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Danske Ølentusiaster, Denmark's beer drinkers' organisation, have secured a recently-vacated section of the Carlsberg brewery for a weekend in September to hold their annual shindig.

Since the place has a capacity of about 20,000, they're scaling it up to a full European Beer Festival and are expecting to have in the region of 2000 beers from 450 breweries -- that's a little bigger than the Great American Beer Festival.

Three-day tickets have just gone on sale (costing about €43, with a few beer tokens thrown in). Day passes are also available. I'm going, as is Declan of the B&C. Anyone else fancy it? We may never see a beer event this size in our part of the world again.

Copenhagen, incidentally, has lots to do and see for accompanying travellers who may not be so keen on attending a beer festival. There's a lovely mermaid, for instance...

Full details (of the festival, not the mermaid) at the festival web site[/url:2ns123oz].

I have been threatening a visit to Copenhagen anyway.

This may take some negotiation. Does anyone know if there is an increase in the allotment of brownie points once you get married?

"sbillings":2fwltpu4 wrote: Does anyone know if there is an increase in the allotment of brownie points once you get married?[/quote:2fwltpu4]Not exactly, but what used to be dumping-for-free is now costly and long-drawn-out divorce proceedings. Brownie-point-wise, you can run on empty for much longer....

cula bula, i might just attend, i have relations over there so it's a perfect time to pay a visit don't you think?

[quote:2tfi8hnn]Does anyone know if there is an increase in the allotment of brownie points once you get married?[/quote:2tfi8hnn]No. Eaten bread is soon forgotten. <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

Festival sounds great.

&amp;quot;beeristhereason&amp;quot;:1dlkq7e7 wrote: it's a perfect time to pay a visit don't you think?[/quote:1dlkq7e7][i:1dlkq7e7]ding dong[/i:1dlkq7e7]
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