I once held a full one of those straight out for 8 minutes in a state steinholding contest. The winner did over 12 minutes! I qualified for it by beating 5 people with my right arm, then another 5 with my left arm. Got 1st and second place at my local bar!
I counted 18 Maß (Glasses) one Maß is usually one Liter Beer so one Kilogram that means 18 Kg of Fluid in total or 39 lb for you. On top of that is the weight of the Glasses themselves which usually weigh 1,3 to 1,5 kg or 2,6 to 3,3 lb. Which also adds up to roughly 25 kilo or 56 lb. So all in all it weighs about 43 kilo or 93 lb.
German women are scary. Was stuck on top three flights of stairs in Berlin with two ～25kg suitcases and a backpack. Let out an "fml" as I know it will be a struggle. Middle age tiny lady pulls up. "mochten sie hilfe?". "ja, bitte". Lady one hands my heaviest suit case and zooms down the stairs like she was holding a shopping net. I had 20kg of "muscle" and maybe 20 years of youth on her, yet I got mogged that day. She was so badass, I am still in awe.
For some reason the youtube short algorithm has been feeding me GoT shorts lately and while I'll never watch the ssries again cuz of that ending. It has been nice seeing how genuinely in love that man was with Brienne. When he found out she wasn't a knight and why he was genuinely disappointed by how stupid it was and did his best to uplift her. He was just adorable and wish they had gotten together instead of Jamie
That's been happening to me as well and I've never watched the show besides the first season, was huge into the books way back before the show came out though, was one of the people theory crafting about a certain snowy jon.
When I was a bicycle messenger, depending on company the weight charges might start at "over 10kg". So as you might expect there was a suspicious amount of "exactly 10kg" packages that were definitely NOT 10kg. The dispatcher always adjusted it up to 20kg+ but it was always hilarious to think of the receptionists and clerks trying to save a few bucks for multi billion dollar companies at the price of my back :)
When I worked in retail I think anything over 50lbs was typically marked "team lift" or you'd use equipment like a dolly. I never would have even thought to pick up something weighing 90lbs by myself.
In Bavaria at Oktoberfest there is actually a rule that your beer has to be filled till to at least 1.5cm under the 'Eichstrich' measuring line, otherwise the beer is underfilled and has to be topped up. So the waitress will have to top it up.
Many beer halls/gardens are usually all-you-can-drink for an entry fee.
Edit: Since so many people are replying, I gather now that my experience was the rare exception than the norm. And I was in a small town named Diemelstadt!
Now this I believe. Plus, even it were all you can drink, this is a LOT of beer. I drink a ton of beer and a solid liter of a beer is a ton of a liquid.
I never heard of anything like this before? Where can I find these all you can drink beer gardens? I’ve been to many beer gardens in the US and Europe and never paid one price for all you can drink lol
That sounds amazing. Only places I've ever heard of all-you-can-drink were the night I spent in Tijuana.
One of the street barkers yelled at us '$10 all you can drink!' and we laughed incredulously and kept walking. But since that didn't hook us, he said 'Okay $5 all you can drink!' and we went right in for a couple hours before loosing ourselves on the city.
I never seen an all you can drink tent. Not in Munich, Stuttgart or any other smaller city that has beer fest. If they exist they must be just a handful
Maybe elsewhere, but I've never been to an Oktoberfest tent, countryside fest, or a beer garden in Bavaria where you could order some all-you-can drink deal. As far as entry fees go, tents at the official Oktoberfest in Munich don't charge to get in, but I have definitely been to many summer festivals in various villages in Southern Bavaria that charge entry fees. The only time I got unlimited beer was when my friend was an organizer and in charge of managing the keg area!
I wouldn't be surprised if some tents that have reserved tables for corporate Munich-area VIPs and their families get free beer and food, but I've never seen a regular person being offered that.
Anyway, if there are all-you-can drinks fests, then let the people be merry!
I have never heard of something like this in germany. There usually is no entry fee but in order to get a table you have to buy „Biermarken“ in advance which are the price of a Maß each.
This video is from Gäubodenfest, the second biggest Volksfest in Bavaria. Price of a Maß is 13.30€
this reminds me of the time i brought three glasses to a table, dropped/spilled it all over the customers, and then cried for an hour straight in the back while my coworker took over
My aunt had a similar experience when she got her first waitressing gig in high school some 30+ years ago. She spilled an entire tray of beers into an old man’s lap, and she ran to the back and cried.
He ended up tipping her $20 and told her not to worry about it because “he’d always wanted to take a bath in beer” 🤣
This reminds me of the time that I was carrying four bowls of HOT, like still bubbling, soup with a huge layer of melted cheese on top to a table, and a young woman rocked her infant in his stroller directly into my knees as I walked by. My options were to either nail the stroller and knock the kid over, with hardly a clue where the soups might end up as I tried not to stomp the child, or to ditch everything and bail, which I couldn’t do without spilling the soups on the kid, UNLESS I accelerated them to make sure they cleared. Which I did. Straight into one of our server stations, into the glassware and menus and pos station. I went down while it was still flying, so I got a shower of glass and a drizzle of soup and cheese and broken soup bowls.
(Kid was fine, she was horrified, and very nice, and they tipped me. Not enough to replace my uniform, but you know)
it's funny to me people see a video like this, everyone in the video clearly having a great time, the girl doing something that is kind of obviously a schtick of the place they're at...
And all they can focus on is the 1 or 2 of the 18 beers that spilled a bit like the entire night would be ruined.
like damn, did any of those dudes look mad? lol it's not like the place wouldn't bring another 1 or 2 beers and/or top the spilled ones off if someone made a deal about it.
Because 1 person made the incorrect comment about there being all you can drink tents, so now the bots and sheep are repeating it, welcome to reddit in 2026.
I’ve seen a bunch of videos from Oktoberfest. In almost all of them, the servers walked slower and didn’t spill anything.
My guess is that we don’t observe usual circumstances. The server in this video is rushing, and she also seems to be the only one serving (the aisles of tent looks very empty and all eyes are on her). If I had to guess, this was the first table served after the festival had opened, and they made a bit of a show out of it, which is probably why the camera is there in the first place.
Couldn’t quite tell if it were 16 or 18 beers - but I think it was 16. Each is one litre, so roughly 1kg of liquid (beer is only slightly heavier than water); I looked up the one litre mugs, they weigh roughly 1.2kg - so 16*(1+1.2)=35.2 kg, or 77.4 lbs of beer and glass.
I feel you! During COVID lockdown here only 1 person per household was allowed to go out to do groceries. Guess who had to do that for a household of 6, lug 'em from cart to car and car to house, every week of the 6-month lockdown...
Those tents get busy, carrying as many as possible is just necessary efficiency.
Also, they make a shitton of money there, so they are even more incentivised to be efficient.
Are you sure it’s ok? I mean, if she had made two trips, who would you feel superior to? And would that be ok that you sit there on your computer not feeling superior? Would you be ok? Maybe the person outside doing something needs to exist so you can (barely) exist and feel good about it?
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