5 Seasons Oktoberfest Celebration

Jacob Johnston
Editor

On Saturday, Sept. 27, 2003, 5 Seasons held its annual Oktoberfest Celebration. This year, the event was only one day, but it lasted for the entire day. I arrived around 4 p.m. with my wife and stayed until about 8 p.m., when I was too full to stand the sight of food any longer. The menu for the day was traditional German fair and the beer was 5 Seasons' Bavarian Ecstasy Festbier. Here are the photos from that evening:

While much of the beer served during Oktoberfest came out of the brewpub's normal tap system, there were casks that were tapped throughout the night. Shown here is the first cask waiting to be tapped.

5 Seasons Brewmaster Glen Sprouse taps the first keg of Ecstasy Festbier at the Oktoberfest party. The casked version seemed to have a more lively carbonation and stronger hop presence than the regular version from the tap.

A server fills the first liters from the first cask of the day.

Restaurateur Dennis Lange, dressed up in his Oktoberfest finery, kept the crowd entertained.

Many of the revelers sat at the long wooden table, set up in the middle of the brewpub's patio. Luckily, the patio was covered, as a heavy rain shower rolled through around 6 p.m.

A full liter is a wee bit heavier than your average pint, but I managed to muscle my way through it. Repeatedly.

In addition to Dennis, the crowd was entertained by an accordion player performing German and other Eastern European tunes...

... and by an oompah band whose members called themselves "Oom-pah-colypse Now."