Craft Beer & Chocolate Meet Again Follow Up
Devon and Jeff here. We just wanted to say thanks to everybody who came out to the Craft Beer and Taza Chocolate - Beer and Chocolate Meet Again event at The Wine Gallery on Saturday, August 1st! We had a great crowd come out (picture at right) and the event was a big success. Thanks to The Wine Gallery for hosting, Taza Chocolate for providing the chocolate, Stephanie from Taza Chocolate (picture below with Devon and Jeff from DrinkCraftBeer.com) for coming out to help explain what makes Taza Chocolate so delicious and Craft Brewers Guild for providing the North Coast Old Rasputin and Butternuts Heinnieweisse! In fact, people seemed to like the Heinnieweisse so much that we sold out within the first 45 minutes! And trust us, we got as much as we could... there was no more Heinnieweisse available at the distributor for anybody in the state!
We have a lot of new events in the works, so keep watching DrinkCraftBeer.com!
And, of course, if you want to see all the chocolate and craft beer pairings, check them out, Craft Beer and Taza Chocolate - Beer and Chocolate Meet Again.
Add a commentA night of New Glarus beer makes us want to go to Wisconsin
For those in the craft beer scene New Glarus is one of those famed breweries that we all know about but many don't get to try. The reason for this is New Glarus only sells their beer in one state, Wisconsin. Fortunately for us a friend recently brought back some of their beers for us to try. In short, the hype is real, the beer is amazing and we need to make it out to Wisconsin now to go buy more. Raspberry Tart, perhaps the most famous beer from New Glarus, did not disappoint. We rarely enjoy fruit beers but you know something is good when 6 guys sitting around having some drinks all exclaim various versions of "wow," "delicious" and "amazing" upon first sip. This beer goes beyond beer, it's really more like sparkling raspberry juice that is also somehow miraculously beer. While very sweet it's in no way cloying and it doesn't wear on your pallet like many sweeter beers do. Raspberry Tart seems to walk some perfect line that no other fruit beer we've tried has been able to do, perhaps that's why it's so well known.
Craft Beer and Taza Chocolate - Beer and Chocolate Meet Again

This pairing happened almost by pure accident. We brought a cooler full of beer over to the Taza factory and this wasn't one of the pairings we expected to work...but oh man does it! The Taza Mexicano Vanilla Chocolate has a very interesting vanilla flavor since Taza uses the entire bean, including the pod, in the chocolate. Wow! This is an awesome pairing. The vanilla works with the malt sweetness of the beer and blends with the grapefruity hops in a very intriguing flavor combination. The chocolate sweetness continues when the malt stops, helping finish off the beer. We can't do this one justice on paper, you just have to try it.


The Salted Almond Chocolate from Taza is simply amazing on it's own and we really needed the perfect beer to pair with this. On paper it's easy to just say an imperial stout will pair well, but we went through 7 different stouts before we found one that paired perfectly. This sweet roasty stout and chocolate go together incredibly well creating a truly decadent pairing. The result is mix of classic chocolate and nut flavors with a deep malted milk shake taste. The salt helps finish off the stout making it smoother than it is on its own. This is dessert in a glass.
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