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Beer Gardens
In summer, Bavaria's “liquid food” is served in beer gardens. And summer
unofficially begins during Lent in March, when the breweries market their
bock beers such as Salvator, Maximator, or Triumphator. No matter what you
drink - ale, light beer, or Weißbier (wheat beer) from Augustiner, Löwenbräu,
or Paulaner - if you haven't sat on a wooden bench beneath the chestnut
trees on a mild summer's night and sipped a Maß (a litre) of beer while enjoy-
ing the aroma of pork sausage or grilled fish, you simply don't know Munich.
Top 10 Beer Gardens
1 Augustiner-Keller
2 Löwenbräukeller
3 Flaucher
4 Hirschgarten
5 Chinesischer Turm
6 Seehaus
7 Sankt-Emmerams-Mühle
8 Paulaner
9 Muffathalle Beer Garden
0 Hofbräukeller
Bavarian waitresses carry
heavy loads
All beer gardens also
serve non-alcoholic
beverages.
Beer gardens are
divided into
full-service and
self-service areas. In
the latter, people are
allowed to bring their
own picnics.
!
Augustiner-Keller
£
Flaucher
•
Daily in season, usually
mid-May-late Sep, from
10 or 11am to 11pm,
sometimes later. Last
orders usually 10:30pm
• It is best to use public
transit when you visit a
beer garden
This vast beer garden
shaded by ancient chestnut
trees, near a former place of
execution, has existed since
the 19th century. Two hundred
decorated tables for regular
patrons add a whimsical note
(above)
. On beautiful summer
evenings, this beer garden is
packed. Don't miss the special
Augustiner brew from wooden
barrels. d
Arnulfstr. 52
• 5,000 seats (2,500 full-
service) • playground
@
Löwenbräukeller
Located on the banks
of the Isar beneath a
mature stand of trees, this
lovely beer garden has a
park-like feel. Popular in
the daytime with cyclists,
sunbathers, volleyball
players, and families with
children, it is romantic in
the evenings by candle-
light.
d
Isarauen 8 • 2,000
seats • large playground
$
Hirschgarten
Munich's largest beer
garden - which features
deer in an enclosure after
which the beer garden is
named - lies near Nymph-
enburg Palace. The golden
Augustiner brews flow
from a huge “stag” barrel.
d
Hirschgarten 1 • 8,000
seats • large playground
A quintessential
Munich beer garden. The
historic building - near
Löwenbräu brewery -
hosts annual carnival
balls and the tapping of
the first Triumphator barrel.
d
Stiglmaierplatz • 1,000 seats
24
There are more than 100 beer gardens in Munich and
surroundings: together, they can hold over 100,000 people.
