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This month’s session is about Barley Wines with The Brew Site being the host. Flying Dog Brewery had a sales and marketing soirée up in Steamboat last weekend, and we decided to prepare our own beer dinner. Among our courses, we decided to include our Barrel-Aged Horn Dog Barley Wine paired with smelly Stilton cheese. Barley Wine pairs extremely well with the Sharpness of the blue cheese. If blue cheese isn’t your thing, barley wine also pairs wonderfully with chocolate.

We decided to shoot some HD video of the event, and you can click the image below to be taken to the HD video.

Course 1: Stilton Cheese on toasted bread paired with Flying Dog Barrel-Aged Horn Dog Barley Wine (an über-limited release based off our standard production Barley Wine). Blue Cheeses pair well with Barley Wines.

Course 2: Maryland crab puffs paired with Flying Dog Tire Bite Golden Ale. Our Jim Lutz brought a $30 can of Maryland crab out to Colorado and showed us how to make crab puffs. Basically it’s crab, old bay seasoning, salt and pepper, scallions and Flying Dog Road Dog Porter. Next the crab gets placed into some crescent rolls (crescent, croissant…) and baked for about 18 minutes (whatever it says on your croissant recipe).

Course 3: Salmon pie paired with Flying Dog Double Dog Double Pale Ale. Recipe available here.

Probably not the most objective title, but I had a great time at the Big Beers, Belgians and Barley Wines Festival Brewmaster’s Dinner this evening. The food was spectacular, and the featured breweries were Odell and The Lost Abbey. The pairings were wonderful and the beers were unbelievable. My favorite brew was the Lost Abbey Veritas 002, a blend of Old Viscosity, Avant Garde, and Redstone Meadery’s Raspberry Mead, all barrel-aged together. Tomme Arthur said there were only about 20-25 cases of this made (600 bottles!). I took some photos and made a few tasting notes, I’ll aim to have something online in the coming days.

The Women’s Lighthouse Project helps women who have HIV and AIDS. Flying Dog Brewery was one of the sponsors of their 10th anniversary fundraiser, a sort of Iron Chef celebrity cook-off. Denver celebrities were paired with chefs from notable Denver restaurants. They were given a mystery bag that included a wide variety of ingredients, including Rocky Mountain Trout, bison, pumpkin, and even a couple Flying Dog beers. The contestants for this fundraiser were given 45 minutes to create a four-course meal for two people.

The event was held at Mise En Place, a downtown Denver cooking school. Their facility was ideal for observation of these chefs working their magic, and event-goers were encouraged to walk around to see what each chef and their celebrity partner were preparing.

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We are in contact with the chefs and are hoping to get their recipes for their dishes.