With no Delaware Saengerbund Oktoberfest this weekend, you can still get a taste here

It’s arguably Delaware’s greatest beer-drinking tradition: Oktoberfest under the big white tent at the Delaware Saengerbund and Library Association.

Things will be oddly quiet this weekend at the Ogletown German club, first founded as a singing society in 1853.

It would have been the club’s 42nd annual Oktoberfest if not for coronavirus precautions.

Sorry, but there will be no beer steins filled with Hacker-Pschorr this year. And no bratwurst, weisswurst, landjäger or rollmops to go with it, either.

But if you want a scaled-down taste of Oktoberfest, check out your local breweries.

Over at Stitch House Brewery (829 N Market St., Wilmington), an Oktoberfest celebration will be held Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. featuring four beers.

They are Oktoberfest (Märzen, 5.4% ABV), Run for the Pils (pilsner, 4.6% ABV), Dunkel Drunkel (Dunkel, 4.5% ABV) and Und Becks (Dortmunder, 5.9% ABV).

In addition, there will be German food specials and German music to help set the scene.

And near Rehoboth Beach, Thompson Island Brewing Company (30133 Veterans Way) will unveil an Oktoberfest beer on Saturday, which will be sold in a commemorative stein for $8. Also on the menu: a house-made, foot-long bratwurst.