This Friday in New York, Ale Street News is co-sponsoring a Belgian beer tasting at the Chelsea Museum. I was wondering what the response would be like since it's being billed as a fairly classy event ("casual elegance" is the suggested attire) and is not cheap at $80 a ticket. But I was heartened today to read on the Ale Street website that all 400 tickets for the tasting have sold out!
Further proof, I think, of beer's ongoing transition from Joe Six-Pack to a serious beverage.
S.
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Steve Beaumont
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This is encouraging Steve, sounds like a great event.
Along the same lines, the Saturday event at Volo was certainly not cheap ($50) but it was more than worth it. And it was one of the more unique beer events I have been to (let's just say a wine and cheese and beer tasting had a different but equally as fun vibe to it as a cask fest or a Judge 4 hour session). And it was a packed house. Very encouraging for the progression of beer I agree (and the beer more than held its own against the excellent wine as a match for cheese, as most of us would have expected already
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Along the same lines, the Saturday event at Volo was certainly not cheap ($50) but it was more than worth it. And it was one of the more unique beer events I have been to (let's just say a wine and cheese and beer tasting had a different but equally as fun vibe to it as a cask fest or a Judge 4 hour session). And it was a packed house. Very encouraging for the progression of beer I agree (and the beer more than held its own against the excellent wine as a match for cheese, as most of us would have expected already
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Duvel and Ommegang are mentioned... it would be keen to know the full menu.Steve Beaumont wrote:Ale Street News is co-sponsoring a Belgian beer tasting at the Chelsea Museum.
Such 'tastings' would be great for trying a lot of beers while sparing the liver some punishment. I would be interested in more unusual beers rather than hearing the espoused virtues of something like Leffe Brune. That's how some 'Belgian Tastings" seem to go, propping up a lot on the mainstream been-there done-that varieties.
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Here's the list.Belgian wrote:Duvel and Ommegang are mentioned... it would be keen to know the full menu.
Oh thanks. I see La Terrible is in there to put the "North" into " N. American", super cool.inertiaboy wrote:Here's the list.
Hmm, quite a comprehensive and thoughtful selection. I wonder how you would sequence that many examples and styles... would be fun to try though.
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