May 18, 2012
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Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food embraces the surging interest in eating local food for our physical and economic health, and for tasting the pleasure of simple, delicious, beautiful food.
This culinary tour reaches north from the cranberry bogs and thimbleberry jam of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to the southeastern inner city garden plots of Detroit. Michigan grows homespun food from every corner of the state to its great Great Lakes.
Seasoned journalist Jaye Beeler and award winning photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick team up to take you there through their visual and descriptive look at the essence of agricultural Michigan.
May 19, 2012
New Holland Brewing offer brewery and distillery tours at our Production Brewery every Saturday. No need to reserve your spot in advance
Brewery tours are at 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm. Tours are $10 per person and include samples of our beer as well as a take-home New Holland pint glass. Distillery tours are offered at 1:30 pm. they are $5 per person and include samples of our spirits.
Tickets for both brewery and distillery tours may be purchased at the pub in Downtown Holland (66 East 8th Street) or may be paid for at the Production Brewery when you arrive for your tour (cash only). Tours are sold separately.
Summer tour hours begin May 7 and run through November 19. Summer tours are at 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm (Distillery only at 1:30 pm) and 3:00 pm on Saturdays only. Fall/Winter tours will be in effect November 20 through April 30, and are scheduled at 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm on Saturdays only.
Hope to see you soon!
Admission: $5.00 Distillery/$10.00 Brewery
Want to learn about what makes Brewery Vivant beer so special? There is no better way than to learn from the very people whose passion put that beer in your glass. Tours are also a lot of fun. Impress your out-of-town guests by bringing them down to see how your local beer is made.
Official Brewery tours are given every Saturday at 2:00 and 3:30. No reservations needed, just show up. Must be 21 years or older to take the tour. Cost of the tour is $5 and includes beer samples. All tour attendees get 10% off coupon from the company store. Use it for shirts, hats, beer glasses, or take a 4 pk or case of beer home with you.
May 20, 2012
Maybe you’ve had them in restaurants, maybe you’ve seen them on the Food Network, maybe you’ve read about them in your magazines, well it’s time you learn how to cook them! We’ll make octopus, rabbit, quail, and mussels!
Price TBA, most classes are in the $25-30 range. Visit www.the-starving-artist.net
May 22, 2012
This is the perfect time of year to work with wild and foraged foods. We’ll attempt to collect ramps, morels, fiddlehead ferns, sorrel, lamb’s quarters, mulberries, dandelions, cattails… whatever we can find. Join us at Uptown Kitchen to learn about preparing wild foods. Don’t worry – dinner won’t be just a big, bitter salad. We’ll incorporate fresh pasta and heritage pork for a special, decadent locally sourced meal.
Purchase tickets here.
We continue to highlight the seasonal produce of May with Pea and Scallion Salad, Roasted Spring Onions with Romesco Sauce, Lamb Chops with a Fresh Herb Paste and Raspberry- Rhubarb Panna Cotta. We’ll also take a look at what June will be bringing to us. At Kissing Rock Kitchens, we’re looking forward to many Farmer’s Markets opening during the month of June!
Register online
May 23, 2012
We continue to highlight the seasonal produce of May with Pea and Scallion Salad, Roasted Spring Onions with Romesco Sauce, Lamb Chops with a Fresh Herb Paste and Raspberry- Rhubarb Panna Cotta. We’ll also take a look at what June will be bringing to us. At Kissing Rock Kitchens, we’re looking forward to many Farmer’s Markets opening during the month of June!
Register online
May 26, 2012
New Holland Brewing offer brewery and distillery tours at our Production Brewery every Saturday. No need to reserve your spot in advance
Brewery tours are at 12:00 pm and 3:00 pm. Tours are $10 per person and include samples of our beer as well as a take-home New Holland pint glass. Distillery tours are offered at 1:30 pm. they are $5 per person and include samples of our spirits.
Tickets for both brewery and distillery tours may be purchased at the pub in Downtown Holland (66 East 8th Street) or may be paid for at the Production Brewery when you arrive for your tour (cash only). Tours are sold separately.
Summer tour hours begin May 7 and run through November 19. Summer tours are at 12:00 pm, 1:30 pm (Distillery only at 1:30 pm) and 3:00 pm on Saturdays only. Fall/Winter tours will be in effect November 20 through April 30, and are scheduled at 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm on Saturdays only.
Hope to see you soon!
Admission: $5.00 Distillery/$10.00 Brewery
Want to learn about what makes Brewery Vivant beer so special? There is no better way than to learn from the very people whose passion put that beer in your glass. Tours are also a lot of fun. Impress your out-of-town guests by bringing them down to see how your local beer is made.
Official Brewery tours are given every Saturday at 2:00 and 3:30. No reservations needed, just show up. Must be 21 years or older to take the tour. Cost of the tour is $5 and includes beer samples. All tour attendees get 10% off coupon from the company store. Use it for shirts, hats, beer glasses, or take a 4 pk or case of beer home with you.
Short’s, Bell’s, Jolly Pumpkin, New Holland and Founders have been anchors of the festival for years. A number of new brewers will take part in 2012 including Cheboygan Brewing Company, Frankenmuth Brewery, Dark Horse Brewing Company, Liberty Street Brewing, Midland Brewing, B Nektar Meadery and Saugatuck Brewing Company. These craft beers come in three sizes: a Slug (enough for a taste) for $1, a Chug (have a mug) for $2 and a Mug for $4 with select premium beers available for $6.
Over a dozen varieties of brats from Honor Family Market (Honor), Pleva’s (Cedar), Maxbauer (Traverse City), Dublin Market (Copemish), Ebel’s (Falmouth) and Bunting’s (Cedar) make up the other half of the menu. Flavors ranging from Philly Cheese to Apple-Bacon to Smoked Cajun will be available $2 for a half and $4 for a whole.
Admission to the Michigan Beer & Brat Festival is $6 and includes live music from Jason & Nick (3-6pm) and The Outer Vibe (6-9pm). Tickets and tokens for beer and brats can be purchased online (click here). Crystal Mountain will once again partner with Bay Area Recycling for Charities to make the festival a zero-waste event using washable utensils and glasses while recycling or composting other waste.
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