The festival will include 25 cheese companies in the state and involvement from local chefs, authors, brewers, distillers, sommeliers and chocolate makers. One event teaches how to create a cheese board, another focuses on cooking while others offer up instruction on how to pair cheese with wine, chocolate, beer or bourbon. One event is a mini course in cheese science at the Center for Dairy Research at UW-Madison and includes a luncheon with certified Master Cheesemakers.