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I live in Wrocław Poland but visit Czech very often just for the beer and beer culture, pub service. It's a different world, even the small towns always have something to offer in terms of classic pubs and small local breweries. Czech is the best beer in he world.

Having just returned from a trip to Czechia and the Budvar cellars, I'd say one of mine is to get back there again as soon as possible. Adding in PU would also be great.

De Garre, Brugge...... Took me a while to get in but in my opinion the best beer I have ever had!

I achieved one beer bucket list item of mine very recently when I finally got to taste Pliny The Elder. It did not disappoint.

I am missing Franconia and Bamberg on your list. It's an experience every beer fan oder at least Lager fan should do. Rauchbier, Kellerbier, Landbier and Bockbier - you can find the best of those styles just in Franconia and Bamberg.

The Tampa/St Pete beer scene has only improved since you visited! You should come back for Tampa Bay Beer week and check out places like Grand Central Brewhouse and BarrieHaus

Bucket list trip: fly into Munich for oktoberfest, stop off for Zoiglbier on the way to Czechia.

As an addendum to the recommendation for Russian River Brewing (which I very much second), if you really want to hit it at the best possible time, check and see when their limited release of Pliny the YOUNGER is happening and time your trip for then (it's usually in February for a couple of weeks but can sometimes land later in the year). Younger is the stronger brother (uh, son?) beer to Elder with more ingredients and higher ABV. Our beloved west coast double IPA Elder reaches its apotheosis in the sublime Younger (a quad IPA? a west coast IPA barleywine?). It's similar to Dogfish Head's 90 Minute vs. 120 Minute, but Russian River style. The pub will allow you to buy a few bottles of Younger (4 when I went), which is great, but nothing beats the pints you get on fresh draft.

I happened to be in Munich while Frühlingsfest was happening (after spending a couple of days in Prague). It's a much smaller and much more local event, but still lots of fun.

If you ever end up in Japan you should go to Kobo Brewery in Toyama! The head brewer is Czech and they specialise in Czech pilsners. Finding a modern craft brewery that specialises in pilsners is a rarity nowadays, and they're top notch!

Great American Beer Fest(Denver, CO, USA) is just an incredible experience. Seattle Beer Week(Seattle, WA, USA) is best way to drink incredible beers from all over while taking a deep dive into the Seattle beer scene.

I am lucky enough to have done almost everything on this list minus a tour of the Czech... And I will be visiting Russian River later this year for the first time! I learned about the Tour de Geuze from this channel and absolutely loved it! A side note to anyone wanting to take the tour, they do offer transportation in the form of a coach bus that will drive you to a select set of breweries. The cost for the bust is cheap and it lets you relax and enjoy as much beer as you want! I highly recommend it! One last recommendation, if you want Oktoberfest that's a little smaller, cheaper, and easier to get into, not to mention a lot less tourists, I would highly recommend the Cannstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart! Same time of year, same idea! Big beer tents, carnival, food, great atmosphere!

So glad Bamberg got a mention. Klosterbrau is probably the best lager I've ever tasted.

Straight to Czech republic, honoured, thank you guys! Btw in 2042 Pilsner Urquell will have 200 years anniversary, Ill see you there! 🤘

Doing one of the things on my bucketlist these days. Having Cask Ales in English pubs. I love it!

Great list! Being a Pennsylvania native I have to suggest the yuengling brewery tour in Pottsville and the Straub Brewery tour in St Mary’s for the Eternal Tap!!

Asheville, North Carolina …. Fantastic beers

Top of my bucket list would be to hang out with you guys as you visit here in Tucson, AZ. The USAs first UNESCO City of Gastronomy and one damn fine brewing city.

I do agree. If you don’t want the crowds or cost of Oktoberfest, visit Munich beer houses anytime. On one visit a colleague quipped that we missed Oktoberfest and the waiter at Paulaner said “we don’t run out of beer in Germany”. 😀

Top of my bucket list is to head to Japan and visit Kirin. My great grand father was a maltster there and is actually buried over there. Got to check out my roots!

It’s that time again. Vegan burgers, beer (Beautiful Barbar) and this wonderful video. Lovely stuff. Cheers everybody to this wonderful list. Definitely going to check some of these off 🍻 enjoy your weekend

Brilliant video,lads! I do live in Stockholm,but I could easily commute between Czechia and Italy! The first because of the obvious and the latter because of the food and why not throw in Bavaria as well and call it the triangle of joy for heavenly lager/pils and food!♥️

Thing is, these beer festivals (which actually are more like harvest festivals) exist throughout Germany and they are all more or less the same. Oktoberfest ist special as it only has beer from Munich but by in large as a German you do not feel the hype because it is just one of many (and there is better beer in other places, though Munich beer, especially Schneider, is great).

After seeing your Omnipollo and Budvar visits, those 2 would be top of my list right now. I was fortunate enough to visit Brussels 5 years ago, it's well worth it and I really need to go back ASAP.

La Route des bières in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean (Québec). Amazing beer and a beautiful drive along the way !

I truly miss the cask ales of the UK there is nothing like it specially here in the states. But the beer scene in Anchorage Alaska is amazing and a lovely surprise.

Growing up next to 3 major brewery's here in Belgium , I'm glad we made the list more then once. Thank you for the praise and thank you for making these awesome videos.

Next time you’re in New England, make a trip down to New York’s Hudson Valley. Suarez, Equillibrium, Fidens- some of the best in the game. Not to mention countless hidden gems (Obercreek, Plan Bee, Hudson Valley)- definitely work a stop

I'm a new englander (sorta), hit Alchemist, Tree House, Bissell Bros, Trillium. Love beer!

You can visit many breweries in Germany, for example Dinkelacker in Stuttgart or Engel Bräu in Crailsheim, to mention some of the bigger one...

Guys, Charleston SC has an emerging beer scene! Is it historic? No, but the city is. The beers are fantastic and pushing the envelope in technique and styles. The scenery is coastal, historic and the food is great. Beer bucket list for sure.

Mt Crested Butte Chili and Beer Festival. At the base of the beautiful Mt Crested Butte in Colorado. Home made Chili made by people from Denver, to Aspen, to Telluride, to Crested Butte. Craft beer from all over Colorado. All you can eat, all you can drink, from 11am-4pm, for just $45!

Over the moon that Green Bench made it on the list. I literally just drove to St Pete's to try the beer there and wasn't disappointed. I just need to get to the rest of the ten now... ONWARD!!!

Nice touch adding the green hop beers and green hop festivals. It's a fun time of year to be in Kent and it feels like something very unique to this part of the UK which is cool.

Good choices. I’ve done Oktoberfest to death now. Köln is good. Tick off as many brewery’s as possible (although variation in kölsch, it’s not a lager, can be quite hard to identify). Düsseldorf is a short train ride for the next day for lots of Alt bier. Good times. Do it in the summer.

As a coaster/ride nerd and a beer lover I do need to get to Oktoberfest.

Did Santa Rosa last year, and can confirm Russian River is as good as ever. However, if you fancy another (slightly wilder) road trip - Anchorage Brewing is absolutely stunning. Didn't catch A Deal With The Devil release, but their 'typical' stouts/barley wines are out of this world.

I went to Brussels recently. It was great. Was much more of a Bruges fan. I think the unfiltered Bruges Zot direct from the brewery is a favourite beer of mine.

California … starting in San Diego , to Orange County , South Bay Area , Paso Robles , Santa Rosa .. yup

Speaking of "wet hop" Have you guys ever been to Oregon for fresh hop season? Could do the willamette valley and Portland and get over to Bend, you guys would love it.

Brussels, add l'Ermitage, La Source, De La Senne, Brussels Beer Project, nearby is Leuven for Malz, or you can easily take a train to Lot for the Lambic-O-Droom :)

Another great video guys! for my "Beercation" or Beer Bucket list destinations I want to get to before death gets to me, besides the aforementioned; Belgium, Germany, England and Czech Republic, there is the Portlands; (Oregon and Maine Beer Scenes), Treehouse in Massachusetts, Ashville N.C. beer scene, I have been to Charleston S.C. & Edmods Oast was a great experience., Austin Texas, where my oldest son lives I will go back to Jester King in a heartbeat, great experience there, great pizza and WILD ALES! Also Live Oak Brewing Company just outside Austin airport is one I missed when I was out there in 2021 heard a lot of good things about them. Sadly when my wife and I went on a "Wine-cation" in 2018 with another couple to Napa Valley we had the opportunity to go to Russian River but were freaked out by the long lines and to my forever dismay we decided to SKIP IT?!?!? I know, I know "YOU FOOLS!!!" right? instead we went to Calistoga brewery which is now Napa Valley Brewing Company it was "meh", however we did make it to Bear Republic and that was tremendously satisfying. So much more I could add but this is already a long ass comment, cheers!

For me a bucket list beer experience is Reading Beer Festival. Nothing better than drinking from a glas with a drunk lion on it.

Fyne fest is at the very top of my bucket list. Backdrop looks incredible, and imagine the vibes are great

many congratulations jonny and brad on completing 10 years with your awesome Craft Beer Channel...................uve come a long way.........cheers

Mikkeller beer fest in Copenhagen and trappist breweries tour in Belgium and the Netherlands

So I posted this on Martin Keen’s Homebrew Challenge but he has completed it now… and I think you and Brad would be heroic at this: “…so, I was thinking what you should do is the Phileas Fogg challenge. West to East; through each country on your chosen route; & perhaps in famous brewing countries (e.g, UK, Belgium, Germany….do each geographical region within that country as you traverse a route)…any trips over water/oceans to get to the next country must be an exported beer on a historical trade…” Maybe even a massive brewtube collaboration between all of you?

If you ever come to New England again, give us a heads up. Many, many really good places you drove right past that i would be delighted to bring you to. Schilling in Littleton New Hampshire to start, with Wildbloom right across the street, and then start slowly driving south to many, many more.

The great british beer festival was amazing. But to be honest any small local one here in the UK will be a great experience

California recently was a joy, to be drinking Pliny on tap like it’s totally normal. But, take me to Brussels or Munich any day of the gosh darn week. Then, home for a fresh pint of cask.

I don't know how long it's been since you went to Florida, but right now, Tampa Bay has the best breweries of the southeast of USA (believe me, I've been in most of them). I recommend that you come again, probably you won't recommend skipping Tampa again 😅

Prague is at the top of my list as it's more realistic. But I would really love to go to Founders brewery in Grand Rapids USA.

I have to say FOBAB in Chicago is on my bucket list. It's smack bang in the middle of barrel-aged stout season so every brewery is on fire, and gives you a chance to experience true magic at the festival. I'd happily chip in to the CBC lads across there one year 🎉

Everyone should take the Guinness brewery tour once in their life and drink a beer in their top floor bar

Glad you guys added Homebrewing. Cheers

Beer bucket list: Belgium, Germany and USA (west and east) 🍻

Not a cider guy, but you chaps got to try a Basque sidrería in greater San Sebastián region! Iconic menu of cod omelette and Txuleta, on average about 5 different cider barrels, all you can drink 😱

You guys are the best. Beers! I mean cheers.

Crazy you guys would say St. Pete/Tampa over San Diego for beach spots with world class beer. Great list and now I've got nostalgia of all my beer trips and excited for the next!

The heart of belgium.

I've not been to Oktoberfest, but I've done Munich. Love the beerhalls. As much as I love the idea of the festival, it also seems like such a madhouse. I do need to do Belgium at some point, and Prague as well. I'm excited to return to the UK next year for the first time since 2010. Not as long a visit as we initially had planned pre-covid, but it's finally happening. I love my bright, hoppy PNW beers. Our fresh-hop IPAs, and our fruit-beers, and huge chocolatey stouts... but I always love trying different style wherever I visit. Sadly, Anheiser-Busch is really predatory when brewers get noticed here, and they'll buy them out and ruin them. You've got to do a run in the PNW though. I know people think that means Seattle and Portland, and there are a ton of great, established brewers in those cities you could do, and really every town around here has a good brewer or two (and some are really special). I'd recommend though... Bellingham, WA where there are, at my last reckoning, 16 craft breweries in a city of about 80,000 people (a couple good cideries too) Favorites here include Kulshan, Wander, Menace, Boundary Bay, and Structures. Bend, OR and this one is east of the mountains in the high desert where the weather is a bit different than you'll usually associate with the PNW. Bend's most known brewers are Deschutes Brewing and 10 Barrel brewing(sadly, 10 barrel was bought by AB-Inbev which ruins it for me), but they are also the home of about a dozen others including Boneyard, Crux, Silver Moon, and Worthy as well as a couple good cideries. Lastly, take a trip up or down the Oregon Coast. There are breweries of note all along the coast, but a few favorites of mine are Fort George Brewing in Astoria, OR Pelican Brewing in Tillamook, OR And the big one... Rogue Brewing in Newport, OR. They have a great restaurant, a great tour, they farm their own hops, their own fruit and herbs, they even have added a distillery as well. If this seems like a lot of recommendations, then trust me... I've got loads more.

NYC baby! Other Half, Evil Twin, Brooklyn, Equilibrium, so many of the best in the world

Number one: There are some great brewery hiking routes in Franconia that that lead you from one little village to another with great little family owned breweries. Number two: while we're there, Bamberg. Number three: Czech Republic

I need to travel more in the U.K, outside of the UK I'd love to get some fresh from the tap Fidens, top tier hop custard DIPA's. I'd also love there to be a Polly's taproom in the first place, so then I can go to it X-D

Definitely Tour de Geuze. Went to Cantillion but I really gotta visit all the others. Then the Czech Republic. I also really want to visit Brazil. Their beer scene shold be enourmous with more than 3.000 breweries (perhaps a subject for a future episode?). Already did the Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen, and the danish beer enthusiasts beer festival. Both are good, but the latter is so much more relaxed and fun. And a lot cheaper...

Thanks for sharing this information on brewing my own Beer 🍺🍻🍺🍻🍺 Tucson Arizona Desert 🏜️

If you visit Santa Rosa, don't miss Moonlight Brewing which like RR excels at making tasty ales and lagers.

The great American beer festival,

6:05 I caught that!

You guys need to try tripping animals, an amazing brewery located in Miami Florida

Wife and I were planning 3 weeks in Europe for later this year, but may have to post pone it due to some crap that has come up. Then I see Tour De Geuze for 2024 in early May. Disappointment this year, may turn into a bonus for next year!

Biased as hell, but a day drinking 10 pints of Guinness in some of the glorious pubs in Dublin is as good a day's drinking as any. Grogans, Donoghues, The Long Hall, Palace Bar, Hartigans etc. I could sit in Kavanaghs (Gravediggers) for hours and hours drinking creamy pints and talking to anyone and everyone. Guinness is far from the best stout out there but it is very delicious drinking in some of these pubs.

Would love to see Samuel Smith (despite its controversy) or Theakson Breweries….ideas for some more content perhaps!?

You really miss ANDECHS when in Munich. And when in New England, how about Treehouse? or Hill Farmstead?

Hi guys! I am new to the craft beer world. It's been only few months that i have been trying different breweries and styles. I live in Amsterdam and I would love to hear your opinions on Dutch scene. There are some exciting breweries but I would like to know what your take would be on Lowlander Brewery in Amsterdam. They say that they brew with botanicals. I don't know if its something that new in the craft beer world but it is quite interesting. Their IPA which they brew with coriander seed and grapefruit is currently one of my fave beers from Dutch breweries. Proost!

Let’s be honest, when the video started all we wanted to know was whether Brad would be wearing THE shorts.

Hi guys, Boris here from Chile. This past May i went on a travel across some places in Europe and of course i tried some amazing beers, this is what i did. In Madrid visit Chinaski Lavapies a bar with and amazing list of beers. In Barcelona i tried some local beer but the best was the two bars of Garage Beer. In Paris i tried Paname Brewing because they were close to my hostel, they have decent beers and a little shop called BEER paris who have a great selection of cans. Then in London i visit the Griffin Brewery and i did the tour, plus i visit the Bermondsey beer mile, loved it jaja Anspach & Hobday, Unit 73 of Cloudwater, The Kernel and i drink all the Guinnes and London Black that i could jajja and for last visited The Experiment (Pressure Drop/Verdant). In Brussel visited some bars but nothing special honestly i am not a fan of some belgium styles but i love some trappist beer, Orval and saisons (: Amsterdam was a huge surprise, besides London, the best place during my trip. Here i visited the morebeer at mikkeller and the beer temple, in the fist one i drink maybe the best russian imperial stout i ever tried and in the second was full of surprises like The Veil, Dogfish Head, one amazing imperial porter with coffe that i tried and lots of american craft brewerys but there was a little shop called J&B craft drink were i find The Alchemist, Tree House, Hillfarm, KCBC, Roots & Branches and another great beers, personally was a dream finally drink that's beers. In Berlin drink some local beers and visited a bar called Biererei, incredible little place, they have monkish, perennial, hopfrog, the veil, firestone, side project, etc... For finish, in Prague drinks a lot of pilsner urquell and another great czech beers and that is. Was a trip with lots of beers, i trid some of the brewerys that i hope to drink some day so was a beautiful trip. Hope that my experience and information lead others to drink amazing beers and travel to get it jjaja. One question guys, do you plan to go to MBCC 2024? Cheers.

Oof never been to Chicago? Originators of barrel aging?! 8.5+ pale ale on a hot day cannot be beaten, so quenching and chuggable w/o being too bitter😊

Beer bucket list is Bavaria and the Guinness tour in Dublin

I wonder why you haven't mentioned Bangalore (now Bengaluru) in India. The city has the highest number of microbreweries, some are pretty impressive (Toit, Pump House, Big Brewsky, Xoox etc. etc.)

I want to drink a Guinness in a pub in Dublin on St Patrick’s day to be honest

I have to disagree with Brussels. Bruges is a much better place to go and relax and enjoy some of the world's best beer. Great food great people and great 🍻🍻

Any info on manchester beer fest? You bring some home brew? 🍻😁

I still have a zillion spots to visit, but time and distance has limited me to mostly just great beer cities around the US. Ive now been to the most of the biggest beer cities of the US Midwest to the middle East Coast to a lot of the South and even many of the smaller enclaves that seem to be somewhat passed over when people talk about the various "meccas" of beer. To be honest, going to Belgium or Germany just for beer tourism for an American is not an easy task if you want to do it correctly and is 100% a once in a lifetime event. I can fully afford the trip but its not exactly a financially responsible spend when I need to do it for at least 2 weeks to get the full experience. A good long weekend (4-5 days) in a US city I havnt been to with friends usually cost me less than $400 while even the least expensive one week trips to Europe come out at more than $1500 and up to 2 days are wasted in airports. Sadly(?), Im too financially responsible.

I know you guys said Belgium but not hearing Cantillon seems like a travesty!

Did not mention Palmer brewery

Awkward brewers, you by any chance talking about Pierre Tilquin? :)

Oktoberfest: "Incredible lagers served in pints" -PINTS?!?

Oktoberfest, done it once, never again. Hugely overpriced and over populated during that fortnight. There's a couple of Micro's there which are better than the big breweries so worth a visit but at any other time.

How did I only just now realize Jonny has an earring?

Oh cmon everybody with average knowledge of beer culture knows that Octoberfest is really just overpriced tourist trap. Just visit Czechia which is close nearby and get better beer for 1/6 of octoberfest beer price

I think of the top 10 things to do before you die, it would be to wear Brad's shorts.

Genuinely shocked that Chinese Oktoberfest didn’t make the list, surely must have been at number 11 right?

Please fix the print that has fallen to the bottom of its frame, it’s killing me

Köln for Kölsch? Surely...

Why is Brad’s left arm shrunken and withered ? He needs to lift pints with both arms !

Actually, when asking Germans about their opinion on Oktoberfest, they are usually pissed because they think that foreigners see all Germans as Bavarians. Grreetings from not Bavaria ;)

Treehouse

Drinking kölsch in Köln

It say Brussel belgium make one of the best beers not Brussel