When I discovered there was a town named Fucking in Austria, I knew I had to visit. No, I didn’t get any Fucking postcards and I was unable to have a Fucking beer, but it was a quick and fun Fucking road trip. Okay, the pronunciation is actually “Fooking” and the jokes must get f*cking …
I intentionally scheduled a long layover at the Munich Airport in order to go to Freising, a Bavarian town I would like to thank for the beginning of beer. Freising is the home of Weihenstephaner, the brewery believed to be the oldest in the world. I had actually planned to visit Freising on previous layovers …
Beer to Germans is like rice to Asians – it’s a dietary staple. Germans are third in the world in per capita beer consumption, slightly behind the Czechs and the Irish. From 1516 to 1988, German beer was brewed in adherence with the Reinheitsgebot, or “German Beer Purity Law”. The law stated that the only ingredients …