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# Brews You Can Use III
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2372/
- Published: 2005-09-16T12:50:01.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-16T12:50:01.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

Oktoberfest starts this weekend. *Real Beer* has a page dedicated to the celebration. [Link](http://www.realbeer.com/edu/oktoberfest.php?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> **By the numbers**  
> The official festival area covers 104 acres and has seating for 94,000 in the festival halls.

> The festival grounds has about 1,440 toilets.

> About 900 tons of waste will be generated during Oktoberfest.

> The 2004 festival drew 6.3 million visitors. They consumed 6.3 million liters of beer and 200,000 liters of non-alcoholic beer.

> Food consumption included 91 oxen, 56,036 pork knuckles, 487,487 chickens and 190,635 pairs of pork sausage.

> In contrast, 1950 more than 1.5 million liters of beer was drunk and nearly 650,000 pairs of sausage eaten. 1970, the numbers had grown to nearly 4 million liters of beer and 800,000 pairs of sausage. While total (if not per capita) beer consumption has continued to rise, sausage sales have fallen dramatically.

*Postcard from 1938 Oktoberfest:*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/oktoberfestb.jpg)