BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Now that the calendar has turned the page to October, it is time for a time-honored German tradition at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n
“This is our 15th annual Oktoberfest presented by Lehigh Valley International Airport,” said ArtsQuest director of communication, Jenn Loconte.<\/p>\n
The event is free, with plenty to take in. “There’s four different beer gardens all the traditional German fair,” said Loconte. “You’ll see German dancing. It’s just a lot of fun for everybody.”<\/p>\n
Yes, there is plenty of traditional German food.<\/p>\n
Heaven On A Bun has been at Oktoberfest all 15 years. “This is a wonderful event, it’s been growing every year and great crowds,” said Mike Kelly with Heaven On A Bun.<\/p>\n
They’ve been dishing up their own German spin on a burger. “We have a specialty here, it’s a Bavarian burger,” said Kelly. “It’s a pretzel roll with a burger with Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and grilled onions with a German mustard.”<\/p>\n
If you’re feeling up to it, you can take part in the bratwurst eating contest.<\/p>\n
There’s a number of German inspired games.<\/p>\n
“One of the favorites that comes back every year is the wiener dog races, the dachshund races, or any dog that is under 25 pounds and is a wiener dog at heart,” said Laconte.<\/p>\n
There’s also stein holding contests. “We were doing that this morning and it’s hard holding those beer steins are heavy,” said Laconte.<\/p>\n
Beer is a common theme of Oktoberfest, and the Lehigh County DA’s office wants to make sure it doesn’t lead to a DUI.<\/p>\n
This year, they have a tent located just feet from the exit.<\/p>\n
“We’re doing a walk the line simulation, goggles, breathalyzer test,” said Shelby Vince, Special Assistant to the Lehigh County DA.<\/p>\n
There’s also an incentive to stop by. “If you are able to guess correctly on a quiz we’re doing Uber vouchers and those vouchers are from 5 PM to 1:30 in the morning and they will give you $20 off an Uber ride,” said Vince.<\/p>\n
The DA’s office says they want people to have a good time, just do it responsibly.<\/p>\n
Oktoberfest is going this weekend and next. Doors open at noon on Saturdays and Sundays, and again at 5 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Now that the calendar has turned the page to October, it is time for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,157,3767,28],"class_list":["post-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-lehigh-valley-international-airport","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}