Schlenkerla Tavern

My favorite time of day to visit the Schlenkerla Tavern in Bamberg is late morning.  About 1 hour or so after it opens works best for me.  My favorite place to sit and drink the beer is in the schwemme (entrance hallway).

You can find the tavern on the right side of this street after a nice morning stroll:

You can order your beer, gravity poured straight from the barrel, from this window.  The price is written in chalk on the side of the window:

You can sit at this table:

You can admire this green tiled stove (kachelhofen) in the adjacent room:

You can watch out the front doorway and watch the tourist groups wander by and gaze inside and laugh that there are people, like me, actually in the tavern drinking beer well before noon (secretly they are jealous):

I love the smell of rauchbier in the morning.  It smells like ...... victory.

And so the adventure begins.