I’ll be in Denmark and Northern Germany by the weekend! Leaving tomorrow. My wife has been to Denmark many times but this will be my first trip. We are going to tour the Carlsburg brewery in Copenhagen. I know that Northern Germany is not the same beer destination as Southern Germany, but does anyone have any Beer Destination “Musts” for Bamburg and surrounding area? Thanks!
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Hey, I was in copenhagen last year. i thoroughly enjoyed trying all the random “danish/baltic/strong porters/stouts” they had. i think willem’s was good enough that i had a couple of bottles on purpose. the craft beer was not my thing, basically just uninteresting attempts at american style pale ales/IPAs/etc and very expensive - though i was limited in drinking escapades due to dragging a kid around for it all. if you drink coffee, pack either instant or a small coffee V filter because coffee there is mediocre as hell and ranges from a low of $5 up to basically $9 for a COFFEE. i was feening badly
i thought it was a good solid beer city with some unique character. the water is super hard there, and i feel like i may have gotten touches of that in the beer.
if you’re going to bamberg, prolly try the expected - spezial and schlenkerla come to mind of course. i believe there are a lot of good museums there in fact, there is a duerer museum in nuremberg i hope to see some day, nuremberg has a lot of stuff i think
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, the first beer had had here tasted like they hadn’t cleaned the lines in Nyhavn and it was undrinkable and I didn’t drink it. lol! It was touristy area. we found a craft beer bar and they had an excellent sellecton of German and Belgian beers and I had a couple great ones. And, yes, the coffee is niot been great here, which was disappointing. No better than Starbucks. Went to Iceland earlied in the year and the coffee culture was phenomenal there.
We are going to HAMBURG – not Bamburg. I’ve found a few differnt spots I’m going to hit up. I love schlenkerla, but that won’t be one of them.
try some aquavit i guess, but just get a shot or the smallest sample size. it was very mediocre for me, just decent vodka with caraway - that’s it.
the people from there i was with didnt drink, so it was just me drinking a bit.
im going to london in 2 days, - any recommendations for beer there? - i am thinking of hitting the fuller’s brewery as i love fullers.
Actually found some great, incredible coffee in Denmark. Emmery’s was a chain with decent espresso (the Espresso House chain, OTOH was not so good). Roast was another. Visited their flagship roastery and the coffee was incredible (roasted on premise).
Had some terrible beer in Denmark. Almost every single draft beer I had tasted like they had no cleaned the lines. Bottled and canned beer was fine. I did pick up a bunch of bottkled Belgians at the local grocery–most of the stuff was stuff you could get in the states, except far, far fresher. I also got a Westvleteren 12 which was expenisve ($20 US per bottle) but super delicious.
The beer in Hamburg was all Pils and Helles with a few Dunkles. All very delicious. I didn’t have a bad beer in Germany. I had a slow-poured Paulener Oktoberfest several times. Drank at the Gröninger Brewery (Keller Pils which was outstanding and their Helles, only available in Bottles which was also delicious). Wife had a Wheat beer at the Gröninger brewery which, to me, tasted like it was brewed with lager yeast but not quite sure. Groninger Brewery is one of the oldest breweries in Germany with papers dating back to 1100!!!