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Category: Food & Drink

Get the scoop on Door County food and drink scene, including breweries, restaurants and taverns. From Brussels to Washington Island, we’ve got the latest on what the peninsula’s chefs, bartenders, and artisans are cooking up for you in Door County.

  • Door Artisan Cheese Wins Best Cheddar Award

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    Cheesemaker Darrell Demeter of Door Artisan Cheese Company, Egg Harbor, took home Best in Class for his Cave-Aged English Cheddar in the Natural Rinded Cheddar category of the 2018 World Cheese Champion that ended March 8 in Madison. The Door Artisan Cheddar earned a 99.15 rating from the judges. Jim Demeter, also of Door Artisan […]

  • Cheers!: A Dynomite Impy Stout and the Return of a Pre-Pro Lager

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    As soon as I took a whiff of this beer I was immediately transported back to my 10-year-old self hovering over a bowl of Neapolitan ice cream. Yes, I was certain Neapolitan Dynamite smelled like a bowl of vanilla-chocolate-strawberry ice cream, so much so that I wish I had a pint of the stuff. Instead […]

  • Girl Scout Cookies Still for Sale in Sister Bay

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    Girl Scout Troops 4356 and 4369 from Gibraltar Elementary School will hold two Girl Scout cookie booths for people to buy more Girl Scout cookies. The troops will sell March 10, 10 am – 2 pm at Shopko in Sister Bay and March 17, 10 am – 2 pm at Piggly Wiggly in Sister Bay. […]

  • Cheers!: A Heavenly Symphony in Your Mouth

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    It was one of those bone-chilling nights when the cold was working from the inside out. It didn’t help that old, cold things were rattling around in the brain pan, in particular, memories of a nasty dry spirit from the past surfaced like a bobbing corpse in inky memory. My own personal Marley, of the […]

  • Mojo Rosa’s Donates Portion of Fish Fry Proceeds to United Way

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    Throughout March Mojo Rosa’s in Egg Harbor is partnering with United Way of Door County, and will donate $1 for every Friday Fish Fry dinner sold. The all-you-can-eat fried haddock or swai comes with crinkle-cut fries, coleslaw and rye. The funds donated will go toward meeting United Way’s Annual Campaign need for 2018. Mojo Rosa’s […]

  • Cheers!: I’ll Ride That Orange Blossom Special

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    I was in need of a nice, soft lager when my eyes were caught by a grinning skull dripping with something. And then the cheeky name – Fresh As Helles. By Samuel Adams? There was a time in another century when finding a bar that served Samuel Adams Boston Lager in the bottle or, even […]

  • Tour Door Artisan Cheese Co. during Egg Harbor Historical Society Program

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    The Egg Harbor Historical Society is hosting its winter program March 4, 1 pm at Door Artisan Cheese Company. After the program, guided tours and sampling will be available as well as hors d’oeuvres and beverages. Reservations are required; call 920.823.2062 or email [email protected]. Along with your name(s) leave a return phone number. Reservations are […]

  • Cheers!: A Fizzy Cocktail of Ale

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    OK. Here’s an odd beer on the shelf that I had to try – a bomber bottle with a typically ambiguous modern label featuring a New Yorker-type cartoon bartender, standing, I think, at a bar and under a banner that reads Dealers Circle. Hmmm! That means nothing to me. Beneath that scene are the words […]

  • Cheers!: A Tea-Stained Stout

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    I was excited to see Michael on the shelves recently. This beer is named for the keg filler at Lakefront Brewery and is No. 24 in the brewery’s egalitarian My Turn Series, where everyone who works for the brewery gets a turn creating a beer for the rest of us. The six-pack comes with a […]

  • Hacienda Brewing Launches This Weekend

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    Danny McMahon knows people are having trouble wrapping their minds around the idea of the successful, young Door County Brewing Co. spinning off a new brewery that launches this weekend. “I’ll probably have to explain it another thousand times. I understand it. We knew this was going to happen,” McMahon said, adding that the easiest […]

  • Cheers!: Canned IPA

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      What a pretty can. A colorful mosaic, playing, of course, on the single hop series nature of this beer – Hop Screamer Mosaic IPA from Brickstone Brewery of Bourbonnais, Ill. Yum! I did not expect to like a beer with such a flaming name. First thing you get is a big piney gym sock […]

  • First Step Taken for Ellison Bay Winery

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    On Jan. 10, the night after the four-hour public hearing of the Door County Zoning Board of Adjustment that ended in favor of a new winery in the Town of Sevastopol, Don Grasse took the first step to establish a winery in Ellison Bay. The Town of Liberty Grove Plan Commission approved a conditional use […]

  • Cheers!: Tarting It Up for the New Year

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    Looking to start things off right, I kicked off the new year with a snifter of Blackberry Berliner Weisse Ale from Hinterland Brewery of Green Bay. It fills the mouth with a bright, light, fizzy tartness that makes a person feel pretty darn good to be alive, so, mission accomplished for first beer of the […]

  • Tickets Available for United Methodist Church’s Lumberjack Supper

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    The 83rd annual Lumberjack Supper will be served Jan. 31 at the United Methodist Church of Sturgeon Bay, corner of Michigan and 9th Streets. This annual tradition in Sturgeon Bay began in 1935 and features family style dining. The menu includes corned beef, roast pork, cabbage, rutabaga, mashed potatoes, baked beans, applesauce and pie. Dinner […]

  • Crate Restaurant Celebrates Second Anniversary with Prize Drawings

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    Crate Restaurant in Sturgeon Bay is celebrating its second anniversary with prizes in the last week of January. The sushi, seafood and steak restaurant on Third Avenue is offering a grand prize of a year of free dinners for two, and a second prize of two tickets to Dinner in the Dark Jan. 27. To […]

  • Cheers! Make Mine Mead

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    Oh my! I found in the magic fridge just now a bottle of Strawberry and Basil Mead, part of the Gastronomic Series from Crafted Artisan Meadery of Mogadore, Ohio. I think that’s right next to Mordor. This lovely mead comes on with the beautiful aroma of basil, and then you take your first taste and […]

  • Cherry Lanes Will Soon Be Door County’s First Arcade Bar

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    Erin Bosman said her husband has had “this pinball thing” for a long time. Now, his “thing” has become their business. Kevin and Erin Bosman bought the Cherry Lanes property on Fourth Avenue in Sturgeon Bay on Jan. 3, and immediately closed the business to remodel. They hope to re-open in March as Cherry Lanes […]

  • Cheers!: Decadent, Very; Depraved, Not At All

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    I couldn’t wait to take a big bite out of a beer called Depravity, not because of the name but because it is identified as an imperial peanut butter cup stout. Yup, you read that right. Each keg of this beer from the Renegade Brewing Co of Denver, Colo., contains a pound of Reese’s Peanut […]

  • Door County Brewing Co. Founders Launch Hacienda Beer Co.

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    On Feb. 3, 2018, Door County Brewing Company founders Danny McMahon (head brewer) and Ben McMahon (sales manager) as well as Allyce Mohs (operations manager) will launch a new brewing venture, Hacienda Beer Co. Located in Baileys Harbor, Hacienda will primarily focus on producing experimental hoppy ales and stouts as well as traditional and non-traditional […]

  • Cheers! Heaven and Earth In a Single Peaty Bottle

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    Recently I picked up two different beers from the Dutch brewer De Molen. One was produced in 2012 and is called Hemel & Aarde (Heaven & Earth), a 10 percent Imperial stout that suggests on the label that it be enjoyed within 25 years of its birth date. That would be 2037. I’ve never seen […]