Put your Fourth of July pints down people: We have some beer news. This week Hot Knives and Verdugo Bar are teaming up for a very special 6-course craft beer and cheese tasting menu – which includes a much anticipated first-taste of Los Angeles’ first new brewery in decades.
Sponsored by Citysearch, the event is limited to supscribers of said social net. But rest assured dear readers, we have two tickets to give away (more on that later). We decided to do a menu of cheese to go with Verdugo mastermind Ryan Sweeney’s flight of beers. So last week we sidled up to the Verdugo patio to try our first-guess pairing. The results were both fruitful and painful; we settled on some solid cheese matches, but we also got stepped on by a lot of beer.
Not to rub it in, but the unsuspecting Citysearcher, and the winners of the below Beer Contest will certainly share in both drooling privileges and bragging rights: This is going to rule.
Eagle Rock Brewery’s Special Wheat with Gazpacho Blanco and a Cana de Oveja Crostini
Brooklyn/Schneider Hopfen Weisse with Mustardy Potatoes and Fiscalini Cheddar
Allagash’s Victor with an “Aged Caprese” å
Pliny the Elder with Beemster X.O. and Roasted Nuts
Something Special with Blue Cheese Frosted Cherry Foccatia.
Eagle Rock Brewery!? Thats right dudes: this event will be the first public tasting of Jeremey and Steve Raub’s intensely coriander-ed wheat beer that makes you wanna sprint until you find a slip and slide: its fucking cool. We’ve been waiting with abjectly baited breath (like turning blue) for these dudes to open their doors and tap lines: when they do we’ll be camped outside like starved Darth Maul groupies from 1999.
We have two tickets to this fancy, free bonanza of booze and ooze. The lucky commenter first to guess the right answer to our little challenge below will have two spots reserved for ’em on the sweet new seats at Verdugo’s now gloriously expanded patio.
Answer Yee These Questions Three:
1. What Is Your Name (and E-mail)?
2. What Is Your Favorite Color?
3. Which California Brewery’s New Suggestive Seasonal Release Is Pictured Above?
2. Orange
3. In the bottle there? That’s gotta be Eagle Rock’s Special Wheat! Awesome label.
2. blue
3. gotta be from Eagle Rock, I’m guessing Troublette Inspired Wit
I found that name on their twitter account. I had to take a stab as Dave appeared to have beat me to the free tix!
Way to drop your Fourth of July grilling brothers! You’re both awesome and you’re both wrong… Next guessers please!
2. green
3. Extra Pale Ale
I got #2 right, that’s gotta count for something.
we are compiling all your favorite colors for a future project.
keep guessing people!
think hard on the original question; there is proof in that thar puddin.
2. Green
3. Lagunitas Lil Sumpin’ Sumpin’
DANG!
That was FAST.
Jen (email and last name unknown) is the righteous winner of two seats at our collaborative lacto-alcho oblivion this coming wednesday!
JEN: how do we find you?
Linked over here from Eater. Man I wish I heard about this earlier! I saw the clue and the picture and my first thought was that Lagunitas brew. I bought a 6-pack a couple weeks ago. Its such a delicious beer that I went back the next day to purchase another for fear of it selling out!
P.S. nice Holy Grail reference!
Guys, you did an amazing job yesterday! That final pairing of the smokey Chocolate Chip Cookie with the Blue Cheese…well, it was amazing. Thanks!
It was wonderful meeting you guys last night at Verdugo — great dishes… that gazpacho blanco & those nuts + beemster XO are totally dreamy.