It’s been long since I have done a Beer-of-the-month entry on my blog, so here is a special one!

Life is too short to drink Ringnes! Then I’d rather drink a bottle of sparkling water. No, I am not making a joke. Just before Christmas I got introduced to Denmark’s smallest micro-brewery, Bøgedal Bryghus. The annual production is only 28.000 to 30,000 bottles a 75 cl. This corresponds to approx. 700 bottles per brew. Bøgedal Bryghus is not listed on Vinmonopolet’s pages, but some bottles are available in the Vinmonopolet’s flagship store at Briskeby. And through the light snowfall and cold, I took the trip to Vinmonopolet at Briskeby.

Bøgedal No. 184

The beers of Bøgedal Bryghus have no names, instead each brew has its own number. The bottle I bought was from brew No. 184. Thus, 1 of 700 bottles. And the numbers make sense. When the beer is brewed in the “old way”, as you can see in this program from TV Syd (in Danish), each brew will taste different! The brews are of course made with the same recipes, but when things are done in their natural way, the beer will taste different each time. This is perhaps the real charm with their beers?

Well, it is not just brewing traditions that are the good old ones. The brewery has also started a collaboration with a farmer who grows old grains. The corn is as it should be, of course ecological, and the harvest is done early in the season in the sheaves and dried slowly in the field. Since threshing it on an old threshing machine. The process provides a far better grounded corn than at today’s industrialized forms of production.

I think it will probably never become an habit to buy beer in champagne bottles from Bøgedal Bryghus. For that the beer is too expensive, but from time to time the temptation can be too big. One must not forget that it once in a while is fun to be a Feinschmecker!

This blog entry was first posted on my Norwegian blog.