Although Oktoberfest has been around since 1810 they have only had an official stein since 1978, before that it was mostly up to the tents to supply any souvenir steins. Every year has an official 1 liter mug, without a lid, and starting in 1987 they began official steins with lids. All designs for the official stein are done only by German citizens who submit a design for a poster, which is voted on, then the winning design is put onto that years stein. Starting in 1980 the steins were made by Rastal, they do not release the official number made.




Year: 1978
Size: 1L
Artist: Cornelia von Seidlein
Design: Gingerbread Hearts and Woman
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1978









Year: 1979
Size: 1L
Artist: Fritz Wagner
Design: Half man half horse drinking a beer
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1979










Year: 1980
Size: 1L
Artist: Fritz Dommel
Design: Ballon stein in bavarian colors
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1980









Year: 1981
Size: 1L
Artist: Ernst Strom
Design: Beer stein with heart, pretzel, fish, sausage, ballons
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1981










Year: 1982
Size: 1L
Artist: Helmut Gratzfeld
Design: Flying ballons
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1982










Year: 1983
Size: 1L
Artist: Fritz Wagner
Design: Man playing trumpet
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1983










Year: 1984
Size: 1L
Artist: Emil Sogor
Design: Back of a man holding stein, pretzel, and heart
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1984











Year: 1985
Size: 1L
Artist: Fritz Dommel
Design: Man holding wooden beer keg over head (175 Years)
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1985










Year: 1986
Size: 1L
Artist: Waltraud Sappel
Design: Beer stein with rainbow colors over
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1986









Year: 1987
Size: 1L
Artist: Rosa Juchniewicz
Design: Beer stein pyramid
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1987










Year: 1988
Size: 1L
Artist: Tadeusz Piskorski
Design: Outline of man with a beer and beer foam mustache
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1988










Year: 1989
Size: 1L
Artist: Thomas Weyh
Design: Man holding beer
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1989









Year: 1990
Size: 1L
Artist: Erhard Schutze
Design: Carrosol horse made of radish, hat, chicken
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1990










Year: 1991
Size: 1L
Artist: Pawel Udorowiecki
Design: Oktoberfest spelled out with different characters
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1991










Year: 1992
Size: 1L
Artist: Rosa Juchniewiez
Design: Faces of two people toasting steins
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1992










Year: 1993
Size: 1L
Artist: Gunter Willgers
Design: Hankerchief in bavarian colors
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1993









Year: 1994
Size: 1L
Artist: Emil Sogor
Design: Stein outline
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1994










Year: 1995
Size: 1L
Artist: Bozena Jankowska
Design: Beer maid running with two beers
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1995









Year: 1996
Size: 1L
Artist: Isolde Manson-Baumgart
Design: Oktoberfest Munchen in line drawing
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1996










Year: 1997
Size: 1L
Artist: Bozena Jankowska
Design: Beer King
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1997










Year: 1998
Size: 1L
Artist: Bozena Jankowska
Design: Beer Queen
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1998










Year: 1999
Size: 1L
Artist: Rosa Juchniewicz & Tadeuscz Grabowski
Design: Two steins riding a horse
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1999









Year: 2000
Size: 1L
Artist: Barbara Meissner & Marie-Theres Reisser
Design: 2000 spelled out in a heart, stein, pretzel
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2000










Year: 2001
Size: 1L
Artist: Stefanie Wagner
Design: Beer stein globe
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2001










Year: 2002
Size: 1L
Artist: Rosa Juchniewicz
Design: Beer stein ferris wheel
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2002









Year: 2003
Size: 1L
Artist: Christian Weiss
Design: Man balancing beer stein on nose
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2003










Year: 2004
Size: 1L
Artist: Peter Junge & Georg Schatz
Design: Picture of ferris wheel at night
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2004










Year: 2005
Size: 1L
Artist: Jochen Steglich
Design: Large pretzel
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2006










Year: 2006
Size: 1L
Artist: Elisabeth Friedrich
Design: Bavarian ballon holding heart, stein, pretzel, two people
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 1980









Year: 2007
Size: 1L
Artist:
Design: Women spinning with pertzel and beer in hand
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2007










Year: 2008
Size: 1L
Artist: Oliver Weiss
Design: Heart, ferris wheel, pretzel, beer stein
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2008










Year: 2009
Size: 1L
Artist:
Design: Pretzel made with the words Oktoberfest Muenchen 2009
Words: Oktoberfest, Munich 2009