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The Pearl Pours a Brewski Brunch for San Diego Beer Week
The Pearl Hotel will toast to San Diego's Beer Week (November 6 to 15) with a poolside beer brunch on November 8 featuring suds from local artisan brewery AleSmith Brewing Co.
The beer brunch will have four brewski-and-eats stations at each corner of the pool. At one station, the Belgian-style Grand Cru will be paired with a smoked ham and roasted pear croque monsieur. Another will offer the Speedway Stout, an imperial stout with coffee, to complement the hazelnut French toast and Tahitian vanilla custard. Old Numbskull, a West Coast-style barleywine, will come with house-smoked bacon, sunnyside-up quail eggs and bird's next hash browns.
The last station will pour Anvil, the brewery's signature beer, to go with the raisin rum coffeecake.
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Cheers for Beers at Skamania Lodge’s Beer Weekend
Oh yeah. It’s officially beer festival season. Celebrate the almighty process of fermentation at Skamania Lodge’s inaugural Celebration of Beer Weekend, being held October 24 & 25th. You’re probably asking yourself, where the hell is Skamania Lodge? We did too, until we moved to the great Evergreen State and honed our lodge knowledge.
Think Columbia River Gorge mountain lodge meets Northern Exposure environs less than an hour east of Portland, OR. (The hit series early 90’s was actually filmed about three hours from the Stevenson, WA resort.) The Pacific Northwest may still be figuring out a few things when it comes to winemaking (Pinot freaks in Willamette Valley excluded), but has nailed the art of craft-brewing.
Beer geeks and aspiring enthusiasts can sample more than a dozen of the region’s best breweries over the hop-fueled fall weekend. The try before you buy dynamic is especially useful for someone like us who is always daunted when facing the obscene number of microbrew options in the beer aisle at any Pacific Northwest grocery store
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Chief Beer Officer's Work Obviously Just Getting Started
So about that new beer guy at Four Points Hotels. He's got some work to do at the Four Points by Sheraton Manhattan Chelsea. We stopped in to the hotel's restaurant and "lounge"--U and Mie--for a couple brews.
We've got no idea where the name comes from, but it's about as bad as the place itself. The centerpiece of the small, poorly lit space is a giant flat screen TV, tuned to Girlfriends. Our lovely bartender did a good job of keeping our mugs full, though she's "Not much of a beer person," and couldn't warn us off what turned out to be a terrible Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. The only local/"interesting" choices on the beer menu were Brooklyn Lager and Brooklyn Pilsner--available in tons of bars around the city.
What would normally be a bright spot--the happy hour discount--wasn't really that great either: It's comparable to loads of seedy midtown bars with the same amount of character as U and Mie. The place does have cute novelty cocktail napkins, though. We're filling ours out to read like a memo to Scott Kerksman: There's plenty more work to be done.
Related Stories:
· Interview with Four Points' Chief Beer Officer [HotelChatter]
· Four Points Hotels coverage [HotelChatter]
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