Brewery Tours between Oberammergau and Berchtesgaden

If you are traveling between Oberammergau and Berchtesgaden by train, you'll change in Munich, and there are many breweries there.

I once stayed in Freilassing, which is on the way to Berchtesgaden. I had dinner at a small restaurant near the Bahnhof and they had a "local" beer that really impressed me. I went there the next time I was in Freilassing, but they were closed for a family funeral.

I can't remember the name of the beer, but it was made in either Traunstein orTeisendorf. Both are on the way to Berchtesgaden. I subsequently looked up the name and found the URL. They do have tours of the brewery.

I took a picture of the restaurant's sign with the name of the brewery shown. I'm not at home right now, but I'll look it up and post again when I get home.

I'm not home yet, but I just remembered the name and looked it up. It's Wieninger. They do have tours, but their website looks like it is only in German.

Google Brauereien in Oberbayern and check the map. Can't speak to any braueri tours, but the braueri are not too difficult to find.

http://bier.bayern-online.de/karte

www.bier-tour.de/bayern/oberbayern/

http://www.biermap24.de/bierkarte.php

Zum Wohl

We are driving so we have a lot of flexibility. Thanks for your suggestions.

On the numerous small breweries in Franoncia from an American perspective see
http://www.bambergbeerguide.com/

Do you know of any good breweries that offer tours?

You should not have a problem finding lots of good breweries from the suggestions above but finding ones with official "tours" might be difficult. I've found that most of the smaller breweries are happy to show you around if you ask but this is the closest you will get to a tour you might find in one of the bigger industrial breweries in Munich.

Here are some that I like:

• http://www.klosterbrauerei-reutberg.de/Start/start.html
• https://www.braustuberl.de/
• And of course anything in Franconia near Gräfenberg

DJ

We try to visit regional breweries when we are in Europe. Our experience has been like some others on this topic have reported, small breweries but no regular tours offered. Often times there is one very hard working braumeister running around doing multiple jobs. He might have time to stop for a few minutes but usually has to get right back to his tasks. It is still worthwhile to stop by and observe their operation.

If you have the time to visit a hops production facility I highly recommend this. We were able to visit Tettnang during hops harvest this August and it was a great experience. Perhaps the region north of Munich, the Hallertau region, would have a similar experience (tour and museum).

Perhaps the region north of Munich, the Hallertau region, would have a similar experience (tour and museum).

It has: http://www.hopfenmuseum.de/index.php?id=1-1&lang=en

You are correct about small breweries. Most of them I know have less than 10 employess - no time for tours (my favorite one has four, the 80 years old senior (female) boss included): http://www.wettelsheimer.de/
OP: If you go to the Altmuehl region, you should not miss their bierkeller.

The well known Weihenstephan brewery in Freising offers tours, the leading biological brewery in Germany, Neumarkter Lammsbräu does, too:
http://www.lammsbraeu.de/service/brauereibesichtigung/

And of course anything in Franconia near Gräfenberg

Yeah - Lindenbräu semi-dark Vollbier!!

Many small breweries run a guest house where you can sample the wares (with food). However, tours are not regularly offered to the general public for some of the reasons listed above, as well as for liability concerns. You can always ask, however.

Kloster Andechs, outside of Herrsching, had brewery tours when I was there, but they charged for them (although that might have been for the cost of the beer you sampled after the tour). Anyway, Coors, here in Colorado, doesn't charge for their tours and gives you three free beers to sample after the tour, so I passed on the Andechs tour and went to Coors after I got back.

If you are driving, Andechs is probably is little out of you way, but not too far.

Thank you for all of your replies. It sounds like I will be driving while my husband tries all of the different beer in the many breweries!