Munich’s oldest brewery is famous for working very successfully against the trend. Now that’s a surprise Augustiner Brewery with the presentation of their first non-alcoholic beer – it should be ready by mid-March. That would be quite a revolution for Augustiner anyway, and especially in the strong beer season? While others are just starting to celebrate strong beer festivals? The Hofbräukeller for example. He’s inviting you to his very first on Friday and Saturday Strong beer festival a. “Delicator” is the name of the Doppelbock from Hofbräu with its 8.4 percent alcohol content, and the celebration lasts until midnight. The party band plays on both evenings Gerry & Gary. She must be getting an enormous fee, because the table for ten (including ten half bock beers) costs an impressive 185 euros in the Hofbräukeller. The Oktoberfest can almost keep up with that again (1st Hofbräu Strong Beer Festival, Innere Wiener Straße 19, Friday and Saturday, February 23rd and 24th, entry from 6 p.m., table for ten: 185 euros, individual seats can only be reserved by telephone at 089/459925, www.hofbraeukeller.de).
All in all, 18.50 euros per person for a seat, light music and a pint of strong beer is not that much. At the Bock beer festival in the organic brewery Haderner Bräu This Friday you pay 65 euros per person. However, there is not only a seat, live music and a pint of fresh bock beer, but also a tour of the brewery and unlimited feasting from the buffet, including the famous pretzel pizza “Brizza” and various Bavarian delicacies, traditional slaughter bowl, dumplings and salad as well as many sweet desserts (Bock beer festival at Haderner Bräu, Großhaderner Straße 56 a, Friday, February 23rd, entry: 65 euros per person, reservations at [email protected], www.haderner.de).
And as if all that weren’t enough with high punch numbers and alcohol percentages, the spirits fair is also taking place this weekend Finest Spirits Munich 2024 in the Freimann Culture Hall Zenith instead of. You can – theoretically – try more than 500 different distillates at the stands: whiskey, gin, rum, tequila, fruit brandy, schnapps – from well-known manufacturers, but also from small start-ups (Finest Spirits, Zenith-Halle, Lilienthalallee 29, February 23-25, Friday 4 p.m. – 10 p.m., Saturday 2 p.m. – 10 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., day ticket 22 euros, www.finest-spirits.de).