Beer Baron: A smaller — but perhaps better? — 2021 Great Taste of the Midwest

After two very long years, it is time for the Great Taste of the Midwest again — a smaller, but perhaps better, beer festival.

Last year’s iteration of the region’s premier beer festival was called off amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and the 2021 event on Saturday will not remotely be business as usual.

Among a host of other safety-related changes, its organizers — the nonprofit, volunteer Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild — is cutting the crowd by half, to 5,000, in the event’s usual footprint at Olin Park.

“Safety concerns were No. 1 on our mind, especially as we were making those decisions in the late April time frame,” Great Taste chair Jason Walters said. “But we felt really comfortable doing a half-capacity event with 5,000 people, just to give people some more space.”...
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