Belly Up The delicious search continues at The World’s Best Brat Competition

“The World’s Largest Brat Fest”? Never heard of it. The World’s Best Brat Competition on Oct. 1 (1-7 p.m.) at the unlikely venue of the Watertown Airport, is operating like that event does not exist, which is great for those who are longing for a late-season brat. The $5 admission includes samples of all brats that appeal: local fave Usinger’s, along with Northern Trails Meats, Johnsonville, Trig’s Smokehouse, Festival Foods, and many more will ladle mustard and kraut over Wisconsin’s favorite tubular meat delivery system. The entry fee includes a taste of any one of the dozen competing brats. If hunger still burns, whole brats are available on site. Content categories will center on a hot race for the best “traditional” brat, but sausage-makers can also enter into the “alternative” and “non-traditional” categories, which mean jalapeno- and pineapple-topped brats can cozy up to tofu brats in warm bellies. Adjudication will occur that day, with a triumphant winner yelling “Eat this, bitches!” from atop a revving Harley-Davidson cycle primed for peeling out with a shriek of burning rubber. Nothing goes with a Wisconsin brat like a Wisconsin beer, so plan ahead and designate a driver.

FATSOMETER: 7. Although the voting is only based on small tastes of the competition, once the appetite gets whetted for pork products, there’s no turning back.