Sunday, October 07, 2007

VS Octoberfest

What is Octoberfest? Although I didn't know anything about it but the name of a festival, I decided to go to watch it with Lance. I write my impresson of the festival at first. It was very interesting. I enjoyed it very much.

The event has been held in Akarenga-souko (Red Brick Warehouse) in Minatomirai area in Yokohama. It is German festival, and this year's one is 5th. We can enjoy great German beer, foods and music there.
I was very surprised that a lot of people was joining the event. When I and Lance arrived at the event area, all seats were occupied others. The air there had been filled with drunker's high. So, we had to drink beer as soon as we could after buying the ticket for the event.

If you have not drunk German beer yet, and want to try it, I can recommend you to drink Franziskaner (In Japanese, Furanchesukaana). It is a fruity white beer and very popular. Of course I enjoyed it at the night. Easy to drink. Fitted to any kind of food. I drunk it with a sausage and a salty bread.

A personally impressive thing in the event was that I could find out the wine for which I had serached for a long time. Pieroth blue is the name. A several years ago, a woman intimate to me told me that she met a German wine by chance in a local restaurant and the taste was great but she couldn't find it at any other bars and restaurants. Because she didn't memoraise the wine name exactly (She remenbered only that the name started with "Pi" and the bottle color was blue.), I couldn't find the wine then. That's why I was very happy when I met the wine in the event place. The intimacy of us had already gone, though.

The climax of the event was German music and Beer cheering. Lsitening to the powerful music by German band, someone danced, someone sang and everyone drunk beer, shouting "Cheers!". Almost over 500 people felt our unity there. I understood again that the power of beer can make our world peace. German is wise. Japanese also should give the people in the world the beer they made, not the oil they bought.

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