One day Kim Jong Il decided to buy a brewery. Sam Chambers heads to Pyongyang in search of what was once a famous old name in British brewing
At 30,000 ft the first taste is not promising. In fact, it is so bad that the Canadian sitting next door to me winces on slugging back the first North Korean beer of his life and grimaces, “That’s bad, that’s awful.” But then this is Pyongyang Beer, not what I am after, with its nasty chemical taste...
International Brewery
from Issue 5 published on 24/03/2006