The Berlin-Brandenburg Brewery Association expects the "most expensive beer garden summer of all time" A price beyond five euros for half a litre of draught beer is now "standard" in many places. The beer price of 7.50 euros per half litre, which was still considered "utopian" at the beginning of the year, has already been broken through in the first pubs.

"This is no longer a justifiable price increase. That's just usury," one user exclaimed.