A selection of articles describing good beer destinations, and destinations with good beer.

Help Us Find Europe’s Best Airports & Railway Stations for Beer!

Are you a beer-loving traveler? Have you ever been pleasantly surprised by a great beer selection while waiting for a flight or train? At EBCU (European Beer Consumers Union), we want to find out which European airports and railway stations…

Cantillon Brewery, Brussels – A taste of the wild?

  The Cantillon brewery stands in one of the less salubrious parts of the city of Brussels. I approached it from the city centre along run-down streets and through a pretty ethnically diverse part of the city. It sits opposite a disused lot…

Beer Destination – Wiesbaden

I've been in Wiesbaden a number of times over the past several years on short vacations visiting in-laws, so when I was there this August after visiting Adeptus in Münster I decided it was high time I put forward an article for the ICB travel…

Beer Destinations – Vienna & Bratislava

I recently went to Vienna and Bratislava spending a few days in each city. Flew from Cork to Bratislava and bussed directly to Vienna. Spent two full days there seeing the sights and sampling what Vienna had to offer, then took a ferry to Bratislava…

Beer Destination – Edinburgh

This town is hard on the feet with its many steep inclines and cobbled streets, but that is all the more justification for stopping off, resting your weary legs and having a restorative pint of life giving ale. This is not a straight forward…

Drinking Big Apple

"They got bars in New York that never close And bars where the people take off their clothes And bars where the young folks dance all night And bars where a fella…

A Weekend in Munich

I spent a recent long weekend on a visit to Munich. The following is not by any means a “Beer Guide to Munich” because we simply did not have enough time available to us to visit all the best places. But we did manage a number of…

London’s Micros

My plane touched down in Heathrow bumpily at 11.20 in the morning as another disgruntled Aer Lingus pilot took out his frustrations on the tarmac. My mission for the day was to drink a pint in each of London's seven brewpubs, and with the first…

Beer Destination – Prague

What can you say about a city in which the best lagers in the world are available on every street corner at a quarter of the cost of pub prices in Dublin? It’s a beer lover’s fantasy and I found it hard to believe I was really…

Beer Destination – Oslo

"Forty-five bucks!? This better be the best tasting beer in the world. [Drinks] You got lucky." -- Barney Gumble Let's face it: Oslo is not the obvious choice for a beer-hunting weekend. Two contributing factors spring immediately…

Beer Destination – Salzburg

Salzburg, the home of Mozart, and a UNESCO Cultural Heritage site, might seem like an unlikely place for a beer weekend, but is a beautiful city of manageable size. There is plenty to see; beautiful architecture, things Mozart-related, “Sound…