Drink Craft Beer 5th Anniversary Party - Thank You!
On Thursday, June 30 2011 Drink Craft Beer celebrated our 5th Anniversary in style at Stoddard's Fine Food & Ale in Boston, MA with a party to raise money for Pints for Prostates. The event was a huge success, over 200 people came out and we raised more than $1500 for Pints for Prostates! We want to thank everyone involved in this event for helping to make it such a huge success and everyone who came out for all the support over the years and for the support this specific night. We are so happy to be able to send this check and to be able to raise money for such a great cause! Specifically, we'd like to thank those who donated to our raffle and hosted the party, including: Stoddard's Fine Food & Ale, Long Trail Brewing, Shipyard Brewing, Samuel Adams, Widmer Brewing, The Boston Red Sox, Red Hook Brewing Co., The Rare Beer Club, Craft Beer Cellar, Urban Grape, Ithaca Brewing, Taza Chocolate, B. Good, Narragansett, Upper Crust, Kashmir/Mantra/Diva Restaurants, Entertainment Cruises and, finally, Chris from Notch Session for making the only cask of Notch Saison dryhopped with locally grown Drink Craft Beer hops! Thank you so much! For all the pictures of this event, check out our Facebook Page.
Craft Beer Cocktails: What's Your Favorite?
Like many of you our 4th of July weekend was filled with BBQs, which for us means many coolers filled with delicious craft beer. Our friends Krystle and Scott brought over the prerequisite cooler of beer, but also a carton of lemonade destined for Shandies (beer + lemonade for those not familiar). The sun was beating down, we were hot and sweaty and a Shandy sounded pretty damn tasty.
I pulled a cold Narragansett Summer Ale out of my cooler, poured it into a glass and topped it off with a healthy splash of lemonade. The result? Pure Summer drinking bliss. This got us thinking, we’ve heard of people making Bloody Marys based on beer and Beermosas (beer with OJ), but what other creative beer concoctions are you making? We’re excited to hear what you’ve all come up with. Let us know and give us the details.
As usual, vote below, then let us know why you love that craft beer cocktail on Twitter, on Facebook or in the comments at the end. Cheers!
Add a commentCraft Beer and BBQ Ribs - Six Sauces, Six Beers
BBQ and beer go hand it hand, but craft beer and BBQ are even better! The good folks over at Pig of the Month reached out to us and asked if we could help create some beer pairings to go with each of their BBQ sauces, a task we were more than happy to take on. They sent out two racks of ribs along with six of their sauces. We waited for a nice sunny evening, heated up the ribs and got to work...though calling this “work” is a bit of a stretch. With 20 beers on hand as options we tested pairings until we got the perfect beer for each sauce. We’ve provided our recommended beer along with a recommended style so you can recreate this at home. OK, enough talk, lets get on to the good stuff!
Love Me Tender Memphis BBQ Sauce
DCB Pairing: Oskar Blues Old Chubb
Beer Style: Scotch Ale
This sauce has the deepest smokey flavor, it’s slow cooked and had a nice roundness to the spices. We wanted to pair a beer that had solid malt to it that would enhance some of the subtle smokey flavors while still allowing the sauce to shine. Oskar Blues Old Chubb has been a favorite of ours for years and the flavors in this beer were a perfect match. The smoked peat flavor in the beer helped enhance the richness already in the sauce. This beer is also a little sweeter than most which played well against the acidity of the sauce. This ended up being one of our favorite pairings of the night. For anyone looking at this saying “you picked a canned beer?” You bet we did! More and more great craft beer is in cans so don’t be scared of it.
Colonel Mustard Carolina Mustard Sauce BBQ Sauce
DCB Pairing: Sixpoint Sweet Action
Beer Style: Cream Ale
This mustard sauce is different than many we’ve had, at the front it almost has a honey mustard flavor and then rounds out with a bit of spiciness. We actually went through 4 beers before finding the right match on this one. Once we tried this sauce with the Sixpoint Sweet Action we knew we had the right beer. Cream ales tend to have just a hint more sweetness than a regular ale and are less bitter than a pale ale or an IPA, that balance of malt and hops are what made this beer pair so well. It allowed the sauce to stand up on it’s own while providing subtle compliments to the sweetness and spiciness.
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