Tag: beer
Your Quick Guide to German Beer
Posted on August 30, 2018
It’s hard to imagine Oktoberfest without good beer. It’s like peanut butter and jelly or hot dogs and baseball. Today we’re going to take a look at some of the most popular German beer styles and what makes them so interesting. Let’s roll! Märzen & Dunkel In the 1500’s, wild yeast and bacteria often laid waste […]
Categories: 2018
Tags: beer, oktoberfest
Fun Oktoberfest Facts
Posted on September 28, 2016
Ever wonder how much beer is consumed by the massive crowds at the German Oktoberfest each year? Here’s your answer: it’s a whopping 1.8 million gallons, enough to fill 3 Olympic swimming pools! While our Carroll County Oktoberfest won’t have nearly that attendance we can say that our beer sponsor, Pub Dog, does an amazing […]
Categories: 2016
Tags: beer, facts, oktoberfest
Contest Winner
Posted on September 19, 2016
Congratulations to Mr. Alan Greenberg! Last week we posted a trivia question to our Facebook page, Alan took the time to answer correctly and was randomly selected to win two Free tickets to Carroll County Oktoberfest 2016! He’ll get into the event for Free, and we can’t wait to see him there. Thank you to […]
Categories: 2016
Tags: beer, contest, winner
Beer Stein Holding Contest
Posted on September 15, 2016
We would normally never tell anyone to skip a leg day, but you might want to consider it, and replace it with a full day of curls at the gym. Why you ask? Well Oktoberfest is only two weeks away and you’ll want to save all your arm strength for the Beer Stein Holding Contest. Last […]
Categories: 2016
Tags: beer, contest, games
Oktoberfest Trivia
Posted on September 12, 2016
If you’ve been to the Rotary Oktoberfest of Carroll County Facebook page, you may have seen today’s trivia contest. If you didn’t already know the answer, let us educate you on proper Oktoberfest Etiquette. When we are at the Carroll County Oktoberfest, we’ll raise our steins to the air and say “Prost” before drinking our […]
Categories: 2016
Tags: beer, contest, free, trivia, win
Rolling Out The Barrel at Oktoberfest
Posted on September 8, 2016
Beer brewing has been happening for millennia, and for most of that time beer was brewed in wooden containers, because beer was such a commodity throughout history the barrel was invented to aid in transportation. Beer isn’t commonly brewed in wooden barrels anymore, while them may not be common, if you’re attending the Carroll […]
Categories: 2016
Tags: beer, contest, events
Get To Know Oktoberfest Beer
Posted on September 6, 2016
Rotary Carroll County Oktoberfest is all about Fundraising for a great cause, getting the community together, music, German cuisine, and beer. Did we mention beer?- we did? Because the beer might just be one of the most important things about the event, you can’t have an Oktoberfest without it. Did you know that we have […]
Categories: 2016
Tags: beer