Grüne Woche (International Green Week) is a massive food, agriculture and horticulture exhibition held for the 80th time in 2015 at Messe Berlin. I went for the first time on Saturday and was amazed by the huge selection of different food and drink from all around the world on offer. My food highlight of the […]
Hipsters Love Beer – I love beer, does that make me a Hipster?
The craft beer scene in Berlin has exploded in the last couple of years and for a beer lover like myself that is definitely a good thing. Sometimes though, beer appreciation seems to go the way of wine snobbery and this video of hipster mockery from Nacho Punch made me chortle. I have to say, […]
The International Berlin Beer Festival – Craft Beer on the Biermeile
It’s International Berlin Beer Festival (Internationales Berliner Bierfestival) time in Berlin so this weekend is the perfect time to expand your drinking horizons whilst you catch some sun. Now in it’s 18th year, the festival takes over the 2.2km stretch of Karl-Marx-Allee from Strausberger Platz to Frankfurter Tor (the Biermeile) and 240 breweries from 87 countries are […]
BIER
On my travels today I stumbled across a beer called BIER in a supermarket near Treptower Park. I read about this relatively new Berlin beer on Slow Travel Berlin the other day and was keen to try some. The non-brand was started by two Berliners who describe the concept on their website as a reaction […]