Bariloche - Beautiful Lakes, Mountains…..and a Brewery Pub!!!

So Bariloche was a beautiful little town surrounded by mountains and clear blue lakes!! The scenery was stunning as we drove into the town however the weather was crap!! It rained and blew a gale most of the time we were there and so our initial plans of hiring a bike and cycling round the lakes was scrapped!!
 

Luckily for us there was a gorgeous little microbrewery about 5mins from the campsite were about 10 of us spent most of our 2 days in Bariloche!! It was a beautiful pub filled with memorabilia and bottles of beer from different countries around the world. Tierna would have had a field day in this place with the amount of stuff lying around!!

It had loads of Guinness and Murphy’s souvenirs (apparently the owner had visited Ireland and loved it!) and one of the 7 beers that they brewed and bottled in one corner of the pub was a dark black stout just like Guinness or Murphy’s (better not offend the Rebels by only mentioning Guinness!!). We tried a taster of all 7 home brews and for me the cider was the best and Tom liked the Pilsen and the Negra Irlandais.

So we would have been quite happy to stay there just for the beers and peanuts but then the very friendly waiter produced the food menu!! Oh my god they did a steak and mushroom pie and a chicken and bacon one!! To be fair when I’m at home this wouldn’t get me too excited but by now we are so sick of rice, pasta, chicken and chips and cheese and ham sandwiches that the thought of a pie with mushy peas, caramelised onions and chips was too much to resist!!!!!! Who cares if we have already organised camp dinner (in the rain!!) we’ll just eat both and splash out!! The pie came out and we were practically drooling on it!! Gorgeous golden pastry mmmmmmmmm!!!

So enough of my over excitement about the pie…after the second day in the pub we decided we at least had to get the bus into town and see it before we left the town only having seen the inside of one pub!!! It was quite nice and they had loads of chocolate shops were you could see the chocolate being melted in those big churners and then made into sweets and bars :o) Tom managed to resist the chocolates (just about!!) but went for their second speciality - ice cream!! They had every flavour you could think of and they all looked gorgeous :o)

So that was our 2 days in Bariloche - Beer - Pies - Ice-cream!!