Month: March 2024

Altbier All Day in Düsseldorf

Altbier All Day in Düsseldorf

  Introducing Düsseldorf   Düsseldorf is only about forty-five minutes from Cologne by train — so close, yet in beer miles so far away. Düsseldorf and Cologne are unique: ale strongholds amid a sea of German lager. Yet these two “keepers of the ale faith” 

Ambling for Beer in Oberammergau and Kloster Ettal

Ambling for Beer in Oberammergau and Kloster Ettal

  An Upper Bavarian Idyll   Rays of sunshine pierced the clouds above the marshlands of Murnau as the train trundled along the Loisach valley. As we dipped into the basin that cradles Oberammergau, the sun emerged in full splendour, illuminating the tusk-shaped Kofel that