Okotberfest Night 1: This beer is the size of my head.
By Candi • Sep 27th, 2008 • Category: General Sod7 p.m. Me, Kari and Robin decide to head to Octoberfest and are briefly concerned that we won’t know how to get there. When we step out of the hotel, there are thousands of people dressed in Lederhosen and bavarian dresses all herding in the same direction. We join the flow.
7:30 p.m. Found it!
7:35 p.m. As we’re waiting in line for cash, a very small, 20-something man shuffles over to us with a wurst hanging out of his mouth. He mumbles something in an unintelligible language and looks at us with huge, puppy-dog eyes. “What?” I say. He looks at his hotdog, then over our shoulders. “I just want to go home.”
Then he shuffles away.
8 p.m. Find a table at a beergarten! Yay! Sit down next to a woman, her two children and her husband. We order our beers while being regaled with what we assumed were traditional beer-drinking songs…until we realize they’re all singing the first few riffs from that White Stripes Song “Seven Nation Army.” Seriously?
8:05 p.m. Must get picture of beer lady. Snap picture of her and she almost trips from the flash in her face:
8:15 p.m. “I think I’m drunk,” Kari says, looking at her half-drunk beer. I’m suddenly worried.
8:20 p.m. We compare the size of our beers to the size of our heads.
8:30 p.m. 25 Italians assault our table and assume we can understand what the hell they’re saying. This is not true.
9 p.m. A british man adopts us as his children and starts systematically removing the Italians.
9:30 p.m. A group of people who live in Amsterdam and are staying in a van by the river tries to kidnap us.
10 p.m. Italians try to use me to get INSIDE the beer tent, which is actually not a tent but a large, hangar-like structure. Because I am not a blond with huge breasts or a battering ram, we fail.
10:30 p.m. I am somehow inside of the tent with an American dressed as a monk. People keep asking him to bless them
11 p.m. Tents close. I don’t know where my friends are. I find the biggest sausage ever and wander around looking for more beer.
12 a.m. Here is a snippet from the drunken online chat I have with my boyfriend:
me: Baby?
Candi is grossly opposed to many things, including consistently contributing to anything.
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This is something that most beer lover are looking forward when October is coming would like to go to such even but this is not advisable for me because I have a kidney stone.
Good luck to all who will be in the event, just reminding everybody to drink lightly.
Drink lightly? ME!? I’ve got a fake ID all lined up and I’m going to get absolutely hammered!!
Well… not really, I’m abstaining from alcohol for a wee while, but once I’ve given that up, I’m gonna get drunk and wake up naked in a field in Ireland with a traffic cone stuck up my ass.
Now I remember why I gave up drinking.
Yeah I think the whole point of it all is to Not drink lightly. haha Sounds like a real fun night. Quite a diverse crowd too.
..and I must say.. That beer mug really IS the size of your head.
Oktoberfest is one of those things that I’ve always wanted to visit when I was single and still drinking alcohol. The idea of drinking beer after beer after beer and having some good food in between seems like so much fun. Well, at least I can look at the pictures and enjoy the beer vicariously.
Drunken text messaging is so much better than drunk dialing because you can share the funny snippets of the conversation with others easily. It’s sounds like the time you had was fun and I wouldn’t mind partying with you sometime. Hope you weren’t too hung over.
Since I live in Utah, I just wanted to point out that there is an attempt to create Ocktoberfest at one of the resorts our here each year. I’m going to venture to say that the Ocktoberfest here doesn’t even hold a candle to the one out there. Really, what’s the point of Ocktoberfest if you can’t drink heavily?
I love beer and I love trying different beers. While I am sad to see the summer brews go, I am looking forward to Oktoberfest. Well I would have to say Harp is my favorite beer. I just love it! I had a raspberry wheat beer once that was really good, but can’t for the life of me remember the name of it. Guess that’s not to helpful. HoneyMoon, Negra Modolo and Landshark are all good beers. Have fun with your Oktoberfest, sounds like it will be a blast!