Swinging a thousand feet over bare rock & sparse patches of snow, I wondered again how I came to be there. Oh, that’s right; I’m in the middle of a Vine Park Beer Trip on my way to the highest beer garden in Germany. After two trains, I was now in a cable car approaching the peak of the Zugspitze... Read about the entire trip.

The two best smelling rooms in the world are in Trutnov! Midway thru an eleven day tour of Czech independent breweries, we were treated to a tour of the Krakonos Pivovary's (brewery) hop storage room and its fermentation room. Ahhh! as we tasted the pivo (beer), it was clear that something wonderful was happening in that place. In fact, it was clear we needed to do quite a bit of research on that beer... Read about the entire trip.