It is a hometown festival with great food and a great variety of vendors. By removing uncertainty and cancelling the Sausage Festival for 2020 at this early stage the team will of course now be focusing on making 2021 the biggest celebration ever. Two days a year they hold a sausage festival. Or, bring a few more and stay in a three-bedroom, budget-friendly property. Beulah Fire Department needs to take some lessons from Elberta Alabama. Halloween festivities are on tap at OWA, which is between Gulf Shores andīring the kids and still keep an eye on the budget by booking a two-bedroom, budget-friendly beach rental. Proceeds are used not only for improving the fire department but also improving the town.īook a long weekend at the beach, enjoy the sights and sounds of the festival, and enjoy a variety of other activities available in the Gulf Shores area. The German Sausage Festival is a biannual fundraiser of Elberta’s Volunteer Fire Department. The day’s entertainment also includes carnival rides, polka music, country music, dancing, and more. Baked goods as well as arts and crafts are for sale on the festival grounds.

You’ll also find German-style filled cabbage, potato salad, goulash, red beans and rice, hamburgers, hot dogs, barbecue sandwiches, ice cream, popcorn and peanuts. Festival organizers say they sell about 6,000 pounds at each festival. Of course, the sausage, whose original secret recipe is credited to Alfred Stucki who managed Elberta’s Locker Plant from 1953 until his death in 1973, is the showcase cuisine. The festival will be held in the quaint German-influenced town of Elberta, which is just north of Alabama Gulf Coast area beaches on U.S. These are words you're likely to hear when you attend the 2021 edition of the German Sausage Festival on Saturday, Oct. “One with, two without.” Sauerkraut, that is.

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