After some nice relaxation sitting at the “San Francisco Caffe Company,” we were off to Beer Tour #2. This beer tour was going to be better though, first because neither of currently had food poising and second because it was more about how the beer is made and less history of Oktoberfest.
Again we had an awesome Irish tour guide for our tour. Liam was super friendly and very funny. Even sharing some stories with us about his first day in Germany. He was staying with his wife’s family and he heard a truck backing up to the house, it was the beer delivery guy. Ha! So great.
And man oh man, when you aren’t sick that beer is so tasty! We stopped at a beer garden first for a beer and then off to the brewery that is in the middle of the city, Paulaner. The best part about that was we got to see how they brewed their beer and found out that beer brewed there is not shipped anywhere. The beer that they brewed there is only for that single restaurant, usually just above the brewery. You really could taste how fresh it was. There we also learned a little bit of how they make the beer and they still stick to the purity laws.
After that it was off to the most famous of all the beer halls, the Hofbräuhaus. The atmosphere in there is pretty hectic. It was good that we went on a Monday night. Much less crazy than it coud have been. A liter of beer sure is a lot, and it took me a good hour to drink all of it. Food there was ok, but really we had great company. We had some real nice and fun people in our tour group. Including a French Canadian who was traveling Europe by himself. He admitted while we were there and I quote in very french sounding english “The more of my beer that I drink, the worse my english is getting.” I thought that was hilarious! Really great tour and just a really fun time!
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