Intellectual Ferment of a Different Kind
Forchheim’s Annafest is the perfect beer fest for lovers of al fresco imbibing. A beer garden fest to end all beer garden fests, Annafest typically welcomes upwards of 500,000 thirsty beer garden aficionados over the course of its eleven days in late July and …
Forchheim is the gateway to Franconian Switzerland, a beer region with a density of breweries like no other. Yet if it weren’t for beer, you’d probably only know of Forchheim as a stop on the trainline between Nürnberg and Bamberg. But it wasn’t always …
The broad verdant valley north of Nürnberg gradually gives way to hillier terrain covered in woods. There’s gold in them there leafy hills the closer you get to Bamberg. Liquid gold, that is. And liquid amber, bronze, and copper. The spires and steeples of Bamberg …