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Oktoberfest opens as crowds race for best beer tent spots

Headline from Deutsche Welle

Thousands of visitors have streamed onto Munich's Oktoberfest grounds as the world-famous beer festival gets underway. Some spent the night outside the gates to secure coveted places in the festival tents.

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  1. Deutsche Welle

    Germany: Oktoberfest beer prices rise, outpacing inflation (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Oktoberfest's traditional beer mug, the Mass, will cost an average of €15.61 ($18.50) at this year's festival in Munich.

  2. Quartz

    9 Oktoberfest-style beer festivals worth traveling for, from Munich to Argentina (opens Quartz)

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    Stuttgart's 4.5 million annual visitors, a free daytime celebration in Ontario with its own Thanksgiving parade — the Oktoberfest-style festivals worth building a trip around, in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere alike

  3. PhillyVoice

    Yards Oktoberfest will turn normally off-limits brewery space into a Bavarian beer hall (opens PhillyVoice)

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    Yards Brewing Company will host Oktoberfest in Northern Liberties on Sept. 26 with German-style beers, stein contests, live music, food and normally off-limits brewery space.

  4. Deutsche Welle

    Oktoberfest opens as crowds race for best beer tent spots (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Deutsche Welle's feed description

    Thousands of visitors have streamed onto Munich's Oktoberfest grounds as the world-famous beer festival gets underway. Some spent the night outside the gates to secure coveted places in the festival tents.

  5. Deutsche Welle

    Oktoberfest opens as Munich mayor taps first beer keg (opens Deutsche Welle)

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    Deutsche Welle's feed description

    Thousands of visitors streamed onto Munich's Oktoberfest grounds as the world-famous beer festival got underway. Some spent the night outside the gates to secure coveted places in the festival tents.

  6. The Guardian

    Lederhosen, sauerkraut and tapping the first barrel: Oktoberfest 2026 opens – in pictures (opens The Guardian)

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    Crowds gather as the 191st edition of the world’s biggest beer festival kicks off in Munich, Germany

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