The Wacken Hot Tub (General Chat)

[agresionpower]

speaking of food and beer, what type of beer and food is sold at Wacken usually? and what is the rough cost? trying to work out exactly how much I will need with me for the week!! I looked at the FAQ thread but it didn't really answer.

Its not Tuborg lager like the UK festivals is it?

I think its becks as pilsener and franciscaner as weissen

 

[Alix]

speaking of food and beer, what type of beer and food is sold at Wacken usually? and what is the rough cost? trying to work out exactly how much I will need with me for the week!! I looked at the FAQ thread but it didn't really answer.

Its not Tuborg lager like the UK festivals is it?

Gosh no. On the average meal I would have spent half as many euros on a meal as I would have pounds at a festival like Bloodstock Open Air. The variety is not quite as large as Bloodstock, but you can expect German, Italian, Asian, American and Turkish cuisine. If you're tight there's a couple of supermarkets within walking distance of the entrance if you run out of anything, plus the 24hr festival markets sell canned food as well as prepared stuff. Some residents of Wacken sell food and drink from their front or back yards as well.

As far as drinks are concerned, I wouldn't bother buying more than one drink in the entertainment precinct because they are so expensive. The 24hr supermarket (if I recall correctly) sold ~half litre cans of Becks for 2 euros, but if you buy beers from the supermarket I think they work out to about 50 cents each. Tea and coffee probably starts from one euro plus one euro deposit per cup.

 

[Alix]

Only thing, glass is banned everywhere. You can't buy it in the supermarket either. A check will be done before (re) entering the camping!

Last year we were able to get glass bottles of wine in the Wacken supermarket, but we just drank it all while we walked back to the camping ground and threw the bottle away before we re-entered

 

[Zombi]

you know it's festival time when you're sitting on a side of a road carefully pouring your cheap-ass whisky into emptied water bottles.

 

[Quark]

you know it's festival time when you're sitting on a side of a road carefully pouring your cheap-ass whisky into emptied water bottles.

lol

 

[Alix]

you know it's festival time when you're sitting on a side of a road carefully pouring your cheap-ass whisky into emptied water bottles.

I did some chemist shopping today for the festival season, and yet again bought baby wipes only to find (yet again) I still had a couple of unopened packets at home I spent soooo long trying to figure out how many I'd need, then recalculated when I found alcohol-based hand sanitisers in another isle

 

[agresionpower]

you know it's festival time when you're sitting on a side of a road carefully pouring your cheap-ass whisky into emptied water bottles.

You know its festival time when you own cheap ass whiskey

 

[xforeverxmetalx]

*maps*

 

[Quark]

*maps*

So far, Kris' last words.

 

[Alix]

I need to get my car fixed

 

[Alix]

But on a positive note, I just started to get Long Service Leave hours show up on my payslip. Had I realised how many hours I have, I totally would have considered another/a longer holiday Maybe next time

 

[Darkfang]

It's Beck's, which is German piss, they (don't) call beer. Last year's price was €3.50 for 0.3 liter. There's better beer in the supermarket, but you can't take it to the infield. Camping however is no problem at all.

Funny , every country have they own piss beer. We have Molson/Labatt, U.S. have Coors/Miller, lol.

Is there any better beer in the supermarket ? If not, I will try the shop my canned beer in Hamburg before going to Itzehoe.

 

[agresionpower]

http://www.wtf.nl/grenzeloos/20013/lammetje-vs-blackmetalmuzikant.html

 

[Quark]

Funny , every country have they own piss beer. We have Molson/Labatt, U.S. have Coors/Miller, lol.

Is there any better beer in the supermarket ? If not, I will try the shop my canned beer in Hamburg before going to Itzehoe.

There's better beer in the local supermarket in the village itself. Either at the little Edeka shop in the center, or the big one at the village bordée.

 

[Darkfang]

http://www.wtf.nl/grenzeloos/20013/lammetje-vs-blackmetalmuzikant.html

WTF.nl indeed