{"id":76145,"date":"2008-07-24T22:07:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-07-24T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T13:07:26","slug":"beer-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/beer-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my favourite words.<br \/>\nOfficial title = Matsumoto Oktober Fest 2008, being run at this very moment in the parking area to the west of the castle. Listen for the um-pa-pa tunes if your scouting skills let you down.<br \/>\nFri 25th 5-8.30pm<br \/>\nSat 26th\/Sun 27th 11.30am &#8211; 4.30pm &#038; 5-8.30pm<br \/>\nObviously German flavour, beer, sausages, the aforementioned band and other entertainment. Good reviews last year, though the prices were a bit exxy.<br \/>\nCheers, prost, skol, etc!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/beer-festival\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/history\/beer-festival\/\" data-text=\"Beer Festival\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my favourite words. Official title = Matsumoto Oktober Fest 2008, being run at this very moment in the parking area to the west of the castle. Listen for the um-pa-pa tunes if your scouting skills let you down. Fri 25th 5-8.30pm Sat 26th\/Sun 27th 11.30am &#8211; 4.30pm &#038; 5-8.30pm Obviously German flavour, beer, sausages, the aforementioned band and other entertainment. Good reviews last year, though the prices were a bit exxy. 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