Oktoberfest party goers glug 6.9 million litres of beer

Times Live ^ | 10-8-2012 | Sapa-dpa

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Organizers said 6,9 million litres of beer were consumed at the 179th Oktoberfest, as the biggest folk festival in the world came to end in Munich on Sunday.

The annual German beer festival that opened on September 22 drew 6,4 million visitors from around the world, down from the record 6,9 million who drank 7,5 million litres of beer in 2011.

The local Red Cross reported that more than 800 people drank themselves into state of unconsciousness over the course of the festival.

A police spokesman the department responded to 2000 and had been strained to its “limit and beyond” as a result. Much of the crime, however, was confined to pickpocketing.

Some 116 oxen and 57 calves were eaten this year, with the beer to wash all those meals down costing up to 9,50 euros (12,40 dollars) per litre.

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...resulting in the world's longest restroom line.

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Was Heino's brother Steino there?

[Olog-hai]

JFTR:

• 6.9 million liters = 1.82 million gallons
• 7.5 million liters = 1.98 million gallons

Lotta suds either way.

[Hugin]

Must have needed an awful lot of porta-potties.

[a fool in paradise]

800 people passed out out of over 6 million. That’s a better track record than Woodstock by far.

[Olog-hai]

And it’s okay to drink the brown beer.

[JoeProBono]

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I dunno, but the Fuchsbergers were there!

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In Mother Russia every day is Oktoberfest!

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[doorgunner69]

"the beer to wash all those meals down costing up to 9,50 euros (12,40 dollars) per litre"

Man, I love German beer, but that is a stiff price for the equivalent of two large glasses of beer.

[CrazyIvan]

Mmmmmmmm..... Spaten!

[RitchieAprile]

I was amazed at what they charge for beer in Deutschland.

A .5l bottle of Gaffel Koelsch set me back 5.80 eu back in August, and that was down the street from its birthplace..

[a fool in paradise]

She never ages.

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She never ages.

Yep! Here she is last week.

[Tuanedge]

Aber die bier ist sehr gut, ja? Es ist ehr rechts.

[Erasmus]

Heino...the German Eduard Khil (the ‘trololo’ man).

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Pictures from the celebration.