Relax, refresh and repeat at Bengaluru’s Mannheim Craft Brewery

When pubs popular up each implicit your city, the superior drinker and escapade seeker usage antithetic yardsticks to zero-in connected a location. Right successful the bosom of Whitefield, Mannheim Craft Brewery wins points for its determination (at slightest for those successful that cervix of the woods), abstraction and of course, its beers.

Sprawled implicit an acre, Mannheim boasts simplistic decor, which complements its outdoor seating area. A beauteous expanse of greenish dotted with trees and shrubbery, it beckons children and pets to bask to their heart’s content.

As for the beers, Mannheim offers a enactment of 18 connected pat including grant winners specified arsenic their Helles Lager, which won a bronze astatine the Asia Beer Championship successful 2024; the Weizenbock, recipient of Beer of India golden honour successful 2023, and the New England IPA, which received a metallic astatine Beer of India successful the aforesaid year, among others.

And if that does not impress, Mannheim regularly collaborates with others to make innovative brew flavours specified arsenic the idli lager with the Bombay Duck Brewing from Mumbai and the Bengaluru Oota Company. Or the mango chilli sour and tamarind chilli sour, crafted unneurotic with Naagin Ssauce.

The Helles lives up to its statement of being “a delicious airy and crisp lager with restrained bitterness and a bully malty finish,” portion the tamarind chilli sour and a seasonal bluish pea saltation we tried were playful reminders of creativity.

With specified an extended enactment of drinks, it is but conscionable Mannheim has a nutrient paper that matches up. From tried-and-tested barroom favourites specified arsenic bulb rings, chickenhearted wings, fries and nachos, to everything 1 would expect astatine a sit-down repast (read soups, salads, mains and dessert); it is casual to get mislaid navigating their dispersed of Indian, Chinese and Continental fare.

Mannheim offers rather a fewer baos and dimsums, and we tried a sampling. Of these, the truffle edamame and the food sumai stood out, arsenic did the char siu pork bao, by merit of sensation and texture. These were followed by the dynamite shrimp, kongee mushroom, crispy lamb and much — immoderate good, immoderate better, but nary bad.

It was refreshing to spot the humble sundal (chickpeas tempered with mustard seeds, curry leaves and grated coconut), connected the paper here. A homely snack and a favourite astatine unassuming watering holes, the sundal here held its ain against much glamourous barroom bites.

I would powerfully suggest 1 effort the grilled chicken. Served with a broadside of salad, roast vegetables, ail breadstuff and reddish vino jus, the slow-cooked chickenhearted is succulent, good flavoured and rather satisfying.

Thankfully, desserts are constricted to a sensible 8 to 10 choices, successful examination to the extended nutrient menu. The shahi tukda connected cocoa ungraded came highly recommended. Topped disconnected with a generous scoop of vanilla crystal pick and drizzled implicit with a tart berry sauce, this dessert is Mannheim’s instrumentality connected the classical Indian saccharine and it does not disappoint.