![]() ![]() “I definitely wasn’t feeling like a newb anymore.” “I thought the sweet cereal might be a nice change-up, and it ended up being a good palate cleanser, like a nice sorbet,” he says with a laugh. For a different festival this spring, Geisler made his own necklace, this time focusing on mixing sweet and salty aspects by alternating pretzels with Froot Loops cereal. Best of all, the ingenuity didn’t stop there. Using royal blue pipe cleaners and some ribbon, he constructed a pretzel bow tie for the 2015 festival, earning high-fives for creativity from passersby as he nibbled on his wearable snack. “We felt like rookies that first time, so we definitely wanted to do something for the next year,” says Geisler, a Garner, North Carolina, resident. When they returned in 2015, they came prepared. In 2014, during his first time at the beer event, he and his girlfriend didn’t realize wearing pretzel-laced jewelry was so popular until they spotted necklaces everywhere. Since then, events have shown that beer lovers are getting more inventive with their culinary creations, proving they can be part fashion accessory, part dangling charcuterie and a surefire way to show some personality.Īt All About Beer’s World Beer Festival in Durham, North Carolina, last year, Austin Geisler decided to make his first-ever wearable food piece extra special. Nancy Johnson, event director for the Brewers Association, says that pretzel necklaces became common at GABF in the late 1990s. Having this elaborate necklace is like having a little puppy dog.”įor years, pretzel necklaces have been a mainstay of beer lovers as a way to snack while they sip at festivals. “She was giving me a compliment about the necklace, and we got to talking, so I got her phone number. “I picked up a girl once because of it,” says Cindy’s son Dustin. Food readily available just inches from your mouth combats inevitable munchies while also helping to ward off a hard beer buzz by keeping a belly full. Because each necklace may weight up to 3 pounds, Cox-Siedlarz will evenly distribute food weight and in past years has added pads to rest on the back of necklaces to provide comfort for Dustin and Zachary’s necks. String cheeses, crackers and bags of nuts provide options among meats or pretzels, but there’s also a physics lesson to be had. In fact, there’s a detailed science to it, Cox-Siedlarz says, noting the importance of “spacers” to break out different food flavors that might pair with certain kinds of beers. “One time I found pre-made hot dogs in buns, and last year I found as many foods as I could with bacon, because the boys are bacon fanatics.” “There are certain things that are always on there-cheese sticks and Slim Jims are always available,” says Cox-Siedlarz, who lives in Denver, like her sons. ![]() When her twin sons, Dustin and Zachary, head off to this year’s Great American Beer Festival, it’ll be the sixth straight year the pair and their friends don edible necklaces created by their mom-and it’s not just pretzels, either. Instead, this art is more about sweet and salty with a touch of savory for good measure.Ĭox-Siedlarz is a whiz when it comes to the art of wearable food, which can be as ubiquitous at beer festivals as beards or brewery T-shirts. But of all her creations, one has a particularly lasting impact, and it has nothing to do with cloth, yarn or household items. Cindy Cox-Siedlarz considers herself a crafty person, skilled at creating costumes, scrapbooking memories and crocheting and knitting clothing. ![]()
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