Beer routes

Turn beer into a trip

City beer walks, brand pilgrimages, style-origin trails, and regional beer roads — breweries, pubs, landscapes, and stories connected into journeys you can actually walk, ride, and book. Every stop curated, dated, and verified.

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

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The beer line: Munich to Bamberg by rail

August 11, 2026

Follow the rails from Munich's beer gardens to Bamberg's brewery taverns: a two-to-three-day, no-car journey — where to sleep, when to leave, and what changes as lager country turns to smoke.

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

Chris Light · CC BY SA · Wikimedia Commons

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Beyond Oktoberfest: three more beer days in Bavaria

August 11, 2026

How to plan around Oktoberfest 2026: an arrival evening at Augustiner-Keller, a quiet Hirschgarten day, Bamberg by rail and the brewery hill above Freising.

Themed guide

Prague's classic pubs

July 28, 2026

U Fleků, Lokál Dlouhá, U Zlatého tygra and Pivovarský klub Benedict: how Prague's pub culture works, why tank beer matters, and where to drink the classics properly.

Themed guide

Munich beer gardens

July 28, 2026

The Augustiner-Keller, the Königlicher Hirschgarten, the Biergarten am Chinesischen Turm and the Hofbräuhaus: how Munich's beer garden institution works and where to drink it at its best.

Themed guide

Bamberg's brewery taverns

July 28, 2026

How to drink Bamberg like a local: the smoked-beer taverns of Schlenkerla and Spezial, the unsmoked counterpoint at Fässla, and the Kellerbier pilgrimage to Mahr's Bräu — with ordering and etiquette notes.