Three Floyds dinner

Event number two in the week leading up to SAVOR was a Three Floyds beer dinner at Pizzera Paradiso. I talked about Three Floyds and Dark Lord day in my last post after yesterday's tasting at the Brickskeller.

The menu:

Cold Cucumber Soup with

Diced Red Pepper

Gumball Head

Beet Salad with Old Chatham Ewe's Blue

Cheese and Rhubarb Balsamic Reduction

Dreadnaught

Lemon Goat Cheese Tart

with Pickled Asparagus

Drunk Monk

The Atomic Floyds

Salami, Pepperoni, Cherry Peppers, Black Olives, Red Onion,

Pride & Joy Tomato Sauce, Buffalo Mozzarella

Pride & Joy

Duck Season Pie

Duck, Sunchokes, Spring Peas, Corn, Ginger, Dutch Gouda

Blackheart

Susan's Birthday Cake

Red Velvet Cake with

Espresso Grapefruit Ganache

Alpha King

I don't have much notes from this dinner. I convinced Sonny to join me at the last minute. It wasn't my favorite dinner at Pizzeria Paradiso. They usually create some excellent dishes that pair with the selected beer very well. They put time in to each course and often use the beer as an ingredient in the dish as they did with the Atomic Floyds pizza above. I'm not a fan of beets though and when I asked Greg, the beer manager, why they were a common ingredient he said they were a favorite of his. I wasn't a fan of the cold cucumber soup either. The cake was the best part. I think Susan works at Pizzeria Paradiso and it was her birthday.

The Dark Monk is a brewery and special account only beer. At the end of the night Barnaby broke out the beer everyone was waiting for. But talk about the best scenario. It wasn't the "normal" Dark Lord. It wasn't the super special whiskey barrel aged Dark Lord I had the night before. This was the other super special Dark Lord aged with vanilla beans. It was pretty good but I'm not a fan of vanilla in my drinks. It was great to be able to taste both of these beers being that there was only about 3 kegs of each.