travelgourmet

<i>Enamel signs for Tuborg lager used to be common in England in the early 60s. I think they were left over from the thirties, or perhaps earlier, because I never actually saw any bottles of the stuff, and lager was not widely drunk anyway. For that reason, I tried some on a recent visit to Copenhagen, in preference to Carlsberg.</i>

The funny thing is that Carlsberg bought Tuborg a few years back. IME, Tuborg seems the more popular beer in Copenhagen, but it is primarily exported to Eastern Europe. Carlsberg is the bigger international brand.

The best, though are the Tuborg special beers - Julbryg (Christmas) and Påskebryg (Easter). The latter is similar to the elephant beer Carlsberg sells in the UK. Also good are the Jacobsen line, which is the craft line from Carlsberg.

RM67

Thanks Odin - bookmarked

RM67

Right - the marzipan church cake is on my bucket list!

annhig

Ackislander - BBC 4 recently showed the serial "1864" which deals with that era. According to this brilliant series, the germans did their best to avoid the war, because they knew it was going to be a massacre but the danes were so full of hubris that they believed that "God" would protect Denmark even though their defences were woefully inadequate.

And just in case you think that this was a german-made series, it wasn't - it was danish.

if you can find it, I thoroughly recommend it, even the battle scenes which though gruesome, are truly the best I've ever seen.

Ackislander

Thanks, annhig. I shall keep my eyes open for "1864". My father's ancestors were much engaged on the losing side of the other war that was going on in 1864, and they thought God was on their Confederate side against the soulless Yankees. Perhaps God was too busy with other things to be on anyone's side in these wars, but I don't think the Danes or the Southerners were good losers.

chartley

On a recent short visit to Copenhagen, we were surprised to learn that Denmark still had an absolute monarchy in the middle nineteenth century. Seeing photographs of the Danish royal family and their relations made us realise that the current British royal family are almost proletarian in comparison.

annhig

Perhaps God was too busy with other things to be on anyone's side in these wars, but I don't think the Danes or the Southerners were good losers.>>

sounds as if the Danes and the confederates had a lot in common. The Danes had a very weird idea about their flag that it had been bestowed by them directly from God and was extremely sacred, which perhaps makes the recent "fuss" about the Confederate flag more comprehensible.

Chartley - the other strange thing about the whole 1864 conflict was that, according to the TV series, the Danish king of the time was German, spoke very bad danish, and was pushed into a conflict he didn't want partly by inept and foolishly patriotic advisers, and partly because he had to "prove" that he was really Danish and not German.