Kentucky Beer Cheese Festival | |
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Genre | festival |
Location(s) | Winchester, Kentucky, United States [1] |
Years active | 2009–2019, 2022– |
Sponsors | Shop Local Kentucky, Clark Regional Medical Center, Ale-8-One, Clark County Farm Bureau, and others [1] |
Website | Winchester Beer Cheese Festival |
The Kentucky Beer Cheese Festival is a celebration of beer cheese, an original and unique Kentucky delicacy. [2] This festival's a one-day summertime event [3] held in downtown Winchester, Kentucky, [4] [5] birthplace of beer cheese.
The first Beer Cheese Festival took place in June 2009 and was attended by more than 8,000 people. [6] In 2016, nearly 20,000 people attended. [7]
The only casualty of the event was since 2020: officials cited the COVID-19 pandemic as grounds for scrapping it.
The event features a competition among amateur and commercial beer cheese makers, as well as live music, art and craft displays, a beer "garden" and traditional festival foods. [8] Festival attendees can also sample and vote for their favorite beer cheese to win a People's Choice Award. [9]
The Beer Cheese Festival is the only event celebrating beer cheese in the world. [10] People travel hundreds of miles across many states/countries to sample different varieties of the Kentucky creation. [11]
Mental Floss included the Beer Cheese Festival in their list of "12 Highly Specific (and Extremely Delicious) Food Festivals." [12] Mashable included the Beer Cheese Festival in their list of "14 food festivals that show how serious America is about food." [3]
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