visit in Copenhagen 😀
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Copenhagen Beer Festival? Hmm, I need an excuse. Perhaps I could take back the piece of the Danish parliament building I stole in 2003. Yes, that’ll do. I feel very bad about it.
When’s the festival Knut?!
6-8 May. A lovely time to be there. Just booked my ticket. See the blog post for hotel.
I’ll check my diary!
Can’t wait. This is shaping up to be a hectic few days. I still have to fit Plan B and BrewPub in somewhere.
I booked a flight for Friday morning!
Sounds like a Copenhagen Twissup might be in order. I’m in! If anyone’s interested we might be able to put together a tour of Carlsberg (or what’s left).
I can’t think of a bigger waste of precious time, Andrew 🙂
What, even if I can persuade them to throw in a few beers and a tour round the cellars?
Don’t mind him, Andrew. Sure he made me go on a Heineken tour when we were in Amsterdam. Sorry, I meant a Heineken experience. 😀
There are so many good places to go in Copenhagen, I’ll pass on Carlsberg. Maybe Nørrebro Bryghus instead?
I’m setting up an interview with Mikkel from Mikkeller on Friday. Should I ask him if we can pop round instead then?
Please do that. Perhaps we could have a special session in his new bar with him pouring beer and answering questions?
I could live with that…
I can think of worse ways to pass an afternoon
As I recall, Barry, we went to Heineken because we were too hungover to face beer.
And what, gentlemen, did you expect to face at Heineken if not beer?
Advertising, horses, and a personality cult that Kim Jong Il would describe as “a bit much”.
Oh yeah, I suppose that was part of it, TBN 😀
Knut, you can read about our experience here. It was actually pretty good, and if the Heineken you get in a bar or bottle was like the one they served in the tasting room, I’d be buying it!
I still giggle at the plaque that read “We are proud to be the world’s largest, independent brewery”.