Training on the West Coast

In training at the Kaiserhof in Ocean Beach.  Very authentic. Beer garden is a but small, but they have huge pretzels and Hofbrau. 

I am providing this link as a public service.  You now can calculate your daily consumption rate and multiply by the pricing the link provides.  I am a bit curious, I never knew you could get lemonade?

The link has detail pricing per tent.


https://www.oktoberfest.de/en/article/Oktoberfest+2018/About+the+Oktoberfest/The+Official+2018+Beer+Prices/5086/

The Official 2018 Beer Prices

And there goes the 11€ mark.

The good news: Several lemonades didn't only stay at last year's price, but got even cheaper.
The bad news: In several beer tents, one liter of beer now costs you more than 11€.

The Mass (1 liter of beer) will cost you something between 10.70€ and 11.50€ this year. That is an average increase of 3.57% compared to last year’s beer prices. The cheapest beer can be found at the Museum Tent at the Old Wiesn and at the Ammer tent.

Whereas it is quite common that beer prices go up significantly each year, a novelty is prices of lemoades and Spezi going down in some tents.  
The tent proprietors explain this year's raise in prices because of the higher contingent rent for their tents. Because of increased security measures, the city of Munich had increased those rents last year.

Inaccurate Roster Entry

Barley Man,

I believe your web site entry for the 1997 roster is incorrect. I find no photographic evidence of Little John attending. In his place, you should have Herr Rang's brother in-law, Jim. The bank man.

Dan, please confirm.

Two group photos showing Jim and Not Little John.

Looking forward to tomorrow (4 August)

Why?

Well, exactly 8 weeks from tomorrow (4 August) we will be sitting at our reserved table in the Hacker Tent.

Pissort of the century.

It will be tough to beat this one in Augsburg.

Where are the blog posts?

Pretty sparse for an event that is less than 60 days away. Get posting you lazy Oktoberfestians.

Posts since January

At the Old Schnitzelhaus on Anna Marie Island Florida.  Getting ready to eat mass quantities of pork!  Just getting body accustomed to such fine food and beer!  A nice Hacker Pschoor Oktoberfest brew, pork schnitzel along with some nice spaetzle. 

New Rides This Year...

Which one will entice Barley Man after 6 Maß, a half hendl, and 2 brats?

• The "Chaos Pendel" („Pendulum of Chaos“) resembles a combination of a swing and a slingshot and has 2 cabins with 8 passengers each going into all possible directions.

• Named after the Hollywood classic, the “Predator” takes no prisoners: The gondolas flip and tumble on two hydraulic poles. 

Just wondering.

Which of our Oktoberfest Fraus will this be?

Shamelessly stolen from our buddies at http://brosoktoberfest.blogspot.com/
Thank you Alkoholische !

New Beer Drinker's Guide Web Site

Our icon of all things bier has updated the Beer Drinker's Guide to Munich web site. It looks nice and fresh. I don't believe it has changed since we first discovered it. He did remove the discussion about the Field Researchers. Argh!  We have lost our notoriety. I have emailed Larry and expressed our concerns, and asked if he will be in München this year.

Prost!

Trying to get Patti in shape for Oktobfest.  PS that is my AndechsVollbier!  She is drinking water.  This is going to be hard on my liver to get her in shape!

Let's revisit day trips

Barbus has previously suggested this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benediktbeuern_Abbey
(fixed for English link)

and Barley Man incrementally added...
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g657281-Kochel_am_See_Upper_Bavaria_Bavaria-Vacations.html

Both of these are on the same train route about 1 hr from Munchen.

Start another post for other suggestions, or comment here for this one.

Exchange Rate

$1.17 to the Euro!

Excellent.. Beers are getting cheaper.

A Wonderful Sight...

The transformation of the Wies'n has begun. It won't be long before the bier starts flowing. Keep your eye on the construction via the Web Cam above.

This one's for Chugger....

Sorry girls, but this was too good to ignore...

Ahem...  an English Lesson....

The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.

Einfahrt put up his hand and said, “My family went to my granddad's farm,  and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating."

The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate,’ not 'fascinating'.”

Chugger raised his hand.  He said, “My family went to see Rock City and  I was fascinated.”

The teacher said, “Well, that was good Chugger, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate’.”

Little Dan raised his hand, but the teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Dan before. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,” so she called on him.

Dan said, “My aunt Carolyn has a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight!”

Friendly Reminder for the Oktoberfestians...

We are all well aware of the preparation required for the 'fest.  After all we have been going for 25 years.  However,  our preparations tend to focus on the beer aspect.  It is also important to prep your intestinal tract for the onslaught of pork products.  Specifically sausages.  We wouldn't want anyone to have a violent explosive event at the 'fest.  Certainly it should be washed down with beer,  preferably something with active/live yeast.

My dinner last night…  ahhh

dirndl news

He Joyce this is my dirndl. The one I ordered. I hope it fits. There by goes a white blouse.

We had a Chamber of Commerce day in Southwest Ohio last weekend, I drove the Porsche to Mecklenburg Gardens in Cincinnati.  Established in 1865.  Nice German restaurant with a very nice bier garten.  Couple of shots to get in the mood for Oktoberfest.  The big bier is Andechs Vollbier and I did not have to watch Keith huff and puff up that hill to get one of these bad boys. Prost!

MAGA

I warned Keith, but he threw caution to the wind and is allowing me to post to this blog.  

After a few weeks of discussion, I am accepting Orders for the MAGA caps.  I think you should get rid of the little green felt hat with the little robin feather and get a hat that will allow you to stand out in the crowd.  The great advantage if we get separated we will be able to find one another.  Of course, the angry mob might have already put you under the table.  PS I have plenty of large Goose feathers that I can pick up next to the Goose crap and bring in case you miss your little robin feather.

I’m still dirndl shopping. And thinking about German beer. Schlumberger Lady what does your dirndl look like?