Annafest Beer Festival Tour!
Image © Stadt Forchheim Tourist-Information
Can't join our Week Before Oktoberfest Tour in September? No problem, we've got you covered!
In addition to all of the great things we do on our Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tours, as part of our July 2022 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 2022 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: We'll visit Annafest on the last day of our July 2022 Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tour.
In addition to all of the great things we do on our Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tours, as part of our July 2022 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 2022 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: We'll visit Annafest on the last day of our July 2022 Munich & Bamberg Brewery Tour.
Fun for all ages in the beer gardens (left) and tapping the first keg at Annafest (right). Images © Stadt Forchheim Tourist-Information
