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If you think your travel guidebook's phonetic tips for ordering a litre of beer are enough to get you through Oktoberfest without being labelled a Saupreusse (for genteel readers, a dumb tourist), maybe you should stay home.
An employee of Munich's tourism office raises two beer steins carrying the official logo for Oktoberfest 2007.
That's because mastering a little Oktoberfest etiquette -- such as learning where, when and how to eat and drink what -- is key to experiencing Munich, Germany's two-week celebration of beer and Bavarian culture.
Consider wheat beers, for example. Clink the wrong end of the tall, fluted half-liter glasses they are served in and you may end up with a lap full of glass shards and beer. (Hint -- toast with the bottom of the glass, which is thicker.) 09-13-2007

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