The Sausage side of the Beer and Sausage Festival didn’t quite meet my expectations however, I’m not sure exactly what my expectations were. About an hour and a half into the event, they put tubs of pretzels out at each of the brewery tables which helped differentiate between beers, Sausage Offerings at the Tomah Rotary Beer and Sausage Fest This worked out well when I wasn’t impressed with a sampling, and needed a fresh start. Since I was not one of the first 100 to walk through the doors, to get one of the special Klaus tasting glasses, I had to rely on the plastic cups at each station, but there were plenty and reusing your cup for sampling was optional. I really enjoyed the ginger beer that they offered. They had an educational display, which was the advertised brewing demonstration, and a few beers to taste that they were able to fully describe. The exception was a table that was staffed by the Tomah Zymurgy Club. While they did a great job, they couldn’t offer much information about the beers that they were pouring.
However, the tables were staffed by Rotarians who were volunteering their time to pour samples. I personally was hoping that there would be a representative from the brewery on hand to talk about the beers, make recommendations, and make tasting notes. A sign offered limited information about each beer, mainly the brewery, name of the beer, logo of the beer, and the type of beer it was (IPA, Pilsner, etc.) All of the beers were poured from bottles or cans, none were on tap. Breweries that were represented included: Boston Beer Company, Door County Brewing, Karben4, Lake Louie Brewing, Leinenkugel’s, Milwaukee Brewing Company, New Glarus Brewing, Pabst, Pearl Street Brewery, Potosi, Sand Creek, Titletown Brewing, Toppling Goliath, Tyranena-Lake Mills, and Wisconsin Brewing Company.Įach brewery had a table with their offered brews chilling in a tub. They had over 60 beer offerings from approximately 15 breweries. The number of beers offered at the Beer and Sausage Fest exceeded my expectation. Beer Offerings at the Tomah Rotary Beer and Sausage Fest In addition, we were under the impression that the tickets were for sampling sausage as well (more to come on that). Since we had already paid, our driver decided to sample a few beers. After we had paid for our tickets, it was learned that designated drivers could enter for free and would be able to drink soda and water for free.
Based on the people that showed up around the same time as we did, a lot of tickets were sold at the door. Tickets were $20, and were available at from the Tomah Chamber of Commerce, Tomah Rotarians, or at the door. These glasses, pictured on the left, were offered to the first 100 people through the door. This did mean that we sacrificed our ability to get a “Klaus Beer Tasting Glass”. While the doors opened at 4:00pm, we decided to arrive around 4:15pm, so we didn’t have to stand in line. Tickets for beer tasting are only $20.00! My Experience at the 2017 Beer and Sausage Fest 8 to midnight after party with beer bar, food and beanbag tourney. Saturday, September 9th, 4 to 8pm at Recreation Park Gold Building in Tomah. Please join us and please share this event! Live music from “Marty and the Sharks”, lots of beers to taste, Klement’s sausage, pulled pork competition and brewing demonstrations. The folks in my group, and others we spoke to at the event, shared a common theme, that the beer tastings offered were more than what was expected but the sausage side of the festival was lacking.Īfter the event, when I was researching how many years the event has been offered, I found the following explanation of the event, as a Facebook comment on the event page, that did a better job of explaining what the event was going to entail: The event held at the Recreation Park Building at the Monroe County Fairgrounds was advertised with the flyer to the right, which led quite a few people that I talked to, to assume that the event was going to have a good selection of beer and sausages to sample. This was the 3rd year that the Tomah Rotary Club has offered their Beer and Sausage Fest as a fundraiser. It turns out, based on conversations that I had with others at the event, that we were not alone in not knowing what exactly to expect.
Leading up to the event we thought it sounded like a good time, but didn’t know what to expect. On Saturday, I attended the Tomah Rotary Beer and Sausage Fest in Tomah, Wisconsin with a group of friends.
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