Posts Tagged ‘4 Daughters Irish Pub’

2012 Swig & Stitch Season Finale

May 9, 2012 Beer & Food, Education & Training, Events

Last night we again enjoyed great company, interesting information from Sandi and learned about 3 new beer and food pairings. Swig & Stitch is a fabulous format for us to engage and encourage exploration of talents and tastes.

Pouring great things at Swig & Stitch

Here’s the menu served by our fantastic hosts:

We talked about examining our beer as well as intensity and pairing beer with food.

Education is fun and should be, no matter the crowd or teacher. Keep pushing (non snobbish) education forward – it’s good for all of us.

Beer focused Swig & Stitch is now on summer break, to return with great enthusiasm in September. If you want to join us, contact Fabric of Vision. It’s never too early to reserve your seat for the monthly episodes. These events fill up very fact and well in advance.

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3 More At Swig & Stitch

Apr 11, 2012 Assumptions & Myth Busting, Beer & Food, Education & Training, Events, Good People, Women and Beer

Swig & Stitch is the brainchild of business person, Sandi Globus, Fabric of Vision. Last night was another great session of Sandi teaching useful sewing techniques around specific projects. Interspersed in the lessons by Sandi I lead attendees through 3 different beer and food tastings and pairings.

The goal is fun and useful education for all. And the monthly events succeed smashingly! Our host is very happy to have us, it’s a perfect spot and every month we’re getting ‘veterans’ and newbies.

Here’s the menu we explored (all beers on draught):

  • Guinness with roasted garlic humus and fresh carrots, celery, and slivered french bread
  • Lindeman’s Framboise with fresh sliced Bartlett pears, Granny Smith apples and red grapes
  • Boneyard’s Hop Venom with lightly deep-fried fresh jalapeno slices (YUM!)

Exploration and consideration are the names of this game. Go exploring yourself and discover tasty things. Doing it with friends is even better.

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Explore First, Judge Later

Mar 7, 2012 Assumptions & Myth Busting, Beer & Food, Education & Training, Events

Unlike Martha*, who superficially dumped “dark” beers together (“They’re smokey”) in this clip, Sandi, Leisl and all the guests were into the actually learning about beer at our monthly Swig & Stitch event.

Learn with an open mind, then form an opinion

In between really cool and useful sewing technique lessons, we explored and tasted 3 styles of beers matched with 3 foods. Our fabulous and always generous hosts, 4 Daughters Irish Pub, outdid themselves again.

Here’s the menu we savored:

  • Sierra Nevada Torpedo with house made clam chowder
  • Coors Light with crispy green beans
  • Caldera Toasted Coconut Chocolate Porter with vanilla ice cream.

Coors light? YES!! I lead these edutaining sessions with the intention to teach first and then form opinions. Hence I do not introduce what the specific beers are. We bring them out, examine them (visual, aroma, flavor, mouthfeel) and THEN disclose.

No matter the size of the brewery, they are all crafted beers. We’re suggesting you remain open – since all biggies were once smallies too.

Being a snob and eliminating what you think to be ‘fizzy yellow beer’ is not only bad for the beer community, it cuts you off from potentially enjoyable experiences. And that, my friends, is what beer should be all about: Enjoyment.

p.s. *It’s not progress if the info is wrong or incomplete and I’ve long respected Martha…she needs some beer education

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Swig & Stitch Menu

Feb 8, 2012 Beer & Food, Education & Training, Events

Another episode of Swig & Stitch occurred last night – much to the delight of the hosts and the guests.

If you read our site, you may know that we are partnered with a well-respected well run fabric store, Fabric of Vision, in the town in which we live. The owner of the store and I have gotten to know each other and put our heads together to offer a second monthly event (Swig & Stitch) because the first one is consistently full. Read: no new folks can come, learn, and enjoy.

The wrinkle that we two put together is that beer is the ‘swig’ part, vs. wine of the first one. It’s going over with huge success. Sandi and her ever steady colleague Liesl do useful and fun sewing technique demos and I do beer and food pairings interspersed throughout. It’s another great way to highlight beer in our every day quality of life values.

What a treat it was last night to be with Sandi, Liesl and the guests at our ever gracious and wonderful host location, 4 Daughters Irish Pub. We’ve been searching for a permanent home for the newly launched event and I think we may have found it.

As we do with all the menus we execute, here’s the menu that we enjoyed last night:

Get inventive with how you feature and include beer. Depending on your market area, some ideas are getting passe. Talk with folks, put your heads together and have fun bringing beer to life.

p.s. the event is open to all comers – it’s almost entirely always women…..

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Menu from July 14th WEB Meet-up

Jul 17, 2011 Beer, Beer & Food, Celebration Worthy, Education & Training, Events, Women and Beer

Feel like Sailing though summer? You can do so with Full Sail Beer – it was the brewery we featured at our meet up last Thursday night at one of our favorite hosts, 4 Daughters Irish Pub in Medford OR.

'regular' Session is delish too

In honor of Oregon Craft Beer Month, we chose Full Sail for a number of reasons: We know some of the great people that make the beer, it’s very high quality beer (made in a nice clean environment), and they brew really tasty beer.

Menu:

  • Full Sail Amber Ale with a summer cod wrap (mango-avacado salsa, Cajun spiced cod and crips romaine in a spinach wrap).
  • Brewmasters Reserve Imperial IPA with 4 Daughters’ Blarney burger (beef patty with sauteed onions, bleu cheese on fresh house made buns)
  • Session Black* with succulent barbequed ribs (fall off the bone tender ribs with house made finger licking good sauce)
  • LTD 03 with fried pickles (classic crisp refreshing light bodied beer paired with a fresh fried pickle)

*This beer is a terrific one for educational purposes. It’s the perfect anti-beer racism beer. It was also the favorite course of the night.

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Red! She Said

Apr 15, 2011 Beer, Beer & Food, Celebration Worthy, Education & Training, Events, Women and Beer

photo by Kate Parks

Last night’s WEB meet up featured Red style beers. This style of beer is one we call ‘crowd pleasers’ because they are. They’ll enlighten and usually not offend.

When you’re doing tasting and educational events that people are paying for, this can be important. They reach a broad audience while being true to a craft category.

Here was our menu at our fine host, 4 Daughters Irish Pub:

1. Mendocino’s Red Tail Ale paired with fresh made deep fried cheesecake bites. WOW! The lushness of the real on-premise made cheesecake with the carbonation and flavor of the Red was really well received.

2. Laurelwood’s Free Range Red paired with Reserve Gruyere (pasteurized Swiss cow’s milk). Nice! As many know, beer and cheese ce magnifique!

3. Mad River’s Jamaican Red paired with Noord Hollander Gouda. This Gouda is much drier than most have had so the texture variation alone was well worth the exploration. PLUS Kate speaks Dutch so she was good enough to pronounce it authentically for us.

4. Lompoc’s Proletariat Red paired with fresh chocolate cake with drizzles (on the side) of a spicy chocolate sauce using Cayenne pepper. We encouraged people to try it with the sauce as least once, even if they don’t usually care for spicy. Home Run.

So – there you have it. Another tasty menu, collaborative event for women in our community.

They are the future of Craft Beer and we’re having a ball helping them learn all about it.

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Beer Milkshakes – Mmmmmmm!

Jan 19, 2011 Beer & Food, Something To Think About

Cheers to Matt at 4 Daughters Irish Pub for talking with us about Beer Milkshakes. We had the pleasure of enjoying them last year at one of the regular Women Enjoying Beer meet-ups. They were uber delicious – the whole room was silent for a few moments while they are savoring them (no kidding!).

Watch the video to find out what Matt puts in his Beer Milkshakes. Then go make your own.

Be sure to consider putting in some high quality Malted Milk Powder too – we used some made by the fine folks at Briess.

Now, where’s my straw….

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HUBba hubba

Jul 12, 2010 Beer & Food, Events

Hello All You Female Beer Enthusiasts!!

Coming right up – this Thursday’s Women Enjoying Beer event will feature HUB beers – Hopworks Urban Brewery, based out of Portland, OR. Perfectly appropriate especially since it’s Oregon Craft Beer Month!!

Hop to it and join us!

If you’ve saved your seat – you’re set. If you haven’t yet or know another woman to forward this to if they’d enjoy it, you can RSVP directly to me until end of day tomorrow (Tuesday the 13th) via this email or by calling 515.450.7757.

We’ll be at 4 Daughters Irish Pub in , OR. Plan on starting at 7 pm and going until 830. You’re very welcome to come early – enjoy dinner and drinks – and stay late (they are open until 11 pm). We’ll be up the stairs, to the back of the building.

Come ready to savor the flavors of these Organic Beers paired with fine 4 Daughters Irish Pub food. Matt, the very accommodating and beer happy chef, will again be taking good care of us.

It’s only $15 per woman – heck of a hot weather value!

Come quench your thirst for tasty quality beer and yummy foods. See you soon -

Slainte!

Ginger

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Jul 7, 2010 Beer & Food, Education & Training, Events

Come join us at 4 Daughters

The next Women Enjoying Beer meet up is coming up next week – July 15th, Thursday. This month we’ll meet at 4 Daughters Irish Pub in Medford.
In honor of Oregon Craft Beer Month, we’re featuring the realllllly tasty and diverse beers from Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) – Portland. Mmmmm!

Details:

  • Thursday July 15th, 7 – 830 pm.
  • Flight of 4 HUB beers and 4 matching foods (as usual feel free to supplement the evening with additional beer and food as you wish on your own, come early & stay late!).
  • Only $15 per person for all the beer, food and fun.
  • RSVP’s please by July 13th to me directly – this email or phone 515.450.7757.

Also – there is still room on the Oregon Craft Beer Rafting Trip put on by White Water Warehouse. What a fabulous opportunity to treat yourself and a friend to a great trip, fresh air, quality beer (Ninkasi) and meet new people – all in the splendor of the state of beautiful Oregon on the Rogue River. Details here.

fermenting wort

Speak up if you have requests of beers, locations, field trip destinations, and foods to try. Your input is valued and always encouraged.

We’re also very glad to be available to you for private events (beer, food, dinner parties, and the like). What a great way to celebrate friendships, business relationships, and employee appreciation by hosting a totally singular event for people who are important to you. Call me when it’s convenient for you to talk about the possibilities.

Get in touch today to save your seat – and one or three for friends joining you this month. Many thanks.

Cheers!

Ginger

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Raft & Craft + New Meet Up Beer Group

Jun 21, 2010 Beer, Celebration Worthy, Events

Two events on the near horizon to talk about today:

1. Raft and Craft – Joy and Bob have an Oregon Craft Beer Trip. Sweet! Raft on the gorgeous Rogue River, enjoy company of other fun folks, savor quality Ninkasi craft beer and stay in cozy lodges. Seems pretty complete.

We leave the 18th of July, return the 20th and Joy has all the details - contact her here.

2. 4 Daughters Irish Pub is starting their own beer group – the inaugural event is this Wednesday, June 23rd – open to all genders. We’ll be a hosting a tasty Beer & Cheese Fondue pairing. Mmmmmmmm! A classic combination – call them here for your tickets.

Get out and support the brewers of your neighborhood, region, and the world.

Beer makes the world go round in some very lovely ways.

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