Jon Searles' photos with the keyword: brauhaus

This was the horse stable at the brewery, surprisingly right next to the brewpub. Although it's a bit hard to see the horses, they're in there hidden in the shadows of those stalls on the left.

This room looks big, but I have maybe a third of the room behind me, plus the corner building, and behind the big screen television there's another whole room. All in all, I think this may have been the biggest pub I've ever been in, and it took me 10 or 20 minutes to get a beer and a seat. In the end, I had to get my dinner elsewhere since there was no way that I would be served before closing time. The most interesting thing about this place, in my opinion, is that in spite of globalization, and the obvious intention at this pub of catering to tourists, almost everybody there was German (with the exception of one or two tables of Americans), and the food was traditional German in every way.

Although you can still get the EU standard half-litre mugs at the Augustiner brewpub, they seem to prefer the full-litre mugs that they're known for, and which my flatmates back in Prague have.

Here's the brewpub at the Augustiner brewery, which looks deceptively small. In reality, that corner building is only the entrance and one of the smaller bars. Most of the action is over to the right, in a building that's several times longer than you can see here.

Here's the Augustiner logo on the corner of Landsbergerstrasse and Holzapfelstrasse.

The Augustiner Brewery isn't as well known, and Augustiner beer isn't as well known, internationally as for example Becks, but it is a major manufacturer, as you can see. There's an equally impressive brewpub attached to it that I drank at on the night that I took this photo (It was dusk already.). In addition to the rather old brewery (which dates to 1328, although these particular buildings look newer since they were built in 1885, this being the brewery's third location.), I think that the street outside is also interesting. This is Landsbergerstrasse, which hosts car, tram, and bike traffic, each with their own dedicated lanes. This is quite a contrast from where I'm from in the U.S. where the auto lobby are able to monopolize the taxpayers' money. The bike lanes in Munich are especially impressive to me, mainly because they're everywhere and quite usable, even in comparison with Prague. Bikes work best in city centres, but in Prague the irony is that they're most useful (or at least safest) in the suburbs, where there are better bike lanes!! In Munich it doesn't matter where you ride, at least as far as I can tell, as every neighborhood is well provided with bike lanes.

Real proper breweries, regardless of age, brew their beer in copper kettles, and that naturally includes Plzensky Prazdroj. I was amazed that I got this photo to come out at all, since I shot it with 100 ISO Fomapan shot through an Ikoflex, using a bad light meter.

In the old days, Plzensky Prazdroj had its own industrial railway, and the equipment is still there on display. The designs of the equipment are noticably Czech/Austrian, although I don't know a lot about all of it.

Here's a general view of the Plzensky Prazdroj Pivovar, built (mostly) in 1842-1900 or so.

This water tower is part of the original Plzensky Prazdroj Pivovar (brewery) in Plzen, home to the world's first Pilsener beer, Pilsener Urquell, invented in 1842 with the construction of the brewery.