Delaware Wine and Beer Festival!

Tickets are now on sale for the sixth annual Delaware Wine and Beer Festival – the only national award winning festival of its type in Delaware – set for Saturday, October 17 in the 19th Century farm village at Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village in Dover, Delaware. The festival will host the Delaware Homebrew Championship where more than $1,500 in cash and prizes are at stake.New this year will be unlimited samples of nearly 100 varieties of handcrafted beers, wine, spirits, meads and hard cider from most of Delaware breweries, wineries, distilleries, meaderies and cideries, in addition to select regional wineries and breweries. Additional entertainment will include live music, chocolate, wine and beer and food pairing demonstrations, beer-lympics including giant Jenga, keg-tossing competition and book signings by John Medkeff, author of the new book “Delaware Brewing History.”Also new this year is the Food Truck Challenge for Charity, which will benefit the Food Bank of Delaware. Festival-goers will be given one free ballot to vote in three categories: Best entrée, best dessert and best appearing set-up. Additional ballots will be sold for $1 each and 100 percent of the proceeds will benefit the Food Bank of Delaware. The Food Bank’s new culinary program will be a feature of the event with students preparing, sampling and selling foods that they have prepared.The following tickets are now on sale:VIP tickets which includes unlimited sampling, Good Libations Tour beach bag, Good Libations Tour snifter, 10 sampling tickets of the homebrew competition entries and exclusive homebrew judging rights for the homebrew Peoples’ Choice award. Only 120 VIP tickets are available at $50 per person.General admission sampling ticket, which includes unlimited sampling and a commemorative sampling glass to the first 1,000 ticket buyers at $35 each.Designated driver tickets at $10 each.Libations weekend package that includes Saturday night lodging at Hampton Inn or Home 2 Suites (within ½ mile of the festival grounds), two general admission festival tickets and two Sunday Brunch tickets at $299 per couple.The event is owned and managed by Kent County Tourism, a non-profit organization. It is the only national award winning festival of its type in Delaware, and offers the most Delaware wineries, breweries and distilleries of any festival in the state. For more information and tickets, visit the website at here, or find us on Facebook and Pinterest.