# Food-Beer pairing event!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [January 29, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239 "2015-01-29T16:45:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239/1 "2015-01-29T16:45:42Z")
Attending a beer-food pairing tonight at my favorite bar, House of 1000 Beers. The beers are all from Green Flash Brewery, including a cask beer! Here is the menu: > [@](#): > > –Seared scallops with cauliflower puree & a golden raisin/caper emulsion; paired with Green Flash Grand Cru, a Belgian-style strong dark ale > –Pepper-crusted salmon, sauteed fall vegetables & a Cuban oregano dashi; paired with Green Flash Imperial IPA, on cask & doused with Thai basil, Thai chili, & lemongrass > –Crab with avocado, grapefruit, & roasted pistachios; paired with Green Flash West Coast IPA > –Espresso-ganache-glazed dark chocolate terrine with strawberry coulis; paired with Green Flash Double Stout > –Coriander-spiced pound cake with orange-ginger sorbet & mango; paired with Green Flash Saison Diego, Belgian-style farmhouse ale with orange zest, ginger, & grains of paradise > > Brian’s put together a really enticing menu, & this will definitely be a one-of-a-kind event. We’ll be joined by the brewer of Green Flash via satellite for Q&A & conversation. Seats are $45, please make your reservations now. Can’t wait! The last pairing they did was awesome. They go out of their way to limit seating so it is a nice comfortable crowd where most of us know each other. Yeah!!! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239/2 "2015-01-29T17:17:43Z")
Damn, are you getting a full serving of each of those? Either way, I’m envious. It looks mighty satisfying, I hope it is. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239/3 "2015-01-29T17:29:26Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Damn, are you getting a full serving of each of those? > > Either way, I’m envious. It looks mighty satisfying, I hope it is. The last pairing I attended I was stuffed and tipsy at the end. Since the brewery is cosponsoring the event, the beer will flow freely. 🆒 I helped “tap”(?) the cask yesterday and got a taste. It was amazing! The chef is a local guy who is remodeling/reopening the old Kleiner Deutschmann Restaurant in Springdale. It was once a German restaurant owned by a great gay couple who wore lederhosen to work. Guy I know has remodeled the building and will be opening on Mother’s Day. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239/4 "2015-01-30T19:42:29Z")
Looks like a great menu and interesting pairings. I would have swapped the beers for the 2nd and 3rd courses, perhaps. I actually got to plan one of these when I worked at a brewery, it was pretty great. The caterer gave me a completely clean slate and said he would make anything I wanted for each course. It was horribly intimidating at first, but then I just sat down with a bottle of each of the beers and thought “If I could eat anything in the world with this beer, what would it be?” and it all came together. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239/5 "2015-01-30T20:04:24Z")
It was amazing!! The chef created each course while sipping the beer. The food was so pretty it was almost a shame to eat it. A rep from Green Flash Brewery was in attendance ans spoke between courses. We hung out with him for an hour afterwards, both to talk and to sober up a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/food-beer-pairing-event/711239/6 "2015-01-30T20:20:57Z")
Sounds awesome!