There’s an upcoming Flying Dog beer dinner on July 24th at the Columbia location of The Flying Saucer. It looks like a pretty cool craft beer restaurant, and I think the dessert course (cinnamon gelato paired with Horn Dog) sounds muy interesante.
Flying Saucer
931 Senate St.
Columbia, SC 29209
803-933-9997
July 24th at 7:00
$35 GA and $30 if you’re a Beerknurd
1st Course – Pork Two Ways paired with Tire Bite Golden Ale – Braised Pork Belly and Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Cole Slaw and a spicy BBQ Sauce.
2nd Course – Farfalle Salad paired with Woody Creek White – Farfalle Pasta, fresh Spinach, Vine-Ripe Tomatoes, Kalamta Olvies and Pine Nuts tossed in a Lemon Vinaigrette.
3rd Course – Fire Roasted Chilled Tomato Soup w/ Crème Fraiche paired with Old Scratch Amber
4th Course – Roast Chicken paired with Kerberos Tripel – Slow Roasted Chicken Quarters served with Horseradish Mashed Potatoes and Caramelized Brussel Sprouts.
5th Course – Cinnamon Gelato paired with Horn Dog Barleywine – Cinnamon Gelato over Vanilla Syrup Glazed Pound Cake.
If you’re interested in beer dinners, then I think there’s a good probability that you’re interested in cooking. I’m always looking for better ways to make food at home, and I found a good blog entry about 10 ways to cook better. (via Kottke)
Do you guys have any tips for other beerdinners.com readers about increasing the quality of what you’re making at home?
I had the good fortune to go to the Tommyknocker and Breckenridge beer dinner at Duo in the trendy Highlands area of Denver (not to be confused with Highlands Ranch, suburban land of the cul-de-sac). Joining me in the dining experience, was David, a beer blogger who was in town from Fredericksburg, VA. We had a great time, it was nice to have another beer fan to talk about the various pairings with. Read David’s blog entry here.
Basically what David wrote is everything we chatted about. I felt the Tommyknocker Jackwhacker and the Seafood Curry was by far the best pairing, with the sweetness of the wheat beer cutting the spiciness of the curry, while at the same time adding a sweet note to the flavor (wheat beers and Thai food are a total match!).
Chicago’s CBS affiliate aired a nice video segment during their morning news a few days back about pairing beer with barbecue. Jennifer Faulk of the Glunz Beer Culinary Council recommended two different beers for each food pairing, which ranged from grilled chicken and fish to burgers and barbecue ribs. They also posted a blog entry about the segment that has descriptions of all the beer. Flying Dog’s Old Scratch was featured as a beer that pairs well with a burger.
Do you have any summer barbecue food and beer pairings? Take a photo and email them to promote [at] beerdinners [dot] com. We’ll post your submissions here, and the world can be jealous of your barbecue and beer pairing skills!
You heard me, beer and turkey sandwiches. A match made in Heaven. I took one of my favorite sandwiches in the world, a Thanksgiving Day beer called the PJ’s Gobbler, and paired it with our new (and bottle conditioned) Kerberos Tripel:
In the Flying Dog Brewery marketing department, we sort of have a thing for turkey sandwiches. Our Prime Minister of Marketing Neal has a blog about Turkey Sandwiches, even. And I’m not talking about some douchebag’s version of a turkey sandwich blog – Neal writes and major sandwich companies listen. He even met with the Cheba Hut brass in Fort Collins to talk about developing new sandwiches for their company. I’m that sort of guy who can eat a turkey sandwich for lunch most days and be excited about every one. This is just to show you how serious we are about our turkey sandwiches. Why all this talk about turkey sandwiches in a beer column? Because beer pairs amazingly with turkey sandwiches, that’s why!
Being a first-year festival, nobody was exactly sure what to expect from Savor last month. For those who could not attend but wanted to get an idea of what it was all about, we put together a short movie using footage captured at Savor.
I starting writing a twice-a-month blog entry for a local Denver blog called The Denver Egotist. This week I went out to the Great Northern, a wonderful craft beer restaurant in the Denver Tech Center and had Avery’s Karma and their cumin-dusted Halibut special (link takes you to the whole article).
Do you have any Colorado craft beers you want me to try and pair with some food? Leave a comment and I’ll try my best.
What about you, oh loyal readers of beerdinners.com? Big plans for grilling and drinking some beer this weekend? Take a photo and email me at joshm [at] flyingdogales [dot] com and I’ll post your photo and recipe here after the weekend.
As for me, I’m planning on grilling some chicken for my gourmet grilled chicken sandwich and enjoying a Snake Dog India Pale Ale along with it.
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A Beer Dinner is typically a four to eight course meal where a different style of beer is served with each course. Each beer is specifically paired with that course by the chef because the taste and flavors of the food and beer compliment each other.
