+ Program Overview

Travel through beer country alongside Robin Shepard, associate professor of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin and prize-winning author of Wisconsin’s Best Breweries and Brewpubs from the North American Guild of Beer Writers.
Take in the riverside towns on a cruise along the Rhine, and ride first class on the Eurocity train from Düsseldorf to Berlin.
Enjoy dinner at the most famous brewery in Munich—the Hofbräuhaus—a colorful atmosphere during Oktoberfest.
Learn about Germany’s handcrafts at a woodcarving demonstration and their passion for wine in Heidelberg castle’s wine cellar.
Stand in awe at the amazing architecture of the Kölner Dom, King Ludwig’s Neuschwanstein Castle, Munich’s Old and New Town Halls, and St. Sebald Church, among others.
Taste some of the oldest beer recipes in the world after a tour at the Weihenstephan Brewery in Freising, previously a monastic brewery that opened nearly a thousand years ago.