October 26th, 2009 by Nate

Well during the Oktoberfest expedition, there was the moment of the ‘morning after’. In which we had realised that we’d parked our car in a park house that is locked on the weekends (!?!?!?) and in the process of waiting for the owner to open the garage it was decided that a bier was need to get our engines running.

The cafe we managed to get a table at was located on Neuhauser Straße near the Augustinerkirche (Augustiner Church) and thus they served the appropriately named Augustiner Bräu.

A quick history and personal perspective on this Brewery. I actually accidentally stumbled on a bottle of their Lagerbier Hell back in 2007 when I was living in Frankfurt and completely enjoyed it. I was also very interested in the label’s design and history. I found out that Augustiner is the only independent brewery left in München (the others have all become part of bigger companies such as INBEV). Not only is it independent, the brewery has been creating the magical malt mélange since 1328. So there is some ‘propper’ brewing skills here!

Anyway to the adventure and experience of drinking these biers, they may have been breakfast biers but by all means this was the perfect way to start the day and to prepare for the next round at the Wiesn. Not to mention that their Weissbier is one of the best I’ve ever had, here is 5 steins:

Beer, Bier, German Bier, hefeweizen, Lager, Munchen, Munich, Oktoberfest, Weißbier, weissbier