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Travelled/cycled a good bit of Denmark in the last week, and tasted many of their beers, visited 2 breweries and both were closed which I guessed, i just didn't plan it properly.
Very nice place, but STILL expensive, paid 9euro on a few occasions for a 500 ml bottle.
Checking ingredients on bottles, a lot of there beers have E numbers added, is that normal? Or do we just not have to put "everything" on our labels here?
Had an Amager beer for the first time the IPA, what a great beer, one of my top 2 of the trip, couldn't find it anywhere in off license though (Olbutikken had none, didn't get to Barleywine) and my other favourite was in the Mikkeller Bar Evil Twin DIPA, very nice, also had Palisade single hop IPA, nice too. Beware Mikkeller bar is hard to spot, if your looking for it on a bicycle, we missed the small name on the windows, but were later redirected.
Took home 3 Norrebro and Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA and a Southern tier IPA. Also got to visit Norrebro Bryghus again b4 the flight home. So thats Denmark done now for another few years..

Was in Copenhagen at the weekend and had a great time in [url:3ub7atn8]http://www.Brewpub.dk[/url:3ub7atn8] on Friday night.

Their porter and wheat beer are both fantastic and they also do beer cocktails. Had a wheat 'n' black which was a half litre of wheat beer, porter, vanilla, and rum.

Was also drinking Jacob's Cognac beer on Saturday. Not really my thing...... <!-- s:| --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_neutral.gif" alt="" title="Neutral" /><!-- s:| -->

Amager Bryghus beers are available at alot of supermarkets here and fairly affordable. Their regular line beers can be found for about 30dkk per 500ml bottle, which is a around 4 euro a bottle. Their Sundby Stout is a favorite of mine and is similar (but not quite as nice) to the Porterhouse Celbration Stout, in my opinion.
In general, I usually stay away from any of the beers that have any 'E' ingredients in them. I have noticed more than a few craft beers which I am a bit surprised that have these 'E' ingredients unfortunately.

&amp;quot;jspruit&amp;quot;:4vrocgpr wrote: I usually stay away from any of the beers that have any 'E' ingredients in them.[/quote:4vrocgpr]You're choosing your beers based on the brewery's labelling policy, not what they contain. European law allows a manufacturer to list what an ingredient is, what it does, or its E-number.

Caramel is E150a. Irish moss is E407. Ethanol is E1510.

Look up what the number means before deciding if you want the beer or not.

I haven't found that many times that only an "E" number is listed on Danish beers without some ingredient listed right after that, even though you mention that European law allows that option. So if it does say "E150a karamel" then I have no problem. If it says "E xxxxyyyy" and I don't know what that ingredient is (in Danish or English) then I usually stay away until I know more.

Sure. Good idea. Wikipedia has a list here[/url:2fxkj1x2].

Bear in mind also that European law does not oblige breweries to list ingredients on beer, though Danish law might. I'm sure plenty of Irish beers contain a string of ingredients that have assigned E numbers, but we never find out what they are. I see lactic acid is E270, and I've heard that alleged as an ingredient in Guinness.

The problem isn't the E-numbers, is all I'm saying <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->