On May 17 and 18

A festival for beer lovers at the Gartenrast

The Shilling Brewery is hosting the 9th Carinthian Beer Festival.(Bild: Gasthof Gartenrast)

The specialties can be tasted for two days. Breweries from Carinthia as well as the rest of Austria and the Czech Republic present their beers.

"We organized the first beer festivals back in the noughties, before we brewed beer ourselves," recalls Uli Bacher, head of the Shilling Brewery and Gartenrast: "On 17 and 18 May, you can taste beers from Carinthia such as Hirter, Loncium and our Untertwenger neighbors Bierix from 5 pm." Breweries from Upper Austria, the Czech Republic and Franconia (Germany) will also be offering their delicacies.

 "We have also brewed our own Viennese lager especially for the festival. It's reddish, amber-colored and a little stronger at 5.5 percent," says Bacher, whetting the appetite for the barley juice. "The beer is tasted in Pfiff glasses, which you can buy from the brewers with tokens. Admission is free, of course."

So let's go: May 17 and 18 from 5 pm at Gasthof Gartenrast in Untertweng near Radenthein.