International Berlin Beer Festival
The International Berlin Beer Festival (colloquially Biermeile ) was a street festival that took place annually in Berlin-Friedrichshain from 1996 to 2019 .
On the first weekend in August (Friday to Sunday) on Karl-Marx-Allee between Strausberger Platz and Frankfurter Tor, breweries from all over the world presented themselves in a "beer fair for everyone". With a length of 2.2 kilometers it was - according to its own advertising - the largest beer garden in the world. The Berliner Biermeile e. V. was the sponsor and organizer of the event.
The beer mile was divided into 22 beer regions. After Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg , the motto of the 2005 beer mile was “Beers from the Free State of Thuringia ”. In 2008 it advertised “1000 years of traditional Czech beer culture”. A cultural program was offered on several stages on various stages along Karl-Marx-Allee north side.
Originally this beer festival was supposed to take place on Alexanderplatz , but the district office in Mitte declined. In 1997, 112 breweries from 44 countries were represented with 500 beer specialties. 200,000 visitors were counted at that time. Later, the 2004 International Berlin Beer Festival reached 240 breweries from 80 countries with 1,750 different beer specialties and 600,000 visitors and was a major tourist attraction. In 2008, according to the company, almost 800,000 people came to the beer mile. In 2011 the world record beer garden was 1,820 meters long and with around 10,000 participants at the tables, it was the longest beer garden in the world and was entered in the Guinness Book of Records . In 2012, 800,000 visitors came.
As every year, in 2013 new beers were presented on the 17th Beer Mile, with 800,000 visitors again. Over 2000 types of beer from 86 countries were offered on the 2200 m festival mile and a music program with free admission took place on 20 stages. The event was peaceful and with the "ProBier-Krug" with a size of 0.2 liters the variety of the varieties could be tried. The visitors came from all over the world.
On February 2, 2020, the organizer announced its decision to "no longer hold the International Berlin Beer Festival in the future". The general conditions with regard to the financial expenditures have been increased or tightened from year to year, so that the association has reached its financial limits.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Association members
- ↑ Anniversary beer mile with a world record in 2011
- ↑ That was the 16th beer mile
- ↑ News and innovations Biermeilen ABC 2013 ( Memento from August 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Biermeile 2013 in Berlin: International Beer Festival on Karl-Marx-Allee ( Memento from August 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost: Berlin Beer Festival 2013 - program, date & tips . July 11, 2013 Beer Mile Berlin
- ↑ The Berlin beer mile is a thing of the past. The International Berlin Beer Festival with the longest beer garden in the world is no longer taking place (PDF; 133 kB). PRÄSENTA GmbH press release, February 2020, accessed on February 2, 2020.