Autumn is the time for a tipple

The arrival of Oktoberfest from 19 September to 4 October is fast approaching. And this got travel search engine nowfly.co.uk thinking, as all that lederhosen and alcohol seems like an alarming amount of fun.

Here are their five favourite autumn drinks events:

Oktoberfest, Munich, Germany
After the 12-gun salute and tapping of the first keg of beer, the world’s biggest fair kicks off. One of the more unusual of the many beer tents is actually a timbered house. Zur Bratwurst serves up rostbratwürstl – fried sausages grilled over an open beech wood fire, washed down with Augustiner beer - oktoberfest.de

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Mondial de la Biere, Strasbourg, France
The first ‘World of Beer Festival’ to be held in Europe is taking place in the Alsace capital of Strasbourg from 16-18 October this year. And if you get tired of all that beer, drive down Alsace’s 170km wine route to Thann, south of Colmar. The October vendage will be in full swing, with enough wineries to derail the most organised of schedules - festivalmondialbiere.qc.ca

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Whisky Galore Festival, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland
It’s been a long and fairly adventurous sixty years since Whisky Galore was filmed on this remote and beautiful island. To celebrate, the first ever Whisky Galore Festival takes place here from 18-20 September. A unique chance to savour the renowned island hospitality and be part of something (sort of) memorable - whiskygalorefestival.com

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Sonoma County Harvest Fair, Sonoma County, California, USA
Which devilishly clever person first mixed jazz with wine? Nobody knows for certain, but you probably won’t give a monkey’s after three days here. The fair itself, from 2-4 October, is a celebration of everything connected with harvest. This includes three lazy days of wine tasting with over 150 wineries, non-stop live jazz and farm animals on their best behaviour.

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Sourtoe Cocktail Club, Dawson City, the Yukon, Canada
For an entirely different event, this bizarre venue is a shrine to having a drink with a human toe in it. Formerly only drunk with champagne, you can now consume anything with it but the drinker's lips must touch the toe. "You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but the lips have gotta touch the toe", apparently. Not your average sharpener - sourtoecocktailclub.com

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