Elephant Beer

Elephant Beer bottles from Germany, old design on the left, new design on the right, both 7.5% alc.

The Elephant Beer is a bright, not dim strong beer of the Carlsberg - brewery . In Germany it contains 7.5% alcohol , the less common Danish original version has 7.2%. The taste can be described as malty. The variant Elephant Extra Strong has 10.5% alcohol content.

Carlsberg and the Elephants

The elephant gate of the Carlsberg brewery from the outside

The elephant motif played a major role in the history of the Carlsberg brewery. In 1901, based on an idea by Carl Jacobsen, son of the company founder, built in collaboration with the architect Vilhelm Dahlerup from granite from the island of Bornholm , four elephants support the so-called elephant tower, part of the headquarters in Copenhagen . Jacobsen's inspiration for this was Bernini's elephant with obelisk on the Piazza della Minerva in front of the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome . After the elephant motif had accompanied the brewery for over 50 years, the elephant beer was finally brought onto the market in 1955, initially under the name "Export Lager Beer". After it was sold in Ghana , then also the Gold Coast and Nigeria , Carlsberg started selling it in Denmark on November 9, 1959. Elephant is exported worldwide, some local breweries continue to produce the beer according to the original recipe.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Visit Carlsberg , accessed November 21, 2011