{"id":14807,"date":"2017-11-10T16:04:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=14807"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:04:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:04:32","slug":"annual-grand-rapids-international-wine-beer-and-food-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/10\/annual-grand-rapids-international-wine-beer-and-food-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Grand Rapids International Wine, Beer, and Food Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14808\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14808\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14808\" src=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/blackstarfarms8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"207\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Star Farms is participating in the Pairing event at the Grand Rapids Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From November 16 to November 18, Grand Rapids, Michigan is the site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showspan.com\/GRW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10th Annual Grand Rapids International Wine, Beer, and Food Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.showspan.com\/GRW\/dates-times-admission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online<\/a> and at the festival box office. These tickets offer a complimentary sampling glass, a Festival Program, wine, beer and food seminars. For those who would like to taste food and beverage samples, sampling tickets will be available at the festival in 50-cent denominations.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thursday Seminars<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tipsy Turkey &amp; Drunken Gravy<\/li>\n<li>Cooking with Wood and Smoke<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate Out of the Box: Holiday Feasts<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s BUG in my beer and WHY the brewery put it there!<\/li>\n<li>Uncovering the Truth About Sparkling Wine<\/li>\n<li>Not Your Grandma\u2019s Ros\u00e9: A Tasting of Traverse Wine Coast Ros\u00e9s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Friday Seminars<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handmade Pasta<\/li>\n<li>Cooking with Wood and Smoke<\/li>\n<li>Tipsy Turkey &amp; Drunken Gravy<\/li>\n<li>Celebrate Out of the Box: Holiday Feasts<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo Have and Have Another\u201d<\/li>\n<li>When and Why to Splurge<\/li>\n<li>Michigan Fruit<\/li>\n<li>Rieslings: A Tasting of Traverse Wine Coast Rieslings from Sweet to Dry<\/li>\n<li>Guinness: A Tale of Two Centuries<\/li>\n<li>Cider 101<\/li>\n<li>Pinot Noir: A Tasting of Pinot Noirs from the Traverse Wine Coast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Saturday Seminars<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Celebrating Michigan Fall Flavors<\/li>\n<li>Tipsy Turkey &amp; Drunken Gravy<\/li>\n<li>Cooking with Wood and Smoke<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo Have and Have Another\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Handmade Pasta<\/li>\n<li>KBS Beer Fudge<\/li>\n<li>Rieslings: A Tasting of Traverse Wine Coast Rieslings from Sweet to Dry<\/li>\n<li>The World of Fruit Beers<\/li>\n<li>Cider 101<\/li>\n<li>Sparkling Wines: A Tasting of Bubblies from Traverse Wine Coast<\/li>\n<li>Develop Your Wine Sense with Blind Tasting<\/li>\n<li>A Taste of the Lake Michigan Shore<\/li>\n<li>Getting Naked with Chardonnay: Unoaked vs Oaked<\/li>\n<li>Guinness: A Tale of Two Centuries<\/li>\n<li>Wine, It\u2019s Good for YOU: The Health Benefits of Drinking Wine<\/li>\n<li>A Tasting of Cool-Climate Reds from the Traverse Wine Coast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the seminars, <b>Craft Cocktail Workshops<\/b> will be offered.\u00a0Look for cocktail workshops including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simple &amp; Sour: The Power of Citrus in Cocktails<\/li>\n<li>Barrel Aged Cocktails<\/li>\n<li>Bubble &amp; Squeak: Beertails &amp; Mules<\/li>\n<li>Brandied Cherries<\/li>\n<li>The French 75 Connection: Mawby and New Holland Artisan Spirits<\/li>\n<li>Old Fashioned: The Original Cocktail<\/li>\n<li>Mixing Cocktails in Hemingway Fashion<\/li>\n<li>The Manhattan: Story of the First Modern Cocktail<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several special <strong>Pairing events<\/strong> will take place. Several restaurants will offer special menus for this event. Restaurants taking part in this event include: Black Star Farms, Gilly\u2019s Smokehouse\/B.O.B.\u2019s Brewing, Nibi\/FireKeepers, Reds at Thousand Oaks, Rockwell Republic, San Chez, six.one.six, The Kitchen by Wolfgang Puck, and The Knickerbocker.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Annual Grand Rapids International Wine, Beer, and Food Festival\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=14807\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming Grand Rapids Festival offers numerous seminars and tastings for three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3270,174],"tags":[146,2698,184,34,1728,98],"class_list":["post-14807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirits-whiskey","category-wine-newscommentary","tag-beer","tag-cider","tag-festival","tag-food","tag-grand-rapids","tag-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14810,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions\/14810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}