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Frankfurt Apple Wine Festival 2023

The event starts at

11 August 2023

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The event ends at

20 August 2023

Apple Wine is so popular and associated with Frankfurt and the region that it has its own festival: The Annual Apple Wine Festival is a traditional celebration, held in downtown Frankfurt during mid of August in the heart of the city.

At this festival, which also features an excellent stage program, people come together from near and far to celebrate the locals’ beverage of choice. Enjoy Apple Wine in its pure form or as trendy mixed blends and apple wine cocktails.

Here are the steps to plan your trip

1. Go to the official website and double check the event availability, prices and regulations.

2. Check below the accommodations in hotels in Frankfurt available during the the event. ⤵︎

How to find best prices for hotels

2.1. Pick a hotel room by location and by price.

2.2. The search is done for 1 guest and the entire duration of the event. Click on the 'Filter', 'Guests', and 'Dates' buttons to adjust the search.

🏨 In the 'Filters' section, you can tell if you are looking for hotels or vacation homes. Here, you can filter the results by stars, review ratings, and budget.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 In this section, you can specify the number of guests (adults and children) and the number of rooms you want to book.

📆 Finally, you can change the date of your stay.

2.3. Save more money! Some hotel rooms are provided by multiple hotel booking websites. You will see them on the top of the hotel room details when you hover the mouse over the room. Be it Booking.com, Expedia, Trivago, Opodo, or other providers, select the best price provider for the room during the chosen period.

2.4. If hotel rooms are not available around the event location, you can zoom out or search by a nearby city/town name. If you have a specific hotel in mind, you can even search the particular hotel name.

2.5. Bonus tip: Switch to Experiences search. Perhaps you will find great tours and activities!

2.6. Pro tip: The map of the experiences may help you find the most vibrant areas in the city and the best locations where you can look for accommodations for your stay.

3. Check the flight, bus, and train travel options to the event location

4. If everything is fine you can buy all the tickets

Apple Wine – Frankfurt’s famous beverage

Apple Wine – Frankfurt’s famous beverage

Frankfurt´s traditional apple wine has been associated with the city on the Main for over 250 years. However, its history goes back much further than that. While it is impossible to tell exactly when apple wine was invented, it is an established fact that it was a common drink as far back as the time of Charlemagne, over 1,200 years ago.

Frankfurt´s apple wine (also known as ebbelwei, äbbelwoi, äppler or stöffche in the local dialect) is known to be a stimulating low-alcohol beverage, which doesn’t make you tired but has a positive effect on the circulation and nervous system. Many renowned Frankfurt doctors have recommended to their patients the benefits of drinking apple wine! From a medical point of view, the beverage is said to stimulate vascular expansion, increase blood circulation around the brain and retard the ageing process.

Today, Sachsenhausen is known as the stronghold of apple wine consumption in Frankfurt; however, it is also readily available in downtown and suburban restaurants.

Bembel

Bembel

Traditionally, apple wine is served in a blue-grey crockery jug, the so-called Bembel*. The cider is then drunk from a slightly ribbed glass, the Gerippte. A true apple wine drinker drinks apple wine straight, and will only consume a spritzer in exceptional circumstances. A Süßgespritzter, in which the apple wine is mixed with lemonade, is completely unacceptable to apple wine connoisseurs. During the colder months, apple wine is also a popular hot drink, often infused with spices. During the summer, on the other hand, strawberries are often added to apple wine to create a kind of apple wine punch.

Apple wine is pressed in October, which makes for several seasonal varieties of the beverage. The freshly-pressed clouded autumnal apple juice, the Süßer, doesn’t contain any alcohol. When barrelled, it ferments quickly and can soon be served as Rauscher. Many consider this beverage to be an excellent natural laxative. If the Rauscher remains untouched and is fermented in its barrel throughout autumn, it reaches its full strength and turns into proper apple wine. This alcoholic Stöffche* (or “stuff”) can easily go to your head! Known as Heller, this apple wine is served around Christmas. If it is left to ferment in the barrel even longer, it matures to be an Alter, or aged apple wine.

The quality of this rather aromatic drink is solely measured by taste. Many experienced apple wine-makers know to press their Stöffche from just the right mix of sweet and sour apple varieties. More often than not they return to traditional varieties like the Speierling, which is a firm, small apple that isn’t suitable for eating.

Stöffche is best accompanied by a juicy rib with sauerkraut, pickled bacon or pork ribs, potatoes with herb butter, and of course Handkäs mit Musik, a dish which consists of aromatic cheese simmered in cider and served with onions.

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