Hoffbrau Haus Memoir

The smoky room is filled with stocky men in short lederhosen sporting big, bushy sideburns and unkempt mustaches and heavy-set waitresses outfitted with blue knee-length dirndls carrying up to sixteen mugs of beer while walking down the aisles. The overly crowded tables are festooned with blue and white checkered tablecloths, and numerous people are singing drinking songs, albeit in a rather out of tune fashion.
This image of the Hoffbrau Haus is the stereotypical view many Americans hold of Germany; however, this country’s culture is multifaceted – it has so much more to offer than drinking beer in Munich. As my mother is a native, I had the privilege of extensively traveling throughout this wonderful country, from the numerous castles to the quaint coastal towns along the North Sea, in addition to experiencing the self-sufficient life-style of a rural German. …show more content…
Many areas were dominated by rolling hills and fields filled with bright vivid yellow rapeseed flowers that are interrupted by the occasional windmill. Pastures were teeming with cows or sheep. My great grandfather had singlehandedly built both a beautiful chapel and my grandparents’ home in Sinspelt. Unfortunately, the house was mostly destroyed during World War II as part of the bombing of Bitburg and its vicinity. Therefore, he was forced to rebuild the entire