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NYC Summer Beer and Cheese Events!

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While you can read about all kinds of great beer and food pairings here, nothing beats actually going out and doing it!  I am excited to announce several classes on Beer and Cheese, Bread and Cured Meat Pairings that I will be hosting this summer in several locales.  For ticket information, please click on the links below:

Beer on a Boat!

Want to taste beer and cheese in style this summer?  I am hosting a fantastic series of craft beer and artisanal cheeses tastings on the Classic Harbor Line yacht.  Classic Harbor Line is the premier option for an exciting cruise around the waterways of New York City.  Join us on select Mondays and Fridays as we taste five stellar East Coast beers paired with five farmstead East Coast cheeses while learning about why these fermented foods taste so good together!

 

Beer and Cheese Pairing Classes

Murray’s Cheese Boot Camp September 7th-9th

Boot Camp is the ultimate cheese lover’s weekend.  In two and half days, you will taste dozens and dozens of cheeses, while learning about the history and science behind cheese making.  The weekend culminates in an event where seven award winning cheeses are paired with craft beer, fine wine and real cider to decide which is the best pairing partner.  Not to be missed! 

 

 

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Beer versus Wine

Murray’s Cheese Boot Camp July 13th-15th

Boot Camp is the ultimate cheese lover’s weekend.  In two and half days, you will taste dozens and dozens of cheeses, while learning about the history and science behind cheese making.  The weekend culminates in an event where seven award winning cheeses are paired with craft beer, fine wine and real cider to decide which is the best pairing partner.  Not to be missed! This event has passed.

The Harmony of Beer and Cheese Saturday, July 28th, 1pm

A introduction class to the amazing pairing possibilities of beer and cheese. Six cave aged cheeses will be paired with six of my favorite international craft brews from the brand new selection of fine craft beers now on sale at Murray’s Cheese.  A special afternoon of curds and suds, not to be missed! This event has passed.

Beer in the Park

Celebrate Belgian Restaurant Week in the heart of Central Park exploring the flavors of Belgian bread and beer!  This guided tour of Belgian beers will teach students how to identify and create different flavor profiles when pairing beers, breads and accompaniments.  Beer will be sourced from Tops Hops in the Lower East Side and bread from Le Pain Quotidien. This event has passed.

 

Beer Styles Primer, Events

Leipziger Gose

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Leipziger Gose actually originated in the smallish German town of Goslar in the state of Lower Saxony. Leipziger Gose was already first mentioned around 1000 AD under Emperor Otto III. Like many other beers styles (such as English Pale Ale and German Bock biers) the Goslar breweries of Leipziger Gose had to look elsewhere for a bigger market. They found those in the trade towns of Halle and Leipzig, about 100 miles East, where Leipziger Gose appeared around 1738 for the first time. By 1900 Leipzig boasted over 80 Gose houses. The spread of the bottom-fermenting pilsner style as well as economic decline of East Germany under communist regime contributed to the demise of the Leipziger Gose which was last brewed in the mid 1960s. The Gose style has seen a resurgance today, thanks to the interest of American craft brewers and the American beer import B. United, which has encouraged German breweries to produce the style once again.

A world class Leipziger Gose to try: Bayericher Bahnhof Leipziger Gose

Beer Styles Primer, Events

Berliner Weisse

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Berliner Weisse is a light, sour style of German wheat beer originating in Berlin.  Huguenots may have originated the style as they traveled through France to Flanders, having first mentioned it in the 1600s. During their time, there were said to be seven hundred weissbier breweries in Berlin. Later, in 1809, Napoleon and his troops identified Berliner Weisse as the Champagne of the North. He requested the beer be served with syrup to cut its extreme level of acidity. Berliner Weisse has a barely perceptible hop content and in Germany is still usually laced with the woodruff syrup Napolean enjoyed. Fermented with ale yeast and Lactobacillus delbruckii  the bacterium contributes a dominant mouth-puckering sourness which makes it an excellent food pairing beer.  Try it with fried chicken or fried green tomatoes for an amazing pairing.

A world class Berliner Weisse to try: Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse