How "beer" are you?

[Brodirt]

Enough to embark on this adventure?

http://www.abercrombiekent.com/travel/index.cfm?fuseaction=dsp_itinerary&tid=4421

Golf travel, cycling travel, wine travel and food travel have been popular for years. But beer travel? I can't help but think that these guys are barking up the wrong tree!

 

[Joshua Da Silva]

I don't see an issue with it. If you can travel for wine you can travel for beer.

I'd do it

 

[180gVinyl]

I'm still trying to find the problem.


(I'm not trying too hard)

 

[SepticTank]

I'm still trying to find the problem.


(I'm not trying too hard)

The only "problem" I can see with that itinerary is that it hasn't got much variety of beer in it - no stouts, bitters, Scotch ales, Heavy, extra heavy, mild, lager, wheat beer... just lager.

<back to sparging for me>

 

[gollum83]

I'm still trying to find the problem.


(I'm not trying too hard)

Exactly! What problem?

The only "problem" I can see with that itinerary is that it hasn't got much variety of beer in it - no stouts, bitters, Scotch ales, Heavy, extra heavy, mild, lager, wheat beer... just lager.

Well there's that, maybe... But they're in Germany, drinking beer! Maybe the only other place that's better is Belgium.

<back to sparging for me>

Oooo... Whatcha making?

 

[Commander Quan]

I could buy a lot of beer for $3k

 

[Joshua Da Silva]

I could buy a lot of beer for $3k

True. For that money I could spend a lot of time at West50, which is a local bar with over 100 beers ON TAP.

 

[Gruder]

I'm not one for the group travel thing, but I honestly believe that one hasn't fully lived until he's visited at least one proper German (or Austrian) Bierstube. Just a great experience. My personal favorites: Augustiner in Salzburg and Kloster Andechs (a monastery in a spectacular setting SE of Munich). The ones we visited in Munich itself were fine, but overly touristed. Prost!

 

[adonnellyr]

The only "problem" I can see with that itinerary is that it hasn't got much variety of beer in it - no stouts, bitters, Scotch ales, Heavy, extra heavy, mild, lager, wheat beer... just lager.

<back to sparging for me>

+1

A beer trip sounds excellent, but this trip seems like someone thought up a decent idea that some people might jump on and didn't implement it well.

 

[Brodirt]

I think its a bit pretentious for your typical beer fan, thats all.

I did a semi-beer trip some years ago...it was a pub crawl in Ireland. My brother-in-law did one too, his was more inspired (and inspiring). He went to as many of Belgium's beer producing monasteries that he could in five days.
I did a semi-wine trip last summer (although I'm not fan enough to have really done it right) when I stayed in Tuscany and tasted as much small producer wine as I could while being one of the drivers.

If I did a beer trip it would be to Oktoberfest, not to smell hops.

 

[gollum83]

Pretentious? How? I mean your traveling and drinking beer the whole time!

 

[Brodirt]

Pretentious? How? I mean your traveling and drinking beer the whole time!

It just seems too much like one of these:

http://wine-tours-france.com/bordeaux.asp

To me, that is fine for wine but inappropriate for beer. Sorta like some cat fisherman from the Gulf heading to Vietnam to tour the best cat fishin' spots on the Mekong vs. an Orvis taught local trout fisherman heading up to Alaska for steelhead.

 

[homebrewer]

I can't say that I would take a trip specifically for beer (despite my screen name being homebrewer), but I do always make an attempt to try the local stuff wherever I am.

At least the tour makes an attempt to visit a few of the less known/popular beer sites in Germany, specifically Bamburg. I LOVE the smoked beer from that region. While it may be an aqcuired taste, I simply love the stuff.... An alcoholic beverage that tastes like bacon? I'm there.... MMmmmmm, tastes like an arson investigation...

 

[Luc]

True. For that money I could spend a lot of time at West50, which is a local bar with over 100 beers ON TAP.

You should try Maxwell Plum in Halifax, Nova Scotia... Nice joint... 150 on tap and I do not remember how much bottles/tins they have...

 

[thebikingengineer]

I'd do it if I had the time/money. Actually, I'd probably do one of the Belgian tours you can book through morebeer.com as there's a lot more variety in beer styles in Belgium. Regardless, I think it'd be a fun trip as long as you were with some like-minded beer enthusiasts.

 

[ogopogo]

I'd do it if I had the time/money. Actually, I'd probably do one of the Belgian tours you can book through morebeer.com as there's a lot more variety in beer styles in Belgium. Regardless, I think it'd be a fun trip as long as you were with some like-minded beer enthusiasts.

+1

Sounds like a fun trip, but I'd rather do a Belgian tour.

 

[Stigmas]

You need to hit Slovakia and the Czech republic for beer, its pretty much the mecca. I would say it is as important to beer as Belgium or the Netherlands. Don't forget the United States microbrews either, we are constantly taking home prizes for the quality of our microbrews.