Oktoberfest: September 20 – October 5

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• September 21, 2003 at 10:18 am #6996
  David Lauterbach

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  <strong>Brian’s Belly Handheld Channel: Week of September 21, 2003</strong><br />
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  "Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world." <strong>-Kaiser Wilhelm</strong><br />
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  <strong>T H I S  W E E K :</strong><br />
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  5.9 Million people visited the Oktoberfest in Munich in 2002 and consumed more than 5.7 Million liters of beer. This year’s installment of the world’s largest beer festival will take place from September 20th to October 5th – with more fun and gemutlichkeit than ever before (we don’t know what gemutlichkeit means… we copy-pasted it from a German site–sounds good though!).<br />
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  For those of you that don’t know the history, we’d be happy to sum it up in one sentence. In 1810 some bier loving German royalty decided to get married (Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Theresia of Bavaria if you really must know) and it was their very successful 16 day celebration starting in late September and continuing on through October that later became the annual event known as Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany.<br />
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  Beer drinking Americans tend to celebrate Oktoberfest only when prompted by marketing & advertising by big-label bottlers… and we tend to prefer the "c" spelling variation since we call the tenth month October (except for radio stations who insist on calling it Rocktober).<br />
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  <em>Now that you know the deal, <strong><a href="https://www.briansbelly.com/beerbelly/oktoberfest.shtml">here</a></strong&gt; are a few Okt… Oct… er, tenth month beers you can get in the United States.</em>

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