FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Oktoberfest is taking over downtown Fort Myers this weekend as Millennial Brewing Company celebrates 10 years of its annual German-inspired festival.<\/p>\n
The 10th Annual Millennial Oktoberfest runs Friday, October 2 through Sunday, October 4 at the brewery at 1811 Royal Palm Avenue.<\/p>\n
The three-day celebration will feature German beer, traditional food, live music, stein-hoisting contests and eating competitions.<\/p>\n
The brewery will also transform its 6,300-square-foot space into a Munich-style beer hall for the weekend.<\/p>\n
Festivalgoers can try house-brewed German-style beers including M\u00e4rzen, Festbier and Hefeweizen, along with traditional favorites like bratwurst, schnitzel, sauerbraten and fresh-made pretzels.<\/p>\n
There will also be plenty of competition. Stein-hoisting and keg-hoisting contests are scheduled throughout the weekend, along with eating contests featuring schnitzel, pretzels, bratwurst and German platters.<\/p>\n
Friday’s festivities run from 5 to 10 p.m., followed by an Oktoberfest After Dark Y2K-themed dance party from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday’s main celebration runs from noon to 10 p.m., followed by After Dark, while Sunday is family day from noon to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Admission is free, parking is free and the event is family-friendly during the daytime. Leashed dogs are also welcome in the outdoor beer garden.<\/p>\n
For more information, visit .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Oktoberfest is taking over downtown Fort Myers this weekend as Millennial Brewing Company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115,66796],"class_list":["post-415881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news","tag-wink_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}