Traveling through Europe 2014

[EzMak24]

My dad, brother and I will be traveling through Europe at the end of September 2014. We are going to Hungary, Austria, southern Germany and northern Italy. We plan on going to Oktoberfest but everything else is up in the air. Any place we need to go or do? If anyone from the forum will be in these areas around then let me know. We can meet up for a drink.

 

[Cyclman]

I don't know about beer in those areas, but in Hungary, if you're a wine person, Tokaji is wonderful and rather rare. Austria has wonderful white wines and schnapps. Sounds like a wonderful trip!

I found great lagers everywhere in Europe.

 

[EzMak24]

Thank you that helps.

 

[podz]

It's only a short car/train ride from Munich to Garmish-Partenkirchen, where the Zugspitze mountain is. You can take a cable car up to the top of the mountain and have a beer, the best view in the entire world.

As for northern Italy, well I'd say that Venice is the place to see.

 

[yeahfairly]

If I was going to be in Southern Germany and Austria the place I absolutely wouldn't miss is Berchtesgaden! I would also try to spend at least one day doing a Bavarian Pub Crawl!

 

[axmdr40]

Working east to west:

Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Linz, Salzberg, Munich, Innsbruck, hook south through the Brenner Pass to Lake Garda, Verona, Venice, Trieste.

I would second the notion of not missing Berchtesgaden. There's a pretty decent English tour for 50 Euro/person. The town itself isn't much, but your really close to Salzberg, which is indeed a great beer city.

If you're willing to go further north into Bavarian, I would HIGHLY suggest Regensberg, Nurmberg, Bamberg (the throne of the beer gods), and hooking back into the Czech Republic for Plzen and Prague. You can't go wrong.

PM me if you'd like some info on individual cities/locations.

 

[kresi]

Here are two good articles about Hungarian craft beer scene:
http://welovebudapest.com/en/cafes-bars/articles/2013/04/26/the-ruin-pub-of-craft-beers-eleszto
http://jondianartw.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/craft-beer-destinations-in-budapest/

 

[Yrogerg1089]

+1 for Nuremberg and Prague! They both had outstanding atmospheres and beer! Nuremburg has a small brewpub called Hausbrauerei Altstadthof which has a copper hefeweizen that will blow your Mind! Also Prague has the monastery brewery The Strahov Monastic Brewery. Both were top notch!