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» Beverage Industry News » Record Attendance at ‘Worlds Biggest Part’

Record Attendance at ‘Worlds Biggest Part’

Beverage Industry News» Beverage Industry Newsposted Oct 7th, 2005 12:00:00AM by Pat Hagerman

Six million visitors attended Munich’s 172nd annual Oktoberfest, setting a new record for attendance, although beer consumption was down somewhat from recent years.

Record prices of more than 8 dollars per one-liter stein of beer may have contributed to making this year’s partiers more abstemious. Fewer than 6 million liters were consumed, compared to the average of one liter per visitor in past years.

The festival was kicked off September 18th with the traditional ceremonial tapping of the first barrel of beer in the Schottenhammel tent by the Mayor of Munich, Christian Ude. With three hits, the beer began to flow and the mayor was able to cry the time-honored words “Ozapft is!” (“It is tapped!”).

Twelve shots rang out to indicate to the other beer tents that beer may be served, while Bavarian state premier Edmund Stoiber quaffed the first liter.

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Pat Hagerman

Posted by Pat Hagerman

Pat Hagerman is co-founder of ProBrewer.com. When he's not leading operations for ProBrewer you can find Pat working on Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure and systems. If you're having a beer with him ask about some of the more original skills he's taught Alexa.

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