Beerfest is a 2006 film from comedy troupe Broken Lizard. It's probably best described as an Affectionate Parody of sports movies that uses cultural and National Stereotypes to a ridiculous extent.

The plot of the movie revolves around brothers Jan and Todd Wolfhouse, whose German grandfather has just passed away. Charged with the task of bringing his ashes to the "family resting place" in Munich during Oktoberfest, they end up discovering Beerfest, a secret underground drinking competition. Beerfest is presided over by Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen, braumeister of the Von Wolfhausen brewery. He is furious at Jan and Todd's late grandfather for purportedly stealing his family's beer recipe, "the greatest in all the world", calling him a "thieving stable boy" and "bastard son of a whore". Americans are banned from Beerfest, and as Jan and Todd try to state their right to be there, they are handily beaten in an inpromptu speed chug competition by the German team. After suffering humiliation at the hands of the von Wolfhausens, they return home with the intent to return to Beerfest with the first American team--and kick the Germans' asses.

Each team consists of five players representing their country. Events include:

  • Volume Chugging -- Exactly What It Says on the Tin; roughly a gallon of beer, whoever could chug it the fastest wins.
  • Trick Quarters -- One team does a fancy coin-bouncing trick, then the other team has to match and top it. If the other team fails to do so, they win.
  • Long Distance Quarters -- Bouncing a quarter into a bucket from at least ten meters out. Whoever makes the longest shot wins.
  • Monkey Chug -- One player from each team hangs upside down and chugs a beer. Whoever finishes first wins.
  • Long Pour -- One player stands on a tall staircase and pours a pitcher of beer down on a teammate. First to finish the beer wins (splashing the beer gets you disqualified).
  • Bat Spin -- Spinning around in place, then racing to a single beer on a table; whoever gets there and chugs it down wins.
  • Beer Pong (US variant; AKA Beirut) -- Throwing ping-pong balls at a rack of six glasses of beer. Each throw into the other team's glass removes it, and makes them drink. Whoever clears their side first wins.
  • Beer Pong (Int'l variant) -- Table Tennis, with two beers on each corner. First to a certain score wins.
  • Turbo Quarters -- While chugging, each team bounces as many quarters into a glass as possible. Whichever team bounces the most wins.
  • Depth Charge -- Players must take turns to pour some of their own beer into a small glass floating in a much larger amount of beer. Then wait a few seconds for the next player to repeat this. Whoever makes the glass sink to the bottom loses.
  • Thumper -- "What are we playing?" "THUMPER!" "Why do we play it?" "TO GET FUCKED UP!" One player performs his/her own hand gesture, immediately followed by the gesture of any other player. This player then performs his/her own gesture followed by another players, etc.. and so on. When a cue is missed or when someone responds too slowly, the "violator" must drink.
  • Line Chugging / Das Boot -- All five players chug in succession, with the fifth member taking the oversized Boot glass. Whoever finishes first wins (a team that spills any amount of beer loses).


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