Fränkisches Bierfest 2024

I am looking forward to your photos & posts!

Prost!

P.S. Next weekend I will be attending a Lager beer festival in Philadelphia sponsored by Human Robot. Last year I posted about this event in a NBW thread:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/new-beer-weekend-150.673044/page-4#post-7782522

 

Heilig Sheiß! That's a boat load of breweries!

I think I'd stand at the gate stuttering to myself trying to decide which way to turn!

Good luck -- moderation is your friend (to start with, anyway )!

 

We attended that festival in 2015. We had a great time! It's so different than at US Festivals. You can better enjoy the beers when you get a half liter rather than a 2 ounce sample. You don't feel like you have to try as many samples as you can to get your money's worth.

 

My big trouble would be FOMO -- oh, is that one good? That one? Maybe that one?

 

Got some nice breweries there, including some really tiny ones. Zwanzger has an experimental section - you should check them out! Kalk is tough to find, even in Bamberg and I have yet to visit Ahoernla. Enjoy any and all!

 

Ahornla was one and done for me.

Kalk Bräu is one I haven't heard of. It looks to be a hobbybrauer gone pro.

 

Mainly from last September's visit.

Binkert is a newer brewery and surprisingly good.

Elch bräu had a fire, the beers were contract brewed. Biergarten was wonderful.

Gänstaller beers are very good. My Bamberg friends were unsure where those are brewed.

St. Georgianbräu kellerbier is good, but the Helles I had last year was a Diacetyl bomb.

Hersbrücker had a wonderful Pilsner, all I had there.

Hofmann had a very good Dunkel.

Stayed a few nights at Lindenbräu, enjoyed the range of beers there.

Neder is very good.

Schanzenbräu had the best Rotbier I had.

Weißenhohe only had one beer on. The brewery was undergoing a big renovation.

I hope this helps.

 

From what I can see, Kalk Bräu pretty much is a couple of hobby brewers trying out the big league. As for Ahörnla, I mentioned it as they now have a small brewing set up.

 

Sehr nett! Sehr, sehr nett!

Yetzt Ich habe durst!

 

Isn't there a trend toward hoppiness in German brewing? (if not necessarily American IPA type hoppiness, at least amping up the noble hops)