Original cheese recipes, yodeling, Master Cheesemakers, polka dancing… it’ll all be on display at Green County Cheese Days Sep. 20-22 in Monroe.
Cheese Days King Tony Zgraggen and Queen Esther Zgraggen expect more than 100,000 people from across the country to celebrate.
What’s in store? Shopping, eating, drinking, dancing, and singing. It celebrates how Wisconsin got its cheesehead identity from European immigrants. Foodies are not going to want to miss all the varieties of cheese and an opportunity to meet Master Cheesemakers.
Green County Cheese Days happens every other year on the third weekend of September. The festival started in 1914. With more Wisconsin Master Cheesemakers than anywhere else in the state, your options for sampling are plentiful. In addition to alpine specialties with roots in Switzerland, you’ll find cheese with Hispanic influences, and varieties originating in Italy, Greece, Denmark, and England. Green County is also home to the only Limburger cheesemaker in the country.
On Saturday, Sep. 21 at 2 p.m., Cheese Days expects to break the Guinness World Record for the largest Polka dance. It’ll be around the Square in Monroe. The last record was set in Germany in 2013 with 804 people. You’ll need to sign in for the dance for it to count toward the record.
The festival ends on Sunday with a parade led by a herd of Brown Swiss cows wearing Swiss bells.
Find all the details: https://www.cheesedays.com/