Next Thursday, Dec 9th, we are hosting a craft beer and chocolate pairing in collaboration with Socola Chocolatier. They are a local sister run gourmet truffle company.
It starts at 7:30. The cost is $30. The chocolate will also be available for purchase at the event…
Please click the link below to find out more information and to sign up:
http://www.meetup.com/Women-who-like-beer/calendar/15105620/
Our 10th Women who like Beer Meetup was last Friday. It was a Sour/Pickled Beer tasting that was for women only. For $26 buckeroos these fabulous women got to try 12 different sour beers and nosh on some goat cheese with honey, raspberries, blackberries, and grapes some sour dough baguettes; as well as some chocolate almonds. We had a lot of new faces and a lot of fabulous repeat ladies!
They learned all about what makes a sour beer a sour beer and they got to try 12 examples of different sour styles such as: Berlinerweiss, American Wild Ales, Guezes, Fruit Lambics, Flanders Red Ales and a Sour Stout.
I always ask my ladies to do their homework, in which they have to rate their top 3 favorite beers of the evening.
The winners are:
1-Rodenbach Grand Cru 
2-Lost Abby’s Cuvee de Tomme
3-New Blegium’s La Folie
Some women also left some very nice comments on their homeork sheet:
Melanie said: Awesome event! Had a great time with a great group of women! Keep up the good work of spreading the word of craft beer!
Santella said: It was a great first meetup tasting event for me! You are so knowledgeable. I learned more than I thought-thanks!
Elissa said: You guys, as always, are gracious and professional hosts! Good time! The Guezes must be an acquired taste…I just can’t get beyond the roofing tar smell but I loved the Festina Peche from Dogfish Head!
Another meetup member said: Lots of great info as always. I’m not, or didn’t think I was a sour beer fan; but you showed me that there are still some that I really enjoyed.
Heidi said: I have never had Apricot Cascade and I really liked it. Supplication is delicious; so it the Duchesse. The caramel notes in the Duchesse really give a warm and fuzzy feeling. The Cascade was a brighter, lighter, good session beer, especially for a picnic.
Thanks everyone!!! We look forward to our next tasting which happens to be our 1 year meetup anniversary!
It is crazy how much can change in a year. Last year was my first GABF and back then I just really enjoyed drinking craft beer. Little did I know that since that GABF I would:
1-Start my own craft beer blog/website
2- Get frustrated with drinking great craft beer with so many men and not many women with me. So I started my own meetup group to educate women about craft beer. This group has since become one of the most successful meetups in San Francisco that I actually was asked to speak at a meetup organizers convention about how I run my own group.
3- Be part of a beer tasting panel by Brian Yaeger
4-Be interviewed on the radio in New Zealand about craft beer
5- Be asked to do private beer tastings
6- Run our own Beer, Bed and Breakfast through airbnb
7- Host a Craft Beer and Chocolate pairing as an official SF Beer week event
8-Meet so many wonderful, amazing people along the way!
But I digress…..GABF this year was:
again, amazing. Last year we went to the Friday night session and this year we made it to the Thursday night session. This year it was a bit more crowded in general but wait times in lines for beer were not too bad and it made some time for slowing down and drinking some water. We managed to get the special Homebrewer’s Association ticket, which had it’s own line to get into the festival (and was suppose to be faster), which ended up taking us 20 minutes longer to get in than our friends who had bought regular tickets. We received the special Homebrew tickets as a mistake; we did not pay the extra $30 fee to be a part of the Homebrewer’s Association….but other than waiting a bit longer to get in and no sighting of George Went this year, it was still a fantastic festival.
I was only able to keep writing notes up to 34 beers…and the notes get less and less desciptive at the end, but it’s all in the nature of the festivities.
I tried in order:
1-Humulus Lager by The Bruery. This beer was a great first start. It had a ton of wheat, passionfruit, and some bitter hop character to it.
2-Kelsey McNair by Stone Brewing. American Pale Ale. It was a very light beer but incredibly hoppy with tons of bitter grapefruit skin.
3- Bourbonic Plague by Cascade Brewing. It’s a sour beer aged in bourbon barrels. Did I say I was pacing myself? It had a huge sour funky nose with tons of bourbon in it. It tasted malty, with light bourbon flavors, vanilla, then tart, tart and more tart with some sour funk at the end. It was very tasty and an interesting combination of flavors. Not too shabby…
4- 2009 Cable Car by The Lost Abby. I STILL have not tried the 2010 version. However, this baby was incredibly sour with tons of juicy lemon pucker notes, funky-cole-madina aspects and a touch of herbalness….It will wake your taste buds up!
5- Angel’s Share Grand Cru by The Lost Abby. BOURBON! It has a ton vanilla, malt, toffee, bourbon notes and you can definitely smell and
taste and feel the alcohol in it…
6- 22 by Deschuttes. Whiskey, malt, coffee and vanilla. Period.
7-Older Viscosity by Pizza Port Brewing. This is the bourbon barrel aged version of Old Viscocity. It is incredibly smooth, with tons of vanilla, touches of bourbon with toffee and yummy caramel notes.
8-Tricerahops by Ninkasi Brewing. Double IPA. This beer had a ton of juicy mango, passionfruit and tons of bitter grapefruit skin. It was very nicely bitter and a juicy flavor explosion in my mouth!
9-Utopias 2009 by Samuel Adams. You don’t walk away when you see them pouring this baby! It is $180 a bottle afterall…Mmm bourbon, caramel, toffee, vanilla…This is beer on rocket fuel! (in a good way).
10-3 Philosophers by Ommegang. 9.8% abv. It is a Belgian Quadrupel with cherries. It was 
funky, with a lot of oak, vanilla, cherries and was slightly tart.
11- Sand Pebbles by Three Floyds Brewing. Brown IPA. It was somewhat malty, tangy with a touch of grapefruit. It was a bit blah. It was disappointing to go to 3 Floyds and see only five underwhelming offerings…
12-Anniversary Ale by Short’s Brewing Co. This is a blood orange wheat wine fermented with blood oranges and blood orange zest, dry hopped with green peppercorns. It smelled like blood oranges, pepper and grapefruit skin. It tasted semi-sour, bitter, juicy orange pilth but not much peppercorn in the taste. It was incredibly interesting and my favorite new combo of flavors.
13- The Wizard by Short’s Brewing Co. It is batch 666, brewed on Devil’s night for 6 hours and 66 minutes. It is a barelywine aged with raisins. Boo ya! Huge raisin flavors, vanilla, bourbon, malt….deliciousness.
14-Solar Eclipse by Kuhnheun Brewing. Russian Imperial Stout that is 18% abv. It was ridiculously sweet, with coffee, smokey flavors and roasted malt. It was way too damn sweet for me; I was not a fan.
15-DRIPA by Kuhnheun Brewing. Double rye IPA. This beer was way better than their above 
offering. It was pretty malty with touch of rye and piney bitterness. It was better than good.
16- 4th Dimmension by Kuhnheun Brewing. Old Ale. This puppy was sweet and malty with caramel, toffee and a touch of bitterness. It was very nicely balanced.
17- Devil Dancer by Founders Brewing. DIPA. Props for the name! This beer smelled bitter, grapefuity and a touch of malt. It tasted bitter and malty. Pretty good…
18- Canadian Breakfast Stout by Founders Brewing. Aged in a barrel that was used to age bourbon, then reused to make maple syrup…you can not get this baby in bottles! It tasted like oatmeal, bourbon, espresso, and roasted malt. It was ridiculously smooth! Absolutely amazing. I couldn’t believe they were pouring this beer all night. It was hands down, my favorite stout of the show!
19- Raspberry Tart by New Glarus. This beer smelled like cherry coke. It tasted like a ton of sour raspberries, tart and cherry soda. It tasted better than it smelled. It smelled like when you mix all sodas together from a soda fountain….mystery juice I think is what that is called? Everyone was raving about this beer but it was a bit too fake raspberry taste for me to like it.
20-Belgian Cherry Cordial by Iron Hill Brewing. It smelled very sour with cherry and some 
barnyard funk. It tasted way maltier than expected with hints of sour cherries.
21-Berlinerweiss by Iron Hill Brewing. This beer had a fantastic nose with sour green apples and funk. It tasted of green apples, green grapes, and sour. I really liked this beer!
22-Apricot Blonde by Dry Dock Brewing. Mmm fresh apricots! This beer had a very pretty nose with light wheat and fresh apricots. It tasted light with wheat, juicy apricots and a touch of lemon.
23-Labryinth by Uinta Brewing. This is black ale that is 13.2% abv. This beer smelled like cheese! (in a good way). Vanilla and cheese to be precise…It tasted like oak, black licorice and toasted malt. AN AMAZING BEER.
24-Cockeyed Cooper by Uinta Brewing. This is a barrel aged barleywine that is 11.1% abv. This smelled a tad sweet with chocolate. It tasted like vanilla, dark chocolate, dried fruits and a touch of bitterness. It was really freaking good.
25- Bitch’s Brew by Dogfish Head. Poured by Sam himself. 9% abv Stout made with mead, African root and brown sugar. It was sweet, maple syrup-y, smokey and herbaceous.
26-Black Tuesday by The Bruery. Bourbon barrel aged Imperial Stout that sells out in bottles in 5 minutes. It tasted like sweet raisins, malt, roasted coffee, vanilla and bourbon. THIS was worth waiting in line for 15 minutes.
27-Guava Grove by Cigar City Brewing. S-O-U-R! Lemon, guava, funk, tart, sour deliciousness. Mmm tart!
28-Jai lai by Cigar City Brewing. IPA. Malty, smokey, sweet, huge bitter grapefruit skin ending with some alcohol burn.
29-Cascadian by Maui Brewing Co. Belgian Rye IPA. This beer tasted like dark fruits, cherries, raisins, rye and works well with the Belgian funkiness. Nice.
30-Hopsickle by Moylan Brewing. Sweet mango, juicy passionfruit, bitter grapefruit skin, fresh pine forest and a touch astringent…
31-Brute by Ithaca Brewing Co. Wild Ale. This beer was tart with funky barnyard, lemon and a bit better than the LeBleu below…
32- Le Bleu by Ithaca Brewing Co. Sour Blueberry. It was super sour on the sides of your cheeks and back of the tongue. It did not have much blueberry flavor in it at all. It was a bit disappointing because of this.
33- Snake Dog by Flying Dog. IPA. Pine, grapefruit skin and bitter. It was pretty mild and only ok.
34- Peanut Butter Beer by Blue Moon. I only tried this because it had peanut butter in it. It had a huge peanut butter nose, which was super interesting. Then I made the mistake and tasted it: wheat, peanut butter lager-y grossness….I did not end up writing anymore after this beer, although I did try a few more.
So my top GABF winners (as far as my favorite new beers that I have not had the luxury to try before) are:
1- Founder’s Canadian Breakfast Stout
2-Uinta’s Crooked Line
3- Cascade’s Bourbonic Plague
4-Short’s Brewing Anniversary Ale
5- Iron Hill’s Berlinerweiss
My losers:
1-Blue Moon’s Peanut Butter Beer
2-New Glarus’ Raspberry Tart
Overall, the GABF is always a great experience. It was nice to see a bunch of friends that we have made over the year all under one roof. I look forward to what the next year will bring for us in beer!
Don’t miss out on the Sour Beer Tasting this Friday for women only!
http://www.meetup.com/Women-who-like-beer/calendar/14542251/
There has been an underground Beer Dinner Club going on in the Mission for exactly a year now. Dave and I were lucky to become friends with Eric, the beer home-brewer, who hosts each event. Neil is his counter-part: the chef that creates and cooks for all 14 diners each evening. This time the theme happened to be tomatoes, since it’s that time of year and because it was their 1 year anniversary of the Mission Gastroclub and their first dinner was tomato themed as well.
The food menu:
Beer flatbread with tomato olive tapenade, peppered goat cheese, heirloom tomato fritters with smoked trout and buttermilk dressing, scallops with pappardelle, wild mushrooms and oven dried tomatoes, tomato sorbet with corn pudding and candied bacon.
The beer menu:
English Mild, Extra Pale Ale, Funky Belgian Single and a Quad to finish.
Sounds tasty, right? Dave and I arrived and found ourselves with a beer in our hands within 
the first minute. We sat down at the large table (there are only 2 tables to choose from) in the kitchen and easily started talking to the people who were already there and had apparently been coming to their dinners for a few months now.
The first beer we were given was the English Mild made from the second runnings of a barleywine. 3.8% abv. It pours a murky orange teak. No head. It smells like sweet prunes, dates, vanilla and very slight bourbon notes. It tastes mildly malty, slightly sweet and light. A nice easy start.
It is paired with: tomato-olive tapenade, peppered goat cheese served with beer flatbread. The sweetness from the tomato, creaminess from the goat cheese and butteriness from the flatbread combines with the dates and prunes of the mild to create a sweet, salty and nutty goodness. The goat cheese is just amazing- melt in your mouth. It was a good first start.
For the second course we had his Extra Pale Ale- It pours a slightly cloudy tangerine brown
with a touch of foam. It smells like sweet tangerine, mango and a touch of pine. Really pretty nose. It tastes just like pine forest, slightly bitter grapefruit skin and just a nicely balanced bitter ending.
The Extra Pale Ale was paired with: Heirloom tomato fritters, smoked trout salad on frisee with buttermilk dressing .The sweet smokiness and creaminess of the trout combined with the crunch of the fritters adds to the pine bitterness to create a nice balance between the cream and the bitter.
For the third course we had Eric’s Funky Belgian Single. This pours a dark red mahogany- slightly cloudy. It smells like raisins, bananas, cereal, date bread and all together good funk. It tastes like light raisins, malt, slightly funky, touch of bitterness and a dry malty ending. The nose on this one was just fantastic!
It is paired with: Pappardelle, wild mushrooms, oven dried tomatoes and seared scallops. The mildness of the pasta paired with the slight
mildness of the beer. The meatiness of the mushrooms brings out the caramel of the scallops and funkiness of the Funky Belgian Single. The bitter touch of tanginess from the oven dried tomatoes really compliments the date and raisin in the beer. My favorite pairing if the evening.
The fourth pairing was Eric’s Quad-11% abv. Made from Rochfort 10. It pours a dark chocolate. It smells like bourbon, vanilla, roasted malt, raisins and stewed fruit. It tastes like freaking raisin brand and vanilla bourbon. Amazing.
Paired with: Corn pudding, tomato sorbet and carmelized peanuts that were then deep fried and bacon (-except for us vegetarians!). The flavors together: sweet corn pudding, tangy tomato and salty sweet peanuts with the sweet bourbony raisins of the Quad= happy Tiila and happy everyone else (especially those with the added bacon bits).
How much would you pay for this delicious 4 course meal complete with a beer pairing? $100? $80? $60? Try just a $28 donation for this particular dinner! (they are all around a suggested $25-$30 donation).Personally, I think they are asking too little but at the end of the meal is when they have a jar on the table for everyone to contribute. So you can donate more if you want to (and I think you all should!!)
How does one get an invite to this amazing Gastroclub? You have to sign up to be on their email list. Mission Gastroclub.
Eric Cripe is a little under the radar- but you should know who he is. He works at the Jug Shop in Nob Hill as a manager and is a Cicerone who has done the beer menus to a few places you might have heard of (Public House and Anchor & Hope just to name a few…). However, he also hosts amazing beer tastings at the Jug Shop; which you sort of have to be in the know to find out about (you have to sign up for their email list in order to get the event listing because they rarely list it on their website).
Dave and I have been lucky enough to go to quite a few of his events. Recently, we went to their Sour Beer Fest Part 1: Fruited Sour Beers last Friday. (Part 2 is THIS Friday and you have to buy tickets beforehand). $35 for 17 tastes or rare sour beers that Eric has been collecting. Not too shabby if you ask me.
We were handed our first tasting immediately: a glass of New Belgium’s Eric’s Ale, which he happened to have a keg of. It’s a 7% abv beer with 16 IBU’s and aged for 3 years in oak foeders with peach juice. 
It pours a golden light amber. It smells of sour funk, oak and peaches. It tastes like light peach with oak (but not too much) and a touch of vanilla with a nice sour punch (but not too much). It’s an amazing beer; if you can find it. It has been sold out at the Jug Shop of a while now.
Next up: Cascade Apricot 2009. 8.5% abv. This beer was put through 16 months of lactic fermentation and aged in French oak wine barrels. The apricots were allowed to slowly ripen before introduction into the beer; the beer then aged another 4 months on the fruit before bottling. It pours a clear bright orange hue. It smells a lot like wine, with tons of oak and dark fruit. It tastes like a pile of dried apricots, citrus sour, with some herbalness going on in there and a large oak ending. It was a tasty pucker fruity sour.
Birrificio Italiano Cassissona. This was the first beer on the list that I have not tried before. It is an Italian beer made in Lurago Marinone with a small amount of cassis added in the beginning of the 
fermentation. It pours a cloudy orange caramel. It smells sweet; with hints of apple juice, cranberry, some slight bourbon notes, dates and raisins. There was a lot going on in that nose! It tastes of sweet malt, caramel, grapes, prunes, and dates. It has tons of fruit in there but not much sour; it was only sour at first then it changed to sweet. It’s a perfect drink for a celebratory dessert.
Next we had Russian River’s Consecratation, which we all know is one of my all time favorite sours; but I have reviewed and tasted this beer so many times that I am going to skip it now. I just wanted to let you all know that this was on the list.
Oud Beersel Framboise-5% abv. This is a Belgian beer created by adding fresh raspberries to young lambic. This pours a dark red with a tinge of brown. It smells like sour raspberries and sweet funk. It tastes like pucker sour, tons of frozen raspberries, then a touch of too much oak on the ending. It was ok.
Cantillion Lou Pepe Kriek 2007- This beer is made with 2 year old lambic beers with a mellow taste, often coming from barrels in which only wine has been kept before. Then it is combined with the beer that is used to make the Lou Pepe Kriek and Framboise. All of these beers are then combined with the fruits and are soaked in barrels coming directly from Bordeaux. Cantillion’s Kriek and Rose de Gambrinus contain 200gs of fruit per liter while the Lou Pepe contains 300g per liter. This baby pours a cloudy beet red. It smells like light sour funk, cherries and a touch of cinnamon. It tastes like the lightest of all the Cantillions I have tasted with cinnamon, cherry fruit, then a good, tart sour ending with touches of lemon, blackberries and black currants. Delish!
Birrifico Italiano Kriek- This Italian beer is a combination of old and young sour beers that were fermented with lactic acid bacteria, wild yeast and black sweet cherries. It pours a cloudy sienna brown. It smells like sour funk, yeast and grapes. It tastes like funky sour, huge stewed cherries with a dry ending. It was on it’s way out unfortunately…
Drie Fonteinen Shaerbeekse Kriek- 6.5% abv. This is brewed with Belgium’s famous Schaerbeekse cherries, renowned for their incredible color and flavor. It pours a murky red brown. It tastes like very tart sour funk, with huge raspberries and cherry notes. It tastes like very tart sour lemon, cherry and tart, tart, tart funk goodness.
Oud Beersel Kriek- This baby is made from real cherries and Oud Beersel Lambic from old barrels. It contains around 400g of cherries per liter! It pours a dark, cloudy cherry red. It smells like sour lemons, cherry and slight foot funk. It tastes slightly herbal, sour, then sweet cherry juice turning into a tart sour ending.
We then tried Avery’s Depuceleuse, which again, I am leaving out because I have reviewed this beer a few times. But unlike Consecration, this beer has turned way, way too oaky for me to enjoy it-which is a shame. I really liked it when it first came out.
Russian River Supplication- Batch 5-7% abv and 27 Ibu’s. This brown ale is aged in French oak Pinot Noir barrels with 3 strains of sour yeasts and sour cherries. It pours a semi-clear orange teak. It smells like sour cherries, oak and dark fruit. It tastes like sour tart cherries, oak and dark fruit. It has a good balance of oak to tart, with not too much pucker lemon sour. One of my favorite sours!
Cascade Kriek 2008- This is a sour red ale refermented with a sweet blend of fresh Northwest cherries; then aged 6 months in lactic fermentation in small French oak wine barrels. It pours a cloudy raisin hue. It smells sweet, then sour with dates, raisins, oak and sweet cinnamon. It tastes like sour cherry pie, cinnamon, sour funk and a sweet pie ending. It was super tart!
Cascade Kriek 2009- This younger version pours a cloudy red mahogany. It smells like sour and sweet with some slight dates notes. It is not quite as pungent as the 2008. It tastes sour, slightly sweet then tart cherries. I don’t get any pie or cinnamon notes on this version but it is still very good.
Ommegang Zuur-6% abv. This beer is a blended Flemish Sour brown of Oud Bruin and Liefmans Cuvee Brut. It pours a cloudy dark mahaogony. It smells like sour tart, then dried grapes, dates and some slight nuttiness. It tastes like sour funk, then slightly sweet grapes. It is sour but not tart sour. It is more like a sour grape sour beer. Interesting.
New Belgium’s Transatlantique Kriek- 8% abv. This is a spontaneously fermented lambic ale made with Polish cherries. This beer started in oaken vessels at frank Boon’s brewery in the Lembeek region of Belgium. After 2 years of aging, it was shipped across the Atlantic to New Belgium. New Belgium then brewed a full-bodied golden lager to round out the light-bodied kriek. It pours a nice, ruby red. It smells like sour funk with less fruit and way more funk in the nose. It tastes like raspberry tart, then sweet sour. It was very light and after all of these other beers, it seemed a bit watery…
Kasteel Rouge-8% abv. This is a Castle brown that has been left to mature for at least 6 months with sour cherries. It pours a slightly cloudy red brown. It smells like sour grapes, cherry juice and cherry cola. It tastes like sweet cherries and slight cola. It was very sweet! It was not my favorite of the evening.
Haand Bryggeriet Wild Thing-This is a Norweigan ale brewed with cranberries and currants. It pours a cloudy orange teak. It smells like sour funk, herbal- actually WAY too herbal-and stinky feet. It was not nice to smell! It tastes like anise, juniper, herbal, spicy, feet, slight malt and tobacco smoke. It tastes like I am sucking on a Juniper tree…not too pleasant!
Whew! That was a long one….but definitely WORTH trying if you can get your hands on when they will be doing their tastings…and don’t forget part 2 of the Sour Beer Tasting this Friday from 6-9pm.
Another meetup…another bunch of fabulous women (and some men). We had our 9th Women who like Beer meetup this Sunday…time just goes by so fast. Thanks so all of you who keep coming back and to all of the new faces. Dave and I truly love having all of you.
This time is was craft sausage and craft beer in a can. Beer in a can you say? There are many viable reasons why more and more craft breweries are producing their beers in cans. Why? Because it’s fresher (no light can get to the beer), it’s more eco-friendly (way easier to recycle than bottles), it’s lighter (less weigh to transport), and it can get colder faster. Sounds like a pretty good option to me.
This was the first meetup where we were actually able to all sit outside and enjoy the warmth and sometimes shining sun on our deck. I always ask my ladies to do their homework while they are tasting and pairing beer. They have to write down their top 3 favorite beers of the day as well as their favorite pairings.
Here are the group’s top 3 favorite beers:
1- Black in Black by 21st Amendment 2-Coconut Porter by Maui Brewing Company 3-Ten FIDY by Oskar Blues
Their top 3 favorite pairings were:
1-Hell or High Watermelon Wheat by 21st Amendment with Basil and Roasted Garlic Sausage 2- Ten FIDY with Blueberry Maple Pork Breakfast Sausage 3-ESB by Ska Brewing and Bratwurst
I always ask my ladies to experiment on their own to see if they can come up with their own amazing pairings: Marieke said: The Wild Boar and Hell or High Watermelon Wheat work well because it’s a sweeter beer.
AND I always ask for comments:
Sarah said: Thanks for the veggie options! It was lots of fun…(she was a vegetarian so we had a 5 option vegetarian sausage pairing).
Meredith said: This was fun, you need to do more PORCH events!
Thank you all! You are the reason why I keep doing this….mucho amore xoxo
Hi Everyone
I wanted to pass along another member of Women who like Beer’s blog: Elizabeth.
She came to the Socola Chocolate and Rogue Beer pairing and wrote a fantastic blog about it!
Check it out here:
http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=3137
Oh and don’t miss the next meetup- Can Craft beer and Sausage pairing (with vegetarian options too!)
Ghetto Fabulous Craft Can beer and …
Cheers,
Tiila
Another fantastic meetup! Susan & Wendy made some amazing truffles and Jenna & Brett from Rogue were so great to all of you fellow lady craft beer connoisseurs!!!! They even let everyone have their own bottle of the Orgasmica to go- not too shabby….(which is made from Rogue’s own hops that they grow!)
Everyone enjoyed the sunshine with a ton of great beer and great chocolate truffles~
I always ask the ladies which beers were their top 3:
1- XS Imperial Red, 9% abv from Rogue
2- 200 Meter Ale from Rogue
3- Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout, 6.1% abv from Rogue
For their top 3 favorite pairings:
1- Jasmine Tea Truffle with the 200 Meter Ale
2- Notorious H.O.G. with the Oregasmic Ale
3-Give it to me Guava and the Menage A Frog Ale
And, I always ask the ladies to come up with their own pairings:
1- Notorious H.O.G and the Menage A Frog Ale
2- Notorious H.O.G and the Morimoto Black Soba Ale
3- Jasmine Tea and the Oregasmic Ale
Quotes and Comments from the ladies:
Meredith said: Great event! Tried a lot of delicious new things and learned more about how different flavor combinations enhance or detract from one another. Thank you for putting this together and look forward to another Women who like Beer event!
Neysa said: What a great event-much fun drinking beer, tasting chocolate and meeting new people!
Alma said: Tiila, you are the bomb! One of the highlights of my Bay Area trip!
Thank you everyone for making this event possible.
If you missed this one, check out the next one on July 25th:
not going to lie. women’s only: beer & chocolate event.
so much better than ___. this sunday.
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