Tastings
Cypress Street’s Beer Geek Tuesday – 6/22
I’m really starting to look forward to Tuesdays. It means awesome beer at Cypress Street. Tonight features 3 beers from Allagash, paired with gourmet cheese.
The beers:
Odyssey – Belgian Dark Wheat, 10% ABV. Barrel Aged. In it’s second year. Partially aged in Medium toast oak, another in stainless steel fermenters for 6 months. Both are then blended together. Bottle conditioned with more yeast and Belgian Candi sugar.
Interlude – American Wild Ale, 9.5 ABV. New release by Allagash. Aged in French merlot and sirah barrels. Belgian style ale. House strain of Brettanomyces yeast. Bottle conditioned. Unforgettable.
Four – Quad, 10% ABV. Brewed with four malts, four hops, four sugars, and Belgian yeast strain. Sugars include Light & Dark candi sugars, light golden molasses and date sugar. Re fermented with 3 different strains, and then bottle fermented with a fourth in the cellar. Life changing.
Each of these beers retail around 8-10 dollars a glass, close to 20.00 for a 750 ML corked and caged bottle. Cypress brought in a true cheese head to design pairings with these elegant Allagash beers. For $30 you get 3 beers and 3 cheese courses. Hopefully you see the deal here. It would cost you what I figure to be about $80 to pull this off at home.
Pairings begin at 6pm today – 6/22.
Cypress Street Pint & Plate
Ste E125, 817 West Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30308
Twitter: @CypressStreet
Belgian Ale Class @ The Porter
Tonight at The Porter Beer Bar, owner Molly Gunn will be teaching a Belgian light strong ale class. For 25 dollars you get 5 beers and a boatload of knowledge.
Beers include Don de Dieu, GC Ambrio, Brooklyn Local 1, Pranqster, Caracole Saxo.
Starts at 7:30 PM Call to reserve a spot
The Porter Beer Bar – 6/15, 7:30 pm
1156 Euclid Avenue Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30307
(404) 223-0393
Twitter: @PorterBeerBar
Cypress Street’s Beer Geek Lineup – 3/9
There are a lot of great things coming up for Cypress Street’s Beer Geek Tuesdays. I can’t wait to start talking about them. Tomorrow – Dogfish Head Brewery is the featured brewery – with food to compliment.
Cypress Street just got a new chef in the kitchen, and beer manager Wes Anderson wants to show him off. Tomorrow night will feature 3 offerings from Dogfish Head with food pairings. The beers are –
Midas Touch – Spice Beer, 9% ABV. Recipe is based off the oldest known fermented beverage in the world. It’s a Turkish recipe found on drinking vessels from the 2700 year old tomb of King Midas. A mixture of what could be a wine & a mead. Grapes, honey, juice and malt are present. Offered year round.
Pangea – Belgian Strong Pale, 7%. Pangea is brewed with ingredients from every continent. Crystallized ginger from Australia, Basmati rice from Asia, Muscavado sugar from Africa, Quinoa from South America, North American Maize, even water from Antarctica. Released in the fall in 750 ml bottles.
Burton Baton – Double IPA, 10% ABV. Burton is a blend of an English Strong Ale aged in Oak, and DFH’s 90 Minute IPA. Oakey vanilla is prevalent, with the northwestern citrus hops found in 90 Min. Limited release.
Each of these beers will have a food pairing – $25 dollars for all three. Not a bad deal honestly, as Pangea retails for $10+ dollars a bottle alone.
Starts at 7pm!
Cypress Street Pint & Plate 3/9, 7pm 817 W. Peachtree Street Atlanta, GAHop City/Octane Coffee Tastings
Kraig Torres, owner of Hop City has teamed up with Octane Coffee in Westside Atlanta for Wednesday night beer tastings.
Starting at 5:30 pm head over to Octane Coffee to taste a few offerings from featured breweries.
New Schedule is as follows –
2/17 – Victory Brewing – Featuring – Storm King Stout, Hop Devil IPA, Prima Pils
2/23 – Tuesday! – Magic Hat Brewing – In Store Visit!
2/24 – Unita Brewing – Featuring Pale, Barleywine, Monkshine
3/3 – Brooklyn Brewing – Featuring Brooklyn Blast, Local 2
Octane Coffee
1009-b marietta street nw
atlanta, GA 30318
(404) 815-9886
Make sure you visit Hop City while you are down there!
Beer Geek Tuesdays @ Cypress!
Cypress Pint & Plate is located in Midtown Atlanta on West Peachtree Street. Cypress is a great, inviting neighborhood bar nestled downtown with a penchant for great beer. That’s exactly where my story starts.
Tuesdays are Beer Geek Tuesdays at Cypress Pint & Plate. Beer Geek/Manager Wes Andersen designs these beer geeky evenings with a special line up of beers by the glass. Here is tomorrow’s lineup (2/16) –
Stone Russian Imperial Stout 2009 — Imperial Stout, 10.5% ABV. First released July 2000. This Imperial uses Warrior hops to boost the strong flavors of chocolate & coffee. Released early summer annually.
Red Brick 15th Anniversary — Barrel Aged Brown, 9% ABV. Brown ale aged 13 months in Pappy Van Winkle Barrels. Fantastic notes of vanilla and oak, with some caramel malt complexities. One time release.
Schneider Aventinus — Weizenbock. (aka wheat dopplebock.) Various vintages will be available. Each release is about 8% ABV. Bottle fermented. Top fermenting yeast used. First created 1907.
Unibroue — Based out of Chambly, Quebec. Beers are bottle refermented with a process similar to champagne. Popular beers include – Blanche De Chambly, La Fin Du Monde, Maudite. Various offerings by Unibroue featured.
De Proef/Bell’s Van Twee — Belgian Dark, 7.5% ABV. Collaboration between De Proef & Bell’s Brewery. Dubbel blended with Stout, featuring sour cherries from MI. Bottle fermented w/ beet sugar.
Schneider/Brooklyn Hopfen-Weiss — Weizenbock, 8.2% ABV. Collaboration between Schneider and Brooklyn Brewing. Wheat, light hop, and light alcohol noticeable.
Terrapin —Side Project # 4 — Dos Cocas — American Porter, 5.8%. ABV. This beer was 4th in the side project series and is now retired. Chocolate (cocoa) overlays into this porter for a nice finish. I’m interested in how it aged. Well over a year old by now.
Beer and conversation start at 7 pm on Tuesday 2/16!
Cypress Street Pint & Plate
817 W. Peachtree Street
Suite E125
(located behind the Biltmore at the corner of 6th and Cypress Street)
Hop City/ Octane Coffee Tastings
If you haven’t heard about this by now, here you go. Kraig Torres, owner of Hop City has teamed up with Octane Coffee in Westside Atlanta for Wednesday night beer tastings.
Starting at 5:30 pm head over to Octane Coffee to taste a few offerings from featured breweries.
The schedule is as follows —
1/27/10 — Founder’s Brewing. Taste Centennial IPA, Dirty Bastard, and Red Rye Pale Ale.
2/3/10 — New Belgium. Featuring the new Ranger IPA, 1554 Dark, & Mighty Arrow Pale Ale.
2/10/10 — Duck Rabbit — Featured beers to follow
I will add to this schedule as they are announced!
Make sure you visit Hop City while you are down there!
Octane Coffee
1009-b marietta street nw
atlanta, GA 30318
(404) 815-9886
Make sure you visit Hop City while you are down there!
