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Beer and merriment flow at the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich
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Thousands of beer lovers descended on the German city of Munich on Saturday for the opening of Oktoberfest. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started the event at noon when he inserted the tap into the first keg, signaling the start of the 189th festival.
MUNICH (AP) — Bridie O'Halloran drank the first beer of her life at Oktoberfest. The 19-year-old Australian pronounced it “the best I've had” after finishing roughly a quarter of her liter (33 fluid ounce) mug on Saturday. Wearing a pink dirndl dress she’d bought just a few hours earlier, O'Halloran was surrounded by tens of thousands of other — likely more experienced — beer-drinkers for the first of 16 days of the 189th Oktoberfest in Munich.