Archive: Beer and Cheese
Special Barra Beer of the Week, for Tailgating, and All That
Some people have asked me how I'll decide among the weekend's bounty of blogable events: from this evening's Miss Dallas Week pageant to tonight's Caps game to tomorrow's Wizards home opener to Sunday's United and Redskins games. The sad/happy truth is, various family obligations will probably make this a non-blog...
By Dan Steinberg | November 3, 2006; 05:54 PM ET | Comments (8)
Your Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Tailgating or Bus Riding Picks of the Week
The theme is Delmarva, courtesy of Chapel's Country Creamery and Dogfish Head Brewery. Holly Foster lives on a farm in Talbot County. About three and a half years ago, she took a week-long cheesemaking course at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and when she returned home she started making...
By Dan Steinberg | October 20, 2006; 04:02 PM ET | Comments (5)
The Missing Cheese
After I missed my high-drama cheese pick-up last Thursday, I realized that it would be best to take a bye week on the whole cheese thing. This week I will hit the Thursday pick-up, and offer a cheese tasting for some fromage flavored with a spice I've never encountered in...
By Dan Steinberg | October 16, 2006; 01:28 PM ET | Email a Comment
Beer-Loving Hockey Fans, Lindsay Czarniak and the Park View H.S. Football Team Sample Our Cheese of the Week
Admit it, that's a great headline. This will be a long entry but, in my humble, cheese-centric opinion, worth the investment, especially if you're at work. If you're at home, go outside and enjoy the weather. Ok, so Saturday, I loaded the car with two blocks of Grafton two-year Classic...
By Dan Steinberg | October 9, 2006; 05:24 PM ET | Comments (5)
Your Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Tailgating Picks of the Week
And I'm still trying to figure out whether these should be tasted during tomorrow's Caps pub crawl or during D.C. United tailgating at RFK. Maybe both. Anyhow, these are certainly not rare finds, but I think you'd be happy spending your weekend with some Grafton cheddar and Brooklyn Brown Ale,...
By Dan Steinberg | October 6, 2006; 05:52 PM ET | Comments (2)
Your Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Tailgating Picks of the Week
See, you really want cooler weather before you break out the great beers and cheeses. We in the specialty foods industry used to always lick our proverbial chops as the weather cooled and we could break out the good stuff. Plus people just seem more willing to open their wallets...
By Dan Steinberg | September 29, 2006; 04:17 PM ET | Comments (1)
Your Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Tailgating Picks of the Week
We tried to make this an homage to Maryland in honor of the greater Baltimore-Washington region's most successful pro football franchise, but I accidentally ran into a Steelers-loving cheesemaker who just happens to live and work in Maryland. Anyhow, the cheese is Buche Noir, a soft-ripening goat cheese from FireFly...
By Dan Steinberg | September 22, 2006; 01:51 PM ET | Comments (1)
Week Two Tasting Notes
So the Redskins were watery and flavorless, but how about our cheese and beer picks? Well, some technical difficulties prevented the cheese and beer from being sampled at actual tailgates, so I figured I'd bring the samples in to The Post for some pre-Monday Night Football refreshment, but I was...
By Dan Steinberg | September 19, 2006; 09:21 AM ET | Comments (3)
Your Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Tailgating Picks of the Week
In honor of Dallas Week, we have a local beer and a Texas cheese. I'll let "Hoppy" Jeff Wells go first this week. (Hoppy, you'll recall, is a native Washingtonian, 10-year veteran of the craft-beer industry and proprietor of the soon-to-be-open Wells Ales & Lagers restaurant in Brooklyn.) He writes:...
By Dan Steinberg | September 15, 2006; 01:06 PM ET | Comments (3)
Fancy Foods at a NASCAR Tailgate
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By Dan Steinberg | September 13, 2006; 04:47 PM ET | Email a Comment
Your Artisanal Cheese and Craft Beer Tailgating Picks of the Week
Well, I held it together for three days. I mostly wrote about sports, and never used the phrase "smells like dirty socks." But that's all over now, as we debut what's sure to become our most popular feature: the artisanal cheese and craft beer tailgating picks of the week. Each...
By Dan Steinberg | September 8, 2006; 10:53 AM ET | Comments (5)
