Saturday 4 July 2009

Denmark Micro-tour - day 1

We're finally on our way. We (me, Jakob and Johan) have been talking about a new beer-trip since we drove to Belgium two years ago, and arrived home with the car so loaded with beer that it constantly scraped the asphalt... Anyway, we had a plan and that didn't work... We started out for Copenhagen, aiming to go to Vesterbro Brygghus, but they had changed opening-hours whch prompted us to change our route to Bryggeriet Apollo. Not bad, but I'm not very enamoured with this touristy brewery.

Then we took the train to Hilleröd to visit the brewery Broeckhouse, which turned out to be closed... Luckily I travel with positive and seasoned traveller so we simply walked to the town square, sat down at pub with local Danish micro-brewery beers. This turned out to be a really good thing, as we here for the first time got aquainted with the beers from the brewery Indslev. Beautiful, well-rounded beers which I will definitely come back to.

After this we took a new train to Vaerum to visit the brewery Skovlyst. This I called ahead and checked our table reservation for... Jumping off the train one stop ahead of schedule on the advice of some locals, we found ourselves walking through what turned out to be the oldest forest in Denmark, using Jakob's iPhone to direct us. After having been pleasently lost in this wilderness we found the brewery and sat down in the sun to their expansive grill-buffe. Tried their sampling of beers but I wasn't impressed, maybe because I had suffered a heavy allergic reaction all day and was by now pretty clogged up in the nasal department... Anyway, we finally headed back to Copenhagen for our hotel and I quickly got to bed, hoping for a non-allergic second day...

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