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WTOP’s Brennan Haselton is joined by Greg Engert to talk about Ayinger Oktober Fest-Märzen for the latest edition of WTOP’s Beer of the Week.

For an award-winning and essential beer in the doppelbock style, try an Ayinger Brewery Celebrator to kick off a month of celebration.

Johann Liebhard began construction on what would become Ayinger in 1877. The first beer was served in February 1878, and Liebhard wrote in his diary, “The first beer served by us, excellent and ...

Beer flowed from the elaborate Ayinger beer taps. When Bayern Munich finally broke a 1-1 tie and surged ahead late in the game, the crowd leapt to its feet.

German dunkelweizen is the whole-grain loaf of the beer world. Made with 50 to 70 percent wheat (the remainder is the more conventional barley), dunkelweizen -- "dunkel" is German for dark and ...

Beer writer Conrad Seidl notes, the beer — hovering around 7 percent alcohol by volume (or stronger), and exhibiting a tantalizing toffee-like, bready aroma — was for a long time primarily ...

Ayinger Brewery, founded in 1878 in the Bavarian village of Aying, 30 minutes from Munich, makes my favorite German beers. Among its style-defining offerings, Celebrator Doppelbock, Oktober Fest ...

Originally, the beer was intended for local consumption until brewers realized that the high alcohol content and sufficient hopping allowed this amber to dark beer to be shipped to various markets ...

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