Oktoberfest Bavarian Kickoff
Shipgarten 7581 Colshire Dr, McLean, VAJoin us on Saturday, September 21st, for the official "tapping of the keg" flown all the way from Germany to kickoff Oktoberfest with us at Shipgarten! We will have a fantastic selection of over 50 biers from Germany, Belgium, Austria, and the US for everyone to enjoy. Representatives from several breweries will join us to showcase their biers! ***Shipgarten opens at 11 AM & the festival runs from 1 PM until 6 PM. Restaurant closes at 2 AM*** BAVARIAN GAMES SCHEDULE: 1:15 PM Oktoberfest Kickoff Ceremonial Ribbon Cutting 1:20 PM - "Tapping of the Keg"- MYSTERY TAPPER 2:00 PM Pretzel Toss (First Team to Catch 3 Pretzels on stick WIns $25 Gift Card) 3:00 PM Stein to Stein Pour (Most Coordinated Team to Fill The Stein Wins $25 Gift Card!) 4:00PM Keg Curling (Most Reps of an Empty Keg in 1 Minute Wins $25 Gift Card!) 4:30 PM Costume Contest ($100 gift card Most Authentic, $50 gift card Best Couple, and $25 gift card for Funniest) 5:00PM Stein Hoisting (Longest Endurance Holding a Filled Stein Wins $25 Gift Card!) ♫ 3:30 to 7:30pm: "Irresponsible" Live Music ♫ 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM Oktoberfest After Party with DJ Bianca Diamond ADDITIONALLY ➳ Meet and Greet Brewery Reps from Germany, Belgium, Austria & the US and get some BIER-ducation from them. Throughout the day each rep will talk about the history, flavor and process fo the biers they are pouring ➳ Various beers to sample from local and international breweries ➳ Photo Booth with Accessories for you and your pup(s)! ➳Great food including German style BBQ ➳German mulled wine & cocktails ➳Dog Friendly (Check out our Dog menu, play in the dog park, or just bring your pup along) ➳ Lawn Games & Activities including ladder toss, cornhole, connect 4, giant chess & checkers & MORE) ➳ Giveaways, Competitions & Prizes Click Here for Festival Menu ✪ Featured Breweries ✪ DELIRIUM Delirium - Huyghe Delirium Nocturnum Belgian Strong Dark Ale ⁄ 8.5% ABV ⁄ 24 IBU ⁄ 255 CAL ⁄ Melle, Vlaams Gewest Color and Sight: Dark Chocolate Brown with a compact foam, white-yellow, stable and creamy. Odor Touches of caramel, mocca and chocolate. Spices such as licorice and coriander are also present. Taste: Initially... Delirium - Huyghe Delirium Deliria Belgian Strong Golden Ale⁄ 8.5% ABV ⁄ 32 IBU ⁄ 255 CAL ⁄ Melle, Vlaams Gewest ⁄ Colour and appearance: a pale blonde colour and fine creamy-white head which clings to the glass. Flavour: A pleasant sparkling carbonate content produces a soft, full taste perception. The aroma is very balanced with a fruity, flowery background and an initial Chardonnay impression which evolves into a spicy, mild aroma of hops. Taste: Full-bodied and balanced with fruity tones of apple and Chardonnay grapes. Deliria has a fine, mild bitterness in its aftertaste and a splendid, round feel in the mouth which evolves well. Special beer brewed once a year to mark International Women's Day. RADEBERGER GRUPPË Radeberger Gruppe Clausthaler ISO 0.0 Non-Alcoholic - Other ⁄ 29 IBU ⁄ 0 CAL ⁄ Frankfurt am Main, Hessen ⁄ 3.20 Perfectly providing tasteful refreshment for active people looking to reward themselves with a high quality, great tasting 0.0% brew. Clausthaler ISO 0.0% is the tasteful, exciting and healthy option to refuel and hydrate your body after exercising and being active. Radeberger Gruppe Sion Kölsch Kölsch ⁄ 4.8% ABV ⁄ 144 CAL ⁄ Frankfurt am Main, Hessen ⁄ http://www.sion.de Brewing is the art of creating something special with the few ingredients specified by the purity law and the Kölsch convention. Pure water from our own well, top-fermenting yeast from our own pure culture, the best barley and wheat malt and selected hop varieties - the result is delicious: tangy and fresh on the tongue, slightly dry and hoppy on the palate, slim and elegant in the finish. Simply good taste, which can take the following forms. Radeberger Gruppe Radeberger Pilsner Pilsner - German ⁄ 4.8% ABV ⁄ 33 IBU ⁄ 144 CAL ⁄ Frankfurt am Main, Hessen ⁄ Crowned the official drink by King Friedrich August III of Saxony, Radeberger, a pilsner style beer brewed near Dresden, is characterized by its dazzling and refreshing taste and has long been enjoyed by German nobility. Radeberger Gruppe Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Shandy ⁄ 2.5% ABV ⁄ 75 CAL ⁄ Frankfurt am Main, Hessen ⁄ Now that you’ve discovered the new unique taste of our beer, we salute your ways to keep it fresh. As an original - the first to combine Hefeweizen beer Allgäuer Brauhaus Oberdorfer Festbier Festbier ⁄ 5.4% ABV ⁄ 162 CAL ⁄ Kempten (Allgäu), Bayern ⁄ SCHNEIDER-WEISSE Schneider Weisse G. Schneider & Sohn Aventinus (TAP06) Bock - Weizendoppelbock ⁄ 8.2% ABV ⁄ 16 IBU ⁄ 246 CAL ⁄ Kelheim, Bayern For golden moments by the fireplace: "Mein Aventinus" - the wholehearted, dark ruby coloured wheat beer, intensive and fiery, warming, well-balanced and tender. Bavaria's oldest wheat "Doppelbock" - brewed since 1907! Its sturdy body in combination with its sweet malty aroma is an invitation to profound indulgence - an ingenious blend with a strong body. Perfectly matches rustic dishes, dark roasts and sweet desserts. Schneider Weisse G. Schneider & Sohn Festweisse 2024 Festbier ⁄ 6.2% ABV ⁄ 28 IBU ⁄ 186 CAL ⁄ Kelheim, Bayern ASLIN Aslin Arctic Sauce Sour - Fruited Gose ⁄ 6% ABV ⁄ 180 CAL ⁄ Alexandria, VA ⁄ Sour Ale w/ Blue Raspberry, Cherry, Lime, Milk Sugar and Vanilla Aslin Festbier Festbier ⁄ 5.5% ABV ⁄ 165 CAL ⁄ Alexandria, VA ⁄ This festive golden lager boasts a very slight spiciness and pleasant herbal notes, coupled with a crisp bitterness unique to the Oktoberfest brew. Malty, toasty and with slight caramel notes, Festbier has a smooth mouthfeel and a very clean finish. Crispy and crushable just the way we like ‘em. WINE La Crema Monterey Chardonnay La Crema Monterey Pinot Noir La Crema Sonoma Cabernet Sauvignon (only place to have it, not even in grocery stores) La Crema Sonoma Sauvignon Blanc We will
UFC 307 Watch Party: Pereira vs Rountree Jr. (8:00PM) "Shipgarten offers 2-155" TV Walls, 8 TVs, 3 outdoor projectors & 3 indoor Projectors!!!! ADDITIONALLY ➳ Meet and Greet Brewery Reps from Germany & the US and get some BIER-ducation from them. Throughout the day each rep will talk about the history, flavor and process fo the biers they are pouring ➳ Various beers to sample from local and international breweries ➳ Photo Booth with Accessories for you and your pup(s)! ➳Cookout featuring great food including grilled burgers and hot dogs ➳Mulled wine & cocktails ➳Dog Friendly (Check out our Dog menu, play in the dog park, or just bring your pup along) ➳ Lawn Games & Activities including ladder toss, cornhole, connect 4, giant chess & checkers & MORE) ➳ Giveaways, Competitions & Prizes Click here for Festival Menu ✪ Featured Breweries ✪ Bitter Fruit Iron Simms Peach Chamomile Saison Farmhouse Ale - Saison ⁄ 6.5% ABV ⁄ 195 CAL ⁄ Chantilly, VA ⁄ Bitter Fruit Kickin It WIT B. Mitch Wheat Beer - Witbier ⁄ 5% ABV ⁄ 150 CAL ⁄ Chantilly, VA ⁄ Brewed in collaboration with former NFL kick returner Brian Mitchell. This beer was brewed at Old Bust Head. Hacker-Pschorr Münchner (Munich) Gold Lager - Dortmunder ⁄ 5.5% ABV ⁄ 15 IBU ⁄ 165 CAL ⁄ Munich, Bayern ⁄ “Munich Gold” closely resembles our Münchner Hell in terms of taste and mainly owes its popularity to a slightly higher original gravity and the malty note. The result is a full-bodied yet mild taste which delivers an increasingly bitter note before culminating into an aromatic finish. A real treat for true beer connoisseurs! The types of barley grown in the Swabian Jura and in the Upper Palatinate Region of Bavaria are excellently suited for the production of this timeless classic. Hacker-Pschorr has been brewing beer in the traditional Bavarian manner since 1417. The high-quality beers the brewery produces are all brewed in accordance with the Bavarian Purity Law and contain only water, malt and hops. Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen Märzen ⁄ 5.8% ABV ⁄ 174 CAL ⁄ Munich, Bayern ⁄ The traditional Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest Märzen. Note that this is not the Festbier served at the Wies'n. Paulaner Brauerei Oktoberfest Märzen / Original Münchner Märzen Märzen ⁄ 5.8% ABV ⁄ 20 IBU ⁄ 174 CAL ⁄ Munich, Bayern ⁄ An amber beer style that was developed over 200 years ago to celebrate the original Oktoberfest. The Märzen name comes from “March beer” because it was historically brewed in March to be at peak flavor for the Oktoberfest celebration. Today this style is available year-round in the US due to popular demand. Paulaner Brauerei Paulaner Oktoberfest Bier Festbier ⁄ 6% ABV ⁄ 180 CAL ⁄ Munich, Bayern ⁄ Ever since 1818 we have brewed our bottom-fermented Oktoberfest Bier during Oktoberfest – Germany’s favourite Oktoberfest beer and a true institution in Munich. The glass is full of October sunshine, strong and golden. The perfect balance of a light taste of hops and a strong note of malt. A feast of a beer, which always goes down well. This beer is only brewed for the Oktoberfest. That’s where it belongs, along with all the fun of the fair like the Ferris wheel and roasted almonds. The fact that we can brew this beer every year for the Oktoberfest is an honour and a pleasure. We belong to the 6 breweries, which have the exclusive permission to supply their beer at the largest folk festival in the world where we serve over a million litres in our beer tents – brought to your table by waitresses who easily carry ten 1 litre beer mugs (Mass) at once. A distinguishing feature from other festival beers is the particular harmony of balance between the sweeter taste of malt and that of the hops. The initial mild taste followed by a stronger note, invites you to take a second taste. By tradition it is also slightly stronger than a normal Lager, but the high grade of fermentation makes it particularly easy to drink. Friends of a good beer like to take the time to savour their beer, ideally with a typical beer tent snack like smoked mackerel or radish with bread and chives and mini meatballs. WINE La Crema Sauvignon Blanc La Crema Cabernet Sauvignon La Crema Monterey Pinot Noir La Crema Monterey Chardonnay PARKING: 1700 Old Meadow Road, McLean, VA 22102. Parking is conveniently located five minutes away by foot and we offer a completely free, pet friendly, and complimentary Shuttle Bus service that runs on a continuous loop to and from the venue and parking lot! Another alternative is our $20 valet service. We are also conveniently located steps away from the McLean Metro Station. Uber Drop Off: 7581 Colshire Dr., McLean, VA 22102
First 100 Attendees Get a FREE Festival T-Shirt! 
Drinks & Specials: Try beers from Latin American countries including Honduras, Guatamala and MORE! Sip on Antioqueño, a traditional Colombian spirit, and enjoy a fresh twist on your Oktoberfest experience. Bring your friends, family, and dancing shoes for an unforgettable day of music, culture, and celebration! Whether you’re soaking in the sounds of live Latin music, joining in on the games, or just enjoying the lively atmosphere, Shipgarten’s Latin Oktoberfest Music Festival is the place to be. 
3:30-7:30 PM - Live Music ♫ 8:00 PM-2:00 AM - Oktoberfest After Dark Shipgarten offers 2-155" TV Walls, 8 TVs, 2 outdoor projectors & 3 indoor to watch ALL the college football! 
ADDITIONALLY: ➳50+ beer & cider tastings from local breweries to choose from ➳ Meet & Greet Brewery reps from Germany, Austria and Belgium ➳ Photo Booth with Accessories ➳Great food ➳Dog Friendly (Check out our Dog menu, play in the dog park, or just bring your pup along) ➳ Bratwursts, Pretzels, Wings, & Special of the Day! ➳ Outdoor Games & Activities ➳ Giveaways, Competitions & Prizes Click Here for Festival Menu ✪ Feature Breweries ✪ Nepenthe Foe-Hammer IPA - New Zealand / 6.5% ABV / 195 CAL / Baltimore, MD / Forged on an anvil of 100% pilsner malt. Tempered in the roaring fires of Riwaka, Nelson Sauvin, and Motueka. Quenched in fermentation on a clean, classic strain. Punchy tropical notes of key lime, kiwi, white grape, guava, and passionfruit give way to a finish so keen it could cut. Bright as blue flame. Nepenthe Glamour Pilsner - Other / 4.8% ABV / 144 CAL / Baltimore, MD / This dazzling little lager struts onto the scene sporting a bed of crackery pilsner malt. Gently dry-hopped with just enough Vic Secret, Nelson Sauvin, and Lemondrop. Pale, gleaming straw in color with notes of crisp malt, honeysuckle, and sun-ripened peaches, flaunting a dry, clean finish. A perfect quencher as the days turn to the searing brightness of summer. Nepenthe Polydribbles #19 Sour - Fruited / 5.9% ABV / 177 CAL / Baltimore, MD / Brewed with the same simple base of 2-row and wheat malts as its predecessors, then conditioned on a ridiculous amount of juicy strawberry, hibiscus, and orange puree. Bursting with notes of strawberry mimosa, hibiscus sun tea, sweet orange zest, and summer sunshine. Nepenthe Wolfbann Lager - Munich Dunkel / 4.9% ABV / 147 CAL / Baltimore, MD / It is wise to show respect to a summoner of wolves. Brewed with two types of Munich malt and a snarl of Carafa II Special. Fermented on a traditional German yeast and patiently lagered for over a month. Clean and crisp with intense notes of pumpernickel, chocolate, fig, and the thrill of the hunt. The magus gestures and the pack hunts. Paulaner Brauerei Oktoberfest Märzen / Original Münchner Märzen Märzen / 5.8% ABV / 20 IBU / 174 CAL / Munich, Bayern / An amber beer style that was developed over 200 years ago to celebrate the original Oktoberfest. The Märzen name comes from “March beer” because it was historically brewed in March to be at peak flavor for the Oktoberfest celebration. Today this style is available year-round in the US due to popular demand. Paulaner Brauerei Paulaner Oktoberfest Wiesn Festbier / 6% ABV / 180 CAL / Munich, Bayern / Brewed once a year, and only available while supplies last, Oktoberfest Wiesn is the pinnacle of German brewing: deep golden color, full-bodied and wonderfully mellow, with a balanced harmonious taste and the pleasant fragrance of hops. At 6% ABV, it is stronger and bolder that the usual lager. Malts: Munich and Pilsner. Hops: Herkules, Taurus and Hallertauer Tradition. Radeberger Gruppe Radeberger Pilsner Pilsner - German / 4.8% ABV / 33 IBU / 144 CAL / Frankfurt am Main, Hessen / Crowned the official drink by King Friedrich August III of Saxony, Radeberger, a pilsner style beer brewed near Dresden, is characterized by its dazzling and refreshing taste and has long been enjoyed by German nobility. Radeberger Gruppe Schöfferhofer Grapefruit Shandy / 2.5% ABV / 75 CAL / Frankfurt am Main, Hessen / Now that you’ve discovered the new unique taste of our beer, we salute your ways to keep it fresh. As an original - the first to combine Hefeweizen beer and grapefruit juice, we’d like to introduce you to the “proper” pronunciation of our unusual and challenging name: Chauffeur + ah + (The) Hoff + ah! Radeberger Gruppe Sion Kölsch Kölsch / 4.8% ABV / 144 CAL / Frankfurt am Main, Hessen / http://www.sion.de Brewing is the art of creating something special with the few ingredients specified by the purity law and the Kölsch convention. Pure water from our own well, top-fermenting yeast from our own pure culture, the best barley and wheat malt and selected hops - the result is delicious: tangy and fresh on the tongue, slightly dry and hoppy on the palate, slim and elegant in the finish. Simply good taste, which can take the following forms. Allgäuer Brauhaus Oberdorfer Festbier Festbier / 5.4% ABV / 162 CAL / Kempten (Allgäu), Bayern / Solace Air Gourd'n Pumpkin Porter Pumpkin / 6.3% ABV / 189 CAL / Dulles, VA / Pumpkin Porter Solace Gute Nacht Märzen / 5.5% ABV / 165 CAL / Dulles, VA / Malty and full-bodied, this classic Marzen-style lager is the perfect beer to kick of the fall season. Solace Laces Out IPA - American / 6.5% ABV / 195 CAL / Dulles, VA / Brewed with Galaxy, Lotus and El Dorado Hops. Solace Thunder Buddy IPA - American / 6.5% ABV
