Massive secret beer cellar beneath my apartment

Ok so some dude just came to fix a water faucet for the washing machine. To do this he had to go into my basement?!? Standing there like an idiot I asked which basement he was refering to. He opens up part of my floor and reveals a set of steps leading down to a celler. I have been siting on top of a massive beer celler and known nothing about it. My landlord comes in and goes oh you didnt know about the celler. "yeah your apartment is really old. The bottles down there are my'n though!" So I have been sitting on top of a really cool beer celler for six months filled with crazy old bottles and didnt know a thing. my mind is know boggeled. I am trying to figure out if I should ask him if i can use it. its a massive storage space and exactly what my apartment lacks.

Good work, Sounds to me like your landlord is hiding something other than beer down there though, having not told you about it. Like his wifes body pehaps or a couple of million maybe. I'd Get down there and have a good rumage in the middle of the night

We have a new party venue!!!

Now that is one big cellar

I think we need to send a couple of beer investigators down there asap

Just to make sure you aren't sat on top of something toxic like

I volunteer as

1 i'm not scared of the dark

2 I like exploring damp places with beer in my hand

what are you waiting for? Get down there and report back!

Resisting the urge to comment...

I'm not ...

No bodies down there. Went down with a flashlight while it was open earlier. massive collection of old (really old) beer bottles. I know a friend that has quite an interest in these sorts of things so we are going to take a closer look at the beer bottles. They look ancient though. So I am afraid that any beer left in the bottles would be rather untasty. However old bottles fasinate me so I am exited. This friend of my'n recently got a present of a bottle that they found behind a wall (drunken bricky no doubt) but the style of bottle predates germany's big renovation. I am hoping these bottles will be equally interesting. Will take a look for hidden moneys and so forth too though. you never know what you will find. I was only down there briefly.

any photos?

Have a look if your landlords got some 1930's porn. Where their's a cellar there is always PORN!

Why write "my'n" when you can write "mine" in the same number of letters (arguably easier letters too)?

because I am canadian and my english is crap. next time i get down there will try and get some photo's. have to arrange a crowbar to get back down there. The trap door has no handles

Yeah, we found the location for the Canada Day Celebrations!
or May 2-4 weekend.

Maybe that cellar was the intended destination for the banana boxes which contained cocain!

Sounds like when I found out that I had satellite TV in my apartment in France 2 months before leaving!

you may be on to something here

Hey any explosives there?! and dont go lighting a match there never know with the alcohol fumes and what not

Maybe get in touch with Lupo, he's a brewer and might have interesting info.

I found that my old car had a 6 CD Changer in it the day I sold it

Yeah Lupo is a good source of info and someone should drag him back to freising for a couple drinks at c.a.w. however 2 good friends of lupo are in the middle of writting their overdue masters thesis also in brewing who are also very interested in the old beer stuff. Just had lunch with them and arranged for them to come over in a couple of days. chris seems to be quite exited about it actually.

Don't talk to the papers without royalties, this might turn out to be something quite sensational.

lol I don't quite think so, however very interesting for me. i am just trying to figure out why my landlord didnt tell me about it. Intereted in the bottles (which I don't have any right too). And of course interested if I can use it for storage. It is not very accesable and light bulb is burnt out. However finding a beer keller under your apartment by surprise is quite a exiting thing for an aspiring brewer

You lucky sod, Iain! I think C. with his Anthropology/Brewbarian background is the optimal man for the job. So are the bottles still unopened? And if so, what kind of date information do they have on them? Don´t forget this:

Not sure you don't have any right to access or contents. If access is from your apartment, and the rental agreement does not mention it, then ergo, the cellar and its contents are yours.

Ok normally being a very normal person i have no problem with ghosts or anything of the like. I also have, normally, no problem with with strange holes in ones apartment. however I have now received after a night of drinking, an invitation to see the underside of weihenstephan. Plus the random person i met today kept on mentioning my landlords name, while talking about everything being normal! He mentioned abnormal behaviour and so forth for me! This is the first time i have been freaked out by something like this, but now am am. please help!?!

rental agreement says nothing about anything. Access is definatly from my apartment and not from anywhere else. To my mind that doest really mean anythingl does that mean its my'n$

Anything you did not put in the cellar yourself is definitely not yours. Not unless you had bought the place including everything within its walls. Did you try any of the booze yet, or did you stick to modern stuff? Mighty potent, whatever it was

You Canadians celebrate in cellars???

So what sort of number of bottles are we talking ?

Um last time I checked no, for us newfs it was always in the kitchen (where the food is at), however you can never be sure with these mainlanders. they do some queer things y'know.


We are talking thirty or so bottles, sadly without the old crates. The one or two bottles that were examined last night while slightly happy (c.a.w. night, obviously drunken) and under the light of a lighter were from the old moi brauerei. This brewery is now known as Hofbrauhaus freising. Still waiting for chris to finish his taxes and come take a look though.

One really cool thing is that last night while drunkly stumbling around my new found keller with a local freisinger. I was promised a tour of the innerworking of the weihenstephan hill. apparenetly there is a interesting tunnel system underneath the weihenstephanburg, which this saturday I will get to see. So i have to get me a flashlight and rain proofs apparently.

wow - look at you -- adventures a plenty; dodgy knee spaß and a hidden cellar...could one possible have anything to do with the other? Seriously tho - is it, like, worth a trip back to FS to check it out! (is ciars possibly looking for excuses?!) Have fun under the berg on sat! You can visit me in this "burg" and tell me all about it!
(p.s. glad to hear the tradition lives on and that you were drunk on a wednesday )

last night was something else, although mild in comparesen to what it used to be. I shall have to come down to your burg see if we can still handle a crawl. (i have to crawl these days of course)

Be prepared before you start pushing the odd colored bottles or lifting the bannister step.
Those poison darts work quickly.

This story is truelly fasinating, Iain you are gonna have to keep Munich infomed of every little detail now. This is almost film material. I dont mind if you lie, just keep it interesting. This is the reason im on TT right now, honestly. Your even on TT at 5:30 am- drunk , Good work fella, keep it up.

Soooooo, did we try a beer? Any developments in the last 16 months??

Having now seen the location (well, the stairwell at least) I can really visualize steps leading into a cool, dark space in the hill that the house is situated on. Iain, I never asked where the Freibier came from at Freising's Freibierfest last Friday ...

Sounds all very Famous Five to me.

The beer at the Freibierfest is donated by breweries - mostly graduates from the Weihenstephan brewing school. This year they received 147 hectolitres, equivalent to 29,000 half-litre mugs of beer.

The entire event is shrouded in secrecy so as to keep it among the Weihenstephan student community, so I can't say any more or they'll cut off one of my ears.

I'm actually going to have to come over and lop off one of your ears just for saying that much stb! Any luck on the missing keg of beer by the way?

Maybe the next time some mature women wants to give you the silent treatment, you can shove her in the cellar until she's ready to grow up.
heehee

Jebus, I was lucky then! I was probably the maturest woman around in the last week but I bribed him with two pounds of bacon and escaped.

It's actually a wooden ladder that leads down into the cellar. Followed by a very short passage and a little beer keller. I am storing all my belgian beer down there right now. We got the light fixed down there so it actually has light now. The fun thing about it is that I think the cellar was built quite some time before the addition, which is also very old was added on. The entrance/exit has obviously been modified, which interests me a bit. The of which I am living on has been used for quite some time (some 13 hundred years or more) Where I am now living was once a farm (I think) across from the graveyard outside of the old freising city gates (northern I think). So an interesting historical area and something I have been meaning to do some more research on.

They are dinky little buildings with low doors and small windows. Bit cramped, no wonder you can't walk straight. Bet you even have trouble standing up in the middle of the room.

Any digital pics? Found any government secrets?

I don't actually live in the keller, the house itself has be redone in recent history, however that being said the walls are still well over a foot thick.