Oktoberfest in February? Wurstfest: Beer, Wine, Sausages, Music
February 10, 2010 — PDXPIPELINEIf you are itching for Oktoberfest, but can't wait another seven months, someone was thinking about you. Mount Angel is not that far from Portland and they will have beer, wine, sausages, music, but no weiner dog races this time.
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From Press Release:
Dust off your lederhosen, starch up your Bavarian Dirndl and join the happy folk of Mount Angel for a fun-filled weekend of celebration in honor of the Wurst.
Mount Angel. Oktoberfest and the Mount Angel Chamber of Commerce are teaming up again this year for the last blast of winter. Wurstfest, a celebration of the mighty German (wurst) sausage, takes place in the Oktoberfest Community Building, 500 S Wilco Hwy, on Friday, February 12, from 5:00 p.m. ‘till 11:00 p.m. Saturday, February 13, from noon ‘til 11:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 14, from noon ‘til 6:00 p.m. This is the weekend before Ash Wednesday and the start of the austere, Holy Season of Lent.
Included in the $10.00 adult admission fee is a half liter, Spaten souvenir Bavarian glass beer mug, easily worth the price of admission. Four thousand mugs are available on a first come first serve basis. Sunday, February 14 is Saint Valentine's Day and we will have a special gift for the ladies — a $10.00 gift card to one of Mount Angel's great restaurants, the Glockenspiel, Bavarian Haus or the Mt. Angel Sausage Company.
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