The Micro Brewery

Weizen hause, a local micro brewery, had just opened up in our neighbourhood, and I headed down to meet up with Eric and Karen on a Saturday evening for quiet brew. Being a new place, dancing girls were bouncing around outside, drumming up business.

It really doesn't look like much from the outside, being just another door in a large Korean building. You enter and go down the steps, chuckling at the 'watch your head' sign on the lintel......

And you find yourself in another world. The designers of Weisen Hause have taken a large basement and turned it into something more reminiscent of an outdoor street cafe than a dark dingy basement. And more power to them. Space like this is so rare in Korea.

But this is really a story about the beer. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool place to drink, but if you don't have anything to drink, then it profits you nothing. I was welcomed to the place with a free drink from the management. It was the dark beer that we were all drinking, and it really wasn't bad. Not bad at all. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it was really good.

In keeping with the style thing they had going on, the beer came in large swing-top bottles, which looked cool, but were a little tricky to pour. Well, perhaps the first one wasn't too difficult, but by the end of the night beer was certainly being spilled. Eric, seen pouring below, has his own theories on alcohol, and the higher states of mind associated with it( audio).

The whole night was made a little surreal by the soundtrack playing on the big screen. I have a feeling it was chosen for us, the table of foreigners, but for whatever reason, Britney was on the big screen for most of the night.

To my shame I admit I actually enjoyed the music, but I blame that on the alcohol.

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