Good Booze at Good Food Festival & Conference

The Good Food Festival & Conference is one of Chicago’s preeminent celebrations of sustainable, locally sourced food, an ethos that equally applies to booze this year. The Good Food Festival has rounded up a thoughtful array of beverage purveyors and pros to round out the 10th annual conference, which takes place March 13 through 15 at the UIC Pavilion.

A bulk of the action takes place on Saturday, March 15, wherein a plethora of speakers, chefs, workshops, demos, and purveyors congregate between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm to enlighten and dazzle the masses with Midwestern food at its finest.

Of a trio of beverage highlights at the festival, Locapour’s Cocktail Bar affords attendees the opportunity to bring the local beverage philosophy home with them, as Kevin West teaches people how to make their own bitters, syrups, and mixers from farm-fresh products, a vital skill for anyone ardent about locally, sustainably derived cocktails.

No doubt craft beer is a booming business in Chicago, as more and more brewers and drinkers approach beer with the same sustainable mentalities as food. The Good Food Festival this year is offering full-length workshops covering the processes of making beer under the dutiful tutelage of the folks from Brew Werks. Other fermented beverages are getting just as popular, such as kombucha and sodas, both of which are also covered with their own DIY workshops.

Of course, for those who’d prefer just to drink their booze rather than make it themselves, you can do that too, and deliciously so. The festival will feature bountiful beverages in workshop sessions on the Good Food Commons, including everything from cocktails and kombucha mocktails to cider and vinegars.

Cheers to drinking sustainably!

Good Food Festival & Conference
725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago
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