Autumn is Festival Season: ContiTech Keeps Your Party Mood Unclouded

And the festivities are not limited to Germany, either. Every year in October, over 700,000 people celebrate a beer festival in the best Bavarian tradition in the southern Brazilian city Blumenau. Also in October, the Canadian conurbation Kitchener-Waterloo holds an annual nine-day beer festival, loosely modeled on Munich’s Oktoberfest, which also draws around 700,000 visitors. And the Oktoberfest in Cincinnati, Ohio, is the most popular rendition of the event in the US, with over 500,000 visitors annually. The biggest Oktoberfest outside of Bavaria, with up to three million visitors, is held in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao; by contrast, the title of possibly the smallest Oktoberfest in the world can be claimed by the 68-inhabitant village Jundah in the Australian state of Queensland. But the beer festival with a Bavarian flair has also found a place in the national festival calendars of Switzerland, Namibia, Russia, Argentina and Japan – the Oktoberfest has long since established itself as a global phenomenon.

Whether the celebrations are being held on Munich’s Isar river or elsewhere, an Oktoberfest without beer is unthinkable. At Munich’s Oktoberfest, the largest festival in the world, some seven million beer steins cross the counters of the 16 festival tents. And the beer and beverage hoses from ContiTech, one of the world’s largest producers of technical hoses, help ensure that every mug of beer is guaranteed to contain fresh and flavorful beer. “As hygienic and flavor-neutral transport lines, the Purple Snake and the Blaudieck LGDU are used in many breweries worldwide – whether as the connection between vats and kettles, in filling facilities or in beer tankers,” explains Stephan Renz, ContiTech sales agent and technical consultant for industrial hoses in southern Germany and Switzerland. “The robust and durable hoses meet all the national and international hygiene standards.”