{"id":4856,"date":"2013-06-21T23:12:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T05:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2015-10-25T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:38:48","slug":"new-glarus-polkafest-bbc-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=4856","title":{"rendered":"New Glarus Polkafest & BBC Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

If anyone knows how to party, it is the town of New Glarus.\u00a0 Last Saturday we attended Polkafest where they celebrated music as well as beer, brat, and cheese.\u00a0\u00a0It smelled of hot pretzels and ale,\u00a0and people danced dizzily to music played by a band with a bunch of accordions.\u00a0 The spot to be was the New Glarus Brewery<\/a> tent.\u00a0 It was the primary draw for me since they were doing the “Big Squeeze” that day.\u00a0 They asked people to bring five pounds of rhubarb in exchange for a free beer.\u00a0 The rhubarb was to be used\u00a0for their new strawberry-rhubarb ale.<\/p>\n

\"newglarusbbcpolkafest\"<\/a>I realized I was about four hours late for the squeeze and several ounces shy of the required five pounds, but\u00a0the sweet guy who was juicing some rhubarb gave me not one but two beer tokens!\u00a0 Keith and I joined the long line of thirsty revelers and got a Naked and a Spotted Cow from CEO Deb Carey.\u00a0 We also ran into another familiar face, Tony, an expert yodeler and chef, we met a couple of years ago<\/a>\u00a0at Roth K\u00e4se.<\/p>\n

Keith and I shared a giant pretzel and a brat with lots of kraut and mustard.\u00a0 For dessert, something called bienenstich<\/em> or “sting of the bee”.\u00a0 After that, a long country drive along the curving roads, with all the windows down, sticking my head out like a dog and smelling the air, green all around, and the finale.\u00a0 My number one sign of a day well spent is spotting what I like to call an “Oreo” cow.\u00a0 Well my friends, I hit the jackpot because there were four. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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If anyone knows how to party, it is the town of New Glarus.\u00a0 Last Saturday we attended Polkafest where they celebrated music as well as beer, brat, and cheese.\u00a0\u00a0It smelled of hot pretzels and ale,\u00a0and people danced dizzily to music played by a band with a bunch of accordions.\u00a0 The spot to be was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,91],"tags":[710,583,581,715,582,580],"class_list":["post-4856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-events","tag-beer","tag-big-squeeze","tag-brat","tag-cheese","tag-new-glarus-brewery","tag-polkafest","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5814,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/5814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}