Newspaper: Orange Press

Quote from Orange Press in 2008:

"It is a beer festival!"

You are standing in the pit in front of Orange Stage at a completely packed Radiohead concert. You get a little thirsty, but the free water passed around does not really quench that thirst. But do not worry – the beer is also here.

“People want beer. So we are practically everywhere,” Claus Christiansen explains. Since 2005, he has been responsible for the Beverage Section and is thereby responsible for getting the festival-goers all beer that they want.

During the festival week around 1,000,000 litres of beer are sold. More than 400 volunteers roll frames with canned beer out on an assembly line from two huge trailers and into the
beer tent. Those two trailers contain more than 140,000 cans of beer. A few years ago a remarkable record was beaten here – in less than one minute volunteers moved an entire pallet with thirty beer frames from the trailer to the costumer’s hands.