Well, friends… I hope you’re ready for some WINGS! 

Why? Because the Brew-Wing Lab is back at the 2024 EPCOT Food and Wine Festival! And though this Festival Marketplace Food Booth returns once again this year with a slightly new name, the emphasis remains on an assortment of Chicken Wings… but with a few additional surprises in store, like a certain little something called a Pickle Milk Shake (!!!). Oh, and did I mention there’s a Muppets theme to the whole thing?

Intrigued? We sure are! So join us for our complete review of the Brew-Wing Lab!

Atmosphere

Okay, before we dig into the eats and drinks, I just want to remind you that there’s an added bit of FUN here inside the Brew-Ling Lab (which is located inside The Odyssey pavilion). This Food Booth comes complete with friends in the form of MUPPETS! Welcome to Muppet Labs!

Bunsen (that would be Dr. Bunsen Honeydew) and Beaker are your hosts, of sorts, and you’ll enjoy their company by way of videos that play from time to time in the Lab.

You’ll also see that even the tables are uniquely themed to the Lab, and there are PLENTY of them so you can take in some likely much-needed air-conditioning while you partake of the menu items.

Menu

Okay, are you ready to dig in? Because the menu at the  Brew-Wing Lab is STACKED, once again! The assortment of Wings includes Traditional Buffalo Wings with celery and ranch, Peanut Butter and Jelly Sticky Wings, Garlic-Parmesan Wings, and — with a name created in true Muppets fashion — Unnecessarily Spicy Yet Extremely Tasty Carolina Reaper Pepper Curry Wings with creamy cucumber raita.

The Wings are joined on the menu by the plant-based IMPOSSIBLE Buffalo Chicken Tenders with ranch and celery and Fried Pickle Spears with dill ranch.

So, yeah… you’re going to want something to drink with ALL THAT. Options include a non-alcoholic Frozen Pomegranate & Raspberry Tea, along with an assortment of brews along with a seltzer and a hard cider that can be enjoyed individually, and some are available as part of a flight: Coppertail Brewing Smoked Lager, Keel Farms Elderberry Serrano Hard Cider, 3 Daughters Brewing Pickle Hard Seltzer, 3 Daughters Brewing Palm Paradise Hefeweizen, The Bruery Desert Flora, and Cigar City Peach White Oak Jai Alai.

And, yes, as mentioned above, the famous PICKLE MILK SHAKE is back, too!

Okay, that’s A LOT, so let’s waste no time…

Eats

The Traditional Buffalo Wings are served up with celery and ranch for that classic presentation. The batch is $7.75. And, just as the word “traditional” implies, this dish remains exactly what you’d expect, with the ranch serving to cut some of the spice that comes from the buffalo sauce. Don’t get me wrong, they’re solid, but they’re not unlike what you can get elsewhere and fairly basic when considered among the other offerings here.

For instance, you can opt for the Peanut Butter and Jelly Sticky Wings instead, presenting the nostalgic flavors of everyone’s favorite childhood sandwich in Wing form! This dish is $7.75. So this is something you come here for this food booth: unique, experimental flavors. First, you’re going to need to love peanut butter because that’s the biggest flavor we tasted on these babies. Yes, it’s unique, but we wouldn’t say these are the best wings we’ve ever had.

Also up for grabs are the Garlic-Parmesan Wings for a full-on savory option, coming in at $7.75. Now, these wings aren’t just unique, but also quite tasty. This is a flavor combo that just works with the juiciness of the wings. THESE we would order again.

Okay! Who’s up for some Unnecessarily Spicy Yet Extremely Tasty Carolina Reaper Pepper Curry Wings? A Creamy Cucumber Raita is served along with the wings to provide a cooling factor, and the dish is $7.75. This dish is actually new this year, though it does echo a menu item from last year’s Brew-Wing booth, the Unnecessarily Spicy, Yet Extremely Tasty Scotch Bonnet Pepper-Curry Wings. So, how does this year’s version featuring Carolina Reaper pepper compare to the Scotch Bonnet (which did live up to its “unnecessarily spicy” moniker)?

Okay, we love spicy food. These wings ARE SPICY. In fact, it’s so spicy that the heat takes away from everything else we ate (don’t bother to eat anything with these because that spiciness will overwhelm everything else). This is another one of those fun and unique things you’ll want to try just for the experience of it, though.

Changing course just a bit, we have the Impossible™ Buffalo Chicken Tenders with Blue Cheese, Celery, and Ranch for $7.75.Last year we enjoyed this so much, we even recommended it to meat eaters.

Our final food dish is the Fried Pickle Spears with Dill Ranch for $5.75. These are just your basic breaded pickle spears, so there’s nothing too exciting about them. That’s disappointing considering the food at this booth is supposed to be a bit more experimental. If you like fried pickles, though, they’re good as just that.

Drinks

Okay, so yeah… with all that spice, you’ll definitely want something to drink to go with it! Options include the returning non-alcoholic  Frozen Pomegranate & Raspberry Tea, which is Twinings Pomegranate & Raspberry Herbal Tea infused with orange ice cream molecules. This drink costs $5. Now, even though tea is involved here, we find this drink to be more akin to a bright and fruity candy flavor, with little of that tempered tea flavor one might expect. In fact, we think flavor-wise, it’s actually a bit more geared to a kid’s palate than an adult’s. It’s refreshing and fun.

Now, our next drink… well, “refreshing” may not exactly be the word for it. We’re talking about the back-again-whether-you-like-it-or-not Pickle Milk Shake! And it can be yours — if you’re ready to risk it — for the price of $6. So this is certainly one of those experimental things, and it would be fun to prank a friend with this drink. It basically tastes like you’re eating a pickle with a vanilla milkshake…and, if you can imagine that…well, yeah. So, yep, this, too, is an experience.

But wait… THERE’S STILL MORE! We grabbed TWO Beer Flights. The first was comprised of 3 Daughters Brewing Palm Paradise Hefeweizen, The Bruery Desert Flora with hibiscus and prickly pear, and Cigar City Peach White Oak Jai Alai for $10.25. We loved the Cigar City Peach beer, which tasted, well, peachy. The other two were just standard beer flavors that didn’t really do a lot for us, but that peach beer just shines.

The second flight we grabbed featured 3 Daughters Brewing Pickle Hard Seltzer, Keel Farms Elderberry Serrano Hard Cider, and Coppertail Brewing Smoked Lager for $10.25. The Smoked Lager was VERY smoky and a bit too much for us. However, we loved the Elderberry, which was fruity and delicious and was our favorite in the flight. That clear thing in the photo below? That’s the weird Pickle Cider, and it’s about as bad as you can imagine. It tastes like super salty water with a hint of sweetness. It was just GROSS.

OVERALL

Okay, you are not going to Brew Wing for a culinary experience. You go here for the Muppets theme and the idea of eating and drinking fun, unique, and experimental things — or to prank your friends and family with a Pickle Milkshake. This booth won’t be winning any of our Best of the Fest awards, but if you want to try some eats and drinks that are a little different, this is where you want to go.

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What items from this booth would you most want to try? Tell us in the comments!