Tasting Events
From adult tastings to fun and unique sampling for the entire family, plan to take part in the tasting experiences offered during the festival.
Corks & Kegs
The Corks & Kegs adult tasting experiences feature local and regional craft beer, wine and hard cider. This popular event is a happy hour like no other. Your ticket grants you entrance to unlimited sampling and light appetizers.
Enjoy live entertainment while you mingle and compare tasting notes for over 40 craft beers, wines, and hard ciders from the Midwest, many from within a 40-mile radius of the festival.
Each guest will receive a souvenir tasting glass.
Only 125 tickets will be sold for each Corks & Kegs event! Tickets are $30 each.
Tickets now on sale!
Milk & Cookie Pairing
Whether you’re a kid or a kid at heart, there’s something special about milk and cookies. We’ve specially paired five flavors of milk with five popular freshly baked cookie flavors.
This year’s Milk & Cookie flavors are…
M&M Cookie + Whole Milk = M&M Classic
Monster Cookie + Strawberry Milk = Strawberry Monster
Chocolate Chip cookie + Vanilla Milk Shake Milk = Chocolate Chip Milkshake
English Toffee Cookie + Chocolate Milk = Sticky Toffee
Sugar Cookie + Salted Caramel Milk = Sweet Salted Caramel
Taste all five for $10! Tickets available on-site at the tasting event.
Craft & Curd: Paired
It’s the ultimate brewery face-off! Six local breweries battle it out for the best brew and cheese curd flavor pairing. Who will win? That’s up to you–You’re the judge for this intense (and tasty) competition!
Here are this year’s participating breweries:
Brickfield Brewing
Bricklayer Pale Ale paired with Pizza Curds
Traditional pale ale dry-hopped with Citra hops resulting in juicy orange and grapefruit flavors.
Durand Brewing
Durand Marzen with Ranch Curds
A malty German-style Brown Ale with balanced malt sweetness and hop bitterness.
Half Fast Brewing
What’s the Big Dill? with Garlic Curds
A German-style wheat gose; light, crisp with a dill pickle finish.
Hop & Barrel Brewing
Zorro Rojo with Hickory Bacon Curds
A medium bodied, full flavored, deliciously malty lager, with a smooth caramel-y finish.
Oliphant Brewing
Raspberry Anutart with Lemon Pepper Curds
A wheat sour; tastes light, crisp, and tart with raspberry juiciness.
Rush River Brewing
Minion IPA with Jalapeno Curds
An intensely hop-forward ale, pungent aroma and flavor without the bitterness of a traditional IPA.
These flavor combinations have never been sampled before… until now! Voting will take place during each Craft & Curd event and the winning brewery’s craft and curd pairing will be announced at the festival upon tabulation of the votes.
Only 250 tickets available for each day! All 6 beer/curd tastings for $25.
Tickets now on sale!
Block Party!
Join us for a Block Party dedicated to the cheese lover in all of us! You’ll take a delicious trip around the state as you sample unique Wisconsin cheeses, each with its own Claim to Fame. The Spiciest Cheeses in our state… we’ve got ‘em! Wisconsin’s Smoky Sensations… yep, you’ll taste those, too! Aged cheeses, smelly cheeses, Wisconsin’s perfect pairings, and unique cheese curd flavors… over 25 types of cheeses will be available for tasting!
Guest cheese experts will be on hand to answer your questions and share how our dairy state and all our cheeses, came to be so famous, not only in the Midwest but all around the world!
Ticket includes a beer, hard cider, or wine of choice, and a complimentary prune juice chaser–after eating all that cheese, you might need it! ;-)
Tickets are $25 each.
Tickets now on sale!
Ice Cream Tasting
A great time for the entire family, this one-hour real dairy flavor celebration features creative combinations to tickle your tastebuds.
This year’s ice cream is compliments of our friends at Cedar Crest…
Birthday Cake
Blueberry Waffle Cone
Firecracker
After Dinner Mint
Dirt Cake
Taste all five for $10! Tickets available on-site at the tasting event.
