Beer hall on the ground floor
I actually got the name of it wrong the first five times I was in Munich, I missed out the umlaut whenever I said it, don’t make the same mistake I did! With a history stretching back to the 16th century, it was founded by a duke in Bavaria. HB later earned a monopoly when King Maximilian I of Bavaria banned all other breweries from operating. After the 30 year’s war it even saved the city of Munich from being burned by providing some 600 000 barrels of beer to the King of Sweden.
Fourth time’s the charm!
The food is good, but the beer is even better. If you book well in advance (weeks in advance), you might be able to get a table in the Bräustüberl, a cozy salon with live music where Mozart dined in multiple times. It’s much more pleasant than the noisy hall downstairs where Lenin setup the Munich Communist Government, but not as upscale as the Festhalle upstairs where Hitler held the first Nazi meeting. I loved the place so much I’ve been four times! It’s a relaxing place to be after a long day of visiting Munich’s various museums and nearby castles. My choice of beer? Münchner Weisse, but Augustiner’s Helles really beats everything.
A charming interior
The HB isn’t just a popular tourist attraction, it is also a national icon of Germany and deeply cemented in local popular culture…
In München steht ein Hofbräuhaus
Doch Freudenhäuser müssen ‘raus.
Damit in dieser schönen Stadt
Das Laster keine Chance hat.
