My favorite was the Shammelsdorfer Gasthaus in, you guessed it, Shammelsdorf (about 10 clicks out of Bamberg). Best beer I've ever drunk. Some good German friends there. If you talked real nice to the owner's wife (and she was in a good mood) she'd go out back and kill a chicken, fry it up and serve it to you. I am ashamed to say that a couple of snowy nights I made it up the mountain (knob?) to my home in the old Healey without much memory of getting there. Dang beer was almost 12% alcohol.