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Bärentreff: For Jelly bear lovers

Ok, I confess, I am a junky for jelly bears or "Gummibärchen" as they are called in german.

This is the shop where I get my "fix". The shop has everything in jelly, not only bears. It has fruit shaped, animal shaped, phantasy shaped ones. It has variations with natural fruit juice, without sugar, without gelatine, for people with zoeliakie and diabetes.

There are hot ones with ginger, sour ones, sweet ones ...

What to buy: Like it hot? go for the Ingwerteufel "ginger devils" - you will not be disappointed.

What to pay: between 5 - 10 swiss francs for 500g

Address: Gerbergasse 24,

Directions: Between the tram station of Barfüsserplatzz and Marktplatz, a small, covered sideway a little uphill.

Other Contact: in german only

Theme: Food and Drink

several Restaurants: Local Beers: Ueli Bier and Unser Bier

Basel has two good local beers.

One is the "Ueli Bier", made by the Brewerie Fischerstube at the Rheingasse in the smaller Basel

The other is the "Unser Bier" (translated: our beer) made in the bigger Basel at the Laufenstrasse.

Both are going more for quality than quantity. Together they only produce around 7000 hl per year.

The Ueli beer was created in 1974 by a doctor to help the Restaurant Fisherstube survive. It was the first Guesthouse Brewerie in Switzerland and he was succesful.
The logo of the beer comes from the "Vogel Gryff" event and a special beer (a bock or boog) with numerated beer - lids is made for this event only.
Beside that they today have several variations on the list.

For the Tut Ench Amun Exhibition they also created a special Tut Ench Ueli Beer which is made by a recipie from then .... but quite good, too.

"Unser Bier" (our Beer) exists only since 1997 but is quite successfull, too. Founded by some beer-lovers they had soon to change to bigger production units.
They also make beer for special occasions, like (translated) Our Christmas Beer, Our Carniveal Beer, Our Master Beer (when the local footballclub FCB became swiss masters), etc.
Also this Brewerie is famous for its events. So you can not only have a look at how they do it, but also try to make beer yourself! The newest thing is that they are also brewing Whisky - and give courses, too.

What to buy: Beer, of course (what were we talking about?) in different varieties.
You can have bottles (in shops also), glasses and - if you want to make a party - whole barrels.
Ueli beer comes sometimes in special big bottles which can be refilled at several shops.

Directions: Ueli Bier: Rheingasse 45, 4058 Basel
(smaller Basel: close to the Middle Bridge, look out for Restaurant Fischerstube)

Unser Bier: Laufenstrasse 16, 4002 Basel
(bigger Basel)

website: http://www.unser-bier.ch/home.htm

(the websites are in german only)

Theme: Food and Drink

Laeckerli Huus: Laeckerli Huus and lokal specialities

"Laeckerli" or Leckerli means something small and sweet in swiss german. Huus = House.

What to buy: So this is the house where you can buy the lokal speciality, the Laekkerlies.
They are a swiss (actually Basel) invention. A biscuit taht has been manufactured in Basel since the 14th century and is still made according to the original recipe.
In it are: almonds, hazelnut, honey, candied lemon and orange peel, as well as kirsch and fine spices.
There are newer variants covered in chocolate.

They are quite durable and make good souvenirs.

Address: Gerbergasse 5

Directions: that is close to the middle bridge on the side of the smaller basel

Theme: Food and Drink

Website: http://www.laeckerli-huus.ch