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Beer Appreciation Lunch
3 August 2008
Grand Central Hotel, 270 Ann Street, Brisbane
(Central Station)
12.30 for 1.00pm until 4.00pm
$75, includes four course meal matched to four premium beers and a three-hour presentation by brewer and beer sommelier Ian Watson.
More details and bookings: Good Beers
Gilhooleys Beef & Beer Dinner
Gilhooleys Steakhouse, Albert Street, is hosting a dinner featuring boutique beef and beer – Lowline Beef and James Squire beer.
Saturday 9 August, 7.30pm
Cost: $59.95, includes four courses matched to four James Squire beers.
Matt will be presenting the beer matching which included Carpaccio of beef with feta and baby beet salad (Appetiser) – Beef and Ale Pie served with dipping bread, (Entrée) – a variety of beef cuts – rump, rib fillet and sirloin – served with seasonal vegetables, herbed new potatoes and a rosemary jus, (Main) and – Individual Ginger Pudding served with coconut ice cream (Dessert).
More info: Gilhooleys Steakhouse
Bookings: 3229 0672
Funny Ad
Walter ran this Budweiser ad from their classic Real Men of Genius series…
Beers Tasted
Deus Brut des Flandres
750ml 11.5% abv
A Belgian strong ale, brewed by the Brouwerij Bosteels. This is an amazing beer that goes through a triple fermentation process that culminates in a Champagne-like yeast removal.
The first fermentation occurs as per normal, followed by a period of maturation, known as the second fermentation. Fermentable sugars are added at bottling and the beer undergoes a long maturation aged in the bottle, during which the third fermentation takes place. The beer is then transported to France where the yeast removal takes place. This begins with Turning or “remuage” a process to detach the yeast from the wall of the bottle and collect it in the neck. Bottles are positioned with their neck tilted downwards and over a period of weeks gradually inclined further until the neck is vertical. The yeast is then removed through a process called dégorgement that sees the neck of the bottle frozen and the ice, containing the yeast, expelled by the pressure of the carbonation – exactly like champagne.
Drink chilled (2-4°C) in a Champagne flute.
Deus is stocked at:
Era Restaurant, South Brisbane
Wine Emporium, Fortitude Valley
Nextar Beer & Wine Specialists, West End
Spiros Bottleshop, Toowong
Cru Bar & Cellar, Fortitude Valley
Peroni Nastro Azzurro
330ml 5.1% abv
Peroni Blue Ribbon, a premium Euro lager in the mould of Heinken and Carlsberg, but not yet as well-known. A very solid, light (as in colour) lager – perfect for everyday drinking. Unlike Stella Artois and a number of other Euro lagers, this one’s fully imported. Does this make is better? Depends on your point of view – to many, imported means exotic and authentic – but beer travels badly and lagers like this are at their best as they leave the brewery gate. With a light green bottle the beer isn’t protected from UV light and this hoppy beer is prone to light strike (aka – skunking). For this reason, often best to buy a carton as the packing shields the beer from light.
At it’s best, this is a great refresher – a good beer garden and outdoor dining beer.
Available: everywhere
