Was at Munich's Hofbrauhaus in June and it is very impressive watching the beer maids carrying 10 and sometimes 12 of those liter mugs on a regular basis.
Doing some math in my head, that's like 70 pounds of beer and glass he's carrying. That's a lot to keep at that height.
Never even read the last sentence. But considering a gallon of water is ~8lbs (quoting from memory), those are some stupidly heavy mugs.
Given that many of the mugs are not quite full, they definitely can't be 5 pounds each, and I'd be shocked if they were 5 pounds even if they were full. But still, it's an amazing accomplishment!
someone told me once (no idea where they even heard this) that most of the women that work oktoberfest just work the festival, then spend all year traveling and having fun because they make so much money and going to the gym so they are ready to carry all that beer!
To me it's not the amount of weight that's impressive, it's how he managed to support 27 glasses with only ten fingers. Unless there's some kind of support system under that I can't see, it looks like he managed to organize the glasses in a way that he only has to touch a few of them and the rest have their handles pinched in between the other ones.
I can carry 6 if I push it, but 4 is much safer I can't fathom how he managed this with the pinching you mentioned!
You ever held one of those mugs empty? They are pretty freakin' heavy. The glass is really thick on them. I would definitely believe that even the not-so-full ones are at least 5 lbs. Hmm...just found a reason to break out the Hofbrau mug tonight...research and such. Will report back.
Pretty close...filled to about the same amount in the OP's pic and weighed in a bucket with my hanging scale (tared after the bucket of course).
