Munich Mayor Christian Ude opened the biggest piss-up of the year when he ordered the tapping of the first beer barrel, the ritual kick-off for the 174th edition of the Oktoberfest.
So does that mean all the denizens of Bahrain will be heading to the Sherlock Holmes for the usual fare of barely-passable beer and even worse women?
Anyway here’s some Oktoberfest trivia for you to mull while you keep checking the clock to see if you can piss-off from work without anyone knowing.
- The first Oktoberfest took place on October 12, 1810
- Since its beginnings the Oktoberfest has thus been canceled 24 times due to war, disease and other emergencies.
- Since 1950, there has been a traditional festival opening: A twelve gun salute and the tapping of the first keg of Oktoberfest beer at noon by the Mayor of Munich with the cry "O'zapft is!" ("It's tapped!" in the Austro-Bavarian dialect) opens the Oktoberfest.
- A pipe bomb was set off in a trash can at the showers at the main entrance on September 26, 1980 at 10.19pm. The bomb consisted of an empty fire extinguisher filled with 1.39 kilograms of TNT and mortar shells. Thirteen people were killed, over 200 were injured, 68 seriously.
- 12,000 people are employed at the Oktoberfest. Of these, 1600 are waitresses
- There is seating available for 100,000 people.
- The six Oktoberfest breweries, (Spaten, Augustiner, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Hofbräu, Löwenbräu) sold 6.1 million mugs of beer in 2006
- Nearly 1,000 tons of garbage result annually from the Oktoberfest.
- In 2007, the price of a Maß will cost between €7.30 and €7.90.
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