debeer1-7, Exercise 2: Becoming a beer festival

Model answer:

Any two of: beer stalls grew from small stands into larger booths and then, in the later nineteenth century, into big tents for individual Munich breweries; lighting (gas, then electric around 1880) let the festival run into the evening; the horse race and the agricultural show lost ground to the fair and the drinking; a costume parade added a showpiece. The festival starts in September because it was moved earlier (often dated to 1872) when the weather in Munich is warmer and the evenings longer than in October.