Oktoberfest Des Moines

🇩🇪 🍻 🥨 We're so excited to celebrate 20 YEARS of Oktoberfest! 🇩🇪 🍻 🥨

Celebrate Oktoberfest traditions in true German style at Des Moines’ 20th Annual Oktoberfest in beautiful Water Works Park on Sept. 27 & 28.

Tickets: $20, include admission for both days, a commemorative Oktoberfest pint glass (while supplies last), and free parking.

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Us when the weekend gets here 🎉

Would it really be Oktoberfest without the Polka Police? 🕺👮🏻‍♂️ Make sure you catch 'em on stage at this year's fest on Sept. 27 & 28 at Water Works Park!

Duolingo, who? 👀 We got you! Save this post to keep these key German phrases in your back (lederhosen) pocket for Oktoberfest.

Is a Stein Holding Competition on your bucket list? THIS IS YOUR YEAR!

It might be brat summer but we’re ready for ‘kraut fall.

Pardon our drool. 🤤 🥨 🌭

2024 Bier Maiden training starts… NOW! 👑

ROLL OUT THE BARREL ⚡️🎷🥁🪗 🎺 Twin-cities based Polka Zeit brings the fun!

Catch them at this year's Oktoberfest on Sept. 27-28 at Water Works Park!

When somebody matches your freak at Oktoberfest. 😏

Fall nights with friends, flannel & foamy drinks: Yes, please. 🍻 September 27 & 28, we’re ready for you!

It’s time to grab your 20th anniversary tickets for $20. oktoberfestdsm.com

P.S. — Don’t forget to add on a 20th anniversary stein!

Prost in style with our special 20th anniversary ceramic stein handcrafted by Schilz — manufacturing ceramics in Germany since 1661. Add a souvenir stein to your ticket order for just $20. oktoberfestdsm.com

To celebrate our twentieth year, Des Moines rockers The Rathbones will make their last appearance. The performance will be extra special because they played the very first Oktoberfest in 2004!

We’re giving away two tickets to the 20th Oktoberfest, plus a pair of commemorative steins! To enter for a chance to win tag a friend in the comments. We'll pick a winner this Friday at 10am.

How many biers does it take to reach 20 years? The answer is: viel. (A lot.) Come celebrate the big 2-0 with us!

We've got lots of surprises in store this year in addition to our traditions of craft beers, delicious German food, and bier maiden and stein holding competitions. Plus we'll polka to the ultimate party band, Polka-Zeit, and raise a stein to one of Des Moines' OG bands and Iowa Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, The Rathbones.

Tickets go on sale this Friday at oktoberfestdsm.net ($20 for year 20!)

Friends, we need your help! My dad loaned us one of his favorite authentic Oktoberfest 100-Year Anniversary Steins that was hand-painted and signed. It’s a big keepsake for our German family and it disappeared at the event. We have a $100 reward for its safe return. If you found it, please contact me at [email protected]. No questions asked! Please help spread the word!

It takes a village!

This Prost goes out to you, Oktoberfesters!

Danke schon to all of you Drindl-wearing, Bier-prosting Oktoberfest celebrators. We did it. Another year of authentic German celebrations is in the books, and we couldn't have done it without YOU!

So strong. So stein.

There's no better place to hear Amana Colony Folksingers. Prost!

Well THAT was exhilarating!

This is the [Oktoberfest] life.