Wismar Brewery Tour

When we planned this trip we got a little over zealous with the excursions and booked one in almost every port. Hopefully the others will go better than today’s did.

What we thought was a brewery tour at a medieval monetary brewery was really a sad walk around what once was an East German port town. Unlike other areas I have traveled the town dos not do much to restore the medieval architecture. There were three gothic medieval churches on in complete ruins except for the clock tower, one the tried to save but they waited too long, and one small one that survived but lost all its stoned glass. We went through the one they restored bit it was pretty much just an empty shell. None of the art work survived.

The town was cute with winding cobble stone roadways but there wasn’t much too it. We had an hour of free time to shop around but we were back long before then. I did find some jewelry (and I know you are saying of course you did but this is day four and that was the first real purchase I have made) but that was it. We didn’t have any euros so we couldn’t buy the pastry we wanted or go to the bathroom. It was a sad day but we survived.

The building the brewery was on was neat. It had a old Shakespearean look to it with the big logs and white plaster. The beer was okay but not great and it was miserably hot so even if it had been great it would have been hard to enjoy it.

So all in all our first excursion was a bust.