Raising the beer
Updated On Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes raise their beers in a festival tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany.. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Visitors of the Oktoberfest raise their beers in a festival tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes raise their beers in a festival tent at the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes wait during the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany. This year's edition of the world's biggest beer festival Oktoberfest will run until October 7, 2012. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Revellers cover themselves from heavy rain as they stroll over the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
A waitress carries beer after the opening of the 179th Oktoberfest in Munich. Millions of beer drinkers from around the world will come to the Bavarian capital over the next two weeks for the 179th Oktoberfest. REUTERS/Michael Dalder
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Revellers sit under umbrellas with their traditional one-litre "Masskrug" beer mugs on a beer garden table during heavy rain falls at the opening day of the Munich Oktoberfest at the Theresienwiese in Munich. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Visitors wear traditional Bavarian clothes and wait in front of a festival tent ahead the start of the Oktoberfest beer festival at the Theresienwiese in Munich, southern Germany, on September 22, 2012. AFP PHOTO / CHRISTOF STACHE
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Two women react, as they arrive for the opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival as rain falls, in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Mayor of Munich Christian Ude taps the first beer barrel during the official opening of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/dapd, Joerg Koch)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST
Young people celebrate the opening ceremony in the "Hofbraeuzelt' beer tent of the famous Bavarian "Oktoberfest" beer festival in Munich, southern Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
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Updated on Sep 22, 2012 09:50 PM IST