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  Beer Travelers - Great German Beer Halls
Although the Midwest had to wait longer for the American craft beer renaissance to arrive than did most of the rest of the country, we always had reliable German restaurants that served quality beer.
Beer reps have loved hanging out here for more than 30 years, not because of the huge Richard Avedon photo on one wall or the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed windows but because the 16 taps pour Hacker-Pschorr, Paulaner and Spaten beers as well as regional favorites Schell and Summit.
The best seats are in the beer garden, which is voted best in the Twin Cities every year, but any place they'll bring you food is acceptable.
www.beertravelers.com /indexes/wateringholes/german.html   (1530 words)

  
 Hamburg Pub Guide: the best Bars, Beer Halls, Brewpubs and Beer Gardens
My opinions about their two beers were quite divergent: the Messing was a good pale, hoppy beer with peppery tones; the Kupfer was more disappointing, tasting like the paler variety with a dash of caramel and was not malty enough for the style.
A brewpub which claims to be Hamburg's first wheat beer brewery.
Strange that, as I thought wheat beer was one of the original pre-lager styles brewed in the city.
www.xs4all.nl /~patto1ro/hambpubs.htm   (1298 words)

  
  Real Beer Page: Yankee Brew News Archive: Beer, Women, and History
If a beer seller do not receive barley as the price of beer, but if she receive money...or make the beer measure smaller than the barley measure received, they (the judges) shall throw her (the brewster) into the water.
Among the many types of brew made by these ancient brewsters of Sumeria were: fl beer, white beer, red beer, beer of two parts, beer from the nether-world, beering for the offering (sacrifice), mother beer, beer for the supper, beer with horns, wheat beer and beer with a head.
In the land of the Pyramids, where beer was king, the barley-bread brew played a large part in the religious life of the Egyptians as well.
www.realbeer.com /library/archives/yankeebrew/93Sum/women.html   (2360 words)

  
  The Golden Age of Taverns
Reportedly capable of seating more than a thousand at a time, beer drinkers kept the seats full, in fact a beer garden was one of the few places that a respectable woman, accompanied by her husband of course, could go out for a beer.
Beer halls were a sure money maker and as new establishments opened they attempted to maximize profits by drawing crowds to larger and more magnificent temples of beer drinking.
During his short visit to the beer hall he met others in a similar circumstance, and their equal position brought them a certain sense of solace.
www.beerhistory.com /library/holdings/taverngold.shtml   (3066 words)

  
  Beer hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A beer hall (German: Bierpalast, Bierstube) is a large pub that specializes in beer.
The largest beer hall was the 5,000-seat Mathaser near the Munich train station which has since been converted into a movie theater.
The Beer Hall Putsch, an event occurred in 1923, in Munich, Germany.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beer_hall   (108 words)

  
 Japanese beer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese beer had its start during the Edo Period when the Dutch opened beer halls for the sailors who worked on the trade route between Japan and the Dutch Empire.
Beer can be purchased at a wide variety of outlets, including supermarkets, convenience stores and kiosks at train stations and can be consumed virtually any where but Japan has very strict laws against operating a motor vehicle or riding a bicycle after or during the consumption of alcohol.
The beer cans are typically decorated with pictures of autumn leaves, and the beers are advertised as being suitable for drinking with nabemono (one-pot cooking).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japanese_beer   (540 words)

  
 CURRENT Conversations : The Beer Traveller
German beer is a lager, lighter in color, and the brewing process is longer.
Germans drank it in beer halls and beer gardens, and these were centers of community life--people of all ages when they drank beer and people of all walks of life, and beer was fairly cheap, and there was entertainment.
Beer was also a working person's--in those days a workingman's--beverage, so that it was associated, to some extent, some people looked down on it as a lower-class beverage, and people still do today.
www.ecurrent.com /art/converse0204.php   (2998 words)

  
 Munich Beers
Their beers are served at beer halls at some of the breweries, at restaurants and pubs all over the city, and are also sold in bottles.
It has a traditional beer hall at the brewery serving Edelstoff, a rather plain beer; Maximator, a doppelbock was excellent with great malt character and chocolate overtones; and a not-very-spicy weissbier.
The beers have a clove-like spicyness from the strain of yeast used.
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 Munich Pub and Beerhall Guide: the best Munich Pubs, Bars, Beer Halls, Brewpubs and Beer Gardens
The most popular beer style in Munich is Helles, a very pale, malty lager, that you could liken to a light mild (though of a greater strength).
Augustiner being a pretty traditional sort of brewery, their beer garden is one of very few in central Munich to still serve beer from the wood.
The beer garden is self-service, the bar being housed in a prefab outbuilding, where there's also part of the restaurant.
www.xs4all.nl /%7Epatto1ro/munipubs.htm   (3631 words)

  
 All About Beer Features: Welcome to the Beer Garden
The invention of the beer garden was a by-product of the invention of bottom-fermenting beer, which was based on a technology that was discovered rather than invented.
While summer beer was a relatively light beer to be consumed within days, winter beers proved to be stable and could be kept for months, if not for years, provided they were brewed and treated properly.
By that time, a new style of winter beer became popular: märzenbier, so named because the last batches of winter beer were brewed in March with slightly higher gravity and a generous amount of hops to preserved them into the summer.
www.allaboutbeer.com /features/205.biergarten2.html   (834 words)

  
 Real Beer Page: Yankee Brew News Archive: Beer, Women, and History
If a beer seller do not receive barley as the price of beer, but if she receive money...or make the beer measure smaller than the barley measure received, they (the judges) shall throw her (the brewster) into the water.
Among the many types of brew made by these ancient brewsters of Sumeria were: fl beer, white beer, red beer, beer of two parts, beer from the nether-world, beering for the offering (sacrifice), mother beer, beer for the supper, beer with horns, wheat beer and beer with a head.
In the land of the Pyramids, where beer was king, the barley-bread brew played a large part in the religious life of the Egyptians as well.
realbeer.com /library/archives/yankeebrew/93Sum/women.html   (2360 words)

  
 Beer Journey to Germany - Munich, Kelheim, Regensburg
The Paulaner Hefeweizen (wheat beer with yeast) and Salvator doppelbock are heavenly.
The walls are decorated with memorabilia from the brewing past of Hacker-Pschorr, and the beer selection features the Helles (a golden lager with a malty flavor), Dunkel (a darker lager with caramelized malt flavors), Pilsner (a light colored lager with a spicy, hoppy profile), and occasional seasonals.
These beers are all murky and unfiltered homebrews that have a rich character reminiscent of how German brews probably tasted many years ago.
www.classiccitybrew.com /germany2.html   (2038 words)

  
 Rick Steves' Europe: Best Beerhalls
The best beer in Munich is brewed by Augustiner — their Helles is the world standard, and their Edelweiss Export is nearly as good.
The beer (dark) and food were the best I had in Prague and were served in medieval fashion.
Another place to enjoy the beer in an authentic and not so touristy atmosphere is at the beer garden located a few blocks from the Hauptbahnhof (rear exit, turn left and walk about 4-5 blocks; it's on the right).
www.ricksteves.com /graffiti/archives/beerhalls.htm   (3238 words)

  
 SAPPORO BREWERIES/Corporate Information
To answer strong calls from beer lovers for a beer hall quality draft that they could enjoy at home, our beer technicians put in many hours of research to come up with technology that allowed draft beer to be bottled in its freshly brewed state.
In 1949, accompanying the lifting of the ban on trademarks that was enforced during wartime, the Japanese beer industry saw advertising re-ignite.
In 1958, this concept was manifested in advertisements run under the banner "Munich, Sapporo, Milwaukee." At a time when Japanese were not permitted to travel overseas freely, this advertising, with its use of a world map of beer halls and the tri-city catchphrase, was innovative and persuasive, eliciting a major response from the public.
www.sapporobeer.jp /english/history   (928 words)

  
 BeerFestivals.org - Beer Traveller Series - World Class Beer at Cold War Prices
The best place to get an education in Czech beer is one of Prague's beer halls, where residents gather for conversation over fresh mugs of pivo.
In an earlier Beer Traveller article, I took you to U Fleku, the 500-year-old landmark that serves its unique dark beer to thousands of visitors each year.
Czech beer names are followed by numbers (typically, 10 to 12 percent).
www.beerfestivals.org /archive/bt/prague_beerhalls.htm   (797 words)

  
 ZIMBABWE: Beer Halls as a Focus for HIV Prevention Activities in Rural Zimbabwe
Those who had been to a beer hall reported higher levels of sexual behavior and stronger associations with commercial sex than those who had not.
A recent beer hall visit was associated with HIV infection (men: odds ratio [OR]=1.9, P<0.001; women: OR=1.7, P=0.001) and with ever having experienced urethral/vaginal discharge or genital sores.
"Beer hall attendance is associated with high-risk behavior for HIV infection" and is a cofactor in sexually transmitted infections, the authors concluded.
www.aegis.com /news/ads/2005/AD051559.html   (561 words)

  
 Beer Tasting in Munich (München)
Their beers are served at beer halls at some of the breweries, at restaurants and pubs all over the city, and are also sold in bottles.
Löwenbräu is one of the most recognized beer brands in the world (it is brewed in four countries in addition to Germany), but I was disappointed that most of its beers (Export-Helles, Premium Pils, Schwartzbier, and Weissbier) were not very flavorful.
The beers have a clove-like spicyness from the strain of yeast used.
www.mindspring.com /~zipf-williams/beer/munich.html   (825 words)

  
 Oktoberfest
Each year, the Oktoberfest is attended by around 6 million visitors, who drink around 5 million liters of beer and consume over 200,000 pairs of pork sausages - mostly in the "beer tents" put up by the traditional Munich breweries.
Visitors were able to quench their thirst at small beer stands which grew rapidly in number.
In 1896 the beer stands were replaced by the first beer tents and beer halls.
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 Top 10 cities for beer lovers - Fall Travel - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Traditionally, beer halls only poured one brand, but have recently begun pouring two or three, so you won’t have to pub crawl to sample Prague’s best suds.
Beer is the most popular alcoholic drink here – so popular, in fact, that you can purchase it from vending machines on the street.
The town of Sapporo, in northern Japan, is a name beer lovers are familiar with, thanks to the golden beverage that shares the town’s namesake and which usually appears in a silver tall-boy.
www.cnbc.com /id/15642039/page/2   (659 words)

  
 Halls for hire, historic cred for free - General - www.theage.com.au
When it was known as the dance hall "Opus", Prahran's Ormond Hall was such a cornucopia of attractive young women that St Kilda footballer Carl Ditterich used to park out front in his red sports car to chat them up after gigs.
Ormond and Central Hall have been dormant in recent years, but now two of Melbourne's most happening music venues from the 1960s and '70s have received makeovers that could see them relive former heady glories.
Purpose-built as a performance hall with a sloped floor for concerts and religious services, it was initially used as a music hall for members of the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/08/11/1092102506402.html   (786 words)

  
 Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - Bavarian beers for all seasons
One of the festival's great tastes is a style of beer that used to be made in March for summer drinking, in the days before refrigeration when the warm weather made brewing impossible.
Its new season's beer is introduced festively three weeks before Easter at the brewery's beer cellar and garden at the Nockherberg, a hill overlooking the city.
The most famous place for wheat beer is the Schneider brewery's restaurant in the street called the Tal (Dale).
www.beerhunter.com /documents/19133-000786.html   (959 words)

  
 Epinions.com - Beer Hall in Tallinn
I only wanted to try the beers but it is also an established restaurant in the city.
The beer had a nice golden hue and the hops asserted themselves in the nose.
I guess that is very similar to the German beer halls in that respect.
www.epinions.com /content_4310409348   (739 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich: Books: Larry Hawthorne   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Of course, when there is beer at the end of the road, you tend not to get lost.
A word about beer gardens...don't be put off with the idea that they are just big parks serving beer to roudy and abusive drunks.
Beer gardens are a very civilized, cultural part of Bavaria, and they just so happen to be a lot of fun too.
www.amazon.com /Beer-Drinkers-Guide-Munich/dp/0962855510   (1496 words)

  
 globeandmail.com: Tapping into Munich's beer halls   (Site not responding. Last check: )
And like every beer hall in Bavaria, the Hofbrauhaus maintains the enduring institution of the stammtisch table, where seating is reserved for the exclusive use of regular patrons.
The Weisses Brauhaus is the place for a lunch of classic beer hall fare, such as massive joints of roasted pork covered in crackling skin, or deer ragout, steeped in the foresty flavours of mushrooms and cream.
As in many other countryside beer halls, old-timers bring their own picnic baskets crammed with silken sausages fresh from the butcher and wedges of rich cheese, eaten country-style dipped in a mound of salt.
www.theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/LAC.20030628.TRBEER28/TPStory/Travel   (1002 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Halls of fame sprout on the U.S. landscape
A 1920s building near the riverfront in Cincinnati is undergoing a multimillion-dollar rehab for the Beer Hall of Fame, to open in spring 2007.
The notion of fame broadened in 1939 with the unveiling of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. In keeping with the athletic trend, Canton, Ohio, welcomed in 1963 the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and Springfield, Mass., did the same in 1968 for basketball.
While halls of fame put some cities on the map, the term itself became embedded into the vernacular as the highest status one could achieve.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002502740_hallsoffame18.html   (1250 words)

  
 Archived Beer Club Newsletter: Volume 6, Number 6   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Helles Alt Beer, their second year-round brew, was added in May of 1994.
A break with microbrew tradition, Isolation Ale does not have the customary spices and herbs beers of its genre are known for.
ALL ABOUT BEER - When Toronto was granted an American League baseball franchise in 1977, the Toronto Blue Jays became the only team in the major leagues that didn’t sell beer during baseball games, much to the disapproval of most fans.
www.beermonthclub.com /newsletters/vol6no6.htm   (2829 words)

  
 Munich's Strong Beer Festival
For two weeks, breweries bring out their most potent beverages, and beer halls throw noisy parties with lots of Bavarian entertainment and food.
Strong beer's popularity took off after Napoleon rode into town and sold the monasteries to local businessmen.
And because their strength is masked by a strong malty flavor, they can sneak up on the most experienced of beer drinkers.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/beer_traveller/57095   (468 words)

  
 milwaukee historical timeline
By the turn of the century, led by Pabst, the big breweries of Milwaukee were the country's leaders in beer production.
Besides making beer for the rest of the nation, Milwaukeeans enjoyed consuming the various beers produced in the city's breweries.
Beer halls and taverns are abundant in the city to this day although only one of the major breweries --Miller-- remains in Milwaukee
www.milwaukeecountyhistsoc.org /beer.htm   (145 words)

  
 Deck the Halls with Beer - CHOW
Introduced by Zurich’s Hurlimann Brewery in 1979, this super-strong beer was discontinued in 1996 when the brewery was sold, only to reappear on the market four years later (thanks to popular demand) as a product of Eggenberg Brewery.
In Belgium, Christmas beers are generally dark, high gravity (strong), and somewhat spicy, though most of the time the flavor comes from malts and hops rather than actual spices, like cinnamon or cloves.
The typical Norwegian Christmas beer is a nutty, coppery lager that’s light to medium bodied and unspiced, but Scandinavia also produces winter ales brewed with actual spruce tips.
www.chow.com /stories/10374   (1255 words)

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