Event

Virtue Cider - Artisnal Cheese, Tapas, & Cider Pairing Event

Are you ready to enjoy the next big thing in local food and beverage tasting scene?

Enjoy a road trip to Michigan's Cider Coast for a proper farmhouse cider making, tasting, and artisanal cheese & tapas pairing experience.

For $35 you will experience the following:
- Artisanal Cheese & Virtue Cider Pairings
- Artisanal Cheese Maker Presentation - artisans and distributors
- Farm to Table Tapas-style Appetizers
- Tour & Cider Making Demo
- Bon fire
- Lawn games
- Music

Cheese Artisans joining us: Dancing Goat Creamery, Evergreen Lane, Michiana Capriole...to name a few.

Chefs from: Virtue Cider, Appertivo, and Field & Fire

Proceeds directly support Slow Food West Michigan's Biodiversity Micro Grant program and go to select small scale local farmers.

Virtue Cider is a proud sponsor of Slow Food West Michigan. Virtue is a craft cider company launched in 2011 founded by Gregory Hall, former brewmaster at Goose Island, and co-founder Stephen Schmakel. Becoming known nationally for their European-style ciders from fresh locally sourced heirloom Michigan apples- never from concentrate- and employing traditional farmhouse production methods that include native and secondary fermentation, use of wild yeasts, and an expansive oak barrel-aging program.