Copenhagen Pub Guide
beer bars - pubs - brewpubs
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Introduction

Index
Copenhagen Beer Festival
Copenhagen pubs
Copenhagen pub map
Copenhagen beer shops
Danish pubs
Danish brewing industry
Danish beer styles
Danish Breweries
Faroe Breweries
Copenhagen: paradise regained?
I finally made it back to Copenhagen. The changes since my last visit were a shock, but for once a pleasant one.

On my last visit in the late 1990´s, there was very little decent beer, with the exception of a few locally-brewed porters. Mostly your choice was limited to Carlsberg or Tuborg pils.

The turning point came in 1998 with the foundation of Danske Ølentusiaster , Denmark´s beer consumers´organisation. Their success in attracting members and educating the public is an example to campaigners everywhere. Specialist beer bars began to appear: Charlie´s, Gulliver´s, Tatoverede Enke. At first they concentrated on imported British, Belgian or German beer. Not surprising, as there was very little Danish beer worth bothering with. But with consumer demand and retail outlets established, microbreweries followed. A trickle of craft beer turned into a flood.

In 2000, there were a mere 18 breweries, of which around half were controlled by Carlsberg or Royal Unibrew. In the last 7 years these have been joined by 80 new micronbreweries and brewpubs, leaving Denmark with an impressive 92 breweries for its 5 million people. That's the equivalent of 1100 breweries in the UK. Another 50 breweries are in the planning stage and there are 11 "breweries" who get their beer brewed elsewhere. The total should top 150 soon.

The reaction of local monopolist Carlsberg was surprising: they started microbrewing themselves. With their Semper Ardens series, they brewed beers aimed at the new, more discerning, type of beer drinker. Perfectly logical, you might say. But take a look at similar global brewers elsewhere. You don´t see Heineken or Inbev brewing an IPA or an Imperial Barley Wine.

Copenhagen pubs
The city now has half a dozen top-class beer bars, four brewpubs and several excellent specialist beer shops. Even the supermarkets have a good choice of quality beers, partly courtesy of Carlsberg who import Brooklyn Brewery´s full range. Most pubs have four or five beers on draught, though these are usually just Carlsberg´s mainstream efforts.

With beers from Belgium, Britain, the USA, Sweden, Germany and Norway, Copenhagen´s specialist outlets offer a breadth of choice rarely seen elsewhere. Your biggest problem is likely to be deciding where to start. I left each bar with a long list of beers I still wanted to try.

Copenhagen is becoming one of Europe´s top beer-drinking destinations. I think the credit goes to Danske Ølentusiaster - a very active and well-supported (over 10,000 members) organisation. Why not go and give them some support?
Copenhagen beer festival
Danske Ølentusiaster organise an annual beer festival in Copenhagen. This was the last edition:

Københavnske Øldage
Location:Valby Hallen
Date: 11th - 13th May 2007
Explanation
I was inspired to write my original guide by (and used as a source) an article in "Maltesen" the magazine of Svenska Ölfrämjandet. It was written by Bo Kallmar and detailed a couple of bars selling British cask-conditioned beer in Copenhagen. Very helpfully, it gave some useful tips on where to find more information on the web about drinking in Denmark.

The Nordic countries have always led the way in the information technology revolution (translation: they've all been wired up to the web for yonks). I blame those long winter nights. As you will see below, most of the pubs have their own website. The site of Danske Ølentusiaster is a mine of useful information: all the Danish breweries and the beers they brew; lists of specialist beer bars in different Danish towns. It puts the CAMRA site to shame. For a homebound researcher like myself, the computer literacy of these countries gives me easy access to a mass of accurate, up-to-date information.


Copenhagen Pub Guide
Pubs



Map Index


Restaurant Bohemia
Gothersgade 39
1139 København K
Tel: 33 9147 12 (after 17:00) or 24 44 75 79
Email: mail@goldprag.dk
http://www.goldprag.dk
 
Opening hours:Tue - Wed 17:00-23:30,
Thur - Fri 17:00 - 24:00,
Sunday and Monday closed
Number of draught beers:4
Number of bottled beers: +-15
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks 25 - 60 DEK, meals 90 - 150 DEK. Beer 40 DEKfor 0.5l.

Czech pub/ restaurant, selling a good range ofCzech beer both draught and bottled.
Rating: Public transport:


Bryggeriet Apollo
Vesterbrogade 3,
1620 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 12 33 13
Email: apollo@a-h-b.dk
Homepage: www.bryggeriet.dk/apollo
Opening hours: Mon-Thu 10:00-01:10,
Fri-Sat 10:00-02:00,
Sun & public holidays 15:00-24:00
Number of draught beers: 2
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
  • Apollo Pilsner 4.6% (unfiltered)
  • seasonal special beer (i.e IPA, Irish Stout)
Food: Snacks, meals.
Bryggeriet ApolloI'm back in known territory here. I've drunk in (and outside) the Apollo several times. Brewpubs haven't caught on in Denmark as they have elsewhere and this is one of a rare breed. They've got some staying power, having been around since 1989. Admittedly, their location, adjacent to the entrance to the Tivoli, can't have done their business any harm. No shortage of passing trade here.

It's a modern, low building which is very light inside from all the glass walls. Though the exterior is very contemporary in its design and choice of textures, inside there is considerable use of more natural materials such as exposed brickwork and, of course, the ubiquitous pine furniture.

Downstairs in the cellar, is a large room fitted out with long tables and benches. Outside on the street, which happens to be one of Copenhagen's main thoroughfares, there is ample seating. Somehow, on a mild, sunny day, the egotists spitting out noise pollution from their motor vehicles just aren't as irritating as they ought to be.

The copper brewing vessels are located inside the drinking areas. They are reputed to have bought their equipment from the DDR in 1989. If I correctly recall the East German way of engineering, they should last a century or two.

There is only one regular brew, a reasonable, if slightly dull, beer in the pils style. The other seasonal and one-off beers have been much more interesting - a tasty stout of a very respectable strength comes to mind. The brewer has shown an admirable commitment to experimenting with different styles..

In a country where craft brewing is such a tiny section of the market, it's obviously worth checking out one of the rare examples. The company in charge here runs a similar establishment in Århus.

I apologise for the low quality of the photos of this pub. I know I have decent ones somewhere, but keeping my archive in any sort of order is becoming a major problem. I have a simple proposal - extend the day to 48 hours and I'll have time enough to fulfill all my commitments.
Rating: ** Public transport:


BrewPub København
Vestergade 29,
1456 København K.
Tel.: 33 32 00 60
http://www.brewpub.dk/
Opening hours: Mon - Wed 12:00 - 24:00,
Thur - Sat 12:00 - 02:00
Number of draught beers: 11
Number of bottled beers: 30
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals. Beer 45-50 DEK per pint.
A brewpub which opened in Spring 2005. Not far from Copenhagen's main station.

Even before we'd left Zum Biergarten, I suspected Mike wasn't going to be quite so happy with our next destination. He was convinced BrewPub was going to have the sort of American-influenced beers he hates. The place has a funny layout. There's no entrance on the street. You have to enter through a courtyard beer garden, down a set of stairs. We're both getting on a bit, so it took us a while to work out. Even then, we only managed it with the help of a sign with a big arrow. Fading faculties and all that.

Inside it was modern and a bit trendier than my inner trendometer can bear. But we weren't going to be spending the rest of our lives there. While Mike was trying to work out which was the least American of their beers, I just ordered the strongest. At least you'll get a good whack of alcohol, whatever the failings of the beer itself. UngStrups Reserve was billed as a smoked Barley Wine of 10.3% ABV. The smoke was of the iodine type, more like an Islay whisky than a Bamberg Rauchbier. I guess they must use peated malt. I thought it was pretty good, reminiscent of Lagavullin. Mike hated it for exactly the same reason I loved it, the iodine flavour. Not that I would have drunk a second.
Rating: *** Public transport:


Byens Kro
Møntergade 8,
1116 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 12 55 89
Fax:
Homepage: www.byenskro.dk
 
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 15:00-02:00
Number of draught beers: 3
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
It's an art to create a website that contains pretty much none of the information that anyone interested in your business would want to know. For that reason, it was a marginal decision to include this pub. I would dearly love some more definite information about their beer selection. With a touch of good fortune, they may even liven up their site a little.

What little I know of their beer, is that it includes Tuborg, the good one from Svaneke Bryghus and Thisted Bryghus and something very new from the restarted Ørbæk Bryggeri.
Rating: Public transport:


Charlie's Bar
Pilestræde 33,
1112 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 32 22 89
Fax:
Homepage: http://www.charlies.dk/
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 12:00 - 24:00
Number of draught beers: 16 (including 6 cask ales)
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
Charlie's Bar is on a side street of Strøget, Copenhagen's main pedestrianised shopping street, right in the centre of town.

I'm not easily moved, but the sight of a bank of 6 handpumps brought a tear to my cynical eye. Just to prove they're really used,the ceiling is covered in pump clips. It's surprisingly pub-like in feel. I say surprisingly, because few supposedly English pubs ever get vaguely close to the genuine atmosphere. That includes most contemporary British pubs.

On the way to the toilets you can admire the casks, piled up in glass display cases. Shortage of space, you know.

Obviously the emphasis is on British cask ales, but Danish micros also get a look in.

The proprietor, Iain Russel, also owns The Wharf in Ålborg. Both have Cask Marque accreditation.
Rating: ***** Public transport:


Den Tatoverede Enke
Baron Boltens Gaard Gothersgade 8B,
1123 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 91 88 77
Fax:
Homepage: www.dentatoveredeenke.dk
Opening hours: Mon 16:00-24:00,
Tue-Thu 16:00-01:00,
Fri-Sat 16:00-02:00,
Sunday closed
Number of draught beers: 16
Number of bottled beers: 65
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals 299 DEK for a 4-course menu, draught (Belgian) beer is 28-45 DEK for 0.25 or 0.33l.
This pub is hidden away in a courtyard (Baron Boltens Gaard) which you enter from Gothersgade 8B. That's why the street address looks so long. Inside it pretty modern and stylish. Looks pretty modern and stylish inside. As you can see from the draught beer list, it concentrates on Belgian beers. Though I guess that the prices would be a bit of a shock to anyone visiting from Belgium.

As if the cosy bar wasn't enough, upstairs there's a a far larger and more elegant restaurant. It majors on beer cuisine and easily matches the standard of most similar Belgian establishments. There's a beer menu designed to complement the set menu, but it's possible to eat and drink a la carte, should you so wish. I advise anyone visiting Copenhagen to eat here at least once.

The bottled beers include 13 traditional lambics! There are about another 50 Belgian beers including such good ones as: Westvleteren, Achel, Moinette and Caracole. It's a selection of beers that you would be hard pressed to find in anything but the most specialised café in Belgium.
Rating: ***** Public transport:


Færgekroen
Vesterbrogade 3,
1630 København V (Copenhagen).
Tel: 33 12 94 12
Fax: 33 93 59 77
Email: faergekroen@babel.dk
http://www.faergekroen.dk/
 
Opening hours: Mon - Sun 12:00-19:00
Number of draught beers: 2
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks 50-100 DEK, meals 150-200 DEK.
A new brewpub inside Tivoli.
Rating: Public transport:


Hviids Vinstue
Kongens Nytorv 19 kld.,
1050 København K.
Tel.: 33 15 10 64
Fax: 33 15 10 64
Email: hviids@mail.tele.dk
http://www.hviidsvinstue.dk/
 
Opening hours: Sun - Thur 10:00 - 01:00,
Fri -Sat 10:00 - 02:00
Number of draught beers: 2
Number of bottled beers: +-25
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
A cellar bar which was founded in 1723.
Rating: Public transport:


Izbushka
Rømersgade 9,
1362 København K
Tel: 3312 8105
Fax:
Email: info@izbushka.dk
http://www.izbushka.dk
 
Opening hours: Wed - Mon 17:00 - 22:00,
Thursday closed
Number of draught beers: 0
Number of bottled beers: 4
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks 20-60 DEK, 50-180 DEK meals. Beer 29-39 DEK for 0.5l
A Russian restaurant that also sells Russian drinks. It has 11 vodkas, 5 champagnes, 6 brandies. And 4 beers, from Zhiguliovskoye and Baltika.
Rating: Public transport:


Kareten
Hollænderdybet 1,
2300 København S.
Tel: 3254 9550
Fax:
Email: info@kareten.dk
http://www.kareten.dk/
 
Opening hours: Mon - Sat 17:00 - 23:00,
Sun 17:00 - 22:30.
Number of draught beers: 12
Number of bottled beers: 70
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks 60-80 DEK, meals 130-250 DEK.
A fairly posh restaurant in a nice old building. It also has 90 single malt whiskies.
Rating: Public transport:


Mikkeller Bar
Viktoriagade No. 8 B-C,
København 11655.
Tel:
Fax:
Email: bar@mikkeller.dk
http://www.mcgonigle.dk/
Mikkeller Bar outside
Opening hours: Sun - Wed 15:00 - 24:00,
Thur-Fri: 14:00 - 02:00,
Sat: 12:00 - 02:00
Number of draught beers: 20
Number of bottled beers: +-100
Regular draught beers:
Food: Beer 38-45 DEK for 0.5l
Owned by gypsy brewer Mikkeller, this pub sells 10 of theri own plus 10 guests on draught.


Rating: Public transport:


Lord Nelson
Hyskenstræde 9,
1207 Copenhagen K.
Tel: 33 93 93 94
www.lordnelson.dk
 
Opening hours: Mon - Thurs 16.00 - 24.00,
Fri 13.00 - 24.00,
Sat 12.00 - 24.00
Number of draught beers: 12 (all Danish)
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food:
Copenhagen's newest specialist beer bar. It features beer from Danish micros Brøckhouse, Ørbæk, Herslev and Ølfabrikken.

Not an imitation English pub!!!
Rating: Public transport:


Nørrebro Bryghus
Ryesgade 3,
2100 Copenhagen.
Tel: 3530 0530
Fax: 3530 0531
Email: info@noerrebrobryghus.dk
Homepage: http://www.noerrebrobryghus.dk
 
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 11:00-24:00
Thu & Sun 11:00-24:00 (Winter), Fri - Sat 11:00-02:00
Number of draught beers:
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
Prices:Beer 55 DEK 40 cl., food 175 - 350 DEK (3 or 4 course meal)
Nørrebro Bryghus is a brewpub housed in a 19th century metal factory. It's located, as the name suggests, in the northern Copenhagen suburb of Nørrebro.

The pub is spread over two floors and there is also an outside seating area in the Summer. It sells a range of Belgian, French, German and Czech beer in addition to those brewed in-house. The selection of French Biere de Garde is a particularly unusual find in this part of the world.

They've brewed beers in some interesting styles - tripel IPA, Abbey Dubbel , a framboise, a Vienna style amber lager. An ecelctic bunch, the brewers have drawn inspiration form Bohemia, Belgium, Britain and the USA.
Rating: **** Public transport:


Ølsnedkeren
Griffenfeldsgade 52,
2200 København N.
Tel: 22 55 28 70
http://olsnedkeren.dk/
 
Opening hours:Thur-Wed: 19:00-01:00,
Thur-Sat: 15:00-03:00
Number of draught beers: 8
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food:
Brewpub.
Rating: Public transport:


Tap10
Vesterbrogade 2B,
1620 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 32 19 21
Fax: 33 32 19 21
Email: theoldenglishpub@mail.dk
Homepage: www.oldenglishpub.dk
TAP10 Copenhagen
Opening hours:Tue - Wed 15:00-22:00,
Thur 15:00-01:00,
Fri 14:00-02:00,
Sat 12:00-02:00,
Sun 12:00-20:00
Number of draught beers: 10
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food:
TAP10 Copenhagen insideA small, cosy specialist beer bar in the northeast of the city.
Rating: **** Public transport:


Ølbaren
Elmegade 2,
2200 Copenhagen.
Tel: 3535 4534
Fax:
Email: mail@oelbaren.dk
Homepage: http://oelbaren.dk/
 
Opening hours: Tue,Wed, Thur and Sat 16.00 - 01.00,
Fri 15.00 - 01.00,
Sun and Mon closed
Number of draught beers: 8
Number of bottled beers: 85
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
Prices:Beer 35 - 48 DEK 50 cl.
I love the red neon sign that simply says "Øl". A specialist beer bar with some interesting beers from Danish micros on draught. In the Nørrebro area of town.

The bottled selection has beers from Belgium, Britain, Germany, and Czech Republic.
Rating: Public transport:


Cafè & Øl-halle 1892 (in Arbejdermuseet)
Rømersgade 22,
1362 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 93 25 75
Email: am@arbejdermuseet.dk
Homepage: www.arbejdermuseet.dk
 
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 11:30 - 16:00 (closed on Mondays November - June)
Number of draught beers: 1
Number of bottled beers: 10
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
If I ever get to Copenhagen again, this is top of my list of places to visit. I had no idea that such an interesting spot existed in the city centre. This restored beerhall from the end of the 19th century is housed in the Arbejdermuseet (Workers' Museum). The building was erected as the Workers' Building in 1879, a sort of early socialist effort to improve the lot of the working class. They've even got a statue of Lenin (I do hope that it's in his renowned taxi-hailing pose). In its authentic atmosphere you can enjoy traditional Danish food and drink a selection of foreign beer (I'm sounding like a advert here, sorry for the inspirational breakdown).

Luckily, they have a Danish beer too. Very much in the spirit of the surroundings is the "Stjerne Pilsner" (Star). A recreation of a beer from the cooperative "The Workers' Brewery Stjernen".The bottles use the original label from 1947. It's brewed by Fuglsang. There's a small selection of Belgian bottled beer including Duvel, Chimay Blue and Leffe Blonde and Brune.

It's possible to hire the hall for functions.

Note that the beer hall can be entered directly from the street, without visiting the museum.
Rating: Public transport:


Ørsted Ølbar & cafe
Nørre Farimagsgade 13,
1364 København K.
Tel: 3393 6575
Fax:
Email: info@oerstedoelbar.dk
http://oerstedoelbar.dk
 
Opening hours: Mon - Tue 13:00 - 01:00,
Wed - Thur 13:00 - 02:00,
Fri - Sat 13:00 - 03:00,
Sun 14:00 - 24:00
Number of draught beers: 14
Number of bottled beers: 110
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks.
Specialist beer pub with stuff from Denamrk, Norway, Germany, USA, Britain and the Czech Republic.
Rating: Public transport:


Fermentoren
Halmtorvet 29C,
1700 København v, Denmark
23 90 86 77
 
Opening hours:Sun - Thur 15:00-24:00,
Fri - Sat 15:00-02:00
Number of draught beers: 20
Number of bottled beers: 50
Regular draught beers:
Food:
Prices:
A specialist beer bar.
Rating:
Public transport:


Pegasus
Mysundegade 28,
1668 København V.
Tel: 33 31 80 50
Email: info@pegasus-cph.dk
http://www.pegasus-cph.dk/
Opening hours: Mon-Wed 17.00-23.00,
Thur 17.00-01.00,
Fri 17.00-02.00,
Sat 17.00-02.00,
Sun 17.00-23.00
Number of draught beers: 12
Number of bottled beers: +-100
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks.
Somewhere I would have walked past. It looks very much like what it used to be - a wine bar - from the outside. A new owner has added an impressive selection of beer.

Inside is a two-room boozer with exposed brick walls. Its a lot cosier than it sounds. The friendly staff make it feel even warmer.

The beers are a good mx of Belgian classics, Danish microbrewsw and a few from the other major brewing nations.
Rating: **** Public transport:


Restaurant Sankt Nikolai
Nikolajgade 18,
1068 København.
Tel: 33 13 02 51
Email: info@sanktnikolai.dk
http://www.sanktnikolai.dk/
 
Opening hours: Restaurant: Tue - Sat 11:30 - 15:00;
Pub: Mon - Sun 16:00 - 24:00
Number of draught beers: 9
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals. Beer 55 DEK for 0.5l.
A pub/restaurant just off Strøget. It operates as a restuarant at lunchtime and as a pub in the evening.
Rating: Public transport:


Cafè Sommersko
Kronprinsensgade 6,
1114 Copenhagen.
Tel. 33 14 81 89
Fax:
Homepage: www.sommersko.dk
Jernbane Cafe
Opening hours: Mon-Wed 08:00-24:00,
Thu 08:00-01:00,
Fri 08:00-02:00,
Sat 09:00-02:00,
Sun 10:00-24:00
Number of draught beers: 7
Number of bottled beers: 30
Regular draught beers:
Food: Snacks, meals.
This is the first pub I can remember encountering with different opening hours for nearly every day. Either very oriented to consumer demand or just run by awkward buggers. The interior is quite a large and spacious, modern-looking pub, with a chrome bar and red benches along the walls. (If you want to get a clearer image than whatever my inadequate prose can conjure up, go to their website, where you can get a 360º degree view.) The photo above has no connection at all with Sommersko, it's just I great beer sign I once spotted on a pub in Copenhagen (if you look very closely you can work out that it's probably called Jernbane Cafe).

The draught beer selection is only interesting if you're after local stuff or have never visited the Low Countries. Bottled they've got some obvious Czech and German beers, coupled with some others from Belgium.

Nothing greatly exciting, but it sounds as if this is the sort of place you would be likely to find the more specialist and experimental beers from Carlsberg. In recent years they've done weird things like brew a Belgian style abbey dubbel. It was top-fermented and the accounts that I have read of it have been generally very positive. Note that they have two guest taps - you could strike really lucky (or be drinking some sickly påskebryg, if you get your timing wrong).

If anyone out there in Denmark can correct my wild speculations please E-mail me here. I want to positively encourage you to point out exactly where, and how much, crap I am talking.
Rating: Public transport:


Taphouse
Lavendelstræde 15,
1462 København.
http://taphouse.dk/
Tel: 88 87 65 43
 
Opening hours: Mon 15:00-24:00,
Tue-Thur 15:00-02:00,
Fri - Sat 12:00-03:00,
Sun 12:00-24:00
Number of draught beers: 61
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Prices: Snacks Beer 55-75 DEK for 40 cl.
Pub with a large selection of draught beer.
Rating: Public transport:


Vinstue 90 (90´eren)
Gammel Kongevej 90,
1850 Frederiksberg C.
Tel.: 3331 8490
 
Opening hours: Sun - Wed 11:00-01:00,
Thur - Sat 11:00-02:00
Number of draught beers:
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
  • Carlsberg fadøl
Food:
A pub dating from 1916 that is famous for the way it pours draught Carlsberg. Very slowly, basically, so the at it contains rather less CO2 than you usually get with keg beer.
Rating: Public transport:


Warpigs
Flæsketorvet 25,
1711 København V, Denmark
http://warpigs.dk/
WarPigs outside
Opening hours:Mon - Thur 11:30-24:00,
Fri - Sat 11:00-24:00,
Sun 11:00-22:00
Number of draught beers: 20
Number of bottled beers:
Regular draught beers:
Food: None.

WarPigs insideIt’s too early to check in, so I dump my bags at the hotel and head out for beer. Many of the beer places don’t open until later in the afternoon. But War Pigs, the new Mikkeller/3 Floyds brewpub opens early. And it’s just around the corner. I get there at 1 PM.

Looks like this was some sort of wholesale meat market. Now it’s full of trendiness. Though opposite still seems to be some sort of meat wholesaler.

20 draught beers in all. It’s pretty quiet. Almost as many staff as customers.

I nipped into a cheap supermarket and got myself some rolls, cheese and water. And 2 bottles of Limfjords Porter. It’s a cracking beer and only 17 crowns for a half litre.

It’s great – not one thing I need to do today. I’m free to wander around and drink as I please. And to take notes and snaps. Though when will I use the notes? I haven’t finished writing up my last US trip yet. Doubling the length (unwittingly) of my blog posts hasn’t helped. Insisting on a real post each day is killing me.

Seem to be some Americans working here. I guess that’s the 3 Floyds connection.

I’m surprised that I could understand some of the Danish announcements on the train. Really should practice reading Danish more. I’m going to need that skill tomorrow at Carlsberg. You can’t believe how excited I am at a day with the run of their archives. They seem a friendly bunch there from our email conversations.

I’m writing this on the back of a pub guide I put together for myself. Some taken from my Copenhagen Pub Guide web page. But that’s getting dated, so I nicked some places from RateBeer.

Just remembered that I forgot to email my next BeerAdvocate column yesterday. Have to wait until Monday now. The 2nd 1,000 words about Berliner Weisse. And that only took me to the 1970’s. I could easily have written another 2 – 3,0000 words. Just as well, because I need to do that. For my Brettanomyces Festival talk next month.

Shit. More stuff I need to write. Shouldn’t think about stuff like that. I’m supposed to be relaxing.

The brewkit looks about 20 hl to me. Only the brewhouse is in the pub. The fermenters are in another room. Looks like the conicals are 20 hl, too. In the US the fermenters are usually double the brew length.

On Beer Advocate they noticed I get a name check in the new BJCP guidelines. Some thought it odd – had I turned to the Dark Side. Not really. I was asked politely for my opinion and I gave it. I like to think that I helped improve the Czech styles.

Beards and tattoos – do they define this decade? I’m proudly clean-shaven and uninked.

Quarter pound of brisket, quarter pound of pork shoulder, small potato salad. I’m stuffed – for about 20 euros. Not too crazy.

I think this is about my sixth time in Copenhagen. The beer scene has changed so much. Back in the 1980’s draught beer was almost unknown. Almost everything was 33 cl bottles of Carlsberg and Tuborg. Thankfully the Porter was tasty, strong and, for the ABV, not that expensive.


Rating: **** Public transport:


Copenhagen Pub Guide
Beer shops


Ølbutikken
Oehlenschlægersgade 2,
1663 København V.
http://www.olbutikken.dk/
Opening hours: Wed 15:00 -19:00,
Thur - Fri 14:00 -19:00,
Sat 11:00 -15:00,
Monday, Tuesday and Sunday closed.
Number of draught beers: 0
Number of bottled beers: +-200
Regular draught beers:
Food:
Beer shop with a selection of Danish, Belgian, British and German beers.
Rating: ***** Public transport:


BarleyWine
Læderstræde 16,
1201 København K.
Tel. 33 91 93 97
Email: bestil@barleywine
www.barleywine.dk
 
Opening hours: Tue - Sat 12:00 - 18:00,
Sunday and Monday closed.
Number of draught beers:
Number of bottled beers: +-200
Regular draught beers:
Food:
Shop selling beer Belgium, Germany, England, and Holland, as well as from Danish microbreweries.
Rating: Public transport:


Høkeren
Ravnsborggade 13,
København.
Tel.: 35 35 32 44
http://www.hokeren.dk/
 
Opening hours: Mon 11:00 -17:30,
Tue - Thur 11:00 -18:00,
Fri 11:00 -19:00,
Sat 10:00 -15:00,
Sunday closed
Number of draught beers:
Number of bottled beers: +-100
Regular draught beers:
Food:
Shop with a selection of beer from small Danish, British and Belgian breweries.
Rating: Public transport:


Fish & Beer
Amagerbrogade 143,
2300 Copenhagen.
Tel: 3255 8604
Fax:
Email: nalarsen@get2net.dk
http://www.fish-n-beer.dk/
 
Opening hours: Mon - Thur 11:00 - 18:00,
Fri 11:00 - 19:00,
Sat 10:00 - 15:00,
Sunday closed
Number of draught beers: 0
Number of bottled beers: 300
Regular draught beers:
Food:
A shop which, for some bizarre reason, sells fish as well as beer. Maybe I'm missing something.
Rating: Public transport:


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