'Scuse me, have you seen Carlsberg's passport?

New York-based communications agency Cossette Post, offspring from the Canadian Cossette, have cooked up a stunt involving passports. Party passports.

Picture getting into a cab in New York City and finding an orphaned passport in the back seat. What would you do? Open it of course.

Then you are a good samaritan, and maybe just a tad curios. The passport looks like the real deal on the outside, with the typical gold stamp text and a textured cover. Those in the know will spot where that crown comes from immediately, I just compared it to the beer I'm holding, yes, it's a Carlsberg.

Inside however you'll discover that this is a Carlsberg passport, probably the best beer in the world, and Carlsberg has seen the world. The inside pages have stamps from all the countries where you may quench your thirst with the Danish brew, along with practical information like how to toast in 34 different languages and how to ask "May I please have a Carlsberg beer" in everything from French to Romanian. There is also a two-page outline on "The Carlsberg Way of Making A World of Friends," which includes international do's and don'ts for world travelers. For example, in China, "spitting,
staring and drinking Carlsberg are acceptable. However, wearing shorts isn't". Who knew?

These passports will be distributed in bars, buses, cabs and cafés of key cities in 35 states across the United States including Chicago, Boston, New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

Bonus Carlsberg trivia, Carlsberg founder Carl Jacobsen commissioned the little mermaid statue that has become a symbol of Denmark worldwide, and in 1883 Carlsberg's Emil Christian Hansen developed a method for propagating pure yeast, which revolutionized the brewing industry. The yeast is named Saccharomyces Carlsbergensis and given freely to the world. Yes, Carlsberg is an open source beer!

Bonus passport trivia - the headline for this post came from a rather embarrassing moment (for me) where I appear in the part of a "desperate groupie" campaigning to find Robbie Williams passport. If anyone cares to see that commercial, click here. Yes, that's me in the black and white hair. *shudder* Everyone has had a bad fashion phase.

MTV - Robbies Passport part 2 - (1997) 0:60 (Netherlands)

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