Thread: North Korea launches stress relieving beer

North Korea launches stress relieving beer
Friday July 03, 2009


ONE News

Communist North Korea's latest launch is sure to cause much frothing ... it is a locally brewed beer that promises drinkers it will help ease stress.

The impoverished state this week launched an advert on state TV for Taedonggang beer, a tipple it has been quietly brewing since shifting an entire brewery it bought in Britain to North Korea.

State TV shows almost no adverts, although programming about local factories is common, so the beer advert is a rare step towards commercialism.

Set to chirpy music and low-quality graphics, the ad opens with a glass filling with draught beer and the slogan: "Pride of Pyongyang."

In the ad aired on Friday, the beer is consumed by a miner dripping with sweat and served to well-attired urban dwellers by attractive young women dressed in traditional Korean clothes.

"It represents the new look of Pyongyang," said the ad, monitored on Friday in Seoul. "It will be a familiar part of our lives."

The brew has been sometimes available in South Korea. It sells at hotels for foreigners in the North Korean capital for around $1.50

tvnz.co.nz

I wonder if it goes down well with tree bark

Hi i think this is a great idea for all beer lover, and it's also beneficial for those who want to keep their stress out. good.

all beers relieve stress ...............

Is there another purpose for beer?

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Is there another purpose for beer?

Sure, many people can't get laid without it.

Probably coz they're not stressed anymore.

The impoverished state this week launched an advert on state TV for Taedonggang beer, a tipple it has been quietly brewing since shifting an entire brewery it bought in Britain to North Korea.

Anybody have any idea where they got it ?
Looks like 'Brown Ale' to me

Looks like Guinness to me.

Here's the BBC report from November 2000

BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | North Korea buys English brewery

According to the report :-

Communist North Korea has bought a traditional English brewery in a £1.5m deal. The world's most secret state plans to re-use equipment from the Ushers plant in Wiltshire to build a giant new brewery on the outskirts of its capital Pyongyang.

Ushers was famous for traditional ales



Workmen are already dismantling the Trowbridge plant. It will be shipped to impoverished North Korea early next year.


Never tried Usher's myself, was it any good ???

'North Korea’s launch of four short-range missiles yesterday didn’t surprise Defense Department officials, a Pentagon spokesman said today.'

beer... missiles...

busy over there...

Like that question they ask if you might be an acloholic. Which would you rather have, food or alcohol?

Almost guaranteed to be better than Chang.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Is there another purpose for beer?

Sure, many people can't get laid without it.

How unfortunate.

Originally Posted by blackgang

Maybe even Silly Lily will get layed if they start selling that shit in Aussylandia.

Got to be better than the piss they brew there.

Maybe they will start launching beer missiles.

What can I do to piss off the North Koreans?

Incoming! Run for cover! Get into the bunkers! I'll shield you from the blast.

Not a good idea. What if ol Kim Jong wakes up with a bitch of a hangover and tries to shake it off by blowing up the world. Dangerous. Unhinged lunatic + hangover + red button = get in the fucking bunker, now.

No good buying a brewery from that far south in the U.K. Its liable to be 2% stuff and taste crarp

Originally Posted by somtamslap

love it, funny as fcuk