Thank
you for your ongoing support of the Bavarian Grill Team
1. It is
Spargelfestin Bavaria and in Plano,
join us in our outdoor
Biergarten and
enjoy our popular White Asparagus Menu
2. Early voting has started in Plano
3. Where in
Bavaria are we? - The Quiz
4. New in
the Gift Shop: Our own Bavarian Grill Stein
5. Bier Lovers Corner: A Birthday, and the
April Live Musik
Schedule in the sidebar,
Please
feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends and invite them
to join you at your favorite Bavarian Restaurant in Plano, Texas
Our outdoor
Biergarten is a great place to enjoy the Spring in Texas
Koenig Ludwig Schnitzel
Enjoy Fairy Tale King Ludwig’s Favorite:
A pan seared Schnitzel topped with a
half of a dozen Spears of White Asparagus and our velvety
Lemon-Sauce Hollandaise,
served with boiled, parsley new potatoes
We play the
cowbells for your friends Happy Birthday
You can make a difference
with your vote: The Citizens of Plano
are voting in April and 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. The Plano Chamber of
Commerce, the Dallas Morning News and the Bavarian
Grill Team invite you to vote "FOR" this important issue.
The May 7 election will determine the outcome of two propositions
dealing with the sale of alcohol. If passed, one would allow the
sale of beer and wine for off-premise consumption in all of Plano.
The other would allow the legal sale of mixed beverages in
restaurants with permits without a need to buy a membership. The
Plano Chamber estimates that these two issues could mean a $15 - $20
million impact to the city.
Thank you very much!
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
Bavarian
Bier Seminars
These entertaining and educational
Power Point Presentations include Bier and Food. We start at 7:30
pm. Seating is limited to 40 guests, minimum 12 students.
Your updated Bavarian Grill
Seminar Schedule
Bavarian Bier
Bavarian Bier and Brats 101
–
Every 3rd Thursday,
Next on on
April 21, 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
102
Weizen and Wiener Schnitzel April 28
103 Pils
and Pils May 5
Musikanten
Schedule
Restaurant
New at
the Bavarian Gift Shop:
Spring time in
Bavaria
21-Apr
Alan Walling
22-Apr
Alan & Manfred
23-Apr
Jim Rommel
24-Apr
Closed
25-Apr
Closed
26-Apr
Alan & Manfred
27-Apr
Alan & Manfred
28-Apr
Alan Walling
29-Apr
Alan & Manfred
30-Apr
Alan + Wolfgang
1-May
Closed
2-May
Closed
3-May
Alan Walling
4-May
Alan Walling
5-May
Ludwig Kobus
6-May
Jim Rommel
7-May
Jim Rommel
8-May
Closed
9-May
Closed
Where in Bavaria are we? - The Quiz
This
Saturday in the Biergarten:
Please
tell us what these folks are doing - many readers share
some of their travel experience with us, which we will publish to
share with you.
Your hint:
This is
a picture taken in the early morning and it relates to our very
special signature dish this time of the year.
Click on the picture for a larger
view.
You can win
a Gift
Certificate for $ 25 at the Bavarian Grill.
22-Apr
Karl Koenig
23-Apr
Ganz kleine Blasmusik
24-Apr
Closed
25-Apr
Closed
26-Apr
Bavarian Bier Jazz
27-Apr
28-Apr
29-Apr
Karl Koenig
30-Apr
Karl Koenig
1-May
Closed
2-May
Closed
3-May
Bavarian Bier Jazz
4-May
5-May
6-May
Karl Koenig
7-May
Bavarian Bier Jazz
8-May
Closed
9-May
Closed
10-May
Bavarian Bier Jazz
Die Lösung - the answer: Our winner wrote:
The picture shows the Ramsauer Church in Ramsau, close to
Berchtesgaden. In the background there is the so called "Reiteralpe"
and the Kehlstein. The lakes you were talking about are the
"Königssee" and the "Hintersee".
The Gift Certificate
for $ 25
in the Bavarian Grill goes to:
Sven
Bannuscher
Thank you all
for
all your right answers!
I've been in that area a
few times and always enjoyed their delicious "Wurstsalat" and the
white wine. The whole area is just overwhelmingly beautiful, with
it's mountains and little caves.
Greetings, Sven
Bavarian Bier Lovers Corner:
Your seasonal
Bier Picture
Bavarian Beer Week celebrates the Birthday of the
Reinheitsgebot
There are many beer fests in Bavaria
throughout the year in addition to
the two weeks of Oktoberfest in the
fall and the two weeks of Strong
Beer Season at the beginning of
Lent. However, there is one beer
celebration that has a special
meaning even to the fest-hardy
Bavarians. This is the Bavarian Beer
Week, when Bavarians pay homage to
their beers. The week is marked by
lectures, presentations, brewery
tours, and educational events, as
well as the sampling of Bavaria’s
many different brews.
The Bavarian Beer Week was the idea
of the Bavarian Brewers Federation,
who stages many of the events in
cooperation with the Bavarian Hotel
and Restaurant Association. The week
always starts on or around April 23,
a date listed in the Bavarian Beer
Calendar as the Bavarian Beer Day,
and for good reason: It was on April
23, 1516 that the Bavarian co-rulers
Duke Wilhelm IV and Duke Ludwig X
proclaimed the weighty and
consequential Bavarian Beer Purity
Law. This law has become so famous
around the world that it is now
often known just by its German name
of Reinheitsgebot.
The proclamation of the
Reinheitsgebot marked a momentous
turning point not just in Bavarian
beer history, but in German and even
world beer history as well. The
proclamation of the Reinheitsgebot
is significant because it marked the
first time in history that a
government succeeded in regulating
the quality and safety of an
essential food item. It was the
beginning of modern consumer
protection legislation. Just as the
law could not have been simpler, its
implications could not have been
broader: The Reinheitsgebot
stipulated that Bavarian brewers,
henceforth, would be allowed to use
only barley malt, hops, and water to
make their beers. The existence of
yeast was unknown at the time, so
this beer ingredient was not
mentioned in the original wording of
the law. In subsequent centuries, of
course, yeast was added to the list
of permissible ingredients as was
malted wheat for certain beer types,
especially the Hefeweizen. But the
basic thrust of the Bavarian
Reinheitsgebot has remained
unchanged to this day and, in its
modern formulation, it has become
part of the federal law for all of
Germany.
Prior to the Reinheitsgebot, many
starch-containing botanicals other
than malted barley were common
additions to the people’s drink in
Bavaria, as were many flavorings
other than hops. Brewers sometimes
added legumes, tubers, tree bark,
rushes, herbs, and mushrooms to
their beers. Some of these could
make the drinker sick, others were
downright poisonous! Brewers used
these obscure ingredients mostly to
save money in raw materials and to
mask off-flavors after their beers
went bad. After 1516, however, such
practices simply had to stop. As a
result, only good beers reached the
consumer, and bad beers had to be
poured down the drain.
Bavarian brewers are justifiably
proud that, even today, they still
make all their beers from the same
natural ingredients that were
mentioned in the almost 500-year old
Beer Purity Law. While many
breweries the world over now add
cheap barley substitutes such as
rice and corn as well as chemical
process enhancers, such as
artificial enzymes and head
stabilizers, to their beers,
Bavarian brewers are adamantly
old-fashioned. They regard their
continued dedication to the best,
simplest, and all-natural
ingredients, combined with their
insuperable craftsmanship, as an
indispensable foundation of the
consistently high quality of their
beers.
The Bavarian Beer Week brings
brewers, restaurateurs, and tourist
associations together to offer the
public a host of attractions and
events that celebrate both the
people’s favorite drink and the
Reinheitsgebot on which it is based.
There are beer fests, beer tastings,
brewing demonstration, brewery
tours, beer seminars, and hikes to
different beer gardens ... all
designed to showcase the variety of
Bavarian beer and the quality of its
raw materials. During Beer Week,
Bavarians honor and behold the
culinary and cultural importance
that beer occupies in their daily
lives.
Bavarian .
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
In the
next issue: The history of Weissbier
Bavarian Grill
Stein Club Corner
Please
Please
click on the Steins to see if your Stein came in
Hofbraeu
Original:
Great for a
Texas Spring day:
The
Hofbräuhaus is a symbol of Munich's hospitality and the Bavarian
gift for creating a snug and cozy atmosphere. Beer-lovers from all
over the world come here to enjoy its famous beers.
More than any other, Hofbräu Original embodies the special
atmosphere of the beer-making capital of Munich, and exports it to
the four corners of the globe. Its refreshing, bitter flavor and
alcoholic content of around 5.1% volume have made it famous
worldwide. A Munich beer with character.
Type: Bottom-fermented, light "Münchener Bier"®
The Bavarian Grill is the one of the few places in Texas
to feature this unique Bier on draught - Print and bring us a copy
of this newsletter and receive a $ 1.00 discount on any
Hofbräu Original.
Free wireless network service
and access to the internet is available in
the Bavarian Grill Biergarten and in the
Bankett Stuben
Springfest in
the Bavarian Grill Bier Garten!
Join us on any
Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday in the Bier Garten during April for a
couple of 1/2 liters and we bake you our original Hitzplotz and the
Hitzplotz is on us!
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!
The Hitzplotz is a Frankonian Flamecake - decked out with Creme
fraiche, Emmentaler Swiss, Leeks and Onions, smoked Ham, Garlic and
Caraway.
We bake it to order for you
in about half an hour.
Please print
this offer and bring it with you every time you come in April 2005.
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