Beer., Copenhagen

If you want to buy alcoholic beverages in a Supermarket it must be done before eight o´clock at night! After eight it is not allowed for the shopowners to sell you alcohol. So, if you are planning a picnic or party in one of the many beautiful parks in Copenhagen do your shopping before eight o´clock!

I don't think it's delivered door-to-door by the wagon shown in the photo, but I do know that this is one of the best known beer brands in Denmark, and the world in general. I snapped this photo in Radhusplasden.

One thing I loved about Copenhagen was that it's perfectly legal to walk around drinking a bottle of beer in public. I can't think of anyplace in the United States where this is allowed except for New Orleans, and even in Europe I don't believe it is very common. This can make a relaxing stroll around the city in the evening even more enjoyable.

However, I was shocked to learn that stores stop selling alcohol at 5:00 pm on weekdays and 8:00 pm on weekends. You really have to plan ahead and buy your beer early if you want to take advantage of the permissive open container laws, so you might want to keep a cooler handy to prevent your beer from getting warm.

There was a time when old Cliffie trained the little Clavens to shout 'Dad, there's a fax for you' every time they came up from the cellar - but Mrs Claven soon cottoned on to the fact that the fax machine wasn't in the cellar and that the fax for Dad was in fact a can of Faxe, Denmark's third biggest brewery after Carlsberg and Tuborg. The Danes claim that they brew the best beer in the world. Well, it's a matter of taste - but old Cliffie certainly isn't going to argue with any Dane willing to send him a Faxe to prove his point.

The Nyhavnen has an own organic dark beer, yum.

Beer is not something you drink in denmark, it's a blissful state of being...

Try Tuborg, Carlsberg or other local beers