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Sweet taste of beer: More ways than ever to get hungover during annual Oktoberfest

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Drinking more than 60 types of beer, loud music until way past midnight, a long boat ride beginning early in the morning – what could possibly go wrong?

Oh, and that box of beer-infused chocolates you ate after dinner probably won’t make things any easier.

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Chocolates made with beer from Svalbard Bryggeri are among the many ways to get soused during this week’s Oktoberfest. Photo by Mark Sabbatini / Icepeople.

An inevitable number of hangovers will again accompany the merriment during the world’s northernmost Oktoberfest beginning Thursday. The three-day festival, now in its eighth year, features food and music in a beer tent in the parking lot of the Radisson Polar Blu Hotel, formal dinners featuring different local and regional beer makers in the hotel’s restaurant nightly, daylong cruises to Barentsburg on Friday and Saturday, and midnight concerts daily in Barentz Pub.

The festival begins at 5 p.m. Thursday with a parade through Longyearbyen starting at the beer tent. The official opening ceremony is in the tent at 6 p.m., with music by A Taste Of Karlsen, Spitsbergen Scnapskappelle, the Store Norske Men’s Choir and the Norwegian rock band Return starting at 6:15 p.m.

Svalbard Bryggeri, which has expanded its product line to five varieties during the past year, will be featured during Thursday’s beer maker’s dinner, which includes “a three-course meal with tailored beer developed and adapted to the different brewery production,” according to the festival’s program. Macks Ølbryggeri will be featured Friday night and Ægir Bryggeri  on Saturday. All three will participate in a beer tasting and presentation at 1 p.m. Saturday.

Daypasses are 250 kroner, while three-day passes are avaialble for 700 kroner.

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Mark Sabbatini

I'm a professional transient living on a tiny Norwegian island next door to the North Pole, where once a week (or thereabouts) I pollute our extreme and pristine environment with paper fishwrappers decorated with seemingly random letters that would cause a thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters to die of humiliation. Such is the wisdom one acquires after more than 25 years in the world's second-least-respected occupation, much of it roaming the seven continents in search of jazz, unrecognizable street food and escorts I f****d with by insisting they give me the platonic tours of their cities promised in their ads. But it turns out this tiny group of islands known as Svalbard is my True Love and, generous contributions from you willing, I'll keep littering until they dig my body out when my climate-change-deformed apartment collapses or they exile my penniless ass because I'm not even worthy of washing your dirty dishes.
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