Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Watch as Oktoberfest, the world's largest beer festival, opens for the 188th time in Munich, Germany, on Saturday (16 October).. The festivities, which go on for two weeks until 3 October, kicked ...
Dieter Reiter opening the barrel in 2017 Dieter Reiter exclaiming "O'zapft is!" The Schottenhamel tent. The exclamation "O'zapft is!" (Bavarian for "It is tapped", standard German: "Es ist angezapft") is a tradition during the tapping of the first beer barrel by the mayor of Munich in the Schottenhamel tent at the opening of the Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany since 1950.
Oktoberfest (German pronunciation: [ɔkˈtoːbɐˌfɛst] ⓘ; Bavarian: Wiesn, Oktobafest) is the world's largest Volksfest, featuring a beer festival and a travelling carnival, and is held annually in Munich, Bavaria, from mid- or late-September to the first Sunday in October.
The Oktoberfest is a two-week festival held each year in Munich, Germany during late September and early October.It is attended by six million people each year and has inspired numerous similar events using the name Oktoberfest in Germany and around the world, many of which were founded by German immigrants or their descendants.
September 16, 2023 at 6:52 AM MUNICH (AP) — The beer is flowing and millions of people descending on the Bavarian capital to celebrate the official opening of Oktoberfest.
Oktoberfest Zinzinnati is an annual German-heritage festival in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio. Based on the original Munich Oktoberfest, it is billed as the largest Oktoberfest celebration in the United States [1] and second largest in the world. [2] First held in 1976, as of 2024 it hosted over 800,000 attendees each year.
Munich, Germany, has six official breweries that are allowed to serve their legally protected Münchener Bier at Oktoberfest, the world’s largest folk festival. Paulaner , the youngest, was ...
Some of these sites are well known such as the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart and Theresienwiese in Munich; however there are some Volksfest events which take place partly in the streets of towns. As the Volkfest is temporary in nature, most mechanical attractions, games and beer tents are assembled in the weeks or months prior to the start of ...