Park life! (Carlsberg Special Brew)

Member Name: danmclovin

Product:	Carlsberg Special Brew
Date:	10/08/08 (198 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheapest night you'll ever have!

Disadvantages: Everything!

This stuff might as well be served at BP forecourts across the country .. you probably could actually run your car off the stuff. I was introduced to Carlsberg Special Brew a few years ago now, and it's fair to say that it doen't take pride of place in my fridge.

The Special Brew was first produced in 1950, to commemorate a visit by Winston Churchill to Copenhagen. He was seen as a hero by the Danes, for defeating the Nazi's in the second world war, a few years previously. Known as 'Easter Beer' in Denmark, production of the stuff was introduced to the UK a few years later out of Northampton.

I don't often drink Special Brew, but when I do, I always know about it the following morning. It's great if you're after a cheap night, quite literally 4 cans will pretty much put an end to your night, or what you remember of it anyway. I only tend to have a tipple of the old Special Brew after a testing week at work, because I find that it helps to erase the bad memories of the week ... and the good ones, and in fact any memories I have about anything.

Made from water, malted barley, syrup, hops and carbon dioxide, Special Brew has a very distinct taste, and it's not a nice one. The after taste stays with you for some time, haunting you. It contains 9% volume of alcohol, making it 'The original strong lager'. Special Brew can be bought in standard 500ml cans, coloured in gold and red .. which I'm pretty sure are natures 'warning' colours.

I can't actually recomment Carlsberg Special Brew, unless of course you actually want 12 hours of your life to go missing, forever locked in the pits of the endless Special Brew vault, which case go for it!

Summary: Don't do it!