Can you just sort-of tilt it towards you on its fulcrum and pour the beer into your mouth that way?
This is good because a) big beer = happy Berni and b) I don't have to get up to go to the bar again, but the downside is that lifting the fûcking thing is properly effort. When drinking beer one shouldn't have to exercise one's bicep this much, surely?
Can you just sort-of tilt it towards you on its fulcrum and pour the beer into your mouth that way?
I remember when we visited, the glw tried 1 stein and gave it to me half way through as she got fed up trying to lift it.
Slip hand through handle with thumb over the top, lift stein and drink...simples!
I go to Oktoberfest every few years so I've had plenty of practice.