Flensburger Brauerei / Flensburg, Germany
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Flensburger, Flensburger,
Flensburger.
From the good people at
Wikipedia: Flensburger Brauerei is a brewery located in Flensburg in the Bundesland
(federal state) of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the last
country-wide operating breweries not being part of a larger brewery group. The
company was founded on September 6th, 1888 by five citizens of Flensburg. Today
it is still mainly held by the founder families Petersen and Dethleffsen.
Before modern refrigeration, the brewery used to chop blocks of ice from
frozen lakes in the winter and bring the blocks back to the brewery to keep
their underground storage facilities cool in summer. The brewery is still
operating its own water well, which is supplied by an underground vein of very
old Ice Age melting water coming from Scandinavia. The Flensburger beers are usually just called
Flens by the local people when ordering one.
From me: Flens Pilsener is their flagship beer, and is a very good beer in my
opinion. Look at that picture – that’s a
classic pour if I ever saw one! This is
extremely well-balanced beer. I don’t recall seeing it before, but if you see
this one in your store, I would encourage you to pick one up!
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