Lakefront Brewery has announced that its fourth annual gluten-free Maifest outdoor beer, food, art and craft event will take place Sunday, May 18, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the brewery, 1872 N. Commerce St.
In addition to its acclaimed gluten-free beers, there will be nine food trucks and a marketplace with more than 30 vendors, all along the Milwaukee River.
"What started out as an accommodation for local celiacs, has grown to supply over half the country with gluten-free beer options," the announcement notes. "Over the years, Lakefront began to understand how underserved the regional gluten-free community was.
"The first Maifest was an instant success, since then, they’ve released an IPA version of their New Grist and converted their CurdWagon food truck to be exclusively gluten-free. Now in its fourth year, Lakefront is focusing their Maifest efforts to celebrate gluten-free food offerings."
In addition to the New Grist IPA, Lakefront makes gluten-free New Grist Pilsner and New Grist Gosa Rita margarita ale. The beers are also available in a gluten-free 12-pack of cans.
“After we’ve innovated the craft beer space with Certified Gluten-Free options, we wanted to continue doing positive things for the gluten-free community. Hosting Maifest and turning our CurdWagon into an exclusively gluten-free food truck for the summer months both feel like natural progressions to me,“ said Lakefront Brewery Owner & President Russ Klisch.
“Lakefront Brewery is happy to lead and continue to be that provider.”
In addition to the beer, there will be gluten-free Bloodys and four gluten-free cask beers available while supplies last, which likely means "not long."
The cask beers are Mango Chile Gosa Rita, Honey Saffron New Grist IPA, Arnold Palmer New Grist and Mimosa New Grist.
The food trucks will serve all gluten-free foods and Lakefront will offer gluten-free cookies and cream fried cheese curds, which they say could become a summer menu staple.
Gluten Intolerance Group (with Cutting Costs for Celiacs) and the Celiac Disease Center at Children’s Wisconsin will be the beneficiaries of a 50/50 raffle.
Well-behaved canine pals welcomed.
For more, check out lakefrontbrewery.com.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
