The popular American concert gardens of the post-Civil War years owe their creation to the German beer garden and the English music hall. The music hall influence comes a bit later in our story. But ...

Traditional beer garden music has thus achieved international fame, and many people can immediately recognize the opening notes of an oompah song. When planning a backyard beer garden, you should find ...

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! South Street was filled with the sounds of oompah music and the smell of fresh ...

Dasbierhauz offers 1-liter boots of beer. Courtesy Dasbierhauz. A downtown Mountain View beer garden is coming soon to Redwood City. Dasbierhauz, a German beer garden which has been operating out of ...

AIKEN — Dark skies and rain dampened festival goers but not their spirits at Aiken’s Oktoberfest Sept. 20. Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, is the world’s largest folk festival, attended by millions of ...

Father Chris Uhl, left, the pastor of St. Mary's Church, and fellow clergy members welcome those getting a glass of beer from the official first keg at the St. Mary's Oktoberfest in downtown Alton, ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. The “modern Berlin-style biergarten” serves German ...