Music and atmosphere

It significantly influenced not only beer tent architecture but also the music played at Oktoberfest. Its band was the first to create a so-called Wiesnhit, a popular song, which dominates the bands’ playlists. Since 1984, when Fürstenfeld became the first song of this kind, there is an annually returning discussion about this year’s Wiesnhit.

Since 2015 the brewery has been trying to target a younger crowd by introducing new lighting and a showband playing each day between 7 and 9 p.m. Apparently, the brewery is still struggling with finding the right people to transport this segment, which is far from a conventional beer tent experience, as they tried out a number of bands in the last couple of year.

If you like to have a table on your own, early afternoons at Winzerer Fähndl may be a good idea for you, as they tend to be very calm there.

The new building of 2010 is very light and open, illustrating the extraordinary width of this beer tent. It was the first beer tent to get a beer pipeline, which provides all taps in the tent with beer from a central container. The tent is often said to be the largest at Oktoberfest, which isn’t true, though. In 2018 it was redesigned again.

Reservations 2021

Reservations can probably be done starting in April. Reservation requests can be made on the tent's website. In the last years, at least some weekend tables were publicly offered.