Best Beery Visits of My Hols

We recently undertook a bit of a rail tour of what was titled five capitals. I suppose if you include the brief stop in Brussels it was. I've already mentioned the cafe in Brussels in a previous post, but while that was just fine, it was a very short visit and all the more welcome because of my beer free week that preceded it. So, let's start with Cologne. Not a capital obviously, so a bit of an outlier, though also somewhere I know reasonably well. We had the usual central visits to the Koelsch houses in the central area we stayed in. We included Peters, Sion and Fruh in the whistle stop tour. On a Monday night though, all were pretty quiet.But the real joy was wandering around Eigelsteintorburg—a tip courtesy of the hotel desk. Set against a floodlit ancient city gate, it was packed with lively eateries - no shortage of customers on a balmy Monday night - and a brilliant atmosphere in the mid twenties heat. So good in fact that we ate there both nights. Top tip: As above. I'm sure…