Beer

From 3 to 5 August the biggest beer festival will take place on Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee as a beer mile. With hundreds of international breweries, live music and many regional specialities.

Braunschweiger Mumme is a regionally typical non-alcoholic malt extract brewed from water, hops, barley, wheat and herbs. This extract is viscous and sweet. Recipe for Mumme goulash.

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The original from Bavaria. This light-coloured boiled sausage is a typical speciality. Made from veal (pork), back fat and spices, the sausage is warmed in water and eaten with sweet mustard, pretzels and a wheat beer.

Mutzbraten is a delicacy from Thuringia. Pieces of meat marinated in black beer are grilled on skewers over beech wood. A hearty snack also at folk festivals.

Stolzer Heinrich is also known as bratwurst in beer sauce. It is an old traditional Berlin dish made from Berlin bratwurst (without intestines) cooked with dark beer and spices.

Woodruff, cherry or raspberry - Berliner Weisse are all the rage. Traditionally, wheat beer is mixed with syrup and served ice cold is a wonderful thirst quencher in the summer.

Obazda or Angemachter is a tasty, simple spread. Often found at a vesper as well. Very easy to make yourself.

Here you can still find good taste: addresses of Kiez and microbreweries.

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We all know this quote from our childhood from Rumpelstiltskin - but bread and beer could be meant by it. Brewing went hand in hand with baking, as the bakers got the yeast (a waste product) from the pub brewers.

ADVERTISEMENT Well chilled for a summer evening, this craft beer from the Baltic Sea island of Rügen is suitable.

ADVERTISEMENT Martin Luther liked the beer. This was brewed by his wife Katharina von Bora to get money into the household coffers. And you can buy it and give it away (or drink it yourself) here.

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Beer fish: This is a recipe from the Altmark with the basic ingredients fish, beer and gingerbread. In the end, it's fish in a brown sauce.

ADVERTISEMENT Beer selection from 8 different breweries from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Suitable as a gift or to discover for yourself.

ADVERTISEMENT Beer tasting for the home: The set contains 2 bottles of different beer specialties. Zwönitz brewery from Saxony

ADVERTISEMENT The 3 liter bottle of lager beer is very suitable as a gift. A beer from the Saxon Erzgebirge.Bie

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