AP PHOTOS: Thousands of beer lovers descend on Munich for Oktoberfest
MUNICH (AP) — Oktoberfest has opened in Munich after the ceremonial beer keg-tapping. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started the 189th Oktoberfest at noon when he inserted the tap into the first keg. The celebration runs through Oct. 6 in 18 large tents covering the fairground and is considered the world’s largest folk festival.
Founded in a garage in 2005, Giesinger Bräu is drawing young, hip crowds to pop ups in Munich neighborhoods by engaging ...
While Oktoberfest may be Munich’s biggest crowd-puller, it’s not the only European city suited to a beer-themed break. Whether it’s the Polish city with statues of beer-drinking gnomes or an ...
Beer swilling, glass-clinking, lederhosen and dirndls. Few cities have been saddled with such a one-dimensional image – at least from a tourism point of view – as Munich. True, the arrival of ...
If you only do one thing... Get a beer at the Augustiner-Keller, flagship beer hall of one of Munich’s oldest breweries. Its beer garden, with seating for 5,000 beneath shady chestnut trees ...
Have years of too many beers morphed your six-pack abs into a keg? If you have a "beer belly," you are not alone. It seems beer drinkers across the globe have a tendency to grow bellies ...
The festival is typically held for around two weeks, with six to seven million litres of beer consumed in Munich. Oktoberfest 2024 begins on September 21 and ends on October 6. Bayern Munich is ...
But these days it’s not just brewers ordering these beers. Brewery patrons are buying more pilsners, and major beer competitions across the U.S. have seen an increased number of pilsners entered ...
Started in a garage in 2005, “Giesinger brings a breath of fresh air to the Munich beer market,” says Christoph Ferry Jürgen Häckner, a teacher and restorer. Like him, many drinkers ...
A parade of thousands in traditional southern German costume paraded through Munich on Sunday morning to mark the second day ...
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