Cumbria is the beer garden of England, and the scenic, seven-mile Lakes Line wends its way through the very heart of it.
Maybe it takes you to the hilltop beer garden at the Andechs Monastery, to the bar where you picked up your future wife, to wherever you were when you last had a beer with your dad.
Add to that its prime location, under the southern end of the new High Line park, and Biergarten ranks as my third favourite, with the added chance to beer garden hop.
The classic hall and beer garden rewards its pilgrims with an authentic German menu of spatzle, schnitzel, strudel and wurst, tall steins of brew and a long bottle beer list, and on Sunday afternoons, a live lederhosen-clad oompa band.
Luckily, in just the last few years, the city has undergone a beer garden wiedergeburt (rebirth).
It had a bandstand and beer garden, not the smartest attraction, given Lake Michigan's icy winds.
Less well known or crowded is beer garden Hirschau to the north of the Englischer Garten.
"We've become a bit inure to this because we've had four cars in the garden in the last few years and in 2007 a lorry lost its load of beer into our garden, " said Mr Cobbin.
The block-wide, walled-in Czech beer garden has enough picnic tables to comfortably seat 800 and is merrily packed all summer with pitcher-swilling, sausage-eating bonhomie.
MLive.com reported that the project got approval Tuesday from Holland planners for work including a new beer garden.
According to the regulations a roof includes any type of awning or canvas - so converting a covered beer garden to a smoking room may not be an option for many pub landlords.
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