Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood director Hannu Salonen

A podcast for lovers of wine, beer, liquor (incl. whisky, whiskey, bourbon, gin, vodka, tequila etc) and cocktails, Drinks Adventures hosts wine makers, brewing and distilling experts, sommeliers, bartenders & more.Out now on Netflix, the TV series Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood is the closest you can get to the Oktoberfest in 2020.Six million visitors were expected to descend upon on Munich this year for the festival, originally scheduled to run between September 19 and October 4.You may also like:Wine episodes on Drinks AdventuresBut the coronavirus pandemic has meant this is the first year since World War 2 that Oktoberfest – the world's biggest beer festival – has not gone ahead.Oktoberfest: Beer & Blood was a smash hit in Germany, where it was created, and it is now being shown globally by Netflix.The lead character in the series is Curt Prank, whose story is loosely based on the life of a man named Georg Lang, who had an important role in shaping the Oktoberfest as we know it today.Finland-born Hannu Salonen is the director of the series, and he joins us in this opening episode of Season 7 of the Drinks Adventures podcast.I started this episode by asking Hannu how the series was conceived.