Shore Craft Beer's OCtoberfest 12.30pm - 4.30pm October 29th 2022


Join us this October 29th in Ocean City’s scenic Sunset Park, to celebrate OCtoberfest with great, local craft beer. Remember, dogs, kids and non-drinkers are welcome, too!

Our OCtoberfest Craft Beer Festival has live music from Fire Kite, vendors, food trucks, and over 30 different local craft beers by local and regional brewers.  
All Proceeds Benefit OCDC
This is a rain or shine event. All tickets are non refundable. 

1/2 Hour Cruise with a full beer during the festival!

OC Bay Hopper is excited to provide mini Shore Craft Beer cruises during the OCtoberfest Craft Beer Festival! The cruise will last just shy of 30 minutes and depart/return to the dock at the festival!
Walk out to the dock at your selected departure time to board the boat, have a beer, and enjoy the natural beauty of the coastal bays. The cruise will include one full beer per person. You can add your cruise tickets for only $15.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW

Breweries & Beverages

Check out all the breweries coming to Octoberfest and the beverages you will be tasting.  
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Directions & Map

This year will be spread out between Sunset Park in downtown Ocean City and the adjacent property to the south.  

What are you waiting for?

VIP tickets and General Admission tickets are available so be sure to get your tickets early so you don't miss this year's festival.  

OCtoberfest Hotel Packages now available!

 Participating Breweries:  Maryland 

  1. OCtoberfest
  2. Coffee and Cream
  3. Homegrown
  1. Lot 3
  2. Teaki Torch
  3. Oktoberfest
American Original (spiked tea)
  1. Blonde Ale
  2. IPA
  1. Roy Light
  2. One Trick Pony Cherry Vanilla Graham
  3. ​Party Man
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  1. Margarita Hard Seltzer
  2. Big Juicy Van - west Coast Ipa
  3. ​Pony Island Porter
  1. Hop Electric,
  2. Chesapeake Wheat,
  3. Numero,
  4. Truth Serum
  1. Märzen,
  2. Ain't nothin but a hop thing (WCIPA), and
  3. Salted rim (margarita sour).
  1. Speed Wobbles,
  2. Dundalk Calling, and
  3. Classic Lager 
1. Highboy
2. Halfcab Hazy
​3.Topless Blonde.
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  1. Greater Pumpkin,
  2. Impending Doom hazy tangerine ipa,
  3. Tropicannon w/ Strawberry and Banana,
  4. Tropicannon w/ Pina Colada 
  1. 31 Pumpkin,
  2. Low Key pineapple wheat,
  3. Sour Me Rose,
  4. Can I Get a Woop Woop? (hazy ipa) 

 Participating Breweries:  Delaware 

  1. Pumpkin,
  2. Noir Belgian Triple,
  3. Shuck It oyster stout, and
  4. Hammerhead
  1. El Trono Mexican Lager
  2. Swishy Pants IPA
  3. Secret Machine Fruit Smoothie
  1. Aint's Superstitious Imperial Pumpkin Ale
  2. Oktoberfest Lager
  3. ​That's What I Like About You IPA
  1. Punkin Ale,
  2. Hazy O IPA,
  3. Blue Hen Pilsner,
  4. *Vintage 120 min
  1. Not Today Satan,
  2. Reach Around,
  3. War Llama (or another rotating sour)

 Participating Breweries:  Virginia

  1. Assateague IPA,
  2. Puddle Pirate Porter,
  3. Pumpkin 

Live Music

We are FireKite, a high-energy party rock band that delivers your favorite, modern, upbeat songs at shows throughout the mid-Atlantic area. We like it when the dance floor is jumping, singing, moving, and everyone is having fun!! We know you expect good music and we deliver, with passionate vocals, driving rhythms, and on-stage chemistry that draws you in. Performing live is what we do and seeing you smile, sing and dance is what we love. So come out and meet Pamela (vocals), Rich (bass), Morton (guitar), John (drums), and Nate (keys) and see what the fun is all about!

Food Trucks

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Malibu’s Beach Eats

Malibu’s Beach Eats is an independent food truck owned and operated in Salisbury, MD. We aim to serve with our quality products and fair prices
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Get Baked Food Trolley​
​Fresh, hot stuffed pretzel rolls filled with your favorite foods like crab, steak, Mac n cheese, and more! 
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​Anthony Sessa’s Hot Dog
​Bringing multigenerational experience of professional cooking, Italian street food, and city hot dog carts to the Eastern Shore,  Anthony is a family run business that prides itself on bringing classic Italian foods and delicious American classics to the Eastern Shore! All made with love.
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Wensil Concessions
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​Funnel Cakes of all kinds including regular, pumpkin, red velvet and apple cider with apples, chocolate, strawberries and oreos toppings. We also have fried Oreos and fresh  squeezed  lemonade, soda. Sweet tea, coffee and kids juice.

Vendors
We have more vendors than ever this year, so start your Holiday shopping early and enjoy beer and music while you shop! 

More vendors than we have ever had at a festival.  This is your opportunity to buy early holiday gifts while listening to live music and sampling 40+ different local craft beers. (hard seltzer and Hoop Tea too!)
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Whimsical Wonders by Kris
Tables, Trays, Ornaments, lights, Flowers, Pictures, Jewelry, Coasters, and much more from Recycled Beer Caps, Labels, Cans, and Bottles.

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Siren Call Gifts and Jewelry​
Small porcelain pieces for jewelry and the ornaments for windchimes and hanging mobiles.
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Beer and Wine Upcycling
Upcycling is the basis of my work. I make earrings and flowers from beer cans, trays and wall art from corks and caps, lit trees from corks and beer cans, and more!
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Purple Peak CBD
​We sell CBD products including topicals, tinctures, bath & body, pet  
treats, smokeables, logo'd apparel and gummies.
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Worx Essentials, LLC
Premium CBD Products 
Tinctures
Topicals
Edibles
Smokables
Pet Products 
Organic Tea
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Luci's Pet Pantry
​We are part of the maryland and national craft brewers associations. We specialize in beer, wine, & whisky dog biscuits plus all sorts of dog & cat treats.
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Lost at Sea
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Quinton's Quality Products At Truitt Farm llc
Quinton's Quality Products at Truitt Farm creates artisanal hot sauces: from seed to sauce. We grow all the chili peppers, onions, garlic, heirloom tomatoes and more that go into the sauces in our straw bale organic garden on the family farm outside Snow Hill, MD.
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Vivian's House
Vivian's House is a dedicated gluten free bakery (cottage kitchen). We have baked treats to compliment OCtoberfest (German Chocolate Cupcakes, Black Forest Cookies, either German Apple Cake or Apple Cider Cupcakes), and treats baked with beer! 
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Solutionz Gourmet
Everything you need for cooking including olive oils, marinades, BBQ sauces, hot sauces, butters, jams, balsamic glazes, salsa, spices and rubs.
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Katie Ruskey is a local author.  Her debut fiction novel, Marlin Week, was released in August 2022 based on three captains that fish in the infamous White Marlin Open. Her first children's book, The A B Seas of Ocean City, Maryland takes young readers on a tour of OC. Katie will be at OCtoberfest signing her books. For more information visit her website www.kruskeyauthor.com or follow her on IG/FB at Katherine Ruskey Author.
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Magnolia Rifle
Magnolia Rifle is collected and curated for the bohemian woman with a classic flair.
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Clean Choice Energy
We are a regional, renter-inclusive 100% Wind & Solar Energy supplier. 
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Passanante's Home Food Services
A home food delivery service specializing in all natural and organic food.
This festival is co-sponsored by ​OCDC and the ​Town of Ocean City.
This is a rain or shine event. All tickets are non refundable. 

Gallery from previous OCtoberfets