Carly Rae's Beer Cheese Throwdown WEDS. 23rd

Hey guys , wanted to let everyone know we are having a Beer Cheese Throwdown this Weds. the 23rd."Complimentary" beer tasting to go along with the festivities.Contest will begin at 10:30 P.M. and contestants can enter up until 11:30.We will announce the winner at 1 A.M.

This all came about last minute. Blake and Duane from Oakroom were talking about making beer cheese with all the exceptional beer laying around,and others caught on and thought it would be a great idea.So we said "Let's do it!". So far we have two entries from Oak Room,Primo,Bistro 301,Brownings,Carly Rae's own recipe from Ryan,and a couple of others .There will be some recipes from old louisville locals also, to see how they fare against the pros.ANYONE can enter but only one can win.List of beers we are going to taste will be on the bottom.Any questions just shoot me a pm or reply here. Thanks everyone.

Prize
$50 Dollar Tab
New Glarus Belgian Red *Wisconsin only beer, and in most people's opinion the best fruit lambic in existence*
Alesmith Speedway Stout * my personal favorite beer of all time, and unavailable on this side of the country*
Mystery beer * will be one of my cellared aged beers. If there are more than 10 beer cheese entries,I will give away my most prized possession.*

Rules of the Contest

-Entries must be at least one pound in weight,delivered to the bar in clear disposable,resealable container
-Entries must include beer and cheese.Spices and "whatever" else may be used.
-Entries will be judged on taste,consistency,and the creative use of beer and cheese.
-Winner must be able to provide an accurate recipe for judges.

Beer Tasting

Yuengling - Black and Tan.Their award winning porter and lager
Vuuve - Witbier - Assebroek-Brugge, Belgium
Lucifer -Strong Ale- Dentergem, Belgium
Terrapin Rye Pale Ale- Athens ,GA
Belzebuth 13%- Ronchin ,France
Dogfish Head Immort Ale- Barly Wine -Milton,Delaware
Oud Beersel Oude -Geuze,Lambic -Lembeek,Belgium

I haven't been to Carly Rae's on Wednesdays but this sounds interesting and some of the best restaurants in town in this "little" contest, doesn't sound so little to me Beer and cheese, I don't think I am going to miss this one!

I went to lunch with some coworkers here a couple of weeks ago and had a MOST unpleasant experience. Before we got our food we were visited no less than 3 times by a mouse. I want to emphasize Day time and people in dining room, yet still he came out. The last romp was witnessed by the waiter. We asked very quietly to be moved to a different area. He did move us and we saw him go point out the area to the manager. We finished our lunch with no visit from the manager. We then received the full bill. I have never experienced such poor service recovery! At the very least come by the table and say you are sorry! Finally we asked for the manager, 15 min later she came over. She was very defensive and proceded to tell us about her staffing issues for the next night and that she had been trying for 2 WEEKS to get an exterminator. GREAT! Needless to say, WON'T EVER GO BACK!!!!!
PS food was really bad too!

I have patronized Carly Rae's from its opening but might I add as a bar patron because as far as I am concerned some of the best company a bar can keep is kept by great bartenders, conversation and a definitively well stocked bar and the beginnings of a wonderful beer list (not to forget to mention one of my favorite patios in the city). Tonight will be my first beer tasting with them and though I am sad to hear your experience was not pleasant it won't deter me from that direction. I have actually heard of many good lunch stories from there, not to disuade anything from your own experience at all.

So, who won?

Hey Paul, Nick from primo won the overall contest. With 31 votes he won with a smithwicks and derby sage delight.The entries were two from Primo,two from Oak room,Bistro 301,,Carly Raes, and Brownings.I was impressed by the creativity of the beer and cheese combinations. Burton Baton,Rochefort 10,Guldan Draak,Birra Morretti, and Rare VOS were some of the beers.We went through around 500 crackers allowing everyone to sample them all at their leisure. We had a great beer tasting to go right along with the sampling of the beer cheese.It went so well I may have to make this a quarterly event.It was a great time and a pleasure to bring together two of my favorite things in the world beer and cheese.

Congratulations Brand

Sounds like you had a great time. Next time maybe you could move the time up a wee bit for us old guys.

next month: battle potato salad???

next month: battle potato salad???

OMG, please do potato salad. That is the ultimate side for anything cooked on the grill during the summer in the Ville.