Two Beer Movies

Beer movies are the new beer blogs, someday everyone will make one.



Watch entire Beertickers movie here.

Dogfish/Alamo Feast - Off-centered Film Fest

Friday was the Feast portion of the Off-Centered Film Fest.



Seared Diver Scallop paired with Namaste. Best plate of the night, texture and flavor were spot on. This was my first taste of Namaste. I liked it, spicy and drinkable.



Smoked trout mousse. This was good. My dinning partner was not a huge fan, but he doesn't like smoked fish, sooooo. Paired with Aprihop, which seems to be less apricoty this year, still good though.



Koubes - bulgar wheat shell stuffed with roasted eggplant. This was the vegetarian dish of the night, so I can't hate. They tried. Try this next year with a squirt of Sriracha. It would go great with Midas Touch.



Smoked quail, ramps, wild mushroom empanada paired with Pangea. I think this was my lest favorite dish. The filling was good, but the empanada crust was chewy. Ooo that Pangea is sweet, a sample is nice though.



Seared bison and chimayo chile posole. This is a stomach killer for a pseudo-veg like myself, but I ate the whole thing. The posole was really good, but I prefer my posole in a bowl and a lot more of it. Cut the meat, give us a cup of posole. Paired with Raison D’Etre.



Cherry and Duck confit, barley risotto. Oh yeah, really loved this. It was paired with Immort Ale, but wish I had a normal 60-Minute IPA. That would have been perfect.



Bittersweet chocolate ganache in a ginger caramel crisp with candied grapefruit. The grapefruit was cool, but man do I hate ginger desserts. I like very basic desserts. Sorbet - perfect. Paired with this:



Vintage Fort, my favorite beer of the night. Love this beer. Forget a dessert, just serve this. Pair it with yr full belly.







Chris and Josh.



At the end of the night they showed some outtakes from Brew Masters. That lasted a good two minutes, almost as long as the show was on the air.

Thanks to Dogfish Head and Alamo Drafthouse for having us out. Good time as always.

(512) Brewing Dinner at Lake Creek Alamo

A couple of days ago I had a comment wondering about beer dinners with local brewers. Here you go:

(512) Wit
Sweet Emotion
Orange Julius sorbet turbocharged with cayenne syrup Racing stripes, candied basil bud and rice paper

(512) Pale
Randall “Pink” Floyd
Pink salt and pink peppercorn crusted “London” broil With busted Griottine cherry vinaigrette

(512) Bruin
. . .”Air Raid!”
Dijon glazed pork belly with roasted tomatoes, pork jus, “magic” mushroom porridge and fried duck egg

(512) IPA
The Wooderson
Smoked jerk chicken with curried sweet potato, poached baby spinach and aged cheddar cornmeal biscotti

(512) January Seasonal
Top Notch Slider
Ground beef tenderloin slider on sweet brioche with grilled jalapenos, house made condiments, shoestring fries and icebox pickles

(512) Pecan Porter
Party at the Moon Tower
An assortment of mini moon pies

(512) Double Pecan Porter
“. . .Who’s buying breakfast?”
Mini pancakes with vanilla syrup, chopped beef hash and a poached quail egg

All that whilst enjoying Dazed and Confused. Groovy.

Sam and Will

One of my favorite artists, Will Oldham, teamed up with Sam Calgione for one of tomorrow's Short Films. Party Ends has go the info:

A short film made by Will Oldham and Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales founder Sam Calagione will be debuting at tomorrow night’s Off-Centered Film Fest short film competition screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek Saturday April 17th.

That’s right. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy himself and the world’s numbero uno craft beer rockstar are bros. They goofed around to make a silly little film to pass the time and comment on the de-humanization of corporate breweries.

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The short film, titled Robot Brewery Tour, features Will Oldham as an oddball, wild-eyed investigative journalist touring a soulless brewery run by a Robot, played by the ever-charismatic Sam Calagione. Calagione explains via email:

“Imagine a terrifying dystopian world where the international, robotic, brewing conglomerates successfully automated flavor and humans out of brewing process and reduced beer to a generic commodity….wait you don’t have to imagine that. We totally filmed it!”

The short will debut Saturday night at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek as part of the Off-Centered Film Fest. It is sure to be irreverent and at the very least off-centered. I assume it will hit Vimeo next week…