Munich 2 days I picked 4 BierGartens any issues?

My suggestions:

1) not a biergarten, but worth a stop. For beer served from a wooden barrel, though, walk across the Platzl and go to Wirthaus Ayinger at 3-5 p.m. for kellerbier.
2) also not a biergarten, and I would pass. But close by, if also not a biergarten, is Andescher am Dom. Great beer, excellent food, cool place.
3) Good call, go there. Augustiner.
4) not a bad choice, but my preference is the Chinesicher Turm. Or better yet, if you're on a bike, head north through the Englischer Garten and have a liter at Aumeister.

Prost, and have fun.

 

As a full-time Munich resident, I can say that these are all good choices:
1) Hofbräuhaus - Yes, you have to see it. Be sure to look around the whole building. Drink a beer there & enjoy the music for a bit (starts at noon). Try not to eat there.
2) Augustiner Großgaststätte: This is a cool place and there is outdoor seating way in the back. However, the Augustiner Bräustuben offers a more exuberant atmosphere, especially around shift change at the brewery next door. Also serves from the wooden cask. (by the way, the letter ß is not a B - ß is pronounced as a double S sound).
3) Augistiner Keller - definitely!
4) Seehaus (English Garten) - A really nice setting and be sure to visit the Chinese Tower beer garden on your way there. If the weather is good, walk toward the Haus der Kunst first, see the surfers, and then walk to the Chinese Tower and then on to Seehaus.

The thing to realize with the beer gardens is that the weather has to be decent, otherwise the outdoor places are dead. I also think that the Hirschgarten is a great choice on a nice day - you can combine this with a look at Nymphenburg Palace first, and then walk over to the Hirschgarten. If the weather is bad, then consider the Bier & Oktoberfest Museum. They open at 1 PM (closed Sun/Mon) and offer great food and beer (also wood cask Augustiner). Lastly, for the best Weissbier in Bavaria, stop in at Schneider Weisse at Tal 7 - rain or shine, it's a great place.

Viel Spass!

 

If you are around the Hofbrauhaus at 5PM, go to the Ayinger Wirtshaus across the Platzl. That is when they tap the unfiltered Jahrhundert from the wooden keg. One of the best beers of my trip of a year ago.

Edit - I see I was late. But they tap the Jahrhundert at 5, not 3.

 

ß - Alt+225

 

The Beer Drinker's Guide will give you some good tips as far as ordering beers and general etiquette.
The spots you chose are solid. Depending on how active you feel like being, you could theoretically do all of them in a single day. The Hofbräuhaus and both the Augustiner Bräustuben and Großgaststätte are only a 10-15 minute walk apart. Ayinger is literally 50 feet from the Hofbräuhaus. Andechser am Dom is right over by the Bräustuben, too. That's my favorite stop in the area.
You can hop on the S-Bahn or U-bahn to the Hauptbahnhof. The Augustiner Keller is a 5-10 minute walk from there.

If the weather permits, I'd dedicate an entire day to the Englischer Garten. There are 4 different biergartens within and it's a beautiful park. The Seehaus is great, but so are the other spots.

 

I used the "The Beer Drinkers Guide to Munich" to help plan my trip this spring, and one thing I found the guide did for me was to identify which independent places served which brewery's beers, and trying as much variety as possible was one of my goals. (I ran out of time. ) You have two Augustiner locations so that you'll see some repetition of beers, which isn't all bad for their beers though. But if you need a Plan B for bad weather, looking at the guide for the intent for variety might give you guidance.

 

On a MAC it's just option + S.

And I'm in the same boat as you. I have only two days in München with at least the majority of one of those days cut out for Oktoberfest. (My wife has also taken a day away from Bamberg, but I'll kill her after the trip is over! )

What I did was go to goole maps and make a map of München with the biergartens tagged in green, and everything else with colors notating first, second, third, and fourth desire to visit. That way, no matter where I happen to end up due to my wife's shopping trips I'll always know what's nearby - and even if it's not a great stop I can pop in an have a beer while waiting.

As for your selections I agree with them all and they're all on my list.

For weather it should be somewhere around 60 F as far as I can tell, possibly higher given what they've experienced already this year, and without too much worry of rain - although with the way things are going right now you never know!!! And snow is not unheard of in early October, although it would most likely be light.

 

Es tut mir Leid = I'm sorry.
Entschuldigung = Excuse me.

Learn them, know them, you'll use them -- I did.

 

If you experience heavy rains, there are a lot of good/large halls near Marienplatz. The Hofbrauhaus, Der Pschorr, Paulaner Im Tal, H-P, Donisl, Andechser Am Dom, Ayinger Wirtshaus, Schneider Weissesbrauhaus, both of the larger Augustiner halls (and Bratwurst Am Glockl), Spatenhof, Tegernseer Tal, and a whole lot more.

I was there 2 weeks ago and it (luckily) only significantly rained on our last day there. We just wandered around that area and managed to find seats at numerous places. You won't be the only one with this plan, but if you count all of those places there are literally thousands of seats. They won't all be full. If it happens to rain both days, Augustiner Keller seems to be the most liberal biergarten when it comes to opening in shaky weather. I've been there twice when they were open during rain. Not a downpour or anything, but enough where most places weren't open. The heavy tree canopy doesn't hurt.

I've never been there in October, but rain is constantly in the summer forecasts. Yet it tends to be very temporary. A 15-20 minute shower in the middle of the day preceded and followed by 90-degree heat has been par for the course on my last couple trips. Don't let the forecast scare you unless it's showing rain for the whole day.

 

Just to underscore this... there are a lot of very good food & beer places in the area (Marienplatz) that is typically very touristy. That is not true in MANY other major European cities.

 

In my experience, you should be able to get dunkles bier at most of the places named in this thread. Augustiner and Ayinger brew my Munich favorites, with Hofbräu a close third. For doppelbock or weizenbock, hit Andechser am Dom and Weisses Brauhaus, respectively. To get current info, I would also check with @BayernTrips.

Lots of good information in this thread (typical of this forum), please let us know how your trip was when you return. Prost und gute Reise.

 

I'm not exactly sure of their shift times, but I often see the guys with their rubber boots on sitting in there in the later afternoon . If you go in sometime after 4, the place is usually hopping by 6 and it's more of a local crowd than the downtown beer halls.

You can get dark beers at all these places, but the typically will not be on draft since demand for them is significantly less. That said, Bavarian dark beer is excellent!

For more insight into the culture of the Wirtshaus, I have an article on my website here.

On Oct 6-8, Ayinger is having a festival. Friday night is already sold out, but the other days are more relaxed. It's in German, but all described here.

Viel Spaß!

 

It's great that you guys are trying to use some German - the locals here do appreciate the effort!

• "Entschuldigung" or "Verzeihung" is used when you bump into somebody, step on their foot, or such things. Since this is a mouthful and tough for foreigners, most Münchners now just say "Sorry"
  
• "Es tut mir Leid" is used to convey deeper sorrow - like if you find out someone's parent just dies or if you accidentally dump a beer on someone.
  
• "Hallo!" is used to get someone's attention. It sounds rude to use, but it's normal to say this to a passing waitress when you need something or if someone left their purse or umbrella behind and you need to catch their attention.

Some other good things to consider:
Bitte & Danke - Bitte has the mean of "please," "Here you go" and also "Excuse me? (like I didn't hear you properly)

1. You say "Ein Bier, bitte"
2. Waitress brings beer and says "bitte schön " as she sets it in front of you.
3. You say "Danke"
4. She says "Bitte, Bitte"

For the bathroom, ask for the Toilet, not the bathroom. In German, it's "die Toilette," but close enough to the English, Toilet, that this is regularly understood. When conversing in English, keep your statements concise, simple, not overly polite and free from slang. For example,
Hey I know you're really busy, but when you get a sec, I wanna do the Schweinshaxe - just say, "Haxe, please" or " I would like the Schweinshaxe, please."

 

I'm also a big fan of Pimsleur since it's focus on listening and speaking: http://www.pimsleur.com/learn-german Viel Glück!