Meter beer

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Advertising for meter beer in a restaurant in Rostock (here as a beer glass carrier with 13 beer mugs á 0.25 l)

Beer meters (also meter beer and sometimes even beer meters ) is in various restaurants, especially in the Rhineland common, delivery form of beer . The specialty is that the beer is poured into glasses (usually 0.2  l ), which are then served on a "1 meter long" wooden stand. Depending on the design of the wooden stand, which is offered in stores as a beer glass carrier , beer carrier or meter board , up to 15 glasses fit on it.

Distribution and variants

In parts of the Eifel , when you order “one meter of beer”, you get eleven beers (served on a wooden stand) for the price of ten. This is particularly common when ordering for a group at a folk festival. Similar offers are not only common in the rest of Rhineland-Palatinate and Berlin , but can also be found in other regions of Germany and abroad.

In the meantime, the amount of one meter has also been transferred to other drinks (“one meter Bacardi-Cola”, “one meter mix ”) - but these are usually served on a tray and not on the meter board. As a (not necessarily serious) increase, the square meter is offered at some festivals . Especially thirsty groups and clubs could buy 121 drinks for the price of 100.

Related forms of delivery of beer

In some pubs , brewery cellars and festival tents etc. the “meter beer” is also served in a one meter high Plexiglas tube - with a capacity of around 4 to 5 liters - as well as an integrated lower part with tap and stand or base. Such portable self-tapping devices are generally referred to as a beer tower (also beer column or beverage column ). They can be found in many countries around the world - often with lower heights and sometimes different container designs as well as smaller capacities of 2.5, 3.5 or 4 liters - especially in adventure restaurants and sports bars, etc.

Some breweries, regional advertising associations, etc. and gift providers offer various wooden beer carriers filled with beer bottles as (promotional) gifts, "souvenirs" or souvenirs - mostly as a selection of different types of beer from one or more breweries and sometimes also from different countries. Such marketing or gift items are also often sold under the name “one meter of beer” or “half a meter of beer” and contain around 12 to 16 or 6 to 8 bottles of beer.

In the British Isles and other countries around the world, so-called Beer Flights or Flights of Beer are offered in some pubs and brewery restaurants , which is a selection of small portions of different types of beer. Depending on the bar range, four to eight different types of beer are served in small glasses of 3 to 5  fl.oz. served on a small wooden board, the so-called beer flight paddle . As a popular way to test different types of beer, beer flights can also be found in the vicinity of craft beer and microbreweries .

  • Beer tower ("emptied"), here in a sports bar in the USA

  • Beer carrier "1 meter beer", each with approx. 14 bottles of beer (here as a gift item)

  • Beer Flight, with four different types of beer (here to be tasted in a local)

Web links

Commons : Meterbier  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Beer flights  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Meterbier  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank P. Freudenberg: beer metropolis of Berlin. Beer history, breweries and pubs in the capital . Carl, Nürnberg 1996, ISBN 3-418-00378-8 , pp. 151, 171 .
  2. ↑ See e.g. B .: (wic): Meter of beer from the mayor. In: ksta.de . November 1, 2003, accessed January 19, 2019 . (SML): Löffingen: Summer festival of the town music of Löffingen with "meter beer" instead of a beer tap. In: suedkurier.de . August 6, 2017. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  3. ↑ See e.g. E.g .: One meter of beer - picture from "The 3 Brewers", Toronto. In: tripadvisor.de . May 2014, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  4. ↑ See e.g. For example: 1 meter of Bacardi-Cola ... For little money - picture from “Zeitgeist”, Paderborn. In: tripadvisor.de . October 2015, accessed January 19, 2019 .
  5. ↑ See e.g. E.g .: Beer column and beer tower: For beer, mixing and a great atmosphere. In: getraenkekuehlänke-portal.de. Retrieved January 19, 2019 .
  6. ↑ See e.g. B .: Chantal Stäubli: It doesn't always have to be chocolate: 13 presents for people you don't know very well >>  (11) 1/2 meter of beer. In: watson.ch . December 18, 2017, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Reinhard Tiburzy: Belgium (=  DuMont Travel Guide ). 5th edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7701-7514-7 , p. 26 ( travel information - culinary shopping tips in the Google book search).
  8. ↑ The Beer Community: What is a Flight of Beer? - A Simple Guide To Beer Flights. In: justbeerapp.com. May 19, 2017, accessed January 20, 2019 .