Oktoberfest Hit by Soaring Beer Prices
The Oktoberfest: if there’s one thing the beerily-inclined backpacker needed like a dead rat in a stein, it was for it to get more expensive. Which, of course, is unfortunate, because that’s precisely what’s happened!
According to Jaunted.com, the price of your average oversized tankard of beer is to rise by about 5% as a result of higher production costs. Their article on the devastating news from Munich includes the distressing fact that the average cost of a stein of beer will come in at a budget-derailing €8.13.
Not that a little thing like a famously expensive beer festival getting a little more expensive should put off the merry piss artist. As long as you follow a few simple tips for the Oktoberfest, which can be found all over the web, you should be alright.
Alternatively, if it really does stymie plans to go to Munich on September 20 (or for the 16 days - count them! - of dutiful drunken debauchery that ensues thereafter), there’s always the Cannstatter Beer Festival in Stuttgart (Sept 27-Oct 12), where much the same effect can be had for just a little less…
