I’m an avid beer nerd and may have met a few of you while working at Plonk or through the Canberra Brewers club. Some of you may remember I hosted a craft beer and food matching lunch at the Durham Castle Arms a couple of years ago and I mentioned it here – it was such a fun afternoon that we’ve decided to host another. It’ll be at the Durham again this time on Sunday 22nd of May (next Sunday).
We’re matching six courses with five Australian craft beers and one British cider. We’ll also have discussions on how different beers are brewed and cider is produced, how to judge or explore different styles of beer as well as ways to pair food with beer and what sort of flavours go well together.
These beers will include Canberra’s own Wig & Pen Kembery Ale & Velvet Cream Stout, White Rabbit Dark Ale from Healesville (Vic), Stone & Wood Pacific Ale from Byron Bay as well as the traditional Marston’s Stowford Press cider from the UK (all of which will be on tap!).
This should a fun afternoon and I look forward to meeting fellow beer geeks there.
Call Adrian at the Durham on 6295 1769 for more information and to book – thanks & cheerio!
Dan
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Like white basketball players, there is no really good beer in Australia
Thumper said :
Depends what you mean by “really good”. It’s no barrel-aged, civet-coffee-infused imperial stout sold on only one day every year at a festival of the same name, but Wig & Pen Velvet Cream Stout is a cracker of a beer.
I just hope that Wig & Pen doesn’t close down and goes to a new owner who recognises what they’ve got.
Beer + cider + informative + food = you’ve just blown my mind. I’ll be there!
Thumper said :
Two words
Blake Griffin
I will admit that the Wig does brew good beer. However, having spent many, many months touring southern england in pusuit of beer, I stand by my original assertion.
Thumper said :
Ye missed out on t’ good stuff lad. I reckon there’s a direct relationship between latitude and quality of beer in England. The further north you go, the better it gets. Until you hit Scotland.
Thumper said :
I haven’t been to England so I haven’t tried any of their beers fresh from the cask. I can only assume they’re better than the bottled examples we get here which are generally dire.
tiliqua said :
Some of the best British beers I’ve had came from Orkney.
tiliqua said :
Never heard of Brewdog? They make some excellent beers.
Hi Dan. I saw the menu in a friend’s paper and it looked awesome. Then I realised I want to invite some vego friends – will there be vegetarian options?
Peptis said :
Hmm, I’ve had one that I’d call excellent, a few that I’d call good, while the rest fail to live up to the hype. And those pretentious labels, gah.
Thumper you need to read some of Chris Shanahan’s comments about the Wig & Pen’s beer. Richard the brewer has won so many awards that his beer is really good.
Peptis said :
No I haven’t. Yes, there’s some good, even great, beers in Scotland – Black Isle, Skye and Orkney breweries spring to mind,but damn you’ve got to look for them.
gem said :
Hi Gem,
To be completely honest, it’s not something that we had really considered (carno-centric of us!).
But we would like to be as inclusive as we can. How many friends of yours are vegetarian? If, when booking, you could advise us of how many need vegetarian courses we’ll try to accommodate them.
The beers/cider have been specifically matched to different combinations of foods & flavours and any great variations on these would create different experiences.
But we’ll certainly do our best to create some vegetarian courses that will suit the beers provided.
Cheers!
Dan
Thanks so much to everyone who attended this event and helped to make it a great afternoon, I for one had a hoot!
Loads of good craft beer for everyone and lots of friendly people.
Here’s a pic:
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Thanks again to everyone – I hope we can do this again soon