00:00:00: “Defendant, I sentenced you three years ago for stealing a car…”

00:00:06: “Yes you did, your honour, but a car like that won’t last forever!”

00:00:09: As you can hear, we are just passing by Lady Justice. She resides to your left, on a genuine island. The river divides here and provides room for the municipal and district courts.

00:00:21: In former times, anyone sentenced over there could drown his sorrows with suds from one of ninety local breweries. But those times are long gone. Nowadays beer is only made in the Wuppertaler Brauhaus, a mini-brewery and restaurant, located in an historical indoor swimming bath in the centre of Barmen.

00:00:42: It’s well worth a visit. However, it is still possible to learn how to brew beer in a Craft Beer Shop in the Luisenstraße. Yet the name of one of the beers no longer brewed here lives on thanks to a popular advertising slogan.

00:00:57: “Men like us – love Wicküler beer” – which does at least rhyme in German.