Bourbon and barbecue festival comes to Greenville > GSA Business

Tickets at the moment are obtainable for Greenville’s first Hog and Barrel Festival, a three-day occasion celebrating all issues bourbon, barbecue and bacon.

From Nov. 5 to Nov. 7 on the Outdated Cigar Warehouse, High Spirits Events, founding father of the Tacos ‘N Tequila competition, will host unique bourbon tastings, Sunday brunch and dwell music performances that includes the Jake Bartley Band, 3 & Twenty and Corey Stephenson.

“That is three days of a few of the greatest barbecue and one of the best bourbon from throughout the Southeast,” Tammy Johnson, president of Excessive Spirits Occasions, mentioned in a information launch. “This isn’t only a pig-picking. This isn’t a wine tasting. It is a competition for individuals who desire a new and one-of-its-kind expertise.”

The primary two-hour session of the Hog & Barrel Competition begins at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 5, with a “Meet The Makers” occasion, the place sponsors and Tremendous VIP ticket holders can meet distillers and nationwide model ambassadors over bourbon tastings.

The showcase occasion of the competition will likely be Saturday’s “Bourbonpalooza,” from 1 p.m. to six p.m., that includes bourbon cocktails crafted by native mixologists and video games. Precedence and VIP ticket holders also can pattern greater than 30 completely different bourbons via The Bourbon Expertise.

From 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, the “Makin’ Bacon Bourbon Brunch” will serve up brunch cocktails with a bourbon twist, together with apple cider bourbon mimosas and bourbon bloody Marys.

Hog & Barrel Competition can even be the battleground for a meals and cocktail competitors with $5,000 in money prizes awarded in 15 “better of” classes, together with greatest barbecue, greatest bourbon-based dish, greatest bacon dish, greatest bourbon cocktail and greatest dessert, amongst others.

The competition will elevate funds to assist The Culinary Institute of the Carolinas at Greenville Technical School all through the occasion.

“With Hog & Barrel, we wish to create a brand new gem in Greenville’s culinary scene,” Johnson mentioned within the launch. “We actually delight ourselves on the standard of our festivals, and Hog & Barrel will likely be one not like some other.”