Beers from Denmark

I've already posted one beer Jeff enjoyed in Denmark, but here are a few more.

He was disappointed not to find Mikkeller initally when we went to the nearby grocery store, but he certainly found some other beers to try.

(He did end up finding Mikkeller beer later and brought some home).

Hefe-weizen Svane Hvede

Brewery: Indslev Bryggeri

He enjoyed this beer with rye bread and sausages. He didn't realize the beer wasn't filtered, so that last bit was a bit yeasty. 

The brewery's website says Indslev Bryggeri is the only brewery in Denmark that specialies exclusively in brewing wheat beer.

"We do not use as much hops as many other breweries, but focus more on the malt." 

Jeff said he was a fan of the beer and knew it wasn't a hoppy one going in.

Willemoes Porter

Brewery: Vestfyen

"I seem to remember it being really sweet," Jeff said of this beer. "A lot of molasses or something."

But still, he said he liked it.

This brewery, Vestfyen, has a number of different beers. Willemoes Porter has an alcohol content of 9.8% vol. 

The beer is described on the website as, "Munich malt, caramel malt, chocolate malt, colour malt, slightly smoked malt. Warrior hops, surgar and mised with liqourice."

Sounds tasty!

Kalapojser 

Brewery: Pladderballa Bryghus

His last beer, but because it wasn't his favourite, I'm posting it in the middle of this post. 

"It tastes almost gritty," he wrote on Facebook after drinking this beer.

This one is a traditional brown ale, the website says, which is unfiltered and unpasteurized and fermented in the bottle.

Jackie Brown

Brewery: Mikkeller

"Good, not great," Jeff wrote. "They can't all be Draft Beer."

(We'll get to Draft Beer in a moment).

The Jackie Brown is, no surprise, a brown ale and has hints of chocolate, coffee and licorice. RateBeer.com gives it a score of 97 overall.

Draft Beer

Brewery: Mikkeller

"They had to give it such a boring name because they used up all the awesome on the flavour," Jeff wrote, before adding the hashtag, "#ZOMG."

I guess he liked it.

BeerAdvocate.com says this is an American double imperial pilsner. It had a good score from BA reviewers with 89, but The Bros gave it 100 (aka World Class). In fact, the BeerAdvocate review says this beer is "giving the bird to the ho-hum lagers."