Some sage advice from a bevy of old ladies on the way in to this year's Oktoberfest: "Be ready to wait in line for those beers. Just watch the girls and listen to some music!"
If there was a better approach to what happens when Bawlmer meets Bavaria, Metromix didn't see it.
Like the so-wrong-it-works combo of a bratwurst topped with crab and Old Bay (actually for sale to brave souls that day), the event was a bizarre but irresistibly Charm City take on the Germanic tradition. After a full afternoon of soaking up delicious local beer, phat blues, the oompah band's Chicken Dance and many, many plunging necklines and silly hats, we'll take Maryland over Munich any day.
Continue on for some eye candy and sipping notes...
Maryland Brewer's Oktoberfest 2008
Beer, babes and funny hats hit Timonium
By Chip Rose
Special to MetromixOctober 13, 2008
Ooh-la-la with a side of oom-pa-pa
(Credit: Chip Rose)


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