Beermakers

MUNICH—Oktoberfest, the world’s biggest beer festival, kicks off Saturday after a Covid-induced two-year lull, but German brewers now facing one of their biggest crises in memory fear the party will give way to a painful hangover. The country’s roughly 1,500 breweries are feeling the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, its energy war on Europe and the lingering effects of the pandemic. Contracts that kept the cost of ingredients and energy low are starting to expire, forcing companies into the open…