Largest Oktoberfest of the Americas happens in Blumenau

Think about it, 18 days of pure German fest. Including beer of course. It´s the Oktoberfest that happens in Blumenau, south Brazil.

This was considered the largest Oktoberfest out of Germany, now it`s the largest of the Americas.

In 2010 was my 1st year attending to the fest, and this year I was pleased with the opportunity to be there again.

Those are the tickets to get into the fest.

The fest has grown so much that actually there are 3 huge buildings (aka sectors as shown below) to hold up all the visitors.

Numbers of the 2011 Oktoberfest Blumenau:

• When: October 6th until the 23rd.
• 563,925 visitors.
• 626,547 liters of beer consumed.
• 93,964 people only on the 15th.

At the fest, there is one sector that only serves beer made by the local brewing companies, and the other 2 sectors serve just regular popular beer.
I`m not a big fan of a whole full post of text, so I decided to split into a coupe posts talking about the fest.
In the next few days I`ll write about the food and the beer.