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by RYN MACARTHUR
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
During the months of ‘Oktober’ and November, the Meadowbrook Inn, the Broyhill Inn & Conference Center and the Sugar Mountain Resort have something in common.
Beer tastings from all over the world.
Sugar Mountain will celebrate German roots with its 18th annual Oktoberfest celebration Oct. 11 and 12.
Oktoberfest at Sugar Mountain Ski Lodge will showcase oil paintings, crafts and handmade jewelry with Bavarian food and beer.
The
German food includes bratwurst, German potato salad, knackwurst,
pretzels, and sauerkraut. Spaten Brewery, whose headquarters is in
Munich, Germany, will provide beverages.
The event will take place 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission and parking are free.
Broyhill
and Meadowbrook both hold beer fests focusing on the study of combining
flavors of food and international craft beer Nov. 1.
“The
Meadowbrook Inn Beer Fest is part of the High Country Beer Fest event,”
Kevin S. Holway, front desk associate at Meadowbrook, said. “It will be
an event of gourmet food and beer pairings.”
Tickets for the Meadowbrook Inn event are $50 and all raised funds benefit educational programs of High Country Brewery.
The ticket price includes food and beer the entire night.
“[Both events] are all about the education,” Brett F. Taubman, assistant chemistry professor, said.
Taubman assists at High Country Brewery with beer and food pairings.
High Country Brewery sponsors both the Broyhill and the Meadowbrook Beer Fests, however they are separate events.
Meadowbrook’s
event focuses on the actual pairing of food and beer, while the
Broyhill will include the actual tasting of beer and educational
seminars.
The event at Meadowbrook will have beer from the local region as well as the world.
It will take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., on Nov. 1.
The beer tasting at the Broyhill takes place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Nov. 1.
Chef
William E. Morris, president of High Country Chef Association and head
chef of Broyhill, will give educational seminars at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and
4 p.m. on how to brew beers, beers of the world and the art of beer
pairing.
“There
are two basic ways you can approach beer pairings. The first way is if
basic flavors are similar in food and in beer, for example a hamburger
and a porter,” Taubman said. “The second way is to take complementary
flavors in food and in beer, for example sweet and sour.”
“The
Broyhill will sponsor 30 breweries, local to the UK, from Carolina to
Canada, Blowing Rock Ale to Black Sheep in London,” Morris said.
At Broyhill, students from Caldwell Community and Culinary College will sell food.
The $27 dollar ticket for the Broyhill event will cover a collector’s beer glass and beer for the entire night.
The price difference for Broyhill and Meadowbrook is due to the size limit and the gourmet food served at Meadowbrook.
“A lot
of the food is fairly costly,” Taubman said, “We wanted to try
different flavors with different beers as opposed to the typical German
food.”
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