NIBBLES & TIPPLES
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ISSUE 83 2020
Nibbles &Tipples March Article By Cheryl Cade, Beer Educator Last month, our area was on a national stage in the beer world. Norwich welcomed the Great British Beer Festival to St Andrews Hall. Alongside this ran the Fringe festival in the local pubs and a Beer & Fine Dining Experience at the Maids Head Hotel.
Following this, the starter of either roast Norfolk chicken & duck terrine, apricot & ginger chutney, toast brioche or Stilton & pickled pear salad, roast hazelnuts was paired with Panther, Mild. This was a very good match with the sweet malts brining out the duck and could stand up to the salty Stilton. The pears, apricot and ginger brought out the soft fruit notes in the beer.
This fine dining experience was an opportunity to match some of our local old and new breweries with an award-winning chef (Magic) from the Maids Head Hotel, locally sourced food and myself to devise a complementary menu.
The main course beers were something of a special, with the launch of a new beer from Humpty Dumpty (Norfolk Broads Brewing), ‘Maid In Norfolk’ a wheat beer with ginger and orange that I helped to brew with Lesley George. The start of their project to celebrate local women in beer.
The night started with an Aperitif from the Ampersand Brewery, Farmhand; this is a light spritzy beer that hides its 7% abv yet refreshes the palette.
Maid in Norfolk was served alongside Elmtrees’ Snetterton Scary Tree, a well-balanced style of bitter enabling the diners to compare and contrast how 2 very different beers can
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