Beer

Many tourists are initially speechless when the waiter/waitress puts the first beer down on the table because probably nowhere else in the world do they have beer glasses as large as they are in Munich. This jug holds one litre of beer (0.26 gallons). A one-litre jug of beer will cost between 8.30 and 8.90 euros at the Oktoberfest 2010. That is relatively expensive, because you can get a litre of beer in Munich pubs for about 6 euros.

The high price does not stop the visitors from consuming a lot, though: every year at the Oktoberfest they drink roughly 6 million litres of beer. The beer at the Oktoberfest is quite strong. It is brewed specifically for the Oktoberfest and has a higher alcohol content (about 6 per cent) than traditional pale beer (about 5 per cent).