We recently returned home from a two-week trip to the South, Nashville, Myrtle Beach, Helen, Georgia, and Greenville SC. I want to focus here on the two days we spent in Helen, Georgia a small village in the Appalachian mountains of northern Georgia close to the North Carolina state line. Helen, a former logging town, reinvented itself beginning in 1969 when it became a Bavarian-themed town. Virtually every building in the town is of German design.
There are several German restaurants in Helen, the Bodensee, Old Bavaria Inn, Hofbrauhaus, and Old Heidelberg are the biggest. We dined at the Bodensee and Old Bavaria Inn. The Bodensee, which also features a nice little bar, is owned by a lady from Konstanz, Germany. While we did not eat at the Hofbrauhaus, we did visit their bar, The GI Germany Bar.
If I recall correctly, the main beers served in Helen were Paulaner pils and lager, Muenchner Hofbrau, Warsteiner, Erdinger (weissen), Schoefferhofer grapefruit.
Our stay was from September 4-6, and the next day, Helen began its 5-week Oktoberfest. It runs from the 1st weekend in September (every weekend) and every day throughout October.
