Augustiner-Keller

This guide to the Augustiner-Keller in Munich follows the ox once harnessed to a winch here, hauling beer barrels up from the cellar in slow circles for decades until it was finally retired in 1891. It traces the ground's darker earlier use across from Munich's old execution grounds, the more than a hundred chestnut trees planted in 1807 to shade the cellar below, and the Augustiner brewery's purchase of the site in 1862. Listen under the chestnut canopy overhead, where the same shade has been doing its job for two centuries.