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Oktoberfest: There was not enough beer in every third beer mug
A pint of beer stands on a table in the Hofbräuzelt. photo
© Felix Hörhager/dpa
A pint of beer equals a liter of beer? That’s actually true, but at this year’s Oktoberfest an authority checked whether the beer was poured properly. The conclusion: Unterschank.
Apparently, visitors to the Oktoberfest were particularly often not served enough beer in the beer mug this year. In random samples by the responsible authority, the Munich district administration department (KVR), a so-called Unterschank was found in a good 31 percent, the KVR announced on Thursday. First, the local newspaper “tz” reported on the result.
Unterschank is therefore present when the jug is filled to less than 15 millimeters below the calibration mark, which indicates the amount of one liter. This was the case for only 18 percent of the rehearsals at the previous Oktoberfest in 2019 and 14 percent in 2018. For this year’s controls, the KVR evaluated 825 beers.
Even the samples within the tolerance range were by no means always completely filled up to the calibration mark: the testers were only served the full liter in a good 14 percent of the samples. The landlord of the Armbrustschützenzelt, Peter Inselkammer, explained the mistake to the “tz” with the fact that in many cases inexperienced staff had poured the beer.