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Bacon Brewfest & Cuckoo Callay’s Bacon Festival

Remember last year’s Bacon Festival? It’s back again for 2016, this time starting with one big day launch event you wouldn’t want to miss.

Bacon festival at Cuckoo Callay

Bacon Brewfest will be spread at Central Park and within aMBUSH gallery’s space at the mall featuring chefs and venues including Black Star Pastry, The Stinking Bishops, Mr Bao, Textbook Boulangerie, Mak Mak Macarons, Grumpy Donuts, Tsuru Food Truck, Pialligo Estate and more.

Beer tastings will be provided by popular breweries 4 Pines, Feral Brewing, and Willie the Boatman, and a festival bar will be curated by the boys from Ramblin Rascal Tavern. There will also be a one-off bacon collaboration born between’ Anna Polyviou and N2 Extreme Gelato.

The one day launch will take place at Central Park on Saturday February 27 from 12pm until 9pm.

Bacon festival at Cuckoo Callay

For 12 weeks, starting on Sunday February 28, Newtown cafe Cuckoo Callay is bringing back its Bacon Festival, sourcing its produce from farms in NSW that engage in sustainable and ethical practice, in an effort to support local pork.

Not convinced? Check out last year’s pork-tastic bacon menu here.

Photography © by Kevin Burke for Gourmantic – Copyright: All rights reserved.

About the author

Corinne Mossati

Corinne Mossati is a drinks writer, author of GROW YOUR OWN COCKTAIL GARDEN, SHRUBS & BOTANICAL SODAS and founder/editor of Gourmantic, Cocktails & Bars and The Gourmantic Garden. She has been writing extensively about spirits, cocktails, bars and cocktail gardening in more recent years. She is a spirits and cocktail competition judge, Icons of Whisky Australia nominee, contributor to Diageo Bar Academy, cocktail developer and is named in Australian Bartender Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential List. Her cocktail garden was featured on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia and has won several awards. She is a contributor to Real World Gardener radio program and is featured in several publications including Pip Magazine, Organic Gardener, Australian Bartender and Breathe (UK). Read the full bio here.

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