Saraveza’s 1st “Prix Fixe-Giving” Craft Beer Dinner!

Friday, November 2, 2012

Sunday, November 18th, 5pm in Bad Habit Room: We all love the warmth of family and friends gathered together for this most American of holidays, and this year we decided to invite members of Saraveza’s extended family (this means you!) to join us for our unique take on the tradition with a prix fixe dinner of hearty dishes from our scratch kitchen and selected pairings with some very special draught beers from the cellar. Tickets are on sale now through our ”Beer Boutique”, and grab ‘em quick as we only have 35 seats available (…and they’ll go fast!)
   
    The Menu

    1st
    Arugula Salad with cranberries, candied pecans, crumbled bleu, house-pickled red      
    onions & champagne apricot vin
    Paired With Cascade’s 2009 Vintage “the Vine”
    2nd
    Crab & Mushroom Cake with Treadwell’s Own Plum Wine reduction
    Paired With Burnside’s “Wild Plum” Gose
    3rd
    Sweet Potato & Sage Cream Soup with house smoked bacon
    Paired With the Bruery’s “Autumn Maple”
    4th (Palate Cleanser)
    Sugar Pimp Cranberry & Cascade 2010 Kriek Sorbet
    Floating In Cascade’s 2009 Vintage Kriek
    5th
    House-Smoked Duck Breast with root vegetable & bacon hash
    Paired With Alaskan’s Smoked Porter
    6th
    Sugar Pimp Pumpkin Mousse in a hazelnut tuile
    Paired With Southern Tier’s 2011 Vintage “Pumking” 

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The madness begins. 10 days of Killer Beer has kicked off, and if you missed the opening KillerBeerSummit / MikeFest at Roscoe’s, there’s still plenty of great beer to experience throughout the week / weekend.

KillerBeerWeek kicked off early on Saturday as we celebrated Saraveza’s 4th Anniversary with the grand opening of their Bad Habit room next door. Great beer, as is to be expected, and a special Saraveza deer cake made by Lori Adams Clinton aka the Sugar Pimp.

At Roscoe’s on Sunday night, Jeremy Lewis and Quyen Ly worked with us to lock in 16 taps of amazing limited edition brew including several Mike beers brewed by and for Mikes / Michaels / Micahs of the beer community.

-Buckman Botanical Brewery Michaelob Ultra 
-Stout brewed with cherries, hazelnuts & nutmeg. (Mike “Shoes” Higgins)
-Fort George Brewing Polish’s Dry Hopped Amber Ale (Mike “Polish” Frankowicz)
-Vertigo Brewing Friar Mike’s IPA (Mike Haines & Michael Kinion)
-The Commons Menkel Belgian Single with Rye and Spelt (Mike Wright)
-Laurelwood Micah’s Firkin Workhorse IPA (Micah Bell and Mike DeKalb)
-Migration Mike-gration Scottish Ale (Michael Branes)

It was great to see so many Mikes under one roof. Now we are conditioning our livers for KillerPumpkinFest at The Green Dragon which looks to tap about 40 gourd-eous brews. For a full list of events happening during KillerBeerWeek, go to http://brewpublic.com/events. 

Here’s some photos from the Saraveza’s 4th Anniversary party and KillerBeerSummit / MikeFest at Roscoe’s Pub: Read More…

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While we are getting geared up for next weekend’s Ladies of Lagers and Ales tastival, next weekend at Saraveza, we look back over the past weekend and remember an amazing flavorsome celebration of another group of females – hops.

You see, hops are the female flower clusters, or strobiles, of the hop species, Humulus lupulus. At this time of year, the herbaceous perennials are reaching to high heaven, and just recently, if you’ve observed your bines, you may have noticed the flowering finger-like fruits beginning to form spicy cones.

Saraveza’s 2nd Annual IIPA Fest took place on Saturday and Sunday, July 16 and 17, and was a celebration of the most regal, magisterial, and potent of all hoppy beers. Ah, the Imperial India Pale Ale (IIPA) – bigger and bolder, and often more bitter than its already amplified parent. Read More…

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The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.

-Chuck Palahniuk

Brewpublic’s MICROHOPIC 3 went down at Migration Brewing on Saturday evening, April 23, 2011. Here folks had the opportunity to try some new and tasty beers from some emerging stars in the local craft brew scene. Read More…

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Another spectacular time to be alive and celebrating craft beer in Portland, Oregon. Spring is right around the corner and it looks like much of the colder and drearier days are behind us. Either way, we can smile knowing that Read More…

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