Today is an important day on the march toward Fall. Oktoberfest in Munich starts on Saturday, September 21st this year. By my count, there’s only 100 days until the ceremonial keg tapping that kicks off the party. Fall officially starts with the autumnal equinox the next day, September 22nd. Of course, if you believe that […]
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Early numbers are in for the world’s largest 2012 beer festival. Despite Saturday’s rain, 850,000 people attended opening weekend of Oktoberfest in Munich. It didn’t slow beer consumption either: One million liters of beer were sold. I put together a massive resource for those of you who are headed to Theresienwiese. And an extensive collection […]
It is tapped. The world’s biggest party has begun. At noon in the Schottenhamel tent, which was twenty minutes ago according to my complex time zone analysis, the mayor of Munich, Christian Ude, swung a wooden mallet to tap the first keg at Oktoberfest 2012. He shouted, O’zapft is! A 12 gun salute followed to […]
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I started Funtober in part to give myself a great excuse to participate in more fall fun. I work way too hard not to take more breaks and enjoy life. Yesterday, I took a break from building Funtober to attend the Arden Fair in Delaware. But there was plenty that I thought you would be […]
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I know that Fall technically starts September 22nd. But I don’t think anyone will arrest us for celebrating fall a little bit early this year. Labor Day weekend really does feel like the start of Fall. And the calendar has turned from August to September. Let’s look at what’s happening this weekend: Halloween Costumes!! Thanks […]
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So I had my first Lowenbrau Original last Sunday. After I bought the Munich beer last month, I plunged into work on Funtober and never got a chance to enjoy it. Seriously. Zero. I blame it on my parents. In my twenties, I would tell people that I didn’t like beer. It was the truth. […]
It’s Oktoberfest time! What? You figured Oktoberfest started in October? Well you would be wrong. The Germans decided a while back that they couldn’t wait to get trashed until October. So they moved up the Munich festival to start in September. Don’t believe everything that you red in our history of Oktoberfest – I doubt […]
Pyramid Breweries is giving one lucky person a trip to Munich for Oktoberfest 2013 in Munich. The winner of the sweepstakes will win roundtrip airfare for two to Munich, a five night hotel stay and $2,000 in spending cash for the trip. You can enter once per week from now until September 30, 2012. The […]
On Saturday, I stopped at a few beer stores to see if I could find any Oktoberfest and pumpkin beers. After all, the fall seasonal beers start in July. My personal goal is to try as many as possible this Fall. For the website, of course! At the first beer store, it was summer seasonals […]
Yes. You read that headline correctly. It’s the start of July. And I’ve already seen reports that pumpkin ales and Oktoberfest lagers are available for consumption. It’s been on Beer Pulse as well as on Twitter. So if you want to be among the first to try a pumpkin beer this year, you should make […]