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200 Years Beer Garden Anniversary

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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.
 
[[File:Edict 1812.jpg|150px|thumb|left|The original 1812 Royal edict]]
In those days the beer was stored between huge ice blocks in underground cellars. The ice was necessary to cool the beer throughout the summer months, as brewing was only allowed between end of September and middle of April. To improve the cooling, breweries planted chestnut trees on top of the cellars. People collecting beer straight from the breweries usually drunk their first stein on location before going back home. To provide more comfort, the breweries placed tables and benches under the chestnut trees with the result, that more and more people came to the beer cellars and the restaurants lost their guests.

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