The Last Supper: Bier!

Haaaaaalllllllloooooo!!!

How is everyone doing? This will be the last blog for German Food & Culture. So, naturally I saved the best for last: German Beer. The Germans have perfected the tasty drink and Germany is constantly associated with great beer. The Germans even have a 16 day festival dedicated to drinking beer and socializing. This famous festival is known as Oktoberfest.

Oktoberfest is a 16 day festival held from late September to the first week of October. It is a celebration of beer and the coming of Fall. It is held in Bavaria in the major city of Munich.  Historically, it started as a festival to celebrate the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese. Oktoberfest has very strict rules regarding the Beer. The beer MUST be brewed within the city limits of Munich. The beer must be brewed to certain and very specific expectations.
These are the breweries that can produce Oktoberfest Beer:

-Hacker-Pschorr-Bräu
-Augustiner-Bräu
-Löwenbräu 
-Paulaner-Bräu
-Spatenbräu
-Staatliches Hofbräu-München

However, these breweries and delicious beer can only be found in Munich. But you can still get delicious imported beer here in Seattle! Located in Pike Place right next to the original Starbucks, is a wonderful Bavarian market. This market is appropriately called "Bavarian Meat Delicatessen". There are great Hefeweizen's, Weissbeir, Pilsner, Dunkles, and Altbier!

So check it out!!

The world is obsessed with German beer, especially the United States. I mean, being able to drink at 16 in Germany?!! What?!?! That's awesome!! So in many parts of the world, one can find a nice German beer and one sip will make you feel like you're on top of the mountain tops overlooking Munich, or maybe laughing and talking with some strangers you just met at Oktoberfest.

Overall, there is one thing that is constantly true about beer:

Beer makes the world go 'round!

Beer, Brats, und BRATZ!

Guten Tag!

Hey everyone! So my name is Randy Siebert and I will be blogging every Wednesday about great German restaurants in the Seattle area! Many Americans share a connection with Germany. Many of us have a heritage that includes German decent. And with my food adventures I hope to show you the delicious connection between the U.S.A and Germany. We might be an ocean away from each other, but we all enjoy great food!

So the plan is to go and try a new German restaurant every Wednesday! And hopefully by the last post, I will be able to rank all of the restaurants I tried from best to not so good.

This week I decided to choose something a little more local to the University of Washington. I had heard good things about "Bratz" German restaurant and thought now was the time to try! Located on 50th & Brooklyn, Bratz was a little far and not in the best location. But what it lacked in location, it made up for in food! I ordered a delicious Curry Wurst with Pommes (French Fries). The sausage was cooked perfectly and there was just the right amount of curry! It brought me back to the delightful afternoons in Berlin stopping by the little Curry Wurst stands and enjoying a nice Berlin Curry Wurst. Bratz had a nice and very authentic seating available. Petite German flags on every table with a colorful poster of Pilsner Beer and a wide selection of different German music playing in the background. I would give Bratz 3.5 Bratwurst out of 5! Great German food with a wonderful atmostphere. Go check it out!





*The rating system consists of Bratwurst in place of stars. The best a restaurant can get is 5 Bratwursts, while the worst would be zero.

Tchüß!
Randy