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US travel agent launches North Korea beer tour
For a country that commonly experiences famine and isolated from the outside world, North Korea has a surprisingly large range of beers and a strong domestic beer brewing culture.
According to Washington-based Radio Free Asia, a US travel agency has launched an eight-day-long beer tour that would see people to tour three microbreweries in Pyongyang: The Paradise Microbrewery, the Yanggakdo Hotel Microbrewery, and the Taedonggang National Brewery.
Beer from these producers has been labelled by some Western media as being the best on the Korean Peninsula.
Taedonggang National Brewery is North Korea’s most advanced brewery. It was established after a former UK brewery in Wiltshire was bought, taken apart and then shipped back to Korea, at a cost of £1.5million. Reinstalled and operational from 2002, the brewery uses German-made computerised brewing control technology.
The travel agency claimed that after the package was announced there had been quite a number of US citizens who showed interest in a trip to North Korea.
Josh Thomas, a craft beer expert, told Wired.co.uk after his trip to North Korea: ”The best beer was by far was a wheat beer we tried at the Paradise Microbrewery. They had brewing equipment that would rival any US microbrewery”,
North Korea is a pariah nuclear state ruled by their military and puppet Kim family dynasty. The west should engage in dialogue but should not support the regime through tourism. The Korean people are starving yet food resources (grains) are going into brewing, most likely consumed by the military and the political elite.
We run this tour twice a year and in addition to visiting all of the microbreweries in Pyongyang, we also go fishing on the east and west seas and shooting at the Meari Gun Range. If you want to know more about the tour, visit us at: http://uritours.com/tours/entry-tour/north-korea-travel-beer-fishing-boats-and-guns-tour.