This is the moment a group celebrated Oktoberfest in Germany by having a “waiter” spray a £4,600 bottle of Nebuchadnezzar champagne over stunned guests.
As festival fever sweeps Germany, a video showed a man banging a 15-litre bottle of Veuve Cliquot on the ground to excite it before popping the cork.
Spectators filmed the young man waving the sparkling bottle at the crowd, an excess typical of the infamous Bavarian folk festival, famous around the world.
People desperately pull out umbrellas and shelter as they laugh at the extraordinary scene in Kuffler’s wine shop, a hall usually reserved for the rich.
Oktoberfest will be held this year from September 21 to October 6 in Munich.
The man hits the bottle on the ground several times to excite it while people watch.
Suddenly the cork comes out and the foam shoots several meters into the sky.
The crowd jumps back as the man throws champagne around the store.
People immediately reacted to the video to criticize the behavior of the rebellious group of young people.
Schneiderburlee responded in the munchner.gesindel post: “There goes the money you pay too much in rent.”
Dustywitch wrote: “No matter how rich you are, you can’t buy class.”
Moses_rundr joked: “And then Justus bought the 15 liter bottle of champagne and sprayed it. We were all like hahaha and hid under the umbrellas. Justus is always so much fun!”‘
Justus refers to a “meme” caricature of a rich, spoiled kid in Germany.
Others saw the funny side. User Michael said: ‘Envy is a bad virtue! If you have a lot, you can leave it there and have fun, and treat yourself sometimes.
Some suggested the man could be a waiter at the event.
A Veuve Cliquot Nebuchadnezzar can be bought online for around £2,000. But bars at Oktoberfest events charge more.
The festival, with a history dating back more than 200 years, has produced stunning scenes of excess over the years as Munich’s premier food and drink festival.
Millions of tourists from around the world flock to the region each year to take part in the festivities, play games, sample local foods and drinks, and dress in traditional clothing.
Guests wear their finest Bavarian clothing, with gentlemen often seen in leather trousers, while ladies wear ‘dirndls’, a traditional dress consisting of a low-cut bodice, blouse and high-waisted skirt.
The arrival of mobile camera technology has introduced the world to Munich’s party style and has since brought diluted clones to other European cities, including London.
Almost a decade ago Business Insider wrote about the (then) emerging trend of snorting a legal drug known as Wiesn koks (Oktoberfest cocaine) made from glucose and menthol.
A few years ago, a video of a man urinating in one of the largest hallways went viral. A man walks through its stream without realizing it before a woman slips and falls backwards.
The compilations that attract thousands of views show how easily things can go wrong when dancing on tables – not beyond the limits of what is acceptable – leads to a bad fall or someone lunging to grab a chandelier after drinking too much.
A waitress carries beers in the Paulaner tent on the opening day of Oktoberfest, September 21.
Visitors applaud and celebrate on the official opening day of the 189th Oktoberfest
The world’s largest beer festival, Oktoberfest, will be held from September 21 to October 6.
People dressed in traditional Bavarian clothing sit in a beer tent during the Oktoberfest on September 22.
England’s Harry Kane and Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala celebrate Oktoberfest on September 22
Cheyenne von Thun and Carolin Henseler attend an Oktoberfest event on September 30
The first Oktoberfest began as a celebration of the wedding of Prince Regent Ludwig of Bavaria, the later King Ludwig I, and Princess Theresa of Saxe-Hildburghausen in 1810.
The Bavarian citizens celebrated the wedding with a huge horse race.
The people of the region liked the race so much that they decided to do another one every year after that, and the festival evolved to include rides and fairground attractions in subsequent years.
In 2019, before the pandemic, Oktoberfest was said to have contributed more than one billion euros to the German economy.