This St. Patrick’s Day, beer and whiskey make a rainbow connection with cheeses that are good as gold! • MOST STYLES OF STOUT + L’AMUSE GOUDA + BEQUET SEA SALT CARAMELS Let’s start off with a general and easy one. The sweet and chewy sea salt caramels pair beautifully with the strong, hoppy, dark chocolate
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If you missed our introductory Parm 101 post or our Parm Celebrates The Holidays post, click here to play cheese info catch up Parmigiano Reggiano is one of the most versatile pairing cheeses out there, even though his bold personality and prolific flavor may intimidate when you’re standing at the bottle shop trying to pick
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Philly Beer Week is a right of passage for any beverage-loving Philadelphian. With hundreds of events, enough beer to cover the City, and plenty of cheese to go around, Philly Beer Week deserves some love. Our cheesemongers put together six beer and cheese pairings that will light up your week as an Ode to Philly
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We love cheese. We love Philly. We especially love eating cheese and drinking beer in Philadelphia. Here’s nine Philly Beer Week events where you can eat all the cheese, and get all the beer in one place. Cheers. Monk’s and New Belgium Lips of Faith Festival Details: World-renowned New Belgium Brewery is coming to town
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Don’t miss Di Bruno Bros. & Deschutes Brewery’s “Slider Showdown” fundraiser benefitting St. James School Neighborhood Kitchen. Part of Philly Beer Week, this happy hour tasting extravaganza features the culinary pioneering staff of the five Di Bruno Bros. stores facing-off in a gourmet slider showdown. Guests will get to taste the teams’ decadent slider recipes
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Happy Hour just got more delicious. Our Franklin Market location (located at the corner of 9th & Sansom Streets) is launching a weekly “Cheese Happy Hour” series. Every Thursday, from 5 pm to 7 pm, our Cheesemongers will select and present three cheese pairings. Think cheese and beer, cheese and wine, cheese and delicious gourmet
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I am compelled to begin this post with an apology. To all the customers who have sought my Stilton pairing advice in the past: I am sorry that I steered so many of you directly to Port Wine. Don’t get me wrong, Port and Stilton is a classic pairing and certainly works, but lately I have
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Is there a better time of year for foodies than the onset of Fall? Apples, Brussel sprouts, pumpkins and squash are coming into season. The first batches of the Holy Grail of cheese, Vacherin Mont d’Or, has been produced and will be arriving on our shores shortly. The haunting, alluring aroma of truffles is wafting over the Atlantic.
May 31st kicks off 2013 Philly Beer Week, and boy are we excited! We have lots of events in store showcasing some of the best of our cheese selections to pair with craft and local beers. We’ve partnered with restaurants, breweries and food writers to offer a wide variety of events – from educational clases, to sampling events to thoughtful paired dinners and even an exclusive After Hours event at 9th Street on June 6th!
A couple recipes from the evening will be in your hands soon – the Di Bruno Bros. House of Cheese book comes out in just three weeks! Until then, you’ll have to wing it as you crack open your first Hopfish, your first Exit 16 (made with wild rice, and just glorious!). As I read through my hasty tasting notes, a few favorites jumped out. I am writing them here for you – but also to commit them to memory myself, as a summer mantra.
