Heidelberg II.V: Bierwanderung

THE BEER HIKE

  Is what the name of this post means. When the Bierwanderung was announced, everyone was excited. What we do, was that we were going to visit a brewery, and do some beer tasting things. For only 8 Euros, we can have free flow of beer, anytime, in the brewery. Sounds good enough, and so we went.

  The Bierwanderung was actually an experiment, to show how far someone would go, to achieve free flow of beer.

All pumped for unlimited beer

  What they didn't explain, was how much we had to hike, to get to the brewery. Don't get me wrong, it was excellent exercise, and making our goal of reaching the brewery all the much tastier, but boy oh boy, was it a test to our thighs. 

  It's called a beer hike for a reason. To think, we, all from Newfoundland, would have no problem with the Philosophenweg (Philosopher's Path? As many great philosophers, artist, writers, has walked this path), as we are already accustomed to the various trails on our lovely Rock. What the trails of the Rock doesn't have are: steep stairs and sunny sunny sun.

  The beginning of the trail is almost as steep as that road (you know, that one) in Downtown. The road with Wing'in It and that Mexican restaurant? Yeah, it's that steep, maybe even steep-ier, and rock steps to make your legs work more. 

  It was a gruelling 20 minute hike, and the rest of the trail was rather flat (except the end, but it's not as bad as the start). After about an hour of walking, we finally reached to the brewery. The man giving the tour, was super passionate about his work, and was explaining to us about German beer history, the difference of hops, malt, etc., and how beer is made, the usual brewery spiel. What he did wrong, however, was offering us free flow of beer from the start, which caused pretty much everyone to not pay attention to him, as everyone was just downing Maß after Maß of beer.

Beer and bread

   That was the story about the Bierwanderung. As you can see, this post is pretty short, because its not a proper post. I labelled it 2.5 for a reason, as the main blog post will be uploaded right after this.

Viele Dank!