Recommendations on a Beer Festival?

I posted about this festival in the Wurzburg thread. Post 22.

 

Hate to be wishy washy about answering here, but there are literally 1000s of various Fests going on all the time all around Germany, it really depends on what you are looking for.

 

When are you going??

Prosit!

 

Maybe @BayernTrips will suggest a few now that starkbier is over...

At the end of August, early Sept there are many Volksfests. Regensburg, Erding and Freising are all close to each other distance wise and on successive weekends.

 

Annafest in Forchheim is the end of July/beginning of August. Not a beer festival in a traditional sense but a lot of fun.

Late August usually has the Sandkerwa in Bamberg -- it was canceled last year but it looks like it may go on this year. Again, not a traditional beer festival but a lot of really good beer in a small area.

Added: Saw the reply on Annafest -- you can easily stay in Bamberg, it's a short train ride away.

 

We got into Bamberg for the last day of Sandkerwa 2016, breweries from around the region show up. It is a great way to sample beers from some you may not have been to, or heard of.

 

This is a good list to look at for ideas about festivals around Munich - helps to know your geography though: http://www.ganz-muenchen.de/volksfeste/kalender/liste_index.html

After you find something that might work, just google the festival name and you'll likely find a link to the organizer, but don't expect much English for the smaller festivals.

 

The Annafest is magical and the beer mostly excellent. You don't need to stay in Forchheim as it's easy to reach by train. You could stay in Nürnberg or in Bamberg.

 

Arrive early, leave at 8 PM. Have a child to guide you.*

* I really had my 7-year old son help me down the hill one year.

 

two great breweries in buttenheim, st georgen brau and lowenbrau, lowenbrau's kellerbier is amazing. centre of town is a bit of a walk from the station though

 

Good advice - the train station to the town center is 1.5 km (almost 1 mile, so about a 20 minute walk). However, the beer is great and you can tour the birth house of Levi Strauss. Yes, the man who brought us riveted blue jeans was born in Buttenheim. There is a little museum - nothing fancy - and it takes about an hour to tour it. Conveniently close to the breweries - I like St Georges best, but both have pretty awesome beer gardens on the edge of town.

Also, from the Forchheim station to Anna fest is quite a hike. There are shuttle buses and are well marked.

A taxi from Anna Fest to Buttenheim would run you about 25 Euro. Keep in mind that if you call a taxi, they charge you from wherever their starting point is on the way to get, then to where you are going. But after Annafest, there are usually taxis standing there.

 

Has anyone done a list of Löwenbräu named breweries in Germany? I had some good beer from a Löwenbräu outside Stuttgart, and there's a great one just west of Munich in Bad Wörishofen.

Maybe a good subject for a new thread?

 

Three currently operating in Franconia: Buttenheim, Stublang and Neuhaus. In the past, there ones in Vestenberg (closed 2011) and Unterschleichach closed (2009). Going back further, there was a Löwenbräu in Bamberg that brewed into the late 80's existed as a brand until the late 90's (some info here)

 

Too much work for me.
http://www.german-breweries.com/all_breweries.htm