12th annual Lodi Oktoberfest

From 12th annual Lodi Oktoberfest Website:

Lodis longest continuing Oktoberfest has been hosted by the Lodi Tokay Rotary every year since 2006.

You'll come for the beer and the German food and stay to enjoy the German band and join the Oktoberfest games. We pour American and German beers at Oktoberfest and cook up a storm of German-Dakota dishes such as chicken schnitzel, bratwurst, pickled red cabbage, sauerkraut, cheese buttons and hot German potato salad.

The Gruber Family Band plays a raucous mix of traditional German folk music and pop tunes. The highlight of their performance is a contest to see who can hold one big stein of beer at arms length the longest. Herren und Damen are all welcome to show us your stuff. The winners will receive an authentic German Beer Mug. If the crowd gets into it, there might even be a yodeling contest.

Lodis Rotary Clubs banded together twelve years ago to revive Oktoberfest, which had been celebrated on and off for a number of years. We were celebrating Lodis German heritage and the 100th year anniversary of the founding of Lodis city government.

Now Oktoberfest is an annual tradition. And remember you don't have to be German to have fun at Oktoberfest.