By K.D. Norris
ken@wktv.org
Are you a runner? A drinker of fine craft brews? A supporter of the Kids’ Food Basket? Any combination there of? Perrin Brewing has a event for you.
On Saturday, Jan. 26, Perrin will team up with the Kids’ Food Basket for the Perrin Ice Jam Winter Festival from 3-8 p.m. The third annual event will feature live music from Sydney Burnham, The Turnips, Legal Immigrants, and Go-Rounds, specialty Perrin beers, and the Frostbite 5K Run/Walk. Admission to the party is $10 donation or a bag of food items from Kids’ Food Basket wish list. All proceeds during the event will be donated to Kids’ Food Basket of West Michigan.
“The Kids’ Food Basket provides kids in the community with the nourishment they need to reach their full potential,” according to supplied information. “Every donation provides a child with a nutritious evening meal so they can be their best in school and life.”
Perrin Brewing has already begun to collect food donations in the front foyer from the wish list, which includes dried fruit, toasted oat cereal, cheese crackers, fruit cups or pouches, pretzel twists and snack size zipper bags.
The 5K Run/Walk is $30 for adults and $15 for Kids 12 and under. Packet pick-up will be the January 22– 25 in the Perrin Pub. The race-day check-in is from Noon to 2 p.m. and the race begins at 2 p.m.
To register for the run online visit Frostbite 5K Run . For more information on the event, including updated with beer releases, registration 5k run details, band line-up and more, visit the Perrin Ice Jam Facebook page . Perrin Brewing is located at 510 Comstock Park Dr. NE, Comstock Park.
Cedar Springs Brewing hosts soup drive for North Kent Connect
Cedar Springs Brewing Company has teamed up with Ryanne Donahue State Farm and North Kent Connect to help local families in need by hosting a “Soup for Soup Food Drive” today, Jan. 14, through Jan. 19, with a special event planned on Jan. 19.
The Soup for Soup Food Drive will specifically collect nonperishable non-glass containers of soup, pasta and pasta sauces. But it will also be accepting any non-perishable food donation not in glass jars.
For every donation made, Cedar Springs Brewing will provide a free cup of soup.
Donation Locations include Cedar Springs Brewing Company, at 95 N. Main St., in Cedar Springs; or at Ryanne Donahue StateFarm, at 6585 Belding Rd NE St. E, in Rockford (during normal business hours). The soup drive will end on Jan. 19 at the CSBrew Up To Snow Good Party, where everyone “will celebrate all of the food raised and enjoy a beverage or two on the patio!” we are told.
For more information on Cedar Springs Brewing call 616-696-BEER — got to love that number! — or visit csbrew.com . For more information on the Soup for Soup Food Drive, visit the event’s Facebook page here.
KDaLe plans home brewing competition, brewery tours
The Kent District Library’s adult KDaLe program has several programs and events in the near future including a home brewing competition and a tour at local craft brewer Railtown Brewing.
“If you think your home brew has what it takes to be crowned champion, here’s your chance … see how your beer stacks up,” or so states information on the KDaLe website, promoting the program’s now annual “Book Inspired Brewing” competition, wherein KDL staff and local brewers both amateur and professional will taste test.
“It’s a rough job, but someone has to do it!”, they go on to say.
The winners get to brew with a professional brewer and see their beer on tap at KDL’s Super Party Wonder Day next summer. But registration deadline is Jan. 20, and beer submissions must be delivered to Gravel Bottom (418 Ada Drive, Ada), Railtown Brewing (3555 68th St SE, Caledonia), or Pike 51(3768 Chicago Dr, Hudsonville) by Feb. 28.
The KDaLe Tour will also make stops Jan. 15 at DeHop’s Brewing Company and Café, an “Amsterdam style” brew pub at 363 Cummings Ave. NW, in Walker. Also on tap will be a tour Jan. 22 at Railtown Brewing Company, at 3595 68th St SE, Dutton, to get a tour of their new building and brew house.
For more information on KDaLe events, see kdl.org/events .
