Munich's sixteen days of beer tents on the Theresienwiese, opened by the mayor tapping the first barrel. It began in 1810 as a royal wedding party and never stopped; the beer is brewed to a strength only the city's six breweries may supply.
Opens on the first Saturday on or after 16 September and runs sixteen to eighteen days, into the first days of October. Despite the name it is mostly a September festival.
The Phala almanac gives the exact day for your own city; the lunar and solar rules above are what it computes from.
It began in 1810 as the wedding party for Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, held on the meadow that still carries her name — the Theresienwiese. It went so well that they repeated it.
Only the six Munich breweries may serve, and only beer brewed inside the city limits to the Reinheitsgebot. Six million people come, and about seven million litres are drunk.
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