Your favorite restaurant may once have offered a selection of cheeses that read like a color wheel—orange, white, and, if you were lucky, blue. And the yellow, fizzy beer options certainly didn’t afford many pairing opportunities. But luckily for us all, the times they are a-changin’.
If a corner bar or restaurant has given some attention to craft beer, it’s likely that it’s also added artisan cheese to the menu—and vice versa. Some spots even take it further and build cheese and beer...
You’d be hard-pressed to walk into any bar or restaurant and find someone sitting at a table, drinking red wine straight from the bottle. Such an action would seem barbaric, right? Yet it’s downright commonplace to be dining at any given steak house in any given city in America and find folk tipping back 12-ounce bottles of macrobrew. The fact is, all beer benefits from being poured into a glass....
The husband and wife team behind MouCo Cheese Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, are uniquely positioned to speak about just how far the artisan cheese and beer movements have come. You see, Robert Poland and Birgit Halbreiter both worked for New Belgium Brewing Company, a Fort Collins–based craft brewery, before building their revered cheesery, which today turns out award-winning cheeses. Love of both beer and...
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Beer is ubiquitous in the creamery. But in most cases it is simply a tool for lubricating hardworking cheesemakers—there is much truth in a dairy version of the old vintner’s maxim: It takes a lot of beer to make great cheese. Some American cheesemakers, however, are using beer for more than personal libation, in the process creating some of the most distinctive American wheels, uniquely expressive of their own...
French dairy giant Lactalis, maker of President brand cheeses, has been notable for years for the secrecy with which it protected its financial information.
However, in its bid to purchase ailing Italian diary firm Parmalat, EU financial regulations have forced the company to open its books for the first time.
According to French newspaper ...
We all appreciate how a good cheesemonger protects our cheese purchase by carefully covering each wedge or wheel in custom-made cheese paper, wrapping it in neat origami-like folds. Few people, however, know the curious story of how this unique layered wrapping paper became a must-have cheese accessory.
For centuries cheeses were dipped in wax or wrapped in linen or leaves to protect them from...
Downingtown, Pennsylvania
victorybeer.com
Victory Brewing Company cofounders Bill Covaleski and Ron Barchet rode the same school bus together, then both studied brewing in Germany—a country rich in historical brewing context. As a result Victory pays homage to brewing tradition while embracing the freedom that makes American craft brewers so great. It’s Prima Pils and HopDevil Ale are perfect...
Escondido, California
stonebrew.com
Since 1996, Greg Koch and Steve Wagner have been producing some of California’s—and the country’s—best beer at Stone Brewing Co. The brewery’s offerings and brand image are in-your-face, as is evident from its Arrogant Bastard Ale, a big, hoppy beer with the phrase “You’re not worthy” printed right on the bottle. That doesn’t seem to turn anyone away—Stone is about...
Santa Rosa, California
russianriverbrewing.com
In 2002, Vinnie and Natalie Cilurzo bought Russian River Brewing Company from then-owner Korbel Champagne Cellars. Vinnie had been overseeing the brewery since the champagne giant founded the brewery five years prior, during which time he helped Russian River earn many nods as one of the best small brewing companies in the U.S....
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