About Bavaria On Tap
An English-language guide to Bavaria's drinking calendar — beer, wine, and Volksfest — for travelers who want more than the tour-bus version of Oktoberfest.
Why this exists
Bavaria packs more beer culture per square kilometer than almost anywhere on earth. There are hundreds of drinking festivals every year, and almost none of them are written up in English. Oktoberfest gets the coverage. The rest — beer cellars under chestnut trees in Forchheim, smoke beer in Bamberg, wine on a Würzburg hillside — is what this calendar is for.
What you'll find
- 229 curated events with dates, venues, and plain-English write-ups
- Filters by type, city, and date — plus calendar and map views
- Outbound links to each fest's own site
- Munich as the center of gravity; coverage from Franconia to the Allgäu
How we verify
Dates are sourced from official fest and city sites, cross-checked for copy-paste errors on aggregator sites, and date-stamped when re-verified. Read the full methodology →
What we are not
Not a tourism board, not a ticket reseller, and not affiliated with any brewery or festival organizer. We do not take bookings — we point you at the fest's own site when you are ready to go. This is a calendar for English-speaking travelers who want the real stuff.
Spot a wrong date? The official link on every event page is the authority — a public corrections route is coming.