Thursday, December 2, 2010

Beer in (North) Korea?


A New York Times article, retelling a Western scholar's reports of conditions in North Korea amid the recent tensions, contains this tidbit:


A beer factory was operating, however, and the visitor pronounced the Taedong River beer, a local brand, “very drinkable.”


Turns out, a Google query leads to plenty of info about the brew. A Wikipedia page describes the brewery's beginnings. A BBC article from 2009 tells of a TV ad for the beer, which was marketed as "Pride of Pyongyang." There are YouTube videos and a host of other info I have yet to read or watch.

Has anyone out there sampled this stuff?


Meanwhile, here is the commercial -

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