Black Rock City Biergarten

In the middle of the Nevada desert, in the middle of one of the world's most ambitious temporary cities, someone decided to build a German beer garden.

That is the Black Rock City Biergarten. The 2004 Burning Man theme was Vault of Heaven — celestial, cosmic, full of stars and mystery. And right there on the Playa was a camp serving cold beer in a biergarten.

The audacity. The logic. The fact that it worked completely — because everything works at Burning Man if you commit to the bit.