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In Munich: Your Guide to the City’s Beer Gardens, Beerhalls, and Breweries

In Munich: Your Guide to the City’s Beer Gardens, Beerhalls, and Breweries

  ~Munich Beyond Oktoberfest~   The very sound of the word Munich is enough to conjure up fond memories for fans of German beer, memories of languid afternoons in beer gardens, of joyous and occasionally raucous beer festivals, of winter evenings in beerhalls drinking warming 

The Hofbräuhaus and the Origins of Bock Beer

The Hofbräuhaus and the Origins of Bock Beer

  The Horns of a Bock-Like Dilemma Duke Wilhelm V found himself caught between a rock and a hard place in matters of beer. Despite the promulgation of what we now call the “Reinheitsgebot” by his forebears in 1516, and despite subsequent attempts to regulate