Beer from the six Oktoberfest breweries served in proper beer jugs, German sausage and sauerkraut, lederhosen for men and dirndls for women are the basis for a successful Oktoberfest. If you want to do it proper German style, rent a party tent and find some rustic wooden tables and benches, serve the food according to the suggested menu, play the Bavarian Bee singers and let the beer flow. The Oktoberfest is a sixteen-day festival held each year during late September in Munich, Germany. The Oktoberfest… is known as the largest "people's fair" in the world, with some six million people attending every year, and is an important part of Bavarian culture. The six Oktoberfest breweries, (Spaten, Augustiner, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu) sold 6.1 million mugs of beer at the festival in 2006. The festival is held in an area named Theresienwiese, d’Wiesn for short, which means Therese’s field or meadow. The original Oktoberfest occurred in Munich, on October 12, 1810. King Ludwig I organized a horse race to commemorate his marriage to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen (therefore the name Theresienwiese festival grounds). Since 1950, there has been a traditional festival opening: A twelve-gun salute and the tapping of the first Oktoberfest beer keg at 12:00 by the current Mayor of Munich with the cry "O'zapft is!" ("It's tapped!") opens the Oktoberfest→