Written by Frank J. Peter

Starkbierfest (München 2014)

Wilkommen zum Starkbierfest (Welcome to the Strong Beer Festival)!!!

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What & Where is Starkbierfest?

Celebrated at the Paulaner-Nockherberg beer garden in München (Munich), Starkbierfest, a lesser-known springtime cousin of Oktoberfest is a celebration of life like no other in the world. A few words and pictures could never do justice to the indescribably joyous experience of being there, but I will give it a try… Prost!

Make sure to scroll all the way down to “the best part“!

I had the privilege of being perhaps the only “tourist” there, courtesy of the invitation of my friend Frank (yes Frank) who lives in München.

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Frank… and the other Frank!
The beer is real… (and super strong, thus the name Starkbier!)…
The food is real…
The pretzels are real (fresh and enormous!)…
The people are real…
The comaraderie is real…
The good-natured fun is real…

For anyone who dares to suggest that Germans are no fun…

The dancing is real…

“Ein Prosit, Ein Prosit”…
“Der Gemütlichkeit!!!”

The Best Part…

Sharing the evening with the delightful, welcoming, engaging locals at my table (so forgiving of my limited, broken German) was an uncommon pleasure and privilege enough, but…

Nothing in my travel experiences compares to joining hundreds of tipsy gentlemen in lederhosen and ladies in dirndls standing on the benches and enthusiastically belting out John Denver’s “Country Roads” in English at the tops of our lungs with a killer band… an absolutely joyous communion of humanity like no other and an existence proof that reconciliation and world peace really is possible!

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