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At the Pub, German and Austrian Style

At the Pub, German and Austrian Style

  ~Evoking Gemütlichkeit at the Wirtshaus~   It was the early 1990s. I had only recently discovered what German beer was all about, and was doing my level best to try as many of them as possible. Occasionally, my friends and I would find our 

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