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.
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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…
Malted Monster = Monster + Chocolate Malt
Chocolate M&M = M&M + Whole Chocolate
Strawberries and Cream = Sugar + Strawberry Crème
The Classic = Choc Chip + Whole Milk
Dulce de Leche = Snickerdoodle + Salted Caramel
Tickets for this tasting cost $1 per tasting and are available for purchase onsite.
Craft & Curd: Paired
It’s the ultimate brewery face-off! Six local breweries battle it out for 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 (craft beer and curd combos coming soon!):
- Swinging Bridge Brewery
- Rush River Brewing
- Hop & Barrel Brewing
- Lift Bridge Brewing
- Oliphant Brewing
- Zymurgy Brewing
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 300 tickets available for each day! All 6 beer/curd tastings for $20.
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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 their own Claim to Fame. The Spiciest Cheeses in our state… we’ve got ‘em! Wisconsin’s Moldy but Goodies… yep, you’ll taste those, too! Aged cheeses, smelly cheeses, Wisconsin’s perfect pairings, and unique cheese curd flavors… over 30 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 $20 each.
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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…
- Big Muddy
- Caramel Collision
- Jumping Jersey Cow
- Super Madness
- WI Campfire S’mores
Tickets for this tasting cost $1 each and are available to purchase onsite.
