Gordon Biersch Brewing Co. is internet hosting its annual Oktoberfest celebration Sept. 28 on the brewery in San Jose’s Japantown, and which means it’s time to get a grip — in your beer stein.
One of many enjoyable competitions on the beer competition is seeing who can hoist their stein — an enormous glass mug crammed with beer — upright the longest. There are divisions for women and men, however it’s a fairly powerful problem irrespective of who you’re because the mug needs to be held straight out out of your physique (although barely leaning again is authorized).
Gordon Biersch co-founder Dan Gordon says there’s an additional difficult wrinkle this yr: Steins should be held by the deal with solely as a substitute of the often-used technique of wrapping your hand across the stein physique and resting the deal with between your thumb and forefinger.
“That should cost people 39 seconds” off their time, Gordon predicted.
This yr’s celebration can also be including somewhat New Orleans taste to this yr’s historically German competition.
Meaning the meals will embrace po’ boys and jambalaya (from Poor Home Bistro) together with German sausages and Bavarian pretzels, and the leisure will embrace music from the Creole Bells, Mike Rinta and the Left Coast Syncopaters.
Admission to the occasion is free — the beer and meals aren’t — to the celebration, which runs from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the brewery at 375 E. Taylor St. in Japantown.
