Seaside Heights Oktoberfest to Feature 20+ Craft Beers, Food Trucks, Kids Events

A mug of German beer. (Photo: 5chw4r7z/Flickr)

Seaside Heights will host its first-ever Oktoberfest celebration this month, complete with beer tastings, good trucks, entertainment – including traditional German music – plus events for kids.

The event will be held the weekend of Oct. 22 and 23, Saturday and Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day. Admission to the festival is free for children under 12 and $5 for adults. Oktoberfest will be held on the Boulevard between Webster Avenue and Dupont Avenue.

Numerous breweries will on hand to provide tastings of their beers.

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The featured beers on hand will include:

• Beach Haus Kickback Amber
• Beach Haus Strawberry Radler
• Rinn Duin Trinity Scotch Ale
• Rinn Duin Ichabods Return Belgian Dubbel
• Double Nickel Vienna Lager
• Double Nickel Buffalo Nickel Bourbon Barrel
• Spellbound Pale Ale
• Spellbound Cherry Belgian
• Firestone Union Jack IPA
• Firestone Luponic #3, IPA
• Victory Prima Pils
• Victory Berliner Weiss
• Breckenridge/Elysian Mango Mosaic Pale
• Breckenridge/Elysian Spacedust IPA
• Shocktop/Goose Island Pretzel Wheat
• Shocktop/Goose Island Honkers Ale ESB
• Shipyard Pumpkinhead
• Shipyard Island Time Session IPA
• McKenzies Black Cherry Cider
• McKenzies Pumpkin Cider

Beer tasting will be $20 in advance and $25 at the door. Tickets are available online. Tasting sessions options are 12 – 2:30 p.m. and 3:30-6 p.m. each day.

Festhalle beers on tap:

• Weihenstephan Oktoberfest
• Spaten Oktoberfest
• Ramstein Double Platinum Weissbock
• Bud Light Lager

Food trucks include:

• Hai Street Kitchen & Co.
• Mannino’s Cannoli Express
• Debbie O’s Concessions
• Spanky’s BBQ & Catering
• Grumpy’s Bar-B-Que
• Star of the Sea Seafood
• Taco Shelly’s
• Jammin’ Crepes
• Sammy’s Pizza Kitchen
• Carnivale Donut Bar
• Stuf’d Truck

Kids Activities will include an inflatable obstacle course, sand art, hands on crafts, face painting, hair wrapping, tattoos, balloon animals, kids games and much more.