Beer cruises in the Western hemisphere is nothing new, there are a number of options in various climate zones. Stephen Beaumont offers an alternative, a European beer cruise.
It’s on the Rhine, from Amsterdam to Basel. The preliminary programme ranges from a visit to Amsterdam’s Brouwerij ‘t Ij to tastings at Belgian, German, French, Luxembourg and Swiss breweries, a pub crawl through Cologne, and even floating tutored beer tastings.
It starts in Amsterdam on October 11.
It’s beyond the capacity of my wallet, but I applaud any efforts to expand quality beer tourism.
Knut Albert's beer blog 
Surely there is a “press pass” opportunity here for an earnest citizen journalist beer blogger.
Maybe I can impress them with my pidgin German?