BERLIN-Organizers of the world's biggest beer festival, Munich's Oktoberfest, have raised security after Islamist attacks in Germany last month, including banning rucksacks, introducing security ...

More young people are steering clear of alcohol. The deepening cultural shift has spawned an epidemic of brewery closures.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jim Koch considers Munich a beer-lover's paradise. The founder and chairman of Boston Beer Co, which brews Samuel Adams beer, heads to the region north of the city every year to ...

MUNICH (WKRC/APTN/CBS Newspath) - Thousands of beer lovers descended on the German city of Munich on Saturday for the opening of their Oktoberfest. Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started the ...

Oktoberfest begins with the mayor of Munich, Germany, tapping the ceremonial first barrel of golden fest beer. The world's most famous fall beer bash starts Sept. 21 and ends Oct. 6. Yet the best ...

MUNICH (AP) — The beer is flowing and millions of people descending on the Bavarian capital to celebrate the official opening of Oktoberfest. With the traditional cry of “O’zapft is” — “It’s tapped” — ...

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 ...

I suggest tourists learn local cultural norms before they visit Munich and avoid common mistakes as they explore the city.seng chye teo/Getty Images I moved from the US to Munich as a kid and enjoyed ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Nearly every step you take in Munich, there’s a sign, an enticing smell and perhaps a gently stumbling visitor, something to remind you ...

Amid the revelry of OktoberFest NYC in Central Park, a quieter but no less intense spectacle unfolds: the national finals of ...