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The half-timbered facade of the Schlenkerla brewery tavern at Dominikanerstraße 6 in Bamberg, with green shutters, window boxes of red and white flowers and blue-and-white bunting strung across the lane.

ermell · CC BY SA · Wikimedia Commons

Style deep dive

Where Rauchbier Lives: Following Smoked Beer Through Bamberg

August 11, 2026

Smoked malt was once how all beer tasted — Bamberg is where it never stopped. A walkable rauchbier trail through Schlenkerla, Spezial, Fässla and Mahr's Bräu, with ordering customs, seasons and rail connections from Munich.

The white nose of an ICE high-speed train waiting under the station roof at München Hauptbahnhof, with a red regional train on the neighbouring track and a yellow smoke-free-station sign overhead

Zeno Heilmaier · CC BY SA · Wikimedia Commons

Route

The beer line: Munich to Bamberg by rail

August 11, 2026

Long rows of tables in the tree-shaded Augustiner-Keller beer garden in Munich

Chris Light · CC BY SA · Wikimedia Commons

Route

Beyond Oktoberfest: three more beer days in Bavaria

August 11, 2026

Rows of wooden benches beneath tall trees in the beer garden of Paulaner am Nockherberg, looking towards the Wirtshaus

Wolfgang Kopp · CC BY SA · Wikimedia Commons

Brand story

Follow Paulaner Home: A Beer Journey Through Munich

August 11, 2026

The wooden pagoda of the Chinesischer Turm rising above rows of empty beer benches in Munich

Wikiolo · CC BY SA · Wikimedia Commons

Photo story

Munich's beer gardens, in nine photos

July 17, 2026

Full one-litre glass mugs of golden Oktoberfest beer on a table at the Munich Oktoberfest

senator86 · CC BY · Wikimedia Commons

City guide

What to drink at Oktoberfest 2026

July 15, 2026