Die Bierstube
As authentic as Die Bierstube is, don't expect big busted ladies with blonde braids to be serving your beer. This is still Seattle, so instead of the St. Pauli Girl, this German-style bar is staffed by your typical tattooed, Converse-wearing, urban hipsters. Big, warm pretzels and Spaten Optimator are what call me to the Bierstube. I've spent hours getting tanked and yelling Prost! to random strangers at the Hofbrauhaus and various other German drinking joints. If you don't look out onto the street you can almost imagine yourself in Bavaria with a nice knockwurst. You won't find Aventinus Weizen StarkBier or Erdinger DunkelWeizen at any other bar. Not that you need a special reason to chug a liter stein of German beer but hey, it is Oktober.
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