Martin Wine Cellar/Shmaltz Brewing Beer Dinner

Martin Wine Cellar is hosting a Shmaltz Brewing beer dinner!! The menu(see below) looks incredible! Tickets are $40 per person. It'll be held on March 16th, 2011 at the Martin Wine Cellar in Metairie! Hope to see you there!


Menu


Aperitif
Charcuterie Board: Terrines, Rillettes, pickles and house made mustards
Truffle chips and mixed nuts
He’Brew Genesis Ale
Coney Island Lager

First Course
“Python” Lobster Cannoli- savory cannoli shell filled with spiced lobster salad
Coney Island Albino Python

Second Course
Fresh sugar cane skewered maple leaf duck meatballs over miso broth with soba noodles
He’Brew Origin Pomegranae Ale

Third Course
Beer braised beef with roasted vegetable Perogi
He’Brew Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA
He’Brew R.I.P.A. on Rye (Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. aged in Sazerac Rye Barrels

Dessert
“Bananalicious” - frozen chocolate dipped banana with hot caramel sauce, crushed salted pretzels and peanuts
He’Brew Jewbelation 14
He’Brew Vertical Jewbelation

For reservations call any Martin Wine Cellar location.

Cheers!

The Beer Buddha

March Beer Madness

March is going to be a great month for beer here in Louisiana.  Get your liver ready because there is going to be A LOT of beer consumption going on.  In addition to the two beer festivals I mentioned in my last post we have some official brewery roll outs and Avenue Pub is going to be a madhouse of brew.

Events at Avenue Pub

February 27th

NOLA Dry hopped Hopitoulas on Cask this Saturday @ 5pm

Craig and Kimmie have come up with an amazing special to go with this;
Frenched Lamb over Barley in a chicken cheddar Reduction with Sauteed Green beans.
The dinner special starts today and will be available all weekend. It was designed for the IPA but it goes pretty damn well with the new whiskey barrel aged Rogue too.

March 11th 

The First Top 100 beers tasting 

Dieu de Ciel! Peche Mortel on draft

Cantillon St Lamvinus

La fin Du Monde

Bells Hopslam*

3 Floyds Dreadnaught*

Goose Island Bourbon Country Stout*

* Pulled from Polly's private stock will be and not available for individual sale.

March 27th 

The Second Top 100 Beer Tasting

Olfabrikken Porter

Fantome Saison

St Bernardus

Founder's Breakfast Stout*

Great Divide Old Ruffian*

* Pulled from Polly's private stock will be and not available for individual sale.

Other Draft Beers Coming in March to Avenue Pub

Dieu du Ciel! Péché Mortel Stout
Dieu du Ciel! Aphrodite
Dieu du Ciel! Dernière Volonté
Mikkeller Simcoe Single Hop IPA
Cantillon Vigneronne

Brewery Roll Outs

Bayou Teche Brewery

Enters the New Orleans market March 18th

Schmaltz Brewing Company

March 24,25,26- Three day roll out event.  Avenue Pub will have some really cool kegs just for the event.

NOLA Brewing Company

Releases their highly anticipated(and delicious I might add) Hurricane Saison.

Cheers!

The Beer Buddha

Beer Review: Coney Island Freaktoberfest

I love beer. I'm sure you know this about me already but I'm not sure you really understand how much I love it. No, I don't love it more than my family or my dog. Ok, maybe more than the dog but not more than my family. I mean come on, I sell beer for a living, I love reading about beer and I have a beer blog which I don't think anyone really reads yet I continue writing it. One day though this blog will be good. I swear it!

Anyways I love beer so much that I get really excited when I get a beer in at the store which I've never tried. I'm like a kid on Christmas. I get all giddy inside and feel like I'm about to burst with excitement. I've been in the process of ordering all my fall seasonals and along with the pumpkin beers(which I will do a write up on here soon) I got one from Schmaltz Brewing Company called Coney Island Freaktoberfest. Right off the bat I knew I had to try it. That creepy little tattooed dude with that crazy, wicked smile just screamed "YOU MUST DRINK ME"! Plus the beer is made with 6 malts, 6 hops and is a 6.66% ABV blood red lager. Hello?? How awesome is that for the Halloween season? Plus getting the phone call from my fellow beer buyer Dan at the Panama City Beach store saying we should price this at $6.66 just made it that much more cool.

I will warn all of you though this beer pours a red that my picture just doesn't capture. The problem here is that I'm not really sure my brain and taste buds truly came together to work properly. Seeing the red my brain automatically was thinking strawberry or cherry and the taste was anything but. I really need to try this beer again without knowing what it is or seeing it. Anyways, here is my review:


Brewery: Schmaltz Brewing Company

Beer: Coney Island Freaktoberfest

Style: American Amber/Red Lager

Recommended Glassware: Pint Glass

Appearance: Poured a strawberry soda red with a huge, pinkish fluffy head. The appearance REALLY played tricks on my brain and may have thrown off the taste buds.

Smell: Not much aroma going on here. Perhaps a hint of grainy-ness and a slight hop bitterness.

Taste: Expecting strawberry this beer truly threw my brain and taste buds completely out of whack. It had a metallic bitterness not really in a good way though. Had a slight breadiness to it as well.

Mouthfeel: Light to medium body with medium carbonation.

Overall: As I said before the beer messed with the taste buds based on its appearance so I'm not really sure. It wasn't bad but I'd like to try it again with my brain NOT knowing what it is beforehand.

Score: 3 out of 5 Buddhas