Sociable Cider Werks, Sunday, 2 pm to 6 pm
Provided by FairVote MN, (Photos courtesy Prairie Dogs)
It’s a succulent celebration of charcuterie and craft cider. FairVote Minnesota is collaborating with Sociable Cider Werks and the Beer Dabbler to present Best of the Wurst, a festival and ranked election of artisan sausages created by some of the Twin Cities’ top chefs.
The event will feature live local music, sausage tasting from two dozen local purveyors, craft cider and beer, and a demonstration of Ranked Choice Voting as guests choose the very Best of the Wurst.
Andouille, bratwurst, chorizo . . . sausage is one of the world’s oldest, most beloved and most wide-ranging foods, offering limitless taste possibilities. Since antiquity, epicurean adventurers around the globe have put minced meat, salt and seasoning into casings and savored the result. The Twin Cities sausage scene is hotter than ever, and Best of the Wurst promises a slate of candidates that’s as diverse as it is delicious.
And it’s a tasty showcase for Ranked Choice Voting, as a way to vote. Attendees will use Ranked Choice Voting to select the winner of a people’s choice award, and a panel of food critics will use RCV to elect their choices for Best of the Wurst.
A special VIP reception from noon to 2 pm will include exclusive chef demos with Pork & Pickle chef Geoff Hausmann plus unlimited food and drink. General admission runs from 2 to 6 pm, with guests invited to sample all the sausages they can eat, plus one free craft cider or beer. Don’t miss this unique event celebrating spring, sausage, cider and democracy.
Participating Restaurants
Aki’s Bread Haus, Be’Wiched, Borough, Black Bird, Clancey’s Meat & Fish, Curious Goat, Gold Nugget, Happy Gnome, Haute Dish, Herbivorous Butcher, Hey Day, Kramarczuk’s, Lowry Hill Meats, New Bohemia, Ox Cart & Salt Cellar, Pat’s Tap, Pork & Pickle, Prairie Dogs, Rabbit Hole, Red Stag Supper Club, Red Table Meat Co., Revival & Corner Table, Seward Coop, Surdyk’s, Wedge Community Coop
Judges
Minneapolis Council Member Jacob Frey
Saint Paul Council Member Amy Brendmoen
WCCO TV’s Matt Brickman and Kylie Bearse
WCCO Radio’s John Williams
Award-winning author and chef Beth Dooley
Mpls St. Paul Magazine food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl
City Pages food critic Mecca Bos
Tickets
Best of the Wurst Fest
Sunday, May 15, 2pm-6pm
Sociable Cider Werks, 1500 Fillmore St.
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