Hopfengarten, Bamberg 🇩🇪   

Location: Zollnerstraße 24, 96052 Bamberg, Germany

Year of Inscription: 2023

Venue Type:  Brewery / Garden Centre / Distillery 

EBG Rating:7.8/10
Choice/
Quality of Drinks
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Creative minibrewery which has a range of traditional and creative brews from eucalyptus beer to brown ales. Most are decent efforts. They also have several gins.
Style/
Décor
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A garden centre with graffiti design in the alleyway and yards, leading to greenhouses, and a back yard with communal tables, sand pit and of course hop fields.
Atmosphere/
Character
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Naturally quirky venue with everything going on. This along with the outdoor areas compensates for the function room type feel to the bar.
Amenities/
Events
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Greenhouse, sandpit, function room, street food, snacks, live events, garden centre, takeaways
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Moving closer to a ‘craft beer’ pitch, but still reasonably good value considering everything. 
DescriptionEasily Bamberg’s most unusual brewery of the dozen plus that are based in the city, this place is a garden centre with a nano brewery, so enter through a graffitied covered drive to find a series of greenhouses, the operations growing their own vegetables and ingredients for making beer. The beers are varied from eucalyptus to brown ale to plain old Helles lager and can be bought on a taster tray (a rather expensive one) if you want to rattle through them. It doesn’t stop there with a sandpit, hop fields to wander through and large outdoor area for dry, sunny days which unfortunately was not the case on our visit. The main bar feels like a bit of a wedding function place but that is really the only shortcoming of an otherwise distinctive venue.