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Unfortunately, I haven't checked since before March apparently, as the last two posts were unknown to me until today. They look great.
I don't have a lot of interesting beer or music news, but will try my best.
Laura and I hit Bread & Cup (breadandcup.com) for V-day for a five-course beer-paired meal. It's supposed to be a 'slow meal,' but this was ridiculous. We'd been to a wine-paired one before, and it was amazing. However, the beer one had the same size pours, it took 40 minutes for each course, the pairings weren't all that special, and there was no good way to order beer or anything in between courses. So, we were a little hungry and pissed, but it was interesting anyway. One pairing was particularly good. For dessert, they served some kind of chocolate business with ganache and strawberries, I think, which was quite rich and awesome by itself, but it was paired with Goose Island's Bourbon County stout(Chicago: gooseisland.com). It's a strong, dense, bourbon-barrel-aged stout with a good portion of Willamette hops. The caramel malts and roast barley come through excellently, and obviously the chocolate malts matched the dessert perfectly. We had a four-pack later, and it was still great, though not as great as when we had fresh dessert to go with it. They suggest a pairing of flourless chocolate cake, which may have been what we had. Sounds excellent, anyway.
Here's a picture of Laura and beer at B&C. Probably the Breckenridge 471 IPA, which is quite nice and regularly available.
Goose Island has been good to us. Matilda is on tap in multiple places here, an abbey style golden ale or something. It's not exceptional for a Belgian-style, but quite nice nonetheless especially compared to your typical taps. http://www.gooseisland.com/pages/matilda/25.php. I agree strongly with their pairing of camembert, which is one of the best cheese styles from our best local fromager, Branched Oak. I'm hoping B&C will get this on tap and serve their camembert (the local one) with fig preserves. Goose Island also has a pretty good IPA.
I don't have a lot of interesting beer or music news, but will try my best.
Laura and I hit Bread & Cup (breadandcup.com) for V-day for a five-course beer-paired meal. It's supposed to be a 'slow meal,' but this was ridiculous. We'd been to a wine-paired one before, and it was amazing. However, the beer one had the same size pours, it took 40 minutes for each course, the pairings weren't all that special, and there was no good way to order beer or anything in between courses. So, we were a little hungry and pissed, but it was interesting anyway. One pairing was particularly good. For dessert, they served some kind of chocolate business with ganache and strawberries, I think, which was quite rich and awesome by itself, but it was paired with Goose Island's Bourbon County stout(Chicago: gooseisland.com). It's a strong, dense, bourbon-barrel-aged stout with a good portion of Willamette hops. The caramel malts and roast barley come through excellently, and obviously the chocolate malts matched the dessert perfectly. We had a four-pack later, and it was still great, though not as great as when we had fresh dessert to go with it. They suggest a pairing of flourless chocolate cake, which may have been what we had. Sounds excellent, anyway.
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Goose Island has been good to us. Matilda is on tap in multiple places here, an abbey style golden ale or something. It's not exceptional for a Belgian-style, but quite nice nonetheless especially compared to your typical taps. http://www.gooseisland.com/pages/matilda/25.php. I agree strongly with their pairing of camembert, which is one of the best cheese styles from our best local fromager, Branched Oak. I'm hoping B&C will get this on tap and serve their camembert (the local one) with fig preserves. Goose Island also has a pretty good IPA.
posted by FretlessC at 6/20/2010 10:32:00 PM
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