Deer (beer barrel)

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Beer barrels from the Augustiner brewery at Oktoberfest 2011

A traditional wooden beer barrel with a capacity of 200 liters is called a stag or stag . The term is mainly used in and around Munich . A barrel in general is called Banzen in Bavaria.

Origin of name

There are various theories about the origin of the name deer . A declaration states that Ludwig I , King of Bavaria from 1825 to 1848, was the author of the barrel designation. After courtly hunts, Ludwig is said to have always returned to the Munich Hirschgarten , where he served the hunting party with the largest barrel of beer that could be transported to the beer garden. This held 200 liters, and that's how the name deer came about .

Another theory relates the origin of the name to hunting in general. According to this, Bavarian breweries often worked very closely with rifle and hunting clubs in the past, and the keg name deer stems from the fact that a full 200-liter beer keg weighing around 300 kilograms weighs about as much as a fully grown deer .

Modern use

Up into the 21st century, deer (s) can mainly be found at public festivals such as the Oktoberfest in Munich. Often, however, they are only used as optical elements, the beer is mostly stored in stainless steel containers, not visible to the guests, and only fed through the wooden barrel to the tap. Beer made from real deer is served at Oktoberfest in the marquee of the Augustiner brewery and in the Fischer-Vroni tent (also Augustiner). In the country, deer are still used at the Altöttinger Dult and at the Hague Autumn Festival. Even at historically oriented events, such as the so-called Oiden Wiesn , deer are still used as actual 200-liter beer kegs.

Others

Even smaller beer barrels with a capacity between 10 and 50 liters were historically given animal names, so there were barrel names such as Haserl , Füchslein or Reherl . These names are also said to have their origins in hunting, but in contrast to deer , they have almost disappeared from linguistic usage and are only very rarely found in Bavaria .

At the tapping of the barrel by the Mayor of Munich at the Oktoberfest, during which the traditional exclamation “ O'zapft is! “The folk festival is officially opened, a stag is used.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Festbier from the "Hirschen". In: Münchner Wochenanzeiger. September 13, 2010, accessed September 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Latin language relics in the Bavarian dialect: Bierbanzen, Banzen. www.boari.de, accessed on April 6, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Tobias Köpplinger: Deer for the Oktoberfest. infranken.de, September 16, 2011, accessed on September 22, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b Christian Schäder: Munich brewing industry 1871-1945 . The economic and historical development of a branch of industry. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-8288-8009-2 , p. 171 ( Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Oktoberfest beer: prices, brands, taste. muenchen.de, 2015, accessed on September 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ A little beer keg lore. n24.de, September 15, 2011, accessed on September 22, 2015 .
  7. ↑ A little beer keg lore - Haserl, Reherl and Hirsch. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. September 19, 2009, accessed September 22, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Deer, roe deer, rabbit: every beer barrel has animal names. A little beer keg lore: Haserl and deer. In: Oktoberfest live. tz, accessed on September 22, 2015 .