![]() ![]() It has a strong pungent aroma (read: stinky!) and a soft paté. Grayson is a washed-rind Tellegio-like cheese from the Meadow Creek dairy of Galax, Virginia, close to the North Carolina line. There's not enough there, there.) To put it inelegantly, the mold of the cheese softens the roast of the stout, and the roasted bite of the beer does the same for the funk of the cheese. ![]() (The combination does not succeed with Guinness. I believe strong stout and Stilton to be one of the great beer and cheese pairings. The dairy is aging its 2007 cheese, so none was available. It's a marvelous sheep's milk cheese with a firm paté and grassy/floral finish. I had originally planned to mate the Small Craft Warning with Everona from Rapidan, Virginia. It had been bid on and won as one item in a charity auction to benefit the Lowell School, a private school in Washington, D.C.Ĭlipper City Brewing Company donated the beer, and I led the tasting. to participate in a tutored beer and cheese tasting. It wasn't cheesy in fact, it raised money for a good cause.Ībout 15 folk gathered in a private home last night in Washington, D.C. As the old brewmaster once said "That's all very interesting. The other judges marked it down for being a bit too dark and a bit too high in alcohol for the style.Īnd that's an issue for another day: the formalistic world of beer styles. I also very much liked an ESB as almost being a British beer clone. ![]() We selected a hazelnut brown ale as best and a delicious Imperial Stout as second - although by my adjective you may see where my allegiance lay. (Acting the accommodating steward was store manager Emily Casey.) Fellow judges were Legend brewer Mike Killelea, Lyle Brown, an accredited national beer judge, and Andy Rathman, brewmaster for St. Saturday, Richmond beer and wine shop Once Upon a Vine invited me to judge some local homebrewers' efforts. Homebrewers and craft brewers have maintained their relationship since in fact there are some homebrewers who brew beers of superior quality to those of some of our (less than?) craft brethren. In 1981, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company began its operations - founded by two homebrewers - and the craft beer revival had begun in the United States. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the right to brew beer at home. ![]() They were simply overwhelmed by the range of good beer flavors. David is a friend of mine and a sublimely competent beer advocate. The beers reflected a wide range of flavors, deliberately and carefully selected by David Pollack. Read this account of a hapless New York Magazine tasting from last year. Now, I would like to taste the Budweiser he's referencing! Because I've never tasted a Bud rife with peppery/floral aroma, with a full shortbread-cookie maltiness, a firm drying structure, bottle conditioned with yeast in the bottle, and 7% alcohol by volume. This past Friday night at an in-store tasting in Washington D.C., a customer tasted Clipper City's Small Craft Warning Uber Pils, flashed me a superior look, and said, "That's dirty Budweiser." Or at least not a beer with the words Pils or Pilsner upon it!īob Tupper has told me that this reverse snobbery is often directed against his wonderful Tupper Pils. To him or her, the beer must be the most extreme, bitter, sweet, fruity, or alcoholic potion possible. at least according to the nouveau beer taster. If a bottle has the word Pils upon it, well, it just won't be any good. ![]()
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