Our Oktoberfest
Our event is brought to you by the collective efforts of the The Golden Ears Cheesecrafters & Golden Ears Rotary Club along with endless community support.
Make sure to dress up in your best Oktoberfest attire! If you don’t have any, get some get ideas HERE
Vienna Lager
ABV 5% | IBU 20
Description: Our Vienna Lager is always available, branded as our Mom Beer. It is a crisp, clean, and a malt-forward beer that boasts bready flavours. The hops take a back seat, allowing the complex toastiness of this lager to take centre stage.
The Vienna lager is a mainstay of ours that we call Mom Beer.
Brewery: Foamers’ Folly Brewery, Pitt Meadows
Helles Lager
ABV 5% | IBU 18
Description: Our Helles Lager is regularly available in our lounge as Foamers’ Lager. The word Helles translates to pale or bright in English. Ours is Pale gold in colour with bright clarity, dry earthy hop aromas, crisp bready malt body and a clean finish.
The Helles is regularly available in the lounge though it isn’t permanent and we do not package it.
Brewery: Foamers’ Folly Brewery, Pitt Meadows
Dunkelweizen
ABV 5% | IBU 15
Description: Dunkleweizen translates to dark wheat. It is an ale with a rich amber appearance. It has balanced clove and banana notes in both aroma and flavour due to the yeast which is all supported by a slight caramel maltiness.
The Dunkleweizen will be a new beer, crafted specifically for this event.
Brewery: Foamers’ Folly Brewery, Pitt Meadows
The Rotary Club of Golden Ears Sunrise is a small and mighty group of passionate persons with an aim to provide service to our community. Our club is focused on the community of Maple Ridge and is part of a much larger collective known as Rotary International.
This global organization is made up of over 1.2 million passionate individuals in over 35,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary Clubs strive to be both leaders in their respective communities while maintaining a global character, and the clubs of Maple Meadows are no exception. We work together to lead change in our own backyards and across the world.
History of The Oktoberfest:
The Oktoberfest is an annual festival held in Munich, Germany. It occurs over a two-week period in the Bavarian capital concluding on the first Sunday in October. The first Oktoberfest was held in October of 1810 as a celebration of the marriage between the crown prince of Bavaria to his Sachsen bride. The festival lasted five days culminating in a horse race known as Theresienwiese (named after the crown prince’s bride). The festival was such a success that it was held again the following year and has expanded ever since. Over time, small booths evolved into large beer halls made of plywood with interior balconies and bandstands with the capacity to hold 6000 people each.
Today, it is customary for the Mayor of Munich to tap the first keg as a gesture that the festival has begun. In fact, the festival draws more than six million people annually to Munich. Oktoberfest is a traditional festival that has survived into the modern era as an opportunity for the locals to showcase their history and traditions to the world – all while having drinking delicious beer, eating superb food, and listening to quintessentially Bavarian music.
Celebrate all things German with the Maple Meadows Rotary at our inaugural Oktoberfest at The Golden Ears Cheesecrafters. This event will feature live German music, traditional food, sauerkraut and pretzels galore, and much more!
