Oktoberfest - prost!

So this past weekend, I ventured over to Oktoberfest in El Cajon. Now some quick, cursory googling and yelping basically made it seem like there were two main Oktoberfests in San Diego - El Cajon and La Mesa. El Cajon was touted as the more traditional, while La Mesa was presented as bigger but a little more Street Fair-ish. El Cajon 4.5 stars, La Mesa 2. Since it was my first Oktoberfest, I figured we should go with traditional, so off to El Cajon we went!

... Does anyone know of any other Oktoberfests in San Diego? Really good ones?

This was small. Too small. The beer was good, the band was good, the food was German, but man, it got boring really fast. It was very family friendly, in a way that perhaps a celebration of beer shouldn't be. The weekend before we went to New Belgium's Tour De Fat, and that was not only free (though we made a donation, of course) but also a million times more fun!

On the flip side, how killer is this stein I bought? It's like Small World Deutschland.

After about 3 beers, and having walked through all 10 or so vendors about 7 times, we were done ... off to small bar we went, with better beer, lower prices, and a more fun crowd. I'm glad I did it, but unless there's a great Oktoberfest I'm missing out on, I'll stick to the Tour De Fat, thanks.

Still, can't beat the company!