In 1992 I was a youth leader and trainer at the D-youth of Tubantia. At that time the club was growing rapidly and the youth teams had reached such a level that we dared to register for an international tournament. And that was at Stensballe IK, a football club near Horsens.

In 1990 I was somewhere in the middle of my Chemical Engineering degree and the question arose in my mind as to whether I would actually like to continue in this field later on. A possible alternative would be the Brewmaster training in Freising near Munich and that is why I went to Bayern that summer to get a better look at the brewing world.

The trip to Bayern went well, so it went that way again in 1991. Martin wanted to come along and by train we left for Kulmbach. For the entertainment in the evening we had selected a number of locations where there was something of a (public) party. In Kulmbach was Altstadtfest, so we could start right away...