Well, the arrival of 2016 interrupted the 2-part posts on the Carlsberg beer museum. This story took 2 years to complete !

Part 1 is here.  Continuing with the tour of the Carlsberg beer museum …

The brand name Carlsberg combines the founder – J.C. Jacobsen’s son’s name – Carl with a variant of the Danish word for mountain “berg”.

The museum grounds also house the old labs – Carlsberg Laboratorium (above) and the Carlsberg’s R&D center (below) which appears to have a very oriental-styled roof – there must be some history behind it which is unknown to me.

We toured part of the old lab. Professor Hansen must have contributed mightily to the quality of life of drinkers worldwide.

Also on display are vintage beer delivery vehicles. This Ford T was in use in 1922.

Cute.

For a modest admission fee, which was already covered by my city tourist pass, I was treated to two beers – one is supposed to taste like the beer made in the old days.

In addition, they do beer tasting here twice a day but I wasn’t there at the right time.

The brewery was converted in 1999 into a visitor center and in 2005, the modern microbrewery was established on site.

The facility is fully functional to produce from malt to bottle – all modern technology under a 1890’s roof.

It produces beer sold under the J.C. Jacobsen label.

Six different types.

Apparently, this brewery were selling beer under the Tuborg brand in Tianjin, China back in early 1900’s. But the lady looks a bit creepy.

It was a fun visit.

More giant beer bottle labels – they were designed by Thorvald Bindesbøll (1846-1908) and included in the collection of the Designmuseum, Denmark. See our next post about this institution.

Cheers !

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