BrewPub Atlantic

Name: BrewPub Atlantic
Country: Denmark
Media: Tap
Type: IPA

Appearance: average off-white head, good lacing, clear body, red hue

Aroma: heavy hoppy with some citrus and a flowery scent

Flavor: moderatelly bitter initial flavor, heavy bitter flavor, average duration

Palate: medium body, oily/creamy texture, soft carbonation, light astringent finish

Overall: A very bitter IPA, clearly something I will want to drink again

Grade: 14

Place/date: BrewPub, Copenhagen - 4 june 2009

BrewPub SummerWeisse

Name: BrewPub
Country: Denmark
Media: Tap
Type: Weissbier

Appearance: small white head, virtually no lacing, cloudy body, yellow hue

Aroma: moderatelly hoppy with a lot of citrus, some grappe/raisin

Flavor: moderatelly acidic initial flavor, heavy bitter flavor, average duration

Palate: medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, some astringent finish

Overall: more acidic than Hoegaarden, but a very nice wheatbeer, perfect for a hot summer's day

Grade: 13

Place/date: BrewPub, Copenhagen - 3
4 june 2009

Brewpub

Name: BrewPub
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Adress: Västergaede 29
Type: Brewery and restaurant/pub

Another beautiful brewpub in Denmark, situated in a quiet courtyard just a stones throw from the very central Rådhustorget. You can buy a sample of five of their beers, but for a full taste I recommend to atleast to try a smaller glas of the most interesting ones. Problem is that most beers in this brewery are interesting...

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...

Skovlyst's ölsymfoni

At Skovlyst I tried their Ölsymfonie (Beer symphonie), which is the name of a sampling of their beers. There's two different, and I tried the one with the Pilsner, the Brown Ale, the Tripple Blonde and the Fruit beer. Of these, surprisingly, I liked the pilsner, BirkeBryg, best, as it was well rounded and had a full body, for a pilsner. The tripple blonde was a bit harsh and not as balanced as it's Belgian counterparts, and the same can be said about the brown ale. And the seasonal fruit beer was also too harsh and tasted more like a British cider. All in all I was, sadly, not impressed.

Bryggeri Skovlyst

Name: Bryggeri Skovlyst
Place: Hareskovby, Denmark
Adress: Skovlystevej 2
Type: Brewery and restaurant

Beautifully situated on the edge of an untouched woodland. Established in 2004 and built in a rustic style, it is a cosy place with a large outside . Perfect for a summer's evening when they serve a large grille buffe. You can order two different sample trays with four beers in each, which makes up the brewerie's total amount of beers.

Indslev Hvede Bock

Name: Indslev Hvede Bock
Country: Denmark
Media: Tap
Type: Wiessbier Bock

Appearance: small off-white head, ecellent lacing, murky body, dark brown hue

Aroma: heavy malty, dark bread, soap, smoke, toffee

Flavor: moderatelly sweet and acidic initial flavor, moderate to heavy bitter flavor, long duration

Palate: medium body, watery and oily texture, soft carbonation, heavy alchoholic finish

Overall: beautiful combination of wheat and bock, a bit meak in the palate

Grade: 15

Bryggeri Apollo

Name: Bryggeri Apollo
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Adress: Vesterbrogade 3
Type: Micro-brewery and restaurant/pub

Copenhagen's oldest micro-brewery. A bit pricy and very much geared towards tourists visiting Tivoli (which is just next door). I have yet to get a really interesting beer here... They are all acomplished, but a bit uninspired for my taste.

Apollo Mørk Weissbier

Name: Apollo Mørk Weissbier
Country: Denmark
Media: Tap
Type: Weissbier

Appearance: small off-white head, cloudy with small particles, amber-coloured

Aroma: moderatelly malty and yeasty, grapefruit and apple

Flavor: light acidic initial flavor, light bitter finish

Palate: medium body, dry and watery texture, soft carbonation and metallic finish

Overall: slightly winy, fresh but not enough body

Grade: 10

Place/date: Bryggeriet Appllo, Copenhagen - 3 june 2009

Testing, testing

Here's the system I will use when reviewing beer. Sent via my phone as a test before the trip:

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