The largest beer tankard measures 5.87 m (19 ft 3 in) tall, has a diameter of 2.03 m (6 ft 7 in) and can hold 12,910 litres (2839.8 gal) of beer. It was created by the Meraner Altstadtvereinigung (Italy) and was presented and measured in Meran, Italy, on 7 August 2010.

The tankard is an outsized replica of an existing, commercially available beer tankard in the scale 14.7 to 1.