Some people certainly don’t want to believe it, but what Munich absolutely needs right now is another beer festival. “The city can have that,” thought the makers of the project Fat Cat, temporary use in the Gasteig cultural center. And that’s why it takes place there on the last Friday and Saturday of the Oktoberfest Craft beer Oktoberfest instead of. More than 20 local and international small craft breweries present around 80 beers. These include Crew Republic and Tilmanns beers from Munich, but also Pivovsky from Poland and Brewski from Sweden. Their products can all be tasted with one ticket, which bears the wonderful name “Drink All You Want” – and if you book by September 26th, you can save some money too. Not only are classics like Helles or Lager represented, you can also “get to know their modern interpretations and fruity-exotic variants of the art of brewing,” according to the organizers. As is usual in the craft beer scene, you quickly come into contact with the brewers themselves. You can attend workshops in which you learn which dishes go with which beer, “and sharpen your sense of flavors and nuances”. And because beer is even better with a party – we know this from this other Oktoberfest that is currently taking place in Munich – there is also live music from the bands at Fat Cat Buck Roger and the Sidetrackers and Sheep lost. You can dance. And to provide the necessary basis, various food trucks will arrive, offering savory, vegan and also sweets (Craftbeer Oktoberfest, Friday and Saturday, September 29th and 30th, 4-11 p.m., Fat Cat im Gasteig, Rosenheimer Straße 5, entry per person 65 to 100 euros, www.craftbeeroktoberfest.de).
Away game for Tantris chef Benjamin Chmura: On Sunday, October 1st, he will be presenting together with Edip Sigl a four-hands dinner from the Essenz restaurant in the Das Achental resort on Lake Chiemsee. The two chefs each have two stars in the Michelin Guide, so together they have four hands and four stars; together they will serve eight special courses. So much for number mysticism and mathematics. This year, Christian Jürgens and Sven Elverfeld were guests at Edip Sigl’s Four Hands dinners, and the year before, among others, Christian Bau and Juan Amador (4-hands dinner on Sunday, October 1st, 6 p.m., per person: 585 euros including wine accompaniment, Restaurant Essenz im Resort Das Achental, Mietenkamer Straße 65, 83224 Grassau, reservation by phone 086 41-40 10 or [email protected]).