1. Rügener Brauhaus

Aug 12, 2003 3 Replies

Off topic and obscure, but perhaps a reader knows?



This micro brewery opened at the railway station at Göhren in 2000. This is in the far north east of Germany.



A few days ago I was disappointed to find it closed, but it appears to have done so only recently. Food menu boards outside. Tables and chairs inside bar, complete with last used glasses still sitting on tables. It appeared to have just suddenly closed overnight.



Anyone know what happened?



Oddly the same fate seems to have hit the other enterprises that shared the station buildings.


-- David Replace diesel with steam to reply.


Nope, but in late July I found it was shut, and I thought it had a "not about to open in the immediate future" look to it.

Still, you can get a beer onboard the trains.

Thinking of schmalspurbahn spotting, there is a bar next to the junction station halfway along the line from Zittau (where DE CZ PL meet) where the beers are delivered to the tables by model railway!

Just adding to this theme. Although I missed out at Göhren, all was OK at Ostsee Brauhaus, which is two minutes walk from Kühlungsborn Ost station, on the narrow gauge railway from Bad Doberan. This is on the north coast towards the west border of ex-East Germany. This brewery is also a hotel and the rooms are very good. Their 'Helles' (a Vollbier) 4.9% beer was excellent. There was also wheat beer and a pils, although latter was not regular and soon ran out.

And as Arthur points out there is no better way of travelling than sitting back in the buffet on your steam hauled narrow gauge train, sipping a bottle of Rostocker. That was the best choice on both the narrow gauge lines.

-- David Replace diesel with steam to reply.

I accidentaly betreten'd on the wrong bit of beach, and the coast guards set a siren off, to we cleared off out of town on the next train :-)

I wish I'd know about that last month! :-) We stayed at Bad Doberan YHA, not bad, though the town isn't the greatest place for a pub crawl (or anything much other than trainspotting), unless you really like generic yellow fizzy beer.

Sadly the Radebuel Ost - Radeberg line (near Dresden) didn't have a buffet car. The Harz lines were selling small bottles of spirits on board, and many of the stations have bars. There is an old tram used as a bar at the Leipzig tram museum.

Maybe even better is drinking dark beers a short distance from the standard gauge sheds across the border in Wolsztyn...

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