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Brewer grabs after the Oktoberfest, the beer war is raging at the Oktoberfest By T -Online, IVI updated on October 5, 2025 - 10:54 a.m. Reading time: 3 min. Hacker Pschorr brewery team at the Oktoberfest.(Source: Wolfgang Maria Weber/Imago-Images pictures) Reading reading 0:00 0:00 News Share Article It is bubbling between two Munich breweries.The Giesinger boss publicly attacks Hacker-Pschorr.It's about water, regulations - and the dream of your own tent at the Oktoberfest. The Munich Oktoberfest ends with a loud argument.Of course, it's about beer.The head of the Giesinger brewery, Steffen Marx, raises serious accusations against Hacker-Pschorr.The traditional brewer is said to use tap water for its Oktoberfest beer-and thus violate the regulations for Oktoberfest beer.Hacker-Pschorr rejects the allegations. Everything started on September 4th.At that time, the Hacker-Pschorr brewery presented its Oktoberfest beer in the Seehaus in the English garden.Master brewer Maximilian Mirlach had led the audience to a "sightseeing flight through Upper Bavaria" - and spoke about the water that "comes from the Mangfall Valley".It sounds harmless to most, but the alarm bells were shrilling with a listener: Steffen Marx.Because according to the rules of the Oktoberfest, only beer with Munich deep well water may be brewed there. Marx considers the competitor's statement to be a clear breakthrough."When official Oktoberfest beers are brewed with Munich tap water or water that does not come from a deep well, this clearly violates the regulations," he says in an interview with the local newspaper "TZ"."In fact, such a beer manufactured should not be sold at the Oktoberfest." Hacker-Pschorr contradicts the allegations Marx relies on the principle of "Munich water, Munich air".This water can come exclusively from deep wells - but the tap water of the city is fed from the Mangfall Valley, among other things. You don't want to know anything about regulatory violations at Hacker-Pschorr.The "brewing of the Oktoberfest beer" every year "under the strictest guidelines", a spokesman for the brewery emphasized."Of course, our Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest beer is brewed in accordance with the EU-wide geographical statement 'Oktoberfest beer'."This regulation expressly prescribes the use of Munich depth groundwater from the tertiary layer.