Creative Loafing Tampa

2nd Annual Ybor Oktoberfest Pub Crawl: Sat., 10/1

Fun, food, prizes and lots of beer.

• by Katie Machol
Fun, food, prizes and lots of beer.
• Tags: Events, Drink, Food & Drink Events, Ybor Oktoberfest Pub Crawl, ybor, oktoberfest, octoberfest, october, events, weekend, beer, drinking, party, food, tampa

Autumn beer offering: Leinenkugel's Oktoberfest (plus recipe)

Leinenkugel's releases their German Marzen-style beer and shares a tasty recipe pairing.

• by Katie Machol
Leinenkugel's releases their German Marzen-style beer and shares a tasty recipe pairing.
• Tags: Drink, Recipes & Cooking, beer, craft beer, leinenkugel's, oktoberfest, seasonal beers, seasonals, autumn, food, pairings, food pairing, recipe

Do It This Weekend: Julie Weitz, St. Pete Oktoberfest, Zombie Night, SASS Bash and more

• by Julie Garisto
Plan to attend Julie Weitz: LineTimeLine at Tempus Projects, Beach Theatre's Zombie Night, Oktoberfests on both sides of the bay and SASS Bash, a fashionably unconventional fundraiser for a worthy cause.
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Events, Arts & Entertainment, Events, Tampa, Beach Theatre, King of Spain, craft beer, seminole heights, painting, paper, collage, tampa heights, oktoberfest, brews by the bay, jeremy gloff, tempus projects, disco dolls, DJ Brian Oblivion, Julie Weitz, LineTimeLine, drawing, optical effects, Zen Lily, Audry Garber, Julie Dye Designs, Mark Noll, Lesley Stuart Tinnaro, Scott Diaz, Daniel Mantilla, Florida Avenue, Sass Bash, Serena Spain Memorial scholarship, Groovy Cool, Hana-Li, Dub Lounge, Acrobellum Acrobats, Frostings, Etcc., Smokin A's, Heights Waterfront, Trolley Barn, Ola Ave, J.J. Taylor, Hip Abduction, Fallopian Tubes, Tom Kats

German comfort food: Bacon and Gruyere spaetzle gratin (recipe)

• by Katie Machol
This creamy, smoky, heartwarming dish makes for the perfect comfort food, much like baked macaroni and cheese, and a great addition to an Oktoberfest feast.
• Tags: Recipes & Cooking, cheese, Recipes & Cooking, gratin, bacon, Katie Machol, casserole, comfort food, german, Gruyere, German food, oktoberfest, epcot food and wine festival, spaetzle

Prost! Oktoberfest celebrations around Tampa Bay

• by Katie Machol
Check out this list of the Oktoberfest-related events going on in the Bay so you can plan your festivities accordingly.
• Tags: Events, Food & Drink Events, Food Events, Events, drinking, dunedin-brewery, food, pub crawl, Ybor, beer, events, German food, Food & Drink Events, macdintons, the dubliner, grand central, oktoberfest, brews by the bay, drinking games, the florida aquarium, Food Events, international beer garten, ibg, st. pete oktoberfest, oktoberfest tampa, double decker

Tampa Bay food, wine and beer events

• by Katie Machol
Plan your eating and drinking to-do list with our comprehensive calendar.
• Tags: Drink, Food & Drink Events, Food Events, wine, Drink, food, beer, wine tasting, sidebern's, champagne, events, Food & Drink Events, macdintons, dubliner, oktoberfest, world of wines, Food Events, caviar

AltDotPop: Paris and Lindsay avoid jail, Katy and Nicole celebrate their singledom, Gossip Girl meets the undead and a Jersey Shore farewell

• by Amanda Allwood
• Tags: Arts & Entertainment, Pop Culture, Arts & Entertainment, Lauren Conrad, Paris-Hilton, American Idol, kim kardashian, Gossip Girl, lindsay lohan, divorce, Jersey shore, cocaine, taylor momsen, oktoberfest, jail, bail, Pop Culture, katy perry bachelorette, nicole richie bachelorette, cameron crowe and nancy willson, courtney love makeover, pauly d

American-brewed Oktoberfest beers: Four different interpretations of the Marzen style

• by Sean Nordquist
To celebrate Oktoberfest this year, I selected four different American-brewed Oktoberfest beers to sample and was amazed at how different each brewery’s interpretation of the style was.
• Tags: Drink, Food & Drink Events, Drink, beer, lager, craft beer, Left Hand Brewing, Food & Drink Events, oktoberfest, octoberfest, harpoon brewery, sean nordquist, marzen, Starr Hill Brewing, Bell's Brewery

Do It This Weekend: Art from Tes One, [5]art and Korea, Oktoberfest, Cruising for Critters, Women Taking Care of the World and more

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Events, Events, Cuban-Club, Ybor City, Mahaffey Theater, Tes One, Humane Society, Magic Hat, [5]Art, local beer, local art, earth charter, local theater, things to do in tampa bay, oktobeerfest, lisa lavie, temple hayes, the doctor is in, oktoberfest, brews by the bay, lederhosen, leon bedore, redletter1 gallery, sleep of reason cinema series, goodbye victoria, cruising for critters, quaker's steak and lube, eve's family restaurant, women taking macre of the world conference, moxy women, fawn germer, lynda lyday, CASA, haunted heart sale, coralette damme, crafty hag, boogiebead, michelle crash, ginger dead, melissa hates you, natty moss bond, the occasional bat, halloween sale, three from korea, mindy solomon gallery, theatreusf, student theater, cumbas, echeverry, torres, affordable art, 5by5, stella artois, boddington's, Uncategorized

Do It Today: Art, beer, movies and music

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Events, Events, dunedin-brewery, WMNF, Salvador Dalí Museum, live music, morean arts center, studio @620, oktobeerfest, dali and beyond film series, oktoberfest, art:21, art in the twenty first century, art on tv, oliver herring, joellen schilke, liter nighgt, carc caro, jean-pierre jeunet, city of lost children, st. petersburg opera, evenings with the maestro, fach, opera buff, Uncategorized

Tampa Bay food, wine and beer events

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Food & Drink Events, beer tasting, cooking class, Carrollwood Cultural Center, Food & Drink Events, gateway organic farm, publix apron's cooking school, wine class, oktoberfest, brews by the bay, beer fest, bern's fine wine and spirits, potluck, sidebern's bern's steakhouse, uncorked fine wine and spirits, Uncategorized

Celebrate the suds next weekend at Brews by the Bay and OktoBEERfest

• by Franki Weddington
• Tags: Food & Drink Events, dunedin-brewery, Florida Aquarium, Magic Hat, local beer, German beer, German food, Food & Drink Events, oktobeerfest, oktoberfest, brews by the bay, local brewery, beer fest, lederhosen, boddington's stella artois, Uncategorized