Discover the brewing region centred on Bamberg
— on two wheels and in authentic brewpubs
The town and countryside around Bamberg has the greatest density of breweries in the world, and the most diverse beers are brewed here.
Discover Bamberg's brewing traditions for yourself on a bike tour around the city that focusses on breweries and beer culture, or let us surprise you with the number of small country breweries still plying their trade in the Franconian villages around Bamberg.
We can organize tours of a Franconian country brewery or beer tasting sessions in a traditional Bamberg pub — just let us know what you are interested in!
Explore Bamberg BEERTOWN —
A city bike tour focussing on breweries and beer culture
This city bike tour will take you past the brewery museum, one of the town's malthouses and seven of Bamberg's nine surviving breweries. Cycling is the most pleasurable way to get to know parts of the beer town within and beyond the town centre. Besides classic locations such as the Sandstrasse, home to the most famous of all Bamberg's breweries, you will discover the Königsstrasse, Bamberg's royal road, the Wunderburg, an area with longstanding brewing traditions that are still very much alive today, and the Hain quarter, where many hops merchants built villas in the late 19th century.
You will hear interesting stories about the beer war and the traditions of brewers and maltsters. And you'll find out why people go UP (and not down) to the Bamberg's beer cellars, the famous Keller.
| Distance: | 18 km, 3 hours |
| Max. group size: | 20 participants |
| Cost: | Group rate: €110 |
Explore the BEER COUNTRY around Bamberg —
Breweries in the Steigerwald nature park
This guided tour takes us past a total of twelve breweries, eight of them outside of the town. We start in Bamberg's Sandstrasse and use cycle tracks and little-used rural roads that take us through typical Franconian villages, past carp and duck ponds. With a bit of luck, we'll see aurochs grazing in the Aurach valley.
The tour through the Steigerwald nature park takes us through an attractive landscape with pleasant valleys and attractive views from the hilltops of the Steigerwald over to the Hassberge mountains and the Frankenjura. It is also full of taste highlights: we will stop off in a traditional Franconian brewpub and taste one of the regional beer specialities.
| Distance: | 45 km, 5 - 6 hours including a break |
| Max. Group size: | 20 participants |
| Cost: | Group rate €140 (not including brewery tour, beer sampling, food and drink) |
If the 280 meters total ascent of this tour strikes you as overly ambitious, we can leave out one of the breweries and add in a detour of 5 km on the flat.