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Bamberg
Updated July 15, 2026
The Bamberg beer guide
Bamberg is beer pilgrimage at walking pace: a UNESCO-listed old town where roughly ten breweries still malt, smoke, and pour within a couple of kilometres of each other. This is the world capital of rauchbier — smoked beer — and Schlenkerla’s bacon-dark pours are only the loudest voice in a deep Franconian chorus.
Come for the smoke, stay for the region: Bamberg sits at the heart of the densest brewery landscape on earth, and the kellerbier gardens of the surrounding villages are the day trips beer travelers dream about.
Beer destinations
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Mahr's Bräu
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Beer travelers walk out to the Wunderburg quarter for a single letter: order 'a U' and you get Mahr's…
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Brauerei Fässla
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Directly across the street from Spezial — the shortest brewery crawl in beer travel — Fässla has brewed since…
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Brauerei Spezial
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Bamberg's other smoked beer, and the essential comparison to Schlenkerla: where the famous one goes full…
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Schlenkerla
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This is the world's reference smoked beer, served in a tavern first documented in 1405 and brewed by the Trum…
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Sources: en.bamberg.info · en.bamberg.info · en.bamberg.info
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