Little Venice and Schlenkerla Brewery

Like other places in Europe, Bamberg has a watery section of the town people thought it was a good idea to compare to Venice. It's mentioned on all the blogs, in the books, and on you tube, so we went over there to have a look. It was pretty, I'll say that for it.

After that, we had to hurry back to the Schlenkerla Brewery, because we wanted to try (again) Bavarian breakfast, weißwurst, pretzel, sweet mustard, and beer. They stopped serving that before lunch and we made it just in time.

This was our first real German biergarten experience. We walked through the restaurant into the back to an open area complete with the little pebbles on the ground and spreading trees. There was a group of older men there, drinking beer and eating food they had brought, which is an accepted thing in an authentic biergarten. We ordered one traditional breakfast and one local wurst plate with bread. In addition, we both went with whatever dark smoked beer they had.

This beer-- wow. We both liked it a lot. They smoke the barley with beechwood after germination, and that's what gives it the particular taste. If you're interested in beer and the entire process, they explain it on their website. It was, in my opinion, the most unique and probably the best beer we had on the trip. Then again, I like that girly mixed with lemon-lime soda Radler, so what do I know?

The link to the Schlenkerla page where they explain their process:

https://www.schlenkerla.de/rauchbier/prozess/pr…Read more