BREWERIES Local craft breweries make a variety of full-bodied stouts, rich porters, hoppy IPAs and smooth-tasting lagers. Here are just a few favorites: Laughing Sun Brewing Company Bismarck Drekker Brewing Company Fargo Fargo Brewing Company Fargo Huckleberry House, Bismarck Half Brothers Brewing Company Grand Forks Stonehome Brewing Company Watford City Atypical Brewery & Barrelworks Minot Phat Fish Brewing Dickinson Fluffy Fields Vineyard & Winery, Dickinson Drift Prairie Brewing Company, Jamestown FIND MORE BREWERIES VINEYARDS North Dakota producers grow hybrid grapes and mix them with local fruits and honey for a glass worth savoring. Here is a sampling: Pointe of View Winery Burlington ANNUAL FOOD FESTIVALS • Happy Harry’s Ribfest, Fargo • Rhubarb Festival, Grand Forks Rugby and JUNE • Minot Food Truck Festival, Minot SEPTEMBER Aneta • Turkey Barbecue, JULY • Norsk Høstfest, • Oktoberfest, Minot and Walhalla Minot Hankinson, Hazen, Maple River Winery Casselton Jamestown, Mandan, New Leipzig • North Dakota State Fair, • Ukrainian Festival, • Watermelon Days, AUGUST Hebron Fluffy Fields Vineyard & Winery Dickinson Dickinson • Potato Bowl USA, • Sun ower Festival, OCTOBER Grand Forks Enderlin Bear Creek Winery Fargo • Deuce of August Icelandic Festival, Mountain • Burgers + Brew Fest, • GooseFest, and Napoleon Kenmare Crosby Wolf Creek Winery Coleharbor • Best of the West Ribfest, Watford City • Chokecherry Festival, • Watermelon Feed, Williston Washburn • Oktoberfest, Ashley, Fargo FIND MORE WINERIES • Sauerkraut Day, Wishek NDtourism.com 59