Beer garden. A place where beer is served, traditionally in a garden or outdoor area, with canvas covers and long trestle tables, famously the site of celebrations during the Munich Beer Festival, the Oktoberfest.

Beer hall. Food is available and there are usually huge barrels of beer all around. The most famous are in Munich where there is a beer festival (Oktoberfest) in late September every year.

Cold beer soup. A summer soup.

A cold soup made using light beers, currants, brown breadcrumbs (US: wheat bread), cinnamon and lemon juice.

"Beer cheese." A block of smooth, white, semihard cow's milk cheese from Bavaria with a thin, whitish rind and sharp, salty flavour. It becomes more pungent as it ages. The cheese is covered with moulds.

Batter made using dark beer instead of milk, commonly used to coat slices of sausage or cooked meats before deep frying.

Batter made with beer is used to coat cooked meats or slices of sausage which are then deep-fried.

A large slicing sausage or Brühwurst which contains pork, ham, peppercorns and pistachio nuts. It is eaten cold.