Oktoberfest 2008 Update

We have the following places available for this year's Oktoberfest tours.

Tour 1
Friday 19-Monday 22 September FULL
Tour 2
Tuesday 23-Friday 29 September FULL
Tour 3
Friday 26-Monday 29 September FULL


Cheers,
Bier-Mania!

Oktoberfest 2008 Last Minute Bookings

Bookings for this year's Oktoberfest tours will end this Sunday 24 August!

Only 32 days to go.....
We have only a few places left.
Don't wait another 12 months!

Oktoberfest Beer Now Out-Hacker-Pschorr

Yep, I know it's now August but the Oktoberfest Märzen beer is now out!
The Hacker-Pschorr is excellent, had a 'few' over the last week and it really goes down well. As is usual with Festbier, it is upped in alcohol and has 5.8% ABV.
Looks good! Darkish in colour.
Smells very malty.
Tastes very malty
Aftertaste in all honesty after 3 or 4 it can get a bit 'thick'. And that includes the head!
Don't take my word for it, to find out what it is like you'll have to come over the the Oktoberfest! Or go to my local 'offie'!

German lesson (I did ask the wife!).

• Hacker-Pschorr is quite hard for the English speaking world. So, to pronounce Hacker-Pschorr....
  
• say Hacker.
  
• Then say For surrrre.
• Then say Per surrre.
• Put it together and you have Hacker Per Surrre.
  

Cheers,
Andy @ Bier-Mania!

Ardennes Special Beer Tour Promo Film!

The Belgian Ardennes, great beer, lots of cows and Trappiste Monasteries...awesome!

Oktoberfest Training-Part 3 (Using Mobile Phones)

Part 2 of your Oktoberfest Training Package showed you how to improve and strengthen your drinking arm.

Part 3 of your training takes you through the use of mobile phones (=cell phone for the Americans, =handy for the Germans).
As we have experienced at previous Oktoberfests, it can be very frustrating for you trying to have a telephone conversation at the Oktoberfest when the oompah band is too loud (at leat you know the words now!) and the other 8000 festers just don't care that you are on the phone!

So at Bier-Mania! we believe that the old motto 'train hard-talk easy' is very appropriate-this training guide will help you at least maybe appreciate that trying to have a phone conversation at the Oktoberfest is futile and/or at least realise no-one will ever know what you were trying to say anyway.

If you do however succeed in your training then no-one is going to be impressed except your mobile phone company.

1. Get your mobile phone out.
2. Put in all the numbers (if you don't have them already) of everyrone you vaguely know and/or haven't contacted for at least a year.
3. If you don't have any people that fit into this category then distant relatives or mums, dads, sisters etc would be just as appropriate.
4. You now have 6 weeks to hit your local disco every Friday and/or Saturday. We suggest you only go once a week otherwise you will have no money left for the Oktoberfest.
5. Where were we?
6. Stand close to the speakers at the disco and phone as many people as possible on that list until your friends tell you they are leaving.
7. Say what a great time you are having.Say how you wish they were here.
8. Tell them you miss them.
9. Good luck!
   

Summary
This is excellent training for the Oktoberfest. The next time you talk to those people they will still have no idea who rang them (on your phone!), what you said or where you were.

Cheers!