Official " O zapft is " Octoberfest live cam drinking thread

[GermanDunk]

Cheers

[Underdog]

I have no clue what this is about, but I support it!

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Hell yeah!

O´zapft is (Bavarian slogan of the mayor at the opening)

Oans, zwoa, G´suffa (Bavarian toast)

Oktoberfest (Wiesn) is the biggest folk (beer) festival in the world. It´s in Munich.

Some facts:

- 12.000 people (thereof 1.200 waiters) work at the Oktoberfest
- there are tents with a seating capacity of 100.000
- the area of the Oktoberfest is 40 hectare (1 hectare = 10.000 square metres)
- the biggest tent has a capacity of 10.000 seats
- it needs about 1 month to build the "tents" which are build out of wood and steel...
- the cost of half a roasted chicken is 8.90 Euro
- the cost for a beer (you only get 1 liter = 1 Maas) is 8.20 Euro

Some records of last year:

- 6.2 million visitors in 16 days
- they drank 6.7 million liters beer (= 11 million pints)
- there is one tent called "Ochsenbraterei" where you can eat ox from a skewer (the guests ate 104 oxen there)
- beer consumption at one day: 419,000 liters

Here some photos:

http://www.travelpav.com/flash_pages...oberfest_1.htm
http://www.molon.de/galleries/German...fest/index.php

Here the official site: http://www.oktoberfest.de/

[Underdog]

Now that I have a clue what this is, I can fully endorse it!

[GermanDunk]

Well described, Doc. I was in Munich last year in November and the dudes were still rebuilding the "tents".

A colleague of minr from Houston opened a thread at s2k and i though it was appropriate to have one here either.

One addition.
The nice Munichians open up a seperate vomiting area, called the " hill of puke ", especially for the Wiesenzeit. There you can ... ,ya´ know, and sleep as well until the cops wake you up .
And it´s for free, all covered with the 8,30 € for a beer.

They arrange simply everything.

[craggmac]

HELL YES!

[GermanDunk]

2008 boxscore

Beer consumption declined by 300,000 litres to 6.6 million
The number of visitors fell by 200,000 to 6 million.
--> bad weather

Staff found lost items:

680 identity cards and passports
410 wallets
360 keys
265 glasses
280 mobile phones
80 cameras
one set of diving goggles
one set of angel's wings
a superman costume
four wedding rings
and a dog.

104 oxen were eaten up - stable. 500.000 Hendl - stable.

200,000 empty Mass, that were stolen by visitors as mementoes, could be recovered.

[Evilmav2]

What a great thread !

[GermanDunk]

OK, as a compensation - ancient pics

Graf Zeppelin visiting Wiesn


Yummi pork

[GermanDunk]

All right, it´s time to bump this one up.

[GermanDunk]

Joe Jackson, the father of Michael Jackson +, asked for seats at the Octoberfest in Munich. Wiesenwirt Joseph "Sepp" Krätz told Michaels´s Dad that it would be inappropriate to celebrate Wiesenfest, when his own son has died some weeks ago. And he rejected Jackson´s petition.
I think, Mr. Krätz was right here.