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SSBC Newsletter
Past Newsletters
June 2010
Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean . . . against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.
-ANONYMOUS
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Business:
(As this was the 'Cooking with Beer' meeting, there was very little business.)
Bill sent a thank you card for the flowers the club sent him.
Group Brew 2010 went well, as evidenced by Jeff Fuller's basement floor.
Sat. June 12 - A few club members are doing a turbid mash lambic at Brian Shurtleff's,
if anyone wants to stop by.
SSBC Cookout is July 31st at Brian Shurtleff's. He needs a headcount so please sign up
on the forum by clicking on the calendar entry for this event and submitting a response
at the bottom.
July Meeting is a brewery tour at Blue Hills Brewery in Canton, MA. There will be a sign-up
on the member forum so we can provide them with a head count.
Presentation:
Cooking With Beer
By Kevin Farrell, with much appreciated assistance by many (see Thank You's at end)
The handout with the menu and recipes is available on the forum here.
The focus of this session was cooking with sour beer, specifically the SSBC Club Brew Flander's Red Ale.
Being so sour, this beer is a good replacement for vinegar in recipes.
Although the focus was on cooking with beer, an attempt was made to pair each course with an appropriate beer.
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Menu
Salad
Mesclun salad with red onions, strawberries, and Flanders Red mustard vinaigrette
Paired with: Hefeweizen
Soup
Gazpacho with Flanders Red
Paired with: X Bock from Just Beer (Buzzard's Bay)
Entre 1
Mussels in Flanders Red
Paired with: Josh's Berliner Weisse
Entre 2
Chicken in tarragon-Flanders Red sauce
(prepared by Brian S)
Paired with: Frank's ESB
Entre 3
Flanders Red lamb carbonnade over spinach-mint parpadelle
Paired with: Grimmbergen Dubbel
Dessert 1
Panna cotta topped with Flanders Red-spiced pears
Paired with: Oatmeal Stout
Dessert 2
Macerated Cherries in Flander's Red
(prepared by Maureen and Jeff F)
Paired with: Oatmeal Stout
Dessert 3
Vanilla Porter Ice Cream
(prepared by Jared)
Paired with: Jared's Vanilla Porter
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Thank you's go out to all those who helped make this Cooking with Beer meeting
such a success, including but not limited to: Lisa (Frank's wife) for letting us
take over her house; Debbie (Kevin's wife) for slaving all night in the kitchen;
Kevin for organizing the meeting and menu and cooking; Maureen and Jeff F for the
macerated cherry dessert; Jared for the ice cream; Brian S for the chicken entree;
and all those who helped prepare, serve and cleanup. (Hope I didn't miss anyone).
If there are any updates or corrections, please contact Rick Rodriguez
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