I hate you, Chief Educator:
It’s not by accident that Munich hosts the annual Oktoberfest beer festival. The city is home to no fewer than six big-league breweries and ranks as the third-largest producer in the world. Beer halls and beer gardens are found at every turn, but no trip to Munich would be complete without a pilgrimage to the Hofbrauhaus in the Platzl pedestrianised area just off the Marienplatz. It may be a tourist trap, yet the wheat beer and ‘helles’ (light beer) are still reasonably priced and the sing-along atmosphere generated by the oompah band cannot be beaten. Munich cuisine is hearty, unpretentious stuff, with sausages of all shapes and sizes, roast pork (Schweinebraten), pickled cabbage (Sauerkraut) and dumplings (Knodel) on most menus. Incidentally, many of the city’s best value-for-money eateries are brewery-owned.
The beers in Munich come in the supersized tankards. They were really good, what I can remember of them. The beer made by the monks @ Andechs was especially good. Beer tour continues in Austria, the good city of Salt. Off to London tomorrow.
Comment by mulk — June 28, 2006 @ 6:42 am