31 Bridge Street, 01223 568989, cambridgewine.com The city's only brewpub (where you can watch brewer, Mark Burton, working away on his tiny brew kit), Cambridge Brew House serves six cask ales including three of its own beers.
That is a common comment on American politics, though Mr Hickenlooper, who founded a prominent Denver brewpub before running for mayor, has a special credibility on the subject.
The winner, who lives in north London and runs a bar near Euston station, said of the future: "The big, silly, long-term goal is to have an empire, hopefully including several regional Japanese restaurants and an American-style brewpub".
(A craft brewery, according to the Brewers Association, is one that produces less than two million barrels a year; a microbrewery produces less than fifteen thousand; and a brewpub serves at least a quarter of its beer in house).
Despite all the reclaimed wood and the vintage fixtures, the atmosphere, as well as the service, brings to mind that of a brewpub in a renovated warehouse in a not-quite-reviving industrial town.
I was already planning my next trip back to Berlin to pick up a few cases when Mr. Berges asked if I had heard about the young Americans who were opening a brewpub just around the corner.
This summer he opened a new brewpub, called Pfefferbräu, in the old Pfefferberg building in Prenzlauer Berg.
The former Vesuvio Motel near the harbor in Lewes, halfway between the Dogfish brewpub in Rehoboth and its brewery in Milton, will be renovated into a 16-room beer-themed inn, complete with soap and shampoo infused with beer.
Though historic, Oberkassel is also home to the city's newest altbier, brewed since 2011 at the atmospheric Brauhaus Alter Bahnhof, a brewpub inside the neighborhood's former train station.
Avoid the Royal Way, the city's historic coronation route, to be sure, but don't miss the city's newest brewpub, Pivovar U Tri Ruzi, which opened right off the route earlier this year.
Some 3,000 riders a day pass by Mr. Ettinger's new brewpub, which he calls the Hopworks BikeBar.
