Great Night at Lobethal Bierhaus
Great night at Lobethal Bierhaus last night. We went to their degustation run with Chuck Hahn and the James Squire brewery and BK Wines of the Adelaide Hills. There were some really amazing matches of food and drink. Along with the food and drinks was talks from the brewers and wine makers. I think they should of had the chef out as well but I guess she was a little busy. I will write something more detailed later but for a beer guy chardonay and rabbit pie was a revelation. They have plenty of great meals on their regular menu too so get up there and check it out.
Beer Dinner
I’m going to have a beer dinner soon. I want to try to introduce some friends to some good beer. What better way to do it that to offer to feed them and ply them with said tasty beer. I have been doing some research on a menu and tried it out. I am on a real hoppy and bitter beer kick at the moment so that has mostly guided the meal.
The meal kicks off with a dish called Montgomery’s ‘Melting Moment’ which I got from the Cheese Slices tv show. It’s basically a grilled cheese sandwich using cloth bound English cheddar some leek and onions. Pair that with an IPA I have fermenting at the moment that is inspired by and hopefully half as good as Pliny. It came out really well tonight except that I needed to use a denser bread to hold it together. I also need to make smaller serves as it was a meal in it’s self. Tonight I had it with Flying Dog Raging Bitch. A great beer by the way. Although not a typical IPA it worked well and cut right through the strong cloth bound aged cheese.
For the main course I am going with a recipe I found via Flying Dog. The recipe is Grilled Ground Lamb Skewers, Couscous Salad, and Cucumber Yogurt Sauce. It’s the sixth course in this beer dinner. I made a smaller version for two of us and it came out great. Only thing I am going to add is a little extra salt to the lamb to bring out the flavours. Other than that it was excellent. This course I am going to team with the 5l keg of Yellow Snow IPA I acquired recently. I had it with an ordinary IPA of mine tonight and it worked really well so it should be awesome with a good IPA.
The dessert didn’t get tested tonight as I am waiting to get the recipe from a friend. It sounds amazing though. It is a chocolate stout cake with peanut butter icing. I’m going to make it with my own stout. Once I taste it I wil decide if I am going to serve it with my stout or with a black double IPA I have brewing at the moment. Either way it sounds like an awesome cake. Hopefully that can convince someone to keep drinking good beer. Would be nice to get a convert from the night.