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Portions of pork butt were smoked at the festival for 17 hours and then shredded for pulled pork sandwiches.
BY ALEXIS TARRAZI (Straus News)
HAMBURG — More than 1,200 beer enthusiasts descended onto Crystal Springs Resort to sample more than 120 varieties of beer from 40-plus breweries.
The Sixth Annual NJ Beer & Food Festival was held on Friday, June 13 and Saturday, June 14 in Hamburg.
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Gene Ventimiglia owner of the Wantage winery tends to his vineyard.
WANTAGE — Take a turn down a gravel road and into the woods and you will come across fields of grapes grown straight from Sussex County soil that will soon be fermented and bottled into wine. Gene Ventimiglia owner of the family-run Ventimiglia Vineyards in Wantage takes great pride in being a New Jersey winery and the only farm winery in Sussex County.
“All of our wines are 100 percent Jersey grown, with the exception of two wines,” Ventimiglia said. Those two wines — Carignane and Fratelli Ventimiglia — are crafted in Ventimiglia’s grandfather’s honor using the Carignane grape grown from his grandfather’s village in Italy.
“I was always around wine growing up,” Ventimiglia said. “My grandfather made wine and I helped.”
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A roasted pig on display at the Marketplace Lunch offered snot to tail offerings.
BY ALEXIS TARRAZI – Straus News
The three-day event was designed to allow food and wine lovers to meet and mingle with chefs, winemakers, sommeliers and fellow wine aficionados. Each day offered a variety of activities from wine tastings, book signing by James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef Award Winner Jose Andres, a Lunch Marketplace, a Mac & Cheese Cook-Off and more.
Alexis Tarrazi 