Rauchbier (Smoke Beer or Smoked Beer) from Bamberg, Belgian Beer, Trappist Beer, Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, and Real Ale from the UK, and other types of Speciality Beer are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. But what's in a name, the site's name that is? All is revealed on the Home Page! Schneider Weisse, a well-travelled, classic Wheat/White Beer, brewed in Bavaria by Schneider. Click on the image to go to their website This is a 'White Beer Travels' Web page covering the 'Good Beer Guide to Germany', by Steve Thomas. It is a truly brilliant book that you should not enter Germany without. Click here to go to the the website that accompanies the guide
German Beer (including Rauchbiier (Smoked Beer or Smoke Beer), Belgian Beer (including Trappist Beer), British Real Ale, North American Craft Beer and Speciality Beer and Specialty Beer from around the world, are all covered in this White Beer Travels website This White Beer Travels website has been in operation since March, 2002. It promotes Speciality/Craft Beer from around the world: Belgian Beer, German Beer, Craft Beer from the USA and Canada, Real Ale from the UK, etc
 
Click here to reach the "White Beer Travels" Home PageClick here for Speciality Beer and Brewery News. Also check out the "Archives" for "old" news!Click to find details of Beer Hunts that you can joinClick here to get information on Past Beer Hunts organised by White Beer TravelsClick here for information on what to expect on a typical Beer Hunt organised by White Beer TravelsYou are on a page of a White Beer Travels "Pub of the Month". For the current "Pub of the Month" click hereClick here for John White's Beer CV (Curriculum Vitae, Résumé) Click here for past Pubs of the Month, News, etcClick here for downloadable guides to places, breweries and barsClick here for "Links" to other websites. There are many on the other pages of the site, as well!Click here for full details on how to contact White Beer TravelsClick here for information on how the site was built, including acknowledgement of any help receivedClick here for details of the French to English Translation Service offered by White Beer Travels, & for the contact details of organisations that can provide the reverse
Belgian Beer and other great Speciality/Craft Beers, these including Real Ale from the UK and Craft Beers from the USA and Canada, are promoted on this, the White Beer Travels website. It is a big site, so to get an outline idea of the contents, click here to go to the site's Contents page
  Würzburg, in Germany, is world-renowned for its "Franken" wines. However, White (Wheat) Beers have certainly travelled to the city. The three different ones shown here are excellent examples. All are brewed in the city's Würzburger Hofbräu Brewery. Click on the glasses to go to the brewery's website, from which the image was pasted
 
Your cursor is on a scan of the cover of 'Good Beer Guide Germany', by Steve Thomas. It is essential reading before, during and after a trip to Germany. Click on it to go to its associated website, which has updates. There is also a link to CAMRA's website, from where the guide can be purchased
 

Good Beer Guide Germany,
a Monumental Achievement, by Steve Thomas, www.german-breweries.com, Bookmark

You would expect that the first ever guide covering all the breweries of Germany, would be in German and written by a German, but no, it is in English, written by a Welshman, Steve Thomas!

This truly marvellous, don't-enter-Germany-without guide was published in May, 2006, i.e. in time for the 2006 Football World Cup, which took place in Germany, in June, 2006. It is the first ever comprehensive guide to Germany's brewers, their beers and their principal outlet. It covers more than 1,250 breweries, 1,000 brewery taps and 7,500 beers. There is information on how to get to Germany and travel within it, and introductory essays on German beer and brewing. Despite being Steve's first book, the Good Beer Guide Germany is a first rate effort that should be in every Speciality/Specialty/Craft Beer fan's library/suitcase. It is described as a companion to Tim Webb's Good Beer Guide Belgium, but from a practical point of view, it cannot be an exact like for like, since there are far more bars in Germany than there are in Belgium. Therefore, unlike the Belgian guide, it does not have a town by town listing of pubs selling decent beer. What it does have, is an entry for all the breweries in each town in Germany, with the name and address of their principal outlet. However, it does have some general pub information for towns/cities with a special beer interest, and/or were world cup venues: Augsburg, Bamberg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Köln (Cologne), Leipzig, München (Munich), Nürnberg (Nuremberg) and Stuttgart. Yes, this book, is an essential addition to the collection of anyone who is remotely interested in good beer in Germany; I am confident that it will not be lost on your book shelf, but will be out on view, so that it can very regularly referred to. Updates to the guide are available from its companion website, for which there is a link to the left.

The Good Beer Guide Germany (www.german-breweries.com) is published by the UK's premier beer consumers' organisation, CAMRA, the CAMpaign for Real Ale (www.camra.org.uk) (ISBN 1 85249 219 8, 576 pages (134x210mm)). It is in full colour throughout, with a superb layout by Dale Tomlinson, and a similar style to the Good Beer Guide Belgium, by Tim Webb (www.booksaboutbeer.com, White Beer Travels Web page). Indeed, Dale did the layout for both these essential guides. The Good Beer Guide Germany can be purchased from the CAMRA website.

Steve lives in the Welsh capital, Cardiff. When not in Germany, he is often to be seen in the bar of the city's Chapter Arts Centre, Market Road, Canton, CF5 1QE, www.chapter.org. This is an entry in the 2007 CAMRA Good Beer Guide (GBG) (page 574), covering the UK, having a selection of Real Ales, but it also has a very big selection of German Beers and holds German Beer Festivals, in May and October, each year. Its German beers are supplied by Olaf Schellenberg, who are based in Perth, in Scotland.

John White (1945-), Your cursor is on an image of John White's e-mail address. Click on it to send an e-mail to John, August, 2006, updated in June, 2007.

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Rauchbier (Smoke Beer or Smoked Beer) from Bamberg, in Germany, a particularly famous style of Speciality Beer (Craft Beer), is promoted on this website, along with great beer from all over the world, for example Belgian Beer, such as Trappist Beer, which is just about the world's most well-known Speciality/Craft Beer
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Schneider Weisse, a well-travelled, classic Wheat/White Beer, brewed in Bavaria by Schneider. Click on the glass to go to their website Click on this bottle of Schneider Weisse, to see that this White Beer has travelled to Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, in Spain's Canary Islands. The photo, by Joyce White, features John White and White Beer Travels Beer Hunt regular, Dr Eric Clow, in the Mesón Andalucia, in May, 2004