Beer in Bavaria is always a good idea, whether enjoyed in October or not. There is just something special about experiencing the history of this popular beverage in one of its most famous places of ...

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MUNICH (AP) — The Oktoberfest fairgrounds closed for several hours Wednesday as police conducted a security sweep of the famed beer festival due to a bomb threat by a suspect linked to an explosion ...

Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started Oktoberfest at noon Saturday when he inserted the tap into the first beer keg, signaling the 189th start of the festival. Thousands of beer lovers celebrated in ...

MUNICH -- Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter opened the city's annual Oktoberfest with the traditional call of "Ozapft is" to the delight of thousands who had managed to get a place in the main beer tent ...

Sunday marks the closing of Oktoberfest, the annual celebration that runs for 16 days from mid-September to the first weekend in October in Munich, Germany. This year marked the 181st anniversary of ...

MUNICH — The 190th Oktoberfest came to a close Sunday, wrapping up the world’s largest folk festival with the traditional Bavarian marksmen’s gun salute in Munich. Roughly 6.5 million visitors ...

The first keg was tapped, and the beer started flowing as the 186th Oktoberfest got underway Saturday in the southern German city of Munich. Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg with ...