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an expert with pints, a master with yards, erik lars myers is a professional beer drinker. he has been drinking beer for various professional organizations and charity causes for years and is pleased to be able to lend his ample beer gut for the good of others. his current pet projects include two websites (the people's regime and topfermented), growing his own hops, culturing yeast from the dregs of your bottle of beer and far, far too many video games.
corner pub bureau chief
member since 4.15.02
durham, nc us
personal site: turtyl.net
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oktoberfest
a primer
9.23.09
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This past Saturday marked the beginning of Oktoberfest 2009. For the next 2-ish weeks, it'll be nothing but polka, sausages, and tasty, tasty Oktoberfest beer, no matter where you turn.
What's that I hear you say? It's only September? Why so it is! It so happens that Oktoberfest begins in September and didn't even originally involve binge drinking.
A quick dive into history
The first Oktoberfest wasn't a beer festival at all. It was a commemoration of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig I to Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen on October 12, 1810. The good people of Munich were invited to - and held - a five-day festival to celebrate the marriage. The main event was a horse race. Each year thereafter, an anniversary party was put on and it turned out to be a lot like what we would think of as a state fair. There were horse races, agricultural shows, a fair, and probably even the 19th Century version of deep-fried Snickers bars: p...
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