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On a beautiful afternoon in Maine there’s nothing I’d rather do than be surrounded by cheese.
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So we headed north to Pittsfield to attend the annual cheese festival.
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Upon entry… and paying the ridiculous fee of $27 per person…we each received a map and a bag.
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The bag was a clever idea. It was insulated and contained a freezer pack, a cold bottle of water and free cheese.
Let the shopping begin!
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And the tasting.
It’s all about the tasting…
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I’m not sure we sampled $54 worth, the pieces were small…. but there were some fantastic varieties.
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Cow!
Or rather, calf.
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This stall was by far the most popular. Every time we walked by the line was insane.
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My husband is not a fan of standing in line.
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After making our way through the cheese, I spotted a beer garden. Upon entry we were carded, given wrist bands to prove we were over 21 and I paid the ridiculous price of $14 for a few tickets.
I say ridiculous because the sample pour cups were like shot glasses.
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That’s $3.50 worth of blueberry ale right there.
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The cups were so small you can hardly see my husbands.
Boo to that.
And btw? The beer garden contained one brewer who had two beers. The rest was hard cider and wine. Talk about false advertising.
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The setting was pretty, right alongside a river.
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And since we had tried everything else, we decided to brave the line for the Fuzzy Udder before we left.
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15 minutes and we’d moved less than an inch.
Needless to say we gave up and called it a day.
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The cheesy goodness that came home with us.
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River's world..... 
Gaahhhh!! It’s maddening when prices don’t match the offerings! Plus, I can’t stand for more than a few minutes. I would have literally been sitting in that line!
I hope your purchases are good!!
Nice manicure! Just yesterday, I was wondering whether people still get french manis.
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My husband was grumbling about the prices and vowed not to return next year. It was fun, but honestly not worth the cost. He loved the yogurt and cheese we bought though. For another $41….
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And standing in line for stinky cheese? Yuck. I used to run when my dad broke out the limburger…..
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It’s not all stinky.
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Ok, I know this is going to make me sound like a complete prat, but what is fuzzy udder? It sounds like some kind of bovine disease
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I hope not!
It was just the funny name of that particular dairy. We never did make it to their samples so I can’t speak to the degree of fuzziness.
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Having seen the size of those beers I guess there was very little fuzziness
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I love me some good cheese! Cheese and beer, what a combo but those prices were a bit high for the thimble of wine and beer you got. I hope the cheeses you bought are worth the price.
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There were tiny, but tasty.
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Snow and beer and cheese…all keep well at 30 degrees. I highly recommended bourbon barrel aged maple syrup.
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We haven’t tried that yet…
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Awesome buys! I want to go to this festival, and now I know to get there early to be first in line at The Fuzzy Udder.
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Regular tickets were $27 per. I believe early bird tickets were double….
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Holy buckets!
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Oh, yes, cheese is my thing. And I would have been overjoyed with the hard cider in the beer garden–that’s the only kind of alcohol I like. But those prices and lines! Ack.
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I like hard cider so I was fine, but when they advertise beer at a beer garden? You expect beer…
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I’ve never been to a cheese festival and now that I write that I wonder how it could be there are none around here. Yours looks like it was fun, such beautiful weather.
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These are the days that make winter worthwhile.
😊
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$27 is hiway robbery
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For what we ate, yes. It was.
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$27 for a cheese festival is ridiculous. Here, there’s so many competing against each other, most of them are free.
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That sounds like heaven.
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