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(as of Jun 01, 2012 11:54:04)Beer Routes - Old Europe Versus Emerging Africa
Unlike wine, beer is not so commonly considered a key to explore a city or a country. Nevertheless beer has a very long history and is drunk and produced nearly everywhere in the world, even more than wine. And if you think of an area where beer has become part of drink tradition, probably you will first think of Central Europe and cities like London, Dublin, Brussels, Munich, Copenhagen, Prague and what else. All of these cities and their surroundings offer more or less touristic routes where an ideal beer traveller can discover ancient breweries and taste a wide range of different beers. For example, you may want to experience the atmosphere of one of thousands London pubs, may be on Friday when many Londoners use to go out for drink, although statistics say that pub tradition is declining in recent years.
This pub might be, at random, the elegant Salisbury at Covent Garden, magnificent demonstration of the Victorian age, with its extravagant interior Art Nouveau full of mirrors and lights, or perhaps be the historical George Inn, near London Bridge, rebuilt in 1676 after the tremendous fire of 1666. Here in London the beer traveller is really spoiled for choice (for a guide to London pubs: pubs.com). But he should also know that a true English beer lover may have travelled for miles and miles and drunk pints and pints to be proud to say how he visited all the England pubs of his preferred brand. This could also be a challenging way to discover England countryside. Probably, before landing in London, an ideal beer traveller has already drunk Guinness spilled at the small Dawson Lounge in Dublin. As he well knows, and every local brewer is ready to ensure, beer comes at its best near the place where it is produced.
The most ancient - and someone says most famous - European breweries is U Fleku, in Prague. This historical brewery is reported to be founded in 1499, just a few years after the discovery of America! Prague citizens consider and preserve it as a national monument. At U Fleku (from the name of its former owner, Jakub Flekovsky) you can drink a strong and dark beer called Flekovske, quite different than the typical Czech pilsener. Prague, magic, fascinating city at the heart of Europe, home of impressive gothic, baroque and liberty architectures, has a very special relation with beer. When Bill Clinton visited Prague, in 1994, Vlacav Havel, to let him taste the local colour, took him to U Zlateho tygra (The golden tiger). This was the pub preferred by Czech famous writer Bohumil Hrabal and is still frequented by many Prague artists and intellectuals. Surely, our ideal beer traveller will not miss U Kalicha (The chalice), made famous by the popular novel The Good Soldier Svejk, by Hasek. And finally he will cross the fields of hops of Czech countryside to go to Pilsen, where pilsener beer was first produced at mid-nineteenth century by Pilsner Urquell brewery.
Sated of classic old Europe, the beer traveller may also look for some stronger emotion. Probably he does not suspect he can find a well designed beer route at the subtropical climate of a spectacular province of South Africa. KwaZulu-Natal Tourism Authority has recently launched a beer route, on the example of the existing wine routes of Western Cape. The route start in Durban, the most important city in the province and one of the largest in South-Africa, and provides stops at nine small breweries other than the big South African Brewers (SAB), the third largest beer company in the world. A visit to the Congella Brewery gives insight into the production of sorghum beer, the traditional African beer made from wheat and maize. At Nottingham Road Brewery, the traveller will be delighted by some of the best beers in the regions, all made using pure spring water. And passing through the Midlands Meander he will admire unforgettable sceneries, as Howick Falls, and have a chance to merge into the local art and culture. Here, another adventure may start.
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