Event - Braufest 2016
Venue - Revaler Str. 99, 10245 Berlin
Date - 10/09/16
I love beer.
I love the taste, trying different ones, the graphics that the craft beers use for their labels and did I mention the taste? Imagine my delight when I found out that during my four days in Berlin the city was hosting it's annual beer festival? A total coincidence too, and very very good one at that.
Firstly a few words about the location. I have no fucking clue what was going on around that part of the city but it was great. How to describe it.. Well it wasn't in the centre, quite far out actually. I would say it was in the "Art district", its a maze of seemingly derelict buildings all covered in graffiti. But they are far from derelict, there's pubs, clubs, restaurants and even a skatepark inside them. It's an amazingly diverse place that was probably my favourite part of the city and slap bang in the middle was Braufest.
I was unsure of what to expect, I always saw German Beer festivals as indoor affairs (long benches, lederhosen ect ect), what I got was something like a beer market. We showed out tickets got ushered inside and handed a pint glass. And then we had something like 50 stalls (with a few beers each) to pick and choose frrom, I was in heaven! The sun was shining, the DJ was playing some chilled out dance music and everyone was having a good time.
How many beers did I have? No idea, I probably had something like 10 half pints (It was so cheap 2 euros for 0.3L), I remember my favourite being "Miami Wiess" (not just because of the name), but there was also an instantly strong one which was about 9% that was actually pretty tasty.
And the food! Before I left everyone was telling me to try Currywurst, which while is ten-a-penny veggie ones unfortunately are not. That is until the beer fest where they just happen to have a veggie Currywurst stand. It was nice, it'd gladly have it again. It's like a sausage in a curry/tomato sauce. Jolly good! Before we knew it the sun was setting over the derelict buildings and the time was up! But what a day (the night carried on for quite a while), like the rest of the trip everything just fell into place and it was perfect.
