Dine Roundup: Alexander’s final spring market, Tin Roof’s LSU beer and more food news

Alexander’s to hold last spring pop-up market this season

Alexander’s Highland Market will hold its last pop-up farmers market of the spring on Sunday, June 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Featured farms will be offering a variety of products, including fresh blueberries, seasonal vegetables and stoneground grits. Pennington Biomedical Research Center will be giving out healthy eating tips and recipe samples, and Tin Roof Brewing Company and Mystic Vine will sample craft beer and wine respectively.

The event is free and open to the public. For more info, call 615-7800.

Family Movie Night downtown next Thursday

#FamilyMovieNightBR will be held downtown at North Boulevard Town Square next Thursday, June 9, 6-9 p.m.

Families can enjoy music, trivia and a showing of the animated Disney film The Lion King. The Baton Rouge River Center will be providing free popcorn, and food trucks will be available for those who’d like to purchase food.

 The event is free and open to the public.

Cane Land Distilling Company moving forward with construction

The construction permits for the long-awaited Cane Land Distilling Company on St. Philip Street downtown have been approved, according to Daily Report.

Originally announced in mid-2013, the local distillery aims to produce molasses-based and fresh-pressed cane juice rum. Work on the 9,700-square-foot warehouse at 760 St. Philip St. is expected to cost about $250,000, including the installation of all the moving parts needed to create “cane to glass” rum.

Read the full story on Daily Report.

Fresh Fest returns at the Red Stick Farmers Market

The Red Stick Farmers Market‘s annual celebration of seasonal summer produce returned May 28 with its Butterfly Extravaganza. Fresh Fest features special events, local chefs and seasonal cooking demos, music and art and garden activities. This weekend, the Fresh Fest highlights dairy products for Dairy Day on June 4. The market begins at 8 a.m. at Fifth and Main streets in downtown Baton Rouge Saturday, June 4.

The remaining schedule for Fresh Fest 2016:

June 4: Dairy Day
June 11: Corn and Squash-tastic
June 18: Blueberry Bash
June 25: Tomato Me Crazy
July 2: Star Spangled Saturday
July 9: Just Peachy
July 16: Melon Mania
July 23: Cool as a Cucumber
July 30: Everything Eggplant

Tin Roof to create fan-chosen beer for LSU

Tin Roof Brewing Company is releasing an officially licensed LSU beer to be launched in time for the 2016 football season and chosen by fans.

Fans 21 and older will be able to take part in a blind taste-testing panel to choose the beer Tin Roof will brew. The company has created a slate of eight to 10 test batches to sample in the blind tasting panel.

Participants must apply on an online survey page and be available either June 14 or June 18 for the taste test. Applications will be accepted until June 8, and the chosen applicants will be notified June 10.

Apply to be on the tasting panel here.