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Tickets Now Available for Door County Beer Festival

Tickets for the inaugural Door County Beer Festival are now available online at http://www.doorcountybeer.com.

Just 2,000 tickets will be released for the celebration of craft beer, local food, and homebrewing at the Baileys Harbor Town Hall Park.

Tumbling Bones

The festival will feature tastings of more than 120 of the finest craft beers from Wisconsin and the world.

The festival, however, is about much more than great beer. Representatives from O’so, Hinterland, Founder’s, Rush River and Capital Brewery will be on hand for some of the 11 seminars about brewing, artisan cheese, homebrewing, beer and food pairing as well as local food sourcing.

The festival’s music lineup has taken shape as well. Local stalwarts Big Mouth, plus Eric Lewis and Tommy Burroughs, will play early in the afternoon. Then Brookly-based bluegrass band Tumbling Bones takes the stage. Tumbling Bones’ raw, lucid, take on old American music has taken them across the world. The Tumbling Bones used to play in stringband-turned-indie rock outfit The Powder Kegs, and their time with that band took them from street-performing in Copenhagen and Berlin to venues along the east coast to an acclaimed 2007 performance on NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor” (they won the show’s “People in Their Twenties” talent competition).

Several of the peninsula’s best restaurants and local producers will be serving food sourced entirely in Wisconsin. Plus, Kyle Cherek, the host of the PBS television show Wisconsin Foodie, will give a special presentation about his show and the burgeoning Wisconsin culinary scene.

“There is so much more depth to Door County than people realize,” Cherek says. “It is like so much of Wisconsin, where we get into a box. But just below the surface or around the corner is what’s really interesting about it.”

The festival will also feature the first Door County Homebrewing Championships and a full day of great live music, headlined by the Brooklyn bluegrass band Tumbling Bones.

It’s all part of a complete weekend on the peninsula that includes the Ride for Nature, a 100-mile bicycle ride along the peninsula’s scenic back roads. The day culminates with the Fyr Bal Festival, a cultural celebration that includes bonfires and fireworks over Ephraim’s Eagle Harbor.

To find out more visit http://www.doorcountybeer.com or contact founder John McMahon at 920.312.3461.