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Tandleman's Random and Particular Thoughts on Beer.
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I tried a few beers from Svaneke at the Copenhagen beer festival in 2008, and met the brewer. I was impressed that when I asked him which beer he was most proud of, he forsook his imperial stout and very good American-style pale ale for his Sejlor Ol (Sailor Beer), a 3.5%abv lager that you can drink all day and still be able to sail a yacht.
The label is in the shape of the island of Bornholm, which has such a romantic attachment for the Danes that, in the words of the Svaneke brewer "you could stick a picture of it on a piece of shit and the Danes would buy it".
I liked him and his beers.
I've tried the Svaneke Stout and their Choko Stout. Neither really did it for me, with the former being a little sugary, and the latter being more like cherries. Weird. Still, wouldn't stop me trying more of their stuff!
I drank a delicious crisp Danish beer recently. It had a sweetness on the back of the tongue and a delicacy of hop. Carlsberg Export I think it was called. Try one.
You mean a crisp Northampton beer I think Cookie.
Svaneke are pretty decent beers from the half dozen I've had, nothing to get a Ratebeerian frothing but I've liked them all in a kind of easy-going, malty way.
Denmark is one of the foremost European brewing countries at present if you like hops...!
Drag them with you in April and we'll "analyze" them for you.
kro 2 by the bbc have a Danish beer tasting night this Wednesday
from 8pm beer & food & talk ? £20 or £22 on the door
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