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Quest for the Holy Grain - Best Beer Bars |
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| Bier Museum The Bier Museum is a beer bar on a block with several other nice bars in the busy drinking area of Cologne. One would think that with 18 European draft beers and an extensive bottle list, this would be a pleasent place to drink. Maybe not. It's a small place, with a beat-out wooden bar and a few stools in addition to several tables. That's it. No food was visible nor offered. One website lists their food as Bier. Early on a Friday evening modern dance music was blaring uncomfortably loud from the speakers. You can get a taste of this right here. And, young people were pounding down their beers preparing for a long night. |
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Restaurant Sitte The Sitte is a few blocks from the busy shopping area of downtown Darmstadt. It seems like a fine dining establishment in that it is quite proper with white tablecloths and candles, and a flowery motif, even in the bar area. The food on the menu seemed quite pricey, but the food was unique. The traditional fare was competitively priced. Oh, and they have beer. They are an outlet for the Pfungstädter brewery and have all of their products available. The beers were good and so was the service. But it's a kinda quiet and cozy place; not the drinking place for everyone. |
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Kloster Andechs-Das Wirtshaus Andechs Wirtshaus is a large restaurant on the edge of the busy shopping district in Nürnberg. Although their is no bar, there are several small tables in the front. In the rear are many large tables in the German style, with an American touch...alcoves and nooks. They are a tied house for Klosterbrauerei Andechs and carry 4 Andechs products on tap. On a Friday afternoon Andechs was quite busy. In spite of the big crowd, only one person was eating; everyone else was there for the beer!! |
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Wirtshaus zum Spreisel Wirtshaus zum Spreisel is a restaurant just off the busy shopping and tourist area near the university in Heidelberg. Rustic in decor, like a 60's hunting lodge, the place is cozy and comfortable, with many nooks and small areas. They are an outlet for the Dachsenfranz brewery and have four of these products. |
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Bierakedemie Bierakademie is a bar just off the main shopping street in downtown Karlsruhe. It reminds one of a college happy hour bar in that the large U- shaped bar has only a few stools but probably stands about 40. An alcove to the side seats perhaps 20 more. The few decorations are beer or soccer posters. No TV, no food...just beer. Just kidding...they have a good selection of shooters, and if you insist, a red wine and a white one. But there selection of 10 local draft beers and six bottles is impressive by local standards. |
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Bolay's Bierstube Bolay's is one of the 20 bars in the busy tourist area of Saarbrucken, Germany. Though referred to as a sports bar, it is a small and cozy place to drink. The bar seats about seven and there are about ten tables. They have four different taps, featuring draft beers from the Bruck brewery, as well as bottled Belgians. The proprietors went out of their way to make this Questor comfortable. |
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Solberfass'je Haxenhaus A small cafe in an area of small cafes, Solberfass'je is unique in that it has six taps, all of different styles and from different brewers as well as a selection of bottled beer. The ground floor seats about 25, although there is an upstairs as well as an outside area. The food looked good, but was kind of pricey. |
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Mommseneck Am Potsdamer Platz Mommseneck is located in the center of a bustling tourist district. They have abundant seating outside in both the front and the rear, lots of seating in the barroom, a large bar, and an upstairs, too. They have 12 local beers on tap and a beer list with 100 bottles. About 50 of these are German beers, about 25 are European beers, and the rest from elsewhere. The service is what you would expect in a large popular bar, and the prices reflect how far the beer has traveled to get there. It's a nice place to enjoy beer with other tourists.
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