Oktoberfest 2013 Thread

I figured I'd get the thread started. Anyone with good pictures or an interesting trip report please feel free to update this thread. Here's my account:

It was my first time there, so I walked around as much as possible, stopping in a lot of tents but only buying two beers, a Spaten, which I thought was very good, and a Hacker-Pschorr. First I stopped in at the Schottenhamer tent:



The Spaten seemed very sweet, but it was delicious.



Later I walked around in the pouring rain...



Stopping for a little lunch...



And then into Hacker-Pschorr's tent for one...



Bonus photo just because I liked how it turned out...



It was a little early for the tents to be super-festive, but it was fun nevertheless. I'm glad I went early.

All in all a good time. Looking forward to what you all have to share!

 

OK, so you be the judge. I only had one, when it came fresh to my table you can see where the head is. However given some time, check this pic (sincerest apologies to the strange ladies who did not know their pictures would be put up here...). Mine beer is in the middle, same beer as in the previous photo. Looks like it's to the line, yes?



Note: I may delete the picture after a certain amount of time, so if you can't see it, that's why.

 

So my original post was good for some photos but wasn't much of a trip report. Here are some highlights:

- A man standing on a table attempting to chug a beer, egged on by (presumably) his friends all yelling "Go! Go! Go!". Security quickly got him down off the table and whisked him away, whereupon most of the tent booed the poor security guy. Chugging a liter of 6% beer doesn't seem like a good idea to me, either, security guy.
- Meeting Bierman9 and Alewife at Feinkost Drexler on my way off the grounds. They seem like genuinely nice people.
- Talking with the proprietors of Feinkost Drexler, who also seem like genuinely nice people, although they seem to disagree on whether or not Uli Hoeness' recent tax controversy should be the public's business. If you ever want to practice your German with a native, bring up Fußball. I can recommend Drexler's Leberkäse and their pretzels, which made for a cheap(-ish) alternative for lunch.
- The women (pictured above for the time being) talking to me for a few minutes and then asking to the waiter (who appeared to be a friend of theirs) if there was somewhere better to go because they were bored. I think they went to Augustiner. Still don't got it.
- Going back for a photo of the playground I mentioned in my 24 Hours in Munich thread, just outside the Wies'n.

 

Look for the icon that looks (to me anyway) like a tree - the "Insert/Edit Image" button. Click on that and it will ask you for a link. You need to post the link to the picture itself and not, for example, to the website where the image is (if that makes sense). I use Photobucket. That site lets you copy a "direct link" of the image and post it into the dialogue box that pops up when you click the Insert/Edit Image button. I hope any of this makes sense.

 

True story, I told my wife about the meet-up plans and she told me not to get hacked to bits by some stranger I met on the internet. I told her that the chances of that happening were like 85% against.

 

That is a good point and something I hadn't thought about until you mentioned it now. Sometimes ignorance is bliss!

 

Perhaps so. I saw a lot of people standing on what appeared to be the tables themselves, but after a closer look at my photos it is unclear if it was tables or benches/chairs. They didn't seem to do anything about people standing on [whichever] but they moved pretty quick on this guy for whatever reason.