Pretzel with beer-cheese sauce? Ja bitte!

It’s National Pretzel Day on Thursday 26 April and Munich Brauhaus and The Bavarian have taken their legendary pretzels to the next level!

For one day only – and until they sell out – these hand-crafted salted morsels will be served with a mouth-watering side of beer-flavoured cheese dipping sauce.

You had me at beer … and cheese.

Beer cheese dip is a traditional German favourite, making it the perfect accompaniment for these legendary snacks.

More than 47,000 pretzels were sold at Rockpool Dining Group (Munich Brauhaus and The Bavarian) in 2017, made to their own traditional recipe, with the most popular of the lot being the traditional salted pretzel, selling almost 32,500 last year.

Fun fact, if you thought pretzels originated in Germany, think again. It is commonly believed that these delicious baked treats were invented by Italian monks in 610 AD to be given as a reward to children who had learned how to say their prayers.

Others think it may have been a recipe based on bread made in Greek monasteries over a thousand years ago.  Wherever they were invented, the United States has claimed pretzels as its own, with a Pennsylvania governor deciding in 1983 that the 26th of April would forever be known as National Pretzel Day, to acknowledge the state’s success in selling 80 per cent of the nation’s pretzels. 

Bless that man – for without him, you wouldn’t be able to grab a pretzel with beer cheese dip at the Munich Brauhaus and The Bavarian this Thursday!