The 186th Oktoberfest kicked off in Munich as Mayor Dieter Reiter inserted the tap in the first keg on Saturday with two blows of a hammer and the cry of 'O'zapt is' - 'it's tapped.'
A waitress holds glasses of beer during the opening of the 186th 'Oktoberfest' beer festival in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019.
Even before the waitresses started bringing the one-liter beer mugs to their customers at noontime, the festival grounds were so overcrowded that security guards allowed entry only for people with reservations in one of the beer tents. Shortly after 9 a.m., the festivals’s organizers announced via loudspeakers that the party could begin.The announcement came in German, English and Bavarian — a German dialect so thick and heavy with accent and local vernacular that even many native German speakers from other parts of the country have trouble understanding it.
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