A waitress carrying jugs of beer to guests before the opening of the Pyongyang Taedonggang Beer Festival on the banks of the Taedong river in Pyongyang North Korea is not the first country – a conservative estimate by any means – that comes to mind in the global rankings of beer production, but it seems to be working hard to change that. The Taedonggang Beer Factory, which first opened doors in Pyongyang some 21 years ago, was honoured as one of the top ten businesses in the secretive state.
Waitresses lining up pints of Taedonggang beer ‘I had to effectively give them a crash course in brewing and we spent a lot of time going over the basics, but it seems that they got it because they are up and running over there now’, Mr Todd said. Mr Todd said he had been able to check on the brewery’s progress a few years ago, when a British journalist brought him back a bottle of its beer from a visit to North Korea.