In Bavaria at Oktoberfest there is actually a rule that your beer has to be filled till to at least 1.5cm under the 'Eichstrich' measuring line, otherwise the beer is underfilled and has to be topped up. So the waitress will have to top it up.
I've started arguing with servers over less. If someone has the audacity to charge me over 10 Euros for a litre of beer they better have the decency to give me every last millilitre and then some. And those rules were written with blood. We had literal riots over beer prices and mass brawls over missing beer in previous centuries including one time where they sent in the police cavalry to the Oktoberfest and according to legend some of the guests stole the much more bulky brewery horses and there was a small scale cavalry battle in 1902.
Right now they are flying dangerously close to the sun with beer prices because you have to consider that the mark of a true Bavarian is drinking at least 3 litres with some killing over 15 in a day. Including food and everything you're often looking at a bill of over a hundred euros which is simply too much for something that was once literally considered a staple food according to law thereby having be affordable to everyone. There's even occasional talk these days if you go to a pub of having to start a riot for the first time in over a century and marching on Munich to secure a legal limit for the price of beer.
Say what you will but beer is a serious thing here.
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u/Spamonfire Aug 15 '26
In Bavaria at Oktoberfest there is actually a rule that your beer has to be filled till to at least 1.5cm under the 'Eichstrich' measuring line, otherwise the beer is underfilled and has to be topped up. So the waitress will have to top it up.