2011 COLORADO - SEPTEMBER 2011
Food & Wine Festivals, Shows & Local Events
events still waiting for new dates
September 1-5, 2011 Trinidad Round-Up - Trinidad, Colorado
101st Anniversary festivities include parade, livestock show & sale, street dance, carnival, barbecue, parade and breakfast.
September 2-5, 2011 Breckenridge Wine Festival - Breckenridge, Colorado
Formerly known as the Water House Wine Festival. Wine tastings from wineries around the world, live music, a lakeside venue with spectacular mountain views, and rubber ducky races!
September 9-10, 2011 Pork 'N' Hops - Grand Junction, Colorado
Sample the region's best barbecue and brews while enjoying live music, entertainment, and other events. Also featuring professional & amateur BBQ competitions in a variety of categories.
September 10, 2011 Monte Vista Potato Festival - Monte Vista, Colorado
The festival includes food and craft vendors, farm tours, live music, a potato cooking contest and a children's carnival.
Sept 10, 2011 Mt. Crested Butte Fall Festival of Beers & Chili Cook-off Crested Butte, CO
Breweries from all over will be on hand with their finest brews to take the heat off the chili prepared by Crested Butte locals. Listen to live music while taking in the beautiful backdrop of Mt. Crested Butte.
September 15-18, 2011 Annual Colorado Mountain Winefest - Palisade, Colorado
This is Colorado's oldest and largest wine festival. Offering four days of fun, it features more than four dozen wineries, great music, food, chef demos, bike rides and golf amid fall colors in scenic wine country.
September 16-18, 2011 18th Annual Telluride Blues & Brews Festival - Telluride, CO
The festival is a three-day celebration of music and microbrews, held in Telluride Town Park, an outdoor music venue with breathtaking mountains for a backdrop.
September 17, 2011 Lake City Uncorked Wine & Music Festival - Lake City, Colorado
Good food, good wine, good music under the fall aspen leaves in historic Lake City, Colorado -- featuring six regional bands. Variety of wines for tasting; SKA Brewing beer booth; unique food & artisan vendors.
September 22, 2011 A Saucy Affair - Glendale, Colorado
With an array of unique small plates and decadent sauces from more than 15 of Denver's finest restaurants, 500 guests will taste and vote for their favorite sauce. Enjoy top-notch beverages and music. Proceeds support 9Health Fair, Colorado's largest non-profit, volunteer run health fair program.
September 23-25, 2011 Pueblo Chile & Frijoles Festival - Pueblo, Colorado
The festival celebrates the harvest of the Mira Sol Chile, transforming downtown into an outdoor party highlighted by music, arts & crafts, cooking competitions, and chiles, chiles, chiles. Attendance: 100,000.
September 23-Oct 1, 2011 Denver Beer Fest - Denver, Colorado
More than 150 brew-centric experiences at restaurants, bars, clubs, and attractions throughout the Mile High City.
September 24, 2011 The Denver Chili Fest - Denver, Colorado
Recipe contest and taste extravaganza! Got a killer recipe using green chiles?? You could win $100 in one of 3 categories. Want to learn about green chiles? Taste over a dozen varieties of chiles and many dishes made with green chiles. Learn all about selecting green chiles, freezing them, and cooking with them. Benefit for Food Bank of the Rockies.
September 24, 2011 6th Annual Mead Sugar Beet Festival - Mead, Colorado
Celebrates the harvest of sugar beets in the Red River Valley with live music, great food, beet tours, antique tractors & harvest equipment and more.
September 29-Oct 1, 2011 Great American Beer Festival 2011 - Denver, Colorado
America's greatest beer celebration: 46,000 + attendees, 2,000 beers, in days.
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