{"id":299522,"date":"2026-10-04T08:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299522\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:56:12","slug":"oktoberfest-celebrates-german-food-culture-in-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299522\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktoberfest celebrates German food, culture in Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you&#8217;re looking for some amazing authentic German food, Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the place to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oktoberfest kicked off Friday night with Father Larry tapping the keg live here on JET Action News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Weather Where You Are: Tom Atkins live at Oktoberfest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/wx\/weather-where-you-are\/weather-where-you-are-tom-atkins-live-at-oktoberfest\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Weather Where You Are: Tom Atkins live at Oktoberfest\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two-day event features lots of German food, a beer and wine tent, live music, a wiener dog race, a BMW raffle and a kids zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Proceeds from the event support the parishes of Saint Luke and Our Lady of Mount Carmel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This is our last big festival of the season, it&#8217;s also the first weekend of October and you never know how the weather is going to be, so I threatened all the weatherman and said listen, make sure the weather is good,&#8221; said Father Larry Richards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Admission is free. Oktoberfest continues from noon until 11 p.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re looking for some amazing authentic German food, Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the place to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-299522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}