SANTIAGO, CHILE
SZOT BEER AND CHEESE TASTING - MAY 2009
We held a beer and cheese tasting for the press at the Fermenta delicatessen at Boulevard, Parque Arauco in Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. We presented our portfolio of seven beers, plus two special brews, a lambic and an Old Ale, all of which were matched with Chilean and imported cheeses.
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1000 DAYS OF SZOT MICROBREWERY
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"If cheese is married with wine in the minds of most people, than beer would definately be it´s lover". (Anonymous) _____________________________________________________________________________________
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MARRIAGE OF BEER AND CHEESE At the end of this page we indicate which were the combinations of beer and cheese used in the tasting.
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_______________________________ The seven beers in the Szot portfolio (Pilsner, Pale Ale, Amber Ale, Rubia al Vapor, Strong Ale, Negra Stout, Stout Fuerte) plus our special brew Lambic, and our Old Ale brewed in Dec. 2006, bottled in Feb. 2007, and only being released now in mid-2009. Nine SZOT beers! |
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Fermenta patio, where we did the tasting.
FERMENTA store, at the Boulevard, Parque Arauco, Las Condes, Santiago.
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We suggest choosing the beer first, however begin the tasting by trying the cheese, followed by the chosen beer. First take the cheese, break it, noting its aroma. Enjoy the taste of the cheese, then drink the beer.
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For this tasting we looked for flavors that "harmonized" between the different beers and cheese. The most interesting aspect of such a tasting is to look for the best combinations of beer and cheese. Some matches are perfect, the beer is almost a continuation of the cheese. In others, the flavors clash, or one may simply be too powerful for the other. _______________________________ |
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Karin Hevia, Kevin Szot, Manuel Zamora
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There are many varied potential matches between the different beers and cheeses. For this press tasting we looked to simplify matters, and chose only one combination per beer. _______________________________ |
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If you look to do this at home, you can follow a less rigid format, tasting each beer with each cheese if you wish. However, we do recommend that you start with the lighter cheeses and less flavorful beers, working your way up to the strong flavored beers and cheeses at the end. A strong beer can dominate a bland cheese, while a strong cheese can do the same to a less flavorful beer. _______________________________ |
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Pascual Ibañez, José Antonio Ruiz ("Catador") _______________________________ |
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Manuel Zamora Kevin Szot Astrid Hevia Pascual Ibañez _______________________________ |
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Kevin Szot Karin Hevia
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Sebastián (Fermenta) Jesús (Fermenta) Ernesto Riquelme (Cerveza Szot) _______________________________ |
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Prior to the formal tasting with the gourmet and business press, we did a "pre-tasting" to define which beers go with which cheeses, or vice versa. Tough work, but somebody´s got to do it!
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_____________________________________________________________________________________ TASTING OF SZOT BEERS Y " FERMENTA" CHEESES _____________________________________________________________________________________ These are some of the combinations of beers and cheeses that we used in this tasting. There are many possibilities. If you do this same tasting at home, you will probably find many other combinations that also work well :
BEER AND CIGARS (in English)
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