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Oktoberfest Beer and Blood Serves Up German Debauchery in Six Episodes

By Raul Quinque

 

My Tent is My Cas­tle, or, How a Volks­fest Out­grew its Roots. Cred­it: Okto­ber­fest 2013 — Munich Ger­many by Shut­ter­bug Fotos

What would Ger­many be with­out the Okto­ber­fest? Def­i­nite­ly not worse off, I’d say. Under most cir­cum­stances, I couldn’t be tempt­ed to watch a his­tor­i­cal dra­ma series with the Okto­ber­fest as a back­drop, but the Munich Wiesn innkeep­ers’ irate respons­es to the series have piqued my inter­est. Appar­ent­ly, they feel that the Wiesn is hal­lowed ground and that its past and present virtue must not be dis­graced. So lo and behold and with­out fur­ther ado, I present Okto­ber­fest Beer and Blood.

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