Black Tuesday is Upon Us
Badass promo video from Redtail Media:
The Bruery // Black Tuesday from Redtail Media on Vimeo.
Is Black Tuesday the West Coast version of Dark Lord Day? Discuss…
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38 Degrees Ultimate Flight Night
Clay Harding from 38 Degrees has just released the menu for this Thursday’s Ultimate Flight Night. There will be 15 flights of 4 beers, with multiple departures leaving throughout the evening.
Exact flights will be listed soon, but expect to see them broken down by Style (Russian Imperial Stouts, Barrel aged beers, IPA’s, Wee Heavys & Sours), Region (Germany, Belgium, Southern California), and Brewery (Eagle Rock, Russian River, Stone Vertical).
Take a look at this ridiculous lineup! It looks like someone has been stashing kegs away for a little while… (More …)
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10.10.10 Stone Vertical Epic Day Collides With LA Beer Week
Today’s the official day for Vertical Epic, so don’t forget to get out there and grab some bottles to cellar. This year’s beer is a Belgian Pale brewed with camomille that made it’s LA debut at Naja’s this past Thursday.
From the Stone Blog:
Fermented with the legendary Ardennes strain of Belgian yeast, 10.10.10 is a Belgian Strong Pale Ale brewed with pale malt and triticale (a cross of wheat and rye), hopped with German Perle hops, and steeped with chamomile during the whirlpool stage. In secondary fermentation, we added a juice blend of Muscat, Gewurztraminer, and Sauvignon Blanc grape varieties.
Lucky Devil’s was scheduled to do a 3pm tapping, but it looks like it’s been pushed back til Tuesday. Because today’s a Sunday, we might not see this one on the shelves until tomorrow.
Let us know in the comments where you find bottles or kegs of Vertical Epic 10.10.10 around LA!
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A Weeknight Cheese Pairing
Putting together a beer & cheese pairing is a piece of cake. All you gotta do is find a beer you’ve never tried before, and then figure out which of your current cheeses taste best with it.For me the beer was the Sierra Nevada / Charlie Papazian / Fred Eckhart 30th Anniversary collab, an Imperial Helles Bock. The cheeses in my fridge? Sliced Sharp Cheddar, some gooey Silver Goat chevre, and String.
Now, if I’ve learned anything from the Hot Knives, it’s that there’s two ways to match beers & cheeses. You can go for complimentary or contrasting flavors.
As it turned out, the string cheese wasn’t string cheese at all, it was a cube of Jack. Delicious as always, but clearly not the right choice for this prickly Belgo-German cinnabomb. The Cheddar fared better, cutting through the malty booziness just fine. The Chevre tasted downright awful when washed down with Charlie, Fred & Ken’s finest. But I’ll keep some chevre on hand to go with Jack & Ken’s killer Black Barleywine. Think cream cheese on a toasted chocolate chip bagel.
Cheddar won this round, but with the amount of cheese consumed in this household, there will be a whole new field of competitors next time a 750 gets cracked.
Coming Next Thursday…
Hot Knives put on their fanciest pants and pair up with The Bruery for a sold-out beer & cheese symposium at Verdugo Bar.
OK, so even though it’s a cinch to throw things at the wall and see what sticks, it’s tough to duplicate the Alcho-Lacto Oblivion that is a Hot Knives beer & cheese pairing. To illustrate how amazing this LA Beer Week event will be, I’ve compiled a few helpful graphics to compare and contrast. (More …)
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Hi Shail, the event is sold out, but you can drop by Verdugo for Bruery beers that will be pouring all night!
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Beer and Cheese Tasting at Nicole's Gourmet Foods
Short notice, but if you can make it out to Nicole’s Gourmet Foods in South Pasadena, you do not want to miss this beer and cheese tasting, going on tomorrow, Monday June 8th at 5:00pm.Cheese monger Alex Brown from Hot Knives will be leading the event. There are some awesome beers, including the new-to-LA Siamese Twin Double, brewed with Thai spices and coriander by Uncommon Brewers out of Santa Cruz.
Beers and their Cheeses:
- Hitochino Nest—Doigts De Chevre (surface ripened french goat cheese)
- La Merle Saison—Quadrello Di Bufala (washed rind italian water buffalo cheese)
- Glazen Toren Tripel–Cana De Oveja (bloomy rinded spanish sheep’s milk cheese)
- Blue Dot IPA—Azeitao (crazy raw portuguese sheeps milk cheese)
- Telegraph Wheat Reserve—St Maure De Tourainne (ash ripened french goat’s cheese)
- Uncommon Brewer’s Siamese Twin Double—Soureliette du Fedou (natural rinded basque sheep’s milk)
- Telegraph Stock Porter—Fiscalini Bandaged Cheddar (one fo the best cheddars in the world: from modesto!)
- Allagash Curieux—Roquefort L’Aigle Noir (the best cheese. ever.)
This costs you $35.00, but you get a $10.00 off coupon to buy beers at the store. $25.00 for 8 beers, 8 cheeses, and me?
A Cheap Trick, but a rad one: you will learn, you will be drunk.
Tell Friends, call the number to confirm.
Monday, June 8th 2009 @ 5:00pm
Nicole’s Gourmet Foods
921 Meridian Ave Unit B,
South Pasadena CA 91803
626-403-5751
David Stickel and 
Shail are discussing. 
Any idea what time this event starts? Tried calling Verdugo and no response. No time listed anywhere!