Ardennes Special/Chouffe Tour (AS-080325)

Dates
Tuesday 25-Wednesday 26 March 2008
Tour Itinerary
Detailed Proposed Itinerary.
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The Format
Suggested pre-tour with drinks at Louis' Roeëje Lieuw (Red Lion) also known as Limburgs Biercafe.
Central hotel (recommended) is Hotel Puur.

• Day 1-Maredsous, Chimay and into the Ardennes

• Pick-up Venlo (Netherlands).
• Du Bocq, Maredsous Abbey
• Chimay Trappiste Monastery
• Stenay Castle (France)
• Brasserie de Chateau Fort (France)
• Overnight-Bouillon

• Day 2-Orval and the Ardennes
  
• Bouillon Castle (from Godrey and the Crusades-no they're not a 50s band)
• Orval Trappiste Monastery (see Matilde's spring....)
  
• Millevertus or La Rulles
• Bastogne
• Achouffe
  
• Overnight-Achouffe-Mont

• Day 3-Ardennes
• Battle of the Bulge Museum (La Roche-en-Ardenne)
• Haute Fagnes (highest area in Belgium)
  
• Drop-off TBC
  

What's Included

• All transport within tour
• Leader/driver/beer guide!
  
• Hotels x 2 nights
• Breakfasts x 2
• 1 x Evening meal
• Orval entrance fee
• A whole lot of fun!

Pick-up
Venlo (Netherlands).
Drop-off
TBC.

Ardennes Special/Chouffe Tour (AS-080215)

Dates
Friday 15-Sunday 17 February 2008
Tour Itinerary
Detailed Proposed Itinerary.
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The Format

• Day 1-Lambics, Chimay and into the Ardennes

• Pick-up Bruxelles.
• Lambic brewery (Drie Fonteinen or Boon)
• Chimay Trappiste Monastery
• Stenay Castle (France)
• Brasserie de Chateau Fort (France)
• Overnight-Bouillon

• Day 2-Orval and the Ardennes
  
• Bouillon Castle (from Godrey and the Crusades-no they're not a 50s band)
• Orval Trappiste Monastery (see Matilde's spring....)
  
• Millevertus or La Rulles
• Bastogne
• Achouffe
  
• Overnight-Achouffe-Mont

• Day 3-Abbeys
• Battle of the Bulge Museum (La Roche-en-Ardenne)
• (Rochefort Trappist TBC)
  
• Drop-off TBC
  

What's Included

• All transport within tour
• Leader/driver/beer guide!
  
• Hotels x 2 nights
• Breakfasts x 2
• 1 x Evening meal
• Orval entrance fee
• A whole lot of fun!

Pick-up
Bruxelles.
Drop-off
TBC.

Ardennes Special/Chouffe Tour

For the latest itinerary for the Ardennes Special tour please email for password.

The tour is now being offered by the Wallonie Tourist Office (Bruxelles).

Example Itinerary.

Cheers,
Bier-Mania!

Classic Tour

This tour covers the Limburg region of Netherlands as well as Niederhein (Lower Rhine) area of Germany.
Tours can include Düsseldorf, Venlo, Nijmegen and even Köln!

Tours run all year.

NEW Location. Lindeboom Brouwerij/Netherlands.

Tour Itinerary.

Tour Photos.

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Bruges and Flanders Special Tours

One of Bier-Mania!'s favourite parts of the world, this amazing tour, the »Bruges & Flanders Special« takes you both sides of the border in the West Vlaanderen region of Belgium and the Flandre region of France, another tour without frontiers!
Go west, it gets better and better!

Photos from this tour.

Dates
Every weekend or by arrangement, please email andy@bier-mania.com
Itinerary
Proposed Itinerary.
Enjoy!

Highlights

• Bruges Old Town
• Bruges Bier-cafe scene
• Thiriez Artisanale Brewery (France)
  
• Mont Cassel
• Northern France's Estaminets
  
• The mad brewers of Esen
• And much much more.......

All enquiries and further details contact Andy by email andy@bier-mania.com or phone us here in Germany.
Cheers!

Bruges and Flanders Special Map

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Annafest 2008/Franconia Special Tour 2 (SB-080802)

This July the 2nd of our 2 Franconia tours combines Forchheim's Annafest with the German regions of the Oberpfalz (Palatinate) and Franken (Franconia). We start on Saturday and visit the Annafest on the Sunday afternoon and evening!

8 PLACES

Dates
The 6-day Annafest/Franconia Special Beer Tour TM is from Saturday 02-Thursday 07 August 2008.
Pick-up/drop-off is Nuremberg Airport.

Itinerary
The itinerary for the tour can be found be clicking on Proposed Itinerary.
(Please email for password). Enjoy!

Highlights

• Regensburg Altstadt on the Danube.
• Zoigl beers, 15 pubs with over-night in the Oberpfalz, Bavaria TBC NEW.
  
• Annafest 2008 & 23 Cellar 'bars'!
  
• Forchheim's 4 breweries, and the beer-cellars of the Kellerwald !
• Fränkische Schweiz and Pottenstein.
  
• Maisels Steam Brewery Museum, Bayreuth.
  
• Historic Bamberg (UNESCO World Heritage Centre).
• Bamberg's Smoked Beers and10 breweries.
  
• And much much more.......

All enquiries and further details contact Andy by email andy@bier-mania.com or phone us here in Germany.
Cheers!

Annafest 2008/Franconia Special Tour 1 (SB-080726)

This July the 1st of our 2 Annafest/Franconia Special tours combines the amazing Annafest of Forchheim with the German regions of the Oberpfalz (Palatinate) and Franken (Franconia).

8 PLACES

Dates
The 6-day Annafest/Franconia Special Beer Tour TM is from Saturday 26-Thursday 31 July 2008.
Pick-up/drop-off is Nuremberg Airport.

Itinerary
The copyrighted itinerary for the tour can be found be clicking on Proposed Itinerary. (Email for password). Enjoy!

More photos, please click.

Looking forward to a seriously awesome 6-day tour!

Highlights

• Regensburg Altstadt on the Danube.
• Zoigl beers, 15 pubs with over-night in the Oberpfalz, Bavaria TBC NEW.
  
• Annafest 2008 & 23 Cellar 'bars'!
• Forchheim's 4 breweries, and the beer-cellars of the Kellerwald !
• Fränkische Schweiz and Pottenstein.
  
• Maisels Steam Brewery Museum, Bayreuth.
  
• Historic Bamberg (UNESCO World Heritage Centre).
• Bamberg's Smoked Beers and10 breweries.
  
• And much much more.......

All enquiries and further details contact Andy by email andy@bier-mania.com or phone us here in Germany.
Prost!

Oktoberfest 2008 Dates

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Photos from last year!

Tour 1 MB-080919 Friday 19-Monday 22 September 2008
Tour 2 MB-080923 Tuesday 23-Friday 26 September 2008
Tour 3 MB-080926 Friday 26-Monday 29 September 2008
Tour 4 MB-080930 Tuesday 30 September-Friday 03 October 2008
Tour 5 MB-081003 Friday 03-Monday 06 October 2008

Cost
All tours are €525.00 per person

Bohemia and Franconia Special (April)

Next April's Bier-Mania! beer tour combines the Czech region of Bohemia with the German regions of the Oberpfalz and Franconia.

ONLY 2 PLACES LEFT

Dates
The 10-day Bohemia and Franconia Special Beer Tour TM is from Friday 11-Sunday 20 April 2008.
Pick-up/drop-off is Frankfurt Airport.

Itinerary
The copyrighted itinerary for the tour can be found be clicking on Proposed Itinerary. (Email for password). Enjoy!

More photos, please click.

Looking forward to a seriously awesome 10-day tour!

Highlights

• Regensburg Altstadt on the Danube.
• Brewery guest house (over-night) and distillery in the Bavarian Forest in Germany.
• The Šumava (Bohemian Forest) area of Czech Republic.
• České Krumlov (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
• České Budĕjovice/Budweis (over-night)
• Budweis Pivovar/Brewery visit and tour
  
• Country breweries of Bohemia (we know where they are!)
  
• Prague (UNESCO World Heritage Centre)
• Plzeň/Pilsen Pivovar/Brewery visit and tour.
• Zoigl beers, 15 pubs with over-night in the Oberpfalz, Bavaria.
• Forchheim's 4 breweries, and the beer-cellars of the Kellerwald !
• Fränkische Schweiz and Pottenstein.
  
• Maisels Steam Brewery Museum, Bayreuth.
  
• Historic Bamberg (UNESCO World Heritage Centre).
• Bamberg's Smoked Beers and10 breweries.
  
• And much much more.......

All enquiries and further details contact Andy by email andy@bier-mania.com or phone us here in Germany.
Dobre Den or Prost!

Great Belgium Beer Tour (February)

This 10-day Great Belgium Beer Tour TM takes in the whole of Belgium and as well as northern France and the Biere de Garde areas.

The tour is designed to combine with the start of the Zythos Beer Festival 2008.

ONLY 4 PLACES LEFT

Dates
Thursday 21 February-Saturday 01 March 2008.
Pick-up is Düsseldorf and/or Bruxelles Airport (please ask). Drop-off is Zythos Beer Festival Saturday morning.

Itinerary
The copyrighted Example Itinerary for the tour can be found be clicking on Example Itinerary. (Please email for a password). Enjoy!

More photos of Belgium, please click here.

Looking forward to a seriously awesome 10-day tour!

Highlights

• Visits to all 6 Belgium Trappiste Monasteries.
• Drink every style of Belgium beer.
  
• Cafe Culture of Antwerpen and Bruges.
• Capital City of Bruxelles for 2 nights.
• Beer Dinners at 2 of Belgium's premier restaurants.
• Biere de Garde region of Northern France.
• Saison Country.
• Lambic Country
  
• 3 Countries, Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
• Brewery visits.
  
• Ardennes.
• WW1 & WW2sights.
• Fun!
  
• And much much more.......

All enquiries and further details contact Andy by email andy@bier-mania.com or phone us here in Germany.
Cheers!

Bière de Garde Special Map

The Lorraine Beer Zone. This is a pretty new tour in the Pays de Meuse region of Lorraine in France. If you did history at school you should remember Alsace/Lorraine, not a pretty past! No the area doesn't have the density of breweries that other Beer Zones have, but it makes up for it with passion! Now what an area, a chateau breweriy, a castle brewery, farm breweries, micro-brew pubs, combined with some real interactive WW1 sites (no they don't shoot back) and we think it's a great tour.


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Colorado Wild West Special Map

If you are getting dizzy looking at maps then don't worry, let's take our final trip over the pond to the good old US of A and to the Colorado Beer Zone!
We realised 2007 after the AHA Conference in Denver that this mountainous area (and having America's most breweries per head!) was a pretty ripe place for our inaugeral USA beer tour!
So Colorado's Wild West Beer TourTM (please don't copy us!) has now been born, Buffalo Bill eat your heart out.



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Great Belgium Beer Tour Map

The Belgium Beer Zone (and a bit of France!). Just look at the map! An epic adventure covering every Trappiste monastery, every Belgium Province, well every everything really!
What more can be said, 10-days of beer heaven!



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Bohemia Czech Special

Yep, we know we have taken you from Franconia to Flanders and back to Czech, bit of travel broadens the mind!
The Bohemia Beer Zone. Think small country breweries, dark beer, light beer, strange cars still on the road, will the real Buddy Budweiser please stand up, please stand up?
Throw in a night in Zoigl country (if you say 'what's Zoigl?' then get on a tour!), a night in a brewery guesthouse in the Bavarian Forest then think you get the picture.
You may be thinking 'but the tours in Germany as well', hey, like we said, beer doesn't understand borders!


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Bruges and Flanders Special Map

After the 'big' beers of Bavaria we are back to the Flanders Beer Zone in Belgium West Vlaanderen and French Flandres region, a Beer Zone we rather like!
Beers (like people) don't really understand borders and as with many of our tours, we meandre both sides of the border! The tour always overnights in Cassel, a 'town' perched on the Grand Duke of York's Mont Cassel, awesome place straight out of the film Chocolate!



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Oktoberfest/Bayern Special Map

Our Oktoberfest/Bayern Special tour covers not just Oktoberfest, we run tours years round, fancy seeing Ettal monastery, going up Germay's highest mountain the Zugspitz or seeing Chitty Chitty Banh Bang castle?
What's assured is that we will take you to those 'off-the-beaten-track' places our tours are renowned for.
Prost!


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Franconia & Bamberg Special Map

Tour 4. The Franconia Beer Zone, we love it there, 293 breweries in Franconia alone (more if we include Oberpflaz/Palatinate). The heart of German brewing, incredible beer!
Cheers!


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Ardennes Special Map

Our 2nd tour, this takes in the whole of the Ardennes region of Belgium. Great for hiking, fishing, canoeing, and of course great beers and smoked hams!
Oh, and some dodgey roads.
Cheers!


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Classic Tour Map

The Classic Tour (Tour 1) is in the Lower Rhine Beer Zone. We think it is an awesome area, we hope you agree, find out for yourselves! German top-fermenters Altbier, Kolsch, Lagerbier (yes really), Landbier, Dutch beer.... No Oranjeboom here!
Cheers!


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