In this issue:

March 3, 2005

Thank you for your ongoing support of the Bavarian Grill Team

1. It is Starkbier season at the Bavarian Grill

2. Join us to welcome the Texas Accordion Association Convention on Wednesday in our Biergarten.

3. Where in Bavaria are we? - The Quiz

4. New in the Gift Shop: Munich Souvenir T-shirts

5. Bier Lovers Corner: Starkbier Zeit

Please feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends and invite them to join you at your favorite Bavarian Restaurant in Plano, Texas

your Bavarian Bier Seminar Schedule,
the March Live Musik Schedule
in the sidebar,

and the Bavarian Grill Dictionary

Bratfisch 14.75

Our special for Lent, the Schnitzel Fisch: A juicy, breaded and sautéed filet of Flounder with mashed Potatoes and Sonja's Bavarian mixed salad.

We play the cowbells for your friends Happy Birthday

We are entering the Starkbier Saison - the traditional start for this season is today in the Paulaner Gasthaus "Nockherberg" in Muenchen. The first day is traditionally reserved for stars, politicians and other "important" people, but on Friday it will be a wild crowd celebrating.

Please come on over to enjoy the Bavarian Grill Starkbierfest. Drink one of each of our Bock and Doppelbock Biers and as a "Gepruefter Starkbier Geniesser", a certified strong beer connoisseur, you will receive a ceramic 1/2 liter Stein..

Click the cake for the Birthday Cake menu

The quick history of Starkbier:

•Don't mention this to a Bavarian or they won't speak to you again, but Starkbier is not actually a Bavarian creation. The first Bock was brewed in 1352 up in Hannover, North Germany, Einbecker Bock Bier. One of the brew masters was brought to Munich and settled there.

•The monks at Munich's Paulaner monastery only caught on in 1773 when the famous Brother Barnabas came up with his Salvator, the first Doppelbock, recipe. He sent a keg to the Holy Father in Rome and gained his approval to serve this brew during lent to his Paulaner brethren. With this papal approval in a largely catholic region, they owned the market. This same brew has remained largely unchanged for the last two and a bit centuries. Originally the monks were forbidden to serve Salvator to anyone outside the monastery. This particular rule was quickly repealed in 1780 because the monks never obeyed it anyway. Please look at "Bier Lover's Corner" for more info.

Musik Schedule

The Bavarian Bier Jazz Dixieland Band will entertain guests of the Starkbierfest this Saturday from 7pm - Please call for reservations

Restaurant

3-Mar		Alan Walling
4-Mar		Karl Koenig
5-Mar		Jim Rommel
6-Mar		Closed
7-Mar		Closed
8-Mar		Alan Walling
9-Mar		Alan Walling
10-Mar		Ludwig Kobus
11-Mar		Alan + Manfred
12-Mar		Alan + Wolfgang
13-Mar		Closed
14-Mar		Closed
15-Mar		Alan Walling
16-Mar		Alan Walling
17-Mar		Alan Walling
18-Mar		Alan + Gordon
19-Mar		Karl Koenig

Your updated Bavarian Grill Seminar Schedule

Bavarian Bier

Bavarian Bier and Brats 101 –

Every 3rd Thursday,

Next on on March 17 and April 9, 2005

Sample five different sausages and three different Bavarian Biers

Learn about the German Purity Law, the role of yeast in the history of brewing

Basics of sausage making

$ 12.50 per person

Also on Saturday, April 9 at 2:45pm

Bavarian Bier - 102 - Grain: Weizen and Wiener Schnitzel

Every 4th Thursday,

Next on March 24, 2005

Sample two Schnitzels with six different sauces and 4 different wheat Biers.

Take a virtual tour of a brewery

$ 15.50 per person

Bier Garten

4-Mar		Norbert Blazek
5-Mar		Bavarian Bier Jazz
6-Mar		Closed
7-Mar		Closed
8-Mar		Bavarian Bier Jazz
9-Mar		Accordion Jam Session
10-Mar
11-Mar		Karl Koenig
12-Mar		Klleine Blasmusik
13-Mar		Closed
14-Mar		Closed
15-Mar		Bavarian Bier Jazz
16-Mar
17-Mar
18-Mar		Karl Koenig
19-Mar		Alpen Musikanten

Bier - 103 - Hops – Pils and Pilz,

Every first Thursday,

Next on March 3 and April 7, 2005

Sample a variety of mushrooms from the Bavarian Grill menu

Taste five different German Pilsner style Biers

Take a virtual tour of the Hallertau hop growing region

$ 17.50 per person

These entertaining seminars start at 7:30 pm and include authentic food and beverage samples during a Power Point presentation in the Jäger Stube of the Bavarian Grill. Space limits us to 40 students, and it is first come – first serve, reservations suggested. Prices do not include tax and tip.

Please mark your calendars:

The Citizens of Plano will vote in May on many important issues. One of them is the "wet versus dry".
This is the fact that you have to maintain many Club Memberships at your favorite Plano restaurants and show your ID each time to prove you are already a member in order to be served an alcoholic beverage.
Many guests tell us that they do not understand this and don't like it.
We invited the most knowledgeable person in Plano on this issue,
the President of the Plano Chamber of Commerce,
Mr. Brad C. Shanklin
to join us during the Bavarian Grill Stein Club meeting for a Q + A session to help to show how
important your vote will be. Please join us on
Wednesday, April 13th 2005 at 7 pm in the Bavarian Grill Bier Garten.
This meeting is open to the public and we would like to see you!

The Bavarian Grill is located at

221 West Parker Rd
Plano, Texas 75023

In the Northwest Corner of US 75, Central Expressway, and West Parker - in the Ruisseau Village Shopping Center

New at the Bavarian Gift Shop:

Souvenirs from Munich

These T shirts are authentic and were sold at previous Muenchener Oktoberfest events, we offer them at a very special rate, our price is lower in $ than the original was in €.
Please come and see us at the new Bavarian Gifts.

The Dallas Morning News selected the Bavarian Grill Bankett Stuben
to the TOP 12 places in the DFW Metroplex to have a party

Please click here for Bavarian Grill Bankett Menus,
or call on us to design your very own:
Hors d'ouevres or Buffets,

Ein Familien Abendessen
Family Style Dinner

Ein Familien Schnitzelfest
Family Schnitzel Dinner

Schlemmer Menues
Gourmet Dinners

The Texas Accordion Association's Annual Convention

comes to North Texas, the Convention is scheduled from March 10 to March 12 in the Richardson Hotel. Many of the members will meet for the "unofficial warm-up" on Wednesday from about 6 pm at the Bavarian Grill to play their accordions, enjoy each others company, eat from our "All-you-can-eat" "Warm-up-Buffet" in the Bankett Stube and have a good time. This is a public event Please feel free to come over to listen to some great music and enjoy the Buffet, it's $ 9.75 per person. For more information about the convention please visit: http://www.accordions.com/taa/

Bavarian Grill
Stein Club Corner

March 16^th, 2005 Kren- oder Meerrettich Fleisch – Join us for an old favorite: This meal features all you can eat boiled beef with a velvety horseradish sauce, boiled potatoes and the traditional medley of vegetables. Our featured Dunkel Bier comes from Munich's Loewenbraeu.
$ 29.75 per person, $24.75 for Stein Club members.
Thank you very much!

Some answers that we like to share with you:

This is Wallberg in Rottach-Egern. The Wallberg enjoys an overwhelming popularity. On a distance of 6,5 km length you can ride rapidly downward to the valley station. Here, at the Wallberg, you find the longest toboggan run of Germany.

David Lucas

I believe that this is Wallberg mountain. Although I have not been on the mountain I have visited this area of Germany and it is filled with such beautiful places. The sled ride sounds like a blast!

Don Bracchi

Where in Bavaria are we? - Your Quiz

Please name the sight and the town it is in or near by - many readers share some of their travel experience with us, which we will publish to share with you

Your hint:
This is a very famous "Kloster" - after you toured this magnificent baroque structure and admired the unique organ built around 1763 by Joh. Georg Hoerterich, go to the brewery museum located on the grounds and you can enjoy the "Curator Doppelbock" amongst many other great Bavarian Biers brewed here.

Please e-mail your answer to bavarian@bavariangrill.com.
You can win a Gift Certificate for $ 25 at the Bavarian Grill.

The Gift Certificate for $ 25 in the Bavarian Grill goes to:
Kathy Femrite
Thank you all for all your right answers!

We are on top of mountain near Rottach-Egern and near the Tegernsee. The people in the picture are going to enjoy the longest sled ride in Germany - they have six and a half km to go down the side of
"Wallberg Mountain". - Our winner wrote

Towering some 1620 meters (5350 feet) above the Tegernsee valley, the Wallberg offers spectacular views from the roof of Bavaria. No matter whether you prefer the sun or sports, the Wallberg is always a special experience during the winter season. It is also classified as Bavaria's sunny mountain at the Tegernsee! It's fun for the whole family! For 5,00 EURO only you can rent a sled at the Wallbergbahn. In all seasons the Wallberg is worth the trip – in summer as well as in winter!

Bavarian Bier Lovers Corner:

Free wireless network service and access to the Internet is available in the Bavarian Grill Biergarten and in the Bankett Stuben.

March, the strong Beer Season

By mid-March, the snows usually and hopefully will start to melt in Munich. This is a sure sign that the worst of winter is over. The good citizens of Munich know they have come through yet another cold season, and their hearts begin to yearn for a reward. A beer fest would be just the thing to celebrate the good things to come, but it’s Lenten season, the time of fasting, not feasting. Leave it to the Munich natives to solve the dilemma between abstinence and revelry: The first beer fest of the year is celebrated with both gusto and Lenten devotion. During two weeks, wrapped around St. Joseph's Day, March 19, the people of Munich observe Starkbierzeit, “strong beer season,” a noble tradition started by none other than pious Paulaner monks hundreds of years ago.
The Paulaner monks, so-named after the Italian Saint Francis of Paula, set up shop in Munich in 1627 to do good works...and they clearly succeeded! Within a short time after their arrival, they started to make a very strong and malty beer which they brewed according to a medieval Benedictine recipe. The friars called this brew Sankt-Vater-Bier (“Holy Father Beer”), a name that soon evolved into Salvator, the Latin word for “Savior.” During Lent, when, according to ecclesiastic doctrine, only liquids were allowed to pass their lips, these friars made their Salvator “double” strong (“doppel” in German). The stronger they made it the more nourishing it was, and it didn’t break the fast! Thus, they came to call their double-strong Salvator Bockbier, their Doppelbock or liquid bread.

What’s good for the pious monks must be good for the people at large too. The citizens of Munich soon followed the friars’ example in Lenten self-denial. Come Ash Wednesday, it’s time to go easy on the solid bread and to break out the potent liquid bread with the monastic tradition. Today, most Bavarian breweries make a strong spring beer, their own version of a Doppelbock, and in deference to the Salvator brew that started it all, they usually label theirs with a name that ends in “ator,” such as Maximator, Optimator, Celebrator, or Triumphator.

But the Salvator, the oldest Doppelbock, still takes a special place of honor in the Strong Beer Season festivities. The opening act of the two-week celebration is always marked by the televised tapping of the first keg of the new season’s Salvator Doppelbock, and the event takes place in the hallowed halls of the Paulaner-Keller, the Paulaner-Salvator Brewery’s beer hall at Hochstrasse 75, in the Nockherberg district of Munich.

There, before a star-studded audience, a new Bavarian beer year is officially initiated by the swing of a mallet driving a brass tap into the bunghole of a Salvator keg. The Paulaner event is only the beginning. All major Munich beer halls have their own strong beer celebrations, with blaring oompah bands, singing and dancing, comedy performances, sausages and pretzels, and, of course, plenty of malty, amber-colored Doppelbock.

You can check your emails, while enjoying a great Bavarian Bier and a snack from our Biergarten Menu. Please ask your friendly team member for instructions - and enjoy the www. And the best part: IT'S FREE!

Your Seasonal
Bier Picture

Paulaner Salvator

The classic Doppelbock

Both pictures in this article are found in: http://www.nockherberg.com/de/news/news01.php

A perfect winter warmer on a balmy Plano patio. The first authentic double bock beer. A very rich, full, hearty body yet superbly balanced, true to its world-renowned reputation. Smoky and sweet malty nose with accents of Hallertau hops. ..

In the next issue: More about Bockbier
Please visit the source for this article, the website of the
Bavarian Brewer's Association at
http://www.bayerisches-bier.de
You will enjoy reading in English about all kinds of Bier related topics