Oktoberfest is back but inflation hits brewers, cost of beer
A man mounts a light advertisement on a booth on the Oktoberfest grounds in Munich, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. The Oktoberfest is on tap again in Germany after a two-year pandemic interruption. The beer will be just as cold and the pork knuckle just as juicy. But brewers and visitors are under pressure from inflation in ways they could hardly imagine in 2019. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)
By MICHAEL FAULHABER and DANIEL NIEMANN Associated Press
MUNICH — Oktoberfest is back in Germany after two years of pandemic cancellations — the same bicep-challenging beer mugs, fat-dripping pork knuckles, pretzels the size of dinner plates, men in leather shorts and women in cleavage-baring traditional dresses....
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