Aischgründer Bierrunde – cycle Tours in Franconia's multi-region

The Aischgrund is known for its brewing and beer tradition. Along the Aischgründer Bierrunde you will find many breweries, typical Franconian inns and beer gardens that invite you to take a breather with their very special specialties.

A good starting point is the market square in the district town of Neustadt an der Aisch, which you can easily reach from Mitte train station. From there the route runs northeast out of town, past the Kohlenmühle brewery via Diespeck to Pahres. The Hofmann family has been brewing typically Franconian beer here for eleven generations. The family-run Windsheimer brewery is located in neighboring Gutenstetten, and you can taste their tasty beer right next door in the Radlertreff.

From Gutenstetten it goes comfortably north through the Steinachgrund to Münchsteinach, with the former Benedictine abbey and Romanesque cathedral. In addition to traditional Franconian beers, the Loscher brewery also brews a wheat beer pilsner and produces the non-alcoholic, caffeinated cult drink “Club Mate”. The beer circuit then takes you out to Neuebersbach before continuing along the Weisach to Uehlfeld. With the Zwanzger and Prechtel breweries you will find two family-run breweries in Uehlfeld.

A little further south is the idyllic Voggendorfer Keller. You drive via the towns of Dachsbach, where there is a beautiful moated castle, and Birnbaum, along ponds and forests to Kästel and over the pond chains near Sinntmannsbuch to Oberreichenbach. It's always worth taking a detour to the rock cellar of the Geyer brewery. From Ebersdorf, the tour takes you comfortably downhill to Wilhelmsdorf, with its circle museum, and Emskirchen, where you can visit a local museum before you tackle a final climb to the Rennhofen beer garden. You then roll downhill back to the gourmet resort of Neustadt an der Aisch.