Planning a 3 week trip with my wife and two kiddos to Munich to drink über fresh Lager beer this Spring. Going to hit the famous breweries of Munich, head to Bamberg and imbibe world-class Rauchbier, pop over to Bad Köstritz for their eponymous and inimitable Schwarzbier, and maybe, if I'm lucky, my kids will let me pop over to Plzen to drown myself in Pilsner.
I've been writing and speaking professionally about German and Czech beer, specifically beer from Munich and Plzen, for coming up on two decades and I am embarrassed to say I've never been to Munich to drink beer, Oktoberfest or otherwise, so I'm finally heading there to try these bucket list beers fresh from the tap at the facilities that make them. My wife, Cindy, is also a Certified Cicerone® so she's super game for the trip. My kids? We'll they're budding beer geeks already, so they're on board as well just assuming there will be plenty of bike rides, park visits and nap time (all of which sound great to me).
Here's my question: How can I get someone to fund this beer voyage? Sounds like a joke (get paid to drink beer), but I have more experience writing and speaking about beer than most people have experience even drinking it (kinda makes ya think how much beer I've had to drink to get there.) So there must be someone interested in working with me, right?
I'm looking forward to writing and filming my experience, working while I'm there, but find myself inept when it comes to social media (Instagram, Youtube and I'm old enough to think that TikTok is all just dance videos so don't even start on that). But, I have to imagine that I can find some company or entity that would find my experience over there useful. Are there any avenues that anyone would recommend to find a way to fund this trip?
Maybe this is naive, but I'll be honest, in my professional career I've found no other way to make money than getting paid to drink beer. And this is LinkedIn, so you all know me professionally and know that's true. So, if past is prologue, the beer community will continue to help me engage further in my only professional ability - drinking beer.
Prost!
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8moWow, it must really be something if somebody's using the word spectacular in the article. I wanna be there.