Barbarians at the Bavarian

As organiser of the Bavarian Beer Festival held during the recent mini festival I would like to make a few comments through the pages of your paper.

My thanks must be extended to all those who provided assistance; the office staff for selling tickets and producing the song sheets, the German Club for preparing the food, and to all those who helped with the distribution of the beer and the cleaning up of the substantial mess at the end.

I also believe that two apologies are in order. Firstly, to all those present for the unfortunate situation that arose about 9:30 when we ran out of beer. This was due to the fact that the second minitanker had a broken axle at the bottom of Bowen Street. Although the Lion Tavern informed us of this at 5 p.m. the tanker finally arrived at just after 10 p.m., some 5 hours later. Secondly, to those who would have liked the function to continue until its advertised end at midnight but through the actions of a few were denied this.

The band was engaged to play until about 12 but left at 11:15 as they became so pissed off with the amount of beer being thrown at them. Apart from this the thing that really pissed me off was that a certain section of those present persisted in throwing jugs of beer at each other. Leaving aside the fact that we had to mop it up, it seems to me to be a stupid and wasteful way of getting one's money's worth. I hope that should a similar function be held in the future that this type of behaviour will be somewhat curtailed.