This year's festivities are a far cry from those which traditionally draw about 6 million visitors to the Bavarian capital.
The specially brewed beer started flowing at midday on Saturday at 54 pubs, with locals in traditional lederhosen and dirndls sitting at spread out tables and, where possible, outside.
"It is a great alternative because at last we can celebrate the Oktoberfest a bit. It's not the same as usual, but still," said Christine Bachmeier, smiling at a table laden with litre glasses of beer at the famous Hofbraeuhaus. However, it is a far cry from the 6 million visitors from all over the world who usually flock to the Bavarian capital to squeeze into tents with long wooden tables and benches to swig beer and sing and sway to catchy oompah band tunes.
Each year, the partygoers consume more than 7 million litres of beer, more than 100 oxen and half a million chickens.It now it typically brings Munich some 1.2 billion euros in annual revenues, though not this year.
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