This summer’s Eating about Beer Summer Homebrew Potluck was hosted at the Humanist Hall this past September. It was a festive event, but I was struck by how simple, peaceful, and colorful scenes were in the venue.
Berry pies
Proceeds went to the Alameda Point Collaborative.
Behind the curtain
Homebrew by Eric
hops in jars
and homebrew in a bucket
there’s a little kitchen at the Humanist hall, which maintained the same bright, solid colors of the rest of the venue.
donation money jar
peephole
October 25th, 2011
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October 14th, 2011
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The 2011 Winter Eating About Beer dinner was held at the Commonwealth Cafe and Public House in Oakland this past Sunday. Here are the photos that I took of the event.
Terrariums in the window. It was a rainy sunday but the lighting in commonwealth was great.
Preparing endives for the first course
Kitchen knives
On the wall
Frying pheasant skin
Those glasses need an anti-reflective coating
Potatoes being cut prior to frying
Crispy pheasant.
Commonwealth’s coffee condiment counter
Discussing pre-dinner activities
The Eating About Beer crew in the kitchen
Awesome flower arrangements.
game face.
Chives
Frying the “belgin-inspired crispy potatoes”
Scallions to later go with cheese and sausage
Commonwealth’s storefront, telegraph side.
The menu
The first guests start checking in
Plating the endives
seated, awaiting the first course
handling the marinated daikon
the plating continues
First course: Endive with roasted pheasant and hazelnuts – paired with a scottish heavy 70 shilling ale
The chefs discuss the first course
toast
Pouring homemade sake
plating of the onigiri
second course: a deconstructed sake bomb with umeboshi onigiri and marinated daikon
Guatemalan longaniza sausages, cooking
describing the second course
more photos to come. If you need more of a fix, check out the last eating about beer dinner.
March 18th, 2011
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summer’s gone, but I still have photos to share. here’s a watermelon from an eating about beer rehearsal dinner.
October 22nd, 2010
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this past weekend, about 32 of us were treated to an eight-course beer-paired culinary adventure: eating about beer 2010. More extensive descriptions of the event will be written by the makers in the near future, so for now just I’ll share a few pictures:
- homemade sopressata
sopressata, cured at home
- pickled veggies
“a selection of seasonal pickled vegetables” arranged symmetrically
- homebrews
homebrews in fancy packaging
- soba-to-be
buckwheat soba noodle making
- avacado cutting
- beer
homebrews on ice
- soba
soba going through the pasta maker
- for the fritters
topping for the sicilian chickpea fritters
- pickled veggies
pickled vegetables cut up for serving
- beer model
marzen model
- soba
soba with cale, shredded daikon and dipping broth
- empties
- ceviche
peruvian ceviche
- ratatouille
ratatoullie with cheese scraping
- pork
pork chop
- prost
prost!
- salad
adding wheatberries to the salad
- mustard
mustard, in nugget dipping containers
- nuggets
nuggets, with dipping containers, in serving boxes
- silverware
fancy napkins for the nuggets
- dessert
tapioca with a hazelnut and coffee shortbread cookie
- the eab crew
the eab crew at the end of the night
July 28th, 2010
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