The inaugural Lake Norman Beer Festival is next weekend, Saturday and Sunday Sept 18-19 from 1 p.m.- 8 p.m. at the Galway Hooker ... and surrounding parking lot.

It's going to require a lot of space to host 16 different breweries, two bands and hundreds of people carrying beer sampling mugs. They'll have brews to sample from Brooklyn (Brewery) to Carolina (Beer Company) with Dave Kellan and Jay Mathey performing live. It's the lake's version of Oktoberfest, and much like Uptown's Oktoberfest, is held in September.

See you in Lake Norman next weekend for hookers and beer. I mean, beer at the Hooker. You can get tickets here

Meanwhile, the 12th Annual Charlotte Oktoberfest is the weekend after next, Sept. 25 at Metrolina Tradshow Expo ... which means the bushes will get a lot of watering, see what I mean.