Barrel tapping
A barrel tapping is opening the barrel with one stitch . This process is also called piercing or attaching a barrel . The drink from the barrel that has just opened is called a fresh tap .
process
Tapping a tap into a wooden barrel usually filled with beer with the help of a mallet enables the drink to be dispensed. A barrel tapping is basically necessary for barrels without a built-in tap in order to access the contents. The fine art of tapping the keg is to carry out this action in such a way that little beer splashes and the tap is driven into the keg with as few blows as possible.
With modern barrels made of plastic or aluminum, since it is difficult to hit a tap, there is always a tap.
Cultural meaning
A barrel tapping is a common ceremony to open a folk festival . Here a high official of the city (usually the mayor ) hits the tap in the barrel. Since this usually only does this at the opening of the folk festival, it is even reported on the television news at very large folk festivals such as the Munich Oktoberfest and the Cannstatter Wasen .
The first official barrel tapping at the Oktoberfest took place in 1950 and the mayor at the time, Thomas Wimmer, required 17 or 19 strokes, but there is no clear indication. Then there is a loud shout: “ O'zapft is! "(" It is tapped! ").
Individual evidence
- ^ Knaur, the German dictionary, lexicographic institute Munich, 1985, pages 137 and 360
- ↑ O zapft is: A ritual begins with 17 strokes
- ↑ Curious Oktoberfest facts - 19 strokes
- ↑ Lone Holm, Jenny Gibson: We are us . Verlag Gyldendal Uddannelse, Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 87-02-06901-6 , p. 187 (Danish, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed April 16, 2020]).