This is the moment a group celebrated Oktoberfest in Germany by having a ‘waiter’ spray a £4,600 Nebuchadnezzar of champagne over stunned guests.
As festival fever sweeps Germany, video showed a man slamming a 15l bottle of Veuve Cliquot into the ground to excite it before pulling out the cork.
Onlookers filmed as the youngster waved the foaming bottle towards the crowd, excess typical of the infamous Bavarian folk festival renowned the world over.
People desperately pull out umbrellas and shelter as they giggle at the extraordinary scene in Kuffler’s wine tent, a hall usually reserved for the wealthy.
Oktoberfest runs from September 21 until October 6 across Munich this year.
The man slams the bottle on the floor several times to excite it as people watch on
Suddenly the cork comes out and foam shoots several feet into the sky
The crowd jumps back as the man blasts champagne around the tent
People immediately reacted to the video to criticise the behaviour of the unruly young group.
Schneiderburlee responded under munchner.gesindel’s post: ‘That’s where the money goes that you pay too much in rent.’
Dustywitch wrote: ‘No matter how rich you are, you can’t buy class.’
Moses_rundr jibed: ‘”And then Justus just bought the 15 l bottle of champagne and sprayed it around. We were all like lol and hid under umbrellas. Justus is always so funny!”‘
Justus refers to a caricature ‘meme’ of a wealthy spoilt child in Germany.
Others saw the funny side. User Michael said: ‘Envy is a bad virtue! If you have a lot, you can let it hang around and have fun – and treat yourself sometimes’
Some suggested the man might be a waiter at the event.
A Nebuchadnezzar of Veuve Cliquot can be bought online for around £2,000. But bars at Oktoberfest events charge higher.
The festival, with history spanning back more than 200 years, has produced some stunning scenes of excess over the years as Munich’s premiere food and drink festival.
Millions of tourists from around the world flock to the region each year to take part in the festivities, playing games, sampling local food and drink, and dressing up in traditional clothes.
Guests wear their best Bavarian threads, with gents often seen in lederhosen, while ladies don ‘dirndls’, a traditional dress that consists of a low necklined bodice, a blouse and a high-waisted skirt.
The advent of mobile camera tech has introduced the world to the Munich style of partying – and since brought watered-down clones to other European cities, including London.
Nearly a decade ago Business Insider wrote on the (then) emerging trend of snorting a legal high known as Wiesn koks – Oktoberfest cocaine – made from glucose and menthol.
A few years ago, a video went viral of a man urinating in one of the larger halls. A man walks through his stream oblivious before a woman slips and falls backwards.
Compilations attracting thousands of views show how easily things can go wrong when dancing on tables – not beyond the limits of acceptability – leads to a bad fall, or somebody lunging to catch a chandelier after a few too many drinks.
A waitress carries beers in the Paulaner tent on the opening day of Oktoberfest, September 21
Visitors cheer and celebrate on the day of the official opening of the 189th Oktoberfest
The world’s largest beer festival Oktoberfest runs from September 21 until October 6
People in traditional Bavarian clothes sit in a beer tent during Oktoberfest, September 22
England’s Harry Kane and Jamal Musiala of Bayern Munich celebrate Oktoberfest on Sep 22
Cheyenne von Thun and Carolin Henseler attend an Oktoberfest event on September 30
The first ever Oktoberfest began as a celebration of the wedding of Prince Regent Ludwig of Bavaria, the later King Ludwig I, and Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen in 1810.
Festivities for the wedding saw Bavarian citizens celebrate with an enormous horse race.
The region’s population liked the race so much that they decided to do another one every year after that, with the festival evolving to include fairground rides and attractions in the years to come.
In 2019, before the pandemic, Oktoberfest was said to have brought north of one billion euros to the Germany economy.
