Bowing to popular demand, Cascade Brewing adds a second sour beer and cheese pairing event with Master Cicerone.
Press Release
image of Rich Higgins, courtesy Cascade Brewing Company
PORTLAND, Ore. –– Jan. 8, 2020 –– Cascade Brewing, a pioneer of the sour beer renaissance, has added a second session for its upcoming sour beer and cheese pairing event on Thursday, Jan. 16, at the Cascade Brewing Barrel House at 939 SE Belmont St. A limited number of tickets are still available for both sessions: 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tickets are available at http://richhiggins.com/events-classes/cascade.
The evening will be hosted by beer expert Rich Higgins, one of only 18 Master Cicerones in the world and a certified sommelier. Stating that nothing pairs better with delicious farmstead cheeses than oak-aged sour beers, Higgins will showcase the interplay between Cascade’s world class beers and cheeses from Oregon and beyond.
Tickets cost $36 per session and include a seminar and reception, four beer and cheese pairings, fruit and bread accoutrements, plus special, cellared bottle pours during the reception. Additionally, attendees will go home with a Cascade tasting goblet. During the reception, attendees will meet and chat with Higgins and Kevin Martin, Cascade’s Director of Brewery Operations, while enjoying aged selections from Cascade’s cellar.
The Pairing Menu
Cambozola, a soft ripened Bleu-Brie from Germany, paired with Cascade Manhattan NW, a blend of sour quad and blond ales aged in bourbon and wine barrels for up to 24 months with sour pie cherries and apricot noyaux.
The Smokin’ Goat, a semi-soft goat cheese from the Canary Islands, paired with Cascade Framblanc, a blend of sour blond ales aged for up to 14 months in oak wine barrels with more than 3,500 pounds of white raspberries.
Briar Rose Honnalee, a semi-soft washed rind organic cow cheese from Oregon, paired with Cascade Kriek, a blend of sour red ales aged in oak wine barrels for up to 17 months with Bing and sour pie cherries.
Cougar Gold, an aged white cheddar from Washington, paired with Cascade Sang du Chêne, a showcase of sour strong blond and triple ales aged in three large format oak casks: foudres, puncheons and hogsheads.
Higgins is a passionate and enthusiastic teacher of all things fermentation and flavor. In addition to his Cicerone and sommelier titles, he is a former San Francisco brewmaster, a consultant to restaurants and breweries, and a world traveler. To become a Master Cicerone, he passed the beer world’s hardest test in 2010.
About Cascade Brewing
Founded in Portland, Oregon in 1998, Cascade Brewing has been a pioneer in the sour beer renaissance since 2006 and the proud innovator of the Northwest Sour Ale. Its distinctive sour beer blends feature fruit-forward, barrel-aged ales with an emphasis on project year-to-year variation. These beers offer a complex array of flavors derived from the acid, the fruit and the residual flavors present in the barrels in which they age. The resulting beers offer a complex array of flavors and aromas derived from with each project year release capturing the unique subtleties of that year’s growing season. Cascade Brewing’s beers are collected by sour fans and connoisseurs around the world. Learn more at www.cascadebrewing.com.
