Oktoberfest
September 25-26, 2010

Pull on your lederhosen, strike up the band, dance a polka and grab an ale at our very own Swashbuckler Brew Pub when Pennsylvania Dutch goes Deutsche at the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire.

College Discount
All students from Elizabethtown College, Chestnut Hill College and Lehigh University receive $10 off admission at the front gate with valid ID. For a full list of college weekends, click here.

Themed Weekend Activities

Bar Olympics The Bar Triathalon Test your skills in some of our classic pub games: bar arrows, farthing-bouncing, and Ale Pong! The top ten contestants advance to the next round of the Bar Olympics. Ode to Ale Impromptu toasts from the competitors make a hilarious event as this contest of wit challenges each contestant to create yet an even more ingenious toast than the last. Hilarity will ensue as will the glorious Mount Hope prizes! Top five contestants continue to the next round. Bar Keep Contest Show your mettle behind the bar. Can you serve sturdy ale wihtout spillage? Is your pour too heady? Are your verbal skills as honed as your drinking skills? Put your best barkeep abilities to the test and be judged by Mt. Hope's finest barkeeps. All final contestants will receive wondrous prizes and accodolades. Our grand prize winner will also earn the righ to have our very own Wharf Bar named after them, an honor to be helf until the 12th annual Celtic Fling & Highland Games in June of 2011. Topfschlagen! (Hit the Kettle) Nipperkins are invited to don a blindfold, take up a spoon, bang the ground in order to find the Kettle that holds the prize, and yell "Topfschlagen!" to their heart's content in this traditional Bavarian game. Plus entertainment from Don Juan & Miguel, Barely Balanced, Lancaster Liedercrantz, Little German Band, PA Alpiners, Tribal Circus, Paolo Garbanzo, Thom Sellectomy, Empty Hats, Keltish, Sloanwolfe, Mud Beggars, and Sir Isaac Fawlkes.