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Free beer - Sunday 23.Apr.2006

Tag des Bayerischen Bieres / Day of Bavarian Beer

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Gen
April 23 is not just St. George's Day, patron saint of brewers (and England), but is also the Day of Bavarian Beer and the anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot, Germany's Beer Purity Law, of 1516. But you knew that already.

Turns out that every year in living memory (ok, the website only mentions this event as far back as 2005 ) the Bayerische Brauerbund e.V or Bavarian Brewers Federation has sponsored a Bierbrunnen on Munich's "north side". No, not Hasenbergl or Milbertshofen, just the Oskar-von-Miller-Ring, just on the northern edge of the Altstadt in the Haus des Bayerischen Bieres -- House of Bavarian Beer. Free beer, apparently for two days, the 23 and 24. I don't know if they will actually replumb a fountain to have beer pour out of it, but I'm willing to go test it. The pictures from last year don't show an actual fountain, so the Bierbrunnen may be more of a metaphor for the free beer. Last year's schedule of the Bavarian Beer Week shows lots of things going on -- I don't know if they're not planning that much this year or if they just haven't updated the website. But they do have digital greeting cards.

Oh and it's available in English too.

Alle Angaben ohne Gewähr. Anm. d. Red.

Oh yeah and it's also World Book Day, date chosen because Shakespeare and Cervantes both died on April 23.
Editor Bob
Apparently there's also free beer elsewhere on the Friday:

QUOTE (garibaldi @ Apr 2 2006, 11:41 am)
Free beer on April 21st. during the Frühlingsfest at Theresienhöhe outside XXXLutz (furniture shop) from 2:30 pm.
garibaldi

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oceanne
Is this real? unsure.gif

My boyfriend (German), said it was an April fools joke put in the Munich Found mag. He said he had never heard of beer flowing from a fountain. It would make my day if it were true, though. rolleyes.gif
Editor Bob
Free beer is a long running joke in Bavaria. I'd assumed this was an April Fool too.

Gen
yes, it's real. It's not from a stone fountain though, but from an extra fountain they'll put up like in 2005 and 2003 (pic of the fountain). This should be the eighth year the Bayerische Brauerbund does it, and there are lots of other opportunities for Freibier like at Starkbieranstich and Oktoberfest etc.
HartlepoolLad
QUOTE (Gen @ Apr 18 2006, 11:04 am) *

What a disappointment - not a very dramatic fountain is it?!?! blink.gif
Linedimi
Hi!

I went there today and it is true! Free bier!!!
It wasn't crowd. It was possible to drink as much as you wanted.
You could choose between Weiss, Dunkel and Hell.
You just had to pay 3 euros for the glass and after you could stay with it or give back and take your 3 euros again!
You could also eat a portion of cheese a 0,50 or pretzel a 0,30 euros!
It started at 11am and finished at 13:30pm.

Very nice!!! laugh.gif
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