Wednesday, 19 September, 2018 Day 5 in Copenhagen

Carlsberg Brewery Tour

It is another really nice day although we were warned that the good weather was about to end. Ryan and I made our way to the usual bus stop and jumped on a red bus which took us to the brewery.

As we enter the grounds we see a lot of construction going on with some large holes in the ground. This was described as a new city being built i.e. lots of apartments.

We are doing a self guided tour inside. I didn’t take many photos because, frankly, I have done many before and did not find this too much different from other old breweries I had seen.

There were rides offer to visitors on beer carts driven by Clydesdales. At the end of the tour we could smell at a distance the stables for the horses.

Our entry gave us access to a free beer, used to be two.

Beer Tasting

A highlight of the day was to taste several of the brewery’s beers. Our tasting guide was an American from Seattle, about 200 mile from my home town of Portland, Oregon.

Sharing the tasting with us was a Chinese couple from Singapore. When we first arrived the girl asked me if I was from California!!! Given I haven’t lived in California for over 46 years, she had a very perceptive ear. Turns out they had lived in the USA for years. Any way, our guide had talked about a special bottle that he had found which when tried he considered not very good at all. The Chinese guy said why don’t we try it any way.

My favourite was the second beer which had very interesting clove and fruit tastes. The guide’s favourite was the IPA. All in all good fun, not bad for someone like me that does not drink beer.

Fleisch

Julie had a gala dinner at the conference so the three of us headed out to the Meat Packing District to a famous meat shop and restaurant called Fleisch.

I will say right now that it looked like we were in the wrong place, maybe a warp in time. Service was generally poor. There was nothing like the various dishes shown on the websites with just 3 selections, essentially, and the quality of what was provided was mostly poor. I wonder what went wrong.

These were served at least 30 minutes after we ordered them. Then there was little or no bacon flavour.

Again the dishes arrived a long, long time after we ordered them. Then the crackling was good but otherwise the pork was tougher than an old boot.

This was a major highlight of the night in that Tanika was forced to order the crab,which she had never had before, because there was no chicken on the menu. She loved it and that the big win. Of course, her course was served after a very long delay just like ours.

The cheese, especially the bleu was quite good. No more editorial comment other than what went wrong?

Turns out that Julie’s gala function was in another part of the Meat Packing District. So she ended up getting home much earlier than might have been expected otherwise.