Germany’s famous beer-soaked celebration, Oktoberfest, is just a month away.

The festivities will kick off Sept. 21 in Munich, where preparations are already underway.

Last year, Oktoberfest drew 6.4 million revelers to Munich — approximately 14.6 million pints of beer were consumed.

Check out the photos below to see Oktoberfest in its earliest stages:

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• Polish girls, dressed with traditional Polish costume enjoy drinking beer after participating in the opening parade.

• A woman from Lower Bavaria, dressed in traditional ceremonial Bavarian costume.

• This year’s edition of the world’s biggest beer festival Oktoberfest will run until October 7.

• Waitresses of the Spaten brewery wave with beer mugs.

• Riflemen parade at the Theresienwiese Oktoberfest fair grounds in Munich.

• Policemen wait for the opening parade during the first day of Oktoberfest.

• A traditionally Bavarian dressed man and his dogs wait for the opening parade.

• Horses carrying a beer coach participate in the opening parade.

• Visitors wearing traditional Bavarian clothes take part in the costumes and riflemen parade.

• Young musician’s wearing traditional Bavarian clothes.

• Members of a brass band wearing traditional Bavarian clothes participate in the riflemen’s parade.

• Participants of the opening parade, dressed with traditional Bavarian costume are seen at Schottenhamel beer tent during day two of Oktoberfest.

• A woman, dressed in a Northern German costume.