For my first post on the OktoberfestHaus.com blog, I’d like to give you, the readers, some statistics from Oktoberfest 2007, courtesy of muenchen.de:

• Area: 0.42 km² (103.78 acres)
• Seats in the festival halls: approx. 100,000
• Visitors: 6.2 million
• Beer: appr. 6,940,600 litres(126,900 litres non-alcoholic)
• Wine: 79,624 liters
• Sparkling wine: 32,047 litres
• Coffee, tea: 222,725 litres
• Water, lemonade: 909,765 ½ litres
• Chicken: 521,872 units
• Pork sausages: 142,253 pairs
• Fish: 38,650 kg
• Pork knuckles: 58,446 units
• Oxen: 104 units,
• Expenditure of electricity: 2.8 million kWh (as much as 14% of Munich’s daily need or as much as a four person family will need in 560 years)
• Expenditure of gas: about 205,000 m³
• Expenditure of water: about 90,000 m³ (as much as 27% of Munich’s daily need )
• Waste: 678 t (2004)
• Toilets: about 980 seated, more than 878 meters of urinals and 17 for disabled persons
• Telephones: 83, also for international credit cards
• Lost property: about 4000 items, among them 260 pairs of glasses, 200 mobile phones, wedding rings, and even crutches.

Did I read that right? Almost 7 million liters of beer?!  And this was in 2007; the festival has only continued to grow.  For 2010, the 200th year of the festival, I wouldn’t be surprised to see double that amount of beer consumed.  That means a lot of steins, boots, and glasses will need to be used handle such a large demand.  While you could wait until arriving at the festival to purchase your weapon of choice, why not arrive fully prepared.  Our Oktoberfest Hofbrauhaus 1 Liter Glass Stein is the perfect accessory for any Oktoberfest party, whether in Germany or elsewhere.  For the serious beer drinker consider the 2 Liter “Das Boot”.  Or for the more timid drinker we have a set of four melamine “plastic” reusable 16oz party cups.  Or better yet, just order them all!  To really get in the Oktoberfest spirit, you can also preorder your official Oktoberfest 2010 ceramic stein.

If none of those items get you in the beer drinking mood, then make sure to head to OktoberfestHaus.com or BierBootHaus.com for hundreds of other options to fill any Oktoberfest need!

Prost!
Bradley