Oktoberfest is the world's largest folk festival and an unforgettable event featuring entertainment, celebration, and beer. But how did this massive festival come to be? In 1810, an officer of the ...

Oktoberfest is perhaps one of the most famous festivals in the world. The annual event, held in Munich, Germany, is commonly mistaken as a beer festival. However, as you’ll learn in this ...

(Courtesy of Lisa Antony-Thomas) This festival, held in Surly’s sprawling beer garden, includes non-polka live music, Surly versions of Oktoberfest food (don’t miss the giant pierogies topped ...

A popular Oktoberfest tradition even before the tapping: every year, Munich residents grumble about the beer prices set by the festival hosts and breweries. The City of Munich only checks that the ...

Munich’s famous annual Oktoberfest beer festival originally inspired Sprankle to host a similar version for the public here in the Alle-Kiski Valley. “We want to make sure we celebrate our ...

Tables cannot be reserved in the beer gardens. Yes, there is a traditional supporting program. On the first Saturday of Oktoberfest, the breweries and festival hosts make their entrance.

“This isn’t a drink fest. That’s not what ... There, they pick up a commemorative beer stein and a raffle ticket good for one free pour of the Oktoberfest brew. One of the first drink ...

build up your stein-holding arm strength and expand your beer belly because Peninsula Oktoberfest events are almost here. In addition to more traditional ways to celebrate this German festival ...

The theme for the Saturday, Oct. 18, gathering is Oktoberfest, which celebrates ... will be a big part of this year's San Antonio Beer Festival. Keeping with that theme, Wednesday's announcement ...

With Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood, Schalk makes the leap from dystopian science ... breweries whose monopoly has gone unchallenged since the founding of Oktoberfest—“the people’s festival”—in 1810.