Association against fraudulent pouring

The association against fraudulent pouring e. V. (VGBE) in Munich has set itself the task of checking the filling quantity in pubs and other public facilities where beer is sold by voluntary inspectors. Especially with clay beer mugs , the Keferlohern , the filling level was difficult to see for the guest, which was sometimes taken advantage of by innkeepers .

history

The association was first founded in 1899 under the name Association for Combating Fraudulent Pouring e. V. Headquarters in Munich was founded, but it was banned during the National Socialist era . In 1970 Rudi Scheibengraber and Sigi Eder re-founded the association.

The association currently has almost 4,000 members, including the former Mayor of Munich Christian Ude and the former Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber . Jan-Ulrich Bittlinger has been president of the association since 2007. In July 2018 he handed over the chairmanship to President Nina Urban and Vice President Sebastian Reichel. In 2018, Bittlinger was appointed honorary president for his services in uncovering organized dispensing fraud at the Oktoberfest in 2003. At that time, the VGBE was able to prove to the festival hosts that they bypassed the official tapping controls of the state capital Munich with a warning system from bar to bar. The city of Munich reacted to the revelations with a drastic tightening of the tolerance limit, the introduction of unannounced controls and warnings for bar waiters.

In addition to the inns, the beer gardens and the major Munich beer festivals, the club's controls focus on the Starkbierfest at Nockherberg and the Oktoberfest . The association is active beyond the city limits of Munich and carries out controls on the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart and in the Cologne carnival.

At the Oktoberfest 2007, the VGBE provided a broad discussion with the announcement of a Wiesn citizens' initiative for more tradition and comfort at the world's largest folk festival. Central demands are two additional marquee tents, a general reservation ban in the central aisles of the marquee tents and the setting of an upper price limit of six euros per liter of beer. This is intended to preserve the character of the Oktoberfest as a folk festival and to position it against the celebrity Wiesn. At the beginning of September 2012, the VGBE launched a “referendum for fair beer and drink prices at the Oktoberfest”. In it the association asks: “Vote for a maximum price limit for beer, wheat beer and non-alcoholic beverages of 7.10 euros per liter to be introduced at the Oktoberfest. increased by 15 cents a year? "

Measurement

The prescribed procedure for the controls is to give the beer foam one minute to sit down, then the liquid level of the beer is measured.

Web links

VGBE - Association against Fraudulent Pouring eV Accessed on September 20, 2018 .