Subjective ramblings about beer, pubs and associated topics

Copenhagen interlude

The snow covered most of Europe North of the Alps last weekend. The lakes in Copenhagen , where the water reflects the sunshine so invitingly on a summer’s day were frozen, and on a Sunday morning the empty bottles from Saturday night littered the ice. Cold wind swept in, seemingly all the way from the Siberian tundra, and the people huddled in their coats.

 Luckily Copenhagen is filled with cafés where you can escape from the cold wind in the streets and the Swedish dopeheads filling the local trains. A very inviting place is Plan b in Frederiksborggade, close to Nørreport station. I had a splendid salad with turkey and lots of crunchy seeds and croutons on top. I had two beers I never tried before, first a Spring Bock from Bryghuset Braunstein. It started out with a rather mild taste, but then it opens up in the mouth – the flavour comes out when it gets warmer. A malty richness is there, but then it is ruthlessly kicked out by the hops. The Rug ( Rye ) IPA from Ølfabrikken was also a fine specimen. Rye beers are not very common, and it gives a special taste and grainy character to the beer. Combined with a generous use of hops as is proper in an IPA, the result is both successful and a pleasant variation on all the pastiches of famous beer styles.

 Both these beers are on tap, but they have a large range of bottled beers, too.

I have a feeling this café is more of a beer place in the evenings. On Sunday lunchtime it is more the domain of the female chattering classes of Copenhagen , and the tables are close, like an over furnished sitting room, so you might get more information about what happened last night than you really needed. But I found it rather charming. There is vintage vinyl on the turntable in the background. And the chattering girls are quite good looking!

Posted by: KnutAlbert at 11:15 | link | comments (1)
beer, denmark, ipa

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