Pop-Up Oktoberfest Celebration At The Blind Tiger Brewery
The Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant is holding a Pop-Up Oktoberfest Celebration! Our Oktoberfest will be Friday September 27th through Sunday October 6th. That's 10 days of German Beer, German Food Specials, German Decorations, German Music, Dirndls, and Lederhosen! All at 37th and Kansas here in the Capital City.
Wrap your lips around one of ten authentic, delicious German Beer Styles on tap - all brewed right here at the award-winning Blind Tiger Brewery.
Oktoberfest - Well Loved by the Capital City
Maibock - A Quadruple Award Winner!
Zwickel Maibock - The Same Great Beer, Unfiltered
Munich Dunkles - Current Gold Award Holder - World Beer Cup!
Basil Beer - Based On Our Maibock Infused with Our Home Grown Basil
Capital City Kölsch - Lighter Style - Originated in Brewpubs in Köln (Cologne)
Blind Tiger Bock - Very Traditional - Quadruple Award Winner!
Hefeweizen - Unfiltered for Rich Flavor - All Kansas Ingredients
Smokey The Beer - A Rauchbier Beer Style from Bamburg
Overall Obsession Helles - Lightest of the German Beer Styles - Collaboration with Norsemen Brewing Co.
For Oktoberfest all our beers are served in multiple sizes of traditional German glassware, including the one liter Masskrug Stein used in Munich (pictured above), plus the Glass German Beer Boots!
Traditional German Food Specials:
Giant German Soft Pretzels - With Brewmaster's German Mustard or Beer Cheese Dip, or, Order Half a Pretzel - these things are huge - big enough for the whole table!
Schweine Schnitzel - Pork Chop pounded thin, hand-breaded, served golden brown, with Sapaetzle (German Egg Noodles), Onion Brown Gravy, and one side dish
German Bratwurst - Two of these authentic German sausages boiled in our Oktoberfest Beer and grilled, served on a bed of Sauerkraut, with one side dish
German Potato Salad - served hot - this recipe is from a German Grandmother
Black Forest Cake - Moist and rich, Whipped Cream & Cherry layers with Chocolate Shavings
The whole Blind Tiger Brewery is your Biergarten! Come to the Blind Tiger Brewery to celebrate German heritage and have fun.
Bavarian atmosphere
Decorations
German Music
Servers in Dirndls (traditional German dresses)
Taste beer and food from the old country
On Friday, September 27th at 5:00 pm when we tap the first keg of Blind Tiger Oktoberfest Beer to begin the celebration you will hear the traditional Bavarian cry: "O'zapft Is!" meaning, "It is Tapped!" or "Strike It Lucky!" in the Bavarian dialect.
Background: Oktoberfest in September?
Oktoberfest is synonymous with beer, pretzels, all things German, and October. But did you know that most of Oktoberfest takes place in September? It wasn't always that way.
The first Oktoberfest was held in Munich in 1810 to celebrate the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess Therese Charlotte Luise of Saxony-Hildburghausen. Ludwig became King Ludwig I of Bavaria and reigned from 1825 through 1848.
Munich's citizens were invited to partake in the wedding celebration and festivities. The giant party was held on the expansive meadows in front of the city gates. Running from October 12th to 17th that year, the jubilant celebration was full of food, beer, parades, folk singing, music, and horse racing. The Prince challenged all the brewers in town to make their best beer for the event. At least 40,000 people participated that first year.
After such a spectacular event the happy couple decided that the same type of festival should be continued annually. The party grew each year with new attractions added such as carnival booths, swings, and bowling alleys. Oktoberfest became such a popular festival that Munich city leaders pushed the starting date into September to capitalize on the longer days and warmer weather. In 1896 Albert Einstein worked at Oktoberfest in Munich as an apprentice taking care of the early electric lighting.
Each year the mayor of Munich kicks off the huge festival using a huge wooden mallet to tap the first giant wooden cask of beer with the great announcement, "O’zapft Is!" some say it means "It Is Tapped!" others say it means "Strike It Lucky" in the Bavarian dialect. The Minister-President of Bavaria gets the first glass of beer in a Masskrug stein (one liter dimple mug). The next event is a parade of all the leading brewers of Munich.
These days, Oktoberfest in Munich begins Saturday of the third weekend in September and ends the first Sunday in October. In 2024 the dates in Munich are September 21st through Sunday October 6th, and include German Reunification Day October 3rd.
Oktoberfest in Munich is the largest public folk festival in the world. The festival halls and tents seat about 100,000 people at one time! More that 7 million visitors are expected this year - consuming over 9 million liters of beer!
That large amount of beer consumption may account for the following things being turned in to the lost-and-found one year: 950 ID cards, 660 purses, 465 bank cards, 480 phones, two wedding rings, a leather whip, a live rabbit, and one set of false teeth! Prost!
