Oktoberfest

19 Oct 2012

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2:12AM

Erdinger promises that there's something special brewing for Oktoberfest

12 Oct 2011

October is here and so is Oktoberfest. It is time to put on your beer goggles and novelty hat and grab a pint or two - or three.

9:50PM

Lederhosen, lunacy and litres of lovely lager

6 Oct 2011

Last year, 40,000 revellers at the Marco Polo German Bierfest drank 40,000 litres of beer and ate 9,000 pork knuckles, 10,000 pretzels and 30,000 sausages. Organisers are hoping to break those...

9:14PM

Raise a stein to celebrate Oktoberfest

3 Oct 2011

From the German-themed beer displays in the city's 7-Eleven stores to traditional festivities at the Marco Polo Hongkong Hotel, local enthusiasm for Oktoberfest is hard to escape.

9:03PM

Race-goers to get a taste of Germany as Oktoberfest arrives

2 Oct 2008

Portly gents in leather shorts, slapping their thighs while playing the accordion, as beer girls with plaits twirl in dirndls, yodel and hold 16 pints of beer in each hand - just some of the...

8:35AM

Top of the hops

27 Aug 2008

An oompah band is blowing a brassy tune through the streets of Munich's Old Town. It passes our table outside Munich's oldest brewery, Augustiner Brau.

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3:45AM

Mistral loses chef

Mario Caramella, chef of the Mistral Restaurant at the Grand Stanford Harbour View, will be leaving the restaurant at the end of October to move to Australia.

A successor has not yet...

9:02AM

Beer fest makes for fun brew

IT'S Oktoberfest once again. The time of year when the beer taps flow more freely. German Consul Helmut Gottelmann was at Omni The Hongkong Hotel to roll out the festive barrel, joined by Joe Kwok...

2:14AM

Lager than life

BEER drinkers in Munich have been served a cruel pint. Following complaints of noisy late night revelry, legislators in the city made famous by the annual Oktoberfest decreed that beer gardens...

5:39PM

Frothy fun at beer festival

BEER, beer, glorious beer. That was the frothy theme at the opening of Omni the Hong Kong's Oktoberfest, with German Consul-General Dr Wolfgang Goettelmann in attendance.

6:32AM

Beer-guzzlers can opt for early start

YES, how did you guess? It's time to cast our minds to the Oktoberfest - that German inspired beery cavort that has spread abroad from its roots in Bavaria.

2:27AM