Comments on: The History Of Oktoberfest

By: Tiff @ Love Sweat and Beers

Tiff @ Love Sweat and Beers — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 20:47:52 +0000

This is like the Christmas story to me. I enjoy hearing it year after year. Brings me warm n’ fuzzies.

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Recent BABB Blog Posts September 29, 2011 | Bay Area Beer Bloggers — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:18:42 +0000

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Prost! | ahappyheartdotcom — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:13:00 +0000

[…] to repeat the horse races during the following year gave rise to the tradition of Oktoberfest. See History of Oktoberfest here. Very interesting! Also, see a virtual tour of the beer tents here and here. Both sites do a […]

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By: The Story Of Oktoberfest-Bier « The Beer Wench

The Story Of Oktoberfest-Bier « The Beer Wench — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:01:17 +0000

[…] Wench Sadly, tomorrow marks the last official day of the world’s largest folk festival – Oktoberfest. And unfortunately, yet another Oktoberfest has come and gone without me. I […]

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Oktoberfest Beers and Links | TheBrewClub.com — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:51:05 +0000

[…] I was doing my research and I came across an excellent post about the History of Oktoberfest by “The Beer Wench”. Her post on the History of Oktoberfest is among the best […]

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:31:03 +0000

Great post! Generally speaking, I’m also not a huge fan of Lagers – in spite of that, I do enjoy the Spaten Octoberfest and think its a very tasty treat!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:44 +0000

Great post-
I’m not sure if Brooklyn’s Oktoberfest is available in C-bus (I used to partake in PA), but it is by far one of my favorite beers, a perfect mixture of malt and hops, robust but not too heavy, a great all around beer. It single-handedly open my eyes up to lagers, which I now love.

By: Dr Beer Love

Dr Beer Love — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:49:52 +0000

My dad and I spent a little over a week in Munich for Oktoberfest 2006 for my 30th birthday. Absolute time of our lives. And though going to the Wiesn and hanging out at all the great beer tents was a blast (Paulaner and Hofbrau were our top two – almost always getting the dunkels), some of our best memories were when we got a little burnt out on that and would head over to some of the great beer gardens (Augustiner Keller was our go-to) or to some of the bars to hear some great stories from the locals. It was amazing how friendly everyone was over there.

Our routine was crazy in hindsight. Sleep in every morning and skip breakfast. Head over to the Wiesn and grab lunch and 3 liters. Come back to hotel and take 3 hour nap. Go back out that night for dinner and 4 more liters followed by our favorite dessert in the world – the radler (a liter of half beer half lemonade). Come back to hotel and sleep it off, save for having to pee every 30 minutes during the night.

Our main lesson after day one though – WATER IS CRUCIAL. After our first day we had the skull splitters going on and quickly found the formula: one liter of water for every liter of beer. Smart people would have had a liter of beer and a liter of water at the same time or back to back. Not us! We’d do our 3 liters then come back and drink 3 liters of water. It still worked, it was just a roundabout method. Either way it was the trip of our lives and we’d love to go back. I now say there are two things everyone should do at least once in their lives: Mardi Gras in New Orleans and Oktoberfest in Germany. Once is probably enough for most people but I guess I’m a glutton for punishment.

By: 1WineDude

1WineDude — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:45:33 +0000

Great overview – I’m learning stuff over here!

The best part is that “Mad” King Ludwig had something to do with it! Man, that guys was a trip…

As for lagers – Like you, I tend to avoid the bottom-fermenting beers unless they are really something special (Victory’s is pretty quaffable).