A Guelph forklift driver has been crowned Oktoberfest Idol by the judges at Canada's annual beer festival.

Jessica Grieve, a 24-year-old shipper and receiver at an oil burner company, wowed the judges and the crowd with her booming renditions of Carole King and Celine Dion classics.

Of the field of 25, Grieve made it to the three-singer shortlist, but trounced the competition with her singing, according to a Kitchener-Waterloo Record report.

"I don't have a lot of hair on my arms but what little I have stands up on end when you sing," said judge Brian Bourke, a radio personality. "(Your voice) makes goose pimples on my arm," said children's entertainer Erick Traplin, adding, "I can't even talk."

As Oktoberfest Idol, Grieve will ride on top of a Mustang convertible in the Thanksgiving parade, and she will perform later. But she's very realistic about whether the win will change her life.

"I'll have to get up at six o'clock tomorrow morning. Lack of sleep, that's it," she said. "Can I keep the car?"