Ah, nothing like a nice drive through scenic Bavaria!Me playing Tour guide: "If you look to your left you'll see vineyards, just below the tree line"
"And if you look to your right,.......What the?!, are we in Georgia? Check out the red clay!"
This was one of the few construction areas that we had to drive through! It really is a nice scenic drive. As usual, the pictures will never do it justice.
This is Miltenberg! It was so beautiful, nestled between the Main (pronounced Mine) river and the mountains.
grammar Lesson Alert: The suffix -berg, as in Miltenberg, refers to the mountain. -burg, as in Rothenburg, refers to the town.
Miltenberg was a wonderful town, er ah, mountain village!
This was a shot of the bridge crossing the Main, and an excursion vessel passing underneath. That should help to give a bit of scale to the photo.
Even though it was raining off and on that day, it was still fun to walk through the streets and just admire the architecture.
Of course you didn't think that we could go all day without nourishment. We stopped by the Faust Brewery, for a light snack and some adult refreshment. We all decided the best strategy was to try the sampler of beers. All were good, but I preferred the Dunkle.
Interesting to note that Faust was the first German brewery to expand over to the US. If you search very hard you can still find the original name of their import, but of course it was purchased some years ago by the larger breweries.
Think you know which beer it was, or do you give up?
Schlitz!
That's right, Schlitz beer was actually a product of the Faust Brewery! Their export lager, the original Schlitz, is still on tap at the brewery. It's a good one, and I recommend that you try it to see what American beers used to be, that's of course if you're ever in Miltenberg! They also had some excellent pretzels and Weiss Wurst (white sausage, sort of like a Brat), that went very well with the beers.
Well, I've been back for a couple of weeks now and the jet lag has worn off. Time to get back to tending to my hops so that I can try to brew up some of my own!
If you ever get the chance to tour through Europe, and especially Bavaria, Germany, please take it. I'm sure you'll never forget it!
2 comments:
You look so happy with that tray of beers.
I used to drink dark schlitz in my pub crawling days.
FC,
You can still find Schlitz lager, but it's a different recipe by a different brewer now.
Hey it looks like you guy's are going to get wet pretty quickly here. Hope you just get the rain that you need, and not the damage!
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