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“If you like beer, you should try the Cockney Pub.” This statement caught me off guard for two reasons: first, because I was still trying to understand how it happened that I was able to buy a bottle of alcohol in Den Gamle By, Denmark’s largest and most popular museum, and second, because the tall, aproned man smiling at me from his merchant’s stall wasn’t talking about another exhibit elsewhere within the Old City’s limits. On the contrary, he had just offered the name of a local bar to an out-of-towner. A tourist who apparently looked like he could use a drink. And just like that this stranger—David, as he later introduced himself—became my teacher, launching into a quick lesson on Danish beer.