BRANSON MISSOURI NEWS: Buy PhotoMother’s Brewing Company hosts its sixth annual Oktoberfest Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016. It will feature live music from the Garbonzos.(Photo: News-Leader file photo)Buy PhotoIt’s Oktoberfest season in southwest Missouri.Despite the name, the series of beer festivals gets started in mid-September.Why? That’s the way it’s done in Munich, said Kyle Jeffries, a Mother’s Brewing Company staffer who helps organize that brewery’s Oktoberfest.The German city where Oktoberfest began used to have it in mid-October, but the weather wasn’t very reliable. In Springfield, beer lovers basically follow that tradition, Jeffries said.For example, Mother’s event, Oktoberfest in the Ozarks, happens a week before Bavaria’s.“Missouri has a pretty significant German heritage,” Jeffries said. “Even in the Ozarks. Certainly Missouri’s beer heritage owes a lot to German heritage, so it makes sense to celebrate it.”These days, American craft brews are a major feature of local Oktoberfests as much or more than imported beers, said Jason Bernard, Brown Derby International Wine Center manager. Brown Derby hosts its 11th Oktoberfest this fall, believed to be the oldest one in town.Elsewhere around the Ozarks, you’ll find Oktoberfests celebrating a 500-year-old sauerkraut recipe, …
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