BERLIN CRAFT BIER FEST 2014
Quite by chance we found ourselves at the weekend at a beer festival - promoting local craft or micro-breweries.
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It was held at the RAW-Gelände, Revaler Strasse in Friedrichshein, which
we immediately recognised as one of berlin's famous nightclub and dance areas,
which we hadn't ever visited during the day... It is located in a discarded Tram Depot near S-Bahnhof Berlin Warschauer Strasse, address Revaler Strasse 99 (Google Maps here)
Unfortunately the beer festival was only two days 30-31 May, however
they have a website www.craftbierfest.berlin and I assume this festival
takes place more often than once a year.
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We only sampled a couple of beers with lunch, mainly because the wind
and pollen was causing our hayfever to spiral out of control. But we
tried a pale ale quite similar to an Australian wheat beer, and two
local Potsdamer beers from Braumanufaktor.
Of the two Braumanufaktor beers we drank, I preferred the Hell (meaning
light, as in colour clarity - don't be fooled, the alcohol content is
the same as the weizen 4.8%).
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However the best discovery of the day was actually a Londoner Pie maker
(wow, that sounds dangerously close to Sweeney Todd) with a
selection of meat and vegetarian pies. We all decided on the wild
mushroom pies, which were delicious.
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Obviously catering to expats, this company is suitably named "hello good pie" and their website www.hellogoodpie-Berlin.de They only started operating in 2013, and as they proclaim on their website, the flavours cater to a German pallet and naturally to the longing expat community.
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We will be looking out for Matthew Minch (chef) and his pies everywhere we go in Berlin now. Absolutely delicious!!
