Recently, I decided to pay my respects to an old favourite that, as a bona fide beer lover, I had neglected for far too long. At CK Browar, the first micro-brewery to open in Małopolska, ale aficionados can taste four very different yeast infusions, brewed on the premises in huge vats to ancient Austro-Hungarian recipes. If you find the likes of Tyskie and Żywiec as bland as a bottle of sparkling dishwater then you’ll get a real kick from sampling Browar’s flavoursome light, dark, ginger and wheat beers; especially if you order them in five litre tubes from which you can pour your own pint – a simple, yet hugely gratifying, pleasure. The Austrian influence doesn’t stop at the brewing process, and, as well as the beer hall and hunting lodge décor, visitors will find a food menu full of classic Austrian dishes such as knuckles of pork and Viennese schnitzels – perfect for soaking up a couple of extra glasses of the good stuff. A minor caveat for the thimble-bladdered is that a pocketful of loose change is needed for tipping the toilet attendant.

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