CANCELLED: Octobeerfest (Oct. 18)

PLEASE NOTE: OCTOBEERFEST HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Last year, Cleveland started a grand new tradition: Cleveland Beer Week. It's a celebration of craft brews with countless tastings, pairings, dinners and other activities at venues all around Northeast Ohio — including Beach Club Bistro.

This year the bistro celebrates beer week with Octobeerfest on Monday, Oct. 18 from 5-8 p.m. Mark your calendar!

Festivities feature an Oktoberfest-themed buffet: think pork schnitzel, spaetzel, potato pancakes, homemade German-style potato salad, cheese pierogies with sauteed, buttered onions, and sauerkraut with German sausages marinated with beer and served with homemade bourbon whole-grain mustard.

(What's the word for delicious in German?)

The night also includes 36 (count 'em thirty-six!) beers to sample and seven visiting craft or import brewery reps to chat up about beer.

A beer week celebration wouldn't be complete, however, without visiting all-stars. Octobeerfest welcomes Rogue Ales president Jim Cline to the bistro as guest of honor.

Participating breweries include Rogue, Merchant du Vin, 21st Amendment, Duvel, Smutty Nose, Sam Smith, Victory, Thirsty Dog and Ommegang.

Tickets are $55 and include the köstlich Oktoberfest-themed buffet, 36 beers to sample, a souvenir sampler glass and a Beach Club Bistro growler to take home.