The price is between 12.60 euros and 13.80 euros, as the city announced on Thursday. Compared to the last Oktoberfest in 2019, the price has increased by an average of 15.77 percent. At that time, a beer cost between 10.80 and 11.80 euros. If you drink water, you get away a little cheaper. The liter costs 9.67 euros on average, which is 80 cents more than in 2019. The festival was canceled twice due to Corona.
The city of Munich does not set the drink prices. As the organizer, she checks the prices quoted by the restaurateurs and compares them with prices in the city area. According to the city, the beer there currently costs between 6.70 euros and 11.20 euros per liter export.
“Sound barrier not broken”
The Oktoberfest landlords cite high inflation, increased personnel costs and massively increased energy prices as reasons for the price jump. A very large item are also material and craftsman costs in the area of tent construction, said spokesman Peter Inselkammer of the dpa.
“It’s good that the sound limit of 14 euros has not been broken,” said director Clemens Baumgärtner (CSU). “Nevertheless, the beer prices are pretty high. In the future, we’ll have to make sure that the Oktoberfest remains affordable.”
According to the mayor of the city, the Munich Oktoberfest will only take place this year without any restrictions to protect against the corona virus – or not at all. After all, access restrictions “can’t be pulled out of a hat four weeks in advance,” said Dieter Reiter (SPD) on Wednesday evening. In the short term, neither the necessary security personnel nor the technology to check digital vaccination certificates would be available.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), on the other hand, considers such statements difficult in view of the possible development of new variants of the corona virus. The Oktoberfest is scheduled to begin on September 17th.
Source: Nachrichten
