A Brief History of the Mikkeller Running Club

by Sam Lee

New York City beer geeks are getting excited about the Grand Opening of Mikkeller Brewing at Citi Field this weekend. The Danish brewery's first East Coast brewery opens Sunday, March 25th. If you ask any craft beer fan, they'll recognize Mikkeller as one of the biggest names in brewing, but what they might not know is that it's also one of the biggest names in running.

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Sam Lee talked to Søren Runge, President of the Mikkeller Running Club, to learn more about how a brewery in Copenhagen started a running revolution around the globe.

Listen to the story here:

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For more information on the opening day run, click here.

 

 

Music for this piece was:

We Always Thought the Future Would Be Kind of Fun by Chris Zabriskie,

I Am Running with Temporary Success from a Monstrous Vacuum in Pursuit by Chris Zabriskie

and

Everyone is So Alive by Loyalty Freak Music

 

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