Join us on Saturday, October 26th, for our Chocolate Fondue and Bier Pairing Festival at Shipgarten! Adults and children of all ages are welcome as there will be Oktoberfest activities going on throughout the day! ***Shipgarten opens at 11 AM & the festival runs from 1 PM until 6 PM. The restaurant closes at 2 AM*** COMPETITIONS: Adult Trick or Treat Stations: All Day 2:00 Potato Sack Race (Fastest to Hop Across Finishing Line Wins $25 Gift Card!) 3:00 Marshmallow Stein Toss (Most Marshmallows Caught in 1 Minute Wins $25 Gift Card!) 4:00 Candy Chopstick Challenge (Most Candies Picked Up with Chopsticks Wins $25 Gift Card!) 5:00 Stein Hoisting (Longest Endurance Holding a Filled Stein Wins $25 Gift Card!) The Do Wrongs Live Music: 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM Shipgarten After Dark: 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM, featuring Bier-O-Ween Dance Party with $500 in prizes "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 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  

Halloween aka All Hallows’ Eve is a celebration observed in a number of countries at the end of October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day. It is "widely believed" that many Halloween traditions originated from the ancient Celtic harvest festival Samhain. Samhain and other such festivals had pagan roots. Join us here at Shipgarten for our Halloween party, aka Bier-O-Ween. We promise you that it will not be something for the "faint at heart". ★★★6:00 PM- 10:00PM we will have trick-or-treating for Adults over 21 ★★★ ★★★8:00 PM- 2:00AM DJ Bianca Diamond Performing Live - Todays Hits, Hip Hop, EDM and More ★★★ ★★★Midnight - $500 Costume Contest ★★★ 1st Place $300 Cash 2nd Place $150 Gift Card 3rd Place $50 Gift Card We have partnered up with a Local Brewery to brew us a special Blood beer just for Halloween! That's right, we will have a delicious BLOOD-drenched beer on tap all day (and night) on Halloween! ★Great food★Dog Friendly (ask for treats or a water bowl)★$500 Costume Contest★Trick-or-treating★Bratwursts, Pretzels, Wings, Special of the Day