date:Sep 25, 2012
e of the Oktoberfest remains the same, with Dirndl-clad waitresses delivering steins, its flavor has evolved over the years. A local festival with small beer gardens has mushroomed into a major international event featuring about a dozen cavernous beer tents, some seating about 10,000 singing, inebriated revelers at a time.
The fairgrounds of the Wiesn, as Oktoberfest is locally known, are spread out over about 75 acres and can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people at a time, and German a