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Bamberg. Bamberg is a small town located in Bavaria Germany. It has quiet little streets, a river running through it and its pretty quiet. So why did we come here.... The answer is quite simple. It has ten breweries!!!! That’s inside the little town as well, they are apparently nearly 100 in the area surrounding it!
After a train trip of about 3 and a half hrs from Munich we were in Bamberg. Our hostel was a tiny house with only three or four rooms. We luckily were staying in a room with two beds so it was private time for us! We were worried that we would be locked out because we arrived at nearly 6pm and the notes on our booking said staff weren’t always present but once we got there we found a note welcoming us and the keys in our room. We set off to find some food and stumbled across a little cafe that served Schnitzel so we settled down and enjoyed some dinner before heading home for a relatively quiet night as Bee was still feeling quite sick.
Our second and last day in Bamberg saw us get some breakfast from out and
about before heading back to our hostel so Bee could crawl into bed and try to get better. I on the other hand set out in the search of these magical breweries I had heard so much about from my friend Pete who had been to Bamberg a few months before hand. One in particular was on my to do list, a brewery that brewed smoked beer that apparently tasted kind of like bacon and therefore mixing two of my favourite things of all time, bacon and beer!
Armed only with a map and my wits and a very vague idea about where they were meant to be located I set out on my drinking bonanza! On the way I got to see some of Bamberg’s sights which are mainly some nice churches and scenic views. I strolled up and down streets in the direction of St Michaels Hill where a bunch of the breweries were meant to be located. Now when one thinks of breweries they think of buildings that would be at least big enough to be noticed! Well these ones weren’t that big or not there at all because I searched for about 2 hrs and
found nothing. By this point I was hot and thirsty and just wanted to find somewhere to sit and read with a glass of beer when suddenly a building caught my eye. It looked like a pub/brewery, it even had a menu out front with lots of beers on it.... It also closed at 2pm on Sundays and it being 3pm everything was shut up. I couldn’t believe it and was starting to wonder if I was ever meant to try this beer that’s meant to be so good. But on wards I pressed and just when I had given up hope, I for some strange reason decided to leave the road I was on and double back up a little alley to get a view of the city and there in the distance across a small field was what looked to be a restaurant or pub of some kind. I strolled up and took a seat at one of the outside tables and was extremely happy when the waitress had told me they had a menu in English. I ordered a platter of smoked ham, cheese and a brown bread and a stein of their beer. What happened next
will go down in history as the most amazing coincidence known to mankind! My waitress brought me out my beer and it was smoked!!! Not only smoked but apparently I was sitting in the very brewery that was goal of the day! Needless to say I was extremely happy with myself and my internal instinct for finding good beer.
I decided I wasn’t meant to find the other breweries that day and spent the next two hrs reading, eating my delicious platter and downing half a litre steins of bacon beer that I now love to death while looking out over an amazing view of Bamberg sprawled out beneath me.
Reluctantly leaving behind brewery ‘Spezial’ I wandered down to a pub we had walked past the night before called the Hof Brau. Here I managed to find time to sample a few more of the local brew’s and was once again impressed. The beer in Bamberg is delicious and the places to drink are just as good. Everyone was friendly and understanding that my German was terrible.
The night finished with a long walk home and some DVDs with Bee Bee.
Bamberg was great, just a shame
Bee was sick and that we didn’t have a few extra days to really experience it.
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