Are German Oktoberfest Beer Prices Too High? Ask the Protestors
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A group in Germany is launching a campaign to limit beer pricing at the Oktoberfest celebration. Should be interesting to see if the keg & bottle shortage will affect this as well. Details from Spiegel:
A German association that fights against deceptive pouring practices is unhappy about the price of beer at Oktoberfest, the annual 16-day festival held in Munich. Now it plans to petition to have a referendum held on the maximum price of beer — served in traditional liter-sized (34-liquid-ounce) mugs or glasses known as a Mass — at the festival.
"We’re aiming for a maximum price limit of €7.10 ($9) per liter for all beverages," says Jans-Ulrich Bittlinger, the association’s president. The petition also calls for setting a limit on how much the price can be increased each year: 15 cents on the first day of September each year.
The association intends to launch its campaign on September 22, the same day this year’s Oktoberfest will kick off. The goal is to collect between 30,000 and 40,000 signatures, or enough to trigger an official referendum on the issue, and thereby put pressure on politicians before Munich’s mayor elections in 2014. "For the City of Munich, it is entirely possible to set this kind of upper limit," says Bittlinger, whose association represents 4,000 members.
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