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'''On the 4th of January 2012, the tradition of the Bavarian beer garden celebrated its 200th birthday. 200 years earlier, on the 4th of January 1812, an edict issued by King of Bavaria Max I. allowed all breweries to sell beer straight out of their storage cellars.'''

[[File:Nockherberg_Biergarten_1890.jpg|600px|thumb|none|[[Paulaner am Nockherberg]] beer garden in 1890]]

This edict was the reaction on a long quarrel between the breweries and restaurant owners. Already on the 13th of May 1791, some Munich innkeepers from the Au complained to the Elector Karl-Theodor about the beer cellars, which were located near the Isar. The innkeepers said, that the beer cellars ruin their business. The inkeepers were not wrong, given the fact that breweries were not allowed by law to sell beer for immidiate consumption at the beer cellars. Yet it was widely practiced at the time.