Pics - Cider Dinner 10.16.11

Sunday night's Brewmaster's Dinner featured a 5 course meal paired with rare apple and pear ciders from Minneapolis's Crispin Cider and Colfax, CA's Fox Barrel Cider.  The sold-out dinner was an excellent showcase of the vast differences that can be obtained in ciders, while carefully matching each variation with a particular dish.  As always, big thanks to those of you who made it out, but for those that didn't, here's what you missed:

reception course of various seasoned pub nuts

warm rocket salad with pear and lingonberry vinaigrette with gruyere cheese 'puffs' paired with  Fox Barrel's unfiltered pear cider with elderberry & rhubarb

butternut squash bisque with nutmeg foam paired with Fox Barrel's unfiltered  pear cider with ginger and black currant

halibut-cheek sausage with sesame-vegetable crepes & lemon caper buerre blanc served with Crispin's Cho-Tukkyu apple cider fermented with sake yeast 

ox-tail osso bucco with toasted barley risotto, pan jus and red onion compote paired with Crispin's Lansdowne apple cider fermented with Irish Stout yeast

apple-cranberry turnover with Crispin cider sabayon and vanilla bean gelato served with Crispin's Honey Crisp apple cider fermented with honey

Tickets are available now for November's dinner which will feature one of our favorite breweries, Founders Brewing Co.  More information on that as it becomes available. Also - stay tuned for more information on Beer KC's first annual Strong Ale Festival taking place November 12...