Annafest Beer Festival Tour!
Can't join our Week Before Oktoberfest Tour in September? No problem, we've got you covered!
New for 2021: In addition to all of the great things we do on our Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tours, for the first time as part of our July 2021 tour we'll introduce you to Annafest! Annafest is a beer festival that takes place once a year in the forested hills above the town of Forchheim in Upper Franconia (northern Bavaria), and the 2021 festival will be the 180th anniversary of this event.
With "only" 500,000 attendees each year, it may not be as big as Oktoberfest, but with fewer attendees and many more breweries - 23 of them! - Annafest is a lot more intimate than Oktoberfest and arguably more fun!
Like many towns in Bavaria, the hills of Forchheim are honeycombed with beer cellars that brewers dug into the hillside 400+ years ago in order to lager their beer and keep it cold throughout the warm summer months. In Forchheim, this area is known as the Kellerwald, which translates to "Forest of Cellars", and it's in this beautiful setting that Annafest is held each year.
Dates: In 2021, Annafest starts on Friday, July 23rd and runs for 11 continuous days. We'll visit Annafest on July 30th, the last day of our July 26th - 30th 2021 Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tour.
New for 2021: In addition to all of the great things we do on our Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tours, for the first time as part of our July 2021 tour we'll introduce you to Annafest! Annafest is a beer festival that takes place once a year in the forested hills above the town of Forchheim in Upper Franconia (northern Bavaria), and the 2021 festival will be the 180th anniversary of this event.
With "only" 500,000 attendees each year, it may not be as big as Oktoberfest, but with fewer attendees and many more breweries - 23 of them! - Annafest is a lot more intimate than Oktoberfest and arguably more fun!
Like many towns in Bavaria, the hills of Forchheim are honeycombed with beer cellars that brewers dug into the hillside 400+ years ago in order to lager their beer and keep it cold throughout the warm summer months. In Forchheim, this area is known as the Kellerwald, which translates to "Forest of Cellars", and it's in this beautiful setting that Annafest is held each year.
Dates: In 2021, Annafest starts on Friday, July 23rd and runs for 11 continuous days. We'll visit Annafest on July 30th, the last day of our July 26th - 30th 2021 Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tour.
