Trip's Beer Trips

Beers and dinner:


The Edelstoff:

 

I knew I was going to order that Edelstoff too, so I had to limit myself to half-liter pours.

I'm at the Holiday Inn Express Munich West, just east of the Hirschgarten stop and adjacent to the rail yard on the S-Bahn. The Hirschgarten Park is just northwest of the hotel, very walkable. I can't find anything on the Löwenbräu Keller location, but it's a moot point since it's bedtime now and the tour starts tomorrow with all of its activities.

 

Our tour ends the day before Oktoberfest, so we won't be part of that crowd. We did the spring festival in 2017 during our last trip to Munich, and visited the English Gardens and the Chinese Tower biergarten during that trip too.

We'll leave Munich to work our way up toward Frankfurt and spend our last week visiting a former exchange student from 1996 and her family, plus an old college roommate from 1970. So Oktoberfest is an event that we likely will never do at our age. Better to watch the highlights on TV.

 

Holy s**t! I knew those sets of clothing were expensive, but not THAT expensive!

 

We started Saturday with a trip on the S-Bahn to Marianplatz. The glockenspiel had just finished its show of mechanical characters, but no big deal since we saw it a few times during our 2017 visit. We walked on over to the Viktualienmarkt for a morning beer, a Radler and a snack. The place was a zoo because it was invaded by fans for both teams of a football match that was to occur later today.

A short walk from there was Hofbrauhaus, and it was also jammed by football fans, tourists, and I don't know who else. We managed to find two tables close to each other for our group of 16, so we had another beer.

After that.we moved onward to the Oktoberfest Bier Museum. Interesting stuff in there but not earth shattering. A bierstube at street level that is part of the museum didn't attract us since we felt a need to pace ourselves.

Then on to a microbrewery for a tour, Higgins Ale House. This brewery is located literally in the shadow of the huge Spaten Brewery, being across the street on the north side of it.

By then it was dinnertime, so a short walk to the Augustiner Keller for another beer and dinner under the trees during a pleasant evening.

Viktualienmarkt


Hofbrauhaus

 

The balcony where we sat overlooking the Hofbrauhaus biergarten


Augustiner Keller

 

The wrist hasn't fully healed from my fall but it's strong enough to support what is necessary:


Dinner and beer


Tomorrow is a bus ride to Erlangen that includes a bierkeller tour plus dinner at a small brewery there.

 

The Pope is Catholic.

 

Great video. We're ready for the experience.