A must for all beer aficionados. What could be better than half a day out at one of Poland’s biggest breweries? The Poznań Brewery, which produces Lech, Tyskie, Żubr and Redds lies on the outskirts of the city.

There is no minimum number of people required for a tour so you can happily book by yourself. They do ask that you make an appointment for a tour the day before or at very least on the morning of your planned visit. Despite this, our unannounced arrival presented no significant problems - although we were naturally disappointed that we would have to wait half an hour in the bar before a guide could be rustled up.

The first hour consists of a waltz through the production process, fermenting and mashing as well as the usual guff about water purity and the like. The most striking thing about the first hour’s tour through the production plant is the lack of humans and the sheer amount of steel and technology. The two hour tour, which is available in English and German, is both informative and  thorough and your guides are employees of the brewery chosen for their years of experience and interest in the brewing process. The brewery, dating from 1980, is fairly impressive, and having been treated to a facelift in the 1990s is thoroughly modern; you’ll find yourself surrounded by sparkling steel on all sides.

For your second hour you’ll be whisked off to the multimedia centre. Here you’ll be treated to a film on the history and production of beer, as well as a galaxy of new attractions telling the story of Lech. We recommend that you take notes because you will be quizzed on the film when it finishes, we kid you not. Take the opportunity to have your photo taken inside a huge can of Lech which you can then instantly email to all of your friends or get involved in the bottling process which is guaranteed to bring out the child engineer in all of you.

After your exhausting cultural experience you’ll finish the tour with a well-earned beer which you can choose from their portfolio of brands, and you can complete your immersion into the world of Lech by buying up fleeces, keyrings, pens and beer mugs from the souvenir shop.

To get to the Brewery from the city centre take the bus line A from either the (A-2) Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny stop at Al. Niepodległości 10 or the (G-5) AWF stop at. ul. Królowej Jadwigi 27/39. Get off at the M1 shopping centre and you can’t miss the brewery opposite as it has three huge towers draped in bright green Lech flags. Alternatively a taxi ride from the centre will set you back about 20zł.

Admission 12zł.