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Drinking In the Culture: Tuppers' Guide to Exploring Great Beers in Europe

Drinking In the Culture

Tuppers' Guide to Exploring Great Beers in Europe

By Bob and Ellie Tupper
Available as:
  • Softcover
Pages: 338
ISBN (soft): 978-0-9909610-0-0
Pub date: October 1, 2015
Publisher: CulturAle Press
List price (print): $24.95
Includes:
  • Full Color Illustrations
  • Index
  • Bibliography
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Sample Chapter: Leipzig

Table of Contents

  • Drinking In the Culture

    May 11, 2015 by Tupper

    Tuppers’ Guide to Exploring Great Beers in Europe

    A Travel Book for Beer Lovers   •   A Beer Book for Travel Lovers

    Drinking In the Culture is the first ever guide to finding, not just good beer, but good beer places, in two dozen of the best cities in the world to drink local beer. From the universities of Sheffield, England, to the historic palaces of Prague, from the well-known beer mecca of Brussels to the little Bavarian gem of Passau, here are gardens, cellars, plazas and ancient halls, all featuring unique and superb local brews amid the rich history and culture of Europe.

    This is a book not just about beer or about travel, but about the rich connections between beers and the societies that brew them. For each of the 24 cities, this versatile guide offers:

    • A quick orientation to the city as you arrive
    • The history and culture of the city and how they have affected the local beer culture
    • A “sixpack” or more of the best places—brewpubs, gardens, festivals, and breweries—to experience the beer culture of that city and region
    • Suggestions for hotels and out-of-the-ordinary sights
    • Day trips and excursions for more good beer
    • Plus local advice, travel strategies, and tips on getting there, getting around, and staying safe.

    In Drinking In the Culture, the Tuppers share what they have learned about European beer travel. For everyone from boots-on-the-ground beer geeks to armchair travelers, this book offers an anecdotal and affectionate view of the hundreds of rich and distinctive beer-drinking experiences Europe has to offer.

    Featured Cities (with recommended excursions):

    Amberg (Sulzbach-Rosenberg); Amsterdam (Haarlem); Antwerp (Ghent); Bamberg (Forchheim, Memmelsdorf); Berlin (Lutherstadt Wittenberg);   Birmingham (Burton-upon-Trent); Brussels (Bruges); Cologne (Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, A Ride on the Rhine); Copenhagen (Malmö); Glasgow (Arran); Karlsruhe (Pforzheim); Leipzig (Chemnitz); London (Greenwich); Manchester (Stockport, Bury);   Milan (Como); Munich (Memmingen, Landshut); Passau (Monastery Aldersbach, Vilshofen, Hutthurm);     Prague (Pilsen); Regensburg (Straubing, Landau); Salzburg (Hallein); Sheffield (Derby); Stockholm (Göteborg); Vienna (Bratislava); Zurich (Appenzell).

    “well-informed, well-written…What the Tuppers provide is invaluable recommendations based on over 40 years of travels in Europe.   If you love beer and want to know where to go in Europe and what to drink and eat, you will find no better guides than Bob and Ellie Tupper.”

       —Martin Morse Wooster, Mid-Atlantic Brewing News, August-September 2015

    Reviews

    Sample Chapter: Leipzig

    Table of Contents

    What’s New Inside

     Gold Metal Winning Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale Returns!

    Join us at Dynasty Brewing on July 17 between 3PM and 8PM to savor the first batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale in almost five years.  We’ll be there signing books at a huge discount and the brewery will be pouring the beer that was created to be “Hoppy enough for Bob and balanced enough for Ellie.”

    It hasn’t been easy to resurrect Tuppers’ Hop Pocket Ale, winner of a gold metal at the GBBF in the ’90s when well hopped beers were rare and almost non-existent in the east.  We’ve collaborated with Dynasty’s head brewer Favio Garcia, the brewer who produced the last batch of Tuppers’ Hop Pocket at Old Dominion to reproduce an authentic version of the original.    Dynasty is in Ashburn, Virginia– almost within walking distance of the Old Dominion brewery that brewed the first batch just over 25 years ago.

    NOW PLAYING: on Beer of the Day—  Some great beers in the San Francisco Bay area.  Scroll down below this entry to find the featured beer of the day.   >>>>>

    Later — in July we resume some great weekend destinations for beer travelers that we’ve found researching our guide to breweries and inns of the Mid Atlantic.  Whether you’re looking for a turn of the (20th) century 100 year old quaint and slightly rickety hotel, an engaging B&B or a magnificent survivor of the great era of railroad hotels, we’ve found hem– within walking distance of a brewery.   We’ll present more previews of the book’s best here rolling up to Pennsylvania before we’re through.

     

     

     

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    The Story—

    The Beer—

    Value —

    Values:  “fair” is a good beer at an above market price, “good” is worth the money, “very good” is a bargain, and “excellent” is a steal.

    In mid-March we’re taking a look at the incredible variety of IPAs.   The style is by far the biggest seller among craft beers in the US and probably in Europe as well.   Even century-old breweries in Reinheitsgebot-narrowed Germany are brewing IPAs (if the brewer calls it “ale” it doesn’t have to conform to the strict purity law).   But you have to ask these days: What is an IPA”?  We’ll take a look at almost a dozen recognized and semi-recognized styles of IPAs in the next couple of weeks.

     We’re often asked to share our tasting notes on over 33,000 beers; this blog is in answer to those requests.   Not all our notes, though.  The great beer writer Michael Jackson admirably followed the Thumper Rule, and we’ll try to do the same.  (“If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nuthin’ at all.”)   All the beers we post are from the top half of our ratings and most are from the top quarter.   Of greater value, we think, are the stories behind the beers,   and we try to give you enough about the brewery, the style and the places to find great beer to help you on your own beer journeys.   At CulturAle Press we try to write books and publish posts that will help you “Drink Well and Travel Safely.”

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