Brewery visit: Union Brau (München)

Posted by Patrick under Beer Travel

After three days in town, I finally managed to drag the family (mom, dad, my aunt and uncle) to a neighborhood brewpub for a beer.

Union Bräu is a smallish restaurant that has a few different settings for your unfiltered beer drinking pleasure: the Bierkeller seats about 300 and also puts you in line of sight with the mash tun; the restaurant upstairs seats around 100 and takes folks who have not made reservations (like us).

The beers are quite drinkable. The dunkles (pictured here) is a malty brew with no discernable hop presence. It goes down like liquid bread. The helles (my follow-up) was slightly yeasty, which added a pleasant note to the fruity brew.

The menu had a lot of Bavarian standards, including Weisswürstchen, Schweinehaxen, and Brezn. I opted for the Käsespätzle (egg noodles/dumplings with cheese melted all over them). Heavy, but seriously yummy.