The Pocket Guide to Nuremberg's Best Countryside Breweries will help you pick out which breweries outside Nuremberg you need to visit. Guided tours to breweries outside Nuremberg available if you would like to head into the Nuremberg countryside with a Nuremberg beer expert.
Elch-Bräu 1.21 Gigwatt is potent 8€ Dunkler Doppelbock with some coffee and dark chocolate notes. It's a bit thin for the style and more reminiscent of a Baltic Porter.
Elch-Bräu Keller Pils is an dry citrusy hoppy beer with a clean, dry, bitter finish.
Elch-Bräu Nix Amore Helles may not be a great Helles but it's a very nice ale-like amber brew with floral hops in the nose and palate.
Beer Hiking Bavaria is a great guide that details 50 hikes in Bavaria which pass by or end at some of Bavaria's best breweries. This one-way route connects two beery paradises (the Fünf Seidla Steig® and Walberla).
Elch-Bräu Pils is an excellent and always improving unfiltered Pils with a dry fruity palate and lots of citrusy hops in the nose.
The 10th Anniversary Celebration of the Fünf Seidla Steig was a blast.
Elch-Bräu Dunkel is a very clean beer with a nice chocolatey palate which goes well with the pork dishes the area is noted for.
For those how haven't heard, beer hiking is a thing despite it not being on Wikipedia. It will surely be there soon, mark my words. I just might have to do the write-up myself if no one else does. So, what exactly is beer hiking? Quite loosely, it's the combining of hiking and drinking beer. It could be as simple as carrying some beer (hopefully in artsy cans, they're lighter) along on your hike. It could also be hiking to places that have beer. In a perfect world, it would involve hiking to rural breweries.
