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It's tapped: Beer flows as Oktoberfest opens in Munich
AP ^ | September 22, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 09/22/2018 6:00:57 AM PDT by C19fan

The first keg has been tapped and the beer is flowing as the 185th Oktoberfest gets underway in Munich. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg on Saturday with two blows of a hammer and the cry of "O'zapft is" - "it's tapped." As tradition demands, he handed the first mug to Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, who declared that "the Oktoberfest is perhaps Bavaria's biggest and best calling card in the world." Around 6 million visitors are expected at the festival grounds in Munich before the Oktoberfest ends on Oct. 7. As in previous years, backpacks and large bags are banned for security reasons.

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TOPICS: Food; Travel
KEYWORDS: bavaria; beer; germany
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Beer and pretty fraulines wearing traditional Bavarian outfits = paradise.
1 posted on 09/22/2018 6:00:57 AM PDT by C19fan
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Paradise until the muzzies start objecting.


2 posted on 09/22/2018 6:05:55 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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3 posted on 09/22/2018 6:06:28 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Enjoy it before the Muzzies stop it. Pray for Germany.


4 posted on 09/22/2018 6:09:46 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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I LOVE Bavarian babes!
5 posted on 09/22/2018 6:12:11 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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WOW. German’s actually celebrating a German tradition in Germany!

What did they do with all the ferals? I know they aint supposed to drink or eat bacon but we dont have much factual evidence to support that..........


6 posted on 09/22/2018 6:14:05 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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7 posted on 09/22/2018 6:14:22 AM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.)
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When it comes to alcohol, German purity laws and Islamic purity laws are two very different things.


8 posted on 09/22/2018 6:15:17 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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Wow.. The migrants are going to allow this?


9 posted on 09/22/2018 6:17:23 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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Gonna be there next Sat before continuing on through Alps and then down to Aegean.


10 posted on 09/22/2018 6:26:33 AM PDT by semantic
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Dream trip.........have fun.


11 posted on 09/22/2018 6:27:41 AM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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Been there. I remember one guy so drunk, he stood there in public and peed his own pants. He was totally soaked but too drunk to care.

I remember Oktoberfest bathrooms were a culture shock. An old lady sat there INSIDE the men’s bathroom collecting coins for entry. Imagine going to a baseball stadium and the men’s bathroom having women inside.

The downtown park is clothes optional. I remember seeing naked people of all ages and nobody cared.

But multiculturalism is suicide. Until the German men grow courage again and DEPORT ISLAM, the rich German culture may die off.


12 posted on 09/22/2018 6:36:10 AM PDT by TheNext (Anonymous Source)
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The muzzies will drink it while objecting and then start raping people.

Such fun!


13 posted on 09/22/2018 6:41:03 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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Next thing you know the islamics will be cutting
the heads off beers!


14 posted on 09/22/2018 6:44:18 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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I have been to two Oktoberfests. It is some of my best memories.

At Oktoberfest, it is LEGAL to be drunk in public. So you can spend all day and drink 5 liters of good beer. Just take the public transit back to the hotel.

What a riot. American culture is still far back in the dark ages. Just one American town needs to legalize drunk walking for an annual end of summer fest. Come on Mayors, who will step forward.

I am amazed there is no sister celebration in American yet.


15 posted on 09/22/2018 6:47:26 AM PDT by TheNext (Anonymous Source)
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Huge fan of the Reinheitsgebot. There's some very good flavored ales & lagers out there, but they aren't beer.

Will be in (God willing) Deutschland and neighboring countries around Octoberfest 2021. can't wait.
16 posted on 09/22/2018 6:50:19 AM PDT by farming pharmer
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The first keg has been tapped and the beer is flowing as the 185th Oktoberfest gets underway

They're getting a head start, it's only September 22.......

17 posted on 09/22/2018 6:53:35 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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The Muzzies go to places like Thailand to get their fill of Booze


18 posted on 09/22/2018 7:03:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Liederkranz - Reading PA


19 posted on 09/22/2018 8:02:45 AM PDT by aumrl (let's keep it real Conservatives)
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***I am amazed there is no sister celebration in American yet.***

There used to be several German festivals in the USA. Oktoborfest, Shutezenfests and such. Then came 1917 and everything German became “evil”.


20 posted on 09/22/2018 8:17:29 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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