Trip's Beer Trips

@Bavarican Same here for West Michigan where I'm 25 miles from Bell's and 75 miles from Founders, to name two biggies.

 

Well me either, but @Bavarican might not be as impressed by my close-by locals, although all three make very good beer.

 

The trip organizer has told me that enough seats have now been sold for this trip, however there is still room for 4 more people if anyone here is considering signing up to go.

 

The trip has begun. We're in London for a few days first, so no detailed report for now. Had a Timothy Taylor Landlord at the first pub we visited... it's a good beer but maybe a bit over-hyped. Will be in Munich on Thursday.

 

Frankish? Can't find anything about it. British brewery or beer name?

 

Yep, I'll be in Bamberg before the meet-up. I'll have room in my luggage. Any specific requests, @Bavarican ?

 

Our first half day in Germany wasn't very exciting, other than I took a hard spill exiting on one of those damned moving sidewalks at the airport and sprained my wrist. Don't know if I can hoist a mass of beer, but then that's why I have two hands, isn't it? But I'll write this brief report just to let you know that we've arrived.

We checked into our hotel and then shortly after that we started out for the Hirschgarten biergarten. After three blocks we realized that we were dead tired, so we retreated to the hotel lounge for a couple Tegernsee beers (Pils and Hell). Had a bowl of goulash and some pizza (real German, right?) to go with. (Can't get the pics to load correctly, so this is a read-only post.)

Gotta' get some laundry done this morning, then we'll start out for the biergarten again. The official tour starts tomorrow. More later.

 

I'm halfway thru a pork knuckle and a 0.5L of Augustiner Hell. Wrist is feeling better already.

 

We found our way to the Augustiner Biergarten in Hirschgarten Park. It was only a 15 minute walk.

It's an overcast, cool day with some sprinkles. The covered, heated patio is the smoking section which reeked, so we chose to sit inside for table service.

I ordered an Augustiner Hell to go with my half of a roast pork knuckle, and my wife chose the Konig Ludwig Dunkel to accompany her Roulade. I later ordered an Augustiner Edelstoff to help finish off that knuckle.

Stopped at an Aldi during the walk back to the hotel to get a can of Lowenbrau Munchner Hell to drink in the room. It may be my only opportunity to drink this brand on this trip. More pics in the following post(s) I hope.

Tables almost as far as the eye can see:


Closer in to the bierstube: