Carlsberg Group#Elephant beer

The Elephant Beer is a bright, not cloudy strong beer at the Carlsberg brewery. It contains 7.5% alcohol in Germany, the rare -to-find original Danish version has 7.2%. The taste can be described as malty.

Carlsberg and the elephants

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