Airports. Some of them have adjusted to modern times, and if the airlines let you check in beforehand and they don’t make a fuzz about your suitcase being a wee bit heavy, they can be all right. Some are wastelands for beer – Oslo is a prime example, some are pretty decent. Munich has a brewpub in the middle of the airport, Edinburgh ( among a number of UK airports) has Wetherspoons pubs both before and after security with several hand pumps with decent ales.
I have flown through Berlin a number of times over the last few years, always through Tegel airport. The shops after security there has a few canned beers, but nothing worth taking home.
There was a pleasant surprise in store when we arrived at Schönefeld airport for our flight back home. Security went smoothly, there was a lovely organic takeaway/café for sandwiches and snacks, there was a duty free with perfume and upmarket German wine.
And there were two kiosks with newspapers, sweets, tinned sauerkraut, over-priced souvernirs – and beer. Beers from Bavaria, beers from Mecleburg-Vorpommern, beers from Berlin. A fridge full of beers from the outstanding Berlin micro Brewbaker. 3 liter bottles of bath beer from the Neuzeller Kloster-Bräu. 5 liter party kegs of Berliner Kindl Pils and Schwartzbier.
I’m sure the airlines hate it.
Germany rules!
Great tip about which airport in Berlin to travel through. Thanks!
I agree on Oslo Gardermoen being beer wasteland. The bars there are also terrible when it comes to draught beers. That is a shame. My hope is that they one day will sell Norwegian craft beers on tap. A visitor to Norway ought to have the opportunity to try for instance a Nøgne Ø beer at the largest airport in Norway!
yep when travelling easyjet without hold luggage its a place to use to bring back a few beers after going through security
I would, however, recommend staying away from the Stoertebeker in that picture. Four out of six of their beers have done rather poorly on our site:
http://www.barleybuddy.com/search.php?q=stoertebeker
Ok, i only bought one of them!
I am smiling looking at the picture seeing the Rex Beer, I had it for the first time 1989 shortly after the Berlin Wall came down, in Potsdam, actually not bad the stuff :)
It is still the standard beer in Potsdam, but it’s now brewed by Berliner Kindl.
Bought the limited stoertebeker to the left in your picture. Thanks for the tip. From Brewbaker they only had the Pilsner, tho. I wonder if the new airport (“next door”) will continue to sell Brewbaker and stoertebeker beers. Hope so.