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Bier-Mania! Cultural Beer Tours
We will show you. Awesome.

Our Biere de Garde Special tours run all year. They can be combined with the Ardennes Special for a unique insight into an area of northern France that few tourists really get to grasps with.
The Biere de Garde Special is part of Bier-Mania!s Great Belgium Beer Tour in any case!
Be good to see you on a tour.

Cheers,
Andy

Franconia & Annafest 2009 Special (SB-090801) FULL

Our other (second) Annafest tour is from Saturday 01-Thursday 08 August.
We also have a training day on Friday 31 July in Bad Windsheim....
Tour Map

Pick-up is Frankfurt airport on Friday 31 July.
Drop-off is Nuremberg airport on Thursday 06 August.

Tour Highlights
* Historic Berching
* Burg Randeck
* Josef Schneider's brewery guesthouse
* Altmühltal region
* UNESCO Regensburg
* Weltenburg Monastery
* Weisenhohe Monastery
* Meet one of Bavaria's female brewers (Hofmann brewery)
* Annafest 2009
* Rappenkeller
* Visit Levi Strauss' birthplace.....
* Country brewery crawl
* Lunch @ Kathi-Bräu
* Burg Rabenstein
* Historic Pottenstein
* Maisels Brewery Museum
* Will brewery
* Vierzehnheiligen Monastery
* UNESCO Bamberg
* Bamberg's 10 breweries
* And much much more...

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Photos-
Top right-Josef Schneider brewery guesthouse where we spend a great night, good food, good beer and awesome view from the beer garden
Middle-Forchheim's Kellerwald where the 23 cellar bars are the scene of the 10-day Annafest! Nice sandals.
Bottom-Klosterbräu in Bamberg, a great place to have some lunch-they also have probably the best selection of beers in Bamberg!
Credits-Andy Neil
Cheers,
Andy

Although our Annafest tours only run over the 10-day Annafest period, our Franconia & Bamberg Special tours run all year, rain, sun or snow!
Be good to see you on a tour.

Franconia & Annafest 2009 Special (SB-090723) FULL

Our first of our 2 awesome Annafest tours is now on and unfortunately for you it is full, unless of course you are booked on the tour!
It is a 9-day tour which includes the Bayerische Wald (Bavarian Forest), a visit to Pilsen in Czech Republic as well as Zoigl Land and of course Franconia.
The tour finishes at the end of the Bierstrasse in Bad Windsheim, cheers!
Tour Map
Outline Itinerary
Thursday 23 July 2009

• Frankfurt airport
• Sternbräu for breakfast!
• Historic Berching and lunch @ Winkler brewery guesthouse
  
• Burg Randeck (!)
  
• Overnight @ Josef Schneider' brewery guesthouse (Altmühltal)
  

Friday 24 July 2009

• Schneider Weisse brewery tour
• Regensburg UNESCO
• Böbrach scnapps museum
• Overnight @ Eck brewery guesthouse (Bavarian Forest)

Saturday 25 July 2009

• Pzeňský Prazdroj Pivovar otherwise known as Pilsen Brewery Czech Republic
• Windischechenbach & Zoigl night at Binner
  
• Overnight @ Weissen Schwan, Windischechenbach

Sunday 26 July 2009

• Weisenhohe Monastery
• Hofmann brewery
• Annafest 2009
• Overnight @ Schweizergrom, Forchheim

Monday 27 July 2009

• Levi Strauss.....
• Country brewery crawl
• Lunch @ Kathi-Bräu
  
• Burg Rabenstein
• Overnight @ Goldene Krone, Pottenstein

Tuesday 28 July 2009

• Maisels Brewery Museum
• Will brewery for lunch
• Vierzehnheiligen Monastery
• Bamberg
• Overnight @ National, Bamberg

Wednesday 29 July 2009

• Bamberg's 10 breweries
• Overnight @ Hotel National, Bamberg

Thursday 30 July 2009

• Kreuzberg
• Lunch at Zum Löwenbräu
• Bierstrasse drive
• Franconian open air museum
• Overnight @ Zum Birnbaum, Bad Windsheim

Friday 31 July 2009

• Tour ends in Frankfurt!
• Bye bye!

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Cheers,
Andy

Oktoberfest 2009 Update

Latest news from Germany.

We have now confirmed beer tent reservations at the Hacker-Pschorr tent for ALL Bier-Mania! tours this September and October.
When we are in Munich, we use the Concorde Hotel, a central **** hotel just around the corner (not too close) to the Hofbräuhaus.

This year we have the following 5 tours, 8 people maximum on each tour.

Dates
Tour 1 MB-090918 (18-21 September) FULL
Tour 2 MB-090922 (22-25 September) 6 places left
Tour 3 MB-080926 (25-28 September) 6 places left
Tour 4 MB-090929 (29-02 October) 8 places
Tour 5 MB-091002 (02-05 October) 8 places

Cheers,
Andy@bier-mania.com
Bier-Mania!

Great European Beer Tour/Oktoberfest 2009

Proposed Itinerary
The Proposed Itinerary for THE Great European Beer Tour/Oktoberfest 2009 is now out.

This really is the tour of all tours! 3 countries in 11 days, we even take in Munich’s famous Oktoberfest at the end with our reserved tent reservation at Hacker-Pschorr.
We take you from the oldest known remains of a brewery in Europe in Kulmbach (no longer functionaing!), through the amazing ‘Zoigl Land' (Zoigl at Wolframstuberln) and into the Czech Republic and the home of Pilsner beer.
The it is Budweis, Salzburg, the Alps and ending in Munich's Oktoberfest!
Read on, a truly awesome tour!

The itinerary can be seen by clicking the link-Proposed Itinerary.

Tour Map
Click on PM-090911-Tour Map.

Cheers,
Andy

It is planned to run this tour all year, rain, sun or snow! Please email for further details and give dates you would be interested in. Be good to see you on a tour.