I am an American, who loves Denmark, and I spend lots of time researching Denmark its history, and its people. but I have never been there. I am wondering if your Carlsberg (definitely the best beer in the world) beer bottles are round and light green like [this](https://www.legalhomedelivery.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CB_ND_33cl_Pilsner_Wet_Bottle_KV_Isolated_RGB_72dpi.png), (this is what I can buy in my area of the USA), or are they what I think is the original and more common dark green obtuse bottle that I traditionally associate with Carlsberg like [this](https://media-verticommnetwork1.netdna-ssl.com/wines/carlsberg-bottle-250ml-1783479-s250.jpg). Again I love Denmark, and Carlsberg, sometimes I will read their annual reports, I love looking at the colorful photos of Denmark, and the world that are inserted into the report. I red in the 2004 annual report that in large eastern Chinese cities in 2004 Carlsberg released a beer called Carlsberg chill. I have never been to China but I have a cousin who I think is 10+ years older than me (haven’t spoken to her in a while we are on good terms with each other she just had a baby), who studied abroad there but I never asked her if she drank Carlsberg Chill beer, have any Danes here been to a large eastern Chinese city and tried Carlsberg Chill? Does it taste like regular Carlsberg?

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  3. No our Carlsberg looks quite a bit more boring, as they are reused and fits the general beer bottle shape for most beers to help simplify reusing the bottles. Ours you can see in u/impressive-jelly-194 ‘s comment

  4. A little fact about the Carlsberg beer you may not know. It’s nicknamed “Hof”, pronounced like the hoff in Hasselhoff. In danish hof means royal court, and there used to be a label on the beer that said “Leverandør til det Kongelige Danske Hof” which means supplier to the royal court. Eventually people started calling the beer a Hof, and is stuck even though they no longer print it on the label.

  5. Hey mate. Im not sure you have “Tuborg” in the States But a Tuborg classic is really the best danish beer imo. The brand is owned by Carlsberg.

    Also when i was in China i saw that carlsberg and tuborg only had 3.4% alcohol rather then 4.6% that it have in Denmark. There was big differences in taste. I’m not sure if they adjust the product for the American market

  6. I wanted to dig out some interesting tvivia for you about the bottle, but to my surprise it was really difficult to find any sites that presented the information for you that I wanted to present. So I had to compile the text for you myself.

    In the beginning of 1900s Danish Standard introduced a standard bottle, and soon all breweries used this bottle. In 1949 they introduced a new type of bottle which looks like this:

    [http://www.hardernet.dk/Bottles/Tuborg_9501_standard_flaske-HG_1949.htm](http://www.hardernet.dk/Bottles/Tuborg_9501_standard_flaske-HG_1949.htm). I belive its called DS 53, (DS for Danish Standard). 35cl. But breweries always sell them with 33 cl.

    The link shows a few different colors, but I only remember the dark green. I have vague memories that I may also have seen a dark brown, but I am quite sure I have never seen the light green.

    Until 2002 it was illegal to sell canned soda or beer in Denmark. We did drink some cans, and we considered them slightly exotic, but they were all imported from Germany (brought back in private cars after shopping in Germany).

    Furthermore all beers used the exact same bottle. By enforcing this “monopoly” we actually had a very efficient bottle recycling system where all breweries used the same bottle. I am not sure if it was really forbidden to introduce other bottles, maybe the incentives to use the standard was just so overwhelming that it was the obvious choice. At least I know that it was not allowed to sell bottled drinks that did not use the mandatory “pantsystem”, a system where the state set a fixed price on the bottles and required all shops selling bottles to also buy back the bottles for the same price.

    There as an equivalent standardized clear bottle at 25cl for sodas, however somehow Coca Cola company and Pepsi both had slightly different bottles, but they were also made from sturdy glass and all recyclable.

    In 2002 EU forced us to change this and suddenly breweries and supermarkets could use whatever bottle or can they preferred.

    The standard bottle still exist and both the cheap brands and Tuborg and Carlsberg use this bottle. But some products are sold on different bottles, even by breweries in Denmark, because they want to stand out in some way.

    The mandatory deposit system still exist. Its not legal to sell any kind of bottled or canned drink in Denmark in a can or bottle that is not part of this system. Shops must charge 1kr per can/bottle and shops must buy back any can for 1kr. Im not sure the deposit system actually has a great environmental advantage, as it used to. Today most bottles are not reused but instead remelted, and all cans are remelted, and I think the most of this processing happens in Germany or Holland. Even if we did recycle the bottles, there are far between the bottleries as opposed to 30 years ago. But Im no expert.

  7. There are two types of bottles in Denmark sold. The one you see here and the classic dark green one.

    The classic one is called the “bodega”-bottle as it’s primarily aimed at bodegas (danish pubs)
    The one you have pictured here is called the “hero”-bottle as it’s mainly used in marketing material but also sold in retail stores.

    I used to work at Carlsberg 😊

  9. Hey! Definitely post here in this group if you come to visit. I bet someone could help show you a good time in DK. Also outside of Copenhagen.

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