Sweet Olive Chef Brenden Lynch crafted a sensational seasonal menu that paired with several of the Brewery's beers that were brewed especially for that night. Some beers were poured right out of the tank, never to touch a keg. Others were poured with only natural carbonation, nothing added. The event got down to the pure essence of the brewing process and the food just complemented everything perfectly. Some of the pork was even braised in beer! My kind of meal.
Below is the menu that you missed (shame on you!) and the beers that were poured. Stay tuned for the next Fresh Hops Local Crops TBA!
Little House Farms pork sausage patty (house seasoned) over a
cornbread crostini topped with savory apple gravy
Paired with the I Drink Therefore I Amber from the brite
tank (this is the last tank the beer goes into before being kegged)
PAIRING 2
Salad- Fresh Baby green Salad with Candied Local Pecans and a Satsuma Vinaigrette served in a warm pastry crust
Paired with Firkin of Fairhope 51 with local satsumas and Mosaic hops
PAIRING 3
Painted Black-braised chicken slider topped with caramelized
onions and pickles on a sweet Challah roll
Paired with the Painted Black IPA with added whole leaf hops
– the whole leaf hops are in their most natural form, as opposed to the
pelletized hops we more commonly use
PAIRING 4
Chocolate citrus cream tartlets- gingersnap crust topped
with chocolate ganache infused with local grapefruit and topped with a white
chocolate cream cheese
Paired with the Section Street Wheat infused with local ruby
red grapefruit – we will utilize our Randall device to infuse our wheat beer
with local grapefruit
A little info about a Firkin...
“It is the fact that the firkin is typically dedicated to
housing Real Ale (i.e., cask-conditioned ale), or beer that has not been
cold-filtered, pasteurized and carbonated by outside equipment. The ale beer
that is housed inside the firkin is naturally carbonated by its resident yeast
and its ingredients have not been processed in any way outside of simple
fermentation by the yeast. In essence, firkin-contained Real Ale is comparable
to the ale beers that were produced hundreds of years ago, before
industrialization subjected them to processes that removed and/or killed the
yeast, stripping the beer of many of its inherent vitamins (especially the B
vitamins), minerals, and perhaps most importantly, taste.”
