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Saturday, September 20, 2014

First kegs of Oktoberfest are tapped for Munich's 181st beer celebration

 The first steins of Munich's Oktoberfest are consumed on the opening morning of the world-famous 16-day annual celebration of beer
Oktoberfest was opened on Saturday Sep 20,2014 with the annual Bavarian beer festival set to run until October 5,2014
 A crowd gives a collective cheers on day one of Oktoberfest in Munich

An Oktoberfest waitress carries eight steins of beer with ease as she works her way through the crowd in the Bavarian capital It takes serious skills to be a waitress at Oktoberfest as this woman shows by holding 13 steins - the world record for a waiter is 27! 
 
Some 6.4 million people are expected at the 2014 festivities that have inspired imitations around the world

For the 2014 festival, beer prices in seven of the tents will cost as much as 10.10 Euro for one litre (the equivalent of 1.76 UK pints)
The price of beer has risen above 10 Euros per litre, which equates to 1.76 UK pints

It was standing room only at the 181th annual beer festival where millions of revelers are expected to party over the next 16 days 
It was standing room only at the 181th annual beer festival where millions of revelers are expected to party over the next 16 days 
 
A reveller wears a traditional Bavarian outfit, known as a 'Dirndl', as she laughs over a litre of beer at the Schottenhamel beer tent in Munich on Saturday An Oktoberfest party-goer poses for the camera in traditional attire  
 A young woman downs a stein in Munich - two thirds of glasses were not properly filled in 2013, said an official charged with monitoring such things 



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