![]() Located just down the street from the French Market (with a cocktail bar on site), CH Distillery is pulling out all the stops. The APF is a great opportunity to taste a true classic that’s been exploding in popularity since it took home the Best Pale Ale crown at the 2008 World Beer Awards. The original recipe for Tripel Karmeliet, an award-winning, high-alcohol Belgian beer, has been around since the 17th century. Jones will be pouring Tin City Cider and and Alloy’s canned pinot noir and rosé of grenache. Jones singlehanded launched the canned wine revolution with canned Fiction Rosé at the 2015 Artisan Producer Festival - and this year, he’s back to feature Alloy Wine Works, focused on cans of popular varieties like Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay. He’s got his hands in a bunch of different projects. DBA (Doing Business As) in the Central Coast. Here are some of my favorite, don't-miss vendors who will be at the festival. There are some great chefs presenting, including Paul Fehribach of Big Jones and Erling Wu-Bower of Nico Osteria. ![]() Note the vendors you want to make sure to hit, map out a route and plan which stage presentations you want to see. Using the comprehensive (and honestly, kind of intimidating) brochure below and plan your attack. Riding the Metra home or in the mood to keep drinking after the French Market closes up shop for the day? Pastoral will have all the beer, wine and spirits - cheese, too! - that you’ve tasted for sale at their retail stall in the northwest corner of the French Market. Many permanent French Market vendors will be offering samples of their wares as well, so be sure to explore the whole place. You’ll see the first when you walk into the French Market the other is inside near the food stalls. Plus, vendors do occasionally run out of samples, so if there’s anything you’re dying to try, make sure you arrive early - and visit them first.ĭon’t forget to cruise both vendor areas at the festival. That means Ogilvie will be crawling with the suburbs’ finest football fans leaving their Metra trains and heading east toward “Draft Town” in Grant Park. Add to that-surprise!-the NFL Draft, which also happens to be taking over downtown April 28 to 30. Lines at the APF are long, no matter what time you show up to Ogilvie with your drinking shoes on. But to get a full rundown on this year's beverage offerings at the festival, I consulted with Pastoral's beverage buyer & educator Mark Wrobel over a glass of wine at Pastoral's new Andersonville restaurant, Appellation, and got all the great tips and details I needed. Years of attendance and extensive, um, journalistic research have laid the foundation for this guide. If you’ve never attended, this year’s event promises to be cheesier than ever. ![]() This awesome event features a huge lineup of cheesemakers, charcuterie producers, gourmet food makers, wineries, distilleries and more. Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine’s sixth-annual Artisan Producer Festival is Saturday, April 30, at the Chicago French Market. ![]()
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