Oktoberfest Continues to Welcome Visitors
September 27, 2008 by Kelly Phillips Erb
Filed under Drinks
It’s day 7 of the official Oktoberfest in Munich, the world’s largest beer party!
At Oktoberfest, the beer is supplied by breweries known as the Big Six: Spaten, Löwenbräu, Augustiner, Hofbräu, Paulaner and Hacker-Pschorr. Each brewery has its own tent, holding thousands of festival-goers. The price of beer varies from tent to tent, but ranges between 7.80 and 8.30 Euros per liter – or about $12 US.
Estimates are that 6.2 million visitors will consume a mind-boggling 6,940,600 litres of beer. Do the math. That’s about $84 million US on beer alone – no wonder the German government seems to love Oktoberfest!
More amazing images after the jump.
The Augustiner beer tent:
The Paulaner Braeu Winzerer Faehnd’l beer tent:
The traditional rifleman’s parade:
And some folks who might just have had a bit too much fun:
