Denmark Micro-tour - day 3

Our third day consisted of visiting the museum of Carlsberg, reading up on the history of one of the world's largest breweries and trying out some of the speciality beers of their smaller brewery Jacobsen (named after the founder of Carlsberg).

After that we headed back for a second try at getting a beer at the micro-brewery Vesterbro, which turned out to be closed on Sundays... Tried finding a pub with their beers, but finally ended up at a (choke) sportsbar at the trainstation... In pure desperation, when eyeing through the beer menue and finding that the only Danish beers were general, for me uninteresting, Carlsberg lagers, I gave up my resolution for this trip and ordered something not brewed in Denmark. As it turned out, they had a Belgian cloister beer, which was way too strong for the occasion but suited my mood after having been looking for the right pub/restaurant for what seemed to my starved body like ages.

After this we gave up, realising that in Denmark, contrary to Sweden nowdays, everything is closed on Sundays, and headed home.

In conclusion: the best Danish beers we tested were from the brewery Indslev, which I will look for in the future. Oh, and of course, we only scratched the surface of Danish micro-breweries, and will have occassion to come back here many times for new discoveries.

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...