Danish Mikkel Borg Bjergsø and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø is among the world’s best mikrobryggere. From Copenhagen and New York govern each of their ølimperium. Mikkel as the owner of the mikrobryggeriet Mikkeller, and Jeppe as the owner of the mikrobryggeriet Evil Twin.
the Business, which has made both of them enormously wealthy.
Mikkel and Jeppe are also identical twins born with one and a half minute intervals. But between them rages a conflict that is so deep, that they haven’t spoken in seven years.
In a new book with the title ‘Ølbrødre’, which was published this week, tells the two brothers now about their lives with and without each other.
But according to Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø readers get not the whole truth, because his brother paints a bit of a rosy scenario about himself and his business.
– It is with mixed feelings that the book comes out, says Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø to Ekstra Bladet.
– that is, it is a huge privilege, that someone bother to write a book about my life, and I’m really happy with.
– But Mikkel has a habit of cultivating its own reality, and it is the he’d like, to the outside world painter. He has it to dress up a bit on things, says Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø.
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Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø believe that the brother of Mikkel shows a polished image of themselves in the book. He mentions an example from the book, where Mike says that he think it is really too bad that the brothers do not have a relationship to each other and their families.
I can’t really use for anything, for he has not ordered other than to pig me for the last seven years, says the beer brewer.
– When I say that I don’t miss him, I become the little exhibited as an idiot, don’t you?
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Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø is living in New York, where he has mikrobryggeriet Evil Twin, which he founded in 2010. Photo: Thea Pedersen
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According to Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, he has turned his criticism of Alice with the author of the book, Rasmus Emborg.
– Some of the discussions I have had with Rasmus, is that you get not just the truth from Mikkel, you’re not. I do not think that the truth is enough for him anymore, says Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø.
– It is also why we did not get on well with each other more.
– Have you and your brother had any contact since the book came out?
– We have not talked together for many years. And I actually have no need for it, says Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø.
– There are many who think that the whole thing is a publicity stunt. It is not. Unfortunately.
For Extra Blade stresses author Rasmus Emborg, that he vouches for the book.
– Now, I have followed the brothers in almost a year, so I’m not surprised that they look differently at things, for there is a conflict in their relationship, he says.
– But I can stand one hundred percent in what I have written, and the way I have told their stories on. Both their history and their shared history.
Mikkel Borg Bjergsø has not wanted to help in this article. His wife, Pernille Pang, who is press officer at Mikkeller, writes in an email to Ekstra Bladet:
‘I think it has been a good and velresearchet book that tells a thorough story about him and Mikkeller.’
In april 2019 escalated the conflict between Mikkel and Jeppe as Mikkel Borg Bjersø planned to open a restaurant Åboulevard in Copenhagen at the same address as ølbaren the kingdom of Heaven, as Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø of his time was involved in.
You can read more about the conflict here.
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Mikkel Borg Bjergsø has established ølproducenten Mikkeller in 2006. Photo: Gregers Tycho/Ritzau Scanpix
