On Thursday, the world's second largest Oktoberfest event kicked off with the keg tapping ceremony. Events continue from October 5th to 14th.
Having previously attended this event with K'mpec a few years ago (it kind of sucked), it's another hilarious example of Ontario being so behind the times.
The actual German Oktoberfest is already long over. It started back on September 16th and ended on October 3rd.
Edmonton had its own sucky non-German Oktoberfest at the downtown arena: it was held on September 22nd and was over by October 1st. Edmonton also had the far superior (K'mpec has been to numerous Oktoberfests including Munich and rates GCCA as the second best) Oktoberfest at the German Canadian Cultural Association which also ran from September 14th to 30th.
As was explained to us at the GCCA event a decade ago, in Germany much like Alberta, October gets cold and it's too dangerous to plan events in that month knowing you could be dealing with a cold snap. So long after the real Oktoberfest and its offshoots are done and we've moved on with our lives, now is when Worst Case Ontario bothers to get around to holding one?
(Worst of all, of course, was that the Shiny Pony attended)
