Beer Pictures and Notes From Near and Far


Roving reporter Patrick Horton St Petersburg cafe!	Russian beer and Beer Stein/Mug!

See note below about Russian Brewery Baltica

Beer Temple in Thailand

Munich Airport has more for the beer enthusiasts than any other airport!!

In addition to the 'beer garden' in the Lufthansa business class lounge there is a full brewhouse at the airport for all people!

Munich Airport Has new Beer Garden - as they should being Bavarians

Real Bavarian flair combined with high class ambient - status customers and Business Class passengers from Asia Pacific travelling to Europe now can look forward to another highlight on their journey. On 23 March 2010, Lufthansa launched its renovated Business Lounge in Terminal 2 at Munich Airport with a world’s first: the Business Lounge incorporates features of a traditional Bavarian beer garden with a modern-day twist.

In cooperation with Munich’s Franziskaner brewery, Lufthansa is giving passengers the chance to relax at beer tables and enjoy draught beer tapped from the barrel with Bavarian pretzels. The beer garden is integrated into the refurbished Business Lounge in the Schengen departures area (Gate Area G) of Terminal 2. On a total floor space of 1,100 square metres, the lounge is equipped with more than 300 seats and has many new opportunities for passengers to catch up with work or simply unwind and relax. ”Lufthansa is continuing to invest in customer comfort despite the present, difficult economic situation,“ observes Thomas Klühr, Group Representative and Head of Hub Management Munich. “The newly refurbished Business Lounge measures up to the high quality that our passengers have come to expect from our product.“

The new Lufthansa Business Lounge is an unparalleled opportunity for Australian passengers to experience Bavarian flair while transferring to connecting flights into Europe. With a total of 93 destinations offered, Munich Airport is Lufthansa’s gateway into Europe. During its summer schedule 2010, Lufthansa offers around 20 daily code share flights with Star Alliance partners from Australia and New Zealand to Munich.

Besides a re-designed bistro area, the Business Lounge offers six new satellite bars and a long bench seat that can accommodate up to 28 passengers. Passengers can sink into the inviting leather-upholstered armchairs for a while, and enjoy peace and quiet in the comfort zone. The more industrious have 18 workstations, some equipped with integrated computers, to choose from. From any seat in the lounge, passengers can surf the net with their laptop or check their emails. Two large screens in a separate TV area provide entertainment in a choice of television programmes. Also available are two shower rooms, complete with hair dryer, towels and a range of toiletries.

April 2005 saw me indulging a night of calories in Vienna. Re-aquainting myself with this city (last visit 1978!) I excluded the usual sightseeing - which I had already over subscribed to during my days as a tour leader - and explored streets, museums and cafes! The first nights dining was at an equally charming establishment known at, 'Gosser Bierklinik'. The pictures show me at the 'Salm Brau' (click here to read about beers) probably one of the more famous venues for consuming beer and food. They provide you with sample glasses of their own brews and then you can decide upon a more normal sized glass for the meal! Enjoy great beer and traditional Austrian food all enveloped within arched cellars of an old convent - those Nuns again! Web www.salmbraeu.com

Some Beer Oddities from Eastern Germany

STOP PRESS!!! Recent 'Medical Report' pertaining to the male consumption of beer. Click HERE for this important read!

Can you really believe it type true news report.
Imagine being employed as a beer taster. Evaluating the aroma, flavour and feel of liquid gold would be sensory heaven. We were surprised to read about a beer taster in Brazil, who filed a law suit against his employer and won. The ‘victim’, who downed about a litre and-a-half of booze daily, alleged his workplace lacked the necessary health measures to keep him from developing alcoholism. During his decade-long career, the man claims he drank up to 25 small glasses of beer per shift and received a bottle of beer at the end of each day. While the employer insists the man was an alcoholic prior to his recruitment, the court ruled that the company was negligent in the employment of an alcoholic to a beer – tasting role.

Visiting Dunedin in New Zealand? Visit the Speights and the Emersons Brewery. Enjoy the tour and the drink!	Visiting Lake Wanaka and Cardrona (New Zealand)
Visiting Melbourne? Try a 'Goat' ale! If you are in Melbourne on a Friday the brewery is open in the evenings for beer, music and food!	Visiting Christchurch in New Zealand? Try the 'DuxLux' brewery and restaurant
Another Melbourne 'house of good repute' 3 Ravens Ale	World Wide Beer/Pub Walking Tours. Sydney - historical Rocks Area Pub Tour.
Visiting the Marlborough region in New Zealand? Try Moa in a Champers bottle!	New Zealand Whiskey A natural 'chaser' for serious beer enthusiasts
Beer Map of New Zealand Locate a brewery, brew pub or sales outlet. A new project	Beer Tours New Zealand Wellington lunch time and evening beer tours.

Australian International Beer Awards	Click to view
Beer Advocate	Click to view
Beer Lovers Australia	Click to view
Beer Lovers' Guide to Victoria's MICROBREWERIES	Click to view
Buffalo Brewery	Click to view
Campaign for Real Ale	Click to view
Grand Ridge Brewery	Click to view
Hargreaves Hill Brewery	Click to view
Holgate Brewhouse	Click to view
Lambsgo Bar	Click to view
Melbourne Pub Guide	Click to view
Rate Beer	Click to view
Real Beer Australia	Click to view
The Australian Good Beer Directory	Click to view
The Bavarian Beer Cafe Sydney	Click to view

Austria	Britain	Beer at Airports	Other Europe
Ireland	Japan	USA	Russia
France	Netherlands	Germany


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A small party, a tour operator, photojournalist, Rolls Royce jet turbine engineer and a computer graphics designer anticipated an evenings pub tour of the lower Cotswolds.. We never left the first pub!!


Chocolate beer bottles found in a shop in Zwickau Eastern Germany!!	During the GDR and the WW2 period this small village in Eastern Germany kept its name! Many, during the GDR period, kept this name in their minds as the name of freedom. I was told this yarn by an immigrant to Melbourne who was born near this village.


Bavarian Beer Cafe In Australia	Biere Academie Paris	Grain d'Orge Ronchin