Bavarian Grill - Plano, Texas

In this issue:

September 8, 2005

Thank you for your ongoing support of the Bavarian Grill Team

1. Schnitzelfest will start at 4 pm on Wednesday, September 14,
join us and we will donate $ 5 to the American Red Cross
for every Schnitzel sold that evening!

2. Our traditional Oktoberfest Kick-off on Saturday Sept. 17
from 3:00 pm will raise funds for the North Texas Food bank.

3. New Happy Stein Hour - great Bavarian Bier at a happy price!

4. Where in Bavaria are we? - The Quiz

5. FC Dallas Trip on Sunday, September 18

6. Bier Lovers Corner: The History of the Oktoberfest, and
the 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 Oktober-
fest evenings in Texas!

Jaegerschnitzel mit Spaetzle

Our most popular dish throughout the year, eat one of the18 different Schnitzel and help the Hurricane survivors.

We play the cowbells for your friends Happy Birthday

Join us for Sommer Fest!
Please click on the pictures to see a larger picture.

Sommer Fest will end on Tuesday, Sept. 13 - last chance!

Schweinshaxen Waginger Rinderbraten Entenbraten

Lammkeule

Huhn Gaertnerin Kirschmichel

Click the cake for the Birthday Cake menu

You are invited to join us for the Schnitzelfest and
help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina:

We like to help the hurricane survivors by donating $ 5 for every Schnitzel sold next Wednesday to the American Red Cross - we are starting this very popular seasonal menu at 4 pm.

And we like to continue donating $ 1.00 per Schnitzel throughout the Schnitzel Fest - 50 cents will go to the North Texas Food Bank and 50 cents to the American Red Cross.
So, you could come over 18 times to enjoy a different Schnitzel each night.

Your Bavarian Grill Team.
Thank you very much for your ongoing support!

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

We are currently looking for some
new Team players: Please click here
to see what we are offering:

Bavarian Bier Seminars
These entertaining and educational Power Point Presentations include Bier and Food samples. We start at 7:30 pm. Seating is limited to 40 guests, minimum 12 students.

Your updated Bavarian Grill Seminar Schedule

Bavarian Bier will resume in September

Bavarian Bier and Brats 101 –

Every 3rd Thursday, next on September 15, 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 September 29, 2005
4 different Weizen Biers, a virtual visit to wheat beer breweries and a look at our Schnitzels

103 Pils and Pils Okt. 6, '05
5 Pilsner Biers in a journey from North to South, visit the Bavarian hop fields in the Hallertau.

Musikanten Schedule

Restaurant

The new Happy Stein Hour in the Bier Garten

8-Sep		Ludwig Kobus
9-Sep		Jim Rommel
10-Sep		Jim Rommel
11-Sep		Closed
12-Sep		Closed
13-Sep		Alan Walling
14-Sep		Alan Walling
15-Sep		TBD
16-Sep		TBD
17-Sep		TBD
18-Sep		Closed
19-Sep		Closed
20-Sep		Alan Walling
21-Sep		Alan Walling
22-Sep		Ludwig Kobus
23-Sep		Jim Rommel
24-Sep		Karl Koenig
25-Sep		Closed
26-Sep		Closed
27-Sep		Alan + Manfred
28-Sep		Alan + Manfred
29-Sep		Alan Walling

The Oktoberfest starts in September, so will our new Happy Stein Hour. We will feature special prices on selected Bavarian Bier on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays starting today from 4 to 7pm.

We are starting out with three very popular Bavarian Biers: The Spaten Helles, Franziskaner Hefe Weiss and the Loewenbraeu Dunkel.

As we learn in Bavarian Bier 101,
the best day to drink German Bier is a day
that ends on a "Y", as in TODAY!

Where in Bavaria
are we?
The Quiz

September in Bavaria

This Saturday in the Biergarten:

Please tell us where this picture was taken - 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 Bavarian Capital city and it relates to our featured Bier,
for a larger view, please click on the picture.

If you visited this must see "Parade", please tell us about your experience -
we love to publish your letter in the next issue of the BGNN.

Die Kleine Blasmusik Kapelle

Please e-mail your answer to bavarian@bavariangrill.com.

Bier Garten

You can win a Gift Certificate for $ 25 at the Bavarian Grill.

9-Sep		Karl Koenig
10-Sep		Kleine Blasmusik
11-Sep		Closed
12-Sep		Closed
13-Sep		Bavarian Bier Jazz
14-Sep
15-Sep
16-Sep		Karl Koenig
17-Sep		Kleine Blasmusik
18-Sep		Closed
19-Sep		Closed
20-Sep		Bavarian Bier Jazz
21-Sep
22-Sep
23-Sep		Alpenmusikanten
24-Sep		Ganz kleine Blasmusik
25-Sep		Closed
26-Sep		Closed
27-Sep		Bavarian Bier Jazz
28-Sep
29-Sep
30-Sep		Karl Koenig
1-Oct		Bavarian Bier Jazz

Now available in the Bavarian Grill Gift Shop:

Don wrote:

Ah yes, this might just be the easiest one yet!

This, of course, is the world famous HofbrauHaus in Munchen. On our first trip to this wonderful city we searched for the HofbrauHaus all day (we speak so little German that we were afraid to ask directions - an affliction we have since overcome). Anyway, after looking high & low we gave up and returned to the car park, and there, right across the street, was this famous landmark. Considering this an omen, we went in, ordered bier and sausages and one of those BIG pretzels! What a wonderful treat to finish off a busy day of touring!

The picture shown in your June newsletter is of the Hofbrauhaus in Munich. My wife Lucy and I just returned from visit to Munich. We used to live in Munich and enjoyed visiting the Hofbrauhaus on a number of occasions

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

Here are some of your comments:

This is Munich's Hofbrauhaus, which my wife and I visited in October 2002. It started raining before we could get back to our hotel after a festive day at the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, so we stopped in to dry off and have a beer! As you can see in the picture, we didn't mind being stranded!
John Stubel

We wish you a very Happy Oktober Fest 2005 in Plano, Texas! Your Bavarian Grill Team

The atmosphere in the Hofbrauhaus is always very festive with music playing and both locals and tourists having a good time. During this visit, we stopped by for some O’batzda and bier. It was, as usual, very good. We also enjoyed the end of the Spargel season in Germany. Spargel was being sold in just about every open air market we visited and we enjoyed the delicious Spargelcremesuppe numerous times throughout our stay.
Tschuess, Chris & Lucy Heaton

Bavarian Bier Lovers Corner:

Your seasonal
Bier Picture

Munich Oktoberfest: The Biggest Party in the World

It’s 12 o’clock noon, and the Mayor of Munich, mallet raised in one hand, is ready to perform what some regard as the most important of all his official duties: To deftly tap the first keg on the first day of the annual Munich Oktoberfest. The custom was started in 1950 by the then-Mayor Thomas Wimmer, an expert tap master. His skill at the occasion set a make-or-break standard for all those who would follow in his footsteps as leaders of the City of Munich. Since then, failure to tap the keg with one confident hit is not an option for a Munich public official. After all, if Bavarians can’t trust a fellow with the people’s drink, how can they trust him with the people’s business? How elected officials handle the tap in public, therefore, has become a defining moment in their political careers. The keg-tapping ritual has evolved into a uniquely Bavarian political contest — democracy not by the ballot but by the mallet.

The first mayoral pour from the first keg on the first day of the Oktoberfest marks the starting point of a marathon beer fest that lasts for 16 days each year, attracting almost six million noisy revelers from all over the globe. With oompah-bands blaring, they congregate in 14 huge beer tents — true canvas monsters in which the revelers down some 6.75 million liters (about 1.75 million U.S. gallons) of beer and munch on a staggering 450,000 chickens as well as about 440,000 sausages. They also make short shrift of all the beef provided by an entire herd of nearly 90 head of oxen.

Only beers from the Munich breweries are being served at the Munich Oktoberfest and the beer consumption at the fest accounts for about 30% of the entire annual beer production of all the Munich breweries combined. The gaudi (which is Bavarian vernacular for “fun”) usually starts around the last week of September and ends after the first week of October. To get the precise dates of the next Oktoberfest, visit http://www.oktoberfest.de/en on the web.

And This Is How It All Started...

The notion of a beer fest in October probably started out decidedly informal, sometime in the late Middle Ages. In those days, Bavarian brewers did not brew during the hot days of summer. They made all summer beers in late March and resumed brewing only when the cool days of fall returned, at which point they had to consume any left-over summer beer quickly to empty the valuable cooperage for the new season’s fresh beers. So the original Oktoberfest was probably a casual activity for the purpose of disposing, advantageously, of any left-over beer that had made it through the summer.

The Oktoberfest as a formal, organized affair took place for the first time on October 12, 1810. On that day, the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig—who later became King Ludwig I—married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen. To allow the commoners, too, to partake in the ceremonies, the noble couple decided to organize a wedding party for its subjects on some grazing land outside the Munich city gates—and some 40,000 happy Bavarians showed up for the fun. That meadow, incidentally, was then given its current name of Theresienwiese (Theresa's meadow), in honor of the Crown Princess—and to this day this meadow is still the site of the annual extravaganza. Strangely, the most popular attraction at the first Munich Oktoberfest in 1810 was horse racing, not beer, because there wasn't any! The lack of beer notwithstanding, the fest was such a success that Ludwig decided to repeat the whole show on the anniversary of his nuptials, in subsequent years, with beer of course. Already in 1814, the German poet Achim von Arnim reported that the festivities featured an ample array of beer shacks where the people could get their brew in half-liter, tin-lidded steins. Eventually, horse racing was dropped from the program, but—foreshadowing a trend—more and more beer stands were added to keep the crowds in high spirits, and the festivities were extended to several days. In 1896, the first beer tents appeared. Today, the celebration that the illustrious couple had so unwittingly started on that October day in Theresa's once pastoral meadow has, without a doubt, become the biggest party in the world.

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: More about the Okoberfest style!

Stein Club Trips

On Sunday, September 18 the FC Dallas, who currently ranks 2nd in the Western Division of Major League Soccer, will play against the expansion team Real Salt Lake at 1 pm in the new Park in Frisco. Stein Club members, friends and families to join us for an afternoon of great soccer and outdoor fun. The FC Dallas and the Bavarian Grill put together a special package for the Bavarian Grill Stein Club members: For $ 29.75 per person you will receive a ticket for the in the ESPN Fan Zone that will be seen on TV, a voucher for two beers in the Park and white XL T-shirt that states: "Sommerzeit ist Weissbierzeit
im Bavarian Grill".

If you like to purchase tickets,
please drop us a line to

bavarian@bavariangrill.com

before 4 pm September 16, 2005

Spaten Oktoberfest

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 $ 2.00 discount on any mass
or $ 1.00 on a half mass.(1/2 liter)

Bavarian Grill
Stein Club Corner

Please click on the Steins to see if your Stein came in

Please join us for the Stein Club Dinner on Wednesday, Sept. 14 at 7 pm - the Stein Club members can help survivors of the Hurricane and will get a free Bier in their Stein. Danke Schoen!

In our last Stein Club meeting we discussed the idea to go on a trip to Bavaria next summer together - in order to have some idea how many people may be interested, please send us an email to bavarian@
bavariangrill.com and tell us how many would be in your party, how long you want to stay and what you would budget for this trip. We will talk to Lufthansa in the next few weeks and like to be prepared. Thank you for your interest!

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

Join the Bavarian Grill for Oktoberfest 2005 in the Bavarian Grill Bier Garten!

Starting on Saturday, September 17, 2005 at about 3 pm with the

keg tapping ceremony, a 16 piece brass band, an "All-you-can-Eat-Bavarian Buffet Feast for $ 14.75 and many friendly folks in the Bavarian Grill Outdoor Biergarten. The festivities will go on into the night and we will not run out of Bier - so organize your designated driver, who will receive a free buffet for parties of 3 or more, and join the party! Reservations are suggested.

And please mark your calendar for the
4th annual Plano Sunrise Rotary Oktoberfest
on Oktober 20 from 5 to 9 pm.
We do have raffle tickets for $ 10 and
dinner tickets for $ 30 per person on sale now -

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!

Join us on any Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday in the Bier Garten during Oktober for a couple of 1/2 liters and we bake you our original Hitzplotz and the Hitzplotz is on us!
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.