The Berlin Beer Mile

A couple of weekends ago, I headed up to Berlin with 3 other friends for a fun weekend. It just turned out that the International Berlin Beer Festival was going on that weekend. This is an absolutely huge event. This event spanned 2.2km down Karl-Marx-Allee. There were over 240 breweries from all over the world selling their beer.

Most of the breweries were German, but there were a good number of Czech breweries representing. There were also a couple of Canadian breweries there too. There was Labatt's selling their ice beer, and Moosehead. I'm pretty sure the Canadian beer was thoroughly disgraced by the Czech and German beers.

We met up with an English speaking bunch living in Berlin, which was nice because they know the city well. Out of the 2.2km, we only made it through 600m before we had to call it quits.

The group I went up with.


The view from Frankfurtor Tor down Karl-Marx-Allee. You can see the TV tower in the background.


The pamphlet listing all the breweries.



It was very busy.
At the Budweiser stand. No, not the American Budweiser.

What's a German beer festival without bratwurst?

After making it 600m, we decided we had enough beer. So we all filled up our glasses before heading onto the U-Bahn.

We did some sight seeing the next day. The Brandenburg Gate in the distance, with the TV tower in the background.

The Soviet War Memorial built to honour the Soviet soldiers that died in WWII.


This is the holocaust memorial that was just recently completed. It was being built when I was here 3 years ago.