Day 330 / November 26, 2011
Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh / Pittsburgh, PA
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A beer at the end of the
rainbow.
I gladly endured an afternoon of shopping with my wife, mother-in-law,
sister-in-law and bickering cousins, because I knew what was waiting for me at
the end of the afternoon. We drove dahntahn
to Station Square, where my one niece and her dad boarded The Good Ship Lollipop
paddle wheeler for a birthday party / Santa cruise on the river. Station Square isn’t quite the attraction it
used to be. Close to half the shops are
now vacant, and at least three of the others only sell Steelers and Penguins
gear.
So we headed down to the Southside Works, a relatively new shopping,
dining and entertainment district on the Southside, at Carson and 27th
streets. After another 90 minutes of
poking, there it was, our final destination.
Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh!
Hofbrauhaus Pittsburgh is modeled after the original Hofbrauhaus in
Munich. The place is huge – it seats 450
in two indoor beer halls, and another 600 on outdoor patios and terraces, some
of which are enclosed and heated for the colder months. There were lots of kids in there around 5pm,
and they can be loud! There is a stage
for an oompah band, but the only entertainment during our visit was a guy who
looked like Santa in lederhosen, playing an electric organ with yodeling
apparently sampled on the keys.
They brew all of the beer onsite, using German recipes and techniques, in an impressively clean
brewhouse. They offer lager, light
lager, hefeweizen, dunkel and a rotating seasonal or two. And they’ve got a full menu of schnitzels,
wursts, goulash, sauerkraut and spaetzle.
And chicken fingers and
cheeseburgers for those not so adventurous.
That’s my liter of dunkel in the picture and my wife’s half liter of lager. The dunkel was a tasty, malty delight. And you just can’t but love drinking a beer
out of a glass like that. The waitresses
there must certainly get a workout!
Photo credits for the last
pictures below to some Yelpers!
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