What NOT to Do at a Beer Garden 

The restrooms in beergardens are free. They just mostly have people there who keep the restrooms clean you might want to tip, but you are not forced to.

yes ok and i have never been so please forgive my ignorance.... but I have never understood how anyone anywhere from any country, much less Germany or Bavaria, can drink multiples of these huge liter steins of beer and not be belligerantly drunk in public?!?!😂 lol again, I have never been so I am totally ignorant. Maybe the Germans just have a natural liver tolerance to multiple liters of beer at a time? Hahaha not me! One liter I’d be sloshed! Messy drunk! Belligerant drunk! haha yep I am a “lightweight”.

So true

There are sometimes a kinderplatz adjacent to the garden with a bier maid that will keep an eye on the kids

Yes, same here in Bavaria's neighbour, Upper Austria. The beer gardens are family friendly and not far from us is the very nice Gösser beer garden in Wels. It's in the middle of a residential area in the city centre, and it has a children's playground. And they do great food too. And in the winter the same place becomes a Christmas Market.

@@woltersworld Have you thought about doing a feature on Irish microbreweries and pubs where you can purchase such beer. One such beer is the Kilkenny brewed Sullivan’s beers in Kytelers inn. 1:49 and 1:58 is that younger versions of you. A beer garden here is an outside seating area of a pub. Schwarzbier is from Saxony. Our fifth year Exchange student teacher was from Dresden and gave Guinness/Irish stout the thumbs up. The benches of a beer garden are no different than the bar counter of a pub. Cash is always easier in a public watering hole. Those who are underage are allowed into pubs here but must be out by a certain time.

Thanks. My hometown.. hope to visit my hometown next year.

Awesome!

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You can bring whatever you like - some families bring really large, elaborate picnics with tableclothes and proper cutlery.

From all the videos I've seen so far the traditional food served in beer gardens is absolutely delicious, so why would I bring my own food? Please enlighten me 🙂

@@ComboMuster I literally mentioned it in my comment? Allergies or other dietary requirements that don't work with the food sold there are a thing. Even as a vegetarian your choices can be quite limited. Also it's much cheaper if you bring your own food from home.

@@elearmorning Oh thank you for enlightening me. If I bring my own food what more than a couple of sandwiches could I pack? I would miss all hearty, tasty traditional German food and thank God I am not a vegetarian 🙂

@@ComboMuster Firstly, it's traditional to do this, and people like to be able to bring whatever they choose. Choice is always good, right? Second, the range of food is not always very wide, especially if you're veggie or got food allergies, for example. Third, small biergartens don't always sell food anyway, so you have to bring your own. Fourth, you guessed...it's cheaper. It's fun both ways, to be honest - get food there or bring your own.

Good to know! Thanks.

tipping it on the tabletop is when you re Bavarian and Prost with a northerner. That way the poison he might have added to your beer will swap into his glass, too.

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Not only in Germany but all over Europe too.

That's why I love that beer garden. You sit and see that view

thank you!

thank you!

Thanks

Thank you!

Probably better for them

It's probably best for their health than soda too

@@riograndedosulball248 Fewer ingredients

Of course! Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendations!

Glad to help

Dont forget Bamberg!

Thanks Tobi!

Schwarzbier is from Saxony. Our fifth year Exchange student teacher was from Dresden and gave Guinness/Irish stout the thumbs up.

@@oscarosullivan4513 And he took a whale out of the sea to make sure " Guiness For Strenght" ain't a hoax

@@sickheadsumaddy5231 Good one

Cherrs!

Cool

Was Schwarzbier on offer

@@oscarosullivan4513 had Rauchbier at several breweries in Bamberg. Close enough?

@@oldbittercraig3513 Depends there is such a thing as smoked/smoky porters and stouts

@@oldbittercraig3513 Rauschbier is it’s own animal. It’s an old method of literally smoking the malt. I’m pretty sure that you will only find this done in Bamburg and certainly not outside of Franconia anymore. Bamburg had; it may still, the world record for the most beer brewed per capita of any city in the world. I used to play semi pro American football there on the Bamburg Bears. I lived in Schweinfurt, worked in Wurzburg, and played football in Bamburg. Was a lot of fun until I dislocated my knee.

I love it!!!

That is so very true

This is something the AF would do 😂

@@jameseypoo4781 AF?

@@tinaburgess7164 AF = Air Force

Thank you!

glad i can help out and make the world a better place :) prost!

Andechs rocks!

My husband loved it, especially the food!

❤I fondly recall being in Munich on an extended work assignment in the late summer doing flight test at the Dornier aircraft factory outside of Herrsching, where I was staying. I asked my local coworkers what to do over the weekend and they kept telling me to go to the monestary just up the road. I became tired of saying that I wasn’t particularly interested in the spiritual pursuits and by the 3rd weekend, I finally decided to go see what they were all raving about. Wow! It was so incredible and something right out of a movie. The monks in the cloister are organized in guilds and each guild specializes in a skill. One raises cows and makes cheese and butter, one raises wheat and makes bread, another raises livestock and prepares meats including hacksen (the roasted knuckles) and another brews beer. All the guilds sell their wares around the perimeter of the grounds and you make a delicious picnic on the grass in the sun and maybe take a nap, too! The beer was in wooden barrels and these great beasts of men would toss down the empty barrel and toss up a full one onto the rack and pound in a wooden bung to pour. After tapping a new barrel, all the guys in leather aprons would then each pour a quart (mass) and knock it back to make sure the barrel hadn’t spoiled. Then they were filling steins as fast as they could pour. I’ll never forget that Sunday afternoon, it was one of the best experiences of my life, plus I could honestly tell my dad that yes, I did go to church on Sunday 😁

@@TheGreatGastronaut Sounds interesting much of that monastic tradition in Ireland disappeared with the dissolution of the monasteries. Kilkenny’s Franciscans brewed beer for themselves and the general public.

Andechs - unser heiliger Berg😉 Kesselberg - der eilige Berg und Zugspitz - als höchster Berg

Amen

Don't try Ganter Beer from Freiburg though. I lived in Freiburg for 20 years and never warmed up to Ganter.

@@oldfrittenfett1276 You cannot please everyone. Still, if you don't try it you will never know whether it was good or not. I stand by my suggestion to try whatever is the local beer! If you don't like it, fine, but then you have had a new experience.

@@christopherx7428 Even the locals prefer other beer. The only reason it still exists is, I think, that in order to get a license to sell beer at a Pub or Restaurant you have to have a contract with a local brewery. This has changed a bit but up until the 70's, Ganter was pretty much the only place to go. But yeah, try everything is good too.

One day!!

Did you buy them replacement drinks.

@@oscarosullivan4513 offered but they declined. Probably just wanted me to go away.

Thanks 😊

@@woltersworld We have all been there!! I had long hair in a ponytail down to my a## in 1986. Now when I`m 55, I`m more beautiful and humble then rich 😂 But I still do have long hair in a ponytail

@@Latexhandske as do i my friend :) big hug my friend! Hopefully we will bump into each other at beergarden somewhere in this crazy world

Wilde Rose also has a Gasthaus downtown, and their new beer is absolutely amazing. Also, try Sternla, they have a heated beer keller where you can sit outside in November.

Spezial Keller might be open. They have a little building up there with some tables inside. If not, try the brewery located downtown in Königstraße. In November, you can also try the "bock"beers of the breweries. It is the season. But be careful with the bocks, they are really strong. Have fun in Bamberg!

@@oberfrange Hi, Me and our travel organizer are actually staying at the Spezial hotell, the others are at Fässla. We have planed an arrival dinner at Spezial. As most of us have been there several times, and our tour guide knows the area well we will have an intence 5 days in Bamberg and some of the close villages. I particularly look forward to visiting Heckel brewery in Waschenfeld. That was one of the best visits in the last tour of Franken.

Cool!

There’s a huge Czech beer garden in Astoria, Queens, NYC, that goes way back (by US historical standards).

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I still have my big 1lt stein beer glass from a visit in the 1980's. I though not bad for a DM 5 deposit and brought it back to the UK in the top box of my motorcycle!

It's no so different. There are also a lot of beer gardens where you can't bring your own food either in Germany, because the beer garden is part of a restaurant.

Funny how you have no idea how all those things work… Maybe you learn a bit of the language and a bit more of the culture and forget the non-sense you wrote

@@exploreshare7925 I'm just going by my experiences from living in Germany for 8 years and visiting dozens of times since I left. But hey, you stay negative!😋

Sure, as long as you buy some beer, you can sit and read or play chess or whatever you want

Yes, I frequently did that when serving in the US Army.

Yep

Absolutely OK 👍

You mean "Wiener Schnitzel", don't you?

@@christianhansen8689 yes I do mean that

Sodas

I didn't think Germany had a drinking age

@@bryanmatyas8620 doesn't mean a 4 year old is going to drink beer

@@bryanmatyas8620 They do. 16 for low alcohol drinks like beer, 18 for the hard stuff. I think it's 14 if you're with your parents?

Lol I’d be proud to not be invited back. Yolo

Not finishing your beer? That would never cross my mind... that must be why I didn't mention it 😀

Haha yeah, happened almost every time our American friends visited us in Nürnberg. We even heard of people pouring out unfinished beers on the Biergarten gravel 😬😬. They’re lucky the Franconian Gods didn’t strike them down

Sorry, but this is not accurate at all. There are local dialects all over Germany, and in Bavaria alone there are a couple of quite different dialects (Upper Bavarian, Franconian, Svabian, Palatine, Lower Bavarian etc.). Hochdeutsch (I suppose that is what you meant?) is actually rather the written form as all spoken German is influenced by the speaker's background. BTW Hochdeutsch comes from "Oberdeutsch" which is the Bavaria language family. There are not two different forms of German. That is like saying there is English and there is the London dialect.

@@anitapenkert389 The Upper Bavarian regional dialect is still widely in use and considered very popular, so maybe that's what led Joe to believe that Bavarian and Hochdeutsch are two mainstream languages in Germany. Which they, of course, aren't.

Well said

Similar. But different spices inside

@@woltersworld thanks. Can't do spicy, basic American breakfast sausage is too spicy for me. Limited test purchasing budget.

. . . but I thought you were Swedish.

Certain places do it some don't. Jocelyn and I cheers, tap, drink

@@woltersworld thank you for relying. So there isn't a wrong or right way, but can you explain why the tap on the table? Is there a meaning behind it? Bad luck if you don't, something like that?

@@addiejacobs It's to remember "absent friends" ie those who have passed away (at least in Franconia, where it's a faux pas if you don't do it).

@@rodjones117 thank you for the info. Perhaps nownill start doing it

@@rodjones117 it's to remember all the chirrosis victims

4 to 6 depending on where we draw the line on "speak" :)