There are plenty of places to drink beer in Pittsburgh... more than plenty... maybe even too many... OK  so you want to swill some brew from the Fatherland do ya?  My recommendation, go to the Fatherland.  This place is just silly.  The costumes the women wear are absurd.  The beer is only OK and the food is yucky.  My friend and I ordered soups... which never came.  My friend ordered the steak salad and I some spaetzle dish that was supposed to have \"field mushrooms,\" Marsala wine, cream sauce, caramelized onions and chicken.   The mushrooms were basic and practically non existent.  The caramelized onions, if present, had disappeared into the cream goo entirely.  There wasn't even a hint of Marsala ... not a smidge ... not an iota.  The chicken was cooked to death.   I ordered a Hefeweisen to ease the pain and it was extremely herby tasting ... too much for my taste really... I asked for some lemon (yes you have to ask), and unsurprisingly, it too never came.  I elected to not drink the beer and try a dessert.  The strudel arrived in a sweet sauce with some raspberry flavoring.  It was piping hot because it was nuked into a pile of mush.  DISGUSTING.  I asked the waiter to remove the beer from the bill since I didn't drink it.  He had to ask the manager which seemed to bother him.  He took it off the bill.  The waiter was extremely handsome with a deep velvety voice and was the only fun thing (for me) about the experience.  Though his waitering could have been better his eye candy appeal was top notch.  Good place to people watch and drink, bad place to eat.  The appetizers sounded good but were crazy expensive for one person to order for themselves.