Month: April 2024

Mittenwald: A Brewery and a Beer Hike in the Alps

Mittenwald: A Brewery and a Beer Hike in the Alps

  Introducing Mittenwald   It was September 1786. Goethe had just left Munich on his way to the Brenner Pass, where he would cross into Italy and remain for two years. The stagecoach called at Mittenwald, a market town along the ancient road from Verona 

The Munich Baker-Brewer Dispute: Yeast and the Emergence of Lager

The Munich Baker-Brewer Dispute: Yeast and the Emergence of Lager

  A Tectonic Shift   At first blush, the Munich Baker-Brewer Dispute might look like a curious footnote in the annals of medieval history.[1] But it’s much more than that. Flaring up sporadically between 1481 and 1517, this inter-guild dispute is not only a colourful