Back to bamberg

evening all

Just back from a quick visit to Bamberg so I thought i'd share what I found this time out. Managed to persuade the mrs to have a lovely romantic few days away (she doesn't like beer) and with return flights on a relatively new route from Manchester to Nurnberg it was a no brainer.

anyway, we arrived around 9pm so decided to spend the night in Nurnberg, ive passed through before but not spent a great deal of time there so it was nice to have a mooch about, we called at bratwurst roslein for some little sausages and some zirndorfer kellerbier


after that we just had time to walk up the road to nurnberger alm where I had a couple of really nice "house schwarzebier" ive heard a rumour that this maybe from a brewery in forchheim, can anyone confirm or deny that?

Bamberg was just as good as last time I went although I did miss being able to sit out in the kellers, we stayed at the alt ringlein hotel, it was really nice but not sure id fancy it in the height of the summer when everyones drinking outside, I reckon it'll be pretty noisy, this was our view



Even though the mrs is not a beer drinker we managed to visit all the Bamberg breweries (good job most of them sell wine too) I was happy to visit greifenklau as that's the only one i'd not visited previously.

Beery highlights included the spezial lager, keesman weizen, mahrs u and the schlenkerla marzen (and the gulasch!) sad to say but I did have a not so great beer this time around, the klosterbrau braunbier, to use a BA term, it was a bit of a diacetyl bomb.

 

So, all in all another great trip, I really hope Ryanair keep flying the man - nur route, if so i'll be back again soon!

 

Yeah last time I was there I thought the braunbier was good but sadly not this time. I really liked Greifenklau actually, was nice to have a brisk walk up the hill to be rewarded with beer, I just had their lagerbier, wasn't even aware they made a rauchbier! I found it really cosy and welcoming inside, we got talking to a few locals who taught us a new card game, schnautz I believe it was called, great fun

 

oh and I forgot to mention, the one place I wanted to visit was weinstube pizzini, unfortunately as we got outside we could hear there was a pretty loud band on (sounded right up my street to be honest) but the mrs wasn't too keen as she was hoping for a quiet sit down, we ended up at weinstube ruckel instead which was a really nice boozer as it happens and they have huppendorfer vollbier. On a non beery note we visited the naturkunde museum which is definitely worth an hour of anyones time

 

ha, sounds like a good excuse to go to the pub to me!

 

flight was just about on time but then getting through the airport, u bahn into town, walking to the hotel, checking in etc meant we didnt get out while about 9. taxi straight from the airport to bamberg you could probably be in bamberg by that time, probably pricey though

 

i dont know what is it you dont get, the travel the way i did it or the thought of dodger75 about maybe taking a taxi?

 

yeah thats what we thought, didnt want the hassle of late night travel so stayed in nurnberg. i can sort of see where dodger75 is coming from with the taxi idea, if that particular flight is on time then using the train straight bamberg, looking at db i reckon you could expect to arrive in bamberg around 22.30, then theres the walk from the station. getting a taxi straight from nurnberg airport though i think you could probably be in a pub in bamberg for 21.30 and get a few beers in. i have no idea what the cost would be though. i guess it depends how desperate you are for a beer in bamberg that night!

 

hey me too, hopefully these are all good options for dodger75 to consider