Day 7- Bamberg!

Started the day off at Kaspar Schulz. They make top quality show piece type brewing equipment.

A wonderful welcome of beer, sausage, and pretzels. They sure know our group well.

Big tank.

Smaller tanks.

Making the tanks nice a shiny with their super polisher. Their tanks are very high quality and look absolutely beautiful.

Oh look, an awesome red castle. Wait, what? That is Weyermann!? For those of you who do not know they are one of the major suppliers of grain, especially German traditional malts.

What a great place! Had a welcome center with different craft beers on tap. In addition to beers they of course treated us to a nice spread of traditional food for lunch.

Pictures were not allowed inside the facility, but I did sneak this picture of the Sinamar production space. Sinamar is a dark coloring that can be used to make your beer darker without altering the flavor while staying within Reinheitsgebot.

Super secret recipe for their Schlotfegerla smoked beer! Just kidding, it is on their website.

Nice bag of swag is always appreciated

After Weyermann, we headed to our hotel. Walking through the old streets of Bamberg we see the old City Hall.

It is also home to the classic style Rauchbier. We pass by Aecht Schlenkerla which is my all time favorite Rauchbier. Our hotel ended up being directly across the street!

Here is the view from my hotel room, you can see the entrance to Aecht Schlenkerla!

Before heading out for the evening, we decided to check out the Bamberger Dom

It was already closed for the day, but walking around the outside was still interesting. This statue was once a lion...I think.

Few more pictures then on to the freshest Aecht Schlenkerla ever

Straight from the barrel, amazing.

This is the sign outside Aecht Schlenkerla. If you look on the right there is what looks like a star of David, but this in fact the Zoigl Star. This six pointed star is the symbol of the brewer. Three points symbolize the three elements involved in brewing (fire, water, and air) and the other three are the three ingredients in beer (malt, hops, and water)

After Aecht Schlenkerla, we bounced around to some other bars with Eder, which means it was awesome. Make more party, of course.